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Show Saturday, October 2, 1943 THE SEAGULL Page & Gang Sets Record for Unloading Cars VOX POPULI Question of the week: Should dogs be alloted some sort of ration points for meat? In Unloading Cars A dog must eat!”’ Something of a record has been set during the past two weeks, by a group of nine men in H-8, who well deserve a little praise. he would like to, if he lived in the country; The group unloaded a total of 56 railroad cars in only nine days and the cargo was largely ccmposed of heavy drums, weighing over 500 pounds each. In addition, the gang stacked about 35 of the 56 cars’ contents. Unloading about one car an hour, the crew’s top day is generally conceded to be Tuesday, Sept. 21, when eight of the men unloaded eight and one-half cars. Two of these men, too, were Clark drivers. The average time, one of the snappers said, is two hours to unload one car. The gang is composed of the following men: Fred Honey and Ben L. Graham Jr., snappers; Gilbert Aakra, Robert Brimhall, Charles Vialpando, John W. Harris and Joseph R. Lorenzo, with Pete Harper as leading man and Thomas O. Miller, another snapper. Storekeepers in H-8 are F. A. Grady and Floyd L. Edberg, and Miss Lora N. Maples did all the paper work for the storehouse. She got all this work out as fast “Definitely! was the answer of Bob Neil, storekeeper in D-4. Although he doesn’t own a dog, Mr. Neil said ”Dogs shouldn’t be raised in a city,” he declared. ‘‘They bark at the neighbors and don’t have room enough to live in.’’ He also ex- Bpressed a few _ opinions on people who don’t ; sfeed their dogs enough. ‘‘As long as they make the dog a member of their families, the dog should be treated ag such.”’ Mr. Neil, formerly from Wyoming, used to be a U. P. dining ear steward, and produced some menusto proveit. He has work-. ed at NSD since February 15, and now lives in Ogden with his wife, Vi. They have two daughters: Mrs. Sarah H. Gittins, also a storekeeper in D-4, had a different opinion. ‘‘I think they can get along with-s ‘ out any specia meat,’’ she said She owns a big dog, ‘“‘Ring’’ and and feeds him adequately on seraps_ and bones. Formerly of Smithfield, Mr. and Mrs. Gittins @. now live with? | their six chil-W dren in Victory park at Layton. She has worked since May 17, first on a gang, and then in her present position. Her biggest problem is finding someone to stay with her two-year-old son. The other children are of school age. Mr. Gittins is a packer in D-10. “Either one must get rationed LEFT TO RIGHT, front row: F. A. Grady, Miss Lora N. Maples and Floyd i. Edberg. Eecond row: Gilbert Aakra, Charles Vialpando, Pete Harper, and Thomas O. Miller. Back row: Fred Honey, John W. Harris, Robert Brimhall, Ben L. Graham Jr., and Joseph R. Lorenzo. Crew Commissions USS Duration “Haul in the anchor, full steam ahead!”’ With these words, the newly,christened “‘ship,’”” the USS Duration was ready to shove off. Her able skipper, Howard Revor, was on the bridge, the Pharma- Phillips, of G-12, who lives at of a gin izz a mixure between a high board fence and somehing else. In other words, a ‘cross between a toy scotch ter‘rier and a toy fox terrier.”’ “My dog is ‘ developing an ’ism, be a carpet- eating dog.’’ The Phillips’ have two cats, too. His wife is an ‘‘authority’’ on cats, he said, and his dog, Mike, is the solution to a major family problem, since he likes dogs and his wife likes cats. Mrs. Gladys Buttars of Washington Terrace exclaimed, “That’s a thought, but I don’t think they would need one. Mine didn’t.”” Mrs. Buttars had a little dog, “‘Tubby,’’ but he died two weeks ago. She fed him on scraps anda little meat, but since he was small he didn’t need much. Mrs. “I CHRISTEN THEE the USS Duration!” And thus, after a thorough overhaul this sturdy but slightly worn ‘‘ship’’ is recommissioned for active duty carrying workers to their jobs at NSD, Clearfield. Left to right, her crew includes: Miss Colleen Rollins, Wilbur S. Caldwell, PhM 2/c I. C. Dorrins, and Howard E. Revor. Absent when the picture was taken was PhM 1/c Lloyd Fay, and Edmund Shaw, who has a leave of absence while in the army. though,”’’ formerly of Preston, Idaho, but he said. “I think Mike is going to Buttars isassistantf storekeeper and ‘*seeretary to “Mr. Foley in . D-5. Her husband also works at NSD, as a plumber. They are Guard Mountings By Ernest Bramwell Call The Guards The miscellaneous and odd — in fact, quite odd — jobs that we are called upon to do are, very often, a far cry from regular security routine. Just visualize a dignified, highg guard officer, mounted rankin ing by ready to renderfirst aid He owns a pup, Whichis, as he descr ibed it, “sort as the men unloaded, Mr. Grady said. “Keep It Moving’’ is the motto in section 4. cists Mate Lloyd Fay, was stand- meat for his dog, or he’ll have to, Sunset Heights. a. ~=©6—Ss”« Old Automobile Is Named ‘Duration’ By NSD Employes sooner or later, eat the dog!” was the comment of Walter A. ™ Nine-Man Gang Is Setting Example By NEWS HOUND 'Orlan N. Shradley ting by coerto anyone who may need it, and on a bicycle, attemp to escort from the chief gunner, Colleen Rol- sion or otherwise, a dog which entered to lins, was at her post, ready to the area calls; or social pay fire on command. Picture the -baffled expression Wilbur Caldwell, the Dura- on Lt. Glenn’s fate when he was tion’s first class mechanic, had called upon to act as bureau of checked all instruments, and the missing persons in locating a navigator, Irvine C. Dorrins, had couple of lost, strayed, or stolen charted the course, which leads husbands; or daily to NSD, Clearfield. Imagine the feeling of satisfacDuraticn, according to her tion with which we act as taxi crew, is a sturdy ship. She has driver, news boy, carpenter, hunweathered all sorts of storms ter and sexton, and and never once has faltered. She Now to cap the climax we hos been reconditioned several have won and lost a cutie contimes from stem to stern and is test; so doing her duty for her country. If you have tasks to be done; tasks that others do not want Thanks to Mechanics to do, just call the guards. Each morning at the crack of dawn, the crewis ready, each at Would It Work? his battle station, to chugg off to Lt. Hedgpeth is toying with the the naval supply station. suggestion of a couple of his paMembers of the crew, incidentrolmen who were wondering tally, wish to express their if planted flares, as used by thanks to Ogden mechanics for trucks on the highway, would inkeeping the Duration in fighting sure privacy while they undertrim. They have passed up many went physical rejuvenation on non-war workers’ repair jobs just graveyard shift. for Duration. The idea might have merit, for, Says the crew: ‘‘We only hope that other cars all over America after all, duty and patrol offiare doing as much as this trim, cers do have a disturbing pensturdy little crate! Our hats are chant for cruising around at the off to you, Duration, long may sleepy hour. you run!”’ Elementary Education Will Be Retired have lived in Ogden for three (Continued from Page 1) years. They have a son and where the vultures picked the daughter. “Without a doubt dogs should bones clean. be alloted meat,”’ declared I. G. Becomes Salesman Later Mr. Shradley left civil Rickards, assistant yardmaster at the train control. ‘If you service and sold Singer sewing have a dumb animal as a pet, machines, Remington typewrityou should feed — ers and American drugs throughout South America. Somewhere it! Sometimes along the way he missed being it is a little hard South America’s Fuller brush No doubt at the termination of to get by on man. Then when World war I the war, Duration will be dewhat meat we involved the U. S. A., he joined commissioned and will be free to have, though,’’ the navy and attained the rate roam the seven seas at herleihe said. “I have of yeoman 1/c. He claims that sure, in search of fish and big often fed my his only regret was that he was game, the way all good Ameriown meat to my never able to make the trip can cars should be free to do, dog, ‘Butch’.’’. _|around Cape Horn. after they have seen active servMr. Rickards , After leaving the navy he ice. Then, her crew hopes, she professed havworked with T. V. A. and then will have plenty of gasoline, and ing difficulty in found employment with the forall the tires she needs to make a getting enough est service. He was transferred prepared dog fcod for his fox from the forest service to the tired old car happy again! terrier. navy department in 1936 and was A native of Salt Lake City, Mr. sent to Pensacola, Fla. In 1940 He: ‘You look lovelier every Rickards was a conductor on the he was .transferred to Alameda, minute. Do you know what that U. P. railroad for 36 years, re- Calif., and in July, 1943, he was is a sign of?” tiring in May, and coming im- sent to Clearfield as inspector of She: “Sure, you’re about to mediately to NSD. aviation supplies and equipment. run out of gas.” Yesterday, while coming to work today, I said ‘‘Gcod Morning’ last night to all the fellows, who, like me were yester- day passing salutations for today. Then we say ‘“‘Good Night’’ during the same day in which we later say ‘‘Good Morning’’ for the next day. For our day off, we stay home the day before, and then come to work the day we’re supposed to have off. We get off work and then come back the same day to work the next day. Then to top it all off, we get up today so that we can work tomorrow. Simple, isn’t it? |