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changed their opinion because the
Seabees had really gone to town as Naval Training
interior decorators, using lemon
yellow, grass green, sea blue and Schools
petal pink. Some of those boys used
to be painters and since joining the Additional Assignment
Navy had been confined to the un- With the recent detachment of
interesting shades of battleship Lt. G. A. O'Neal, Welfare and Rec-
While Carolyn Brown, your usual gray and camouflage greens and reation duties have been assumed
columnist, is on leave, someone will browns. With a chance to exercise by Lt. James W. Raab, officer-in-
have to pinch-hit for her. This their imaginations they made posi- charge of the Rangefinder Oper-
pinch-hitter shall remain anony- tive paradise out of the drab quon- ators' School. There will be little
mous for reasons which will be best sets, and the girls are really time left to day-dream about golf
known to her and to those who read pleased! now, with all those collateral duties,
her attempt at filling in. The Great Outdoors lieutenant- but there will always
First of all let's have a sports Maybe you noticed the first of be a Sunday!
flash. Last Saturday night the Had a Wonderful Time-
Tadcen Personnel Office Waves last week that there was a new But we are glad to be back, says
slaughtered the Tadcen Disbursing crop of sunburned noses and limps Mrs. James Sutton, secretary at
because of aching muscles. Maybe
Waves in their opening game, 28 to NTSchs. Mrs. Sutton has been on
8- and it wasn't a football game, you even wondered if there was a leave in the home town, Los An-
it was softball. The Personnel gals special reason for these evidences geles, with her husband, Chief
were on a batting spree from start of life in the great outdoors and Specialist (A) of the Treasure Is-
will therefore be relieved to know
to finish and as a result Disbursing land gymnasium staff.
was simply dazzled by the potent that there was. You will say it is Au Revoir
batting power and fielding prowess old stuff by now that a group of Benedict J. Spalding, Chief
of this team. The winning battery Waves went on a trip to the Old Specialist (A) has been detached
Hearst Ranch where they rode
for Personnel was Lois Grant pitch- from NTSchs; it is our loss in favor
ing and Edith White catching. Tad- horses, went swimming, played of Tadcen. Chief Spalding has
cen Personnel team is interested golf and soaked in the rare . at- been with us since September 1943,
mosphere of the wide open spaces.
in any games by any girl team that and we are going to miss him.
Well, then, the closest we can come
wishes to go the route and can be Since he is still on the island, we
booked by phoning H. Warren Seil- to a scoop is to report that there hope we'll at least be seeing him
er, Y2c, manager, at Local 688. will be another trip to this spot in occasionally- and our good wishes
the near future, and in case you're
Did You Know? for his new assignment.
interested it is "the west's largest
One amazing thing about a "Did Advancements
you Know?" .department is that it and most popular dude ranch." Effective on May 1, several of our
answers so many questions you That must be true because it is a Ship's Company men were ad-
never thought of asking. For ex- quote taken right from the folder vanced to Seamen First Class-
sent out by the ranch, and what
ample: Did you know that the last Thomas Berkheimer, Lawrence H.
Yeomanettes of World War I were we have heard from those who Berman, Frank E . East, John H.
were there seems to prove it- is no
released from active. duty July 31, Howard, Anthony Medina, Law-
exaggeration.
1919? It's true, even though the r-ence Suazo, Billy E. Youngblood.
Navy started releasing women Change of Heart Our congratulations to all of you.
from active duty shortly after the After standing at attention dur- Waves, Dudes-
armistice. We wonder if there are ing the Regimental Reviews at Waves of NTSchs came back to
Waves who would be interested in Hunter most Waves decide they work Monday morning with glow-
being discharged soon after decla- will never stand for long intervals UNDRESS ing accounts of last Sunday spent
ration of peace. Or whether, as the again unless they have to. Just to DRESS at the Old Hearst Dude Ranch.
song has it, when the war is over show you that the minds under The tight-fitting over-the-head jumper and antiquated trousers of They were able to get around de-
they would like to enlist again. Navy blue-or seersucker- caps the sailor have long provided material for some pretty lively discus- spite all the active sports indulged
Lif~ in a Quonset can change, go into the lobby of the sions. American sailors do not see why they wear a black neckerchief in - swimming, tennis, horseback
We were interested to learn that St. Francis Hotel while delegates to commemorate the British naval hero, Lord Nelson, when there is riding,- all in one long day.
there are 1500 Waves and 3400 to the Peace Conference are in San a plentiful supply of American heroes on hand. The long collar was
Nurses out.<lide the continental U. S. Francisco. There you will see the vogue when sailors used tar on their pigtails, the collar being sup-
In connection with Waves in Ha- Waves standing among the throngs posed to catch the excess tar, but since no sailor tars his pigtails today, Navy Mail Specialists
waii, it·seems that they were some- of other service people and civil- why the long collar?
