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Show NEWS FROM KEARNS KEARNS, UTAH When the Military Mil-itary Maids of Murray walked into in-to the Service Club No. 1, they were greeted with the usual murmurs mur-murs of approval and corsages. Each girl received a pretty, pink-bow tied corsage made of flowers grown in the gardens here. : ' Two soldiers experienced at this work, Pvts. Charles M. Jacobs Jac-obs and Charlie C. Ifft, made the corsages out of peonies, petunias, snapdragons, dwarf zinnias and sweetpeas. ' Keep 'Em Flying Realism was the keynote as this basic training center underwent under-went a mock air attack last week. Planes roared overhead, gas bombs exploded, sirens wailed and whistles shrieked. The blackout and defence measurers meas-urers went off in good style, according ac-cording to Maj. John R. Flynn, post provost marshal and chief air raid warden. There were no casualties and the post blacked out in less that two minutes. On hand to view the proceedings proceed-ings were Clem Schramm, state office of Civilian - Defense Controller, Con-troller, Cor. Elmer Johnson, ex-cutive ex-cutive officer for the county and R. C. Jackson, executive scretary. Keep 'Em Flying Three-fourths of the men who fire on the Kearns range hit enough bull's-eyes to become marksmen, sharpshooters or experts. ex-perts. During the two weeks period covered by the complications, almost al-most 50 per cent of the men qualified qual-ified as marksmen, another 19 per cent as sharpshooters and six per cent as experts. Holders of the Kearns record is Technical Sergeant John V. Gordon, Gor-don, who hit 191. He is a World War 1 veteran. Keep 'Em Flying |