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Terrace Bay News, 25 Sep 1952, p. 4

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LIBRARY NEWS Hours Monday & Wednesday = 2:30 - 4:30 PM Tuesday & Thursdey - 7:00 « 9:00 PM Children's Hours Monday & Wednesday « 4:00 « 4:30 PM Tuesday & Thursday « 7:00 = 7:30 PM ADULT EOOKS "Silver Nutmeg" by Norah Lofts - a gtory adventure full of real people, admirably written, . : "My Turkish Adventure" by Pamela Burr. When Pamela Burr took a teaching job at the Amer ican Girls! College in Istanbul, she found the Turkish people to be warm and friendly, and her account of her experiences in modern Turkey is informative and penetrating and at the same time entertaining, "We of Nagasaki" by Takashi Nagai, The story of the survivors in an atomic world, book by a Japanese doctor and Christian have been collected the accounts of eight survie vors of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, "Belles on Their Toes" by Frank B ., Gil breth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, authors of "Cheaper by the Dozen", When Mother Gilbreth degided to carry on the unique engineering career of her husband, the children pitched in, set up a family routine that was hair-raising as well as hilarious. "The Sea Around Us" by Rachel L, Carson, Beginning with a deseription of how the earth acquired its oceans, the book covers such topics as how life began in the prime=- val sea; the hidden lands; the life recent- ly discovered in the abyss by highly deli cate sounding apparatus, currents and tides, mineral resources, 0-0-0 HELP WANTED « FEMALE Vacancy for a ward maid at Terrace Bay Hospital for Saturday and Sunday work, (Preference to one who will also be free to oover annual vacation relief periods of rege ular ward maids) Apply in person to Employe ment Supervisor, Administration B ldg. 0-0-0 BAREER SHOP HOURS The Barber Shop will close Friday, of September 26th at noon and will be closed all day Saturday, September 27th. 0-0-0 HIGH SCHOOL SCRAPS No it is not Hallowe'en time; we are 5t111 in the month of September, The first year students are in the throes of initia- tion and judging by the form of apparel they are wearing the senior students are really meking it tough for them, A fuller account of this yearly performance in next week's "News " . In this Page 4 WHAT IS REALLY MEANT At long last those who comprise the office staff of Longlac have decided to let the rest of the folks in on "What is Really Meant" by the "lingo"used in their day-to<# day office work, Here is a handy glossary of the usual terms (with acknowledgements to the publishers of "Steel") A program - Any assignment that can't be completed by one telephone call, To expedite - To confound confusion with commotion, Co-ordinator « The guy who has a desk be=- tween two expeditors. Channels ~ The trail left by interoffice memos , Consultant (or Expert) « Any ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home, To activate - To make carbons and add more names to the memo. Under consideration = Never heard of it, Under active consideration « We're looking in the files for it. A conference = A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of work and the loneliness of thought, Reoriéntation - Getting used to working again, : Reliable source = The guy you just met. Informed source = The guy who told the guy you just met. Unimpeachable souree = The guy who started the rumour originally. A clerification « To fill in the background with so many details that the foreground goes underground, Vo are making a survey - We need more time to think of an answer, Note and initial « Let's spread the respon- sibility for this, See me (or let's discuss) = Come down to my office, I'm lonesome, LOST "'* Morocco Wallet, money and personal papérs by Andre Beauchemin, hotel » reward, 0=~0=0 A WORD FROM THE (ACTING) EDITOR: This little publication can be good or bad depending on the amount of news which gets to the editor, While wg are very appro~ ciative of the efforts of those who assist by turning in news and announcements of coming events, we sincerely believe that many of the organizations operating in Ter- race Bay and the surrounding area are not making use of the paper to give publicity to the interesting "doings" taking place at their meetings, frolics, parties etc, It's human interest stories we need, You can helpiTalk it up in the groups or organizations to which you belong.

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