Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

graduated from the marine officers
candidate school at Quantico, Vir-
ginia. He attended the high school
in Ell Centro and California Poly
, technical college.
Flight Officer Bruce Parker, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Parker OF Cal
exico, is home from Dodge City,
Kansas, army air field for a visit
with relatives and frienos. He at
tended the high school in Calexico
and Junior College in Ell Centro.
Lieutenant (jg) Russell Yeager,
former deputy district attorney of
Imperial county, has been assigned
to Vero Beach, Florida, for perma-
nent duty. He has been in the navy
two years, serving IA months in the
Pacific. He was in six campaigns.
Mrs. Yeager and their small son will
join Lieutenant Yeager IL Florida,
planning to leave Monday.
One of the men who recently fin
ished school at Scott Field, Illinois,
was Private James Stevenson, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Stevenson of
Pico street, Ell Centro. He is a
specialist in electricity, radio, and
diesel. He has been in school the
10 months he has been in service. He
must report at Shepherd Field Tex
as, May /. His wife, the former
Juanita Sweeten of Ell Centro, ac-
companied him houc.
billiard Sherburne T-l7iesen, Ma
chinist's Mate Second Glass, of
Route 3 (Box 85), Holtville, has
{ been assigned to duty as an instruc-
tor at the u. S. Naval Training Cen
ter, Gulfport Mississippi, the Elev-
enth Naval District reported today
Enlisting in the Navy in Novem-
ber, 1912, in San Diego, Bluejacket
Thiesen underwent recruit train
ing at the Naval Training Center
there, then was assigned to SER
vice school for further instruction
He has seen duty as a repair man
in a repair unit, as machinist in
an inside shop and in the trans
portation department.
Assignment of Albert Ramirez
Seaman Second Glass, of 102 Giles
Avenue, Calexico, as mess cook al
the U. S. Naval Training Center
Gulfport, Mississippi, was announc-
ed today by the Eleventh NavaI
! District.
Seaman Ramirez enlisted in the
Navy in Los Angeles in April, 1914
and underwent recruit training al
Camp Perry, Virginia.
His duties at the Gulfport cent.l
will be in the officers mess.
David H. Hand, ART 1/c, is home
on leave after service in the Soutf
Pacific war zone. He will be baSeC
in San Diego for awhile and viii
he able to see his parents, Mr.. anc
Mrs. E. H. Hand of Imperial, from
time to time. His brother, Jim, also
is in the navy
In PecoS, Texas, Max T. Sones, son
Of Mrs. Bessie SoneS, received his
silver wings when he was graduated
as a second lieutenant from the ad-
vanced tw-engine pilot school. He
was assigned to Pecos from Minter
Field. He is well known in Imperial
Valley, being a former student of
Central Union High school Before
the war he was associated with his
brothers, Merl and Fred, in the veg
etable packing business in INLAND.
Corporal Walter Price, son of Mrs
V. l.. Price, has been home on leave
from San Antonio, Texas. He is the
X-Ray department of an army air
force regional hospital.
Cecil Gillett, who before the war
was connected with the Imperial r.
rigation district, has been promoted
from first lieutenant to captain. He
is stationed with the army at Kelly
Field, Texas. He is a son of Mrs.
Nellie Gillett of El Centro and a
brother Of Lieutenant Lamar Gill
lett, army pilot held prisoner of the
japanese since the fall of the Phil
ippines early in the war.
After visit home Conrad Dick
son, SIN &c has returned to Great
Lakes, Illinois. He was with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Dick
son, II days. He expects to be sent
overseas before long He has been
in the navy for more than a year.
Away from home 26 months, Le-
land Edge, soundman &c, was in
Imperial Valley last weekend for a
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. E. Edge. He was wounded while
serving aboard a destroyer in the
Pacific area.
The promotion of Private First
Glass Ira j. Cook to corporal re-
Gently was announced from the 46th
engineering construction headquart-
ers in the Philippines. Corporal
Cook has been overseas almost six
months. He wrote that he likes his
work but will be glad to get back to
the United States again.
Private First Glass Ray Barnes
former managing editor of the Post
Press arrived in the Philippine is
lands April l and Immediately was