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Show THE ‘Saturday, August 21, 1943 SEAGULL DEPOT DUPLICATES CROW'SA, NEST OE Appropriate er and in due time presented a Economy ncte: government agencies announced | plate of the towser tid-bits to his that food prices had increased but eight per cent over the corresponding week last year. An absent-minded economist might jot the statistic down in his note- | book for future reference. No: housewife would stop her marketing long enough to discuss such a statement. kk Another GI release tells us that the cost of food has declined two per cent from mid-June to fyb The Sailor’s Prayer Now I lay me downto’sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other sailor take My shoes and sccks before I wake, number, May noclews nor lashings break And let me downbefore I wake. Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no fire drill tonight. Arthur (left) asd Arnold Paxton Arthur and Arnold call themArthur is tall, slender, has selves the ‘‘believe it or not’ And in the morning let me wake, brown hair, and doesn’t seem to twins. They neither look nor act steak. Breathing scents of sirloin like brothers much less twins. be bashful. His hobbies are God protect me in my dreams They are eighteen years of age, playing guitar, harmonica, and And make this better than it have attended Beaver high school piano. He and Arden Wilson, a seems. three years and hope to gradu- fellow-worker, sing duets at varGrant the time may swiftly fly ious entertainments. They style When myself shall rest on high. ate before they are called. into the army. Both are employed themselves the ‘“‘Rocky MounIn a snowy feather bed, on Chester Montgomery’s crew. tain Pals.’’ WhereI long to rest my head. The only interest the twins Arnold, short, heavy-set, has Far away from all these scenes From the smell of half done red hair and freckles; the quiet have in commonis girls. They type. His hobbies are skiing, would like to become acquainted beans. with the George twins. skating, and baseball. Take me back into the land Where they don’t scrub down) j|especially when a person is in with sand a hurry. Charles Parks stumbled Where no Demon Typhoon blows, J Accounting for over one the other day andstill Where the women wash the declares that Orval Hillis pushed clothes. | him. God thou knowest all my woes By Jean Feed me in my dying throes. Vonzza Mchr and Marian DeMrs. Elma McLean left the Take me back, I’ll promise then | payroll section last week to join Witt took a day off to shop in Never to leave home again. her husband on Long Island, New Salt Lake City. The girls came THREE YEARS LATER York, where he is stationed with back to work with identical Our Father who art in Washingdresses on. I was quite surprised the navy. ton (Heaven) Mrs. McLean was replaced by at this as most girls wish to be Please dear Father let me stay Miss Elizabeth Van Cott of Salt different. Do not drive me now away. Lake City. When interviewing The accounting department is Wipe away my scalding tears Miss Van Cott she replied that still chuckling over some of the And let me stay my thirty years. the only interesting events in pictures taken at the picnic by Please forgive me all my past her life was graduating from Mr. Woodruff. I think Mrs. DeAnd things that happened at the Stanford university last spring Tennencourt takes the prize for mast and being engaged to a navy en- the best picture, at least she was Do not my request refuse, sign. teased the most. Let me stay another cruise. The bond department will need © Amen Mrs. Virginia Trump has re- Accounting Gobs Will ‘‘Pop’’ Three of the four navy enlisted Rover promptly fell to with a voraciousness known only to dogs and little boys. “By God,” he said, “I’m going to have a dish of that myself.’’ ..- * ok more help in a couple of weeks |ported for work in the bond de- Ok We read with avid delight the statements of one Viscountess Snowdon of London and the Watering Places. She believes, along with many of us, that the mid-July. The only example of Lord guard me in my slumber And keep my hammock on its From a post card published by Herz Post Cards, San Diego. hound. sappy a price drop our economic expert could find was in a Salt Lake City paper of last week. Butter, eggs, fresh milk and such exotic edibles had advanced crooners _ are to be seen but not heard. _‘, Tt (the stuff _ Frankie Sinatra makes with) is suggestive of a in price BUT the cucumber, that universal staple of the American tomcat caterwauling on the coe ee tiles .fow=its Here is something that should mate,’’ says the Viscountess, in interest everyone who likes a part. Isn’t that what. it’s suphighball now and again. Alcohol posed to suggest, Viscountess? table, had halved its cost. factories are turning out grog enough fora toper’s paradise. But it is all go_ ing into war materials. And a good lot of it goes for syn* thetic rubber. ’ We used to have wows <= our choice of * Many *K remarks have been overheard to the-effect that the 1500 o’clock music is a vast improvement. We have no way of knowing, of course, but we feel that it is sort of a trial baloon. If this is so, we suggest that some of the livelier selections from some of the musical composers be tested, such as Herbert, the Strausses, Rimski-Korsakov, SiA WIC drinking ourbelius and Tchaikowski. selves to death He ooh cek or not. But under the new setup we might get rubbed out by alA coach has been signed up at cohol even if we are tee-totallers