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Show PAGE EIGHT KEEPING CCC AR PROVES TO BE By FREDERICK COTHAM 1'nited Pri'HS Maff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 V.V. Even the legendary Paul Bun-yan Bun-yan could not have figured out a tabulation such as Robert Fech-ner. Fech-ner. something of a woodsman himself, listed today on the business busi-ness of keeping his 350.000 helpers warm in the winter time. Moreover Fechner's tall tale is true, as chief of the civil conservation conserva-tion corps, he actually has ordered . to date 7.000.000 pairs of shoes. including a few sized 19. For this winter alone he bought 700.000 vpa'is of shoes. 1 Ho 000 arctic overshoes, over-shoes, and -200.000 hunts. Ilei Ov ercoats, Too He bourht 350.00O overcoats for hi CCC boys, including some red onos -for wear in California, where the law savs a man in the forests miir-t .be clad in scarlet so hunters hunt-ers won't mistake h'm for a moose, line oi tin- coats, a blue one, was size HI, to fit a $30-per-month workman who is seven feet and seven inches tall' That's just a start. Fechner purchased 1,-100. 000 pairs of wool drawers and 1.40o. 000. ditto undershirt.-. These garments are the best that cap be bought and scratchy as. all get-out. but they'll keep a youthful forester warm in -ttlie bitterest blizzard. To CCC camps in the nortn woods Fechner- shipped 21,245 caps with ear muffs attached. Elsewhere Else-where his workers got flapless caps. 33O.O00- m1,1 of 'em. Every man received a wool coat and pants, two flannel .shirts, som of that pesky underwear, a heavy paii of shoes, boots, a heavy cap, fleeee-lmed mittens wool socks, a raincoat -ml an extra pair of shoe strings. Fechner ordered 350,000 pairs ol the latter to forestall early morning profan'ty. which is against the rules in all his camps. All this clothing was purchased- through, the army quartermaster corps on competitive bid. It may not look so lancv. but Fechner BUY BETTER MATTRESSES! AT YOUR HOME MATTRESS FACTORY! We ise Only First Class Materials Ma-terials for Our Mattresses. Our Workmen are Experts and Our Machinery Modern. We Have Been in Provo Many Years and Have Earned Our Reputation for Honesty and Fair Dealing! Let I s Rc-make Your Old Mattresses Prices Reasonable : 'in- aii'l Call I'.- it' Anyone Solicits Business, in- Our Name. We Manufacture the NEW SPRING-FILLED .MATTRESS. Try One. Mattresses Made To Order Re-Built and New OUR GREATEST PLEASURES ARE OUR PLEASED PATRONS! SEND US YOUR MATTRESS TROUBLES WE ENJOY THEM UTAH CO. MATTRESS FACTORY PHONE 345 (m West Second North - Provo, Utah If r "We Clean Yoiir Clothes Cleaner"9 PROVO CLEANING & DYEING CO. M DRESSED GIGANTIC TASK believes that no man, not even the one who has his suits tailored in Bond street, wears erarments of better quality than the members mem-bers of the CCC. The latter also seem to eat more food that most folks. The quartermaster general reported that Fechner's lads all started eating- from five to 15 per cent more with the first cold day, and that they'd been consuming whopping big meals in the first place. Fechner's market list for the three winter months includes nearly near-ly 20,000,000 pounds of beef, 20,-000,000 20,-000,000 pounds of potatoes, and 23.000.000 pounds of flour. He has ordered 8,000,000 pounds of pork, 5,600,000 cans of string beans, and 4,000,000 pounds each of coffee, bacon, butter, chicken, and onions. He has laid in nearly 1.000.000 lbs. of salt 40,000 gallons cf vinegar, 500,00 pounds of cocoa, 2.000,000 gallons of milk, 150,000 pounds of baking powder, 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 pounds of rice, and nearly 10,000.000 pounds of sugar. I.ard, prunes, oatmeal and jam he has bought by the hundreds of tons. He's got enough cinnamon 446,124 ounces of it to sprinkle the buns of everybody in America And eggs? What an omelette! He's got 31,937,490 of 'em, all fresh; the total production of more hens than even Mr. Bunyan himself ever hired to produce the ingredients to make those cakes he used to mix with a spoon he carved from a telegraph pole. FINGERPRINTS GRASS AMHERST, Mass. (American Wire) - Miss, Elfriede Kalucke, graduate assistant in the agronomy agron-omy department of Massachusetts State college, is enlarging her "fingerprint" files of grasses. She now has "finger prints" of many grasses which she is able to sMentify. identification is based on anatomical ana-tomical features of the different gr asses. BOWSER C LARIFILTER SYSTEM for Continuous Clarification and Circulating of Cleaning Solvents used in the Process of Dry Cleaning. It Pavs to Have Your Clothes Cleaned the Clarifilter Way! PAYSON j MRS. A. R. WILSON I Correspondent Phone 64 Mrs. Emma Wilson entertained at an enjoyable Christmas party at her home Friday night. Dinner was served at tables attractively uctuiaiea lur me ennsunaa sea son and cards were placed for Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Golden Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs George Q. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Oleson, Mr. and Mrs. A C. