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Writes Parents*/'nAbout TyphoonOff OkinawaBryw Irothtrs Stnbg httod# Sen's NavyTOWN SHIP—Mr. and Mil. E. D. Bryan of Berkeley Height!, who had not heard from their ion, Donald E. Bryan, GM 3/C of the Navy since September 29, on Monday morning received a letter from him dated October 10 from Okinawa at the time of the recent disastrous typhoon. GM 8/C Bryan writes, la part:“Well, we Just arrived at Okinawa again, safely. We hit a typhoon again on our way from China. We lcwt two ship* in the convoy of six of us. We ran into the storm about six o’clock in the morning of the 8th. We got out of the storm about 10 o’clock on the morning of the 10th. I mean it was really rough. You probably read about it. We had an 80 mile gale and I swear the waVee were from 50 to 100 feet high. The shipwas creaking and groaning andevery time we would hit a wave the bow felt like it was breaking off. Our galley stove caved in and we split a couple seams and our gyro compass went out of order. Most of the ships here at Okinawa are beached because of the stormi • * • . Twashing them up. Our largest roll was 38 degrees and that 'atot hay. I thought we would have to abandon ship a couple of times. Westill haven’t received any mall yet,but I guess as soon as everything gets settled around here we will be getting some.GM 3/C Bryan Is assigned to an LST boat, lie is 19 and has been in service two years, In his one year in the Pacific he was in the invasions of Iwo Jlma and Okinawa. The Berkeley Heights’ sailor has been in Jinsen, and Tukabar, the seaport town ofTientsin. He was on the first convoy ever to enter the latter place. The day after GM 3/C Bryan arrived there, the Marines invadedit. He wrote that It was “just like an invasion though the war is over He added:There were about 150 planes flying around. Battleships and cruisers were all around. The Chinese have a lot of large factories over here, almost as largeas the ones back home. We dropped our pontoons here withmuddy. A number off .things are floating around jn the water that look like yellow worms, yet they are transparent just'Uke jelly fish. Too, they have jelly fish the size of a man’s head.The Bryan'a other son, Yoeman ’ Lawrence C. Bryan is on a tour of duty at the Naval Administration Building, Control Center, Washington, D. C. Lawrence, who is 18, entered the Navy last June. He completed his boot” training at the Sampson Naval Training Center and has been in Washingtonsince September 1 in the Demobilization Division.RONALD R. BRYAN, GM 8/C L. C. BRYAN, YOEMANOdors and RoadsGet AttentionOf CommitteeReleased From ArmvTOWNSHIP—Odors emanating from the Berkeley Chemical Co. in Snyder avenue and various road situations in the township took most of the attention of the /Township Committee at Its adjourned meeting Friday night in the Municipal Building.The complaint of various residents about obnoxious odors from the Berkeley Chemical Co. came to head over an application of that firm for a permit from Building Inspector Salvatore Del-Duca.On advice of Township Attor? ney Judge John L. Hughes, the committee agreed to advise Berkeley Chemical Co,, that no permit for additional facilities would be Issued until condition complained of is eliminated, or unlessIt will be demonstrated by plans and specifications and statement of purpose that the new building will eliminate nuisance complained of.On September 18 four members of the Township Committee visited the plant of the chemical company and were given assurance by plant officials they would doeverything^in.-.thelr-BPwer toeliminate Within 60 daytf the odors complained of.Two letters from the Board of Freeholders, one about Mountain avenue and the other about Diamond Hill road, were, referred to Committeeman Charles M.? Monica, chairman of the road committee, to seek clarification on from the Freeholders. The letter about Mountain avenue advised that action would be taken on the Township’s request to “widen and repair, that street when this municipality ;obtained the necessary right-6f?whys. ’dlarificatlon Is .feeing sought on the meaning of widen. The Township . Committee construed its request asHorn* for 30 DaysHiBoloTlt;calopenHeigMounighBiloggam. Th from Tree HlUt Rant twoandgarni Ch Inn itog , even hadfor 1LaShallopen be fit that eachFlrtoiPine3 Ba.iDeliaReactHllltcBlueBerk*Uni.2ndBaziSGT. G. W. ROBBINS, 3RDTOWNSHIP — Mr. and Mre. George W. Robbins, Jr., of Springfield avenue, Berkeley Heights, have as yuest until November 24, their son, Sgt. George W. Robbins, 3rd, who at that time will complete a 30-day furlough prior to another assignment somewhere in the State of Washington, He came on from Washington, where he had been stationed at Ephrata.In the AAF for the past two years on leave of absence from the Prudential Co. In Newark, Sgt. Robbins has been assigned as bomb-aMleF'MueKrrBgmrr'CTtBrto^ -mrthe Prudential he attended Summit .High School.A brother, Momm 3/c CharlesRobbins Is with the Navy. The last his father heard from him he. was In the Philippines.Columbia Pupils To Participate In Victory LoanTOWNSHIP—Pupils of the Co-lumbla School will participate In the Victory Loan Drive ‘through the puirchase of War Bonds, Supervising Principal Leo G. Fuchs has announced.Orders for bonds will be takenTO Socle Meth secor Nove the ] the i atten quid frommanjChrlifloraaproistatllt;usualcannserveV.TeaN. ,TOEducprogrWorl.TllghtRutgiby WdentshipMorsispeakNethiUnitePilhoRobe:era ortor 1
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Summit, New Jersey, US
Thu, Nov 01, 1945
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