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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1943)
tags roun The- OHLGON STATECMAIJ. Colera. Oregon. Friday Morning. June 12. 1Z13 II by the public utilities for six I -M i p tv n Bn3wuci3CB :ivu(Bnn . : years and is now working for the army engineers. n ) ; "l i i- t it Where They Art What They Are Doing AcerilV Hobart Gene Vrell and Thomas Benton Williamson, Al bany; j Harold James Olfert and James -Eldon Smith, Dallas; Karl Myron Byers sr., Independence; Arlie David Ross, Jefferson; George . Leroy CrandalL t Donald Wayne Buyton. Human Gerald Smith! and John Powell, Leban on: Clarence A. Cboiskey. r Mill City; John Lanier Loyd, ., Mori mouth: Calvin Spencer Cox, Rick reall, and Harry Alois Holecheck and Robert Wayne James, Scio. Mrs- May Nelson of 179$ Bread way street, Salem, received word two months ago that her son, Sgt Jack Nelson, was in an army hos pital in North Africa. Since she had received no further word of her son, Mrs. Nelson asked vthe aid of Miss Orpha Dash, home service supervisor of - the loca chapter of the Red Cross, and was assured that i the chapter would try to' locate her son. Miss Dash even told Mrs. Nelson that her son might be waiting home for her now. When she went home, he was there. JU Honor man of his company In - graduating- from . recruit train lnr at the Farragui, Idaho, na val training station was Kay C, West, IS, son of Mr. and. Mrs. Floyd O. West f rente 7, Sa lem, according to word received from the public relations office at Farragut. Ray West gradu ated from the Rickreall high school in the 1942 class and prior to enlistment In the navy be was employed by the state highway department, He hopes ' to enter radio schooL lie has one brother . in the navy; The honor man award is based en grades on seamanship exasnta 1 ations, smartness of appearance . and bearing, strict: attention If doty and other factors wnictt . CO into the making of a fight inc man for the United State fleet, the pnblic relations office . pointed ootLjer his achieve ment; West was presented a certificate signed by 1M Com. ; J. E. Wilson, USJ (KeC). re- cruit training officer of the sta- ; tlon. Official US nary photo. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Brown re ceived word of their son .Lewis being commissioned a second lieu tenant in the United States army air corps stationed at Long Beach, California. - Cnrtis G. PhaL son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Phal of . Aurora, route 1, is now a student at the naval radio school in Miami, Fla. Phal may be linked with submarine chasers of the navy following the completion of his course. Navy men - signing np at the Portland recruiting station in Portland Wednesday were: John .Peter Crockatt, Wendell Ulysses Acklin, Robert " Lamar Gwynn, Colin Cedric Morriss and Edward Alwyn Arrick, Salem; George Henry Michele jr., Alva Alvin Mrs. C N. Qoartier, route 7, Salem, has received word that her son, Gordon Wilson McMorris, is now at the naval training station in Farragut, Idaho. - Carl E. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis L. Scott of Salem, is now stationed at the basic train ing center for the army air for res in Kearns, Utah, where he is studying the uses of machine euns; chemical warfare and oth er preparatory subjects before taking his' technical training. Clair Prather. Salem, and Nel son Cox, La comb, were among the 1000 Seabees who were returned to a California base for redistri bution in other units of the navy. The two navy men were with one of the first units to land at Am- chitka where they worked with their unit, all of whom returned safely. MEHAMA Aviation Machin ist's mate Second Class Edwin Kubin is visiting at his home here for 15 days. This is his first visit home in 18 months. He has been in the South Pacific following ba sic training at the San Point naval air station in Washington. TURNER Tech. -Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Humiston and son, Bobby, of Bend spent several days at the home of Mrs.. Humiston's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Locken, near Turner.- Sgt. Humiston is stationed at the Bend air base. His wife was formerly May Locken of Turner. i. V it: r r . J mMfmmitsefmmmmmmmm k VssssKfeymii issMiiiasassssM -Seaman - Second Class - Leland McLeod, son of Mr and Mrs. T. ' A. McLeod, 1635 North Capitol street, arrived late .Wednesday night to spend a ten-day furlough here. He is stationed at the naval training base at Farragut, Idaho. 1 having been sent there just after enlisting on April . 13 Before en l tering the navy, be was employed by the Keith Brown Building Supply company here. ,. PORTLAND, June -Ore gon youtns who have been accep ted lor aviation cadet training, the navy announced Thursday, in clude: Charles D. Whittemore, James C. Jones, jr., Ronald M. Smith, Lloyd A. Griffiths, Robert . E. Brown, Charles' H. Beardsley, Ro bert P. Aiken and Lei eh ton CL 1 rt?::, Fairham, all Salem; Francis Keyes ;d nT'eniisIed & P- G; Spinup in the navv after i graduating f-ul ttlIU woerscn, Fireman Second Class Ben Upde graff, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. IT. Updegraff, is sUUoned at De stroyer Base, San Diego, Calif., from Salem high school In June. I Lebanon. Young Seaman Tells of Days In Lifeboat PORTLAND, June 17 -(vP) A MONMOUTH Clarence Roy Scott, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Scott, since June 1, left Monday, June 14, for Camp 5 Crowder, Mo. He was inducted into the army last December and went first! to At lantic City where he was hos pitalized for several weeks from a siege oi pneumonia, .trior u nis zu-year-oid .Portland- seaman. departure he was employed In the George Atchison, Wednesday told Shell service station at Independ-1 of a "nightmare' 15 days in a ence. ? J lifeboat in the south Pacific. Major and Mrs. William Rettie j He said 25 men were crowded and their three children ; have I into the boat after his merchant- leased the home of Dr. and Mrs. I man was torpedoed. The crew A. S. Jensen on South College knew their approximate position. : street, taking possession this wek. he said, and headed for an island. Major Rettie is administrative of- But changing winds kept the craft 1 ficer of the medical department at running almost in circles. Camp Adair and has , been , here I "it - rained almost continually or the past year. Mrs, Rettie and the entire 15 days and the nights children lived here until Decern-j were plenty cold," he said. "Our ber when they went to California blankets were soaked and the few to spend the winter with her par- j clothes we had on were like dish- ents, returning here last month. UNIONVALE Mr. and Mrs. Clark Church of Alpine, Texas, eft Monday night after spending a short furlough with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Church and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hobson. He is in the fire department of the air corps and his wife is time- but they couldn't eat it 1 it J im 1 rags. We just kept drifting along, hoping, and arguing about food." The daily diet, he said, con sisted of two biscuits and -a malt ed milk tablet. After a week on the ocean the sailors, found a floating coconut and divided it into two pieces ; for each man. They also captured a "Gooney bird which alighted on the boat keeper in the same division. Their hours are the same. This is their first visit home since last No vember. Atchison said two islands were sighted three days after the sink ing but jagged reefs' prevented a landing. A Flying Fortress finally spotted the lifeboat and summon ed " a transport which dropped canned food, coffee and cigarettes. ; Merle Smith, son of Mrs. Jesse Smith,left for New York Mon day for training in the merchant high school and attended Oregon leaves With (yrandson SUte college. 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