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Six Beaver Boys Play on the 213th National Guard Basketball Team

Six Beaver men were squad members of the 213th Field Artillery Battalion basketball team at Fort Lewis. Lieutenant Colonel J. Frank Dalley, rear center, commanding officer of southern Utah's National Guard unit, holds the trophy won by the team in a tournament at Fort Lewis. The trophy was for runner-up spot in post competition, and was presented just before the boys left for overseas duty. Pictured here with Col. Daily are members of the team, the coach and his assistant and officers.

Front row: Left to right, Rey Foy, of Panguitch, assistant coach and manager; Ray E. Pearce and Jack Hollingshead of Beaver; Cannon Parkinson of Salt Lake, coach; Don Corry, Cedar; Leon Swindlehurse of Beaver;

Back Row: Mitchell Martin and Douglan McMullin of Beaver; Mac L. Sullivan, St. George; Col. Dally; Capt. Vance Johnson, Cedar; member of Col. Dalley's battalion staff; Phil Allen, Richfield; Klien Rollo, Cedar, and Milt Jolley, Cedar, who has assisted with recreation activities of the battalion. Unfortunately three prominent members of the team could not be present when the picture was taken. They are Boyd Holyoak and Lowell Sherratt of Cedar, and Doug McShane of Beaver.

The boys, now somewhere in the Far East Theatre, sent their trophy to the editor of the Iron County Record for safe keeping until their return home. The trophy and picture are on display in Cedar City. Courtesy of the Iron County Record.

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