| Show I Bond Sales Run High at Special Dance ante The War Bond dance and auCtion auction auction tion held this past Friday night proved highly successful considering considerIng consider consider- and ing both the total bond sales the crowd crowd that attended The bonds sold as a result of the dance amounted to J. J C. C WhItaker Whitaker WhIt WhIt- aker made the highest bid on the articles o offered ered at the auction with for a n bed spread Peter T. T Black also bought worth worthin in two different bids The committee in charge of the dance sold tickets for to buy a a. prize for the person selling the largest number of bonds and also alsoto alsoto to pay the expenses of the dan dance e. e Mrs Golden Black won the p prize ze of a 25 bond for having sold the most bonds Various business houses and people people people peo peo- donated articles to be auctioned auction auction- ed which were used for bidding and the bids were in the amount of 25 bonds the purchaser was willing to pay for the article James Steele was the official auctioneer but he had several helpers One Private Elmer Nations from the soldiers at Topaz was one of his helpers Private Private Private vate Nations comes from Missouri and had studied in college His chant was similar to the chant of the tobacco co auctioneers heard so much on the radio and he was successful in bringing high prices for the ar articles articles articles ar- ar he auctioned Another helper was Goro Suzuki Japanese singer Vho Who also appeared on the pro pro- gram Mr Steele Private Nations and Goro Suzuki worked together to bring the highest bid of the evening evening evening eve eve- ning which as stated before was 1500 There was a n floor show presented present present- ed by Japanese talents from Topaz To To- paz Ichiro ventriloquist Mae Hayashida vocalist Goro Suzuki Suzuki Suzuki Su Su- Su- Su vocalist and Sadie accompanist The orchestra was also from Topaz Topaz Topaz To To- paz and was Tom Tsuji's band under under under un un- un- un der the management of Bill Hata All of these boys as well as Goro Suzuki have enlisted in the army and will be called shortly for train train- ing The committee in charge of this affair are very satisfied with the results as the amount of War Bonds sold that night represent over half of the total county quota for February The quota was 17 and the dance lacked 25 a of bringing |
