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Show Chatter Box . . . Dear Suzy, The people around here are certainly cer-tainly plane-shy after having that fellow around here who chopped cows heads off. Tuesday everyone holed up like a bunch of quimps waiting to see what happened when those little planes came fiddling fid-dling about. When they found out that the planes were here to teach people to fly they broke out of cover like a frisky pheasant and trekked off to the airport with their money in their pockets and a desire to fly like birds. Anyway the Spanish Fork Flying Service brought in three planes and three instructors to teach us all to fly (of course, provided we paid out the necessary amount) and now these little planes are buzzing around like a bunch of outboard motors. They are running eight training periods a day which means that 24 prospective pilots are cutting their eye teeth in the ozone. If it keeps up this way, they will have to run a bus service serv-ice to the airport and set out a traffic cop where the Oak City road takes off. They have the original 24 enrolled and will finish fin-ish those up before taking on a new group of students, and the way the students are rolling in those instructors may as well move their families here and settle down. Spring is here and so is the coal now. When it was 30 to 40 below you couldn't get a lump of coal without a AAA-111 priority, nut now that it is nice and warm the coal dealers are falling all over themselves to sell you a slug cf coal. It is always like that, and even the great Ickes hasn't been able to change it. You either get nothing or plenty. I have been waiting with my fingers crossed to see what the Red Cross is going to say about blood donations, but as yet they haven't taken the matter up with me. It would be awful if they did send around a unit to gather up a few barrels, and then have no one turn up to make a donation. Speaking of the Red Cross, the drive is going like a house afire. They have gathered up so much money now that the Delta Bank has had to build a new vault to hold it. Their old vault is so full of ration coupons, tokens and the necessary governmental forms that are harrassing banks these days that they have had to put their money in piggy banks, which they keep out in back in the old Con Wagon warehouse. Nobody bothers them because what is a half million dollars in these times? Leamington came through first with their quota on Friday about noon. They had raised their quota and $25.25 extra in just three days. They hadn't reported but a few minutes when Deseret phoned in that they had theirs. Then Sutherland Suth-erland came the same day. It was a red letter day for Helen Baker and she was all smiles. Each day since then some place else kicks through with their quota or better, bet-ter, so the Red Cross drive is all in the bag. The Delta team didn't get very far in the round robin. They lost the first game and won their second sec-ond so that they ended up in third place at the meet. They had a darned good team this year and the only fault the fans and bleacher bleach-er quarter backs could see was that they were small. I have a terrific fever (Spring fever) so will close. Ho hum, Toots. P. S. It looks as though I am going go-ing to be made out a prevaricator on that swimming pool deal, because be-cause if certain unmentionable things go through and everything is signed, sealed and delivered, Delta will have a swimming pool. But my advice is to not start knitting knit-ting a one-piece suit because there will be a slight delay before you can dunk yourself. |