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       b      0       0       0      0       0       !!_    ...                                                          Giant Stationary Crane
                                                                                                                         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.
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