| Show UTAH ASSOCIATION PRESS of Naval instructor he was instead attached to the staff Aviation News in Washington Before the war ended he would also practice his journalistic skills aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific As he departed for military duty he had moved Waynie their son Charles Conley Tuff and daughter Kathy to Brigham City For the remainder of the war Waynie worked with the Longs in publishing the news paper Clay possessedsense of humor that was never far be neath the surface trait substantiated byfellow NAN staff member Barkley Buck Ewing He remembers that the two of them were detailed to San Diego to coverstory Travel arrangements completed Ewing has recounted to the Claybaugh family Clay told him they had berths on the trainonly Pullman sleeping car and the rest are all occupied by uniformed females He let Ewing speculate on the fun to be had with the WACS WAVES or whatever other female service personnel would be their travelling companions on the four-day journey And then with uproarious laughter spoiled the daydreams when they reached the car and Buck found the females were all uniformed all right -Catholic nuns being transferred to Texas convent Later on that same trip the two were sent on to Hanford Washington to assist in releasing information concerning the atomic bomb Plutonium developed at Hanford was used in the instrument of destruction dropped on Nagasaki Japan August 1945 three days after the uranium version had fallen on Hiroshima Like almost all their countrymen neith er Clay nor Buck had ever heard of the atom bomb The war ended Claybaugh returned to the Brigham City newspapers and settled into active management in 1950 purchasing Longinterest His former partner became execu tive director of Colorado Press Association an affiliation that continued until his death in 1964 The Claybaughthird child son Van Wayne was born in Brigham City Like his older brother he becameNews-Journal staff member after completingmilitary tour of duty in Vietnam 460 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
