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The Black Hills of Wyo.
The Sundance Times, Sundance, Wyoming
For Victory Buy War Bonds
Dean Hutchins In Hospital
Mrs. Anna Hutchins received
word recently from her son, Dean
that he is in the hospital in E~g-
land. If he was wounded she
does not know definitely but he
had written his mother that he
was in France early in October,
having gone across just a few
Weeks after his furlough home in,
August. From here Dean went tel
Maryland a~d was shipped out
from there. His hospital address
is Pvt. Win. Dean Hutchins, 37-
361887, Detachment of Patients,
4198 U. S. Army Hospital, APe
641, Care P. M., N. Y., N. Y.
Another son, Chester, writes
that he is back in combat in
France and "glad of it." Chester
received a leg wound in the early
days of the invasion of France
for which he received a Purple
~Ieart.
Pvt. Chad L. Yeoman. 374587-
03, has moved agai~ and is now
With a Parachute Infantry regi-
2sent as a paratrooper. His APe
is 472.
Pvt. Harold Bernd writes that
he has been in England and Scot-
land and that he hoped to return
to the latter country when he
could spend more time there as
tt is so beautiful. He cannot give
his prese~nt location but his APe
has been changed to 339.
Unit Awarded Citation
tures of e~nemy military, maritime
and industrial installations. Dur-
ing the week preceding and three
weeks following the Normandy
invasion, group pilots flew exceed-
ingly dangerous, low altitude
missions to photogralph German
communication li~es and troop
and supply movements.
He is the husband of Mrs.
Phyllis McLaughlin and a ~ton
of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McLattgh-
fin, Sundance. Prior to entering
the army June 5, 1942, he was an
automobile mechanic at Susdance.
Overseas M mages Can
Be Sent Speedily Through
Navy Departments EFM
Persons desiring to send mes-
sages to Navy, Marine and Coast
Guard personnel overseas can a-
vail themselves of the services of
the Navy's inexpensive and speedy
Expeditionary Force Messages,
Thirteenth Naval District Head-
quarters a~nounced today.
The service, now more than
half a year old. is available to
anyone desiring to ¢.ommunicate
wiih Navy. Marine or Coast Guard
oversea~ personnel who are land-
based with permanent Fleet Post
Office numbers, or in some cases
to certain mobile land-based units
wtih Fleet Post Office or Army
Post Office ~lumbers. Members of
these services in turn may use
EF3f to communicate with per-
sons at home. EFM service can-
not be used to send messages to
An Eighth AAF Aerial Reeon-men aboard ships.
llaissance Station, England--Ser-A total of 237 fixed texts are
geant Alfred R. McLaughlin, 32, available to users ~)f EFM service~,
of Sundance, ~,Vyo., is one of the any three of which may be corn-
:Soldiers at this Eigtlth Air Force bined to coral)rise one message
Aerial reconnaissance station in
land who recently was award-
ed the War Department,s disting-
Uished unit citation ribbon by his
'Wing commander, Colonel Elliott
~oosevelt: The award was made
to all personnel of a photo grou1)
Commanded by Lt. Col. C. A. Sheep
~f Beverly tIills, Calif., for "~x-
traordinary heroism. "--allan ~ry
a~d det(rmi,,~aTion" during th-
; ~aonth of June.
• Sergeant McLaughlin is an air-
Craft mechanic and crew chief
for a photographic reconnaissance
Squadron whose assignment in the
light against Nazi aggression is
to obtain the valuable aerial pi,-!
which costs 60 cents, plus Fed-
eral Tax, a~d which may be sent
from an)' local telegraph office.
The ~ "
.ex~s are designed to. cover a
wide range of topics to meet ev-
,ry M:uation requiring fast com-
m~n',,a'ion service.
The Navy code address or Navy
N:;ix!,r d(M~nating the unit to
wb.i,.i~ p,-r~onnel are a~tached is
li' ~'*'>,-.,Fy tO 3s>ur(2 delivery of
EFM. This code address, if not
alr~ady known to persons wishing
to selid me.ssagos, may be obtain,:d
from ti:e Naval Postal Affairs
Section, Navy Department, Wash-
i.nglon, D. C. Local telegraph
offices can also be of assistance
in this respect. In addition to
the code address, EFM communi-
cations should give name and rank
or rating, and the activity to
which the person addressed is at-
tached.
In reminding the public of the
availability of this service, the
Navy pointed out that 1~ the first
six months in which EFM was in
use 230,000 messages were ex-
changed, with Navy, Ma~ne and
Coast Guard personnel themselves
~sending 210,000 messages to the
United States. The rest, 20,000
messages, went to men overseas.
