Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27


little two-page newspaper six days
week and four pages on Sunday.
He is associate editor of the paper
and writes a sports column which
] appears under his name.
Private Manuel Ortiz of Ell Centro,
bantam weight champion, is taking
his army training at Camp Roberts.
He has been in the camp hospital
FOR treatment of an ear injury.
Three Imperial Valley Bluejackets
| recently were transferred to the
naval training center, Gulfport,
Mississippi, and assigned to schools
for additional training. They are
John L. Corfman, seaman first class,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey D. Corf-
man, of Ell Centre; Clyde Nolen
Shelley, fireman second class, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry E. Shelley,
Brawley; and Eugene Howard Vogt,
fireman second class, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl S. Vogt, of Ell Centre.
Bluejacket Corfman has been as
signed OF the electrical engineering
and radioman's school, while fire
men Shelley and Vogt now are at
tached to the basic engineering
school. Enlisting in May, 1943,
Young Corfman was sent to school
by the navy at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, under the v
II program. He was reclassified at
Great Lakes prior to being trans
ferred to Gulfport. A graduate of
the Itasca High school in Illinois,,
Fireman Shelley was a star athlete
in his prep school days, playing
football, basketball and baseball. He
enlisted in the navy in october of
last year. Bluejacket Vogt is grad
uate off Central Union High school
and was a freshman class officer
and member of the Associated
Mems Club at Central Junior Col
lege before leaving school to enlist
in the navy.
Clyde E. Plummer of 142 North
Eighth, Ell Centro, has been pro-
NOTED to sergeant, it was announced
in Camp Roberts recently.
Private Charles o. Dearborn, 35,
Of 1866 Adams, Ell Centro, is tempo
rarliy resting at the Miramar hotel
section of the army ground and
service forces redistribution station
in Santa Barbara following his rle-
cent return from % months of duty
overseas. This Imperial Valley vet
eran served as communication man
in a signal corps unit in New
Guinea. He entered the service
February 10, 1912, at FIT Macarthur.
He is an alumnus of Central Union
High school.
Robert Simmons, radarman third
class, is spending leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Sim
mons of Calexico, after overseas
duty aboard a carrier year and a
half. He was aboard a flag ship
in a task force which has travelled
throughout the South and Asiatic
Pacific areas.
Taylor Moe, rsVy storekeeper
second class, is enjoying leave in Ell
Centre with his wife and baby. He
has been stationed at the navy
supply depot at Oakland and will
report back there May T. He has
been in the service two and half
years. He transferred from the Sea-
bees to the navy year ago.
Sergeant Calvin Aaron arrived in
Ell Centre for visit with his mother,
Mrs. Ola Aaron. He was accom-
panied by his bride and his paternal
grandmother. Sergeant Aaron is
stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky,
and has been in the army four
years.
Sergeant Walter E. (SWede)
Schultz, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
H. Schultz of El Centre, is in the
fighting in Germany He went over
seas with the army last December
and has been stationed in France.
He said he crossed four countries
before he reached his present sta
] ton.
Bert Holt, radio technician third
elias, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herb Holt
of Ell Centro has gone to the Pacific
] Sol 10
beaches are better than those in
Hawaii. His brother, Technical Ser
geant Robert Holt, is in Germany.
He wrote that he shot a fat deer
recently and it made good eating"
Technical Sergeant Frank E.
Brewer, former accountant and
bookeeper with the irrigation dis
trict and the Golden State Cream
cry, has been home on leave, visiting
his wife and children in Imperial.
He is bookeeper with a tank re-
pair unit at Ft. Knox, Kentucky,
and has been in the service year.
Lieutenant Ebert Berry, son of
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Bearry of Ell
Centre and a practicing attorney in
Ell Centre when he entered the SER
vice four years ago, is home on leave
for the first time since December
of 1943. He has been aboard a
tanker taking Oil to various stations
IL the Pacific area. He has been in
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