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L. LVIII—NO. 4. Me town for $6,000. I mmittees .e Named v. ‘ouncing ,. ttee appointments, Pete Me- f , newly elected president of the i £0.11 Active Club took overl . 'ms of office last Wednesday 1 3; ' g- ' in urged club members to ‘ on the fine work of the Year in connection with the ational war project, local . oy patrol and boy scout ac- Marine Ace his new slate of meeting it was voted iODS: Book' > over the proceeds of the ~lub project towards the pur- P5 G: Hr J , 'of War Bonds for the or- ruary 20_ tion’s sinking fund, as an _, u ards the successful conclu- ‘ »- ~ 0f the Fourth War Loan? i l l l l , CHEESE, i 3, Brown valid thru ‘ valid Jan- . I ‘ Appointments n1’s committee appointments lei treasurer, Everett Four- ‘rgeant at arms, Paul Keev- Ililrlimentarian, Charles Sav- -3ervice men’s letters, Rocky am; interclub chairman and ‘ (it councilor, Everett Fourre. " welfare and boy scouts, -« Archer, Rocky Duckham and ' -Eacrett; attendance and lanuary 29; my 23 thru valid Jan- GOP County McCleary Promised Perpetual Timber Supply _, C. H. Kreienbaum, executive vice-president of the Simpson Logging company, left, told the Mc- “‘ Booster club last Friday night that McCleary would be a town with perpetual timber supply, ii that it was the Simpson program to “make this area the best area in which a man could live”; yor Lee Wills of McCleary, receiving the deeds to McCleary’s water and light system 'from W. H. " I, extreme right, Montesano, counsel for the Simpson company, which gave the $40,000 system ship, John, Ballard, Allie A and Buck Price; projects, _Million, Ed' McKinney and ‘Ballard; finance, Joe Han- “Gene Hanson and Charles 9; education, Charles Sav- dfld Joe Hansen. r 1, Dick Wdtson, John Stev- »and Rocky Duckham; en- ,‘ ment, Bob Million, Everett 5 and Charles Savage; ‘ Francis Eacrett and Buck historian, Gene Hansen; “3’. Dick Watson; flowers, 5: Watson. - Committee Meeting, The Republican“ County Central I v, Stamp 30 16 thru l pounds. Committee will meet at Hotel Shelton Saturday, January 29th, at Dutch luncheon, for the pur- pose of electing a chairman and secretary, filling committee va- cancies and lining up the program for the campaign ahead. All com- mitteemen and women are urged to attend and the meeting is open to all who are interested in wag— ing a real campaign in this pres- idential year. The meeting is call— ed by Mrs. Fannie Smith, vice chairman. —_—-—’ n13¢, I 3‘ Scouts \Vill gt Friday Eve gldeaux pack—Cub Scouts will ' ,Fl‘iday evening at the Bor- sChool at 7:30 o’clock. The FINAL ‘ ACCOUNT Hearing of the Final Account- ing of the estate of A. E. Elp» hick will be held at the court house on February 26. MARRIAGE LICENSES Samuel E. Thomas, Penn., and Helen M. Troy, Shelton. ‘Fout film “The Cub in thel g _: will be shown. All friendsl «Natives are invited to at-J | 5:: ,. 1‘ proved very helpful and friendly, particularly to the Americans, al— though they did not feel so kindly to the English from past exper- ience, and hated the Japs. The natives saved the lives of many flyers and brought them to safety out of the jungles, some after weeks of dodging Japs, and Australian guards formerly em— ployed on the island plantations were equipped with radio and ad- V1sed bases as they learned of lost airmen through native run- ners. The rescue force follows the raids closely and dodges under the fighting, although equipped with' heavy guns and able to defend itself against strafing in emer- gency, but this is not their mis- sion. They saved a great many of the pilots whose planes were shot. down, and in one instance picked, 1' 27¢ 2 anlans, Hear of Experiences In cl 0 with Pac1f1c from Navy Av1ator V, an interesting three-quar- 25 m. 1' review of air fighting ¢ S W now easing up at the ', ‘7“ airport after 13 months "’8 various invasion forces ‘ including details of some VI '«A ‘hnmre dangerous sorties in . GOVered the early stages fliihting in the South Pa- '°t so well supplied with ’3 and fighting planes and gieved and sent back home A en’lber. Wis talk did not deal with ' lcular battles in which :L- I{iwanis Club Tuesday lis- “Solomons area by Lt. Joe ' ve rescue and supply flying B ,y of the islands in that t . ‘5 took part. when the American forces e“ as they were when he 1 ,Rescue Wounded dron took part they re- out many wounded men from up a pilot given up for dead, who Points and ferried them had survived 22 days in a rubber 5ABY hospitals at Guadalcanal raft, during which time he kept. her nearby points far his sanity by taking down and D fI‘Om the fighting to be assembling his revolver, greasing *1 safe. The largest group it with fat from birds which lit on his raft, his drinking water supplied by copious rains.