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KEEPING TREIISORE Ill/IND PAINTED IS II BIG JOB Investigation Reveals

"Secret" Figures
Many Branches of
About T. I. Waves
Paint Shop; Every-
No matter what you try to say
body Keeps Busy to convince her the other way, the
average female \3/ill st-eadfastly re-
When observing Treasure Island fuse to reveal her exact poundage.
from the San Francisco-Oakland This .situation has not been brought
Bay bridge, it looks as though the about merely as an overnight
Navy knows of only one colo·r- a thought. It has been go,ing on for
battle green. We naturally think
how easy a job it must be to keep However, your reporter was de-
th,e island painted. Just go out and termined to know one thing to put
slap it on- a swell job to have! his tattered mind to rest, and that
It is hardly ever realized the is: Are the Waves, stationed here,
paint shop employs about sixty adding weight by way of Navy
civilians and nine sailors; has furni- chow, or vice versa?
,ture, maintenance, automobile, Knowing full well the seriousness
glazing and fixture shops; can con- of the question and the way the op-
coct over three hundred different posite sex feel about revealing such
color shades; stocks over $15,000 heretofore unpublicized secrets, we
of paint; and keeps breathlessly set about trying to find an answer.
busy. Let's consider the work per- ' It was like "looking fo•r a needle in
formed by the nine sailors of the a hay stack."
Public Works Paint Shop.
After popping the question (con-
George H. Hixon, Jr., S1c cerning weight, of course) to no-
Have you eve·r seen that three- less than a dozen fair haired Waves,
wheeled road striper roaring around we have come up with the follow-
the island? It can do 56 MPH, al- ing developments on the subject:
though it crawls along at th,ree (a) Six maintained that they
knots when road-restriping. It was
have lost weight since coming to
made from odds and ends, confis 0 Treasure Island.
cated from junk piles, after the
(b) Four nonchalantly said they
. plans were formulated by R. L. have neither gained nor lost.
Stone, Ptrlc, who is in charge of
(c) Two blushingly claimed ex-
the sailor-painters.
tra pounds by way of T. I. cafe-
This crew is charged with the teria.
task of doing specialty painting In a matter of comparison, two
over the island. George H. Hixon, civilian workers employed on the
Jr., Slc is the outstanding man of island were interviewed, both of
the department. Most of the sign- whom eat Navy chow he,re. The
designing is his work. Although a findings are:
painter's strike·r, Hixon is a pro- (a) Both repeated the same
fessional from civilian life, and an story; they have remained at the
example of his work is the new same weight.
General Courts Martial Directories
(b) However, they made it clear
on Yerba Buena Island. This job that they don't eat everything that
was estimated to cost about $400 by is served. "I keep clear of all
a comm-ercial shop but Hixon starchy foods," one stated. "If a
turned .it out, hand lettered and de-
person ate all their given ration,
signed, at a cost of $150. It has
they'd pick up weight-but fast,"
anchors, ribbons and star, natural concluded the attractive worker.
brass rope finished in bronze and THE RAMIFICATIONS of the Public Works' Paint right), repaint a white-line with road stripper they
Shop, as shown above, indicates a big job is de- invented. Stone is the driver. Aboard the t ruck So Girls- plueeze- don't take
mahogany, with lettering done in manded to keep the island and all its equipment (lower left ), Earl Long points out t,o F. Laughlin that extra sHce of bread. Remem-
black. looking new. Upper left, Warren Prevost operates a the connections of the ·outdoor spray compressor. ber that figure! Or else "he" won't
About the Civilians "color-eye" which exactly rematches any col.or shade The middle left picture shows the supply shed with remember you.
'Civilian Ray Dunn directs the desired. M. Herzog and Lenora Marchetti (upper the painters ·preparing paint f.or a ' job. Louis W. The $64 question is still up in the
right), finish a repair job in the furniture shop. R. John is in charge. The nine sailors who are assigned
efforts• ,of the civilian employees of L. Stone, Ptr1c, and R. L. Hunt, MoMM1c (l,ower to this department are anything but inactive. air.
·::;: th,.e paint shop, with. H. Larson and
F."'Laughlin as his two assistants.
