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When we ran the Associated
Press picture last wtek showing
Tennessee hunters and their
kill of wild boars, descendants
of wild boars brought to Tenn
essee from the forests of Russia,
we didn’t know we would be
thusly settling a local argument.
It seems a short while back
the BEARDED employee of the
A. T. Beckett company who
hails from Tennessee, was tell
ing the boys in the bunk house
about the wild boars of his
home state. He got nothing but
scoffing incredulity for his pains,
he tells us, some of the fellows
telling him he meant razorback
hawgs and that there wasn’t a
wild boar in the United States,
let alone Tennessee.
But he bided his time and
right triumphed as per the a
bove mentioned picture.
According to information sent
here, the new transportation tax
of 3 per cent on property applies
to corpses That makes a corpse
property.
But, to ship a corpse, you
must buy a passenger ticket,
full fare, which includes a 10
per cent federal tax. That prac
tically makes a corpse a person.
This is also, to our mind, one
of the best examples we have
ever seen of taxation without
representation.
We can think of one instance ]
in which we do not advocate 1
“Praising the Lord and Passing'
the Ammunition.’’ It concerns
“Pistol Packin’ Mamma,”
I An army physician at a base
to the westward spoke some
words of wisdom the other day
to the boys on Kodiak island
who were moaning about the
climate.
(We weren’t there. This was
copied by Mrs. Warren Taylor,
who copied it from “The Alaska
Legionnaire,” who copied it from
the Sitka Sentinel. We don't
know who the Sentinel copied it
from.)
“Rain,” says he. Buddy, wait
until you’ve had malaria, or den
gue fever, or dysentery in the
tropics Or until you have to sit
out a 2-day sandstorm in a fox
hole, eating sand in every bite of
food Or until you get a real
downpour of 30 or 40 inches in a
couple of days in the tropics.”
The good medic wound up his
little lecture with some statistics
that can’t be denied. And
they’re somewhat comforting to
all Alaskans who’ve been read
ing of infantile paralysis epi
demics, food poisoning and other
afflictions in the states.
Alaska is probably the most
healthful spot of all that are list
as overseas combat zones.
Sure, the weather is nasty at
times, but one can dress for it.
The navy doesn’t have to worry
about icebergs like it does in the
north Atlantic much of the year
and the quarters are permanent.
Nor is the casualty rate very
high.
Miss Rosalie Mae Zgonc, a
secretary at Ladd Field, very
recently got married. With a
last name like that, we don’t
blame her for changing it.
Her husbands name, by the
way, is Thomas Allen Szewezy
kowski, Jr.
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The large number of cars that
have been borrowed without
permission in the past few
weeks, some to be recovered
damaged and in ditches, has
prompted the suggestion that
car owners remove their keys
when leaving their cars, even
for a short time.
Shirley George recently an
nounced publicly to a group
gathered about her (we are told
this on the very best authority)
that if Jack Allman entered the
Army that she would join the
WAaCs. Better be careful, Shir
ley, or you may be biting off
more than you can chew We
hear Jack IS going into the
Army. » J
Actor Errol Flynn, popular
Warner Freres star, Martha 0’
Driseoll, and Co have been en
tertaining the boys at the base
this week.
Martha, who recently climax
ed an 8-year romance by marry
ing ].t Comdr. Richard Donald
Adams, USNR, in Beverly Hills,
knocked them over with her
looks, poise, and singing.
Errol master-of-cercmonied.
We asked a local girl, one of the
group that attended a dance this
week where the stars put in an
appearance, what she thought of
him. “He’s very handsome”, she
said. “I couldn’t help wishing we
could cut in on his dancing like
the boys were doing with Martha
O’Dnscoll.”
Everyone we asked, however,
mentioned with a sort of surpris
ed amazement, the fact that Errol
spent part of his time on stage
in foolery involving his recent
alleged peccadilloes. Sample: pre
sentation of a summons, the re
sult of a 2-minute stop-over in
I Ouzinkie. The charge—you
guessed it.
If Mr. Flynn wishes to be re
membered and associated with
things like that we can think of
no better way than a tour such
as he is making in which he in
dulges in such wit at his expense.
You’d think that at least one of
the Warner brothers would know
better.
Not that the show hasn’t been
a fine thing for the boys and im
mensely enjoyed. But it probably
would have been enjoyed just as
much if he had told one about
two Inslimen.
Mr. Flynn, you know, is an I
Irishmen, too.
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