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Show NEWS F.ROM KEARNS In recognition of their loyalty about eight hundred civilian employees em-ployees at this AAFBTC will be . awarded the Treasury Department) Depart-ment) 'T" flag for War Bond purchases. Together they are investing in-vesting more than $12,000 a month in bonds. The presentation took place Wednesday, September 22, at a military review to which the public was invited. Outstanding among the patriots who have responded to the War Bond drive are Americans like Eli Price and Dan Shupnt, both aged 14. Eli and Dand both shine shoes at one of the Kearns Barb- er shops. In lesss than three I months they have shined enough shoes to invest $500.00 in war j bonds. At this station is another patriot pa-triot from Salt Lake City, A. G. Skinner, post barber. Over a period of nearly a year he has his cash register to buy $250.00 snatched enough pennies from worth of bonds which he has made out to .his 4 year old son, John Allen Skinner, who is destined des-tined to go to medical school on the future proceeds. Mr. Skinner already has pennies for two more Keep 'Em Flying Twenty-four Kearnsmen left this post September 15, and the state of Utah took note. Bondwagon Show, which sold over $10,000,000 worth of war I bonds and stamps, moved to another an-other post in the technical train-, train-, ing command, disclosed Col. . Converse Con-verse R. Lewis, post commander. Latest entry among the service ' ! teams playing football, is Kearns, ' and pigskin experts are already pickinng them as an outstanding grid squard. Keep 'Em Flying College coaches would gnash their teeth in envy if they had j seen the wealth of grid material that reported for practice Thursday, Thurs-day, September 16. More than 40 huskies turned out and all of them are experienced. experienc-ed. Observing his first anniversary as commanding officer of BTC No. 5, Monday, September 13, Col. Converse R. Lewis was hard at work on the adminstrative details de-tails of transfering this basic training center's facilities to the 2nd Air Force.. Keep 'Em Flying Each month this army air forc-eg forc-eg basic training center salvages essential materials, vital to war production, from tin cans bones, The IWW's in Washington are making the cost of living go down by means of the subsidy plan. The subsides will have to be paid sometime, so as we look at it now, those who are giving their all on the battlefields of Europe, will have to pay the taxes which will be loaded on the public in the years following the war. Then again, by making the cost of living liv-ing cheaper just now is going to put that much more in the pockets pock-ets of the hoi polli to spend, thus it tends to inflation instead of keeping it down. Besides this, the cost of living is not going down. Miss Perkins to the contrary, con-trary, notwithstanding. There was a reque3t made at the time when there seemed to be a rubber shortage, by the U. S. government, they requested that all cars keep tthe thirty-five thirty-five mile limit to their speed. One would naturally think that cars bearing the insigna of the U. S. Government would set a good example. Wednesday, September Sep-tember 16, between Riverton and Arapahoe, the car in which the writer was riding, was "ambling along at the stated speed, a car, bearing the number 1-3927, and over this was the notice that it was a car in U. S. Eusiness, but, it passed the car in which I was a passenger, like a pay-car does a tramp, it was going considerably considera-bly faster than 35 miles per hour. Don't do as I do, but do as I tell you, seems to be the motto or this government. e . trap greases, egg crates, corrugated corrug-ated cardboard, bottles, garbage and scrap lumber. First Lieutenant Frank R. Baldwin, Bald-win, salvage offficer. reports that from grease, eggs and garbage alone from Kearns averages $2000 monthly. From other reports to Colonel Converse R. Lewis, commanding officer, comes these figures: In the last three months Kearns has shipped ont 200,000 pounds of tin cans; two million board feet of scrap lumber is to be sold for kindling to alleviate the fuel shortage: in arecent shipment of salvage bottles were one box dar filled with 6046 one gallon jugs and jars . . . eight vans contained 39000 pint jars. Keep 'Em Flying Printed in four colors and bound in white, washable fabrikoid, a 48-page pictorial record of the medical detachment at Kearns will be issued to medical personnel next week, announced Colonel Converse R. Lewis post commander. command-er. The theme of the yearbook is: "The Medical Department mission under competent leadership is to conserve manpower and contribute con-tribute to the success of military operations. |