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S/Sgt Robert T Mitchell presses pants

After; hurry up bud, I'm late for my date. This is the way that pants are pressed now. S/Sgt. Robert T. Mitchell, from Belfast, Ireland, who worked as a valet for five years, thought that the hot rocks were alright, but he had a better idea. He invested 15 pounds 16 shillings for a presser. Now he has more work than he can handle and has an assistant to help him, between them they do 150 items a week. He and the station barber have set up a tailor shop off one of the showers and the squadron cook assists them in his off time. Sgt. Fredrick T. "Huey" Long, Miami, Okla. is in a hurry for his pants and when the new presser is not fast enough for him. The squadron cook S/Sgt. Willard B. Ritchie, Fisty, Ky., also helps Mitchell on the presser. Mitchell averages a hundred dollars a month with his spare time pressing and he pays his assistant one third of this to press and spot clean.