what disconcerted over their first ians, all waiting to see the unfa- From all this discussion have come some constructive ideas. "The 'Redball' Correspondence
glimpse of the corrugated metal miliar garb and hear the unfamiliar Pelican," Nav:1: newspaper published at the Naval Repair Base at New
quonset huts which are their tongues of foreign lands. Also, in Orleans, sums up these ideas for the proposed uniforms pictured above. To Sailors On Okinawa
"homes away from home." It was case you are at all clothes-consci- Together with some additional suggestions from "Yank," and other
when they looked inside that they ous these days, you will see some service publications that have picked up the torch, they add up to this: The astonishing quantity of 4,-
The material would be the same. It's warm, comfortable, easy to 944 pouches of air mail, first class
mail and V -mail were flown in
wash and stow. The jacket, like the one General Eisenhower wears in
his pictures, would have roomy breast pocket.<;, a bellows back for added from one mail distribution base to
the men on Okinawa and ships of
roominess, and it would close in front with a zipper. The dress jacket
would have a small turned-down collar, lapels and open coat sleeves. the supporting forces during the
first 15 days of April. This repre-
The undress jacket would have no collar or lapels and cuffs would be
unbuttoned. A shirt or turtle-neck sweater would be worn under the sents millions of letters delivered
to our fighting men right in the
jacket, a white shirt and blue tie for dress, and the collar open for
combat area.
undress. Pants would have a fly instead of the 13 buttons, and slit
In announcing this record, the
pocket.<; big enough for something besides a postage stamp. The hat
would be the overseas type, easy to stow in the pocket or twist when Navy Mail Service pointed out that
asking for leave. The old suits would be used up f.or "undress." What it will be some time before heavier
do you think of it, mates? mail- -ncwspapers, magazines and
packages- can reach th{' combat
area on surface ships.
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Cross-Word Answers
WANTED - TALENT
Bonds Per Capita For
FOR NAVY SHOWS CHAR
Read the following paragraph, HOVE ·Navy Average $234
and if you are able to perform any A RA--+-- 0 L I D
one of the acts mentioned there, Members of the Navy family-
civilian and uniformed personnel of
you are needed. It's a chance to not the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
only have fun yourself, but also to
provide ft for your shipmates here Guard- own on the average $234
each of War Bonds, an amount
on Treasure Island. Here is the list:
which is growing each week as the
Musical acts, magicians, tum- idea of bond ownership and its
blers, hand-balancers, dancers, ac- value to post war financial plans
robats, clown acts, pantomimists, AER .___,_ ATE and aspirations become increasing-
bar acts, and musicians to form VEE 1-e-t-:c-t-,- INE ly popular.
small combinations. ENP ~--- LAN Total bond investment by Navy
If one of the descriptions fits personnel now is approximately $1,-
you, contact Sps (A) Paige or Wise 090,000,000.
at Theatre No. 3 (local 15) right
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The bee, he is a busy soul ; Defeat On Armed Guard avy 19 t urses
He has no time for birth control. Will Get New u ., r
And that is why in times like these, Armed Guard suffered its third nl O fflS
There are so many sons of bees. setback in 12th Naval baseball Navy flight nurses soon will be
play by dropping a 12-3 verdict to wearing gold-embossed wings on
very smartly-dressed women. Or do the Coast Guard Surf Riders at newly designed uniforms, the 12th
you have post war plans regarding T. I. Naval District announced.
the colors and styles you will The uniform, consisting of trou-
wear? A seven-run outburst by the sers, shirt, battle-jacket type coat,
Well, your pinch-hitter has Coast Guard in the sixth inning put and a visored hat, will be green for
struggled with the editorial "we" a damper on any late rally hopes
the Armed Guard could muster. summer; gray for winter. The
and the word "scoop" and if you wings insignia will be centered
A ,COWBOY'S SWEETHEART is 1-ovely Miss Margar,ette Knutson of have reached this sentence you Hawton and Harrison allowed 12 with an oval, bearing the anchor
Lodge Grass, a small but thriving town in the far reaches of Montana. have earned a rest too, so let's call hits while the T. I. bat.<lmen were and oak leaf symbol of the Navy
It was -on a ranch in Wyoming that she met Curtis D. Parker, PhM2c.
From that date skies have been blue in both Wyoming and M-ontan_a. it 30 fo,; this edition. ("We" have allotted 10 bingles by moundsmen Nurse Corps. The uniform will be
Curtis says that comes discharge day, he's "gonna fence her in." · just learned that 30 means finis.) Burk~ of the Surf Riders. worn only on flight duty.