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Show -- 9 SERIAL HE HERALD-JOURNA- story WALLACE From Hyrum CCC 1 041 , COPYRIGHT. HE SERVICE. INC. BY D CHAPTER I dis-- 1 neighbors called them, approvingly. That crazy young couple. The neighbors jg? Plained 4 I about the late parties opened huldog The neighbors slammed them their windows and meaningly whenever Peg. Marwheezing old wreck the salis called a car, sprang to curb outside. roaning life at the And the neighbors talked about with Paul Elliott, who was always town them. Imagine! Everyone in I the that Paul Elliott was en- Mrs. Marshall had been gaged to for two years. Then, all less than three a sudden, months ago, his old college friend, town. He Bill Marshall, blew into at manager credit as a job got Throckmortons Jewelry And what happened? Before you turn around, he was taking she Martha out. Within a month, married him! And now, look! The three of runnthem, chummy as you please, oiit what used to be a and in ing nice, quiet, respectable A.E.A. apartment neighbors sniffed, there was another girl a tall, slim blond, supposed new girl. ,d be Paul Elliotts On Monday and Tuesday, Horace Hedges of the Ogden office spent the days at the USAC and at the camp helping to organize defense courses. These courses will be set up under the supervision ot Mr. Jeppson, defense training coordinator of this district. Two courses are under consideration at the Hyrum Camp. mapping is practically set up. Beginners in blacksmithing is being planned and if details work out it will be started using Tapo-graphic- al TARLY on the morning of Oct. the Registration Day neighbors heard whoops of laughter from the Marshall manage. Paul They judged, correctly, that Elliott was eating breakfast with g Marshalls again. We might as well register together, Bill, Paul had said. After , hearty breakfast, the condemned men will go forth bravely. Bill, you certainly were the farsighted He bird, seeing all this coming. Bill was beside her, his arms enfolding her. And in his fingers, that white paper. Martha, this is it! he said. Ive been drafted! the didn't first. heart began a frightened pounding. The tall man with the lean brown face couldn't seem to tear his eyes away. Then he said, Paul, I never borrowed your girls before. But say that hed had the idea theres. always a first time. Hey, wait a minute! Were enNow youre married, in the exempt class. So that was it, you worm! You marrMartha turned on Bill. Her ied me for protection. golden brown eyes sparkled with laughter, her little white nose wrinkled adorably, Bill ran a casual What else? You hand through her red curls. didn't think I was in love with you? They munched their toast, in perfect bliss. To Paul, Martha said seriously, You should rush to the license bureau with Su-zrn- ne Decker, that's what should do. Paul grinned. you Should I? Per-!ia- ;o Suzanne has oilier notions. Ho and Suzanno camo up for dinners and bridge and dancing to the radio. The xu: of i had watched football tames and movies together. Yet. fre-rucn- thcre'd never been any-- u about it. Marin;: couldnt quite put her finger On it, but shed sensed it. : iPg very serious MARTHA worked for Air Transport, the sprawling factory on trie edge of town where the great silver airliners were built. were switching to bombers, Sne was Pauls secretary. They now. Paul assistant to tile chief engiPaul gave her dictation full of words like propulsive effiand ciency airfoil boundary layer and translational velocity." but these days he never stopped in the middle of a sentence to say, Your hairs fire in the sun, vat neer. honey. And he never kissed her, the file cases, any more gaged! But in the end, when Paul saw how it was and in two weeks, even a blind man could have seen it he was awfully decent. He stood in his office, turning the ring over and over in his fingers. Thats all right, Martha, he said But he didnt think theyd take Bill, either. It was only when Bill was ordered to report for a physical examination that they became uneasy. And Im so damn healthy! Wait, Paul comforted. Walt till they get a load of your knock knees. Ill have you understand, Martha informed him primly, my Bill has beautiful knees. She wished, unhappily, tney werent quite so beautiful when Bill returned to tell her: Im in Class I. I guess you couldnt tonelessly. Oh, Bill, no! Youre married. You cant be d afted. help it. I guess it just just It was as if all the months beBut I can. You can hardly be fore had never happened. As if classed as a dependent, earning shed never planned to marry almost twice as much as I