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Show JAYCEESHEAR TALK ON LIFE AT PEARLJARBOR A. D. "Dee" Christensen, former form-er member of the Bingham junior jun-ior chamber of commerce who returned from Honolulu, T. H., last Friday, spoke to local Jay-cees Jay-cees at their meeting Monday evening on life in the Hawaiian islands during wartime. Mr. Christensen stated that the UniU ed States has the largest repair base in the world at Pearl Harbor Har-bor and that ships that cannot be repaired at an outlying base in the Pacific are brought to Pearl Harbor for repair. He aid that Hawaii is a beautiful place, but wartime has changed it. He reported that there is no rationing ration-ing of sugar or pineapple on the islands and that when he left merchants had just started allowing al-lowing only two packs of cigarettes cigar-ettes to a customer. Mr. Christensen Christ-ensen spent 34 months at Pearl Harbor helping repair the damage dam-age to our fleet inflicted by the Japs on December 7, 1941. He reported that all the damage has been repaired on the ships that were repairable-Frank repairable-Frank Zaccaria, Herb Babcock and Tom Carrigan were named on a committee to organize a Jaycee basketball team to be entered en-tered in the Utah state junior chamber of commerce basketball league. The next regular meeting of, the Jaycees will be held Mon-' day evening, January 8 at the Bingham club. Leland G. Burress, national director of the Utah state junior chamber of commerce organization, organiza-tion, attended a membership meeting of the Ogden Jaycees Wednesday evening. o |