Show Pretty Hairy Story Union Barber Shop bv VIKI WILKENSON Chronicle Reporter The scene is the Union Building barber The buzz of clippers accounts for the shallow veneer of hair that covers the Young men decked In white sit with absent-minded happy It is summer and they are getting their hair One of the barbers flips out a white robe and the hair sprinkles A radio hums out I be-leve my heart or and a copy of Saturday Evening and the Reader's lay idle on a In a long glass case near the ceiling resides the barber shop's principle collection of yearbooks dating from the first book One is informed upon inquiring that can't get them They're just Elger Coombs stands plying his shears at a chair near the He has been trimming top-knots at the U. for 26 The changes he has noticed in students are conversation Is still the he Sports and But have changed In the good old days wore hair combed back with He blames the present close cropped cuts on the influence of Coombs clips another fraction of hair from his customer's head and adds that students are younger than they used to Right after the war hardly any of the boys were under The barber shop was situated in the old Union before the new Union was Coombs says that the clipping at the U. has grown significantly since he first came His scissors remove another bunch of He certainly knows how to cut those short hair Maybe it's because he spent two years as a Navy ship's |