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PAGE 2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945

~ ~ ~ ~ A $2 purchase order good at Electric Company in Ohio before
any Ship's Service Store on Treas- entering the Navy. Office work,
ure Island goes to Melvyn Benson, which included interviewing and
Official Treasure Island publication, distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications Demobilization RM2c, RecShip. The question sub- filing, was on tap for yours truly
a.nd contributions should be directed to ThP Editor, Welfare Division, TADCEN, mitted was: for over two and a half years.
Treasure Island, San Francisco, C8lifornia. Telephonr: EXbrook: 3931, Bxtension Among those transferred to
69, The Masthead is published In compliance with regulations of SecNav letter separation centers for discharge And then I decided to join the
of May 28, 1945, and is produced commrrcially from non-ap(lropriated Welfare Have you followed your civilian
Funds at no expense to the Navy Department or Government. The Masthead is a this week were the Benton twins, Waves. At Treasure Island I had
member of the Twelfth Naval District Press Association, the Ship's Editorial Asso- line of work in the Navy, or have three months of mess duty, and
ciation, and receives material suppli~d by Camp Newspaper Service. Reproduction Drexel Ray and Edsel Gray. (We you learned a new trade since being
of credited material prohibited without permission of SEA and CNS. dare you to say those names fast in the service? then I was transferred to the main
COMMODORE R . W. CARY, USN five times!) E dsel and Drexel en- post office here in August, '44.
Commander U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center listed together December 30, 1941, Leroy Fritts, PhM1c, RecShip. The experience that I've receiv.ed ..__,,.
CLYDE F . BABB. Sp(X)3c, USNR in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have been Three and a half years of being here would come in handy if I
together during their entire Naval a pharmacist ma~e has taught me wanted to apply for a post office
Editor
Rex N. Olsen, Y2c, Associate Editor cruise, being transferred from a lot about minor surgery and job in Civil Service.
Carolyn N. Brown. Ylc, Waves Editor - Robert H. Perez, BM2c, Sports Editor place to place at the same time colds. With this knowledge gained
* * * WT3c, Rec-
Edward L. Levitt, SK2t>--Features and Activities and even advanced in rating si- through the service, I won't have Harold Schmidt,
multaneously. "Their rate" on be- to run to a doctor every time I Ship. I was a tool and die maker
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1945 ing transferred from OTS was have a simple ailment in civilian on the outside knocking down over
FClc. They are identical twins, life. I also have learned quite a $70 a week. In the Navy I be-
JUST PATTER RhaJtsody in Blue and about the only way anyone bit about malaria. You see I was came a water tender drawing $78
could tell them apart was that on a malaria control squad in the a month. The training that I re-
Edsel was left-handed and Drexel Russell Islands. But my medical ceived in the service won't help
( Statements and opm10ns herein are passengers are not disturbed. me in my line of work. After all,
those of the writer and are not to be right-handed. The Bentons hail career ends the moment I step out
construed as reflecting the views of the Sleepers will be all-bedroom cars, from Kentucky, and without being of the Navy, and that will be in a water tender's place isn't on
Navy Department.) but designed for daytime comfort, asked they laughingly informed just a few days. I'm going back land. And the sea just isn't for
Your mattress worries will be too. Shower baths will be installed us that they go without shoes- to my first love- the juke box me. I've been in the tool and die
over Monday. For some of us who in bedrooms. It is suggested also honest! They departed October 6 business. business for over eight years, and
have packed our gear hither and that the new speed cross country for the Separation Center at Great * * * I'm going to continue with it when
will make it p9ssible to go from I get out.
yon, this will be one of the most Lakes, and from there it's home Douglas Comstock, S1c. DDP.
