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Show Page 6 _THE SEAGULL Vox Populi By Newshound Comes balmy spring days, warm Westerns Top Reading List Of Enlisted Men Saturday, May 27, 1944 Inspect Construction Plans For Hundreds Of New Employes weather, and small talk shifts to the subject of sports, while your inquiring reporter earnestly asks: ‘What would you recommend for depot recreation plans for the summer?” Chauffeur Clyde O. Smith goes on record as being 100 percent in favor Perhaps the old idea, ‘’When you are in the West, do as the Westerners do,’’ might possibly account for the As the allied powers ready for D-Day on the invasion fronts, here at the Naval Supply Depot an_ intense reading tastes of the enlisted men ut Clearfield Naval Supply Depot who concentration of effort is necessary to keep the materials of Naval warfare moving rapidly forward to strategic prefer Western novels to all kinds of relaxation reading, according to Li- points. brarian Douglas ‘‘Abe’’ Lincoln, S2lc, of organizing a baseball or softfall USNR. league at NSD. Although he now fa-7 vors hunting and Smith participated in football, basketball, baseball, and track during his high school days; in Joplin, Missouri. | Clyde has been an} employe of the depot for the past two months and previous to that spent 15 months in the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Nine months of this time was spent on the Alaskan Highway and six months on the Canol Project. popular of all the fiction O. R. Cohen ranking close seconds. Year around the Bible is, by a wide margin, the most frequently consulted of all the books in the stacks with the dictionary next. Books on sports also have a consistent appeal with baseball instructions current favorites. References for ‘Strikers’ Reference books stocked in the Naval library are mostly of the specia!ized nature for the use of men who are planning to “strike” for ratings in such capacities as photographers, electri- Another chauffeur, Miss Vervene cians, machinists, mechanics, radio or Monsonof Pleasant Grove recommends gunners mates. that the depot recreation program inStrangely enough, one of the least clude a girls’ soft- read books on the shelves is Irwin ball league. Miss and Johnson’s ‘’‘What You Should Monson has played Know About Spies and Saboteurs.”’ Jin a Salt Lake City softball league for | the past five years b—t has toured ! Arizona, Washing- If there is truth to the statement, ton and Utah. Before coming to “A\Il work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,’ then the employes at E-8 NSD two months are taking steps towards avoiding dull- ago, Vervene was employed in a cafe in Salt Lake City, but she was forced to give up this ness. Friday, the first of a series of weekly parties was held from 0830 to 0900 type of work when she broke her right in the E-8 storehouse with Chief Warwrist scooping ice cream . . . at least rant Officer John Kelly, USN, acting that’s her story and to us it sounds as master of ceremonies. almost unlikely enough to be true. Mildred Foulger sang ’’Goodnight, A ball league would interest nearly Wherever You Are,’’ and a song of her everyone on the depoteither as a par- own composition, while Lena Bruno ticipant or a spectator, in the opinion did two tap numbers. of W. Everett In charge of arrangements was Zola himself in 7 Johnson, chairman of the recreation the 7 committee for the storehouse. Miss Johnson was assisted by ‘’Pete’’ Livin- spectator class. Although Mr. Sla- good. ter spends most of aa his off-duty hours Telephone Operators Needed at NSD working on his 30- LOOKING OVER PLANS... for the new construction program soon to get under way at Clearfield NSD are Rear Admiral H. F. Bruns (CEC) USN, supervising civil engineer and representative of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Supply Officer in Command Captain Cyrus B. Kitchen (SC) USN, and Lt. Comdr. H. B. Gates, CEC-V(S) USNR, officer in charge of Public Works. Rear Admiral Bruns Pays Tribute : To NSD Following Inspection Tour acre farm in Roy, | he likes to relax occasionally with a | Telephone operators are needed imbit of hunting mediately for the depot switchboard, fishing or horseback riding. Mr. Slater came to NSD according to Lt. (jg) C. D. Hardesty, of new employes are and 25 men as storekeepers, according to Lt. Hardesty. Tell Friends to Apply If you know of anyone who should apply for one of these imoortent war jobs, have them contact ther nearest U. S. Employment Service or apply directly ot the depot at once b—t Gordon Wood Marries West Lyaton Girl Gordon B. Wood, supervisor of the Posting Section, and Miss Laura Owen, “| have seen this station grow from farm land to a vast supply depot. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. It will probably grow bigger, but it can never grow any better.’’ Owen of West Layton were married Thus spoke Rear Admiral H. F, construction for the new building proin the Salt Lake Temple May 24th. Bruns (SEC) USN, upon concluding a gram. recent inspection of Clearfield Naval E-8 Group Begins Series of Programs § during which time Slater, who places “Hundreds needed at Clearfield at once to carry out this sharply accelerated program, ’ states Lt. (jg) C. D. Hardesty, per sonnel officer in charge of labor recruitment at the depot. There is an immediate need for 200 additional boxmakers, 490 men and 200 women for classified iabor, books in the NSD library is “/They Called Him Blue Blazes,’ by W. M. Raine, with “I Must Ride Alone,’’ by Jackson Gregory and ‘’Kid Tinsel’’ by fishing as his favorite sports, Mr. she Hundreds Needed "Kid Tinsel’ and Such Most Depot Issues Call More than 600 guests attended a reception for the bridal pair held the Lt. Comdr Gates Supply Depot, accompanied by Supply Lt. Comdr. Gates, who came to NSD same evening in the North Davis High Officer in Command Captain Cyrus B. on April 12, has been in the Navy on school at Clearfield. Kitchen and Lt. Comdr. Howard B. The bride is president of the State a reserve status since 1931 and reGates Jr., CEC-V(S) USNR. ported for active duty three years ago. High School Home Economics Club Interested in Expansion Program and is active in church and music His first station was at the Third Naval Admiral Bruns, supervising civil en- District Headquarters in New York gineer and representative of the Bu- City, followed by an assignment to reau of Yards and Docks for Areas V} Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for duty at aand VII, comprising the Eleventh the Naval Operating Base being conand Twelfth Naval Districts, is par- structed there. Previous to going in ticularly interested in the nearly the Navy, Lt. Comdr. Gates was in the $7,000,000 expansion program soon construction business in New York to get under way at Clearfield. City. Plans and specifications are now tt being prepared and actual construction will begin in the near future, reAccording to Bob Hope, a squaw is ports Public Works Officer, Lt. Comdr. a pistol packin’ mama with a rear gunGates, who is also officer in charge of ner. circles. Gordon is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Loy Wood of Clearfield, and has been employed at NSD for the past 14 months. b—t Storekeeper Marries Frank Goodwin, who served as storekeeper if G-7 for nearly a year, will be married June 1 to Miss Myran Allen Glenn of Salt Lake City. Frank recently transferred to the Naval Supply Depot at San Pedro, California. Feminine Force Augments Civilian Patrol at Clearfield Started last February, Clearfield’s “Pistol Packin’ Mamas,’’ the women guardsare firmly established as an integral part of the Naval Supply Depot's patrol, according to Lieut. T. P. Wilcox, D-V(S), USNR, officer in charge. Feminine Force personnel officer. If any depot employe Members of the feminine force are shortly after it was commissioned and has been a snapper laborer for the has had telephone experience or knows on duty around the clock, wear unianyone who has, he may contact the forms at all times and have special past year. Personnel Division at once. classes for four to six months. Their A girls’ softball setup similar to b—t Sympathy Extended the one in operation last summer at Eitel McCullough is the recommendation of Florence duties include patrol of the depot buildings, traffic regulation, and checking up on the railroad cars for Our sympathies to Mrs. Glenis McGarrick, who came NSD three months Clanahan, assistant storekeeper in ago from the Ei- E-13, whose husband recently died. mac plant. Miss Mrs. McClanahan has been on leave Garrick explains for the past few weeks while she took that at Eimac each her husband’s body to San Antonio, stowaways or broken crates, as they come into the depot. “One of the most amazing factors in the training of women guards is their ability on the rifle range,’’ states Lieut. Wilcox. ‘’We find that they rank right along with the men shift had several Texas for burial. in many instances.’’ teams and games week, Val Green of Layton looks forwere scheduled beward to a baseball Crack Shots | fore and after softball Two of the women who have ex- league within the ceptional records on the pistol range fand | working hours. A native of Salt Lake Florence works in E-10 and confesses that the athletic equipment she handles in that storehouse ‘‘sorely tempts depot. Val, who are Vera Hansen of Washington Ter- will be a senior at race and Gladys Walker of Layton. Davis high this Both women have husbands on the fall, also spent guard force and children at home. Mrs. Hansen formerly worked at the last summer working at the depot. Arsenal where she was a member of His favorite hobby the winning ladies’ pistol team last one to take time out for a game.” However, devotion to duty has survived the test to date, and Florence is looking forward to a well-rounded recreational program’ at NSD this summer is playing the pi- year, while Mrs. Walker’s deftness on ano in his high the rifle range was gained as a result to satisfy her athletic urges. school dance band ‘of living in hunting territory and goOne of .-the numerous high: school and second to:that he enjoyslistening ing on trips with her husband, Jewel boys to arrive at NSD during the past, to dance orchestras. Walker. { Vera Hansen(left) dnd Gladys Walker vo |