The Coolidge examiner., 1945-02-23

ram anu muu. MOSL Ol Uno pOn0S
and pools are frozen ovec wv and
the children are all out with their
skates" AS far as work goes, its
the same no matter where he is
and there is little to tell about, |
Peters says. He is the son of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Rudolph Peters and has
two brothers in the service, Cpl. |
Hugo ]. Peters serving somewhere |
IN the South Pacific, and Pvt. |
Everette D. Peters.
EDGAR BOLLlN. &c SIC, phoned
Lis mother, Mrs. Virginia Bollin,
from Boston Saturday to let her
know he had returned to the States.
3ollin entered service in June of
943 and went overseas in April Of
1914. He hopes to be home in about
so days, he said 1t will mark his
first visit home since he left for
| the service in 1943.
PFC. JIMMY ENRlQUEZ is in a.
| hospital in Italy recovering from n
| recent wound received in his hand,
according to a letter that reached
| his sister, Mrs. Fred Garcia, this
week. There were no details, but
he is feeling better now" Jimmy
wrote. He was born in Winkelman,
Arizona, November, 1927, and has
made his home near Boree's Cor
ner west of Coolidge since 1885. He
volunteered at II and has been
serving with the infantry since. He
was sent overseas in June of 1914
His brother, Pvt. Manuel EnriQuez
is serving in England. Their par
ents are dead and the boys have
made their home with an uncle for
many years.
ERNEST J. GREGG, S nc, writes
that as a result of reading the
whereabouts of Spurgeon O'DOnneH
in an Examiner recently, he found
they were in the same locality and
got busy and looked him up. AS a
result he had a fine visit with
Spurgeon, Bill Pierce, and Joe Es-
pinoza, all Coolidge boys. The four
are in the Mariana Islands.
LARRY D. SOWELL, MMM SIC,
wrote his parents from the Euro
pean theater of operations recently
to let them know what his Christ
mas was like. The letter, forwarded
in a government envelope, because
of its fragile condition, told mute
story. burned around the edges and
blurred with water stains until it
was illegible in places. Since then,
however, the Sowells have received
a cable from their son and know
that he is all right. do you want
to know what our Christmas was
like?" he asked. We'll, one of the
guys aboard ship wrote about it
better than l could. His words ex-
press what all of us felt, so | will
send them to you" Here's how the
boys at sea felt about Christmas :.
and all through the ship, not a
drink was in sight, not even al
Nip We dreamed of Christ
mas so snowy and white, with wine,
women and holly, and bright col
ored lights . . Then, before we
knew it, we had them-and how! |
Hot coffee cocktails and foam on
the bow. The wine was only cram
berry, the pin up girls were paper.
There were colored lights from
other ships, while the stars over
head cut capers Even the enuncia-
tors were playing Jingle Bells
this was almost like home Yes
it was-like hell" Sowen received
his Christmas Edition of the Examl-
ner and that was the closest to
home he came Il liked the verse
you and Dad had in there for me,
Mom-and l thought the Edition
was the best the home folks have
ever gotten out" Sowell has been
overseas since March of 1914.
PVT. MAC WARE left Thursday
to report for duty at Klngman
Army Air Field at the conclusion OF
a three-day furlough spent visiting
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Ware. Mac, who is attending aerial
gunnery school at Kingman was
one of the men in his entire bar
racks granted the brief leave for
perfect inspection last week.
J. c. ROSE, Jr., MN 1/c, left
Tuesday to report for duty at Bos-
ton, Mass, at the conclusion of two
weeks leave spent visiting his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Rose.
PFC. THEODORE SMITH left
Thursday to report for duty at
Camp Swift, Texas, at the con-
ol,,ciop 0f two weeks furlOuRh