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AVALON. SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY. JANUARY 13. 1944
VOLUME XXX! NO. 3
BOND QUOTA
AT $,50,0110 ,
meeting of the Avalon VVar
-~ held last Monday
ans were completed for the
Loan Bond Drive.
4or the drive is "Buy
$100 Bond." The quota for
of $50,000, will not be hard to
we make every effort to buy
tra bond. It is a meer "drop
since ",he quota set for
"~ California is $436,(X)0,000.
J. Laurin, chairman of the
committee says that greater
sis will be placed in this drive
to indb,iduals. Through the
various commtmity organ-
and the school children, the
plans to personally solicit
mcorn'e-earning individual and
at least one extra Bond dur-
drive.
national goal of the Fourth
Drive is 14 billion dollars,
five and'.one-half billion is
~ased directly from individuals,
- amount being one-half
dollars more than in the Third
!n Drive.
to be offered will be:
and G Bonds. Series C
2n/~ per cen'. Bonds,
,er cent Certificates.
~ON TO VICTO~IY
omI'UTY TO BE ,HERE
But It's 'True
A LETTER FROM SID ZELDIN
SILVER SPURS
THE CLEARING HOUSE
By Eva Chandler
Sgt. Bob White arrived from Lar--
edo, Texas, December 19 to spend:
several days at Black Jack Ranch
with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack:
White. Sirs. White and Bob left
December 23 to spend Christmas with,
Bob's brother George and his wife.
in San Francisco. Confing back to~
Los Angeles the day after Christmas
they picked up Mr. White and drove
down to the border :o visit Mr
White's mother. On their return 13ol).
left Los Angeles fc~r Tampa, Florida
to finish h.is training He had been
taking the gunnery c-nrse in Laredo.
At Christmas time the Carter fan>
fly had a letter from Johnny Botell)
from N. Africa. Johnny is in ~he
Mechanical Repair end of this man's
army--and he doesn't think North
Africa is Santa Catalina Island. "
The Christmas leave cominv Io Har-
old Warner was too short for him tc~
make the round trip from New York
to Avalon, with anv time here. FI'c
has finished his schooling and is mwv
in the diver's pool waiting to be
called ~o active duty. He has been
promised the first call to. the west
coast, which will make it possible for
him to visit his parents later I ask-
ed Mr. Warner i;f the cold was nor
intense in the waters there. He said
February 7th to the 12th in-Tiae following letter received re- Eva Chandler that there was a continuous flow ~f
a Depty of Internal Revenue cently by A. LI Laurance states thatPaiientlv Old Rambler lifted his big fresh warm air pumped to the diver.
m Avalon to assist local resi- Sid Zeldinis gettingaround in thefront hoof, planting it solidly on the The system is so regulated that' the
re.m the filing of 19'-14 incomearmy: beaten earth .of the Pony Ring. Slow diver has air at an evcn temperalnre
turns. He will maintain an Oklahoma City, Ok!a.motion in progress. A beatific smile at all times. There is an excellent
the City Hall with hours December'12, 1943slowly spread over the face of a article, "Dare-Devils of the Deep" in
a. m. to 5:00 p.m. Dear Arch: little boy. Little lotmny Garcia was the February issue of Popular Met.h-
------------------ tasting the joy of'his first horseback anics about this school Harohl a%
Received your letter yesterday, also ride. The sight of such pure un- tended. If yon can't buy an issne.
