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Show Page4 THE By Newshound With summer approaching and vacation near, time drawing NSD employes’ opinions on the question, “Is it better to take your annual leave as you: earn it, or save it until you have accumulated enough for a vacation.” “Save for a vacation so you os can go home once a year” is the advice of Mrs. Harriott M.Croft of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mrs. Croft, who has been at the depot’.a_ year now, works in the Packing Section in E-8. os However, Mrs. Jane H. Griffith, who works in the clock house, declares, “It's better to take annual leave only when you need it— stay on the job as much as you can.” A recruit from Landgraf, West Virginia, Mrs. Griffith has been at the depot four months and lives in the AG senal dormitories. Glen Allen of Denver prefers saving his annual leave until he has a vacaft icorn= Fo nag enough “'to enable you to do | something.” * Personally, he p has a “‘hankering to go to California.” A Mr. Allen has he | Porthole Ball Season Plans for entering an NSD team in the Ogden Service League and organizing an intramural softball league are now under way, announces Lt. (jg) J. J. Leineweber, wel- 1 been a_ boxmaker at the depotfor nearly two months and lives at the Anchorage. Another believer in the system of saving annual leave for a nice long vacation is‘ June Simmons of Willard. June, who can usually be found behind the wheeldex file in theme Accounting De-p partment, be lieves that a va cation once year is a toni for anyone. native of Wil fare officer of the Naval Barracks. Baseball Team The baseball team will be picked from Marines, Sailors and officers attached to the base. Enlisted men or officers wishing to turn out for baseball practice should contact Lt. Leinweber immediately. The Ogden Service League will be composed of teams WAVE Ruth Hersh and Theo Childs from the four military installations in this area and has scheduled June 4 as the opening date for league competition. All league gameswill be Typical of the unbeatable combination of military and played in Ogden and season’s civilian personnel in the service of supply are two Utah girls. tickets for these games will go WAVE Ruth Jensen Hersh of Mapleton and Theo Childs of on sale the first of May. Springville. The girls attended the same high school together Softball League and now are together again at the Clearfield Depot. Ruth is a Yeoman 3|c and Supporting the. athletic protook her military training at Red Cross Executive gram will be a softball league within the Naval Barracks. Hunter college, Bronx, New Commends Group First Utah WAVEto Arrive at NSD Finds School Pal Among Employes From this league two teams York, om waist, : zipper, he earns it or cs a vacation. He But forgot she had a gun. likes to see it So she thought she grabbed her mount up_ bezipper, cause “it’s nice But the zipper wasn’t there; to have in case Grabbed instead, her pistol’s of emergency.” trigger, A native of Salt Lo! Your Grandma craved reLake City, Mr. pair. tests Stillwater, Okla. club, band, orchestra and glee. She played the piano and clarinet and had a leading role in Then the lady really went to the opera during her senior year. town, And learned to shoot a score Theo has twosisters at home Which was somewhere in the in Springville, and two brothers neighborhood in the Army. One is stationed Of nine or ten or more. in the South Pacific near New Caledonia, while the other is Still | haven’‘t told the story Of how Grandmalost her leg; attending aviation school at How she happensto be wearing Rock Island, Illinois. todd Such a handsome wooden peg. homeeach day in a club coupe called ‘‘Bertha,’’ and in her spare time keeps a scrap book of people she has known and places she’s been. W. A. Haycock, electrician, So, to make the darned thing shorter, claims he isn’t particularly interested in using his annual And to get the story done— leave either as Grandma knew she owned a Haycock and will be chosen for outside com- Before entering the service, For Production petition. One will- enter the she attended the L. D.S._busiAt the last meeting of the Layton City League and the ness college and later was a production group of the Clearother will play all challengers steno for the Utah County Wel- field Officers’ Wives club, Mrs. fare department. Margaret Bennett, ex-execbos Plays “Slush Pump” utive secretary of the Davis At high school she played branch of the Red Cross chap: Bed Time Story the trombone which she calls ter, highly commended the the “slush pump” . . . is inter- members on the quality and By Norma Anderson ested in all kinds of music. quantity of the items produced. In the last four days of work, Did you children hear the story swimming and hiking. At HunOf how Grandmalost her leg? ter college she was song lead- 50 pairs of slippers for con- Lost and Found valescent soldiers, 10 overseas How