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Show THE Page 2 SEAGULL Saturday, September 18, 1943 Cutie No. 5 the Seagull \< Saturday, September 18, 1943 Published every other Saturday for the personnel of the Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, Utah. EDITOR Genevieve Johnson Extension 69 NOTE: If you have a moan on your mind or a better way to do something or you wish to commend something or someone (rare) Write us a letter about it. Letters must be signed with your true name (though you may use a pseudonym when printed.) Limit, 75 words. Slander not permitted nor anything that constitutes military information, The opinions expressed are not PHOTOGRAPHER Kenneth Woodruff EDITORIAL SUPERVISOR, Lieutenant Harry J. Jordan Address all communications to Office of Public Relations, Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, Utah. It is requested that any of the material herein be reprinted only with the express permission of the Navy Department. All photographs, unless otherwise credited, are official Navy pictures. necessarily those of The Seagull. FAIRY TALE ON “ABSENTEEISM” Once upon a time a boy was herding sheep, and in fun he shouted ‘‘ Wolf! Wolf!’’ You’ve all heard the story. This fairy tale is forcibly brought to mind every Monday morning in the time section. Lizzie Lately calls in and says her boy has the measles (fourth time) and can’t get in. Ozzie Offbeam has to go to the dentist to have a wisdom tooth pulled. (This is the fifth wisdom tooth in three months.) Even poor old ‘‘Grandma’s funeral’’ is used. If the Marines on Guadaleanal, the Sailors at Midway and Coral Sea, and the Soldiers in Sicily all had five wisdom teeth to be pulled, or the measles four times, where would your job be? Think it over! —R. C. Spargur TIME TICKLERS The employe who requested slip knot so I could undo it easier later. Then I climbed back up the sick leave because he didn’t feel ladder and piled bricks into the BETH HANSEN well enough to work so had de- barrel until it was full. cided to overhaul his car. Winning the honor of being I climbed back downthe ladThe storekeeper who called in der. Then I untied the line to let Cutie No. 5 is Miss Beth Hanfor sick leave because he drank the brick down. However, I found sen, ‘typist. for R.“M. Bell in too much ice water at a certain the barrel of brick heavier than D-12. Only 16 years of age, Miss picnic. I was and whenthebarrelstart- Hansen’s close friends call her Sick leave applimations — Na- ed down, I started up. I thought “Red’”’ or ‘‘Buddie.”’ ture of illness: of letting go, but by that time I Five foot, three inches tall, “Soar throught and back-ake.”’ was so far up a thought it would Miss Hansen has dark auburn be safer to hang on. hair, brown eyes, and creamy “Sign-uss’’ skin. She likes to dance end exHalfway up, the barrel hit me “I must have ate something on the shoulder pretty hard but cells in most sports, that didt a grea with me’”’ Born in Utah, she has spent I still hung on. “Week stomack”’ most of her life in El Monte, I was going pretty fast at the Calif., returning two years ago. “Science trouble’ top and bumped my head. My She lives in Ogden with her “Sort of a flew and a fever’’ fingers also got pinched in the mother, Mrs. H. C. Hansen. She One gallant storekeeper has pulley block. However, at the began work at the NSD May 21, offered to deliver pay checks to same time the barrel hit the working first on a gang, then in any storehouse ‘‘femmes.’’ The ground and the bottom fell out of a storehouse before transferring fee—onekiss. it letting all the brick out. to her present job. Statement turned in by employe I was then. heavier than the Miss Hansen claims she isn’t to explain overleave: barrel and started down again. engaged, or going steady, but she On August 7, 1943, I left the I got burned on the leg by the depot for six days leave at my other rope as I went down until refused to. divulge her phone number. brother’s farm in Idaho. I met the barrel again which Shear esnck On August 10 my brother’s went by faster than before and With only one more ‘‘Cutie”’ barn burned down, all except the tcok the skin off my shins. to be chosen, NSD employes are brick silo which was damaged I guess I landed pretty hard urged to vote for their favorites at the top by a bolt of lightning on the pile of bricks because at for the No. 6 sweetheart title. which started thefire. Deadline for votes to be in the On August 11 we started to re- that time I lost my presence of Seagull office is the Wednesday mind and let go of the line and pair the silo so he could get his the barrel came down and hit me following publication. cornin it. I rigged a barrel hoist to the squarely on the head. “Miss Clearfield,’’ to be setop of the silo so we could hoist The doctor wouldn’t let me lected from among the six bricks to the top of the silo where start back to the depot until Au- Cuties, will be named at a dance the repair work was being done. gust 16, which