do. You Paul, as if the girl whod laughed got along all right before we were with Paul and worked with him married there was no bitterness and kissed him had been a differ- in his voice and, I hate to adent girl from the Martha Bill mit, you contribute more to the Marshall had pulled into his arms sun.nort of tne household than I last night. do. I know I can't hold a candle But, Bill, youll be credit manto Paul, Bill said. I dont make in no time. And I can quit ager as much money, never will. I joh.J!JIbey iud..cUscusscd -- :11 haven't his brains, and and he my saw you first. But, darling, I love this before they married. But the army wont wait. 1 you so. From tiie first moment I couldnt lie about it, Martha. T saw you, I knew. had to admit the facts. You don't I knew, too, she whispered. need me. Im physically fit. is not important to defense. TJ ILLS voice brought her back to the little blue breakfast Besides, its our duty my duty, nook and the reality of the pres- anyway. ent. . Quit dawdling, Martha. Paul and I must hasten to present TOUT, somehow, Martha was sure ourselves, give our pedigree, all they wouldnt call him. They for the glory of the cause. simply had to take all the single Bill started Peg, amid the usual men first. There were others eager thunder, and they drove off to volunteer. There was need foi jerkily. If I could just afford a only a small percentage of the new car. men available. When youre in the army, darOne morning, while they were a ling, earning $21 month, well still at breakfast, the telephone buy a Rolls. The desk rang. Bill answered. Say, you dont really think clerk, he said, replacing the telethey might take me? Bill asked, phone. Probably wants to know in mock alarm. were when going to pay the rent Sure they might! With a Be right back. wife, and a job where He before she had finyoure not even useful in defense. ished returned her coffee. There was a long What on earth has a credit manwhite envelope in his hand. ager to do with defense? at once the tab!.-- , walls behind either. All that was part of the past. It had ended the night be said, Martha, this mug is my old pal from school. He used to smoke all my cigarets, wear my shirts, spend my THEY were to remember that, A money." later, when the questionnaire The bluest eyes in the world carpe. Because Bill Marshalls looked down into her own brown serial number had been among ones, and a shiver coursed through the first drawn in the national her. A shiver that was cold and lottery in Washington. yet somehow warm. Her smile Paul laughed when he heard faded, her breath caught, her about it. "Hi. General! B00 KILLED Mili-tarMELBOURNE, Australia dispatches from were understood to indicate Egypt that today Australian casualties in the fall Bardia were fewer than 500 ... Aliens Register At Paints Firemen At Work As Bombed London Burns Some lectures we pay to hear take us than ever for fee stronger speech. Sixty persons have registered as aliens at the Preston Post Office. It is believed that this number represents nearly all in this area, unless there may be some American women who have lost their citizenship by marriage to aliens. Citizenship is lost in the case of a woman (1) by marriage to an alien on or after March 2, 1907, and before September 22, 1922; (2) by marriage to an alien ineligible for citizenship on or after March 2, 1907, and before March 3, 1931, Those who may be in doubt as to their citizenship are advised to write or call at the local office of non-citize- aliens. Although the closing date for registration was set at December 26, 1940, provision has been made for late registration where suitable explanation is given as to the the camp faclities. George W. Barry, officer charge of buildings for the Pocatello district CCC, visited the camp Thursday to make an inspection of the work done in remodeling the educational building, the recreation hall and canteen, the mess hall and the repair done to the barracks. Mr. Barry was pleased with the work. Edward V. Tamulionis, baker of the Hyrum camp left January 1st to accept employment in Youngstown, Ohio. He learned to bake a the camp. He will have to show his wares in another situation. Several men in the camp have received notices to be examined for the selective service board. The next few days we expect to see some of the them leave. CIVIC INSTITUTE In action in Fire-fishte- rs When Gcrninn incendiary bombs razed the ancient "city" district of London, heroes of the day were the men who fousht the fires. Paul Manning tells the story of fireman-artis- Haybrook. t BY IAl L MANNING LONDON. The 30,000 