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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL PAGF uena Vista >uena r Hoffman left lei for a vlrit at Callaway, Nebraska. Mr. a n i Mrs Ed Nielson and Lois were Sunday dinner guests at the Alva Goodell home. Mrs. S. B. Hoffman accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Maize to Kuna Sunday and visited at the Lyle Trew home. J. W. Jennings has been ill. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cleaver are the parents of a daughter born November 16. The girl weighed 1 pounds. She has been named Sylvia Lee. Glenn Hoffman Is hunting near Unity. Ben Cleaver left for Missouri Sunday to make his home. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Cleaver will move Into the house he vacated. Lincoln Hsights Sunday school was held at 10:30 Sunday morning. Places were com pleted concerning the revival meet ings which are being held this week by Rev. Harold Jacks, pastor of the church of God of Payette, and Rev. R. L. Krlner of this commun ity. Services will be held every night this week with the exceptions of Saturday night. An all day meeting will be held Sunday with classes as usual In the morning fol lowed by a Thanksgiving dinner. Two turkeys have been ordered for the occasion. Dr. Thomas E. Maiigum of the Samaritan hospital of Nampa will deliver the final sermon of the revival meetings at 2:30 In the afternoon. Lt. and Mrs. J. W. Brown were present at Sun day school and were presented with a gift in appreciation of the ser vice Mrs. Brown, the former Ger aldine Pettet had given the Sunday school. Mrs. Brown then sang "The Old Rugged Cross," accompanied by Mrs. Emil Prank. A farwell party was held at the Jule Houston home Monday even ing in honor of the Ed Johnson family, who are leaving this com munity. Neighbors and friends en joyed games and visiting. Later in the evening refreshments were ser ved. The honored guests were pre sented with a gift. The Johnsons sold their personal property last Friday and expect to leave Immed iately for the coast. They have a son living there. Tressa Watterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Watterson re turned to her home Tuesday from the Holy Rosary hospital. She was taken there when she suffered a severe appendicitis attack. Archie Hawkins has returned to his home from Mayo Brothers clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, where he underwent a physical ex amination. The cause of his Illness has been determined and he will undergo further medical care at the Ontario clinic. Helen Pennington, who is em ployed as a telephone operator In Payette, spent the week-end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Pennington. Mrs. Claude Page has gone to Salem, to be with her mother, Mrs. Tony Brubaker, who was struck by a car and Injured. The serious ness of Mrs. Brubaker's Injuries had not been determined when word was sent to Mrs. Page. - Pete and Roscoe Pindley and Claude Page are hunting elk. The Patch and Chat club met at the home of Marie Prank. The meeting marked the seventh an niversary of the club.Roll call was answered by describing Polly Ann’s Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Neva Barnes, pre sident; Florence Pettet, vice-presi dent; Clarice Ross, secretary; and Pauline Findley, treasurer The out going officers were Zola Pettet, pre sident; Grace Robbins, vice-presi dent; Bernice Halnllne, secretary; and Anna Markham, treasurer. Each o f them received a gift from the club in appreciation for their ser vices. The president's gift consisted of quilt blocks, one being madd by each member of the club. Refresh ments consisting of gingerbread, whipped cream, Rltz crakers rana coffee were served by the hostksses. Mrs. Lee Smith, Mrs. Vem Smith and Mrs. Ralph Barnes. Mr and Mrs. Tom Pettet re turned home Tuesday evening form San Diego, where they visited their son. Carl .who Is serving in the U. 8. navy Leslie Pennington made a business trip to Boise Wednesday. H ie Eurle Mustek family of New Plymouth visited at the Emil Prank home Sunday evening. Mrs Wesley Blanton Is chairman for the Christmas seal sale for Lincoln^ district. The sale of seals Monday. |ia Winslow, daughter of Mr Ralph Winslow, and Pfc. Martin J. Sayers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Sayers were married Friday evening In the church of Ood In Payette. with the Rev. R. L. Krlner performing the ceremony. The bride wore a navy blue suit with a corsage of red rosebuds. They were attended by Lt. and Mrs. J. W Brown. Joe Winslow and Winifred Osmund. Mrs. Winslow was a graduate of the Ontario high school with the class o f 1945. The groom spent several months overseas and is here on a 46^ay furlough ran third Carleen Farley, yeoman third who has been visiting her began to blow and rain a little and parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Parley the ships left the harbor that day j i the Pioneer district has reported It kept increasing a little until noon on the 9tn, and then they uL.k to Los Angeles for duty. Mrs. J. W. Pettet spent from told us it wjuld increase steadi.y Monday until Thursday wltn her until four o'clock. Well it surely did ...other, Mr, Cora Dale at Midvale. Increase, but It didn't stop at four. A party was held at the Orien It was finally about seven when Halnllne home Monday evenmg In it had reached the peak. Prom honor of Lt. and Mrs. J. W. drown about two o'clock on I wasn't in my The evening was spent in group tent, and about four it just took games with refreshments following, j off. The floor stayed, but it ripped The follow.ng Lincoln residents all the frame down and tore the will serve as officers of the Boule-' tent to pieces. This island was hit vard Grange for the coming year: I very hard, and tents and buildings Gertrude Blanton, over.