Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

next week.
! First Lieutenant Dudley B. Hatch
/ is enjoying q visit in Ell Centre
after attending a provost marshal
/ school at Fort Sam Houston, at San
/ Antonio. Texas. At the end of the
month he must report at Camp
Fannin at Tyler, Texas. He is visit
ing his parents Mr.. and Mrs. E. N.
d. Hatch; his wife, the former
Bernice Langley of CaleXico, and
! his son, Neal
! Dr.. Frederick Heald of El Centre,
was promoted from captain to major
early this month, the promotion be-
/ ing announced in India where he is
head of an army hospital.
Lieutenant Robert Simpson has
been sent to Roswell, New Mexico,
to take B-29 training. He and Mrs.
Simpson visited her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Palmer Barrett, in Ell
Centre. Their daughter, Sandra
Lou, was with them for a visit with
her grandparents.
Rudy Linden was promoted to
first lieutenant February at the
field artillery school at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, where he Is sta
toned as an instructor
Address Jack Aaron as Sergeant
Aaron. He was promoted to sergeant
while serving as a gunner IN the
Palau islands. Asked how he rated
the promotion, Jack wrote: Il was
first in chow line twice in succeG-
sion" BY that his friends knew the
promotion hadn't changed him
bit.
Private Herbert R. Rainwater,
former resident of Ell Centre, re-
Gently spent 10 days in San Diego
visiting his daughter. Sandra Gail.
and brother, Lloyd Rainwater, and
family. He completed training in
field artillery at Fort Sill, OKLA
hopa. After his visit home, lie will
report to Fort George G. Meade,
/ Maryland, TO await overseas assign
ment.
Raymond Osa, seaman second
class has gone to Gultport, Missis-
sippi. to base diesel engineering
/ school, where he expects TO be busy
4 for eight weeks. He said his present
/ location is composed of desert plus
swamp and is not at all like Impe-
| rial Valley. There is no sunshine
here like at home, he wrote.
Aviation Cadet Philip c. Weigand,
son of Philip c. Weigand ST.. of Ell
Centro, was graduated recently as a
military pilot ct Blackland army air
field at Waco, Texas. He received
his silver wings after taking ad-
vanced two-engine pilct instructions.
For the first time in almost two
years Private Loui1 e. johnson and
T5 Charles L. Johnson, sons of Mrs.
Annie Mcneil of Holtville, met not
long ago. Their reunion was in tn:
Philippine islands somewhere.
Lieutenant Earl H Templeton
has been awarded the Bronze Stal
Medal for meritoroGs achievement
as officer in charge of telephone in
stallations at the naval air station
on Attu. Templeton supported op-
eratiCns against tie enemy by pro-
viding continuous and efficient
telephone service for the naval air
station and for fleet air units oper-
ating against the Kurile islands de-
spite deep snow severe cold and
winds which at times exceeded 100
knots the citation accompanying
the medal stated. He started to
work fer the irrigation district
while still attending high school in
Imperial, serving as night telephone
operator in 1903 After he finished
college he worked for the district
as craftsman estimator from 1887
until 1910, when he went to work
for the Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph company in San Diego
I'm getting all my Post-Presses
and am glad to get them even if l
sometimes get a whole months issue
at one time" c. A. Mcdaniel, navy
fireman first class, wrote his moth
er. Mrs. Irene Mcdaniel, $50 Wood
ward. He has been in the South Pa
cific.
Private First Glass Billy Gilmer
has ore mere operation ahead Of
him, this time one in which there
will be some grating of bone on his
injured leg. He is a patient in a
Van Nuys hospital. He already has
had three operations, made neces-
sary when his leg was injured in an
accident in Hawaii some time ago.
I'VE are knee-deep in over two
feet of snow" Majcr d. V. Ellis
worth wrote from a hospital where
he is stationed somewhere in France,
serving as a chaplain. He is 4 for
mer rector at st. Paul's Episcopal
church in FL Centre.
Private Neal Macurda. son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Malcolm Macurda CT El
Centre. is in the Philippines these
days. He said his camp looks like
Camp Seeley but he hasn't time to
describe it just now.
In 1914, the number OF persons 10