Show NEWS FROM OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE by twila near kear jay thompson S ac in on his family july 1st ast for a surprise visit they were not aware that he was even in the states jay left randolph last august and has covered many thousands of miles aboard one of uncle sams destroyers in the last nine months lie he has participated in 8 major battles incudine inc the lands at tarawa carawa lie he has seen the gilbert and marshall islands new guinea lae and lias has been into pearl harbor several tunes while in honolulu he saw carlyle bryson another time he saw merril johnson who ho was ivas on a tanker refueling the destroyer jay was on they were wera permitted to talk to each other over over a communication system from one ship to to the other jay will be home until july mr and mrs john wm win smith and small son were visitors at the home of johns parents mr and mrs fred smith john is able to get around on crutches and is making good progress in his recovery from wounds suffered in the alar marshall shall islands they returned to brigham city sunday july 2nd and mrs smith is living in brigham and john is based at the bushnell hospital A dance was given thursday july ath honoring reed kennedy and jay thompson who have both recently returned from the south pacific and for brandall Vr andall muir and bob jackson who left for salt lake for service with uncle sam sams s armed forces both reed and jay told what nhat they could of their experiences perien ces in the war zones six more names were drawn buting the dance of a boys bays who are in the armed forces and were presented with a albond this brings to a total of 28 23 bonds for the toys boys there are about boys from 1 randolph in uniform I 1 robert calder eon of mr and mrs 1 dave calder of garden city is on a fourteen day furlough and is spending I 1 the time with his parents and his wife 1 I the former maxine mckinnon aal their small daughter he has been stationed at camp carson near colorado springs colorado theil kearl hearl bosna mate class son of mrs mary kearl ol 01 of f laketown Lake town has had his ship sunk from under him for tha second time while doing submarine patrol tri tin one of s rn all er aircraft carries the block island in the south atlantic 3 torpedoes torpedo eq from an enemy ship hit their earner carrier bow stern and in the middle and thiel thie found himself in the water waiting to b eres cued with the rest of othis bis mates six of them losing their lives he was in the water vater about an hour and forty five minutes before being picked up this was on may of this year on I 1 may ath 1912 thiel was on the aircraft carrier lexington when it wats wan sent to the bottom in the coral sea battle and spent over two hours floating around in the water before being rescued thell theil is koiv now waiting for another adother flat top i to be completed and will then resume sea duty LOST black dog half grown answers to name of pete reward wesley kearl I 1 want t the people that sent me the beautiful cards letters gifts and flowers also them that came to see sec me while in the kemmerer hospital with my baby after all there is 13 nothing like friendship friend sh ip donna groll V M f 11 P N 0 F T F V X A r v signal corps photo racing hap ing out wire from an RL 31 in the steaming jungles of new ge georgia org a rain insects and the everlasting I 1 tin g muck the jungle is definitely jap infested as well but your war bonds can be a mighty effective jap insecticide sect icide buy them and hold em V U S treasury Treas gry department |