Page 28 - Mastheads July-Dec 1945

PAGE 4 THE :MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945
Activities for Emt1/een Gordon to Be Fet1tured Here
Transportation Pool
THE COVER Waves This Week
Employees Launch
Honoring the Waves On Their , Saturday - Bowling, Tennis,
Third Birthday Anniversary • Recruiting Campaign Swimming: 1000-1800.
Sunday- Bowling, Tennis, Swim-
............ ............... ..,. ... ' Aimed to relieve the critical
ming: 0900-1700. Trip to Russian
shortage of drivers in the Treasure
River. Bus leaves Stop 39, 0930.
Island transportation pooI, a re-
Monday- Bowling, Tennis, Swim-
cruiting campaign has been launch- ming: 0900-2100. Military Review:
ed by the drivers themselves.
1630. Birthday Dinner, Wave 'Gal-
Inaugurated Thursday, July 19, ley: 1800. Wave Dance, Adminis-
its purpose will be accomplished tration building: 2000-2400.
through drivers recruiting their Wednesday - Handicraft class,
friends for positions as chauffeurs. Bowling, Tennis, Swimming.
As a result of the tempo of war in Thursday - Bowling, Tennis,
the Pacific, increased demands for Swimming.
transportation have placed a tre- Friday-Golf, Bowling, Tennis,
mendous strain on the local facili- Swimming.
ties. The shortage of drivers forced Saturday Bowling, Tennis
authorities to call out a group of Swimming.
Seabees from Camp Parks, who
have since contributed admirably
toward fulfilling all orders. Drivers
are urged to contact friends for Swim, Live and Win
these positions, for the need for The Navy has underscored these
additional employees will become ':hree words for its personnel by
greater as the war approaches ~ a
~mphasizing the fact that all Navy
climax. nen should be qualified swimmers.
When Helen Wilson was called
Last week 611 men from Pre-
out as driver of one of the many
Jommissioning Training School
buses assigned to an incoming pier
Barbara R. Wallis, SK1c draft last week, she expected noth- :ook basic processing swim tests.
ing more than a routine trip. When 1esults found 452 qualified swim-
The inspiration for the cover of ners and 159 who failed to pass
she reached the pier, however, she
this week's issue of The Masthead ·:he third class swimming require-
sighted her husband among those
is none other than one of our own nents.
returning Navy men waiting at the
Treasure Island Waves, Store- Your Navy does not believe in
heeper First Class Barbara R. Wal- she was a bridesmaid and greeting "suicid_e squads"; it feels that a
lis. A very attractive, intelligent her brother, an Army lieutenant man who goes to sea and cannot
BEAUTIFUL BLONDE premier danseuse, Emaleen Gordon, currently
young lady with one of those "out- just returned to the states after swim is liable to the same dangers featured at the "Copacabana" in San Francisco, will be a part of the
of-this-world" personalities, Bar- being a prisoner of the Germans. al? a man who goes to battle with- entertainment at the Wave Bir.thday Dance, Monday, July 30.
bara has been with the local supply Barbara's father is also in there out his gun. For this reason the
department since October, 1943. pitching to help win the war. He 159 who failed to pass as qualified
Entering the Waves in June, 1943, is a radio technician servicing swimmers will report to tha gym Industrial Dept. PUBLIC WORKS NEWS
she attended the Navy school for equipment on our planes as they three times each week until they
storekeepers in Boston, following return for repairs. do pass swimming reqpirements. Shipfitters Get Ships All personnel of the Shops wish
Junior College in Sacramento, Yes, Mates, we know you have a to welcome Lt. E . A. Bullington to
Calif., her home town. Barbara has question. She is not spoken for, has rail to disembark. It goes without Back on Their Feet our little group. He can sit on our
had a busy week posing for photo- several good prospects, but you saying that Mrs. Wilson drove on desks or benches any time.
graphs for The Masthead and her must be interested in swimming ::louds all the way back, with her Go down around the shipfitting Ensigns Wynn and Sharp now
home-town paper The Sacramento and golfing before she will even ·msband riding in the coveted seat department at the Industrial shops have their well deserved promo-
Bee, attending a wedding for which give you a look in. behind the driver. any day and you will come upon a tions to Lieutenant (jg). Good luck
scene of brisk, sometimes terrifying
and we all hope that you both can
activity. Giant cranes lower steel
pass out the cigars and candy in
Neep Mt1cl,lnes Hummlng ... Stt1rt Your Recruiting Ct1mpt1lgn Now beams into place; welding torches the near future again.
flash piercing blue; little groups of
men are huddled around blueprints, It seems Bobby Wilson thought
studying them intently. Outside, over_ the marriage problem thor-
tied up at one of the repair docks, :mghly. From now on she will be
lies a broken, battle-scarred vet- '.inancing her own little section.
eran of the sea. It is for her, to get Bill Stein, from the Design, came
her back into action that men and up the other day to charm the girls
women work overtime, sometimes in his civilian clothes. How did he
night after night. Perhaps there are look, girls?
several ships docked out there, each Remember Paul Mitchell? He is
with her crew of repairmen work- now in a convalescent hospital.
ing against time to get her out on
schedule. Okinawa w~ his stumbling block.
Mr. Rathbun, electrican, runs a '
It is the job of the shipfitting
shop to study blueprints of an in- little store in back of the ware-
jured ship, and from them replace '10use and seems to be doing good
her broken members, whether they business. Cigarettes too.
are a couple of half-inch pad-eyes Public Works has its superman
or a complete new stern or super- too. It seems Walter Blair can tear
structure. The department must as- phonebooks in four pieces with no
sume responsibility for completing effort whatsoever.
the job according to plan.
Mrs. Beale's face is beaming
The shop hasn't always been so more brightly than ever now. Her
well - equipped or running so son has an honorable discharge and
smoothly. Less than two years ago is home.
it was nothing more than a hand-
ful of mechanics working with an
equally small handful of equipment. Dt1nce Tet1m Coming
Despite this' handicap, however.
ships came and left as scheduled. For Wt111e 8t1/I
Many returned a second time to
have new wounds patched up and
be placed back into commission.
Little by little, the Navy ob 0
tained more men and equipment.
built new repair docks, and in-
creased general repair facilities.
With an original goal of 1,000 work
orders completed per year, the
figure 20,000 stands little short of
phenomenal as the total number of
jobs turned out. Employing more
than 100 men and women, the ship-
fitting shop has become the heart
of ship repair facilities on Treasure
Island.
In order to lay out and carry
through the vital ship repair work,
the department must depend on
full cooperation of nearly all other
departments of Industrial division.
Machinists, electricians, carpenters, MAARCYCA ~nd Rene Gunsett
welders, burners, flangers - these have recently completed an engage-
ment at the Club Lido in San Fran-
are only a few of the men and cisco, coming here from the Wal-
TO RECRUIT WORKERS for jobs pictured above- erans can still work for the Navy.; filling positions as women who do their share to make dorf-Astoria in New Y,ork City.
and many more - is the job that must be accom- welders, flangers, sheet metal workers, draftsmen, the record of Industrial second to They will present their unusual
plished by the personnel and civilian employees of and others. Urge your friends to apply in person at routines at the Wave Birthday
Treasure Island. Both men and women are urgently the Branch Labor Board in the Administration none in efficiency, spirit, and dance to be held in the Administra-
needed to do vital war work here. Discharged vet- Building. morale .. tion builtllng n!lx.\ 1\/lqntlay nig,ht.