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Busy Life
For Red
Cross Girls
By Cpl. Tom Love
(Army Correspondent)
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT—The life of a
Red Cross girl in Alaska is a
busy one filled with excitement
and a bit rugged, too, but not as
romantic as some would like to
believe.
This was the judgment of four
veteran Red Cross hostesses who
have served at various posts on
the Alaska mainland and also
along the Alaskan Military High
^ way.
“We have a job to do—same as
the soldiers,” said Mary Ann
Madigan, director of the service
club at one of the largest posts
in Alaska where the four girls
now work, “The soldiers’ l'ves
are filled with monotony and a
natural yearning for affection
and companionship, and, as it
turns out, so are ours.”
Many Ann was Asst. State Di
rector of Recreation for the
State of Indiana before she join
ed the Red Cross. With so many
thousands of males about, it
seems incredible that romance
should not be knocking at her
door, but Mary Ann claims she
is so busy that there is hardly
time for concentrating on one
man.
Margaret Becker, staff assist
ant at the service club, who for
merly was secretary of a psy
chiatric hospital in New York
City, emphasizes the rijggedness
of the life as Red Cross hostess.
Arriving in Alaska several
months ago. Margaret was pitch
ed headlong into the whirl of
activities. The first week she
attended an underground dance
in a messhall Wishing to please
the men, she removed her rather
plain uniform and put on some
thing fluffier . "I didn’t count
* the number of soldiers I danced
with but later I found this aver
aged 56 cut-ins during any given
evening!”
Another Red Cross girl, Nancy
Meister. of Sacramento. Calif.,
made the m'stake of wearing
something a little too fluffy to
the same dance and was cut-in
on 43 times during one number!
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ACCOUNTING, INCOME TAX
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Margaret found it a little dif
ficult to walk following her first
three or four G. I. dances, but
now she is hardened. ' “I can
dance all evening with innumer
able soldiers and never tire,”
she claims. “Not only that, I
have learned all the little step
and peculiarities of dancing from
.he various sections of the coun
try. I know all the different
types of ‘small talk,’ too. The
men from Oklahoma and Texas
are the funniest. They flatter the
very devil out of you, but they
are charming about it.”
Even the girls who do strictly
clerical work or Red Cross head
quarters here get out to social
events—on their own time. Mar
garet’s sister, Roberta Becker,
who was formerly executive
secretary for George Abbott
Productions, New York, spends
many of her evenings going to
G. I. mess halls at the outpo-ts.
dances and other activities.
Donna Ann Buttner, of Mill
Valley. Calif., who was technical
file clerk fur Shell Development
Co. before joining the Red Cross,
finds her work in Alaska a means
of continuing the work she has
always been most interested in,
—social and group work activi
ties.
‘‘The men, for the most part,
have a girl of a wife at home,
and they like to tell me about
them. During the course of a
day I talk informally and some
times rather intimately with
dozens of soldiers. I am im
pressed with their fidelity to that
girl at home, although they may
not have seen her for two or
three years.”
Donna Ann is now a qualified
expert on the likes and dislikes
of the far north soldier. Before
coming to this post, she spent
several months along the rugged
Alaska Military Highway.
Sue Easton, medical secretary
from San Francisco, finds the
soldiers who come up from the
Aleutians the most fascinating.
“The newspapers give a lot of
publicity to what the Aleutian
soldier has gone through, but
they tell little of what he is
like.” Sue claims.
“Every so often one of the
Aleutian boys comes into our
little office in the service club.
He is very shy. He stands
around timidly until the ice is
broken, then he is the best talk
er of all. The soldiers in the
Aleutians are doing a lot of
thinking.”
All of the girls at the service
club are hand picked by the R- d
Cross for their all around abil
ities, personality and intelli
gence- In addition, each has a
speciality. Mary Ann Madigan
is a capable executive. Sue
Easton is a qualified bridge ex
pert. Donna Ann Buttner is a
recreational expert and Margar
et Becker has had years of ex
perience in amateur and pro
fessional dramatics. All of the
girls are excellent dancers and
g ijie players, and according to
the soldiers themselves, “darn
good sports'"
RADIO HOI R C HANGED
FOR “VOICE OF RELIGION”
The Nome Religious Council's
religious prgoram on the local
radio has changed its hour from
5:30 to 1:00 o’clock on Sunday
afternoon. The cnange was made
necessary by a d nner program
which the r&dki was sponsoring
and also because this hour might
roach more people interested in
a religious program.
The program this Sunday will
be .another radio quiz. This w 11
be th.e last qu:z before we begin
to play off the finals. Within the
next few weeks the wanning
teams wall be arranged against
each other to determine the fin- ;
al winners in the Biblical Quiz
Contest.
This Sunday at one o'clock
the two teams will be; from the
civilians Tom Morris, Robert Bald
win and Robert Fankhauser.
From the Army Infantry, James
Wilkins, Oliver Mueller, and
Eberhard Kuntze. Norman John
ston announcer, assisted by Mrs.
Lleyd Peterson.
The subject matter of the quiz
will be, the Last Week in the
Life of Jesus, beginning wtih His
triumphant entry into Jerussalem.
Read this portion of the Gospel |
record and try your skill in an
swering the questions as they
are presented over the radio at
one o’clock on Sunday, January
9th.
Try a Nugget classified add—
you be sure to get results}
MONTHLY MEETING
H.- LD WEDNESRAY
Tne monthly meeting of the
N^rre Religious Council was
held in the social rooms of *ho
Ftd rated Church las: Wednes
day evening.
One of the Important discus
sions of the council was around
the topic of Bible Study. It was
deeded to begin a course of
B ble study for anyone and
everyone in the community. This
community Bible Study class
will be held in the social rooms
of the Federated church every
Friday night at 7:30 p.m. begin
ning January 14th.
The first four weeks of study
will be on the Old Testament
Prophets. The course will be
given by the religious leaders of
the community.
NEAREST NICKLE PRICING
Many hundreds of specific
pricefs are now in Washington
and several hundred more are
shortly to be sent there for ap
proval. In towns where the
nickle-rounding is a persistent
habit the question of charging
pennies will come up. MPR 283
for Alaska permits prices for one
sale covering many articles or
for a series of sales paid for at
the end of a period, as is custom
ary for credit purchases, to be
rounded to the nearest nickle.
This regulation is the result of
OPA’s fitting regulations to the
customs of each region undeT the
flag as far as price control per
mits.
Easy Adding of Prices
To abide by OPA specific
ceilings and yet to keep adding
by his clerks easy and accurate,
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w.th a ce ling of 13 cents at 2 for
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r.ns kind of pricing is OK. But.
snould a merchant sell at 3 for
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The exact ceil.ng price would
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35 cv nls for the t.hree items is
when only those three items are
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If the e articles were b >ught on
credit he should enter on his
books no more than the exact
ceiling price for each item.
LOCAL BOY RETURN'S
ON FURLOUGH
Pvt. Lincoln Kanvak is in
Nome visiting with his folks. He
states that since joining the army
he has been in nearly every camp
in Alaska, and is enjoing his
short furlough.
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MES5ER5CHMITTS LOSING THEM IN DEY WAS SOFT AND FLUFFY
THE SOUP AHEAD/ LUCE FEATHER BEDS/ NUTTIN’
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