a Utah university at a consider—under-.an .liquor tire.. :-The ation of $7100 per annum. We drunken satirist would be run haven't the slightest idea of trydown by a sober motorist driv- ing to lower the good coach’s ing like made for a beer tavern. salary to peanuts—only to find out how much the president of * OK the institution pulls down. This is not news any longer, * but we thought you might like * * to know about one of the votes Since first issue Homer Bodily, Betty Toigo got for Cutie No. 1. ever time we pass him, has been It came from Washington, D. C. eyeing us with a quizical, almost The cut of the messengers was undefinable look. Finally we deenclosed and Betty was marked cided to question him on the with a red pencil. She claims she matter and he told us, with a doesn’t know anybody in the not of bitterness, “I haven’t got capital. out of the dog house yet since eee eae the missus read what you printed The other day our Mrs. Rich- about mein the paper.”’ when Juanita Spargur leaves to partment. Mrs. Trump likes it finish her high school course and there for she says ‘‘The selling Ada Beth Whitesides leaves for and buying of bonds will not only college. help our country to quick victory Miss VerDene Webb tells me but will also rush the return of ens was in conversation and * * OK she will be leaving our section to my husband, Lt. Richard H. somebody made a snide remark continue college at the UniverThe boys over in the paint shop Trump, who is serving overseas aimed at our associate. Donna sity of Utah. with an armored tank division.”’ Blake pipes up and says, ‘‘You’d have got a new handle for signMargaret Laws is not only better not get fresh with her or artist Pratt. They call him ‘‘TraMrs. Melba Wright has a new good at pounding the keys on the she’ll misspell your name in the der-Horn.”’ bookkeeping machine but I hear assistant in the addressograph Bice aK paper.”’ she also hits the keys of the room. She is Miss Jennie John- men detailed to missing effects department have great hearts. They are SK 3c Ezell, Y= 2c Chism and SK 3c Whipple. They get so lonesome during rest periods that they are ready to go for a-dime-a-day in coke money for feminine companionship. son of Ogden. Jennie transferred Another member of the detail piano for our depot orchestra. We are not aiming at any parThose electric outlets scattered to the accounting department is SK 2c Nordt but he already ticular deg-food people but have has the situation well in hand. | over the floor in our section from the storehouse. _| you everlistened to some of their He is married to a charming gal. prove quite a problem at times, commercials on the wireless? A guy we know bought a packet of pesc ce it for his pooch. He just couldn’t What’s New In resist the tantalizing teasing of the announcer. Chock full of faSection Two The six-day bike race between Lieut. Schroeder and Doc Red- wine was declared ‘‘no contest’’ at the end of the 174th lap. The lieutenant tried to sneak a lap by taking a cut through D-4 but there was no door where he thought there was. Redwine, in hot pursuit, turned to offer symtigue-defying vitamins, too. So pathy and his mount left the By F. L.S. he dashed out to his nearest deal- track. There were no casualties, Mr. Harry Houlon, storekeepweare happy to report, but could er in D-6 has been a member of tell you all about it. She was anyone spare an idle barrel for the U. S. Marine Corps for nine- there. Lieut. Schoeder? teen years. During that time he Here’s One For the OPA traveled throughout the United States and spent considerable Two ladies (well known to the time in the Asiatics, Guam, the writer) went into a certain fruit Philippines, also the West In- market in Ogden, where they dies. Nineteen years is a long saw some. delicious looking time to serve your country, Har- peaches and decided they wanted ry, and it’s nice to have you a peach to eat so they both serving with us, for Uncle Sam, pickéd out a peach. When they at this Naval supply depot. were weighed up the weight was one pound and the price was A ere Joe Mosley When the Boss hired her this morning, he said he wanted a fast worker Mr. Frank Goodwin, senior storekeeper, G-8, section two, an ex-service man, has been confined to the Veterans hospital at Salt Lake for some time. It is reported that he is getting along fine. We hope you will soon be back wih us, Frank. FoR Wanted: To know how to get out of work by loading oneself into the trash wagon. Maybe Mrs. Ione Stewart at E-7 could thirty-two cents. They both de- cided they weren’t nearly as peach-hungry as they thought they were. At the same ratio, two Sanborn Returns Mr. D. E. Sanborn, recorder for the labor board, returned to work after a three-week illness. Says he feels fit as the proverbial fiddle. maybe the market first men- tioned had their peaches delivered by carrier pigeons. What do you think? sha 3k peaches per lb., 60 lbs. per bu., At D-8 on Sept. 4th between 120 peaches (or 1 bu.) would cost three and three-fifteen p. m. the $18.20. storehouse personnel hada little Now, it just happened two days birthday party for Mr. George later one of the ladies was in Woods on his 6lst birthday. Jerome, Idaho, and really bought About ten people sang, ‘“‘Happy one pound (or two peaches) for Birthday To You,’’ Chocolate the sum of 15 cents. I guess the cake and ice cream were the redifference was in the freight freshments. We wish you many rates from California to Utah, or more happy birthdays, George. |
