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DIVINE SERVICES
10 Treasure and Verba Buena Islands CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
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Will Speed Repair
~~uoLD THE STICK BACK"
Job_s at Industrial
By CHAPLAIN EDWARD REIGHARD, R.eceiJJing Ship
Conceived and built entirely by
"You are gliding too fast. Slow it up a little bit," was the Treasure Island personnel, the in-
instruction that a flying instructor gave to his cadet pilot. The genious repair dock stationary
crane at Industrial Dept. shops
student failed to respond. The instructor shouted again, "Come Sunday Services will exactly double the amount of
on, can't you hear me? I said slow it up." The student just Protestant Worship available working slab area there.
sat there thinking, "What the devil does he want me to do? Treasure and Yerba Buena Islands When entirely completed, the
Treasure lsland Chapel-0930 and 1030 faciiity will permit handling of
My throttle is back as far as it will go. This contraption Communion-1130 ( Chapel) larger repair jobs such as masts,
Hospital Chapel-1000
doesn't have any brakes. How can I slow it up?" Theat!'e No. 3-1030 tripods for targets and other jobs
Embarkation Ship's Service Chapel 0700
Yerba Buena Island Theatre--0930 too large to be handled inside the
Some things about flying are so obvious that an instructor Catholic Masses building.
doesn't feel that he needs to tell his trainee. The instructor in Treasure I sland Chapel-0630, 0720 and One crane already in operation
0820
The!\tr e No. 1-1030
this instance simply wanted the student to pull the stick back Hospital Chapel-0630 and 0900 is mounted on a radial boom 30
Embarkation Ship's Service Ci:apel - feet Jong which sweeps a complete
a little farther and pull the ship upward. That would decrease 0600
Yerba Buena I sland Thee.tre-0830 circle and supports a · three-ton
the speed. An airplane works pretty much like a sled, when Confessions (YB Theatre Office) 0800 electric hoist, so delicately bal-
Mormon Study Group anced that it may be operated by
it goes up hill, it slows down. Theatre No. 2-0930 Pearl Buehring
one man. For example, a welder
There seems to be a terrific pull of gravity on human WEEKDAY ACTIVITIES handles with ease tripods 30 feet
Daily--Masses ( Small Chapel, Treasure
Island) 1150 and 1630 Armed Guard Secretary long and 25 feet at the ba~e. turn-
beings and they all want to go down and quickly get into a Daily-Confessions ( Small Chapel, Treas• ing them as often as necessary
ure Tsland)
fast dive. Unless a fellow keeps his mind and soul pointed Daily-Masses (Hospital Chapel)-0645 Holds Record of Girl and to the most convenient posi-
Daily - Masses (Embarkation Ship's
upward, he will go tearing through space at a terrific rate. Service Chapel) 1600 tion for expeditious welding.
1430 (Embarkation Ship's Service Longest Employed at T. I.
Daily - Protestant Worship Service - The assembly slab on which the
If we drop a stone from an airplane, the law of gravity alone Chapel) cranes are located is to be 30 feet
Monday-Blessed Virgin Sodality (First With August 24, 1942, as her
pulls it down 16 feet the first second, 48 feet the second Monday of the Month) 1800 (Small by 100 feet and, with its traveling
Chapel) reporting in date, pretty · blue-
second, 80 the third, and 144 the fifth, and if it falls for 10 Tuesday - llfiraculous Medal Novena, eyed Pearl Buehring holds the shelter (also designed and con-
1830 (Large Chapel) structed here) is protected against
seconds, it will rush through 304 feet. A4d to this pull of Tuesday-Christian Science Group, 1800 record as the girl longest em- weather and is electrically lighted
( Chapel Reception Room)
Tuesday - Holy Name Society, 1915 ployed by the Navy on Treasure
gravity a little streamlining or power and an even greater (Small Chapel) so that it may be operated night
Wednesdays - Christian Servicem~n•s Island, a Masthead survey reveals. and day.