made me two days tentatively scheduled for Octo. Then we hauled up several hun- overleave, which I don’t think ber 2. dred bricks. This later turned is too much under the circumout to be too manybricks. stances. Third Bond Drive After my brother got all the * Ok * brick work repaired there was (Continued from Page 1) A call from a laborer states still a lot of brick at the top of are under fire cn a dozen fronts that he is sick on Monday, does the silo on a working platform not erpect to be well by Tuesday all over the world. It is my earwe had built. I said I would take and has to report to his draft nest hope that every American it all down below. So I climbed will realize that in buying War board on Wednesday. down the ladder and hauled the Bonds in this Third War Loan barrel all the way up. Then I seCould he be trying to make he has an opportunity to express cured the line with a sort of a 4F? voluntarily and under the guidoe OG UO Ue ee a en tees Nominated by. :.-2.22...02- Note: Married gals not allowed to enter contest. i eqibe seme tame saeseme BEAUTY CONTEST BALLOT Dear Editor: In the last three issues of ‘‘The Dear Editor: Seagull’ there have been slams We have existing on the area and digs towards drivers. In my a very serious problem that afopinion, and the opinion of my fects the entire storehouse area. riders and co-drivers, these arThe subject of this problem is ticles have been very unfair. brooms. They are definitely one-sided. Did you ever stop to realize how Some three months and a half much wedrivers are contributing ago I came to work at the depot to the war effort? Our cars are and was put into a gang. The taking a terrific beating, and the first thing I knew an object future is very uncertain as to called a broom was thrust into new cars, repairs, and parts. my hands. I examined the obAn oil change and grease job ject and sure enough there was absolutely must be given a car the handle and an oblong protuevery two weeks, total $71.50 per sion called a brush but I couldn’t year; gas $287.00 per year; in- find the bristles in the brush. surance on car and riders, $55.50 After struggling with these per year; four tires per year which must run 24,000 miles and brooms for some time, we storetake an act of congress to ob- house women went to our head tain, $75.00; exchange of motor storekeeper and asked for new (in my car) because of wear brooms. He was very kind and $172.24; brakes $31.76; broken took the matter up with Mr. spring and miscellaneous $14.08; Foley, the head of our section. tune up and inner tube $14.47. He in turn took the matter up These items tctal $721.54. I ex- with Mr. Carlson and there the pect more repairs because I have ‘“merry-go-round’’ started and got as far as Mr. Sparger. There not driven the full year. Personally, Old Traveller, I it must have broken down as we would prefer being a rider than didn’t get new brooms. a driver, because of people like So after some 2 monthsof tryyourself, responsibility, and a ing to use this article called a car that rattles so much that my broom I was transferred to a junfriends accuse me of having a ior storekeeper and then I was rattletrap. I am sure you are inhappy as I felt my broom troutelligent enough to see this viewbles were over. I received my aspoint. Could the Old Traveller signment and went to the storebuy a new car with what he house to which I was assigned would receive after deducting experfectly happy until I had got ee My answer is absolutely nearly to the office of the build- oO! The bus charges $3.75 per week and if a person lives any distance from Hotel Temple Square he must pay to get to the bus. We charge less than one cent per mile. Now I ask you, can you procure transportation facilities anywhere any cheaper than that? Sometimes a rider quits and it takes several weeks to find a rider within our route (the gas given us does not permit going cut of our way) and then we are out that much. If a driver can get his own rides free he is doing well. A DRIVER. ing and just ahead cf me was a dense cloud of blue smoke. So I had to wait for the smoke to clear before going on. When it did clear what did I behold but 4 storehouse women and a storekeeper bending over a broken . down brcom. As I neared the group. I heard the storekeeper tell the ladies he would take the matter up with Mr. Redwins, whice he did and there the merry-go-round started again. That has been some six weeks ago and still no new brooms. Vivian F. Suiter. ance of his conscience, the extent to which he will ‘‘back the attack.” “The American people supported well the first and second war loan drives and in fact did even more than was asked of them. Our need for money now is greater than ever, and will continue to grow until the very day that victory is won; so we must ask far more sacrifice, far more cooperation than ever be- fore.”’ : “T’m at Clearfield too! Perhaps you can use your influence with the Editor of the Seagull, so I can be Cutie No. 6?” |
