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Show Page 2 THE The Seagull \Y Monday, April 10, 1944 SEAGULL Do You Know? Pin-Up Prepares for “Tennis Time” 1. The same number of man hours were expended in building this depot as in building the 45,000 ton battleship lowa. MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1944 2. The equivalent of 100 Published every other Saturday for the personnel of boxes of naval supplies leave the Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, Utah. here every hour of every day. Some weigh a few pounds, EDITORIAL STAFF others tons. i Editor GWEN HUNSAKER : 3. The first employe asMARGUERITE K. BYINGTON Associate Editor signed to Clearfield was a GRACE W. PORTER Associate Editor woman. KENNETH WOODRUFF Photographer 4. For every freight car JIMMIE CAGLESp (P) 2|c : Photographer handled a year ago, eight are LIEUTENANT HARRY J. JORDAN ._ . Editorial Supervisor handled today. 5. Over 200 miles of railAddress all communications to Office of Public Relations, Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, Utah. It is requested that any of the material road cars have passed through herein be reprinted only with the express permission of the Navy Dethis depot since Commissioning Day. partment. All photographs, unless otherwise credited, are official Navy pictures. 6. Stowage spaceat the depot equals your living room extended three hundred miles. 7. In Aviation Materials Stowage, the variety of items carried range from a jeweler’s vise weighing 22 ounces to a To reminisce is to grow older and that is exactly what the salt bath furnace weighing 20 Clearfield Naval Supply Depot is doing today. One year ago tons. the depot was formally commissioned although already in 8. That for every laborer and packer hired at this depot limited operation. ps Today We Speculate About Tomorrow we can release an enlisted man During the year activities have increased or plans are be- to fight at sea. ing made for what appeared on Commissioning Dayto be astrobob &b nomical. The depot, however, has taken things in stride andis doing the supposedly impossible. Each day is a bigger one than Depot Salvages the day before. $6000 Worth of TENNIS ENTHUSIAST . . Theo Wright of Salt Lake City, inspired by the past few days of balmy spring weather (at least it’s still spring at the time of this writing), digs out her tennis shorts and prepares for a season of back hands, serves and fast balls. Theo also ‘serves’ at the depot cafeteria, where she is cashier for the D-10 eating establishment. A cashier of long standing, Theo worked for Intermountain Theaters before coming to the depot three weeks ago. Faithful employes have”made this record possible with manyof the best employes being native Utahns. Some of these Waste Materials Salvage valued at $6,000 people were born, reared and earnedtheir living on the very has beencollected at the Clearland which now is serving as a life line to the Navy. field Naval Supply Depot acNaturally since the beginning of Christianity which in- cording to a report this week troduced the concept of Progress, we look to the future on this by Lt. (jg) H. J. Cunningham, SC-V(S) USNR, officer in our first birthday. charge of the salvage program “Any bonds today?’’ Three thousand ninety-six employes which wasstarted last NovemWebelieve: at NSD can answer “yes” to this question. Since the inauguraber. Material collected includes tion of the pay roll reservation plan for the purchase of war 1. Ours is a privilege and a duty to maintain to the battle 275 tons of scrap metal, 30 bonds in May 1943, 94.76 per cent of the civilian employes areas a continuous line of supplies. tons of mess refuse, one ton are now buying their bonds through this plan. On May 15, 1943, the first mandant’s pennant was pre2. Depot organization is all important. It is Our Depot of bones, one ton of grease and 42 tons of cardboard nad weekly pay roll deductions sented to employes for their and not our particular storehouse or department. waste paper. were made. Since then the wholeheart€éd support of the 3. There is no time at this depot to cast dispersions on Salvage is collected by the growth of war bond sales has War Bond program. the relative importance of the other fellow’s job as compared depot Public Works trucks and risen proportionately with the Winding up the year with a broughtto a special yard. Here _ with our own. it is sorted and prepared for increase in depot employes who breath-taking total of $48,843.75 for cash sales and Weface the future with confidence that the Clearfield shipment by a crew of four now near the 4,000 mark. men supervised by James JorHighlight in the progress of $362,271 for pay roll sales, ciNaval Supply Depot has an important mission to fill. As other dan of Ogden. The final step vilian personnel look forward birthdays come and go the accomplishments of today will be in salvage disposal is to load the bond selling campaign at to hitting the 100 per cent merely one milestoneto the victory that lies ahead. When peace it on trucks or freight cars to the depot came on Nov. 30, mark before the second anni1943, when the coveted Com- versary of Clearfield NSD. is ours we can truthfully feel that we worked every day to the be sold for the government. best of our ability to defeat the enemy. Nearly 95 Percent of Civilians Buy Bonds Every Pay Day aa Thanks for Your Cooperation Throughout the depot there has been a cooperative spirit towards the Seagull since it first made its appearance. This spirit has reached a new high with this issue. Confronted with an acute paper shortage and a 3,000 per cent increase in copy, it has been difficult to select the material for the Anniversary Edition. Since this paper is YOUR paper, a sincere effort has been made to recognize each part of the depot. Civilian and uniformed workers are doing a big job here and when feasible, pictures have beenusedto portray the story. Logically this anniversary number recognized those who have been at the depot a year, and congratulates them ontheir birthday of service. The newspapers and radio stations in this area are saluting you today and a considerable amount of material you have gathered will form the basis of future stories. Historically, what you have supplied is valuable. Your record at Clearfield is going regularly intolibraries and this week notification was received that the Navy plans a history in which each naval establishment will be recognized. You are making a record today thatis being felt on the battlefronts and will be noted by future generations. “It is my opinion, sir, that the only answer to a problem like this is still more storage space.” |