speed is rolled up. League, 1830 ( Chapel Reception When Miss Buehring began her
Room) It was conceived and designed
Wednesday-· Organ Recital (Hospital job in the Armed Guard Center,
In life, as in an airplane, you always pay out something to Chapel) 121G and 1400 by Harold Wagner and Ted Sill-
Thursday - Chapel Choir Rehearsal Western Sea Frontier was the strop, both of the shipfitters'
get something else. If you want speed, you must be willing to (Chapel Gallery) 1800 largest activity on the island and planning department. Invaluable
Friday-Wave Singers Rehearsal (Chap·
lose altitude, _but every good pilot knows that altitude and el Reception ·Room) 1800 Pan American Airways still occu- suggestions and aid were given by
Friday-Mormon Study Group, 1830
(Chapel Gall ery) pied the Administration Building. Joe J. Brady, chief quarterman
speed are money in the bank. A young pilot once wrote his Friday - Jewish Services (Hospital The office she started work in is shipfitter. Actual installation was
Chapel) 1900
mother, "Don't worry about me because I am flying low and Saturday-Confessions ( Small Chapel, now a storeroom-and a small done largely under direction of
Treasure Island) 1400·2000
slow." The mother may have been comforted, but everyone Saturday-Confessions (Hospital Chap• one at that. Rudy Casper, shipfitter leaderman
el) 1800-1900 As secretary to the Materiel and Rudy Harth, machinist, to-
who knew anything about flying immediately became very ............................. and Ordnance officer, her duties gether with suggestions from In-
much worried. The man who flies low and slow is flying in include taking dictation about dustrial Shop electricians and
great danger. Safety lies in height and speed. Therefore, when HOSPITAL NOTES supply issues to vessels, guns, and other departments.
electrical equipment. Answering Iri order to support the boom of
we realize that we are getting into a glide in life, we must pull •••••••••••• ••••••••••• the telephone, filing, typing, and that length and the burdens it
Something new in the way of a thousand other details known carries, it was necessary to drive
the stick back, pay out a little speed and get the altitude which
donations to patients is being only to a secretary fill her day. six piles to a depth of 40 feet and
gives safety. made in the U. S. Naval Hospital, A native of Rush City, Minn., to cap this foundation with a ce-
Treasure Island. Instead of the Pearl came to California three
There are high ways and there are low ways, and each ment base 12 feet deep and 12
patients here receiving something, years ago on a vacation and has feet in diameter. This 100 per cent
man chooses the way his soul will go, but he who would they are the ones who are doing never returned. She says she likes Treasure Island installation, in
achieve character and success points his life upward. the giving-assisted by the Red it here·, and to prove it spent her which so many different crafts
Cross recreation staff. recent leave of absence at Carmel contributed their share, is func-
The men in ward 10-A are do- instead of going home. tioning already and has done
AT THE CHAPEL ... (Schubert), "Du bist die Ruh" nating toys to the patients in the In her free hours, Miss Buehr- much to relieve extreme conges-
(Schubert) , and "Fanfare" (Du-
Shriners' Crippled Children's Hos- ing is an ardent ice skater, and a tion in the shop and to speed up
World Wide Communion bois).
pital, San Francisco. Two weeks member of the St. Lidwina club urgent repair jobs.
World Wide Communion will be Theatre No. 3 ago this project started when the of Oakland, an organization of ice
observed Sunday, October 7 at
Chaplain John B. Nance will patients of 10-A set up an "as- dancers. When she's good enough
all Protestant services on Treas-
conduct regular Protestant serv- sembly line" in the ward and -and from all reports she is
ure Island and Yerba Buena ices in Theatre No. 3 at 1030 Sun- made dozens of ships, planes, and plenty good already-Pearl would FREE CLOTHES TO
Island. Special observance at the day. The soloist will be Patricia other model craft fo.r the chil- like to make a career of ice
Treasure Island Chapel will be at SOME ENLISTED MEN,
Youngkin, MaM3c, who will sing dren who were not able to make dancing.