men fighting fires in London have won the praise of every man, woman and child now living in this world's largest city. They have been called heroes and some have been awarded medals for conspicuous bravely. But there is no compensation, no sick leave with pay for firemen injured by the Luftwaffe triek of returning to a fire and dropping more oil bombs and more high explosives on the same spot. The firemen just retire from duty, nursing themselves back to health while living on money saved out of a salary of $12 a week. Attempts have been made to the past correct this during months when the fire soldiers be to much as the saviors proved of Londontown as the R. A. F. . Rudolph Haybrook, however, is one man determined to do some the western region" thing. For Rudolph Haybrook is not only a fireman but an artist who ran paint pictures which sell. d That is why of the proceeds from his paintings of London fire scenes, now being exhibited at Londons swank Leicester Galleries, will be donated to the Firemen's Benevolent Fund. Rudolph Haybrook was an artist long before becoming a fireman. Paialvzed during a drive along the Western Front, during the lust war, he lay for months in a base hospital. Gradually he began sketching to pass time, and gradually he became more adept at drawing the scenes around him. He worked hard at his new craft, learned it well. Today, one of his paintings is on permanent exhibition at the National Gallery. It's a Dunkirk Scene. For during the B. E. F. retreat from was aboard Dunkirk, Haybrook the Massey Shaw during the one voyage it made to evacuate soldiers. When the little boat moved slowly away from the sandy beach with a full load of exhausted men, Haybrook captured that memorable scene on a one-thir- fire-tend- er by Haybrook. sketch pad. His worst moment, he describes as that time. "Bombs and shells were all around us. On the way out, one of the engines stopped. Everyone expected a bomb to fall dead on the little ship but somehow the engineer got the boat moving again and we reached England. Eighteen months ago, with sketch pad and paints. Haybrook joined the London Fire Brigade as a member of the auxiliary force, working the full time shift of 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off. And In 18 months he has produced a series of rather remarkable documentary paintings of the biggest fires London has experienced. As a brigade member he works at a fire with the rest of his unit until the blaze is well under control, Then he begins to hastily sk'.tjh in a rapid effort to capture .ne scene before its vividness has disappear- TO BE ORGANIZED The possibility of the organization of some type of a "community institute to study the educational, political and civic problems of the Preston community entered the tentative stages this with the announcement of a meeting to be held Monday evening in the high school to discuss the proposal. Although the plan is only embryonic, several leaders of the various civic organizations have indicated an interest in the plan. Some of the groups who will send delegates to the meeting are the board of education, county extension service, recreational association, Franklin and Oneida stakes, Franklin county, Preston city, Preston chamber of commerce, Lions club, Preston schools, American Legion, Business and ed. As one fireman remarked after Professional Women, Delphian Society, Community church. Fine a particularly dangerous fire: There was Haybrook with his Arts club, Literary club and the easel, making a sketch by the light Preston PTA. The meeting will be held at 7 of the flames with enemy bombers overhead. p. m. in room 102. O THE SMOKE OF CAMELS GIVES YOU SLOWER-BURNIN- G EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR All the were swimming dizzily. Then Bill was beside her, hh arms enfolding her, tenderly. And in his fingers that white envelope. Martha," he said tightly, Martha, this is it! Induction order. Ive been drafted: . (To Be Continued) ND60I1N ively arranged in Yuletide colors was served to special guests Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Nielsen of Magna, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moon of Hyrum, and club members and their partners, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Nielsen, Mr. and Mrs. Barstow Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Green, Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Albretsen, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Petersen, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald McBride. Miss Frances Critchlow of Salt Lake City