“ The sea was so rough that the plane, had to ride out the waves all . Seriously wounded the gnight, and all were seasick but“ add efficient trcatmentlthe rescued pilot and the plane e, lives of all but three, pilot, but. the former ate severalI showing being due to steaks cooked by the power plant Class of doctors at hand. and all the reserve food on the f his talk was devoted 'plane before his craving was satis- of the natives, who (Continued on Page Two) at one time was 180 men, ta«ges of injury, of which file hundred were stretcher t he recalled that out ' X valid February thru Feb- Photo Courtesy Aberdeen World l Twenty years ago a Marine Lieutenant in Haiti placed a bomb , in a flour sack, tied the sack to' the undercarriage of his plane, and sincerely Mr. Kreienbaum told the not only' to the ‘ released the bomb at the end of a long dive by means of a simple contrivance which opened the sack. In such elementary form was born the modern art of dive bombing, perfected to its dead- liest technique in, World War II. The man who conceived this type of aerial warfare which has become so terribly familiar to mil- lions of persons, soldiers and civil- ians alike, was Lawson H. san- derson, now a Marine colonel in, command of a training group at' the Leatherneck air base at Santa. Barbara, Calif. To Colonel San— derson, whose colorful career in Marine aviation has ranged from setting world air speed records to combat in foreign lands, goes credit for a technique borrowed, embellished, then demonstrated to deadly perfection by German Stu- kas over Rotterdam and War-. saw early in the last war. 5 It was dissatisfaction with the results of horizontal bombing, or the process of merely dumping his missiles over the side of his plane, that led the Leatherneck officer to make the discovery that revolutionized aerial warfare. Those were the days when a bomber merely banked his plane, looked for his target, grasped the bomb in his hand, and, leaning over the side of the plane, tried to drop it as accurately as_posv sible. A far cry, indeed, from the present day technique of hurtling the bomb on its destructive mis- sion after mathematically precise calculations are made as to posi- tion and wind drift, through means of a precision bomb sight. Aviators of today would shud- der at the makeshift device devel- oped by Colonel Sanderson and his comrades in the Haitian jun- gle. “We figured that if we pointed the ship in the direction of the target, the bomb would have to. (Continued on Page Three) Ration Board News PROCESSED FOODS: Book 4, Green stamps G, H, J valid now thru February ‘20. MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, FATS: Book 3, Brown stamps R, S, T, U valid now thru Jan- uary 29; V valid January 23 thru February 26; W valid January 30 thru February 26: ruary 26; Y valid February 18 thru March 20; valid Feb- ruary 20 thru March 20. SUGAR: Book 4, stamp 30 valid now thru March/31 for 5 pounds. SHOES: Book 1, stamp 18 valid indefinitely; Book 3, Air- plane stamp l valid indefin- itely. GASOLINE COUPONS: (Un- i endorsed coupons NOT valid). “A” No. 10 valid January 22 thru March 21; “B” and “C” may be renewed within, but not before 15 days from date shown. on cover of book. TIRE INSPECTION: “A” 'ev- cry 6 months ( by March 31); “B” every 4 months (by Feb- ruary 29); “0" every 3 months (by February 29); “’1‘” every 6 months or 5,000 miles of driv- ing. ~ FUEL OIL COUPONS: Per- iod 2 valid now thru February 7 for 10 gallons per unit. Period 3 valid now thru March 13 for 10 gallons per unit. Maximum consumption to January 24. of total yearly rations should not exceed 46 per cent west of Cas- cade Mountains; 56 per cent east of Cascades. . , SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, January 27, 1944. _—————4 Simpson Will J Spend Money At McCleary Plans for the spending of $750,- ,000 in the development of its re- cently acquired properties at Mc- Cleary were announced last Fri- day evening at a dinner meeting held in that city by the Boosters Club to mark the first year of incorporation as a town. C. H. Kreienbaum, executive ! vice-president of the Simpson Co. revealed the impending program in his discussion of the operating plans of the firm. He also made clear that the McCleary mill oper- ation will, be a perpetual one within the sustained yield plan of the company, which has definitely 3 aligned its future development in 1 Mason and Grays Harbor couny ties. 1 Other highlights of the eve- hing included the formal presen— tation to McCleary by the Simp- son Company of the deeds to the town’s water and light systems, appraised at $40,000 and sold to McCleary for $6,000. ’ Mayors Present Five mayors from Grays Har- bor and Mason county towns and i cities were present. More than 60 persons were in attendance, including guests from Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Shel- ton, Elma, Montesano, Aberdeen , and Hoquiam. I In addition to Mr. Kreienbaum,‘ speakers were Horace J. Andrews, 'Portland, regional forester of the i tive Club Exploits of Shelton ’s 03' Woody Sanderson Retold United States forest service; Jack Taylor, Olympia, state land com- missioner; W. H. Abel, Monte- sano, and Mayor Lee Wills of McCleary. W. L. Sheets, editor of the McCleary Builder was tqastmaster. , McCleary Story Speaking very simply and very story of McCleary for the last two ‘ years—the years since the Simp-i son company purchased the Mc-’ Cleary Timber company. 