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Show THE Marine Officer Completes Year At Clearfield SEAGULL Page 5 Duplicating Section Serves Depot Advance Base Section By Mrs. Tom Jordan We are nicely settled in Storehouse D-4 now, and gradually forgetting we were ever An essential spoke in the in the Administration Building. wheel of Marine activity since When | asked the Bond Dethe commissioning of the de- partment if they missed us, pot, Warrant Officer L. V. their reply was, ‘’Yes, and sevHopper, USMCR,is today one eral waste baskets, chairs, of the depot’s busiest officers coat-racks, too.” And even with his duties as Post Adju- Public Relations insinuated tant, Post Exchange, laundry that it was much quieter on the and mess officer. He is also in top deck now. charge of drills and instrucLt. (jg) Archie Hossis trying tions. to claim kinship with one of The first Marine to be sta- our WAVES, Georgia Moore, tioned at Clearfield, Warrant on the basis of the following: Officer Hopper is also one of Lt. Hoss’s mother’s last name the original group who hasre- was Moore. Miss Moore’s mained to see the depot mother’s last name was Haas. throughits first year of activ- | don’t know what that makes ity. them, certainly not relatives, but something. It is about as NEW VARI-A-TYPE MACHINE . olin AS pictured (top left) being operated by Afton Lowe (center). Also shown are June confusing as some of our component and base names. One of our civilian glamour girls made: this remark the other day, ‘We are getting so many WAVESin Advance Base | am beginning to feel like a Draft-Dodger.’’ We are happy to have Lt. (jg) Keenan back with us, after a visit back East. We missed him very much while he was away:. | Marsh (left) and Faye. Peterson (right). ASSEMBLING MATERIAL . . - are (left to right) Cleo Light, Viola Burton and Ruth Vander Linden, while Keith Jensen a operates paper cutter in background. ONE OF THE TWO MULTILITH PRESSES . . . used in the Duplicating Section is shown (right) with Harold Rutherford, Lillie J. Hobson, M. R. Wallis and Maurice Derbyshire. Depot Duplicating Section Increases Machines, Manpower, Work Output Starting out 14 months ago with one mimeograph machine Wehave a budding romance as his only equipment and himself as the only employe, Mat- between one of our WAVES and one of the enlisted men. Now, everybody, ‘’guess who?” Some of our officers have been playing baseball at lunch time. Star performer seems to thew R. Wallis, supervisor of the Duplicating Section, has built bb tb California, for one year. His wife, Helen M. Hopper, is also employed at Clearfield as head of the Selective Service Section of the Personnel Division. His son-in-law, First Sergeant John D. Geisser, is also in the Marine corps stationed Our Sympathies Depot personnel extend their sympathies to Mrs. Lillian R. Covert of Salt Lake City whose husband died April 19 following a heart attack. Mrs. Covert has been employed in the Postat Terminal Island, San Pedro, ing Section for the past seven Calif. months. CROW’S<A, NEST By Marge LOYALTY... . in the first-degree is exhibited by'William W. Smith Jr., of Murray, Utah, de- pot employe, who had his tonsils out one day and was back on the job the next. Mr... Smith started to work at Clearfield March 7, and has been employed in the packing section. He graduated from Granite high school and attended the University of Utah for three years where he studied civil engineering. FROM THE ARMY GI... comes tangible proof that, in spite of all their ‘‘griping,’’ Americans do like their radio programs well ‘’spiced’’ with commercials. It seems that commercials are not permitted on Army hook-ups, but according to Major Andre Baruch, head of the Army’s radio networkin North Africa andItaly, the boys make up their own <commercials which go some- “thing like this: “Are you a sergeant? Do you have trouble being recognized at night? Do your men ignore you in the dark? Sarge, see Joe Quartermaster and get your neon sergeantstripes with push. button attachment. The slightest pressure, and presto! your stripes light up like a Christmas tree.”’ TYPICAL . . . of the nautical terminology used around the depotis the ‘Foul Weather Gear’’ station in the Quonset hut area. Here all the equip- where 75 to 100 copies of an order used to be run, two multi- Recordings from is the vari-a-type. This machine operates on the sameprincipals were unable to be recovered. Hazel Waterman and Marie as a typewriter except that the type face can be changed. Alcorn are the new Junior Present stock includes 14 dif- Storekeepers in our section. Bill Frame has moved from ferent sizes and styles of type which will be used in compos- our section, but he is still one of our ‘“good neighbors,’’ as he ing forms. Other equipment in the of- moved to E-11. bd t fice is used for stapling, saddle stitching, and paper cutting. Congratulations Also gumming and padding Congratulations to Mr. and facilities enable the Dupli- Mrs. Art Krueger who became cating Section to make scratch the parents of a baby girl April pads of all waste paper. 19. This is the Krueger’s third Native of England child and their first daughter. Mr. Wallis, who was one of the first civilian employes of the Navy at NSD, has been in this type of work for the past ten years. He is a native of England but has lived in Salt Lake City for 32 years. Two of his garet Mace in charge of Housing at NSD. These houses were formerly reserved for Army housing and haveonly recently been reassigned to the Navy. The Lake View subdivision at Clearfield will be ready for occupancy by May 15th, states Mrs. Mace. These houses have two and three bedrooms, full basements. furnaces, refriger- ators and gaSstoves. Applications will be received for houses in either of these: divisions, in the Housing Section on the top deck of the Ad- ministration building. toes Girls who take cod liver oif have legs like this ! ! Girls who ride horses have legs like this ( ) Girls who drink too much have legs like this ) ( Nice girls have legs like this X A man who rarely works less than two hours overtime three sons are in the service, each day and who “doesn’t know whatit is to be late’’ is Homer Bodily, cafeteria worker who doubles as depot ‘’Coca Cola man.”’ Homer has been at NSD 18 months, and for one period of two weeks, worked two eighthour shifts each day, one for the cafeteria and one for the contractors. both of them overseas. bob it Unidentified Mail Unidentified mail is now be- sued to the sailors . . . and will the following: Laurence Mayberry, A. H. Martin, W. T. Brown, Glen O. L. Lackman, Boyd T. Benge, An ex-farmer and ex-florist, Mr. Lorenzo Vorela, Wilida T. Homer has been absent only four days since he started work at NSD a year and a half ago. Two of these days he wassick and two he spent deer hunting. Incidentally, he got his deer “without firing a single shot.’ bos Brown, William M. Bond Jr., Robert M. Blair, Mr. Cardinal J. Ferznandezees, Kenneth Dean, Mr. William Keiser, Mr. Anthony Jonnawtt, Mrs. Mable Baxter, Harold V. Hoert, Anthony Carroll, Mrs. Saydie Horne, Mrs. D. F. Horne, Mr. G. F. Woodward, Luther Taulbee,. Paul L. Harrington, Neil Nunnemaker and Fred L. Stewart. sonnel, according to Mrs. Mar- Hard-Working Cafeteria Employe Doubles as Depot Coca Cola Man ment for rough weather is is- ing held in the mail room for continue to be issued we might add, if the weather persists in being the December-in-April kind of the past week. VARIATION of the “Three Jills in a Jeep’’ angle are the five girls who are ‘’on ;call’’ at any hour of the working day and do chauffeuring to any part of the area. The girls are Martha Parish, Hazel R. Hays, Agnes Chisler, Rella M. Smith and Luella Pickering, while Helen N. Hamilton does the telephone dispatching for the jeep pool. Eighteen new, one-bedroom up this section to its present quota of machines, manpower and unfurnished units at Verdeland Park in Layton are now work output. available for Navy depot perMr. Wallis reports that be Lt. Robinson, who can really lith presses now produce 500,A native of Billings, Mon- catch those flies. And you 000 to 1,000,000 impressions Section Five tana, Warrant Officer Hopper should see that curved pitch a month. This is in addition to of Lt. Stauff. Lt. Pynchon just By G. McClanahan has a total of ten years of Mathe work turned out by the two rine service to his credit— reaches up into the air and mimeographand four ditto maApril showers bring May 1921-1925, 1928-1933, and gets those high balls hit out chines. flowers, but April ‘’snows”’ into the field by Lt. Umphred. 1942 until the present time. bring out galoshes which were Vari-a-type Before coming to Clearfield, | know Spring must be here so neatly packed awayfor fall One of the newest and most he was rifle range officer at now, when baseball becomes recent machines in the office weather; some so securely and the Marine base iin San Diego, the fancy of all. positively packed that they Warrant Officer L. V. Hopper Two More Housing Projects Open To NSD Personnel Courtship makes a.-man spoon—Matrimony makes him Homer Bodily fork over. |