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Show THE SEAGULL Saturday, June 24, 1944 Varied Trades Mark Career Of Workman “Follow-Up” Page 3 Pacific Veteran Exhibits Captured Enemy Equipment By Mary Jane Crystal Things are running much the same in Follow-Up. The latest excitement has been over the 5th War Bond Drive. Minute women, back here, are “A jack of all trades’’ and master of running about like mad asking people many is the standing of Fred White- to pledge for bonds. The response has sides, Clearfield Naval Supply Depot been fine. Interesting characters here about! employe who has been a professional We should never run out of news. drummer, a circus clown, float decoBeulah Truman is one of such type. A little blonde from wa-a-a-a-y down in Emery County where the coal mines are. In Follow-Up Beulah works on the headache called the ‘“Material File.’’ Mary Camden in Modifications, lives in Ogden, but she is apparently still faithful to Ole Missouri where she was born. There is a case for the Chamber of Commerce! The other day she was heard to say, ’’The weather here is not fit for flies.” Some of us, being true daughters of Utah say, “Why we have the finest, purtiest and largest flies in the west.’ eee Fred Whitesides rator, and soldier in World War I. Collects Match Covers Greatly interested in ‘’how the other half lives,’” Mr. Whitesides, originally from Illinois and now an Anchorage resident, has visited every state in the United States and many of the foreign countries. He has a collection of 12,000 different match covers representing all of the 48 states in addition to Mexico, Canada, Cuba, England: and Hawaii. An ex-soldier, he served overseas with the army in the last war. Before the beginning of his army career, he traveled for eight years as a circus clown. After the war, he was employed with the government in the United States Engineers, Construction Quartermaster, and later worked as an instructor in recreational and summer camp activities. HELPING SELL WAR BONDS... at the war bond exhibit, Main and Second South, Salt Lake City, is this arresting array of captured Japanese war equipment coilected by Machinist A. J. Post of Ships Spares. In the Navy since 1920, Machinist Post is a veteran of the Guadalcanal, Rendova, and Empress Augusta Bay campaigns. He is credited with having shot down two Japanese planes with guns under his control. Mr. Post is shown in the insert above (standing) with his immediate chief, Lieut. Lorenzo Torres, a yeteran of Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Now Tool Crib Operator Mr. Whitesides is now employed as a tool crib operator in the locomotive shop and has been on the Navy paytoll since May, 1943. He first arrived at NSD in September, 1942, with the contractors who built the depot and worked for them for eight months. After coming to NSD, Mr. Whitesides immediately utilized 28 years’ experience as a professional drummer to organize an eleven-piece depot or- chestra. He has also been active in planning and decorating various depot floats which have appeared in parades in the Ogden and Salt Lake areas. Captain Clark Inspects Depot Navy Machinist Continues War Against Japs With Captured Nip Equipment Attention Mr. Tojo—Machinist A. J. Post, USN, presently in Ships Transportation Pool Lists Regular Ogden Bus Schedule Spares at the Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, is still backing the attack, Four bus schedules per day in each just as he did at the Guadalcanal landing, at New Georgia, and Empress Augusta Bay, and he is doing it with your equipment. Your curtain of fire during those campaigns made it tough for him to collect equipment and a flag captured from your soldiers. Naturally, he treasures this material and equipment, Employes of the Naval Supply Depot numbering some 200 pieces, collected are eligible to obtain fitted lenses for at risk of life and under your fire. any type safety goggle necessary in direction are now in operation between Workers May Obtain Safety Goggles the performance of their work at net Brings Down Two Planes But he treasures still more the idea cost, according to E. E. Paimer, safety of getting some more slaps at you. engineer. For further information those interThe two planes his accurate 20 mm. guns accounted for weren’t enough, ested are requested to consult the nor many other planes his comrades Safety Division, Phone 125, Adminis tration Building. also accounted for. So at his own initiative and expense t—t he brought this prize collection of your equipment out of storage in Los An"There is still a great need for geles and released it to the War Loan brakemen at NSD,” states E. E. Kavan, Exhibit in Salt Lake City to help sell recorder for the Labor Board. Any emmore bonds. ploye of the depot who can qualify for Serves With Lt. Torres this job should contact the Labor You will also note that this vetBoard at once. eran of the Navy since 1920 is portrayed with his immediate chief, Lieut Lorenzo Torres, officer in charge, Technical Division, Ships Spares, Clearfield NSD. Serving with a motor torpedo boat squadron at Guadalcanal and Tulagi between October, 1942, “Oldest man on the depot,”’ is the and February, 1943, he, too, got in some choice licks against you, and title claimed by James Sessions of also accumulated a choice collection Clearfield who celebrated his 82nd birthday last week with ‘work as of your captured equipment. Brakemen Needed Ogden and the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot for personnel requiring transportation on official business. An Ogden-bound busleaves the Administration Building each day at 0840, 1040, 1240, and 1440. Busses will leave Ogden for NSD at 1000, 1200, 1400 and 1550, stopping at Kiesel Avenue and 24th Street and at 25th Street and Washington Boulevard. ‘ A passis required by each person, except officers, using this service. Passes to use bus service can be obtained from Transportation Pool Office. Any officer can issue a pass to civilian personnel, and will be responsible to issue passes for official business only. On southbound trips a passenger must either have a pass or have made arrangements in advance with Transportation Pool. Sessions Celebrates Eighty-Second Birthday With “Work as Usual” Through no fault or action of yours but merely the difficulties of wartime transportation, he did not get it back to the United States. But two prize collections are not needed to encourage Utahns to buy bonds. One like Machinist Post’s is enough. eo “VERY MUCH IMPRESSED .. . by the obvious increase in activity since my last visit in January at the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot’’ was Captain A. B. Clark (SC), USN, officer in charge of Stock Division, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington, D. C., who is shown above (left) accompanied on a tour of the depot by Supply Officer in Command Captain Cyrus B. Kitchen, (SC), USN. Captain Clark left Clearfield to direct a conference on inventory control at the Office of the District Supply Officer, 12th Naval District, which Captain Kitchen also attended. Participants in the conference included representatives of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington, D. C., District Supply Officers and Supply Officers of major west coast activities. usual.’ Early Pioneer Son of one of the earliest Utah pioneers, Mr. Sessions can remember hearing his father say of the Clearfield area, ‘’! wouldn't be guilty of sending one of my sons up there to starve among the lizards.’’ Since that time he has watched the Utah irrigation system transform this area into a rich farming district and then seen the U. S. Navy turn it into a gigantic supply depot. Mr. Sessions was born March 4, 1852, at Sessions’ Settlement, now called Bountiful, and has lived in Clearfield since 1906. His father is credited with being ‘‘the first man to pull four wheels north of the Hot Now in Supply Line If it is any further aid and comfort to you, you may want to consider the fact that Lieut. Torres and Machinist Post are surrounded by competent men in Ships Spares, many of whom have had first hand experience with you, and all of whom are seeing to it that needed parts are shot along the supply line when and where they are needed, hastening the day of the doom you insolently invited at Pearl Harbor. Springs.” Incidentally, Machinist Post has inDoes Bit at NSD vested 20 percent of his pay in war A man who has retired three times bonds since Pearl Harbor. only to come back to work, Mr. Sesb—t sions came out of retirement the last LOST—Dark glasses. Return to Lt. time to take a job at the Clearfield bit to bring four grandsons home from (jg) W. H. Hamblin at Transportation. the war sooner, Naval Supply Depot where he does his James Sessions |