1 He said that ten years ago the Simpson company had embarked on a program of reforestation and sustained yield, reinvesting its money in the district that had produced it to provide for a per- petual industry, which would in-. sure the maintenance of the Shel- w-(Continued on Page Two) Discharged Men’s Names Wanted In order that the public may properly recognize the service and sacrifice which has been perform- ed for their country by local ser- vice men, who are now discharged from the armed forces, the Jour- nal would like to compile a. list, of these discharged men. . Some service men may feel that their discharge for physical reas- ons is a black mark against them. This is a mistaken impression for these men have given service to their country to the best of their ability and should receive the same respect and admiration as any other man in the service. l If you know of any boys who have returned to civilian life, the; Journal would appreciate the in- formation so that our list may be compiled. ' School Kids Have To Get Up Early BABY DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Dean H. Cook of Allyn are the parents of a babyx daughter born at the Shelton hos- l pital on January 22. ' I Shelton school kids have return— ed to their regular hours after a period of several weeks during- which they were able to sleep a little later in the morning. With the lengthening of day- light hours it is no longer neces- sary to open later and the class— es are again getting under way at 9 a. m. Mason County Scout 6¢ PER Old Clothes Drive is Very Successful Praising the wonderful co- operation of the people of Shel- ton in the Old Clothes Drive just completed, Mason County Salvage Chairman W. A. Ma- goon announced yesterday that the drive had resulted in the accumulation of a. large num- ber of clothes to be used in international relief work. Magoon stated that not only was the quantity of books far beyond expectations, but the' quality of clothes turned in was of a very high grade. The chairman praised the ef— forts of the churches, who con- ducted the drive through their congregations. ' Potlatch At Youth Club This Friday With Representative Charles Savage acting as master of cere- monies the members of Club Hi have completed plans for an eve- ning of entertainment at the Youth Center this Friday begin- ing at 7:30 p. m. Under Savage’s direction, as- sisted by Ernie Grant and Joe Thorson, club members will spend the evening in playing group games. , , This is the “Potlatch” celebra- tionfor which Club Hi members? have been planning for some time, 5 audit is open to all members of. Ithe organization in group. The Youth Center will be open. youth of the community but a special invita- tion is extended to parents and friends to come and enter into the affair. Festivities will start promptly at 7:30 and will continue until interest begins to lag, or until the clock says it is an hour be- fore midnight. If the affair is successful en—, ou h to warrant it. the affair be made a monthly one. New Silhpgon— ‘ Offices "Opened Because of the expansion of for- estry and research requirements, with an accompanying need for office space, the Simpson Logging Co. has remodeled a portion of ’ the second floor of the Lumber- men’s Mercantile Co.’s No. 1 ware- house into a modern suite of of- fices. i Four offices have been con- structed containing the following divisions of the company’s opera- tions: forestry, Gib Rucker and Al Petzold; logging engineering, Walter Snelgrove, Fred Snelgrove and Clay Berry; forest waste re- search, Lester Lynch and land department, Fred Diehl. Burglar V Fir Drug Store Using a crowbar to spring the door jamb, a burglar entered'the Fir Drug Store Monday night through the back door and stole $35 worth of morphine tablets, Chief of Police Andy Hanson re- ported yesterday. This is the second time within a year that the store has been entered, but the front door tran- som was used the other time. . 