welcome improvements made by one coast to another in 50 hours sweet home and into those comfy I have always had the desire to * * *
the Navy. The mattress itself was flat. The cost is estimated at civvies! ,become a minister. Over two David Heher, EM2c, PCTC. I
not too heavy, but with a sea bag around 70 bucks from coast to Others transferred for discharge years of Navy life hasn't changed was an electrician in civilian life
full to the brim, plus a few extra coast, but service rates are not this week to SepCen, Shoemaker, my mind. Aboard ship I took an - and I'm doing the same work
pounds of mattress, coupled with available at this time. However, Calif., were C. Blanco, Cklc ; J. active part in the holy services in the Navy. I've attended Electri-
it:s bulkiness, made gear lashed don't expect all this on your next B. Vaughan, Ylc ; N. B. Vincent, that were held. The tin can I had cian's School in the service and
sea going fashion just that much leave, give them time. RTlc; W. D. Clark, TMlc; Frank duty on didn't have a chaplain. what I learned will prove of great
too much. Mattresses now indivi- * * * Hall, MoMM2c, and E . J. Lind- One of my shipmates and I or- advantage to me in my civilian
dually owned will become prop- Due to a brilliant publicity strom, RdM2c. Transferred to ganized a prayer group. Every pursuits. I intend going to Nevada
erty of the government Monday campaign by a certain cinema other separation centers are the Sunday from 0900 to 1000 half of State University when I'm handed
and they are welcome to them. company for their film-biography following: J ohn H. Howard, Slc, the crew attended services in the my discharge. To be an electrical
HoweveT, each man will retain Receiving Ship, San Francisco, mess hall. Eventually I'll find my- engineer is my goal. I'm advanc-
the mattress now in his possession of George Gershwin, "Rhapsody for further transfer to a separa- self a civilian once again, and ing toward that objective- slow
in Blue," and the genuine admira-
while at present ship or station. tion of the American people for tion center; W. H. Jones, EMlc, when I do--I'm enrolling in a but sure.
The issue of new mattr.esses to re- that composer, it has become al- SepCen, St. Louis, Mo.; Fred Rob- Bible school. * * *
cruits is being discontinued. This most sacrilegious to criticize his erts, SM2c, SepCen, New Orleans, * * *
new order is being handled in the music, so says Barry Ulanov in a La., and Arrel P. Roberts, QM2c, R-0bert Feeney, R M3c, RecShip. T. I. Policy On
same procedure as that of officers, recently published magazine to SepCen, Norman, Okla. When I was a student at high
according to an AlNav. Dog Story school in Pittsburgh, Pa., I had Transfer Allowance
article. It seems that the new
* * * film is disastrously full of ana- Proving that a guy can't get great hopes of becoming a lawyer. Clarified
It would seem that very soon chronisms and serious distortions away with anything wrong-not Since being in the Navy I haven't
even in a dog's world, is Rivits, done much work to help me along
it will be much more of a pleasure of fact. It is hard to say whether Clarifying an article printed in
whose "Man Tag" identified him
to take a leave than it has been. it is a biography of a popular that particular line. However, I last week's Masthead, quoted
as the mascot of the USS Norris, have learned a lot about radio from Alstacon ND12-05-Rd over
All of you who have traveled any musician or a monstrous musical,
PreCom Destroyer training ship. work. I attended radio school, and A6-(6) of September 1945, Cap-
great distance by rail in the past conceived and begotten hideously
After being picked up at the OTS and I can break and send mes- tain Elmer F . Helmkamp, Com-
two years can't possibly forget full-born by the film company's
barracks, Rivits reported back to sages. At the pr.esent time I'm manding Officer, Naval Receiving
the miseries you went through to writing corps. Some of the dis-
his shtp four days AWOL. His waiting to go to anoth~r school- Station, Treasure Island, S. F .,
get to and from home. Railroad tortions run something like this:
sentence is still pending, but we this time for teletype training. outlined a policy of the T. I. in-
passengers who have long en- Gershwin is represented as a man
could see that he was really in Now I have a trade I can fall take center in providing transfer
dured the lurching promiscuity of of 25 or 30 working at Remicks,
th1; "Dog House" this time!
the open-section sleeper, the hop- although he was actually 16. He back on- thanks to the Navy. ·allowances for enlisted men to
Kaleidoscope
skip an d jump sells himself to Max Dreyfus, * * * separation centers, as follows: ..J
The recent Group II picnic was
down the leg-bar- ,,. though really he didn't write the undoubtedly a howling success- Edward Forester, SKD1c, Rec- "Men leaving this intake center
red aisle of a club i song until two years after joining a goodly number of those who at- Ship. I'm still in the same work must go to their separation cen-
car or the dubious Dreyfus' staff. Dreyfus sells the te:-Jded have been "howling" about I was in during my civilian days. I ters on registered drafts. Only in
song to Al Jolson over the tele- was an accountant in Kansas City, isolated emergency cases, which
amenities of a their poison oak, including Mar-
phone at this same time, two and I've be~n working in dis- must be verified by the Red Cross,
coach wash room garet Cook, Sp(G)3c, who has bursing offices since I first joined is a man permitted to travel to
are due for something better, and years before it was wr,tten, been soaking in Epsom salts for the Navy as a SK3c about four his separation center alone with
very soon. Coaches, diners and though Jolson actually didn't pick two days! The rest of the victims
up "Swanee" until three years years ago. The Navy employs a the three-cent per mile allowance
"tav.em cars" will be equipped have been walking around OTS
after that, a year after it was sli2"htly different style of book- granted."
