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Show > THE SEAGULL Saturday, April 1, 1944 General Stores Vox Populi With this issue of the Seagull scheduled to come out on April Officers, Storekeepers of General Stores Section see cetemet Section Takes By News Hound Page 5 Seagull Spot 1, your roving reporter Taking the Seagull spotlight couldn’t resist doing a bit of as ‘‘featured department’”’ this research on, ‘What is the best April Fool prank you ever issue is General Stores, Section Two of the Storage Group pulled, saw or had pulled on headed by Lieut. Donald H. you?” Dowell, officer Rollie Jones, Sk 2\c, of the General Stores. Advance Base Section con- in charge of fesses that since his birthday Confer on Cooperation The above pictured key perfalls on “All Fools’ Day’ ne sonnel of General Stores were caught at a group conference has been the victim (as well which had been called to discuss better means of cooperaas the origin| ator) of a great tion and coordination with the _many April new Receiving Section. Before this section was organized on March 6, storehouses in Gensuch as_ swiping fruit and eral Stores had their own jacking up the checkers but under the newsetFool pranks, back wheel of up all checkers are sent out from Receiving. Gin-COr.SOu It Principal functions of the won't go. The first sailor to arrive in the office of the Ad- General Store Section are revance Base section, Rollie ceiving, stowage and issue. The material handled is, as_ the came to NSD last August. His wife is also at Clearfield and name implies, general and inis employed in the Stock Up- cludes glassware, dishes, line, mattresses, brick, keep section. pans, blankets, Yeoman 3\c Natalie Neilson clothing. of Pullman, Washington, de- pots and and winter Work With Dowell clares that ‘’April 1 was always Working with Lieut. Dowell a very calm in this section are: Lieut. Richday in mylife” ard S. Dewey, who has charge . which is of-storehouses F-8, E-5, 6 and what we call a 7, and D-5; Lt. (jg) Richard P. sad state of afGannon, Pearl Harbor stowage; ~ fairs and hereby call upon andLt. (jg) Leo Wallace, storehouses F-6, G-6, 7 and 8. Civilian superivsor of the section is Tom Foley. any willing practical joke- sters to see that said calm is broken. Yeoman Neilson ' joined the WAVESlast November and since March 22 has been attached to the Medical and Surgery department in the Advance Base section. In her pre-Navy days she attended Washington State college two years, then worked at an Army Air Depot in the medical supply section. Riggers Contribute Generously Caught by the depot photographer at a conference ordination with the new Receiving Section are the two) of the Storage Group: Back row (left to right): Jim Bradfield, Clifford Green, Bill Chase, William Clyde Jackson, Fred Stewart, Cliff Surrell, Storage Wicker, and Ray Ogden. and Lieut. R. S. Dewey. Personnel Officer Lists Positions Open at Clearfield Laborers, storekeepers, called to discuss better means of cooperation and cofollowing key personnel of General Stores, (section Frank Goodwin, Harlan Reynolds, Charles Bannister, Thomas and Supervisor Tom Foley. Second Row: Supervisor Robert Spargur, Clyde Obray, Marvin Front Row: Lieut. D. H. Dowell, Lt. (jg) Leo Wallace, Lt. (jg) R. P. Gannon, Experts Class Clearfield Employe As One of Utah’s Promising Artists “A modernist who transmits character and action with pa- rich low-toned hues’’ is what the book, ‘Contemporary Art of the the United States’’ says of the work of Roy H. Butcher, Ogden trolmen and typists are types of workers needed most artist and NSD employe whois classed by experts as one of Led by John Fox, quarter- to fill vitally necessary jobs at the most promising artists of the day. man rigger, a group of 75 rig- the Clearfield Naval Supply In 1940, his impressionalgers contributed an average of Depot at present, announces istic painting, “The Jerry $4.35 per person to the recent Lt. (jg) Cecil D. Hardesty, per- Gang,’’ was taken on a nationdepot Red Cross drive. Ac- sonnel officer. wide tour after it received the cording to Lynn McKinlay, exAs spring breaks many of International Business Maecutive chairman of the depot the farmers who have been chine Corporation’s honorary drive, this is one of the finest working at Clearfield during award, “For a notable contrirecords made by a group of the winter months are return- bution to the art of the world.”’ this size anywhere on the de- ing to their farms leaving large Later on the painting was pub- numbers of laborer positions lished in a collection of con“Being born on April Fool's pot. Day sort of makes April 1 ‘open viously worked at Hill Field fol- open at NSD. Also 275 store- temporary art and the original season’ on me,” laughs Mrs. lowing his graduation from keepers could be utilized im- presented in Salt Lake City Violet Tallon Ogden high school last spring. mediately and there is a criti- where it received a $175 prize. Ex-sergeant John W. Nance of the Advance Base section. Jr. says the meanest April Fool With a south- prank ever pulled on him took ern accent that we place a year came_ straight (ago today from Mobile, | when he was Alabama, Mrs. | told that he Tallon dewould be reclares that she leased from “loves the the_ hospital mountains and can’t here wait for in Utah spring.” Mrs. Tallon, who is the mother of two small children, has been and the U. S. Army on April lies Red,‘--as he is called by his fellow working at NSD since January chau f eurs, 22. Her husband, an engineer was actually released from the in the Merchant Marine, was Army in May and he has been killed in action in the North at NSD since last January. Atlantic on April 6, 1942, on During his 14 months in the his way to Murmusk, Russia. Army “Red” was radio operaAnother “‘April Fool kid’’ is tor for a bomber crew in the Charles L. Fife of the Purchase Ferry Command. He andhis department who celebrates his fellow crewmen ferried bombeighteenth birthday today. He has_ his greatest trou- ble with April Fool. pranksters at birth- day parties whereheis almost sure to find an onion ers to Australia four different times and also made trips to Panama, Newfoundland and various points in the states. A cal need for typists and stenog- Does Exhibition Paintings raphers. Another of his paintings, Patrolmen are being hired “The House of the Lord,’”’ a who can meet the following re- picture of the Mormon temple, quirements: past 38 years of was printed in both the English age, draft exempt, and have and Spanish editions of ‘“Conprevious experience on a po- temporary Art of the Western Hemisphere.” lice or guard force. Mr. Butcher works mostly on exihibition paintings of landI JOINED THE NAVY scapes or figures with oil used (Written March 6th while as his medium. Several paintenroute from Hunters College, ings have been purchased by New York, to Clearfield, Utah.) the Grand Central Galleries in New York to enter in their col| joined the Navy, too, girls! lection. His work has been Don’t ask the reason why. shown in art shows in WashWe’re here for the duration, ington, D. C. and almost every We'll win, we'll do, or die. state in the Union. Mr. Butcher is a self-tutored The road is sometimes bumpy, artist of the modernistic school, We’re not in here for fun. So keep your good work up, learning art for the last five or six years by personal observagirls, tion and studying books in his Until they say we’ve won! leisure time. Eventually, he My work is not all glamour, hopes to be able to go back to But I’ll work hard indeed New York for additional trainThat my job will be done with ing. Efficiency and speed. Employed at Depot crackup on the Gulf coast led to a medical discharge from So, mates, we'll stick together, At the present time, he is the Army. After his release For we are always brave! employed in the depot steam from active service he drove And when the conflict’s over, plant and has worked there taxi cabs and ambulances be- We'll proudly say, ‘We're since February, 1943. He also fore coming to NSD. At preshelped to construct the depot WAVES!” ent he resides at the Anchor—Violet M. Young S 2\c in November, 1942. A native age with his bride of four Peoria, Illinois of Ogden, he has worked as an Roy H. Butcher Butcher most enjoys his collection of classics. He has 25 albums of records containing the works of Tchaikowsky, Chopin, Debussy, Bach andother of the great masters. NSD Civilian, Sailor Take Wedding Vows In a quiet wedding ceremony performed Saturday, March 18th, in Salt Lake City, Miss Mary Wilson of Duchesne, Utah, became the bride of Thomas D. Lovell, S 1/<c USN, of Los Angeles, Calif. Bishop Z. D. Harrison read the ceremony in the presence of the bride’s mother and a few close friends. Mrs. Lovell is employed at NSD in Finance & or pepper “ stuffed chocomonths whom he met, not on interior decorator there and Supply and her husbandis sta“ late or some misleading deli- Monday, but Tuesday and marYou can expect to be bored helped to build sets for the tioned here. They have set up cacy. Charles, who has been at ried—that’s right—on Satur- if you are not interested in any- city’s Little Theater Guild. housekeeping at the Arnchorthe depot seven weeks, pre- day night. thing but yourself. Next to his painting, Mr. age. |