Show ii Dads Dad's ij I Column t i II tT T PERHAPS THE din of ot battle blurs the door picture at the Of w that little mother waiting for tor a speck across the moor 1 Its It's due aue at leven thirty and the sched- sched ulo uto rarely falls tails Teat mat faithful public service bringing In Inthe Intile tile the U. U S. S malls Perhaps that they're expecting too much for tor him to see tumbling jumbling In the mall mail box for tor a aletter aletter aletter nad pd d letter that might be Perhaps its it's hard bard across the miles for him to estimate i fathers father's step approach the or n ao note te his lila o mother at the gate Its It's way wrey too far tar for tor him to see that look upon her face tace faceA M AJ A Pad Dad Da falls faUs to find the letter after atter d days of ot patient grace ce Perhaps he be may be thinking of ot those loving hearts remote And ADd planning that tomorrow hell he'll find time to write a note just a note to say Dear e Mother other I am amwell I well a d ho well and how are you IW The army censors letters but they'll sure let this one through Bow How Is Dad and do war prices help the mortgage on the place Love and Ill I'll keep writing If It It its Ita only post Card space Son Soli of ot their dreams keep fighting that's what they'd have you do But love them son by writing if It Its It's Just a line Une or two Geo A A. A Fisher Keetley Utah O O O IT LT ROBERT RODERT STILL IN IS U. U S. S A. A THE FOLLOWING letter from Bob Dob Freeborn who graduated a few weeks ago from the flying school in LaJunta Colorado did not go overseas as stated In III The Record He was given a few weeks furlough for a visit with hl his home folks in Alhambra California and Is Isnow Isnow isnow now in training In New Mexico The letter follows Army Air Forces December 23 23 1944 Dear IDear Grandpa Sorry Ive I've been so long In writing but the army kept me busy Ive I've been been I transferred inta into the 17 B Flying Fortress I co to I have to spend ten more weeks training training here here at Hobbs New Mexico It It looks as though I wont won't see any action until summer bummer time Things are a lot different now No longer do I worry about washing out outu u as a pilot because now how I have my y wings and commission However our schedule will be harder Some days well we'll be up for lor twenty or even twenty-six twenty hours That's a long but Its It's all part ol or olour our training There Isn't much to write from hero here since silice Ive I've only been here a fw days However this desert Is plenty cold Ill I'll close for now Hope you had a Merry Christmas and that the New Year will Indeed be a happy one for you and yours I As ever BOB DOD O O O THE filE LAST SHOT I IS finED PROMPTED BY DY BYan an article In the last Issue of the Rio Grande Green Oreen Light concerning absenteeism H. H E E. E Jones 71 71 pledged that he would stay on the Job as M long as he could drag one foot after alter the other or until the last shot Is b fired in war The pledge came in a letter aletter in which Jones stated that he hyped his action might have some ete effect t on others who ere vere ere thinking of retiring before the war Is over He pointed out that since the war started he has not been absent from work ork a single day and has waived his vacation rights each year because of or the toe manpower shortage Jones with the Rio Grande for 44 years rears has been agent at Eureka Utah for or the past four tour years As the only agent on the branch he has been handlIng handl- handl log Ing g an unusually heavy volume of busi busl- ness neese fees particularly la IQ car loadings of J lead cad aa and zinc ores so BO vital to the war effort By tying down this Job up here I Iam am alii releasing a younger man for a Job Joba on a the Main Maln Line and be tie In turn releases some other man man for the armed forces OH he stated In his letter Still in the pink of ot health Jones says Bays h he is fa as sturdy as he be was 25 years ago ma His Is reputation as a good housekeeper house- house keeper deeper k has spread over the Salt Lake division During his many years at Goshen he made a garden spot of ot the theand station tai on n. n truck grounds with lawn flowers and ands s line fine ne truck garden garden lIe He has a good s J tart start Eureka toward an eq equally lly fine park at aide side That hat good good housekeeping extends Inside in- in tho station as all well Officials in he the thet het Ulnae oin aUditors aUditor's 5 say y he e has one of f the ther neatest r t sets sets of books on the system Asked to cc comment on the letter Genger Gen Gen- tr era eral i i Manager ger E E E- EA A A- A West stated that the strength lu K of Df the Rio Grande Orande comes from just u f Mr Mr such Ch loyalty and years of ot service as aa JOn JOnes 1 has displayed o o o C ITS IT'S DOLLARS to doughnuts that fo for Governor 0 vernar Maw wm will ba tea Utah's governor another er four our years years- despite the court cou actIon of f J Jl at at- S Bracken Lee and his attempt attempt tempt to have ot of the votes fast cut Lee Leo t i last November To say the least Is a pitiful loser O VO VOte O O te tendency n WAR WAn news the Pas past week has a Meney Butt to give glye m us Americans the blues certai It But ut It lt ls Is ft a certainty nty however e rj mesas means only a temporary setback but setback but Stressing distressing increase of casualties gt TED CALLS I oS RoBERT CUNNINGHAM our our ur foer former er COUnty Wo sheriff now la government ser ser- at Ogden made a brief call on Hi Dad the tho past pas week I than MAJOR n If II FRED Ega Egan who for more twenty nty yara eara a Prominent and of active community and for citizen of ot our community and ier the i pal past two and a halt years ears in U U. S. S service ice at San Ban Francisco Franciaco called home called at the tha mt me Tuesday to shake hands hand I wl with h Continued nn on P rage Page g Tour Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page One Dad and to see how he was progressing progressing pro pro- gressing greasing In his age It was good to have havea a brief chat with the always popular gentleman The Major has been transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to San Luis Obispo and perhaps later on will wUl go overseas to help win the war He lIe was cordially greeted by his many Park Part City friends A A A I DOGS BOOS A California professor r Lays days says really can laugh That snicker we just heard probably was from the pup about I to be served his ration pointless dally daily meal mel O A A CLIPPED BREVITIES A GOLF OOLF ball Increases In temperature tempera tempera- ture Immediately It Is bit says saya a scientist Then why on earth do BO so many players fan the thing thing for for tor so BO long before 1 if Ito Punch NEWS COMES fr from Switzerland w that Goring has definitely been put on the shelf shelt and a wants to know the German method of reinforcing shelves Doston Boston Globe A WESTERN s seat of learning Is Irked by the unwonted number of co eds who o are leaving co college lIege to marry which Is putting the heart bet before are the se cou course Detroit News i I II I 1 THERE IS entirely too much worrying about unhappy marriages Nearly al all marriages are happy Its It's living together II afterward that causes all the trouble i O O O HARD LUCK I SAYS RUFE RUFF of the Mining and Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial News Miners have ever been an anI Indomitable lot An year old Siskiyou I county California miner in the Forks Fork of ot Salmon region saved his money and sold his cabin for tor cash He lie started ou out outto 11 J to visit his sister In another co county nty going via San Francisco A big young young fellow set upon him beat him hUn badly J and relieved him hUn of his cash So after recovering from his hurts in the hos hoe pital he be returned to the mining fields fields' again In care of a nurse ready to start all over again |