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Show r News From Kearns KEARNS Hero of the week was Sgt. George Peterson, leader of the Kearns Bondwagon orchestra. While furloughing in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, the sergeant heard a woman wom-an scream for for help. A thief had snatched her purse. Peterson took after him and applied a strangle hold learned at this basic training center He held the grip until the police arrived, ar-rived, at which time he was thanked by them, the lady whose purse had been stolen and just about everyone in the vicinity. Says Sergeant Peterson, ''The credit should go to my teachers in Rangers tactics and to Major John R. Flynn, provost marshal. You see, I was a military policeman police-man for a while." Keep 'em Flying Elizabeth G. Nixson of Willis-ton, Willis-ton, Florida, earned a double reward re-ward last week. She was promoted to captain in the Army Nurse Corps and made the new chief hospital nurse here. The hospital is the second largest in the state and one of the largest in the Technical Training Command. Eleven years of army service gained this double distinction for the captian. She has served in army hospitals all over '.he states and in the Phillipine and Hawaiian islands. In fact, she was on the second to the last boat to leave the islands before the Pearl Harbor attack. KEARNS KALEIDOSCOPE Pvt. Robert Sheldon of this post was featured piano soloist at the Spring Musicale held at the First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City. Private Sheldon had concertized extensively before coming into the army and is also known as a composer of modern art songs . . Aircraft recognition recog-nition courses were started. Purposes Pur-poses of the course were to teach men to identify aircraft quickly and accurately and to improve the general effectiveness of vision. vis-ion. Training is under the supervision super-vision of Capt. Harold L. Cannon, who recently completed the Air Forces School of Applied Tactics . . . Headed by President and Mrs. LeRoy Cowles, 50 members of the University of Utah faculty visited this post. They reviewed the troops, toured the post and ate in a soldier mess hall . . . The public attended a band concert con-cert on Sunday. Unlisted men, officers of-ficers and guests were entertained by an hour long program . . . I |
