The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-29
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ward evening cools off enough to be
comfortable. The scenery and sur
rounding are beautiful. The fruit or
chards, berry farms and wooded areas
all add to Oregon's splendor. Now it
rains just once in while, but I re-
call the days when it started and kept
raining for weeks. They don't call
Oregonians web-foots and beavers for
nothing.
1T was nice being back home a
while back and seeing you all. 1t Ger
taing is something the rate at which
the boys ere leaving for service. Is
there anybody left? I can readily see
that Ely is doing its part in both man
power and war bonds. Gives a person
great satisfaction to know that. Keep
up the fine work, for the boys are
proud of you"
There are quite q few Ely fellows
at Camp Hale, Colo.," writes Pvt. Sig
Olson, Co. K, 86th Inf, "They are Pfc.
| Mike Schuster the was just home on
furlough), Johnny Peshel, Sgt. John
Thompson and Sergeant Koprivn1k.
I've met all of them except Peshel.
Pfc. Clarence Carlson has gone to Fort
| Ord, Calf. Carlson and saw quite
q bit of each other before he left, be-
cause he was only few barracks
| away from me.
GAS Carlson has said, the country
here is beautiful, and I like and en-
| Joy it lot. But you can give me
Minnesota any day. A fellow doesn't
realize how much that country up
there means to him until he is taken
| away from it. The climate here is
neither too hot or too cold, and feel
sorry for the boys down in the Texas
heat and dust.
II have completed my basic training
and am well into my tactical training
We have just been formed into the
new 10th light division. On our con-
ditioning hikes, we climb mountains
and now we have scaled every one in
the immediate vicinity of the camp
Some of them two and three times.
Last week we were chasing around
In the s0nw on top Of one Of them.
1.-The highest we have climbed is
abount 1880 feet and that's nearly
on top of the world. One of the most
wonderful natural phenomena are the
flowers growing on the mountains.
Millions of them All different kinds,
sizes and colors. They make beauti-
full sight"
Fit. Offer. Bernard Slogan of the
glider force is with GPTU, Fit. %,
Bowman Field, Louisville, KY. He is in
the glider pilot combat training unit
which is part of the airborne COM
mand, and he describes it as being "a
bit on the rugged side."
John Glayan of the Pioneer loca-
| ton asks that his son, Pvt. John Gla-
van, somewhere in North Africa, be
notified that the fishing in White Iron
lake is very good. John got couple
Of good sized northern pike out Of the
lake, but his son-in-law, Mike Toylan,
John said, didn't have much luck.
Mike got nothing.
Pvts. Joseph Majerle and Joseph
Novak have been indicted into men,
bership in the Little Ely" at Camp
Robert, Calf They are both in the Bird
Plat, Co. A, Goth TT. Bn. They write:
"As far as we know there are seven
other Elyites here. They are John
Mondati, Ray s. Tuomala, Edward
Shepel, Owen Childers, Victor Fink,
William Smuck and Louis Rom. They
are all in different companies.
"a group Of boys from the range is
also here. We get together and talk
OF good old Minnesota. There is no
place like it. Here all you see are
hills with no trees on them and no
lakes.
'The temperature gets to 140. We
march from 4:30 to $50 o'clock in
the evening in the hot sun. We sit
in the sun. On the field we have one
pint canteen Of water, but we can't
drink it without the ieutenant's per-
mission. When we return to camp we
must still have HALF A CANTEEN Of
water or we get extra outy and lot