has spent the Christmas holidays with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Critchlow at Hyrum. Claine Smith of March Field, Calif., and Percy Baugh of El Paso, Texas, have both returned to their military posts after a pleasant va- The Junior Ace club were entertained this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Hendersen where an evening of 500 was enjoyed, with prizes won by Ronald McBride andArdella Nielsen. Luncheon attract- FUNNY BUSINESS Bobby Wayne OUT" THI FACTS about nicotine. Experts, chemists and intricate laboratory machines analyze the smoke of S of the largest-sellinbrands.,. find that the smoke of Camels contains 28 less nicotine than the average of the other brands tested less than any of them! slower-burnin- g g the smokes the thing! After anything from a cigarette until you've lighted it . . until its burning. And there is the secret of an advantage Camel smokers have enjoyed for years. For Camels costlier tobaccos are slower-burninSlower-burninfor more coolness and mildness for Camels are free from the excess heat and irritating qualities of too-fafor burning. Slower-burninmore flavor because slow burning preserves tobacco flavor and fragrance. YES, you dont get By burning 25 slower than the average of the 4 other largest-sellin-g g brands tested slower than any of them Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to st 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! Maughan, Junior Pwanson and Carrol Nichols. Mrs. Joyce Hendersen entertained the Junior Ace club members at her home Friday where the afternoon was spent at 500 with prizes won hv Donna Humphries and Mary Nielsen. Luncheon was serv-- ! oil t the members and special guest Mrs. Mozell Hall. Miss Cov and Beverly Strong of Salt Lake City have enjoyed a tow days vacation at the home of tl rir grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Hall of Hyrum. All things come In an end, but i wh'eh iu dopoiula on you. i Sarae was You tuid whu else? Curtis. brands than the average of the 4 other largest-sellin- g tested less than any of them according to independent laboratory tests of the smoke itself "SMOKING cation spent with relatives and friends in Hyrum. Mrs. Merrlil Baxter was hostess to the Wolf Patrol of scout troop 23 at her home Friday evening this of week. An enjoyable evening games was spent and luncheon served to Patrol Leader Lamar Baxter, assistant patrol leader Gordon Baxter, secretary Leonard Wilson and members Darrell Atkinson, All I suit! to the Office In Preston the United States Immigration and Naturalization service located at the post office building. Salt Lake City. All facts should be stated clearly. Officers of the service will go into the facts of the case thoroughly and will advise persons making inquiry as to whether they should or should not register as Y men. FTVTS, E. house. Oh, the sure, sometimes L PAG Monday, Dec. 30 Hayden Church took 28 enrollees to Tony Grove camp where they will remain for the winter remodeling the camp, building new buildings, and constructing a barrier around the are to ump. All these preparations enlarge the facilities of the school of forestry of the USAC. Store. could ( HOXTON Two camps in each forest region have been chosen to usa job specification sheets made in the Washington office. Hyrum is one of these in I eg ion 4. These job specification sheets take each job and analyze it ai.d make it possible for each enrollee and each foreman to see the progress made by the in learning his job. First the enrollee starts to become a trained workman. He must understand the organization, how to work safely, and the common tools to work with. At the end of six weeks the ramp is to make a detailed report of the progress of the enioliees and benefits derived from the ideas issued from Washington. they5 the high laughter, the Muffle of dancing feet, the blaring to Butch, the radio They objected knew IM! 19 4 1. 6, Beats Blazes, Brings Out Brushes, Then The Weeks News CONSCRIPT'S WIFE BY BETTY UTAH, MONDAY. JANUARY LOGAN, L, g Now Science confirms still another advantage Camels slower burning means less nicotine in the smoke less than any of the four other largest-sellin- g less than the brands tested . . . 28 average! Yes, when you measure the pleasure of a cigarette . . . the smokes the thing. Make Camels your steady smoke and enjoy all the advantages that only Camels slower burning... costlier tobaccos can give. Theres even an economy advantage (see left). SL w Ny. v. s k ' 4 . ' i x vs ; IS: lUz N' - . mmii I. Bejmokit Tobtcco Company, ViBton-Sal- North Ctrolint . |