1130 and Communion will be
served at regular services in other "Enough to Know." them for themselves. We asked what she thought of RECENT ALNAV STATES
Model making is one of the sailors after working with them
activities. Hospital Chapel
crafts taught by volunteers in the for three years: "It took a while One blue dress jumper, a pair
Presiding at World-wide Com-
Protestant Services Arts and Skills Corps and is to get used to all the uniforms, of blue trousers and one peacoat
Chaplain Edward M. Reighard munion services in the Hospital supervised by the recreation staff but I'v,e enjoyed it here and ex- will be issued without charge to
will preach in the Treasure Island Chapel Sunday will be Chaplain of the hospital. pect to stay until my job runs each enlisted man not having
Chapel Sunday at 1030 on "Re- C. H. Loveland with a special Stewart Elliott, hobby · shop out."
message for the day. ,4-llan Gas- items in his possession upon ar-
ligion by Radar." Chaplain Reig- proprietor of San Francisco, has
tren, PhM2c, at the organ, will rival in the United States, accord-
hard, formerly assigned to the done much to develop a keen in-
play "Communion," by Batiste, Red Cross, the· .men send them ing to Alnav 284.
"USS Houston" has been in terest in making authentic models The man, however, must make
charge of chaplain's activities in and "March" from "Occasional with his Friday visits to the hos- home, keep them in the wards or a sworn statement that the items
Receiving Ship with offices in Oratorio," by Handel. The soloist pital. as in this instance-give them were once in his possession and
for the service will be John Tre- to disabled children.
Building 221 since December 1944 After the models are completed, are not now because he was pre-
and has conducted services maine, Sp(W)lc, director of with ail materials supplied by the Radio Program vented from taking said articles
weekly in Theatre No. 3. He is music at the Treasure Island One of the newest activities to by higher naval authority.
bound for new duty overseas. The Chapel. Come, Sweet Death (Chorale) provide recreation for the patients
Senior Chaplain, Captain H . G. Organ Recital ...... ... .. .. ...... . ... . Bach in all wards of the hospital is a
Gatlin will preside at this service. The weekly -organ recital at the Solos: radio request program over sta- Slc: "Gee, I'm sure worried
At the 0930 Chapel service, Hospital Chapel on Wednesday, The Spirit Flower tion KSFO. The program, "Rhy- about my leave."
Chaplain Joseph W. Baus will October 10 at 1215 will be played . . . . . . . . . . . . . Campbell-Tipton thm Canteen," is a daily feature S2c: "That's one worry I ain't
speak on "The Peace That Com.es by John Tremaine, Sp(W)lc. He In The Luxembourg Gardens from 1400 to 1430. never had."
of God." At both services the · will also sing a group of tenor .................... Manning Each afternoon the show is Slc: "How come?"
Chapel Choir will sing "Repent solos, with Allan Gastren at the Organ: dedicated to various hospitals in S2c: "Well, my wife decides
Ye" (Scott) and Carolyn Brown, organ. Following is the complete Evening Prayer (Hansel and the Bay Area, with every other where I'll go and my CO decides
Ylc, will sing the soprano solo program: Gretel) ........ Humperdinck Monday dedicated to Treasure when."
"He Shall Give His Angels Organ: Air From Overture in D Island's hospital.
Charge" (Scott) . Organ solos by Prelude ................ Chopin ............ . .......... Bach The last program that was Requests made by the patients
Ross McKee, Sp(W)2c, will in- Were You There? (Negro Hosannah (from Suite Pour beamed especially for T . I. pa- are collected by the Gray Ladies
elude "Litany for All Saints" · Spiritual) Arr. by James Felton Grand Orgue) ..... ... Dubois tients was on Monday, Optober 1. on their daily ward visits.