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Show THE Page 6 Green Reealls Thinning Beets On NSD Area Saturday, May 13, 1944 SEAGULL Disbursing Office Becomes “Featured Department” Behind the Scenes In Receiving By Katherine Steed There is bound to be scuttlebut in the air, With gossiping and whispering here A man who used to thin beets and and there. hoe tomatoes right where huge NSD storehouses now shelter supplies for Let’s tune in and see what’s being the Pacific fleet is Clifford Green of Kaysville, storekeeper in G-7. Oneof Oldest Employes done By the shipmates of Receiving on deck one. After a rather wet beginning the One of NSD’s oldest employes, from the point of service, Mr. Green inmates of the Receiving Division started work for the Navy December have emerged out of the dampness of 2, 1942, more than four months beyesterday’s rainfall into what some fore the depot was officially commispeople call this glorious sunshine, sioned. He was the second storeSpring Fever. Aboutthis time every year, a young girl’s fancy turns to love. Norma Thatcher agrees wholeheartedly. In fact each new week finds her looking dreamy-eyed over throb. Soldiers, a current heart sailors and marines head her list. Popular Male: That “young man | about the IR section,’” Robert Andrus, | is always surrounded by a group of feminine admirers—what brand of charm do you use, Bob? Tired Feet! A girl working in the contract files dream—a pair of roller skates. KEY PERSONNEL... in the Disbursing Department which holds the purse strings for the depot are: (seated) James K. McAuliffe, and Lieut. J. T. Schriver, (standing) Darrell Upp, Mrs. M. O. Okerstrom, Mildred Ingersoll, Winnie Johnson and A. S. Alston, CBK, USN, Another supervisor, R. L. Roddom, was absent whenthis pic- ture was taken. In the background is the door to the NSD vault. Excitement in the Public Voucher’s Clifford Green section reached a breaking point the other day when fellow workers NSD Disbursing Division Proves watched WAVEPauline Goodner take Popular — Especially on Pay Day a package of bobby pins out of a mysterious package from home. Bureau Study Reveals One of the most popular departments on the depot, especially on pay Only 3 Bluejackets In the Entire Navy Forty members of the Follow-up day, is the Disbursing Department, where checks are written for all civilian emThere are only three Bluejacket> Section celebrated the going away of in the entire U. S. Navy. Furthermore, ployes and pay accounts kept on military personnel. four shipmates, Beverly O’Hara, Virthere are only 30 listed as Yeoman In addition, transportation for those ginia Clausen, Claire De Nicola and ter.’ ‘ The still more recent addition and 15 as Officer. Bernice Esenberg, on May 5. The two traveling under orders is arranged and of a check signer dispenses with the That is the word from the Field affairs at Clearfield and at present is large cakes were enjoyed by all. claims for reimbursement for travel hours-long procedure of signing each Branch of Bureau of Supplies and Aca member of the Board of Directors Marjorie Durfey maintains that her are paid. Public vouchers to be paid check by hand. counts in Cleveland, Ohio, after a and chairman of the Supervisory Com- greatest ambition is to take her shoes Lieut. J. T. Schriver, the disburslocally are taken care of here, and study of the namesin its pay and acmittee in the Civilian Employes Wel- off and walk barefooted in the grass any expenditures for the running of ing officer, has been the only paycounting files. It has found there are fare association. surrounding the Administration buildmaster on the depot to make any the depot are madefrom this office. 21,476 Smiths, 15,045 Johnsons and ing. Former Butcher. From an original location in what disbursements, although he is the 11,035 Joneses among the officers Have you noticed that worried ex- is now the BOQ, and from an initial second officer to hold that position. Before coming to NSD as a storeand men in the Navy. keeper in the General Stores section of pression on Mr. Hull’s face lately? group of four civilian employes, the Head civilian in the office is James Also the study reveals that there are Storage Group, Mr. Green was a butch- Confidentially, he is a little bit per- Disbursing Division has grown in the K. McAuliffe, who serves as chief 71 Tarrs, 14 Salts and 24 Sailors. turbed about the competition he is clerk. past year to the greatly expanded ofer for eight years. Previous to that he spent two years on a mission for the having in the form of Mr. Tom Keen- fice space and personnel that it ocan, a railroad auditor. ‘‘Uncle Tom,” cupies today. The first civilian pay L. D. S. church in England. keeper hired at NSD and helped handle some of the first naval supplies to reach