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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Tovn By EDGAR Soldiers Enjoy the News That the boys at Camp San Luis Obispo appreciate the 10 copies that they receive free of charge was indicated by Clarence Ward when he was home recently. He reported that the paper ' arrived there on Sunday morning, thus giving the boys a good chance to read it. Clarence inadvertently "let slip" one of the main interests inter-ests of the boys in reading the news from home, when he said, "One of the first things we look for is to see who has gotten married mar-ried during the week. Boy, there surely have been a lot of marriages mar-riages lately". Wanted, Copy of the News W. B. Mathis was in to see if we had an extra copy of the Nov. 13 issue of the News. It seems that fellow members on the Utah Production ..Credit ..Association board have rather qeustioned his statement to them that he was "just a cowboy from the lowlands" and he wants a copy of this issue, is-sue, which carries the names of those winning prizes in the rodeo staged here Armistice Day to prove that he really can swing a rope and knows his cows. You know, he and his son, Reed, were first place winners in the double roping contest. I was sorry to report to him that all copies of that issue were sold, so anyone having a copy of. that issue, that they are through with, please get in touch with W. B. One can lose much and still be rich with friends. A Boost For Lee Owens Some people wouldn't give their time for a civic project unless they could see a nice big return to them. Others will gladly work when they are personally interested inter-ested in what is to be accomplished. accom-plished. Only now and then will you run across a person like Lee Owens, who will give his time and energy for any civic benfit that comes along. To attempt to list all of the projects that Lee has worked on would almost be to list every civic betterment that St. George has had since he has lived here. Of course, Lee has a few pet projects, like aviation and airports, air-ports, but generally speaking, all you have to do is say, "Lee we need a good man to help put this over", and he is right on the job to produce the goods. Swell Weather -We doubt if there is any other place in the state of Utah where tennis players could play in their shirt sleeves this time of the year in the evenings. That is what the tennis addicts have been doing in St. George. Bids Called For Bids are being called for in this issue of the News by the State Road Commission for the building of an additional 3.561 miles of road between Diamond Valley and Central. The bids are to be opened open-ed in Salt Lake City on Dec. 17. This road is to be a Graded Earth road and will add greatly to the road that is now completed. However, How-ever, before the road reaches its full use, it will have to be oiled. For further details on this see the "Notice to Contratcors", appearing ap-pearing in this issue of the News. Defense Shortages Reports indicate that the cowboys cow-boys in the neighborhood of Tucson, Tuc-son, Ariz., are already beginning to feel the shortage of hemp for their lariats. When stocks sold out recently they sent off a hot telegram to OPM Director Knud-sen, Knud-sen, asking that he release enough hemp to make ropes for the fall round-up. Florists are also among those to be hit by the defense program. pro-gram. They are finding it difficult diffi-cult to secure the wire used in making funeral sprays Plumbers are really getting on the spot with thousands of them reported re-ported being forced out of their chosen profession and into defense work. Various substitutes are being be-ing sought to take the place of copper and brass, but so far, the plumbers haven't found a satisfactory satis-factory substitute. Cannon Heads Orchestra For any home-town folks who may not have been listening Wednesday Wed-nesday evening we'd just like to mention that Captain Howard Cannon was the orchestra leader featured on the 15-minute broadcast broad-cast program from Camp San Luis Obispo along with boys from Cedar City, Vernal and Beaver. The orchestra, with which he had practiced only three days, did good work and Captain Cannon and the boys reported everything going okeh at the camp. |