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Show THE Saturday, February 19, 1944 oF Vox Populi By News Hound Bringing a favorite NSD topic of discussion out into the open this week, your inquiring reporter has been making a one-man survey of answers to the question, ‘’Which would you rather go with—a Sailor or a Marine?” Guard Mountings Page 5 SEAGULL They Draw All Plans for Depot By Ernest Bramwell Civilian Guards and Heaven “Heaven can wait,’ say some people of the more complacent nature, while others discuss it heatedly and long. It’s truly a subject for deep controversy, but here we go, perched way, way out ona treacherous limb, with a few Vote No. 1 goes to the Navy “Heavenly” thoughts, ‘’Bramand the voter is Helen New- well Brand.” berry of Hamilton, Ohio, a newIn the first place, Heaven comer to Salt couldn‘t be such a place withLake City and _|out work to do. Personally, I’ve to NSD. Helen never had a desire to play a bases her prefgolden harp or sprout a pair of erence on the silvery wings. Flying from cloud sample of Sail- | to cloud plucking awkwardly at ors found at. the Naval. Training my harp strings to every stran- Sta- tito mesbiaverk< home in Ohio. . She has been®*-—=" in Utah only three weeks and came to Clearfield two weeks ago where she now serves as secretary to the transportation ger who happened to park on the same fleece, just wouldn’t appeal ... The chances are their wings would be prettier than. mine and their stringstrumming infinitely worse—if that were possible. And, anyway, if the stranger were a beautiful woman angel officer. She is enthusiastic about Utah—even the weather. She says, “It’s much warmer than back home.”’ The Marines get the next vote from Adarene Boulton of the Mail, File and Record sec- on a soft, white, fleecy cloud, who in Heaven or on earth wants to play an old harp? So, since | must work, the selection of a job is of primary importance. Heaven should be, not only a tremendously vast tion, who con- place, but an exceptionally infesses not only teresting one as well. to a general? ~ So why not be a Heavenly for Civilian Guard? A red star on fondness but my identification badge to perMarines, admits that mit me everywherein the Area, her. favorite and plenty of time to get there. Marine is sta- Of course, cold lunches and shift work must be abolished. tioned here at Straight day work is the order, the depot. A and no doubt, Lieut. Nelson native of can make arrangements to run w® \Vood’s Cross, more than one “AMBROSIA Adarene came to NSD on De- AND NECTAR” cafeteria. cember 27. For recreation she Then I’d have to have my likes dancing and bowling. friends and my family. I’ve met Theo Childs of the Time- and discarded a lot of people keeping section in the Account- to get a few friends, and | don’t ing departmentfirst expressed want to lose them. And where a preference oy is the profit of enduring the worry and anxiety of raising a for Sailors, family, or where is the justice then on second in living through the agony and thought decidmisery of learning something ed they were about one woman unless you about equal. can keep them? Theo, a native There are other factors in of Springville, my Heaven, but these menUtah,, who now tioned are fundamental, and of lives in Salt these basic things, the most inLake City,@ came to NSD Lon triguing is my work as a Guard last November from the Rem- . . . What posts will there Taking time out from their task of drawing plans on proposed depot construction are the above pictured members of the Engineering department: Samuel B. Wooley, Hall W. Brown, Lois Chipman, Gerritt Timmerman, Faye Sanders, William Roberts, William Larsen, Arnold Crouch, Karsten Hansen, Phillip Hogansen, Thomas Lovelady, Stephen MacDonald, Ray Davis and Wallace Headlund. Engineering Department Prepares Lost and Found FOUND—Three keys. The ring of keys was returned to the NSD Security Office from One of the busiest departments on the depot these days Oakland, Calif., where it had been found in a box car loaded is the Engineering section which is now completing pre-conat the Clearfield depot. struction plans for the latest NSD expansion program. ® Under the direction of Chief Engineer William A. Larsen, this department makesall designs and prepares drawings, inspectsall construction, han- Plans for All NSD Construction CROW'S<A, NEST ao 8% dles By Marge EDITOR’S NOTE: In this column we hope to get more of the small items about our Depot people— items not quite long enough for a regular news story, but nevertheless unusual and interesting, along with a few interesting happenings from other papers. If you have any items which you think would make good material for this column, label them “Suggestions for The Crow's Nest’ and drop them in one of the Seagull boxes or mail them to the Seagull editor. * * * TALENT FINDS .. . of the week are the fellows who sit at the back of the Harrison bus and almost daily harmonize the popular songs of the day. One morning they stopped singing long enoughto inquire MODERN VERSION .. . of the Doubting Thomasis the girl who never passes a scales without squandering a penny to dering because she