-eer; Arzola j i eceived extensive damage. It made Pettet, Pomona; and Jack Pettet one a total loss of a good many things. of the three members of trie exe.u Wheii I left my tent, I went up behind one of the tombs that had tlve committee. rock built up around lt and stood in the lea of it. About all of us were there for that was about the safest place. I saw tent floors of 16 by 24 feet go sailing through the air and some smaller buildings go rollings down through the area. — Cpl. George T. Gregg arrived The wind blew right in off the sea home November 15 after obtaining ar.d hit our camp almost direct. his discharge from the armed for- \ It even moved some of the pre ces at Ft. Lewis. Mr. Gregg spent fabricated buildings here at the air 13 months in the service, 24 in port. “I got most of my stuff jammed .he European theater, in Africa and Italy and six months in the Pac- into my duffel bag Just after our .fic theater at Okinawa. Mr. Gregg tent went down and locked it up eceived four battle stars and cit- \ so I didn't lose a lot of clothes and ations as follows: Asiatic-Pacific i personal belongings. Didn't have medal, European-African Middle much then, and have less now. The Eastern service medal, good con - 1 wind blew the sea water in off the luct medal, American theater ser- ocean in buckets' full, and the clouds let go too, so you can Imag /ice medal and victory medal. Before leaving Okinawa, Cpl. ine what we were like. It picked iregg wrote to his wife telling of j up sand with the water, so one couldn’t face it without protection lis experiences in a typhoon. over his face. If ever a bunch of The letter reads in part: '"The big event in the past two fellows looked like drowned rats, lays is the typhoon we have Just we surely did. Our problem for weathered. The 8th of October it the night was to find some place to Storm Discussed By George Gregg i THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945 through the night there, and ttien some officers had come down and said that some could go up to the colonel's building which was all wood. The rest of us stayed in the last resting places of some of the Japs. Yes, I stayed in a Jap tomb all one night. Seven of us were in one, and several other tombs were Invaded, too. Some of the fellows Just pushed the bones over with the remark, ‘get over, you've been lying here long enough,' and threw down their rain coats and curled up and went to sleep. At least It was dry in there, and somewhat warmer than staying outside. The tomb I stayed in didn’t have any bones in it that I could see, but that didn't make a lot of difference then. Had to sit upright all night and sleep because right behind me was a leak in the roof. By morn ing the wind had died down some, and the rain only came in showers. What a mess things were. No one was hurt during the storm fortun ately, so we could look at it and laugh. Some of us went to work and ripped what strips we could find of good canvas off and put a roof back on the mess hall, and then found a couple of good tents and put them up and started col The orchestra o f a U. S. Army hand tries out its rhythm In a public lecting junk. Last night we slept on square, ta the deligl.t of a trio of French youngsters. Mony soldiers with cots and In damp blankets. Another musical ability are receivin') excellent training in Army bands. The Regular fellow and I got a two-man tent Army now is accepting enlistments from qualified civilians 18 to 34 yeors and fixed up a place for ourselves. c f age, inclusive, and is accepting enlistments and reenlistments from Today has been windy with no rain A rmy personnel. so everyone was washing and dry sleep or get In out of the weather.1 stove lit and made some coffee. ing everything they had." It ended up that we stayed in a A l l this time we didn’t know but lot of places, and a night I'll never what anytime the building would go forget. A portion of the mess hall to pieces, and it was blowing water still had some canvas left on it, right through the canvas. “ About twelve fellows stayed NOVEMBER 30 DEADLINE FOR and the boys managed to get a AAA NEWS DAIRY PAYMENTS November 30 is an important deadline. It's the last day for farmers to make application for dairy production payments on sales of milk and butterfat during the third quarter. Payment rates for this period—July August and Sept ember—are 13 cents a pound for butterfat, 55 cents a hundredweight for whole milk. 1945 PRACTICE REPORTS DUE BEFORE JANUARY 15 January 15, 1946, has been set as the last day for reporting per formance of practices under the 1945 agriculture conservation pro gram. 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