0N TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Parry Jones left Shelton last week for Fayette, Idaho, where they will visit rela- tives. BABY SON ‘A baby son was born at the Shelton hospital on January 23 for Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Graves 0f McCleary. Trpr Busy With Many War Activities Activities of Mason County Boy ing the past week with several_ outstanding projects occupying their attention. Probably their most important job is in connection with the Fourth War Loan, during which they will conduct a house to houSe canvass urging people to buy more bonds and to fill out stamp books. The Scouts will be " with special identification cards and arm bandsso that the peo- ple they contact will know that, they are accredited salesmen of the Treasury Departmenta; . This Boy Scout Bond "Drive. comes as a special part of the regular observance of the anni-l versary of scouting. February 8 to 13. All troops will take part in this activity. February 9 is known as spon- sorship day when all troops will do a good turn for sponsoring or. ganizations. The 13th is Scout! Sunday, when all troops will at- tend church services in a body. The Boy Scout Paper Drive which took place in Shelton last Week end resulted in the collec- tion of 12 tons of paper locally to help with the paper shortage. Olympia scouts collected 30 tons of paper and five tons were col- lected in Tenino. Altogether 100 ,iScouts reached a high/pitch dur— tons of waste paper were collected in the Tumwater Council area. In line with regular Scouting activities the monthly Court of Honor was held last Thursday at the court house. The folowing awards were presented: Tenderfoot: Eugene Palmer, 9; Second Class: Kenneth Sivo, troop 12, Bob Wells, troop 25 and Herb Brehmyer, troop 9; Tender- foot Air Scout: Robert L. Tobey, troop 26; Public Service; Eugene Stacey, troop 12, 100 hours, La- vern McGowan, troop 12, 25 hours, Bill Valley Jr., troop 25, 25 hours; Acorn Award: Bob Tobey, troop 25. Merit Badges: Troop 12, Boy Collier, personal health, Eugene Stacey, astronomy, Bill Furlong, swimming, handicraft, electricity; Troop 25, Robert L. Tobey, wood- carving, Bill Valley Jr., persopal health, Rune Langeland, aeronau- tics, Dale Palmer, aeronautics and airplane structure. The Attendance and Advance- ment Awards were won by Troop 12 sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. The Cubbing film, “The Cub in the Home” will be shown at Bor- deaux school, January 29. The public is invited. every age ,‘ ,1 COPY; $2.50 PER YEAR lCity Council iPass Curfew : Ordinance Calling for the full cooperation of all parents in the city, the Shelton city council last week passed the much discussed Cur- few Ordinance, which will make it a misdemeanor for any minor un- I der the age of 18 to loiter on the ‘-streets after 10 p. m. i As pointed out by Mayor J. L. Catto the ordinance is one pat- terned after suggestions made by the State of Washington and will need the support and cooperation of the citizens of this community to make it enforceable. ' The ordinance also provides that lit shall be unlawful for any par- ent or guardian Willfully or negli- lgently to permitia minor under Ithe age of 18, who is under his 1 custody, to violate any of the pro- visions of the ordinance. , A penalty of $100 fine or 30 }days in jail, or both, has been i provided for violations of any pro- [vision of the ordinance. l Fuel Oil Supply Low Fuel oil is much too scarce to permit giving out extra rations .just because a. consumer’s supply runs low. People are expected to make their rations last. No matter how many rations the board is- ,sued, the oil supply remains the 5 same. If a board grants too many addi— tional rations, there will'not be enough oil to go around. Wasteful consumers should not be permit- ‘ted to get oil which should go to ful with their rations. There will be, of course, a few cases where the consumer, despite ‘his utmost efforts to save oil, is iunable to get by on his present rations. There hardship cases can be taken care of only if there is enough oil available in the area. Therefore, the board will not al- low extra rations because of hardship until the district office notifies the board that it may doso. The district office will send this notification whenever the Re- gional Administrator has found there is enough oil to permit hardship rations. SON ARRIVES A baby son arrived at the Shel- ton hospital on January 21 for Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Glover. BABY BOY Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Putvin are the parents of a baby boy born at the Shelton hospital on January 23. those who have been more care-. War Loan Drive Lagging Except For Simps Big St. Bernard Passes At Age Of Fourteen A familiar part of the Shel- ton scene will be missing now with the passing of Girl, Col. H. K. Blake's huge St. Ber- nard dog, last Thursday morn- ing. Her owner estimated Girl’s age at about 14, which