freely ad- must keep posted on what mits that she has a bathroom equipment is available and scales at home, but wants to specify in their plans only matest its accuracy. Besides she terials which are obtainable. likes to hear the coin drop. Another: division of Public If we were really anxious to Works undef the direction of be repulsive we might quote Walter J. Whyte does the acscientific data which would tual construction, unless it is prove conclusively that one’s contracted to an outside’ comweight varies with the time of pany, after the plans are comthe day. But we were restrained pleted by the Engineering secby the fact that the girl prob- tion. ably wouldn’t believe us anyOn the area, this department way and besides she’s amusing mustsee thatall structures are . herself and who are we to ob- stable and that they meet ject? standard safety and sanitary * * * given added impetus to their ordinary zest. Expressions like “angel smooth complexion’ have given way to such timely statements as “has seen 28 years’ ‘active service’ as a car Geraldine Richins, a clerk- en, | want to be a CIVILIAN are still taking great delight in dealer.”’ GUARD, unless perchance, | asking him where he learned typist in the Receiving and This old business about econShipping office at D-10, choos- can get in the Navy and get to bowl and when he wants omy is stressed in a new way the assignment as Security Of- somelessons. In getting to the es neither Sailors nor Marines but says she'll ‘‘stick to the Army.” Another: fo rmer Remington » Arms employe Geraldine came to NSD a couple of months ago. ficer. NSD Order Designates Jeep Parking Area Jeeps and bomb service trucks are not to be parked around the Administration building according to a depot order signed by Captain C. B. Kitchen and distributed last Coalville is her home town, but week. she now lives in Salt Lake City. For recreation she likes dancing first with skating and bowling running a close second. So there you have it—the girls at NSD it seems prefer the Sailors, the Marines and the Army. In fact, most of them A special jeep parking place for the Administration building area has been made onthe west side of 7th Street opposite the Dispensary. agree that ‘It’s not the uniform he’s in—it’s the man.” contracts, weigh herself. We say squan- with estimate of costs. They EAGER .. . as-ever in a wartime world are our writers of if there was a bass in the ington .-Arms_ plant. Dancing be, and what will be the duties? advertising copy. In fact world tops her list of recreational ac- The Marines, according to the crowd, but the only response conditions seem to have even received was from one charac“Marine Hymn” will be guard- tivities and music is her hobby. The piano is her specialty al- ing the streets, but how about ter who said, ‘I’m base, but | though she has been known to the gates, fence patrol, escort can’t sing.” * * * bring forth a bit of sweet music jobs and many others? Yes, I’m thoroughly confrom both the clarinet and the vinced that when | get to HeavFRIENDS .. . of TonyIvelia violin. construction and furnishes technical data for maintenance of the area. Draw Up Plans Proposed plans are drawn up by this departmentaind laid out bottom of the matter, it seems when it is strongly suggested that Tony, who is generally rec- that if one saves money by pur- requirements. Wade ThroughFirst Mud Mr. Larsen and several other members of the department wadedthrough thefirst mud at Clearfield when construction was first beginning at the Davis Junior high school. Later they moved into a Quonset hut and finally into the Administration building. But right now it’s ‘full steam ahead” for the engineering department and some members of this section claim they don’t know what time the rest periods come. ognized as something of an ex- chasing a certain kind of unpert, was beaten in one of his dies one will have more left “off” nights by one of the less- with which to buy war bonds. Two Depot Couples er artists of the game. Most fantastic of all, how- Marry Sunday ever, is the whiskey ad with the * * * Two NSD Sailors and two slogan, ‘Men who plan beyond depot employes were the prinREMEMBER.. . the old say- tomorrow prefer the world’s ciples at a double wedding ing about every Tom, Dick and lightest highball.’” And the art- ceremony last Sunday afterHarry? Well, they have a new ists drink it, we might add, if noon in Ogden. way of saying it over in G-9. we are to judge from the superCarma Crump, messenger, Over there it’s changed to Bill, imaginative and colorful sketch married H. C. Harmon, S2\c, Dick and Harry—Brown. The of the half-insect, half mech- who works in storehouse F-11, Brown boysare all S 1|c’s, and anized ‘‘Hellicopter Commut- and DeLone Frye, of the Shipmet while en route to the depot er’’ which jumps from its park- ping division exchanged vows although they are from differ- ing space on top of a sky scrap- with Reno Favero, S2\c, of ent parts of the country. Bill is er to the northern woods. . Ete from Arkansas; Harry from Oh, well, ‘“Tomorrow and toFOUND—Green lunch buckCalifornia, and Dick, a native morrow and tomorrow,” we alet. ways say. of Utah. |