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I p at the Kluanl* club, wherearc Id Roberts reigns with Mark wainish humor, they carry their good-natured ribbing over into the Arrow, the weekly paper. Target of one story this week is Luther Booth, the navy base chaplain.*wsentherecedateThe Arrow editor avers that j 0ut footh once had, aspirations to pUb learn to fly, “but during his cadet COuj training a slight mistake kept q him from passing his cxamina- | chii tions in mathematics.'* When j tern handed his “washout” order, He ’ Booth was asked by the skipper for low he accounted for his failure. at t “Well.** Booth allegedly said. per. can think of no error except per- j and haps when I leaned from my chair p to pick up the notebook I mo- | flay mentanly dropped that first day ^1 math class. When I looked Ip again the class had covered first-year algebra.* J ^'R1nomthei filinWhich seem* to set us off today nfwo?i the general subject of the war. |And, looking over our daily col- j ‘______faction of notes and mail, the j heme will pretty well carry W i through to the bottom.VIWe wanted to say somethingabout the WACs, because a re- I plt;cruiting office has just been j tponed m the American Legion ( ^building and because we re hope- ! an(j ful that it will be a busy place. : field Perhaps you women considering Jnak opportunities of the women’s prat army corps will he interested in Q\Hy knowing that when the WACs avr! •list started there were 37 jobs an(j in the army to he done by women.Today there are 230 such occupa- pjta] tions 3o they do have a place j)av for \ OL . ter.Mr.?lt; omes next an Interesting Item Eastrom “The Stars and Stripes;“ Ottc newspaper of the service. It tells 5: about a special showing during Dixc January in London of U. S. army strelt; air forces equipment. Ironically, hosp the show was held on the toy jflom of a London department ^store. Appropriately four Eighth gOV( air four gunners, veterans of 25 Qhelt; heavy bomber missions and win- jam nors of the DFC. were on duty at the exhibit. One of them was T Sgt. Bob Bryson of Stockport, •ormerlv employed in Fairfield.We now get down to thi* particular story about Bryson A few days after the exhibit was opened he was standing in theVMMII1lt;1i:middle of the floor. A small boy •calked in with his mother The mother walked over to Bryson and asked if he would explain a pointto the boy. “You bet,” replied the Iowan, “come over here and 1 can show* you better.“ The boy'spother hesitated a moment, thenwMsaid. *Tm sorry, could you just explain it My son is blind ” Bryson then spent a half hour with the 12-ycar-old, taking him to every part of the exhibit and letting him touch every piece of Equipment which the average Visitor was forbidden with “please do not handle signs.mm*I Ins little English lad revealedan amazing knowledge of all types of planes, despite his blind- ... # i lie told Bryson that he hadMorn w eata complete set of RAF model alter aft and that he had learned toluentily them by touching any one part. He is missing several Ament an scale models, he saidadding the wish that he might get Fortress model similar to ones they had at the exhibit. So Brv-•p ' - ■■ • ■ ■ ■' •'*JfK.son and his buddies have promised to find a B-17 model somewhere so that the little blind bovwcan learn just how the touch or For ties* feels.— \\ \fter all the scolding we ha\e orea?had from Washington big-wigs week who seem to think the rest of here the country doesn’t know there is hade a war on$ it is a source of some chaseSatisfaction to hear something to the the contrary from a fighting man: i1Citlt;Rear Admiral Osborne B, Hardin* son. now'head of the navy's primary air training command including the Ottumwa naval air station. In an interview at Kansas # ltv. when he took over his new ! command, the former commander *on(' of the earlier Enterprise **aid that MeAissuircard*residhe believes the American people nianhave come to a full realization of the seriousness of the war and pleas lhat he has observed a willingness card* *»n the part of the home front scrip to back to the limit the attacks fore being ma le by our fighting men warnall over the world. theseag.ti:And don't forget to take in a ree movie Monday. All you got ) “Elt;o do is buy a war bond at any staffi one of the four theatres. You get writt a free movie and a good invest- lay a ment. Uncle Sam gets the use of every your money. Put it over! scrip --week4 f ake of the year, a* yon may Schr* have heard, is the pretty piece of Tlrpastry under construction for the | this USO club birthday party Sunday fbecai mght. They say it will serve 300 pledgpersons! tn* *ft? S Rondc Ra
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Ottumwa Daily Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Sat, Feb 05, 1944
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Linda S.
USA 25 Oct 2018
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