The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-13

the Crimean war.
Her husbands father fought
for the British Empire In the
Boer war in South Africa.
So perhaps it's natural that in
this war her boy, Stanley should
be doing his stint by teaching
instrument flying to Army Air
For cadets at a basic training
field at San Angelo, Texas and
a nephew of hers is fighting in
North Africa with the British
forces, if touch of malaria that
he contracted there hasn't got
ton him down.
JOINED IN AUGUST
AS for Stanley he enlisted
last August. He figured the
United States would be in the
war long before it was, he said
yesterday afternoon. He was
one of three potential draftees
who enlisted over the soothing
Of some of his friends who said
that while they'd only be in for
one year, he'd have to stay for
a whole hitch. One of the other
two who enlisted with him was
Milton Frye, of Mount Clemens.
In his period of service STAN
ley has been stationed at three
posts, Camp Grant, jefferson
Barracks and his present post,
Goodfellow field.
TEACHES CADETS
His job is teaching cadets to
do instrument flying and with
a seeming dearth in that type Of
instructors it looks as though
he'd be there for some time
now. He trains them in Link
trainer, which is a replica of an
airplane cockpit designed by a
m n named Link which goes
through all the motions of fly
ing a course without leaving the
ground. On Army Day child Wis
ltorS to the post begged their
parents to get 'em on of the =
trainers as play toy and the
parents were willing, until they
learned that the trainers retail
at anywhere from $4,000 to
$40, 900 After that they decided
to compromise on an electric
train or something.
In addition to swearing alleg-
lance to Uncle Sam and the Air
Forces, Stanley has also dupli-
cc.ed the vow in regard to a
Charming young Texan, of the
feminine persuasion to whom he
was married not so long ago.
She's up here visiting the
folks with him.
Perhaps the oldest coinci-
dence about his Army service is
that maybe scions Of military
families are magnetic to each
other.
MEETS RANKIN
Over in Utica Stanley was
given a formal introduction to
Major j. Gordon Rankin, Utica
Justice of the Peace, who has
two boys in the Army now, who
lost one in the fighting around
scissors in 1918 and who him..
self served as commander of the
First Air Park ground unit Of
General Billy Mitchell's First
Pursuit group, SO long afterward
St-tioned at Selfridge Field.
The introduction was not only
formal, it was official, Stanley
having been introduced through
the medium of a traffic ticket
rendered him for making an inn
proper turn at a green light in
Utica.
The two men talked the thing
over and Major Rankin let Cor
poral-To-Be Dunk off with
one-dollar fine.
A few weeks later Stanley
pulled into a Utica oil station.
know an y h i ng about
Fords?" his friend, who con-
Quoted the station inquired.
A little" Stanley admitted,
and was asked to take look at
one standing there in the sta
ton.
1t needed . new fuel pump
and glancing up to tell the own
er so, Stanley found himself re-
garding his old acquaintance,
Mapor Rankin.
GETS FINE BACK
He told the major what his
car needed, they got it and STAN
le. 1t it on.
SO then the major handed
Stanley back his dollar, not as
an official rebate, but just for
the heck of it, maybe.
Stanley doesn't know whether
he'll get over to see the major
befoIc he gets back.
While the matter of weather
today constitutes a military Sc
cret, Corporal Dunk permitted
to discuss climate.
He says the climate of West
Texas, around San Angelo, is
is relaxed.
Down there they don't make
a fellow wear his uniform all
the time. Where there isn't a
group of more than five hob
nobbing around the post, they
can go into multi. If they want
to play tennis or bowl they can
shed their tunics and trappings