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Show auxiliary boards would be asked to attend. All organization union meetings were discontinued and monthly stake priesthood meetings were also discontinued. Traveling needed to be limited to save gasoline.4 When the stake presidency and high council met following conference, one of their first orders of business was to send letters to all the young men from the stake who were in the armed services.5 All citizens of Morgan County were asked to plant victory gardens, and in July, high council members were assigned to visit the homes throughout the stake and make sure that there were adequate fuel supplies for the coming winter.6 Douglas M. Crouch, who was serving in Pearl Harbor in the spring of 1942, sent a clipping Clarence Dickson Rich home which the Saints in Mon3an most ,ikelV found interesting. The article was taken from the Honolulu Star Bulletin: To many on the island, Col. O.E. Sandman's field artillery is new, and comparatively little is known about its background and its home state. Few, if any, national guard units of the United States can boast of as colorful as history as this battalion, which is now in its 101st year of existence. The origin of the regiment is traced back to the original Nauvoo Legion, founded February 3, 1841, as part of the armed forces of the state of Illinois. Members of this legion were for the most part made up of men from the group of Mormons residing in that state. It went to Utah later, but before that, when war with Mexico broke it marched from Kansas to San Diego on the coast, approximately 2,000 miles, which military experts claim is the longest infantry march on record. There followed considerable travel, anytime duty beckoned. The unit fought in the Spanish-American war around Manila and was overseas in France with orders to enter combat when the war ended in 1918. The memorable December 7 found the unit and several others one day at sea. News flashed of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship did a turnabout and hurried back to port. About a week later, this time in convoy, the unit set sail again and arrived in Hawaii without incident. So once again, with America passing through a critical period, the Utah field artillery, descendant of the Nauvoo Legion, founded in a critical period of history, also is once again at its post, ready to fight for everything American, and to cany out its motto—Pro Deo, Pro Patria, For God, For Country.7 As the War began, the shortage of goods and rationing quickly became a part of every household in Morgan. This humorous clip appeared in the Morgan County News in May 1942: "DID YOU KNOW that the aluminum in 60,000 quart sauce pans makes a flying fortress; cotton in two mattress covers |