ANs INVITED TO heard from nay brother Benie. said he
~I~) BROADCAST Man will drop over to see you first chance adulterated happiness is a rare thing in ask Mr. Warner to see his. You
he gets. this world today--a sight worth stop- can't carry it away, but he w'ill show
ping to watch, it to you--as he carries it on the-
Sunday evening the ; j" - Well Arch I will now try and tell "I wish we had a picture of that," frontseat of the taxi.
ram.mg Statien at Avalon goesyou as nmch as I possibly can about said one grown-up. * * *
aaw from the CasinoTheatre ;nv army life. I am an aerial photo-"For his grandmother," added If there are sight-seeing buses irr
urn, broadcast "We Delivm grapher--that is I've been one for
uus. ' p bout two years. Last summer was another. North Africa, Walter Knight should
"Wouldn'tshe love it!" exclaimed be transferred ,from the ordnance de-
ttCwJhans of Avalon are invited in Alaska doing mapping work at a third, partment to his old job of singing to
~,u the broadcast. The pro-
ues on the mr 20,000 feet in a Locnheed Hudson, also The little boy who always ImtS hisentertain the tourists. In this case he
se attending mn~tt 9;0~inPthnlir worked in Canada on the Ulcan high- finger on the crucial spot stopped to is one of the tourists, is doing his
r .8:45. The statmn band, un-way. In the fall we ',~ent to the add his two cents worth,--~Squinting share towards making travel comfor-
west coast of South America, return-, at us he observed, "She'd say, able for his fellow tourists, the 13. S
refection of Lt Roberts, is on ing in a few nlonths to Washington, 'Where's Johnny ?' " Soldiers.
!r the musical portion of theD.C. I then left with a Colonel on "That's all grin," he added in explan-
l, as well as sol'oists from the * * *
t the U. S. M. S. Then therea secret mission to China. It wasation. Thanks to a light shower Which
~s a true experience told of one then that I had some real excitemen' May our country continue to be theheld np an horseback ride Monday
merehant seamen who has re- flying ~o Brazil, then across theland of smiling children! afternoon, I had a most enjoyable
~o tell the story. "It's a fine Southern Atlantic to Africa, thru the See you Saturday! visit with Jimmy Chellberg, who,
oee you there, heart of Africa, then Arabia to India o. To vmtonv-.-- came in to surprise his parents Sun-
and over Burma to China--believe it If you don't trade in Avalon we all day night. The things I learned;
-----o~ vo vmro~v,or not we had no guns. It was here lose money, about the Sou'h Sea Islanders. Jim-
ROy SCOUT NOTES our airforce shot down fourteen Jap
cutta, traveling in dugouts, hiking in ,ny says that one of the greatest
the weather, the gcou't
night was well at-
berg spent one
in the home town in
The young Marine
ed with questions as to
and conditions in the
has seen consider-
on and around Guadal-
planes the day we arrived.
Leaving China for India we ran into
very bad weather. Soon we were
running out of gas. It meant one
one thing--jump or crash land. We
stayed with the ship and landed in a
rice paddy--I forgot to mention on this
trip we were flying in a B-23. The
front wheel broke off, the nose dig-
ging up ten feet of dirt. We all got
~out O. K. Natives came from miles
around and thonght we were gods,
Stun to a very interest-
Jimmie emphasized bowing in front of us all the time.
m ,'-" ing he received as a From our maps we 4ound out just
hel,t~ls,very Troop had been a about where we were in the jungle.
v o mm in many a tight spot, Nine days later we arrived. in Cai-
heat that was 130 degrees in the shade,
then launch, train, steamer and train.
We left Calcutta by transport to Agra,
which is sonth of Delhi where we
picked up an old fortress and in less
than four days flying time flew better
than half way around the world, home
again.
Made a color motion picture 16mm,
4800 feet in Kodachrome.
You might give some of this dope
to the Judge to use in the Islander.
Best regards to all
Your friend
Sid.
delicacies the Marines can give the-
natives is canned corned beef. Whlr
Jimmy, to think ~f it is to gag, but
to give a can of it to a native is fo
make a ffriend for life. I wondered
how a native in loin cloth would
open a tin of beef. Very simple, ac-
cording to Jimmy. He takes a large
razor sharp knife, which is part of
his costume, makes one slash and the
tin falls in two halves.
Jimmy told me of a barbecue he
attended while on patrol---Wild pig
wrapped in banana leaves and cook- .
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