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These men manage the paint shop Alameda Wins 12th Naval f,~:Th~·Gi;l Back -iio~;:.~1
in Building 60 a:t the north end pf QU
the island, and.an automobile spray Crown With Win OverT.I.
she d in Building 224. Besides the
•.. , maintenance work of keeping all Treasure Island almost squared
buildings on the island ship-shape, baseball accounts with Alameda
the shop does furniture finishing, Naval Air Station Saturday, but
glass wo,rk, paints two vehicles per ran into a snag in the sixth inning
day; totals over $15,000 of work when the Airmen scored their only
per mqnth. Q. If a regular Navy man re- run to defeat "the Pirates in a
enlists immediately after expira- league contest, 1-0.
The paint shop, under the cogni-
1
zance of the Public Works Depart- tion of hitch is he entitled to $300? The loss dropped T.I. into a
ment, was started in December of A. For a USN man: When enlist- three-way tie for third place, while
1941 and has since grown by leaps ment runs out and if he has been the win gained Alameda undisputed
and bounds. Besides the work of the 90 days ,or more overseas he gets possession of the 12th Naval Dis-
islands, this shop is responsible for mustering out pay of $300. trict championship. Only two games
keeping the approaches of the Q. Is bonus paid for re-enlist- remain in the first half sch-edule.
bridge, which lead to or from ment? Torncello started field operations
either island, in normal condition. A. If the man decides to re- for Alameda in the sixth inning
F. Laughlin, shop planner, was enlist and ·is a seaman or petty of- when he singled sharply to leftfield.
asked what the shop's biggest job Welker followed this with another
ficer third class, he gets $25 for
was. He remarked that they had to hit and then Rigney's free passage
each year of service o.n his· last en-
do the entire layout at the Rec- to first base as a result of Lloyd
listment period and also gets trans-
Ship which, to 'him, was a terrific portation cost back to his orig inal Lowe's error enabled Torncello to
job. "But," he said, "look at this place of enlistment. If a petty of- cross the plate with the winning
paint order job." It read: "Paint
fie-er second class or higher, he gets run.
six heads of recently-fitted wood $50 for each y,ear of last enlist- Si Johnson hurled the two-hit
screws in Waves Barracks!" ment. (This is in addition to $300 ball for the Air Station, Williams
mustering out pay. ) and Donnelly being the only two
Definition of a Seabee: A soldier Q. Does a Wave advanced from T.I. men to get anywhere near his
in a sailor's uniform with Marine POlc to CPO rate a clothing al- deliveries.
training doing a civilian job for lowance? T.I. threatened in the third frame
WPA wages. A. Whereas· men advanced fr.om and again in the ninth but flawless
PO1c t-o CPO receive a clothing pitching by Johnson stopped both
allowance •of $200 to provide the rallies cold. "Rip" Collins gave up
uniforms required for a CPO six blows to the Hellcats but three
rating, n•one is provided for waves of them bunched together were
making the same advancement, enough for the margin of victory.
since the diff.erences between the Score by innings: R. H. E .
uniform requirements for a Wave· Alameda . 000 001 000- 1 6 0
PO1c and CPO are very slight. T.I. .... - .000 000 000-0 2 2
Q. If a man who is stationed Batteries : Alameda, J o);lnson and
overseas meets a young lady whom McConnell; T .I., Sheely and Collins.
he would like to marry, must he
obtain permission from his com- commander of such forces sta-
manding officer? tioned i,n that country, possession
A. Y,es. Alnav 144-42 provides ,or area. T.his does not, however,
that n,o member of the Navy, apply to personnel who marry
A CHEERY SMILE from a bl·ue-eyed brunette awaits Max Goulding,
Marine Corps or Coast Guard within the continental U. S., in- SK3c, of Treasure Island's Pr,ovision Warehouse, when he returns to
forces ,on duty in any U .S. posses- cluding Alaska, while on f,eave or his home and family at Danville, 111. His little daughter, Valerie Ann,
sion or foreign country may marry otherwise, as provided by Alnav 4-years-old, pictured above, is a Ii keness of her mother and from Daddy
"I hear it's a lousy movie" Goulding oomes the news that she will not be the only child long, and
without the approval of the senior 38-45. Max is definitely hoping that it will be a son this time1