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Paratrooper Says
jumps Take Nerve;
'Freezing' Common
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HAY WILSON
An Interesting glimpse Into the
life n( a parachutist in given by
the letter of Hay Wilson, a local
boy who is in the U. S. paratroop
ers. He says:
! "Tlie fellows that refuse lo jump
are given another chance, and then
if they can't jump, they ore court
martialed and punished in some
way. 'Freezing' in the door and re
fusing to jump are entirely dif
ferent. Freezing' Is common, even
tith the best of Jumpers and old
timers. You're paralyzed in the
door; you want to jump but you're
sb scared that you can't move. No
ten men could convince you to
Jump the only thing to do is
boot ihe fellow out the door and
that's rather dangerous.
Jumps Exciting
I "After you go out the door, the
propeller blast hits you with a ter
rific force and you are blown clear
of the plane. After falling 75 lo
100 feet your 'chute should be
open. From the time you hit the
door and jump until the time of
your opening shock, you don't
know what's happening. It hap
pens so quickly you don't have
time to think. And I ra telling you,
when you land you could whip
your weight In wildcats, for you're
so excited you don't realize what
you have done. You look up and
see the others coming down and
they look like match sticks dang
ling on handkerchiefs. Just think
ing about It Is excitement, and I
don't know yet where I got the
nerve to make my jumps. The
real on will be overseas, of
eourse.
'""Our Jumps are en masse and
every half-second a man goes out
the door. You take 100 planes
with 24 to a plane and let them all
Jump that's a lot of men in the
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Tumbling Saves Lets
"As soon as your feet touch the
ground, you tumble, still holding
on to the suspension lines. You
have to tumble to prevent landing
too hard. Tumbling relaxes you
and there Is less chance of break
ing bones. The boys who break
their legs are given medical dis
charges, but can serve in field or
coast artillery."
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Captured Bicycle Much
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Ralph L. Spencer, petty officer
third class with rating of cox
swain, has written his mother, Mjs.
Hallie Spencer, 1209 Emerald, that
he has picked up a Japanese army
rifle of 2516 calibre, also a Japan
ese bicycle, both of which he hopes
to be able to bring home someday.
In the meantime, he reports, he
and others aboard his ship have
fun riding the "bike" around the
decks.
Coxswain Spencer Is 21, and
Joined the navy October 31, 1940.
Taking his boot training at San
Diego, he later spent eight months
aboard the Aircraft Carrier Lex
ington. He was transferred to
South Dakota for further training,
until the bombing of Pearl Har
bor, and was supposed to report
back to the Lexington but by a
lucky accident, as his mother views
it, he was sent elsewhere and so
escaped the Lexington's fate. He
has been in several serious battles
in the Solomons, and wears a four
star campaign bar.
Carol Edna Nelson Has
Her Military Orders
Private Carol Edna Nelson,
1259 Hilyard, has received her
orders for transfer to Camp I.e
jeune, N. C, for Indoctrination
in the marine corps women's re
serve. She will leave from
Portland by train November 26
wilh eight other women pri
vities and begin her training on
the east coast December 1, ac
cording to Sergeant L. L. Pitton
ger, local recruiter. Miss Ncl-
' son enlisted at 841 Willamette
j street early this fall.
Mars Finds Magazine
Story by Local Man
Paul Mars, proprietor of Mars'
Shoe Repair shop, arrived home
the first of the week on medical
discharge from the army of the
United States. He served eight
months overseas, in New Cale
donia. He tells that one of the
first magazines he opened, over
seas, was a 1941 copy of Popular
Mechanics, containing a short ar
ticle and picture submitted by
Glenn Hassclrooth, Kcgisler
Guaid' reporter.
Lt. Pitney Personnel
Officer at Big Base
Mrs. C. t:. Pitney of Route 5 has
received from her son, Lt. William'
E. Pitney, personnel and training
officer at the ,155th sub depot of
the air service command, at Clov
Is, N. M., an Illustrated article
i concerning the base. The sub rlc-
pot recently celebrated its second j
: annivexary, and it was announced
. that construction had been com- i
pleted within the two years. The I
I depot, which has a military staff j
of seven with Lt. Col. Donald Mc- I
Donald as commanding officer,
j employs 528 civilians in the main-
tenanre and repair of planes.
RECENTLY GRAD1JATF.U
Donald Robert Stewart, 18, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Cameron
Stewart, Route 5, Eugene, recent
ly was graduated in a class of 118
Bluejackets from the naval train
ing school on the Iowa State col
lege rumpus at Ames, Iowa, and
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Kermit Stevens Also
Awarded Silver Star
COLONEL STEVENS
hermit D, Stevens, former Eu
genean who recently was named a
full colonel, by announcement rf
Brigadier General Frederick L.
