Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

that there is plenty of snow and ice
there.
change of address was received
bv relatives this week for Private
A. Mancha. He has been in North
Africa and Italy with a tank de-
stroyer battalion but now is in
England. Private Mancha is only
II years of age and has been in the
service since last June.
A visit home ended last Friday
for Corporal Merlin W. Woolliscroft.
He returned to Camp Sibert. Ala
bama. after visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. g. H. Woolliscroft,
and his sister, Mrs. c. j. Reeves.
An El Centro boy, Pfc. Philip M.
Boone, is in italy now. He wrote
his mother, Mrs. M. L. Boone, last
week that the country is beautiful
and things are not as bad over
there as we hear He has been
transferred to the medical division
Major Charles Delp has been
home 10 days for a visit with his
family between trips aboard an
armv transport. He is on a trans
mort which takes men to the varl-
ous fighting fronts and returns
home with the wounded and men
granted leave He has travelled a
total of 100000 miles on the water.
Benny Ortiz Mercado, seaman
second class, is now stationed at
New Orleans where he is COM
pleting his training. He joined
naval aviation last September. He
is II years of age. Benny Is a
graduate of Holtville elementary
school and a son of Mr., and Mrs.
j. Mercado of 824 Pine street,
Holtville.
AVS. Harry Graham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Graham OF the
Seeley area, has been accepted IN
the army air corps and CLASSIFIED
as a pilot. He is training at Santa
Ana. He attended Junior college
in Ell Centro.
THE stork arrived with son Tor
Sergeant and Mrs. George Harris,
Jr., lust in time for Sergeant Harris
to see the baby before he had TO
report back to the army air corps
at Ardmore, Oklahoma. The baoj
was born in El Centre "Wednesday
morning.
Fort Custer, Michigan, is where
Pfc. Jerry Caplinger, formerly en-
ployed by the California motor
vehicle license department in El
Centre, is attending military gov
ernment school maintained by the
army.
The promotion Of Hugh r. john
ston of 1856 Broadway, Ell Cen'ro
from private to corporal III the
army air CORPS was announced lhlS
week by the Eighth Air Force
bomber command in England. Be-
fore he entered the service. Corporal
Johnston was employed in the
stereotyping department OF the
PoSt-PreSS.
Pfc. Joe Maggie well-knoWn I'M
perial Valley produce man ano
shipper. was given a medical dis
charge from the army after serving
slightly more than IA months II
the infantry. He was in action al
New Georgia Island and at Guadal'
canal. He was stricken witt
malaria while in the tropics an,
was in a hospital month. A1te'
he was sent back to the state
Maggie was treated in the arm.
, hospital at Modesto three weeks
He then was sent home ana Is SUD
ject to report to army physician
three months for another physlca
} examination.
Lieutenant Robert Reynolds re
Gently was transferred from Souti
l Carolina, where he and Mrs. Key
, nolds had been two months, TO Sai
Francisco. Before going south the
had been in st. Louis. MO, elgn
months. Lieutenant Reynolds l
in army aviation engineering. MRS
! REYNOLDS is in Ell Centre.
, Second Lieutenans Donn l.. Mad
den, son of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. a
= Madden, is at Harding Field, Louis
. lana undergoing intensive tac'lca
training in one of Americas dead
' liest fighter planes. He has beel
: assigned to the famous PAT "Thun
derbolt," the worlds fastest inter
3 ceptor plane and with his fello'
l flyers is being taught combat flyin
/ tactics. Lieutenant Madden Is
! former Ell Centran.
Jolly Knight, son of Mr.. and Mr.
t A. Knight of Holtville, is in tn
D navy and has been transferre
s from San Diego to trainin
school at Norman, Oklahoma. II
:: wrote his parents that he had sign
: ed UP for training as an aviatio
!. gunner and was enjoying tn
S school in spite of the cold weathe
D. E. Kaylor, son of Charles Kay
lor of Ell Centre, is seaman secon
class with the navy and is Statione