Clearfield. Mr. Green has been active in depot so called by his feminine admirers, roll boasted a few dozen names, commay be gray headed—but, oh, what pared with the thousands listed at bb Approach ofSpring a line! present. On these first rolls, the names of Current reports from “our other 1 sit on rocks, mossy and weatherworn, And gaze into the infinitely blue space half’, the Receivers Section out at employes were typed on checks. Later, F-7, indicates that subject workers the addressograph, graphotype and are—so sorry, but fast rate of work check writing machines streamlined out there keeps everything from not the tedious operation of preparing Of curving sky. | see the trees all torn happening. checks for signature by the ‘““Paymas- With winter’s storms. | note the place The snow and ice have lain. | see old Employes Receive Attendance Awards leaves In huddled corners, moulding back Soon there will be the droning sound of bees, And butterflies and flowers will suddenly wear Their vivid colors, and with a quick rebirth The spring will come again to gladden earth! the man where to dig. of the Navy Nurse Corps and for her immediate superiors. Both will find Frightening, isn’t it? Beighle are taking two weeks off to red wagon. However, this particular visit San Diego where they plan to do wagonis used by the Ad building jana lot of swimming, relaxing and vis- itresses to carry boxes of waste paper. emerald appear. iting. Mrs. Beighle started at NSD in THREE HITS . . . out of four times 1943, as a CAF-1 and has now advanced to a CAF-5 as head of at bat is the record of Lt. C. G. Lail, the records and statistics classifica- Marine C. O., who opened his nine- March, tion in the personnel division. teenth season of professional and HEARD ... ona bus: ‘’The aver- semi-professional baseball playing Sun- McCormack, clothes, hold a little trowel in one hand and a cool drink in the other, and tell straighten Lieutenant Commander, will still be trees, And here and there small leaves of have is to put on a wide straw hat, dress in thin loose fitting unstarched can_ thought of as a (jg). NEWEST ACCOMMODATION. . . LEAVING . . . for the first vaca- of the Public Works Department is tion in over a year, Barbara and Paul the vehicle built like a child’s little There is a flush of green about the The best way to get real enjoyment out of the garden you are going to in name things ‘out for Ensign Louise Ensign exists here with Lt. (jg) J. G. Sullivan you die than he does, but you'll leave who, until he reaches the rank of it much sooner.” And further off a woman calls “Come home,”’ To a young lad at play within a wood. bodes a change “If you get up earlier in the morning than your neighbor and work harder, and scheme more, and stick to your job more closely, and stay up later planning how to make more money than your neighbor, and burn the midnight oil more, planning how to get ahead of him while he’s snoozing, not is Lieutenant Ensign. Something of the same situation only will you leave more money when In a distant tree a lone bird grieves, from EVE, London, England. Gl PICK-UP . . . from the Newport Navalog says, ‘’Only a promotion or life less difficult when Ensign Ensign to loam. —Myrtle H. REMINDS .. . us of the statement, By Marge The depot recently awarded a age Seabee is just a dame fool.” A wolf in government’s clothing, ciler from Clearfield, that she was to day with the Salt Lake Club. Lt. Lail who hasbeen in the Marine Corps for 14 years, once spent five years play- perhaps? $25 war bond and $10 in defense; receive the bond. Mrs. Muir has been ing baseball for the Pacific Coast and SURPRISE . . . of the week comes employed at the depot for seven the Texas leagues. savings stamps to two Clearfield emmonths. Once a resident of Denver, in the answer to a survey made among ployes who had outstanding records Colorado, she attended high school fifty depot employes. It seems that 80 SECURITY’S . . . Lost and Found in attendance for the month of April. and university there. percent of those questioned admitted department continues.to be mystified Floyd LaMar (center) of Ogden, who that they had set their alarm clocks by the pair of false teeth among the The awards were presented by Captain John J. Jecklin, executive officer is snapper of a labor gang at NSD, fifteen minutes ahead of ’’getting up items on file. ’’They’re evidently an was awarded the $10 in stamps. In time’ in order that they can harm- expensive pair, too,’’ states Lt. T. P.. who is pictured above at left.. \-* A note on her time card notified his two months of employment here lessly enjoy an extra fifteen minutes in Wilcox, with a puzzled frown. Essential, also; we might add. {Billie Muir (right), swingshift sten- he has been neither absent nor tardy. bed each morning. |