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Flint Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Coray, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McMullin and Mrs. Dora Powell. The Gleaner class of the First ward M. I. A. held their annual Christmas party Friday night at the home of their leader, Mrs Delia McClellan. Gifts were ex-Changed ex-Changed by the girls and the time was spent playing progressive cootie. Miss Mae Houser received the prize for high points and Miss Geraldine Peery the consolation gift. Refreshments were served The three Bee Hive classes from the First ward M. I. A. gave a Christmas party Friday night in the recreation hall for their moth ers. A program including an orig inal play by the Gatherer Swarm was presented and games were played. Refreshments were serv ed under the direction of the Bee Keepers. Mrs. Duke Page enterla;ned at a family dinner Sunday, the guests including her parents, Mr and Mrs. David Bills of Riverton, Mrs. Lorena Madsen and children David and Lorena, Mrs. Melva Butterfield and daughter Gladys of Riverton; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pollard and children, Roddy, Don aid and Patsy of Sandy, Mrs. Ven ice Smith of Canada, the ladies all being sisters of Mrs. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Elmo B. Wilson of Spanish Fork, Mr. and Mrs. Page and family comprised the party. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Christensen entertained the members of their night bridge club last week at a bridge dinner. A lighted Christ mas tree and other holiday dec orations were used effectively in the home and the tables were gay with the season's appointments Present were Mr. and Mrs. Mer rill Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ware, Mr. and Mrs. Ilowar;'. Wil son, Mr. and Mis. Floyd Harmer, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Wightman, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harrison. Bridge prizes were won by Mrs. Ware and Ned Wightman. Members of the Tres Joli Bridge club held their annual Christmas party Friaay night at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Dixon. eiins were exchanged irom a beautifully decorated tree and all details were suggestive of the Yuleticle. Bridge prizes were awarded to Mrs. Iona Perkins and Mrs. J. C. Barney. Mr. and Mrs. Glade Cowan en tertained a group of friends at a Christmas party Saturday night at their home on Utah avenue Dinner was served at prettily decorated dec-orated small tables with cards placed for Mr. and Mrs. George . Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Page, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bigler, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Brown Mr. and Mrs. Golden Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. S. Roland Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. John Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Vernal Twede, Mr. and Mrs. Spense Snow. Progressive rook was the diversion and prizes were awarded to Mrs. Twede and Mr. Page. A deligntful Christmas party was enjoyed by a group of 22 triends Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wells Cloward. Gifts were exchanged from a" love ly Christmas tree. A delicious hot dinner was served after which the Chinese amc "Friends", was played. Japanese Scouts Worry Fishermen of North America JUNEAU. Alaska (American Wire i Japanese troubles with Ru.ssia. resulting in Japanese fishermen's fish-ermen's being barred off Russian salmon waters, has brought scouts to Alaska from Japan. Canadinn and American fisher men who share the northern wa ters are wondering how new com petition can be discouraged. They nrgue the supply of red salmon is hardly sufficient for present ac tivities. They doubt it could stand the attack of another fishing fleet. The model of the moon at Grlf f it h observatory. Los Angeles, is seen by spectrograph, and spec tators have the illusion of he 1 n a position 600 miles above the moon. OFFICE SPACE New Building Nicely Decorated Decor-ated light roomi, steam heat, hot and cold water. In the heart of the business district. Call IIAYWABD, 870 MOVING! If moving call the Hardy Transfer. Trans-fer. Modern equipment and men who know how to handle Che most frasrtle furniture. PHONE 148 Watch Repairing 30 Yrs at Bench in Provo DELL CHIPMAN V 1 frrj7 1 'mvk --Hfsa I? S o 1 Closinq ELECTRIC CLOCKS s? See (Jur Wonderful Assortment of Mantel and Radio ("locks AT NEW LOW PRICES if 205 LADIES All-Leather HANDBAGS Make Her Christmas Complete pJiJ With a Lovelv f f (2 NEW HANDRAC JJ 5 WOMEN'S SILK Inter-lined GLOVES A REAL TREAT FOR -v COLD WEATHER V CP Jrt Sixes G to 8 5f LAST MINUTE SUGGESTIONS! TIED and DYED SCARFS . . . 49 -98 Sizes 18x18 17x22 17x44 24x24 5? SILK PILLOWS Kapok Filled Shop For Quality STlr A B THE STORE BEAUTIFUL- "WHERE STYLE BEGINS" PROVO, OJTTAM 4. ' v Out! Entire Stock 15 OFF -3 4 Pair STYLE BEGINS ftg 9 i j ---- r-f . I - u fWm 2 I H GIVE HIM SHIR' SIZES 14 TO 17 PLAIN WHITE BROADCLOTH SPECIAL! 5 lb. McDonald's CHOCOLATES JUST ARRIVED! 500 Boxes for the Last Days Hurry ! Just Arrived! 50 SETS SILVERWARE PIECES $2.90 Set 4r Ess. I YOU'RE INVITED KIYIRK1. WU1?I?1? CATVITPA'CJ A T Tir.TtyriT'f It's real, this Christmas spirit, when you see it in FIRMAGE S! It's in the air . . in the people ... in the sfreets! It's a part of the Store itself ... a favorite time with those who know Provo! Crowds? Of course! Happy crowds, bent on spreading happiness with the treasure they find in Firmage's. Cheerful Cheer-ful crowds, a part of the Christmas scene in every store, mingling with bright lights, bright trimmings, bright gifts 1 Smart crowds . . . for they've come to Firmage's, where shopping is easy . . . and fun! WHAT HE WANTS! Duro-izetl Collar and Cuff. Pre-shrunk Color Fast. Button-downs and Wide Spreads and Regular Points. For the last minute shoppers ! FOR "HER" Celanese Rayon Taffeta BED SPREADS $) Size 86x105 . oV BEAUTIFUL NEW COLORS Cotton Colonial SPREADS ALL-OVER JACQUARD DESIGNS Extra Quality ! Extra Size 88x108 For a Merry Xmas SHOP and SAVE At FIRMAGE'S! SECTION TWO ! &vs-v TO VISIT THE CHRISTMAS! HOSIERY Rinpless Sheer Chiffons! Lovely Service Weights! Brand New Crepe Twists Complete Color and Size Range. 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