Andercon, commanding general of
the Eighth Bomber Command
"somewhere in England," also was
awarded the silver st;ir recently
for "gallantly in acllim" while
leading his crown of Flying For
tresses on a daylight bombing raid .
oxer ijeimany.
cerning Colonel Stevens reads E5
follows: "Colonel Stevens, who re
cently took over command of one
of the veteran Flying Fortress
heavy bombardment groups in the
Eighth Air Force, played an out
standing part in the initial organ
isation and development of the
Eighth Bomber Command in the
European theater of operations. He
came overseas in the early months
of 1942 with the small group of
officers, under command of Lt.
General Carl Spaatz, that formed
the nucleus of the mighty air
force destined to follow." Colonel
Stevens is the son of Mrs. Jennie !
E. Stevens. 1508 Thirteenth Aven- 1
ue east. His wife, Mrs. Marian i
Stevens, lives at 2208 N.E. Knott
street, Portland.
Cottage Grove Man
Wins Lieutenant's Bars
Roger E. Braswell of 817 Main
street, Cottage Grove, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant
in Ihe army of the United States
after successfully completing a
course of training at the adjutant
general's school at Fort Washing
ton, Md.
Lieutenant Braswell was one of
a selected group of enlisted men I
drawn from virtually all arms and ,
branches of the service and des
ignated to attend the officer can
didate school.
Alice Richardson Now
Made WAC Corporal
The promotion of Corporal
Alice L. Richardson from the
grade of private first class rer
cently was announced by the
commanding officer of the army
. air base at Clovis, N. M. Cor
poral Richardson has been in
service since March 31, 1943,
and this promotion speaks for
her ability as a soldier. She is
Ihe daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. II. Richardson of Hannaford,
N. D., but she enlisted from
Eugene.
Lt. Gene Demaqalski
GetS Commission, WinaS
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Lt. Gene Demagalskl, son of
Mrs. Helen M. Casteel of Eugene,
received his wings and commis
sion early this monlh when he was
graduated from Ihe Malta, Tex.,
army air forces pilot school, it is
announced by Col. Donald B.
Phillips, commanding officer.
l.t. DemaRiilski, a University
high school graduate, was assign
ed to Marfa from Marana basic
flying school, at Marana, Ariz.
ARRIVES AT SCHOOL
I Imrles K. llallin, 18, son of Mr. I
ami Mrs. Hugo Hallin. 1358 High,
has arrived at St. Cloud State
Teachers college, located at St.
Cloud, Minn. Here he will take a
course of instruction under ASTP
for approximately five months,
prior lo appointment as an avia
tion cadet in the AAF.
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James Larsen, Local
Seaman, Guard,
Given Commendation
James Ellsworth Larsen, Sea
man First Class, USNR, of Eugene,
has been commended by the Chief
of Naval Personnel for excep
tional bravery as a member of an
armed guard unit, according to a
direct communication from the
naval headquarters at Portland.
Seaman Larsen is 'the son of
Andrew K. Larsen, Route 1, Eu
gene. He enlisted in the navy in
Portland August 4, 1942. The
complete text of his commenda
tion follows:
' "The Chief of Naval' Personnel
takes pleasure in commending you
for exceptional bravery as a mem
ber of the armed guard unit
aboard a merchantman during a
voyage through thei Mediterran
ean war zone.
"A report of the experience re
veals that your vessel and the
areas about her were subjected to
viciously persistent aerial bomb
ing, strafing, and torpedo attacks
day after day by waves of enemy
Cjerman planes. Because of the
prompt and fearless defensive ac
tion with which the men of the
navy gun crew met each assault,
sending up terruic Dan-ages oi m-
stantaneous, accurate, and deadly !
'... .Hal,in r,1M ,,,m.
i to come within range. The armed
' guard unit aided in sending three
: aircraft into brilliant, flaming
crashes, and scored hits on at
least four others, while one plane
diving directly on their ship was
forced to turn away and flee from
their blazing guns, jettisoning its ;
bombs and losing altitude when
: last seen. By unfailing vigilence
you and your shipmates were
often among the first to engage
the raiders, thereby not only sav- :
ing your ship from destruction ,
jUt aso jnfjctmg seVere punish- j
ment upon the enemy.
"The courage, endurance, and
skill wilh which you devoted !
yourself to duty on the above oc-!
casion were in keeping with tne :
highest
traditions of the naval
service.
Margaret Coram Gets .