is get- ting right along in the canine world, and her intelligence as keener than that of any dog he had ever seen. Girl showed up at the Blake home about seven years ago and adopted the family. She was a familiar sight on local streets tugging the Colonel along with her 165 pounds, but in late months she failed pretty fast. Travis Sells Hardware To Seattlg Man One of Shelton’s biggest busi- ness changes in recent months was consummated this week with the purchase by Glendon A. Fer- guson, of Seattle, of the Shelton Hardware Company from its former proprietor, Frank Travis. Mr. Ferguson, who has been in the banking business in the Northwest for many years, has already taken over the store. Tra- vis will remain for a short while to help the new proprietor get broken in. Ferguson, a trustee of the Seat- tleMortgage Bankers' Association and past president of the Seattle Chapter of the American Insti- tute of Banking, joined the staff of the Washington Mutual Sav— ings Bank 15 years|ago after lengthy service at the National Bank of Commerce. For the past eight years he has concentrated on work in Washington Mutuals mortgage department. Mr. Travis, who has been Very prominent in civic affairs in the city during his long stay here, has not made any definiteplans for the future, but plans a good ; ,rest for a while. l Mr. Travis entered business in Shelton on February 14, 1925, put- ting his store into what was then a brand new building. He has asked the Journal to inform his lfriends here that he is not going to leave Shelton, but will con- tinue to make his home here. IN SERVICE Howard Yule was left off the list of young men inducted into the armed forces last Week. How- ard has been an employee of the local post office for the past few years. Construction. of Levett Boat at Camp 5 is Told in Trade Journal Shelton received national recog-i lnition through the pages of the [“Timberman”, international lum- : ber journal, this month when that publication devoted a story to the building of Earl Levett’s boat at Camp Five and subsequent trans- portation to the water on a flat car. A picture of the boat at the camp was also printed. I The “Timberman’s” article was as follows: “A strange cargo traveled over i the logging railroad from a Simp- son Logging Co. camp in the hills west of Shelton, Washington. It was a 41-foot boat -which Earl W. Levett. gas crane engineer of Camp 5 at the Simpson operation, had built in his spare time at the camp between September, 1941, and September, 1943. “The only assistance Mr. Levett received in the construction of his sea-going vessel was a month’s work done on it by his father and some help from his father-in- law, Joe Tate. The boat was built in a cradle in a shed opposite the Levctt home, and when completed was hauled by tractor to the rail- road, loaded on a car with the Clyde gas crane and hauled on the logging railroad to tidewater at Shelton, Washington, 35 miles away. It was finally launched with a gas and steam crane in Septem- ber, 1943. “The-logs from which the lum- lber for the boat was manufactur- ed at the Simpson mills, came from the vicinity of Camp 5,. where Levett work. The boat, which is a double ender, commer- cial troller, will be used for deep sea fishing and has accomoda- tions for four persons. The Ves- scl’s dimensions' ar'e: length, 41 feet, 8 inches: beam, 12 feet; draft, 5 feet, ‘six inches; tonnage, net 11, gross '14. The boat is powered with a 30 horsepower Palmer gas engine." Birthday Ball At Shelton Valley With the entire proceeds of the dance to go toward the March of Dimes, the Shelton Eagles reg- ular dance at Shelton Valley this Saturday will be a President’s birthday celebration as part of the campaign against infantile paralysis. March of Dimes Chairman E. F. Martin asked all persons wish- ing to contribute to this fight to send their donations to him at the, sheriff’s office in thecourt house. C BOY ARRIVES .Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Brown are the parents of a baby boy born at the Shelton hospital on Janu- ary 23. i BABY BOY ‘ A baby boy was born at the Shelton hospital on January 26 for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Waters. Due to an error the name of. on Crews With Union showing the way to the rest of the communities of Mason county, the Fourth War Loan limped through its second week far below the quota set. In fact, Union is so far out in front the rest of the county looks like ,it is standing still. ; Tile Hood Canal community, ,with Mrs. Helen Andersen head- ! ing the drive, has already exceed— ed its quota of $15,000 and seems lheaded for an all—time record for ' bond sales. With half the drive over, how- ever, the i‘est of the county is Way behind schedule. Only $77,- 919.00 of the county’s $575,000 has