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PAGE 8 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1945
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SCHOOL KIDS TAKE OVERT. I. as forty-two students from the J,ohn Swett School experienced at noon chow at Chief's Mess in Galley K, and from the smiles on their
in Oakland came aboard to tour the station. Acc•ompanied by their teacher, Mrs. faces the menu was more than satisfactory. Boarding the USS Palomas (right), for-
Grace Justice, the fifth and sixth graders took a welcomed day off from studies to mer luxury craft, the students viewed the type of craft ·used to patrol and pr-otect
!:ee how the Navy works on Treasure Island. At left they ar-e told of the accomplish- the Bay area ·during hostilities. Climaxing th,e afternoon, Chemical Warfare school
ments ,of a sub chaser betthed at Pier No. 17. Their first "taste" of Navy life was demonstrated weapons of war, including inc·endiary grenades, bombs, and gas.
ADMIRAL HALSEY New lighting System CAA Predicts Million House OK's World's
RETIRES FROM NA VY For Welcoming Sign Air Jobs by 19 55 largest Navy
Admiral William F . ("Bull") Something singular in lighting (SEA)-There will b ~ nearly a (SEA)-Endorsing unanim:rns-
Halsey, 63, rented in retirement arrangements has been devised million jobs in aviation by 1955, ly a Navy larger than the com-
at Coronado Eeach this week, bJs by the Public Works office for the the Civil Aeronautics Administra- bined fleets of all other nations, By Ships' Editorial Association
long and brilliant career in the welcoming sign on the incline of tion predicts. This will be 750,000 the House of Representatives has Q. Is my National Service Life
Navy at an end. Ye".'ba Buena Island. I m ore than in 1939. approved in principle the Navy's ,Insurance carried by a private
The great fightini:s admiral Instead of being bathed.in light :Cased o-:1 a 30% annual increase request for 1,082 combatant ships, company after I'm a civilian?
closed more than forty-flv3 years from spotlights on the road as in civil aircraft, the CAA esti- supported by appropriate num- A. No. It is government insur-
with the service this ,-reek when previously constructed, the "Hi mates that 901,300 persons will be be,s of auxiliary vessels and air- ance, administered by the Vet-
he relinqu_ished comma::d of the I Mates-Gre~t W~rk" plywoo~ let- involved in transporting 20,000,- craft. The Navy says 5,002 aux- erans' Administration, and no pri-
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famed Third Fleet to Rear Ad- ters are 1llummaLd by l!ghts . coo passengers in 400,0'.:0 planes. iliaries and 12,000 planes would vate concern handles it, whether
miral Howard F. Kingman in Les · plugged into inverted posts di- 1 This one industry would account be needed. you are in or out of service.
Angeles harbor. rectly over the individual letters. for 6% of all new jobs needed to The House resolution, which has * * *
This system affords a more bal- t been sent to the Senate, lists 3 Q. Is there any r,estriction on
a::iced lighting effect and does achieve national full employmen · use of GI Bi II loan money?
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3 large cruisers, 31 heavy cruis- to buy his own farm and equip-
ers, 48 light cruisers, 367 destroy- ment; or to buy his own business,
I Masthead Fiction I 199 submarines. earn a living.
e, s, 300 destroyer escorts, and business pr operty or equipment to
NEW GUINEA BLUES. • •
By JACK CORRIGAN, SM2c nightly habit he had of picking "Can't go on any longer . . . Hollywood Pin-Op Parade
up his kid's picture and squeezing found a man with position, money
There are many roads in Hol-
landia, Dutch New Guinea. Not it gently before he placed it under ... kid will have a good home ...
many of them are paved nor his pillow, but Harkness would request immediate divorce . . .
smooth riding. Some of them are smile boyishly and throw his sorry .. . "
taunt:
wide and long and spiralling, Harkness glanced at the men
snake-like paths that find their "I have something to live for, about him. They had raided the
passage into the rugged moun- m:m ! I've got someone t o love!" bo'suns package and were passing
tainsides. Some are short and flat The men would laugh, and re- it around. Some were reading and
and precarious and at times un- peat his words, and put th, m into smiling and joking. One was
usable. Most of them are dirt and popular songs. Then as th ~ lights :,,hielding his eyes with an elec-
stone, and when the rai::is come went out, they would shot:t in one tion pamphlet, and another was
in torrents, the roads are nothing voice : "He's got someone to love showing his kid's picture to the
but muddy swamps swallowed up - oh, man!'' chief.
by the broken tree branches. The days were long and scorch- No one was sad.
It was on these roads that Jim ing as the dust hung low over the It was time to return to work.
Harkness worked as a Seabee. He roads, choking the throats of the Ha, kness jumped to his feet and
was a man skilled in all trades. m en at work. It wouldn't last picked up his shovel. He eyed the
He could handle a bulldozer with long now. Another week. Another dirt mountainside before him and
the ease of a veteran, although month. Maybe two. Then back to he scratched his thick hair and
machinery was something new to Texas and wife and kid. Harkness spat in his hands. He joined his
him. H e could shovel dirt faster swung his shovel to the rhythm outfit, and one of them shouted:
than any man in his outfit, and to of hi~ thoughts. Back to wife, "She still love ya, Jim?"
watch him work as sweat and back to kid. Dig and dig, dig and
Texan Said Nothing
mud streamed down his strong dig. His outfit watched his even
The men laughed and kidded,
back one could marvel at the pace pace, and marveled. but the Texan said nothing. His
he set so effortlessly, so consis- strong arms started to dig, and
tently. '.I'hey said when Harkness Letter Fror:i Wife
worked with that spring in his The noon hour rolled around, with each stroke his pace became
arms, he worked with a light in and the men stretched out on the faster. The sun beat down on his
his eyes. dirt roads. Some of them talked, brawny back and clusters of dirt
His outfit knew why the light but the tired slept, while month- slid from his body but his blood-
was there. When a man's awav old newspapers shielded their shot eyes held fast to the hard
from home and has a wife and eyes from the glaring sun. One e1rth at his feet and he kept on
ten-months old baby girl waitirg of the men tripped over them as digging.
for him, he feels Eke working. he passed out letters and pack- He'd be going home soon, but
He's fired with the power to shape ages from home. Harkness had home to none. . Home to none,
impassable jungles into stream- one from his wife. home to none. A smile came to
lined roads, and he can laugh and It was hard to believe what it his mud-smeared face as his arms
feel sorry for the weaklings who said. The whole thing was a moved into their steady pace.
dii; beside him without r mbition. dream, a wild dream that he knew Home to none, home to none. A SIGHT FOR ANY SEAFARING man is this outdoor pose of Diana
Somethinn fo Live For ' was true. He read through the He had found a new rhythm to Lewis. Curvaceous Diana cavorts bef.or,e the cameras at the M-etro
Goldwyn Mayer studios. Her husband is William Powell, the "Thin
The outfit kidded him about the mist in his eyes. use at his work. Man." ·
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