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Show Preston this week loses one of its most valuable citizens. Mel Reeves, for the past year secretary of Preston Chamber of Commerce, has resrgneo: to enlist in the United States Army. Ar-my. He will be inducted next Monday- at Salt Lake City, and will then be commissioned a Captain, a rating rat-ing he held during t'-.e last World war when he spent something like twenty months overseas in the thick of things. Mel has contributed a lot to Preston during his six years of residence here; a lot most of us know nothing about. He has shunned shun-ned publicity, although almost every ev-ery civic project in the past twelve months has been guided by him. When we informed him that ' we were preparing a story about his enlistment he asked us not to 'spread it on." That's a hard request' to meet, We couldn't write a story about Capt. Reeves without "spreading It on," for if ever anyone deserved a hand for contributions to civic affairs it is Mel. It is natural that Mel has become a popular figure in this part of the state, and it is probable that he could have run for almost any political office and won. Mel's phiLoHophy, simple but sincere, sin-cere, has been.- "Don't start anything any-thing that isn't worth finishing." '' Applied to military .maneuvers, we can expect great things from Capt. Reeves and the men he will guide during the next few months or years. It wasn't news pome weeks ago that the Chamber had reappointed re-appointed him secretary it was a lead-pipe cinch no one else would get the job as long as Mel wanted it. Like a lot of other folks here, we hate to see Mel leave us. But we do know that our future imperiled im-periled by this war is in safe hands as long as Reeves has something to do with the run of things. Just how valuable Mel has been to Preston and the Chamber is in dlcated by the difficulty the Board of Directors has had in deciding upon a successor. ' V LINE'S X.S BUSY By OLD GUS From the looks of things down our way, 01' Graudpappy Hod was right when he said you can't trust a man who wears a moustache. "He's coverin' up someUiiu',' Grandpappy used to say. Cy Browu's kid enlisted. Wants to shave off Hitler's jeyebrow that slipped. More power to him. But I hope when be starts whittlin' on Adolf's upper lip the razor slips and nips that x x y z on the neck. Since Cy's kids have Joined up, the Brown family figure it's Just a matter of weeks until the war ends. Ain't that the truth. c Danged if they ain't the toughest bunch around these parts. A lot of us, me included, are going to eat thone nasty words we sold about the British. The RAF Raiders wrecked a bunch of Nazi air bases this week. But the British needed somethin' to make 'em hop. Arrival Ar-rival of Yankees In Australia and Ireland caused the sparks. Bud down the road turned white, then red, then purple when he read where Roosevelt wanted to put a ceiling at $25,000 in pay. Bud didn't stop to think that he hasn't got $25,000 a year since he quit Congress. Thai's like the man who heard the speaker say the world was coming to an end in a million years. He ran out of the hall and headed for home. Got half way there before he; realized that he wouldn't be around anyway. |