Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-08-22 | Page 1 | Expansion of Army is Much too Fast for 'Gam' |

Type	issue
Date	1941-08-22
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Expansion of Army is Much too Fast for 'Gam'
Type	article
Date	1941-08-22
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show Expansion of Army Is Much Too Fast for 'Gam' TUCSON, ARIZ. Army air corps expansion is too rapid for 80-year-old Mrs. Dorwin Lackland. Mother of Brig. Gen. Frank Lackland, Lack-land, commandant of the new Tucson air base, she tried to maintain main-tain a reputation as grandmother of all air corps children by knitting a pair of booties for each new child born to a family at any post where her son was stationed. "Gam" that's her nickname in the corps was about caught up with her work at March field, Calif., when the defense program brought a sudden influx of new officers and men. Casually she asked at the Officer's club if any babies were expected ex-pected among the newcomers. "Just 37," someone answered. "Thirty-seven," exclaimed Gam. "I give up. That's too much expansion expan-sion for me." But she never really gave up. She's still knitting booties.
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