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Show and some books bed at night , a st~.nd ·with a radio , and an oil heater . In the corner high up was a shelf where the photographs of two boys in unifonn stood on either side of a slender vase uith cosmos in it o .Altogether , it seemed cozy and cheerful . nThis is our home , even if i-c is on ·wheels , " she said . tt\·ve 01,m. it , - and v,e are proud of it . 1.ife ev en think that we are more a part of the war e ffort because we live in a trailer ; we can go wliereever the vm rk is . ~fe lived in I daho and ·worked on a government project for tvv0 years , then we were in Salt Lake City nearl.y a year , and we have been here about six months . open up f We understand tha t there will be another big project near Laramie , Wyoming , by the time this is finished . " "These big plants could not be built i:fi it weren ' t for people like you , I suppose , " I suggested o "There certainly aren't housing facilities for the worlrnrs otherwiwe o" ttYes , ~hat ' s ·why I think we're essential to winning the war o Bp sides we buy our quota of bonds , and I put in tow afternoons a week at the ·1ed Cross center. During the summer I helped in the cannery because they were short-handed , and took sone of ray pay in canned stuff! o Leaving her home , .l decided to walL about the camp o In the center was a large building , evidently a disc :: rded school house , around it a cleared space which had been a playground , while all a round the edge of the square , under the trees , vvere t h e trailer houses . were children everywhere , rI'he re children rolling hoops and tires , little boys climbing tieees , several teen- age girls tall:~g and giggling toge ther babies digging in the sond . L/omen busied themselves ~bout , or visited leisurely , most of them still in house- coats • .As I entered the central cu.mp hov.se , bulletin board upon \'thich HdS J. noticed in the hall a large ranted notices and rules . A sign c=mnouncec1 thut therE: HOuld be a meeting of &11 the cump members tomorrow night in fro:mt of the building , and would they pass the word around and please a ll try to be there ~ some things of importance to the group |