with the General Motors designed first written and performed. To looking somewhat like Zorn bies ! keeping. This experience will no
"Vista Dome"- a glass-enclosed ... Scuttlebutt has it that Mar- doubt prove of sound advantage to ..
elevated dome that protrudes 18- serve the film company's fanciful tini, S2c, is going to tie the knot Visitor: "I'd like to see some-
conception of real life and its me when I get back to civilian
inches above the car roof. Under any day now, so stand by fellas life. I'm figuring on going to body with a little authority."
the unbreakable, heat-resisting contractual obligations, it intro- 'l.nd start helping out with a linen UCLA when I make my exit from S2c: "What can I do for you ?
duced two entirely false romances
Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers. into Gershwin's life. At the piano shower for him ... We hear tell the service. College is the thing I've about as little authority as
will have an "'!.obstructed view of of a Paris night club, in 1925, sets that there will be another occa- these days. anybody."
the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft Hazel Scott ( called by her own sion for congratulations in the * * *
lounge seats. For Dome dining near future for J . Wike, CFC. and * * *
name) playing "The Man I Love," Alice Osborne, MaM3c, Post Of- My wife and I had some words
under the stars dumbwaiters will the lovely lady he squired at the fice. I was employed by the North but I never got to use mine.
lift your dinner from the galley "F ascinatin' Rhythm" and "I Got Group II picnic. Now that the
below. After dinner, tables on the Rhythm." Hazel was three years housing problem has been solved HOMEWARD BOUND
bottom deck of the diners can be old at the time; "I Got Rhythm" they intend to make it Mr. and
dropped into slots, the space wasn't written until 1930. From Mrs.
cleared for dancing. Naturally the popular applause the picture SHIP OR ~ t ~ 0
t here will be a juke-box with all is receiving it is going over well STATION A -► ]-►Ir, ---.-►
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of Crosby's latest records. "Tav- with the public but just remember 26 BLIMPS LOST C :+1 e
ern cars" will be honeycombed all you see in regard to this (SEA) .- The Navy lost 26 of DESIGNATED GIVEN RECEIVES
famous composer's life is not true. its 168 blimps during the war. r oR DISCHARGE ORDERS PAY
with cozy nooks and niches (Oh,
Boy) some above, others below He wrote many choice musical Only one was lost as a result of
the first deck. For the few re- selections that are not included in enemy action. 1 00 e •►11" ---►
maining teetotalers a refresh- the picture, which is a serious STAGl~1jiiw-~o
ment bar will serve sandwiches, error. The hen is also an immortal: AREA --:-
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coffee, sodas and soft drinks. * * * Her son never sets. ORIENTATION ORDERS AND ASSIGNED TO p ' -• - e;
Coaches will have plenty of leg- Choice story of the week, along MOVIE a TAI.K RECORDS CHECKED TRAVEi. DRAFT L
room between seats, and best of the cleaner .side, is the one about come home drunk, tear up the .e -► ,~o
all those two by four washrooms the sailor who went to his com- furniture and beat the children 0
are being enlarged and will be manding officer and asked for shamefully." "Say," said the
well equipped. Some cars will be leave, saying his wife was sick sailor, "Could I say something to RECEIVING -----► · '
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fitted into the seat backs at ear that be?" asked the CO. "I had was the reply. "Well, sir, we must l STATION
radio - equipped with speakers and longing for him. "How can you man to man?" "Certainly,"
ORDERS AND
CENTER Wfili
RECORDS CHECKED SPECIAL SEPARATION
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level. Volume control of radios "· letter from your wife asking me be the two biggest liars alive. I STOPS ~
will be kept low so that other to keep you here because you ain't even married!" · ._ ____________________________ __,