The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-05-11

chanlcS at Sheppard Field, lex.
Sergeant Marvel, % years old, re-
sided with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Marvel in Rexferd, be-
fore entering the service.
Ensign Jane LaMunyan is sta
toned in Dallas, Texas, with the
WAVES as a naval navigator. Jane
entered the WAVES in February
1943 and took her induction at Mt.
Holyboke, Mass. Her first station
after graduation was Dallas. Jane
was the first WAVE at the Dalles
Air Base. In August she was one OF
the first IL girls chosen from the
WAVE officers to attend the Naval
Navigation school in Hollywood,
Fla. Upon graduation she returned
to Dallas where she now is an in
structor in Navigation at the Naval
Air Base.
On March IS, Lieutenant Phoebe
La Munyan arrived in England
Phoebe is chief nurse with the
Air Evacuation Group and is sta
toned somewhere in the British
Isles. Phoebe has been an army
nurse at Fort George Wright for
two and a half years and last Oc-
tober was sent to Bowman Field
Louisville, KY, for training as ar
air evacuation nurse. Phoebe says
"If they only had the mountains
in England, it would be more like
home
Both girls will be glad when this
is over and they can return home
to Montana.
Formerly of Libby, Marine Pvt
Lucie r. Boyce was recently as
signed as a student in the motor
transport school at Camp Lejeune
NJ c.
Private Boyce is receiving four
weeks training at the specialist
school in convoy driving, map read
ing, black-out driving, as well as
in the maintenance end operation
of motor vehicles from jeeps tc
light delivery trucks. When she com
pletes the course she will be as
signed to the motor transport di-
vision of Marine base.
The daughter of Urey, L. Rich
ardson of Libby, Private Boyce is 9
graduate of Libby High Shcool
Her husband, Joseph H. Boyce, is
now serving in the Navy.
Six weeks basic training at Camp
Lejeune preceded the local WON
ans recent enrolment in the mo-
| tor transport school.
| Camp Kohler, Calf, May g.
Private Richard Neils, who is sta.
toned at the Western Signal Corps
Unit Training Center at Camp Koh-
| Ter, has qualified as expert with The
80 calibre rifle according to an an
nouncement by 1t Col. Arthur ]
/ Wehl Commanding Officer. Hi
i score was 172 out of 1875. He en-
] tered the army on March %, 1913.
Mrs. F. w. Carvey was in tht
city from Eureka Saturday and re
ported that news from their son
Dfc Edward Carney, was to the eff
feet that he was on small island
lin the Southwest Pacific not fal
from the Marshall group and tina
he had just received his Christina:
packages. He wrote that he wa!
| getting along fine but is anxious tt
get home.
Harold Montana Decker, who j.
with the Seabees somewhere in the
Pacific, sends this newspaper a copy
of newspaper put out by that or
ganization. 1t is called the Hive
Herald and is profusely illustrated
and interesting publication. The
date line gives the place of publica-
ton as Island *. One large pic.
ture in the Hive Herald shows {
huge lotion power roller and the
caption under it is Paving the Way
to Toxic" Decker writes and says
in part.
I'VE are in new camp once
again. We moved last week Thi:
outfit surely does keep on the
move AS soon as we build camp
it seems we are then due for an
other move. It's fun to build bu'
it's also nice to have a decent camp
That leave we were expecting
seems to be long way off yet
Transportation doesn't seem so easy
to get. We should still make it this