Petty Officer Rating
Promoted to the petty officer
rate of storekeeper third class
at her recent graduation from
the naval training school on the
Indiana University campus, at
Bloomington, Ind., "Bluejack
et" Margaret E. Coram, 26, of
Blachly, is ready to release a
shore-stationed male store
keeper for sea duty.
The woman reservist was se
lected for this special schooling
on the basis of aptitude test re
sults and past civilian experi
ence. Radioman Lawson Has
Second Wound, in Foot
Mr. an Mrs. Leo Lawson of
Westfir have received word from
their son, Roy "Cleo" Lawson,
RM 3-C, USN, that he is hospital- I
ized in bouth America lor a 1
wound in the foot. He was i
wounded previously, also, an arm j
injury. The letter, received a
fortnight ago, said he "had hoped
to get home on leave by Christmas
but the navy had changed his
mind." He has not had a leave
since entering the service, in May,
1942.
Sergeant Gerald Orem
Is Recently Promoted
Sgt. Gerald Orem, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Orem, 364 Sev
enth Avenue east, recently re
ceived his promotion from cor
poral's rating, at the army air
base at Hayward, Calif. He enter
ed the service in October. 1942.
His brother. Loyal Orem, 17, i organization, sings a song he corn
has been accepted for service in Psed. "Frensettn." He earlier
the merchant marine, and left
Saturday, Nov. 13 from Portland,
for a training school at Avalon,
Calif.
Bissell is Navigator
Lt. Eugene P. Bissell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry A. Bissell, 687
Cheshire, has completed a course
at the Texas navigation schools,
at San Marcos, Tex. For 18 weeks
he took training in the exacting
science of flying by stars, instru
ments, landmarks and radio, and
at its completion received the sil
ver wings of an aerial navigator.
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whose wife, Ruth Staton Fischer,
lives at 570 Tenth Avenue west,
is commanding officer of the 46th
base headquarters and air base
squadron at the army air field at
Kingman, Ariz.
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PACIFIC (Delayed) With 10
attacks against Japanese land in
stallations to his credit, including
a direct hit on three heavy anti-
aircraft guns, First Lieutenant i
John E. .Jaqua, 22, of Lugene, a
marine torpedo bomber pilot, re-
cently completed his first tour of
duty in the combat zone.
Lieutenant Jaqua saw action
over Kolombangara, Shortland,
Ballale, and New Georgia islands
in the Solomons. His hit on the
ack-ack emplacement was at Kol-
ombangara,
"My bomb. landed right in the
middle of them," he says. "One
minute they were firing. The next,
wmeni.
Lieutenant Jaqua left Pomona
College in Claremont, Calif., after
three years to enlist in February,
1942. He was commissioned at
Corpus Christi, Tex., November
16, 1942. After several months'
duly in the United States, he left
for overseas,
His wife, Rosamond, is living in
Long Beach, Calif., and his par
ents reside in Eugene.
Weight is Instructor
Of Aviation Students
U. C. Weight, a graduate of the
University of Oregon in the class
of 1941, is now a flight instructor
of aviation students for the army
air forces at Ellensburg, Wn.
Weight received his civilian Dilot
training at the university in 1940
and his secondary training at Kla-
math Falls in 1942. The link in.
strument training he received at
Yakima, Wn., and secondary in
structors' course at Prineville,
Ore., account for the exception
ally good flight record he has at
tained. Mr. Weight has 425
hours of safe flying to his credit
with only one forced landine. He
went to Ellensburg in July of
1943.
Sgt. Don Bowman in
2nd All-Soldier Show
Sgt. Don Bowman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jay W. Bowman, 910
Jackson street, has appeared in an
all-soldier show, "You've Had It,
Yank" which was given at the
base where he is stationed in Eng-
land under the auspices of the
American Red Cross.
The show was directed by Miss
Frances Abbott of the Red Cross
Aeroclub. It has been given at
several nearby military bases.
Sgt. Bowman, whose work on
the field is with a transportation
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Sergeant Evonuk Has
Third Air Medal for
25 Flight Missions
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NEA: A bronze oak leaf cluster
in lieu of a third award of the Air
Medal has been made to Sgt. Eu
gene Evonuk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Evonuk, Route 2, Eugene,
"for meritorious achievement"
while participating In 25 opera
tional flight missions In the
Southwest Pacific area, during
which hostile contact was probable
and expected.
The award was made by Lieut.
Gen. George C. Kenney, com
mander of the allied air forces in
the Southwest Pacific.
These operational missions con
sisted of dropping supplies and j
transporting troops to advanced
positions in General MacArthur"s
coordinated air, land and sea of
fensive against the Japanese in
New Guinea and northward from
Australia.
