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Show News From Kcarns KEARNS, UTAH Soldiers of the army air forces basic training center here are going to help feed themselves, from the biggest victory garden in Utah. A 10-acre plot on the reservation reserva-tion has been plowed and workmen work-men now are excavating a network net-work of irrigation ditches. Within With-in a few days, a variety of vegetables vege-tables are to be planted. Soldiers are to do the cultivating. Mothers of two enlisted men here a Virginian and a Texan have been invited to come to Keains f:s guests on Motners' I ay They are Mrs. Callie Herring-iton, Herring-iton, Palestine, Tex., mother of Pvt. Vergil C. Herrington , and Mrs. Josephine Price, Portsmouth, Va., mother of Pvt Carrison Price, Jr. Mrs. Price is a negro. Names of the mothers of all enlisted men assigned to jobs on the post were placed .in a large metal can. At noon Saturday, before be-fore an audience in the service club, Col. Converse R. Lewis, commanding officer, drew the winning names at random. All expenses incurred by the trips here and back to their homes are to be paid from camp funds. The women are to spend four days here. Eighty per cent of the big contingent con-tingent of Utah boys who are training here as pre-aviation cadets ca-dets have signed up for war bonds. Currently and for sometime to come the youths are receiving the standard base pay of army privates, ?50, but many have subscribed sub-scribed far beyond the customary 10, First Lt. Durward Perkins, post bond offficer, said. "A suprising number are having hav-ing $12.50 to $18.75 a month deducted de-ducted from their pay" Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Perkins went on. "There's no doubt that these boys are bond minded." Cpl. James A. Kuntz, who become be-come a favorite of countless Utah music lovers as clarinetist with the Keams band, which broadcasts weekly over Inter-mountain Inter-mountain network, deserves the the distinction, it seems. |