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L wonder he was put into “limited service/' Ik- was understandably more valuable helping to train «friers in team work, limn he would have been in actual combat at such a tender age.March 1, ID49, Jerry was issued to Camp Rimini, in Helena. Mont. On May HI, 1044, be was transferred to ,Fort Robinson, Neb. Finally, in January 1945, he was declared • surplus property and donated to a serviceman who gave, him to Arden Sturdivant of tingle, Wyo. Mr. Sturdivant in turn, gave the big dog to young Ernest, then sick in bed with rheumatic fever. In time, Hr nest completely recovered, and he and Jerry wepe cons I ant’ companions. Barred From School Jerry had ta take no/', for an answer when his master went to school • that September, At first the family had to shut him in the house to'keep him from tagging along. Imagine a '76-pound Husky in vour kitchenette!Ernest and1 his mother and father, Mr, and Mrs. Claude Gibson, moved .to Now. Mexico last {year, Express agents’ eyes must have • popped all along the line I from Wyoming when Jerry travelled Hobbs-ward. One day when Ernest phoned the express office and asked if his'dog had arrived, he heard this reply:“Do you mean—slight indecisive pause, “—a horse?So Jerry lives In Hobbs now, a friendly lt;in a detached sort of jwny) unscarred war veteran. He 'is seldom seen away from home in the daytime, hut spends most of his time digging one hole after another In an effort to get down where it's cool. Sometimes a couple of cute young girl-dogs go into the.yard, sniffing their dain-id-1 • 'no’,:vGve noses in the direc-hfi! IVii of Jerry's feqd pan. He 10 I jitfver harks, but silently swings ?*r j i b: r^assive head, throwing - them hoi’*-' o:u-'#n3 enuivaUntf of a dirty loe’-. The ^ little girl-dog'a kt-yi : n i ict’iT in hasic. . ,ContUkfit LoicrV.o\* door to him lives a cocky ml''• hi net' Pekinese. The Peke ng rails into Jerry as a mosquito *t-iw.t.iing cti elephant, with approx-ol2.atT’l,
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Hobbs Daily News Sun
Hobbs, New Mexico, US
Mon, Aug 29, 1949
Page 13
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