Excerpts from The Oak Ridge Journal 75 years ago this week January 22, 1944
A MESSAGE FROM OUR TOWN MANAGER
The Roane-Anderson now operates all those facilities previously directly operated by the U. S. Engineer Department. Those facilities include the cafeterias, dormitories, efficiency apartment, laundry and maintenance of all houses, operation of bus system, negotiation and management of Concessionaire contracts. In their capacity as operators they are agents of the Government, and their activities and policy governing such activities are directed by the District Engineer through the Town Management Division. Their compensation is fixed, and not dependent upon the financial return from the rentals of buildings or services rendered
In establishing policies involving the public, consideration has to be given to the democratic principle of majority rule. In those cases where seemingly arbitrary and inequitable decisions have been made, those affected should bear in mind that the object was to do the most good for the greatest number, with the facilities available…
P. E. O’MEARA
Captain, Corps of Engineers,
Town Manager
AT THE CENTER THEATRE
Saturday, 22 January
HE’S MY GUY
Foran - Davis
Sunday, 23 January
CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN
Ankers - Carradine
Wednesday, 26 January
MY KINGDOM FOR A COOK
Charles Coburn
RED CROSS WORKERS WANTED
A large quota of Surgical Dressings has been received by the Oak Ridge Unit American Red Cross and workers are urgently needed.
Work Rooms will be open from 12:30 to 4:30 PM daily in the Cedar Hill School, Michigan Ave at Outer Drive beginning Monday, 16 January 1944. Workers are urged to wear wash dresses and bring a head covering.
THIS WEEK IN OAK RIDGE
MONDAY, Jan. 24th:
5:00 PM Children’s Dance-Elmgrove Gym
6:00PM Ladies Dance Class - “ “
6:45 PM Basket Ball-High School Gym
7:15 PM Basket Ball-Robertsville Gym
BUY MORE BONDS ——YOUR INVESTMENT
IN FUTURE PEACE AND SECURITY
TOWN MEETING
The next Town Meeting will be held Monday night, January 24th, at 8 PM in the High School Auditorium. The Planning Committee has arranged for a number of topics of major interest to town citizens to be discussed. Representatives of the U.S.D.E. Legal Department and of the Welfare and Recreation Association will be present to give information on questions which have been asked by a number of town residents with relation to legal and political rights of community members and to community recreation. In addition, the Planning Committee will present a list of suggested topics for future Town Meetings, which will be discussed by those present…
FOURTH WAR BOND DRIVE
On Tuesday, 16 January, the nation wide Fourth War Bond Drive opened. It is reports from the officer of Capt. James S. Harmon, Acting War Bond Officer and Lt. COl. Vanden Bulch, who is handling cash purchases of bonds, that Oak Ridge is well on its way to meeting its quota, both through the pay reservation plan and in cash purchases.
All civilian and military personnel are urged to bring their own investments in bonds up to 10% of salary — more if at all possible. Forms for making Class A Pay Reservations may be obtained from your Section War Bond Representative…
CHURCH SERVICES
PLACE: ELMGROVE, PINE VALLEY & ROBERTSVILLE SCHOOLS
Sunday 23 January
9:30 AM Sunday School - all ages United Church
MAGAZINE COLLECTION
House residents please leave used magazines on covered porch as the Boy Scouts plan the collection on Saturday, 29 January.
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY
What did you do today, my friend,
From morning until dark?
How many times did you complain
“The rationing is too tight”?
When are you going to start to do
All of the things you say?
A soldier would like to know, my friend,
What did you to today?
We met the enemy today
And took the town by storm.
Happy reading it will make
For you tomorrow morn.
You’ll read with satisfaction
The brief communique
We fought, but are you fighting?
What did you do today?
My gunner died in my arms today;
I feel his warm blood yet-
Your neighbor’s dying boy gave out
A scream I can’t forget
On my right a tank was hit,
A flash and then a fire;
The stench of burning flesh
Still rises from the pyre.
What did you do today, my-friend,
To help us with the task?
Did you work harder and longer for less,
Or is that too much to ask?
What right have I to ask you this?
You probably will say.
Maybe now you’ll understand;
You see, I died today.
Copied from the Minneapolis Alert.
Lieut. Dean Shatlain, Tank Commander, wrote this poem on a battlefield in Africa. He had amputated his own foot with a jack knife and thought he was dying when he wrote this poem. He was rescued by Americans and is now in a hospital in England.
LOST FOUND FOR SALE WANTED
LOST:
GIRARD - PERRESCAUX WATCH, platinum case. Lost between Center Theatre and Dormitory W-2. Reward Dormitory W-2, Room 208.
SOMEONE TO REPAIR ALARM CLOCK which should keep much better time than it does. Call Ext. 1163
PAGING SADIE HAWKINS
Will the person who sends suggestions to the Town Manager, signed “Sadie Hawkins”, please Call Ext. 1204 for an appointment.
NEW BEAUTY SHOP
Watch for opening of new Beauty Parlor, New York Avenue at Utah.
GROCERY STORES
Suburban Grocery Stores will open soon on Tenn. Ave. at Tacoma, also New York Ave. at Utah.
NEW BARBER SHOP
On New York Ave at Utah, a modern 4-chair Barber Shop opens for business on 22 Jan. Hours 8 am to 7 pm.
CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?
How good an American are you? Good enough to buy Bonds… to give your blood…….. to work in a war plant……… good enough to keep a secret? No matter how you answer the first three, if you can’t keep military and production secrets,—-you’re working for the enemy, because careless talk costs lives….the lives of our fighting men!……Naturally, none of us would knowingly tell the enemy anything that might cause a ship to be sunk, or a battle lost ——-no spy expects you to do that. But it’s all the little scraps of information ———production schedules, the location of some military unit ——put them all together, as enemy agents do, and the whole secret is disclosed, and the damage is done. The way we can prevent that, is to prevent our enemies from getting the little facts he needs —— by refusing to tell any kind of unpublished war secret to anyone. When military or production information is entrusted to you, keep it When you hear something that could possible help the enemy, remind the person who tells it to you, that he’s risking the lives of soldiers and sailors needlessly. Don’t be a link in the chain of Axis agents ——-KEEP YOUR SECRETS —————SECRET!