| Show news of our men with the U US S forces by twila kearl billy wilson son of mr and mrs airs hatcher fletcher wilson is taking special training in meteorology at pomona college claremont california and ilia bis parents recently received a letter from him and we quote part of his letter as follows yesterday we had a track meet between the various companies stationed here naturally the meteorologists won by a large margin the score being for the air corp to which group billy belongs and for the engineers Engin eera of 01 course this made us feel very good as we are younger than they are and they had developed the habit of calling us as boy scouts and junior bird men the tha engineers had it all figured out to win as they had many titles among them such as all american football players one of them being from the university of southern california but they nevee had a chance the sissified sissi fied air corp boxi boys got all five places in iii the races for the afternoon and our baseball team has beat their team 16 to 2 and 22 to 2 billy had no idea this letter was go ehg to the paper but we are cheering for his group on the home front he also said that he had contacted kay larsen from randolph and was looking forward to seeing him the latter part of the week mr and mrs ray osborne received word last week that their two sons ab and ray had met together somewhere in the pacific and they were delighted to get that news kib jacobson who joined the marines at the same time ab enlisted was with them also ab had ben separated from kib tor for a few weeks due to illness but were together again ray joined the marines in january ot of 1942 ab and kib following a few on m months later word was received a few weeks ago by mr and mrs osborne that their other two sons who are in the ha marines also gene and roy that they had met each other and had been able to spend and enjoy a few short hours together privates first class birch norris and edward smith both of whom are stationed at camp white oregon are ara home on 15 day furloughs furroughs birch wearing in g a medal for expert marksmanship in gunnery gu hnery georgia georg wilson son ot of mr and mrs stanley wilson writes from the land of the midnight sun telling about the beauty of the country he Is in and says that it seems strange to see the sun continued on last page news of our men with the US U S forces force S by twila kearl continued from page one going down at 1030 10 p m with practically no barkness Car kness during the night at all we are making a special request for news of the boys and girls in service brorn from gar garden city woodruff and lake town for our column and would appreciate preci ate getting a letter about theia please send letters to twila kearl irs james kennedy received a telephone call from her son corp jean kennedy who is stationed in washington with the signal corp among other things that he told her was that many of the soldiers places are being taken by the 50 of them having just juit ju it arrived corp paul kennedy the eldest son of mr and mrs kennedy is stationed in north carolina who was a graduate engineer is following up this line of work in his army life and reports aliat that lelaikes le likes it very much he was recently granted a 10 day leave and spent the time in new york city |