been sold so far. Of this total, $50,000 represents Series E bonds. This is only one-sixth of the $300,000 quota for this type bond assigned to Mason county. House-to-IIousc Chairman Walter 'M. Elliott pointed out that the local com- mittee had not wanted to conduct a house-to-house canvass because of the lack of volunteer help to carry out the job, but that if sales of bonds did not pick up immediately a more intensive program would have to be insti- tu'ted. 5‘ In the big contest being staged jamong the employees of the lSimpson Logging Co., the group lfrom Camp Three has edged into a slight lead, according to latest i reports. Of their quota of $9,675, Camp Three has sold $8,362.50 worth of bonds. All the other divisions however are near the top of their quotas and the final result of the competition will probably be in doubt until the last day. Employees of the company have to date sold $59,443.75 in extra War Bonds. This is above the regular payroll deductions made by employees and is close to the $77,850 quota set for the Fourth lWar Loan drive. I Mason County 4-H Club mem- bers have reached the half way mark in the Liberty ship bond drive of $15,000, reports County Agent Okerstrom. Some members are really out working for those prizes. In the state as a whole the 4-H Liberty ship bond drive is very successful. Wrecked Car Found by Police A 1941 Dodge sedan, stolen dur- ing a burglary in Bremerton last Saturday night, was found wreck- ed and abandoned near Shelton early Sunday morning. The car _was found by local police near the outskirts of town. A sailor’s hat was found about a vblock from the place where the machine was wrecked, and a white handkerchief was found tied over one of the headlight lenses. The car is owned by C. R. Hib- bard of Bremerton and was taken from a garage where it was be- ing repaired. i License Tags Coming In Despite the long delay in is- suing license stickers and the lack of a concerted drive to see that drivers have them, Mason county motorists have made a good show- ing in securing 1944 tags. ,Of an estimated total of 3,000 cars in this county, 2,375 have al- ready secured their 1944 license ' applications. Stickers to be placed on the Windshields are still miss- ing. However, all applications .must be in by February 1. l NEWS OF OUR MENWIWOMEN ‘\ BLEECKER BROTHERS ALL IN SERVICE Mrs. Leslie Gee of Ccntralia writes all three of her brothers are out in the Southwest Pacific 1 some place. Burke Bleeckel', E. M. 3/c, is with the Seabees and sta- tioned on a coral atoll, while Rob- ert L. is now a gunner’s mate 3/c. I on a destroyer escort vessel, while lJames L. is aboard an aircraft scarrier. “All are well. buit quite homesick- and would appreciate hearing from any of their old school mates in and around Shel- ton,” Mrs. Gee writes. Their ad- dresses made be had at the Jour- nal office. BENNIE J. BANNER NOW A CAPTAIN Mrs. Thelma Banner and daugh- ter Linda this week received a let- ter from her husband, saying he had been promoted to captain at the first of the year. Captain Ban- ner has been in the South Pacific for 20 months. as an air force ordnance inspector. CLYDE HARRIMAN IN CALIFORNIA Pvt. Clyde Ha‘rriman, stationed at Hamilton Field, Calif, spent a. 15-day furlough 'at the home of ihis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harriman of Harstine Island. THOR JOHNSON HERE ON LEAVE Thor Johnson of the Medical Corps spent his furlough at the ihomc of his brother and family, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Johnson, of , Harstine Island. He is stationed in Georgia. ' ANDREW GLASER HOME ON LEAVE Andrew Glaser of the Navy spent his leave recently at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Glaser: of Harstine Island. MARION OPPELT HERE ON VISIT Marion Oppelt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Oppelt, was home re- cently for a. visit after many months in Alaska with the Red Cross. He is now in San Francis- co on business and will . return soon to Alaska. GREGORY MAHAFFEY HOME ON LEAVE Pfc. Gregory Mahaffey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mahaffey, is home on a 15-dayfurlough from the Hobbs Army Air Base, New Mexico. He is an aerial mechanic. ELWYN OPPEUI‘ IS COMMENDED Pfc. Elwyn Oppelt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Oppelt, was one of_a group of Military Police com- mended by Brigadier General John T. Kennedy for the excellent man- ner and spirit in which they ren- dcrcd aid and protection at the scene of the Atlantic Coast Line train wreck last month. RICHARD PEARCE GRADUATES Another class of qualified radio operators had been graduated to- day by the Communication Dc~ partment of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Graduates included Sgt. Richard Continued on Page Seven)