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Show Membership Rules Explained By Legion Auxiliary Scores of women in Duchesne County have recently become eligible el-igible to membership in the American Legion Auxiliary and many more will become elegible as soon as the veterans in their families join the American Legion, Leg-ion, said Vivian Gleaton, membership mem-bership chairman of Basin Unit, in explaining the new eligibility rules to the Unit's membership workers. Four classifications of women now eligible were described .by Mrs. Gleaton as follows: 1. Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of members of The American Legion. 2. Mothers, wives. sisters.. and daughters of persons who lost their lives in either World War I or. World War II. 3. Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of veterans of either war who have died since honorable honor-able discharge from war service. 4. Women who themselves enrolled in the armed forces in either war. Women of families with men still in the service are eligible if the service man has joined the American Legion Mrs. Gleaton explained. All members of the armed forces became eligible to the Legion upon the surrender of Japan and many have enrolled, enroll-ed, or their families have sent them a gift membership, in advance ad-vance of their return home. If the service man has not yet become be-come a Legion member,- the women wo-men of his family are not yet eligible to the Auxiliary. |