Beckett Is Officer in
Transportation Corps
John Beckett, a graduate as
sistant in the school of business
administration at the University
of Oregon before his enlistment in
the army in July, 1942, at Cam
bridge, Mass., has been graduat
ed from the transportation corps
officer candidate school at New
Orleans, La., and commissioned a
second lieutenant in the army of
the United States. He has now
been assigned to
active duty in
this newest branch of army serv
ice forces. His wife, Elizabeth
Debusk Beckett, resides in Eu
gene, ,
Phillips' Two Sons
Write from Overseas
Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips of
Franklin have had letters re
cently from their two sons, both
of whom entered the army in.
April of 1942, and have not re
turned on furlough. Cpl. Ellis
Phillips now is in Australia. He
finds the folk very friendly, and
the climate and crops much like
the Willamette valley. He has not
met any Lane county boys there.
! P- .Cfcil luP,a. has , been on
Guadalcanal for the past year. A
letter mentioned being in action
on Vella La Vella Island, saying:
"As usual, the Slant-eyes got the
worst of it." He said it had been
more than 10 months since he had
seen a while woman, and he "cer
tainly would like to see somebody
besides the armed forces and na
tives." Cadet John Hess Made
Sergeant of Squadron
Aviation Cadet John L, Hesse Jr.
son oi ur. anciiviis. jonn Li. nesse,
) 2228 Kincaid Btreet, Eugene, has
been appointed a cadet flight ser
geant in a squadron of aviation
cadets taking their flying training
at the Pecos Army Air Field, Pec
os, Tex.
Cadet Hesse la a graduate of
University High school, class of
41 and was a student at the Ore
gon State college prior to his en
trance into the air corps. He was
a member of Hi-Y at University
high school and of Delta Upsilon
fraternity at Oregon State.
THREE AT SAN AXTOXIO
Among 54 young men from Ore
gon stationed as cadets at the
army air forces preflight school
for pilots, at San Antonio, Tex.,
are three from Eugene; Aviation
Cadets Richard M. Averill. 1745
i Fairmount; Stanley E. Parrish,
1 450 H'Bh and Jack Wiseman,
j 1943 Onyx.
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decided thi week when Mohawk de. I
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porta world during the week: Para
maclna Dwaln Herbert, the fishtlnf ma
rine who carried Unl High', athletic
fortunee on hit ahouldera only a couple
of yeara ago. waa killed In action in
the south Pacific. . . . John A. "Coach
Murray, on of the University of Ore
gon'! gtaunchest athletic supporter
died at hie Pendleton homo over the
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son opened thla week-end againtt a
couple of Portland teama. . . . More
than 50 candidatee signed up for Ore
gon Army basketball under Coach John
Vocational Course Aid
To Seaman and Parents
Who Now Help Defense
George W.' Zahn, -seaman J-C,
has completed boot training at :
Newport naval training station in
Rhode Island, and has reported to
Memphis, Tenn., for further train
ing. A graduate of Eugene high
school, Seaman Zahn also took a
course in airplane mechanics at
the Eugene Vocational school, and
because of this, he says, was one
of 18 out of 1000 men who were
chosen to attend the school at
Memphis.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Zahn of 522 Eleventh Av
enue east, and it is interesting to
know that Mr. and Mrs. Zahn, be
coming interested in the aviation
mechanics course through their
son's work at the vocational school,
i also enrolled for the course, and
recently have been assigned to de
fense work in Spokane.
Good Conduct Medal
Wen by PFC Foster
PFC Edward A. Foster, son of
Mrs. Eva Foster, 1442 Lincoln,
now assigned to the 59th station
hospital at Camp Chaffee, Ark.,
has been awarded the good con
duct medal by Lt. Col. Francis D.
Pierce, commanding officer.
The good conduct medal was
awarded to those enlisted men
who had "demonstrated fidelity
through faithful and exact per
formance of duty and whose be
havior had been such as to deserve
emulation."
The medal Is represented on the
soldier's shirt or blouse by a red
ribbon' with three vertical white
stripes at each edge. After the war
is over, the medal itself will be
awarded.
Rissberger Advances
Aviation Cadet John G. Riss
berger, son of Mr. and Mrs, John
M. Rissberger, 66 Twenty-sixth
Avenue east, has completed ap
proximately two-thirds of his pi
lot training at Bush Field, Augus
ta, Ga., and will soon report to
one of the eastern advanced fly
ing schools for the final phase of
his flight training. He is now well
trained to step into the faster,
more powerful ptanes with which
he will become familiar at the ad
vanced school.
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