Army Releases Pacific
Area Mail
Families of soldiers engaged in
operations i,n the Philippines will
soon be receiving batches of mail
that have been delayed for secur-
ity reasons during the period pre-
ceding the invasion of these is-
lands. Some 400,000 letters and,
a large number of parcels were
impounded. This mail originat-
ed. with units now engaged is
American Army operations in the
Philippines. Some of the letters
date as far back as last July.
Veterans Learn of •
Rights, Benefits
Every veteran, upon being dis-
charged, will receive a booklet en-
titled "Your Rights and Benefits,
A Handy Guide for Veterans of
The Armed Forces and Their De-
pendents." The booklet was pre-
pared by the Retraining and Re-
employment Administration of the
O[fice of War Mobilization. Near-
iy 2,500,000 copies of the booklet
~re now available. Veterans who
have ah'eady been discharged will
be able to obtain copies from
draft boards, Offices of Veterans
Administration, USES or Com-
munity Veterans' Information
Centers.
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Miller Creek
Mr. a'nd Mrs. Maurice Moore
and Guy Huckins were transact-
ing business in Belle Four(.he last
Men clay.
We were sorry to hear of Mrs.
Lucy Minnich's illness and wish
her a speedy recovery. Her
dauuhter, Mrs. Bud Davis, is
~tayil~g with h~:r.
C. A. Ward came over from
Newcastle S~nday to look after
ranrh inter(:sts here.
Quite a' number from here at-
tended the ftme~,'al of Everett Ar-
nold Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rogers and
daug~ter of Missouri are visiting
at the Paul Myers home,
Air. and Mrs. A. J. Montgomery,
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Vore and TufI~/
were iallers at Will Kelly's "Wed-
nesday afttrnoon.
The blanket of snow, about 16
inches in depth that fell last week
is melti~g and most side roads
are passable again.
Mrs. D. B. Hilton, who has
been teaching the Bitter Springs
school, was forced to discontinue
because of ill health.
X.
Aladdin
Among those from Aladdin
stranded in Belle Fourche by the
heavy snow storm or blizazrd last
week were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
Weaver and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Pattinson, Mr. and Mrs. I.
E. Myres a~d Mr. and Mrs. Nels
Pearson. The Weavers reached
home last Thursday and the oth-
ers got their cars as far as Wy-
roans and continued on their
way with team and wagon sup-
plied by A. J. Pattinson.
George Harvey returned to his
job at the Robbins ranch Sun-
day after spending several days
at Rapid City u~der a doctor's
care.
Jesse Dotson and nephew Ob-
ern Dotson were Aladdin callers
Sunday evening and were also
callers at Wymans.
Visitors in town Saturday fronl
Pine Ridge were Mike Erland,
Frank Seiners and Mr. and Mrs.
Otis Deeder.
Dale Cammack is out of school
this week helping his father load,
out cattle.
Typewriter Ribbons -- The Times
u~ v v v v ~ v v
Quality Cold Springs Monuments
STURGIS
MONUMENTAL
WORKS
1049 Main Street
Sturgis, South Dakota
MEATS--FATS---Red stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 thru
P5 remain good indefinitely for 10 points. No new Red
stamps until Dec. 3rd.
PROCESSED FOODS----Blue stamps A8 through Z8 and A5
through V¢5 remain good indtfinitely for 10 points. No ~ew
blue stamps until Dec. 1.
SUGAR--Sugar stamps 30, 31, 32, 3.~ and 34 each now good
for 5 lbs. indefinitely. Sugar stamp 40 is good for 5 lbs. can-
ning sugar and up to 20 Ibs. more per person may be secured
upon application to the rationing board.
GASOLINE--A-£3 stamps now valid and are good through
December 21,
SHOES--Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in Book 3 good indefin-
itely.
* ALL FOOD STAMPS IN BOOK 4 *
Partlow and Bryan
SUNDANCE, WYOMING
IIAKE THIS STORE YOUR SHOPPING HEADQUARTERS WHEN IN SUNDANCL
with the overseas
gifts out of the
way our thoughts
are on the home
needs and Xmas.
O u r selection of
gifts is complete
for the early shop-
1}er.
Y
Spearfish, S. D.
Emperor
lb .....................................................
Dozen
I
DRESSING
Holsum--1 qt.
lb.
Can
6R Pts
lb ...............
and
Friday,
Dec. 8th
Due to Gas and Tire Shortage
We Will Buy In Sundance
Every Other Friday
LIVE
TURKEYS
No. 1
Young Ib .....
DRESSED
TURKEYS
No. 1
Young lb .....
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY HENS ...................... 17c
LEGHORN HENS ................. 15c
SPRINGS ................................ 21c
OLD COCKS .......................... 8c
Belle Fourche
Gold Medal
50 lb. Sack
at C. D. ROBERTS MKJaING CO.
