Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-20

~ they thought
il was the
MR. PICKERING biggest bear
ever shot in Michigan. Not
knowing much about bears my
self, / called Eppnger's and
asked them:
"How big il big bear"
They answered cautiously:
"WeIl. SOME people say a
95O-pounder Is big"
When said. "Then 500
pounds Is big" they gulped quite
audibly and said something en-
phatic that meant yes
DR. Patterson shot HE bear
in Altoona County He was after
deer and armed with .30-call-
Der deer rifle. Monday after
noon, he was lolling beside a
deer run. with fire 10 keep
him warm. and was about two
thirds asleep.
Then. ne heard the bear com
ing.
a bear can outrun a man any
day al tho week, even with four
or fine bullets in the bear. This
beast wrist was AS big as
mans thigh and one cuff could
easily kill man. However.
bears don't usually chase men
far. Usually. they prefer 10 run
the other way.
As an anticlimax. DIR. Patter-
son also got deer. but the
PEAR Is all he's Interested IN.
Hes going 20 have Paul Young
make the hide into a rug
TIMERS When YOU ride the
DSR buses or cars, you prob
ably don { think much about
how they manage to keep run
-nlng Or maybe you do. When
You get on some of the RATHER
ones, you wonder why the poor,
tired hacks don lie down in The
street and quit.
The reason they keep going
is because the DSR has A main
Ltenance- crou, enlarged nesp-to
about 800 men 10 fix them.
Three of the men dropped in
yesterday, John Davis, national
executive board member Of the
union. John Mason. president OF
Local 3l2. and Harold Born
hak A committeeman
They came primarily to give
me a check for Sl6h-fnr- the
sunshine FUND. After the Labor
Day parade. the union enter
tanned nine wounded soldiers
and took up collection 80
the boys could do whatever they
wanted to-"
The soldiers frugally didn't
spend all the money and over
500 was left. Local 3l2 then
added enough more TO make
SI65, which IL the price Of three
Singer surgical stitchers which
will he presented. through the
sunshine Fund, Ia surgeons At
the Dearborn naval station,
Kellogg Field. and the OScoda
gunnerN suh-hase.
The ! 500 members Of Local
AZ State. County and MunIci-
pa Workers CIO) no doubt are
most valuable IN their DSR
Jobs. nut do quite few things
besides
- They subscribed $4,000 in
at~> bonds IN the last drive,
- 1903 Tor the War Chest. and
do many such things, as well as
keeping the blood bank filled
for the Red Cross al Harper
Hospital
But making the Wheeling
DSR equipment run is vital.
They get almost no new equip
ment and rebuild motors them
selves. They make repair parts
and weld broken or worn parts
50 they can see service again.
PARTY. On ths>7Se-s ~, VA
unions, Eva Dettcrer. president
of the womcnS So auxiliary OF
Local $50 ~ Continental Motors,
tells me they haze a new enter
prise. Saturday night, they're
giving a party for servlcemen
az odd Fellows Hall.
All through the war plants
there are scores of such groups
trying 10 do all they can, in
many ways. 10 make life better
for the fighting men.
It's tough feeding them some
times a meat packing firm IS
donating ham for sandwiches.
the only limit being:
Wen give YOU ~ much ham
as YOU ran get points for"
So they're digging for points
BUT-SA\TA!: But Of all
these things. right now we're
the most interested In Santa for
SerNicemen. The Times wants
In get n Christmas box for every
soldier, wounded or otherwise,
in this area.
We hope that all these vari-
Gus organizations will help us
because we need a huge number
~ boXeS-eXaCt number a mill
tary secret.
Anyway. We think its some
thing that needs 10 he done and
wei keep talking about II until
the jobs done.
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