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Show KEARNS NEWS I Principal topic at the AAF Overseas Replacement Depot this week is the Fifth War Loan campaign. cam-paign. Airforcemen are enthusiastically enthusi-astically behind the effort to reach the post quota of $100,000. Competition between the training train-ing sections is keen. Two groups have challenged each other, the winner to eat a chicken dinner and the looser beans. Kvery orderly room has a booth where bonds may be purchased for cash 24 hours a day and Major George A. Lloyd, in charge of thq Kearns campaign, expects the soldier s to exceen their quota by a considerable consider-able margin. With the addition of Seieant Frank LaManna. former Boston Braves pitcher, the Kearns Eagles have been further strengthened and it looks like the nine representing repre-senting the AAF Overseas Replacement Re-placement Depot is one of the strongest in the Intermountain area. The Kearns team is generously sprinkled with big league and top minor loop performers. Sergeants Serg-eants Clarence (Hooks) Iott, St. Louis Browns, and Bill Schubel, of Portland, Pacific Coast leasrue are other mound artists on the team. On first base is Johnny Sturm,, now a sergeant, former first sacker for the New York Yankees and Pvt. Jack Graham, property- of Brooklyn, is a hard hitting outfielder. Salvage operations at the AAF Overseas Replacement Depot are moving ahead at . a fast clip. Staff Sergeant William E. K. Gordon, in charge of the salvage yard, reports that 113,843 pounds of salvage, valued at more than $17,000 has been shipped here in the past year. This represents only about 35 per cent of the salvage collected, the balance having been reclaimed reclaim-ed and reused for purposes other than for which they were originally origin-ally manufactured. |