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vilian life in the future look prom- Saturday night and a trip to Car- and green wilf meet and have handicraft classes at Barracks 232.
ising. We will go to press as usual mel is scheduled for Sunday. The breakfast together. This invitation Two· instructors spend each
until that promise is fulfilled, but party is dutch treat, the transpor- is offered "especially for you." Wednesday evening teaching knit-
in the meantime "our .dreams are tation is on the Navy and once ar- Hope you can go. ting, leather craft, how to make
getting better all the time." Yours, rived at Carmel, it's every woman Remember the Handy-Pandies? slippers, hats, purses and almost
too? for he·rself and a wonderful time. You don't? They were funny anything in the way ()If novelties.
On the Way t-o Monterey Special Mass This Week-End little rhyming gags that came out You don't have to bring anything
Fifty lucky Waves will leave this St. Boniface church, located on of Hollywood not long ago. They but your brain and a friend. The
It looks as if the end might be in weekend for points south on one Golden Gate Avenue in San Fran- haven't anything to do, however, results are guaranteed. Why not
sight for Waves as part of the of the regularly scheduled trips. cisco, is holding a mass at 0900 except by virtue of their name, become a "handy-pandy" today, to-
Navy. Question is when? Venturing The bus leaves Stop 39 at 1330 tomorro,w at which servic,e women with the fact that you are missing morrow or next Wednesday at
no predictions we can only say that Saturday. Accommodations have will be honored guests. Following the time of your life if you are not 1830?
the prospects of returning to ci- been provided at Pacific Grove for the mass the girls in blue, khaki attending the Wednesday night Continued on Page 6 -

fill PRINTING FOR 12ND NOW GOES THROUGH TREASURE ISlllND OFFICE

standard bureau forms and publica- Mare Island. required for the many presses in cult to secure at the present time
SecNav Order Turns tions as directed, for issue to dis- Two types of printing are em- operation. and great care must be taken to
trict activities and ships, calling at ployed; namely, letter press and When work orders pile up a tern- keep it in the best _of condition. A
T. I. Print Shop Into 12ND ports. offset. This makes it possible to use porary priority system is inaugu- personnel shortage exists because
In other words under the new ,whatever system is most efficient rated. All work for the fleet nat- skilled printers are required to op-
One of Biggest system the plant now receives to produce the desired resuits. Let- urally gets first preference. Right erate this equipment. Lt. Cornman-
What is now known as the every printing order in the district ter press printing is used where now the Treasure Island shop is der Halvorson estimated it would
Tweifth Naval District Publica- and determines whether the job is new composition is needed and the handling printing jobs for approxi- -be necessary to have at least twice
tions and Printing Office used to be to be handled here, at Mare Island, quantities are not too great. Offset mately 200 activities within the the number of printers to obtain
a little job shop belonging solely to or by a commercial establishment, printing is utilized when copy is to district. All printing must be done maximum production. At present, a
Treasure Island. This majestic and-when. One can understand be reproduced in its original form, in accordance with Navy regula- full crew operates the plant from
transformation took place in pur- why this "parceling out" of the such as charts, graphs, photo- tions. 0800 until 1700 and a skeleton crew
suance of orders issued several work is so necessary when it is graphs, etc., when large quantities Shortages of various types often takes over at 1700 for anothe·r
months ago to all Naval Districts realized that the local plant has are required. render maximum production diffi- eight-hour shift. "Increased produc-
by the office of the Secretary of three or four hundred printing re- The T.I. shop has the necessary cult to attain. Personnel, paper, tion could be obtained with addi-
the Navy. Under the direction of quests in process at all times, in photographic and plate - making and film are all hard to obtain. tional trained personnel, only," the
Lt. Commander 0. C. Halvorson, addition to a similar quantity all the plates Equipment is naturally very diffi- Publications commander stated.
this Naval District is the first to ii!ii!!!!iF~= a N~Ke..71 % JC. ""'r' t{Qv~i..s - 9CL~
complete the ordered consolidation.
Formerly there were fifteen print-
ing establishments within this Dis-
trict; the biggest being located on
Mare Island.
As a result of an official survey,
however, it was accorded that two
large print shops would be used. to
serve this entire district. Because
of the facilities already located at
Mare Island this plant was chosen
as was the enlarged plant at
Treasure Island. The printing is
handled by civilians at Mare Island,
while the print shop is operated by
bluejacket printers at T. I.

LT.COMDR.O.C. HALVORSON
T.I. Shop Has Four Departments
Headed by Lt. Commander 0. C.
Halvorson who has seen two years
duty in the Navy, and was formerly
vice president of the Mid-Western
Press and Supply Company in Sioux
Falls, So. Dak., the Publications
office is divided into four sections.
They are : (1) Publications Control;
(2) Forms Control ; (3) Production ;
( 4) Stock Distribution.
The Publications Control section
furnishes technical and edito·rial
assistance to District activities
the planning of Publications.
The Forms Control Section is
charged with the establishment and
coordination of control and stand-
ardization of forms within the dis-
trict and to assist in the establish-
ment of functional control files by
district activities.
The Production Section processes
work orders for printed matter in
both publications and routine office
forms. It reproduces material by
letter-press and offset processes
and maintains the necessary safe-
guards to insure security of classi-
fied matter.
The Stock Section applies stand-
ard procedures on stock control,
warehousing and distribution of
printed material and assists dis-
THESE PICTURES SHOW the clean, well-lighted print s.h.op which mailing· room. Lower inset is the cutting department and l.ower left
trict activities on such problems. processes most ·Of 12N D publications. Upper left shows Platemaking
is the office of the Plant Supervisor, Chief E. W. Carlson, who is seen
One of its most important func- department while upper right is binding section which puts the print- at the desk. Printer Bill Barrickman has his back to you. Lower right,
tions, other than delivery and stor- ing together. Circle shows a close-up of Lithograph machine-while at the stock room, shows a small amount of paper needed for the print-
age of printed material, is to stock center left the same machine can be seen 1 i n ,operation, as is the,.rest ing jobs. It has been estimated that to obtain maximum pr,oduction for
of the letterpres.s department. Center right is the stock section and the shops would require twice the present number of printers.