she happensto be sport- er of her section. Among her most interesting bags, and nine pairs of mules FOUND — Lady’s tan coat; ing white kid glove; brown coin Such a handsome wooden peg? experiences in New York was were listed among thearticles purse; Revelon nail polish, visiting the Bronx Naval Yards completed, reports Mrs. A. M. Nowthestory really started pair lady’s black gloves; sevand being served fried chicken Kessenich, chairman of the Back in nineteen forty-four, eral keys; mechanical penand hot apple pie aboard the production unit. When your Grandma started U.S. S. Philadelphia. cil and a set of false teeth. Mrs. F. A. Kinzie was resomething cently elected vice chairman LOST—Yellow gold Bulova That was never done before. Likes Accounting Job watch; oval turquoise set Theo Childs was graduated to replace Mrs. D. H. Dowell from ring; grey Parker pen; Poor old Grandmasaid, “I want from the Springville high school who formerly served in that cablue cardigan sweater; billa job, in 1942, started working at pacity. fold containing $40 and paThursday the officers’ wives That’s rugged, tough and Clearfield NSD, 1943, in the pers valuable to owner; gold hard.” Accounting Department. She held a luncheon at the Hotel cross from necklace; Parker Ben Lomondin Ogdenin honor So she went to work at Clear- says she likes her job here bet"51" pen, black with silver field, ter than any place she has been of Mrs. John J. Jecklin who recap, name ‘Peter Arnold”’ cently arrived at the depot with As a brave Civilian Guard. employed. on the barrel. While at high school she her husband, Captain Jecklin. Wore a fancy badge of red and Note—All Lost and Founds was musical representative on Mrs. Kinzie and Mrs. Norman white, the yearbook staff for three L. Robinson were in charge of should be turned in to the Security But really didn’t rate, years, amember of the -Pep arrangements for the luncheon. office. ‘Til she buckled round her buxA wicked thirty-eight. lard, June drives to work from Through the By Jackie Kline Wednesday, April 19, was Navy night at the Ogden USO when WAVESandsailors took over the entire second floor for an all-Navy dance. Complete with an orchestra and refreshments the dance was a great success and WAVESandsailors alike look forward to making this a tradition at NSD. Guests of honor were Lt. (jg) Harriett Zimmerman and Ensign Paul Harmon. Credit for the dance goes to the committee {which includes Mary Sabina S2\c, .Anne_ Allen SK3|c, and Anna Gloyd S2Jc. Ensign Virginia Meyer, WV. (S) USNR, recently arrived at the Clearfield NSD from Mare Island, California, where she has been stationed for the past nine months. Ensign Meyer is taking over duties in the TWX and routing office. Before joining the WAVES she worked as a secretary to the Sales Manager of the Utah Oil Refining Company in Salt Lake City which is her home. Previous to this Ensign Meyer attended the University of Utah where she majored in English and was affiliated with Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Hailing the first anniversary in Navy life April 7, this WAVE ensign began her training at North Hampton, Mass., a year ago on that date. ‘I’m certainly glad to be back in Utah’s so-called spring weather,’ she remarked. bobs your inquiring reporter baseball decided this week to sound out : Tuesday, May 2, 1944 Old School Chums Unite Naval Barracks Plans Summer Vox Populi SEAGULL = and inspects There’s a moral to this story, equipment be- Andit really must be faced; ing prepared for overseas ship- Never try to zip your zipper, ment. With a gun around your waist. Discharged Army Veteran Continues Fight to Victory at Navy Depot Typical of the many servicemen with medical discharges whoare carrying on the fight to victory by doing vital war work at NSD is Blaine Taylor, patrolman, who waswith the initial landing forces in both Africa andSicily. Mr. Taylor joined the Army back in 1940 when he coul “see that this country would eventually get involved in the war.’’ On November 8, 1942, he landed with the infantry near Casablanca when theyinCatholics Schedule vaded Africa. He moved north Services on Depot with the advancing American For the benefit of the Cath- troops, participated in the Tuolics at NSD Mass is held: in hisian campaign, and on July the Red Cross hut every Sun- 10 of last year landed in Siday at 11:30 a.m. Also a study cily. Although he came through club convenes each Wednesday these campaigns unscathed by at 7:30 p.m. Further information can be Nazi warfare, Blaine caught obtained from Larry Gallagher, malaria in Sicily and had to be evacuated first to an African S 2\c, Unit D-6. © hospital unit and then to the bt t states. SPRING Dis is spring, Released from the Army on Blaine Taylor De boids is on de wing; March 17, 1944, Mr. Taylor How absoid, spent a month at home in St. NSD to continue his part in the De wingsis on de boids. Anthony, Idaho, then came to war effort. ! \ |