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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR What Do They Fight For? Two hundred soldiers in Algiers were recently asked to write on the subject, "Why I Fight". Some j of the answers were scrawled in j pencil with the writers struggling to express their thoughts, others j were well written, showing that j the writers had fine educational! backgrounds. But, the theme song of ail was, "Freedom". Freedom to enjoy the things that they had always loved or dreamed of ... So it looks like it would be up to us on the homo front to keep America as our boys think and dream of it. That doesn't mean that we should stand still and not progress, but it docs mean that we should look over proposed changes carefully and see that they will really help us and not hinder. That when our boys come back to America they will still find that "Freedom" has meaning and is not just a word. News Goes Places The following letter from Mrs.-Val Mrs.-Val Rose of Thackerville, Okla., indicates that the News really goes places and performs a service. serv-ice. Mrs. Rose writes as follows: Who says the Washington County News doesn't go places? My sister, Mrs. Keith Tobler at Hurricane takes the Washington County News. When she has finished fin-ished reading it, she sends it on to another sister, Mrs. Charles Parrish, who lives at, Sherwood, Ore. After she has read ' everything every-thing in it, she gives it a good wrapping and sends it on to me here in Thackerville. Sometimes you can see that it has had a long journey, but that makes me enjoy it that much more. After I have read it from top to bottom, bot-tom, I'll put it up and then in a few days I'll look it all over again. I think it's the biggest little paper and the best in southern Utah . . . Thanks, Mrs. Rose, that makes the News staff want to work harder than ever to give you and our readers the best possble paper. . . . Incidentally if any of our readers know anyone who knows anything about operating a linotype, please notify us at once. If we don't find an operator oper-ator by April 6th, the News is liable to go into a tail spin Ye Brethren! A Booster-Upper I have written before that I felt that our men who are giving their time to handle the problems that confront them as members of our Ration and Selective Service boards should be given a vote of thanks. I think that it can stand repeating. These men are performing per-forming a difficult service without with-out any limitation being put upon the time that they give. They are faced with the problem of carrying carry-ing through orders that often bring about a hardship on the ones envolved. I believe that these men are fair, and are carrying car-rying through their assignments to the best of their abilities. They are trying not to place any hardship hard-ship on our people that isn't required re-quired of them and are exercising their best judgment in their decisions. de-cisions. . . . Theirs is an unhappy un-happy task with many difficult decisions, and while sometimes we may question their judgment, we never question their sincerety or honesty. Basketball Sidelights The Dixie-Hurricane basketball game held here last Friday night was a hum-dinger from the opening open-ing whistle. . . . Believe you me, the way the boys started out, I didn't see how they could possibly pos-sibly last beyond the half. The two cheering sections, though smaller than other years, really made themselves heard, with the edge being given to Hurricane for volume. . . . Both teams played too hard, missing many beautiful set-ups, but with the roughness and fast play, the game had a minimum of fouls called. Only one player, Norman Hafen, had the four personals called. . .' . Ruesch of Hurricane played hard and managed to get a good share fd his teams points. . . . Darrel Hafen made a couple of clever dribbles the full length of the , floor. . . . Both teams lacked 1 smooth passing and teamwork of the last year's teams. . . .At one 1 time in the last half it resembled I a football game, with four or five players down on the floor, I scrambling for the ball. ... As 1 I remember, the score was 11-11 1 a!" the half, and was anybody's 1 ball game at that. time. The score ! kept close until the last three 1 or four minutes, when Dixie's 1 basket-eye started to click. . . . 1 In my opinion the 31-22 score 1 was not the difference in the two J teams; it could have ended closer 1 j for either team. . . . My prediction pre-diction is that Dixie better make ! these shots count when they ", tangle with the Tigers on their floor Feb. 11th, as the Tigers jlare out to dump Dixie, and the 1 harder the better, would suit them. . . . An interesting thing happened at the half. Paul Neilson, (who is in the air corps) and was taking in the game that night, couldn't resist the temptation tempta-tion to talk Prof. Bleak out of the "big horn" and blow a few mighty blasts. After he had "dood his bit" on the horn, he sauntered back to his lower-floor seat with a look resembling a kid with a new toy. |