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Show Chatter Box... Dear Suzy, It is awfully lonesome here lately late-ly with no fliers buzzing about over the tree tops, but the worst of it is we are all left in a dither as to who the other fliers were and what the Army will do with them. There are plenty of rumors, though, and you can hear anything you want as to the outcome of those two wild and woolly airmen. To get back to the weather, as I always do, it is just wonderful here at present. We are getting that delightful south wind of spring and it is such a relief to have a good steady wind after, snow, fog, cold, mud, slush and what not. Personally it is the first time I have ever enjoyed one of our famous "breezes." Anyway we are getting the first breath of spring and we like it. Mrs. Dan Lee out a Callao is a mighty happy woman. Her husband hus-band has spent the past eight monyis in China and is now home from there. He was reported shot down and she received the cablegram cable-gram to the effect that he was missing in action, just as the family fam-ily was sitting down to New Year's dinner. Then within a short time she got another cablegram from her husband stating that the first cablegram was in error. It should have read that he was in action but no longer missing. Then to top it all off here he comes home and sees the new son born while he was away. Your old beau Nels Black has to go back to work again as he ran out of marbles while on a vacation vaca-tion here. He will return and get another taw at Las Vegas. If they have another bond drive Nels is to be the chairman after his illustrious illustri-ous success in placing governmental govern-mental securities. The Gold & Green ball was really real-ly something this year. They had the place bulging with people to look over the pretty queens that were in attendance that night. It was decorated nicely and the marching of the queen's attend- ants was really colorful. Then ' couples from the different wards of the stake put on exhibition dances. The girls dancing about in their pretty formals gave the dance an air of class. Even the men looked as though they were enjoying themselves. Now that spring has started on its way the men about town have a very hang-dog look. They have the urge to go dunk a worm in some spot where they hope a fish will be, and they can't because the fish and game commission has closed all fishing hereabouts until un-til June 1. It is going to work a hardship on many of them, especially espe-cially when they get their mouths all set for a few catfish rolled in some corn meal and fried in deep grease The only consolation they have is that the fishing- for bass will open at Clear Lake on May i5, but then they run into gas troubles trou-bles when they think of a trip down there, as it all works out to a big disadvantage to the men. The Red Cross drive is going full blast. You would think that the peopie around here were made of monev the way they hand it out on these various drives. Four war loan drives without a bauble and always over the top with a goodly margin. The Red Cross drive last year went over the top. The USO doubled its quota in the drive last year. The National War Fund drive went over like a million and now all w-e have to do is clunk $3700 on the counter and tell the Red Cross to get busy and spend it for the good of the boys in service. I am a little sore at the Red Cross at that, though. They ask for blood donations and urge you all the time to give a couple of quarts (blood) and then they don't have any method for gathering gather-ing it up in the country. If they had a portable unit of some kind that could tour these outlying places they would have donors lined up from here to Abraham. Containers would be no problem as there ore plenty of rum bottles going go-ing to waste and they could all be jugged up and sent to some center cen-ter to be marie into plasma. So, if the Red Cross wants to get back into my good graces they have got to send in an outfit for sapping the blood of us locals and getting it changed to plasma. Maybe the Slate Liquor Commission Commis-sion could handle this collection of blood and exchange quart for quart. I'll bet the only drawback from that would be absenteeism while the people lined up in cues to do a little trading. Eloodthirstily yours, Toots. |