Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13

made furniture. He said they play
softball every day if it doesn't rain
and can go to a picture show every
might if they want to do so. They
each get two cans of beer three
times a week. Bonar feels they are
/ luckier than many other men in the
service in different parts of the
world.
Chanel Earl Robertson, son of
Mrs. Eta Robertson o. FL Centre,
is wearing a marine uniform these
days. He spent two and a half
months in training in San Diego
and after a six-day visit with rela-
tives and friends in Imperial VAL
ley. will report at Camp Pendleton
for more training.
FL Centro has five more 17-year
olds in the naval reserve as ap-
prentice seamen. They are James
Elliott Adkins, son Of MIR. and Mrs.
H. O. Adkins: Lloyd Eugene Case.
son of Lloyd c. Case Henry Cliff
ton Farrar. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Archie c. Farrar: Harold Dean
Maddox, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
E. Maddox; and Donald Clair Biggs,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Biggs.
All five attended Central Union
High school.
Seaman First Glass Stanley Ry-
erSon. son of Mr.. and Mrs. p. E.
Ryerson of El Centro, finished the
navy aviation technical training
course at Norman, Oklahoma. and
was transferred to North Island at
San Diego. The cold weather ap-
parently was the most impressive
thing Ryerson encountered in Okla
homa during his months stay
there. His wife and son, Dickie
plan to join him in San Diego as
soon as living quarters are found.
Sergeant Robert Havens, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde S. Havens, son
of Mrs. Clyde S. Havens of Imperial,
is in the Manila area serving as a
paratrooper in communications. He
went in in the invasion at the
time the first paratrooperS were
dropped behind the ridge back of
Manila. Since then he has been
living in fo% holes and in the
! jungles in combat zones. Now, he
wrote, he is getting a little more
sleep and rest as there isn't so
much activity. The Filipinos are
good to the Americans, he said. and
help them all they can. Before 60
ing to Manila area he was in New
Guinea and at Leyte. His group
fought through from the mountains
on Leyte and on Christmas day
reached the beach. They had their
Christmas dinner on December %,
turkey and all. Sergeant Havens
went 10 High school in El Centro
/ for three years and one year to I'm
perial High school, being the center
of a bitter inter-school football
squabble. In 1910 he was all-valley
center for his work on the Imperial
High school taem. His wife and son,
Wally Jene, 2, are living in Holt
vile.
Am seeing France from a box
car, Corporal Jack Allen wrote his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Allen of El
/ Centro. He was transferred from
radar to the infantry and left the
/ United States last March, arriving
/ first in England, then going to
Scotland. He said he is awaiting
assignment to the Third Army.
France is shot up worse than Eng
land and Scotland, he said.
Corporal David Boyer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. n. Boyer of El Centro,
| has gone gack to the Pacific for
! his second tour Of duty in that area.
He Just finished a siX-months ad-
vanced telephone training course in
North Carolina and was Immediately
assigned TO overseas duty again. His
parents visited him in San Diego
/ Just before he sailed. Corporal Boy
er is serving with the Marines for
the fifth year He was in Cuba a
year and went TO the Pacific war
zone via the Panama Canal, serv-
ing more than year before being
sent back to the states.
Technical Sergeant David Dietz
nephew of Mr.. and Mrs. D. D Dietz
OF FL Centre, was graduated from
the instructors school at Laredo
Texas and sent to Yuma, Arizona
where he expects to be stationed
permanently as an instructor in
flexible gunnery. He served IL
months in Italy.
Colonel T. j. McQuade, former
station commanding officer at the
El Centro marine air station, is
home from the Pacific area on leave
He has been overseas 16 months.
Chief w. T. (Bill) Livingston, who
has been with the SeaBees in the
Marianas, landed in Seattle, Wash
ington this week, he telegraphed hi;
wife, Hazel. Before going to the
Pacific area, Livingston served with
the SeaBees in Africa. He was q
Marine in World War I. He has two
sons in this war, both army pilots
land a brother, Captain Chancellor
f. Livingston, is with the army IN
Africa at this time.
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