Show NEWS FROM OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE by twila kearl the following letter was received from leon kear son of mr and sirs martin kearl of laketown Lake town and was dated december dear mother and dad well here comes the gypsy again and ill et you cartt cant guess where I 1 amae am we are now in italy and gee what a place but I 1 believe ill like it better than africa its a better looking place an and 1 a little more like home but still mu mul 1 r ram and rither rather cold once during our travels I 1 spent one night at an english camp and they sure did treat us swell I 1 spent thanksgiving day on the boit and though I 1 was not sick enough to lo feed the fish I 1 still feel so good we had a nice dinner that day turkey dr dressing Asing spuds peas pie cake apples and candy I 1 had quite quitis a trip driving my grader over the country there are a lot of 1 I mountains here and some of them are plenty steep they raise quite a lot af ga garden der stuff and also applies oranges an and d n nuts ut s 0 of f a all ll 11 k kinds i nd s I 1 am a m feeling f ee 1 ln g fine fi n e and a n d in good health I 1 so there is nothing for you to worry about and I 1 will be careful I 1 guess on thanksgiving day a lot of people were wondering what they had bad to be e thankful for I 1 thought about it t myself and decided I 1 have plenty to de as th thankful tankful for there was only one thing that seemed wrong and that was my being away from home and yet if being away a year or two now is going to make the world free and sate safe tor for thanksgiving in years to come then im glad I 1 am here now I 1 guess I 1 had better sign oft off before I 1 use up all my paper take good jcarl of yourselves write often and tel ell FEill all the folks for me mea 1 16 hopp pe you all al had a nice Thank thanksgiving giving and wish you all a merry christmas love leon on christ christmas mas eve kay larsen son f mr adolph larsen and alta lloyd daughter of cl mr and mrs harry P lloyd were joined in wedlock at the home of kays father the ceremony was performed by bp G W peart in uncle of the bridegroom ad ad friends and relatives attending the ceremony were sirs 0 W peart mrs dallas johnson air ir and mrs wm norl norris Is mrs arv arvil il 1 johnson mr and mrs harry P lloyd jerry larsen ruth mckinnon june smith and mabel sym kay is training as an engineering cadet at the agricultural college in logan as a member of the army specialist training unit having just pasa ed examinations successfully after a 3 3 3 months period and for which he receives college credits this is only the first phase as an intensive course in thiis ans field and in which we wish kay great successors mrs larsen is a popular stir student dent at the south rich high school we wish them much happiness thru thra out their married life elgeane hanney son ralph hanney and who is in an enlisted member of the marine marilie graduated from the merchant marine training station situated on ori catalina island calif aft after er a thirteen weeks training course in two letters to his parents he tells something about what he is doing dear folks how have hall e you all been getting along I 1 have been do doing ing all al right I 1 guess I 1 am through with my training here and I 1 am glad of that I 1 have been 0 out t on the water the last fifteen days and that is why I 1 written on I 1 the last trip out we spent about four I 1 days in a heavy storm and boy was it rough the ship I 1 was on is about four hundred fifty feet long but out in that storm it was tossed about like dikea a match box A lot of of the boys got a sick ick I 1 get sick but 1 I feel very good either when we got back we got three days mainland liberty so I 1 went in to LA and hollywood on night we went to Gr graumans airmans chinese theatre and saw all of the movie stars footprints etc that we have heard so much about I 1 in another letter written december irth he be says well we graduated yesterday and I 1 got a rating that would be a first class petty officer in the navland navy Nav yand and I 1 ir have a v 0 one more ra rate to to make before I 1 can tike out my third engineers papers I 1 am down to the san francisco continued ou on last page 9 NEWS FROM OUR BOYS BOV ALI A AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE continued from page one I 1 pool now waiting for a ship I 1 guess I 1 wont be home for christmas but I 1 dont know how long it will be batora I 1 get a ship ships go out from here to ports all over the world world if I 1 get a coast run ship ill be about a month but maybe ill go to australia or russia and then it will be quite awhile before I 1 get back but ill try and call you when I 1 do in a letter just received he said he was still waiting to go out on the high seas mgt calvin whitney who is stationed at the army air base at fiote pyote texas spent christmas holidays holi davs in randolph with his wife and two small daughters dale rex who has just recently joined the armed forces and cal wayne rex from the dugway proving grounds near tooele thoele utah spent alip christmas holidays with their family lt and mrs max mckinnon arrived in randolph monday evening for a brief visit with relatives cad and pay saturday morning for I 1 mesa arizona for a visit with mrs albl mckinnond McKin nong ons mother arid and family who reside there MAX is dairing t nuang at the will rogers field lt t oklahoma na city his ship shii bein the P p 38 8 lt owen w who 0 has been stationed at mather field calif was a beef bief visitor at the home of his parents mr and mrs oliver of laketown Lake town while to another e base in florida where he will be stationed for the next few weeks owen has been piloting B the billy mitchell bombers which were used in the flight over tokyo george brown son on of mr and mrs mariner brown of woodruff has just returned from the north african zone and is visiting with his parents he is attached to the medical corp of the army and has seen a lot of the ghastly results of rf modern warfare george says it is good to be home |