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Tadcen Cops Class "A" Velodty-Power Scho~I Opens Monday; THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1945' C f
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building includes two classrooms, , N
Softball Title; Turns -, a tank room (an eleven-foot-deep ew avy en ers
Students Will "Sh.oot" Proiectiles tank was already on the site when s, d o· ' h
Back OTS In Two Tilts the school was built around it), 1 pee ISC arges
Tadcen's class "A" baseball ex-: ;First of Type in Navy, teen-year veteran of the naval tool shop, crew's bunk room, offi- The Navy announced this week
reserve (his permanent rating is cer's and chief's bunk room, office
ponents won the Treasure Island chief shipfitter), Ensign Dion first and storage compartment. that six new separation centers
softball championship here by de- School was Erected ,~Y met up with VP at the· 'Jfost~ri Practical Side Stressed will be set up within ten days to
feating a strong OTS team twice Navy Yard in 1943; At that time 'f,l:le school ready, Ensign Dion speed the discharge of 327,000
last Monday and Tuesday, 6-2 Ensign and Enlisted .. Man veterans from service during the
and 2~0. a chief with shipboard and repair turned his attention to recruiting next four months~
base experience behind him; Dion and teaching his instructors. All
First complete school of its At a special news conference,
Bob Williams, Tadcen short- saw the possibilities in VP and rated men with sea experience,
stop, was the big gun in the type authorized by the Navy, the learned its history. the five instructors are Daniel called by Secretary of the Nayy
opener, getting a home run, triple _ Treasure Island Velocity - Power Forrestal, it also was reyealed
t th School will begin teaching opera- Navy ~ad VP Eight Years
Iorillo, MMS 2 c; Harry Frazier, that the Navy and Marine Corps
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an d d bl e in ree rips o e A development of the Mine Mlc; William Neel, SFlc; Leroy draft quota for the month of Sep-
plate. tions Monday in newly erected
Building, No. 244,,. neaz:, the Fire Safety Appliance Company, of Jackson, SFlc, and Clarence R. tember was cut from 22;000 to
The_, second tilt proved a close Fighting School. 0 :Ptttsburg, velocity - power had Lake, CMlc. 13,000.
affair with the winning markers Heretofore taught on a limited been in the hands of the Navy for A practical man himself, En- Eighteen by September
coming in the third and fifth in- sign Dion will stress the practical
scale at some naval establish- about eight years. However, high Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs,
nings. · Shirley and Wilson tallied side of VP in the curriculum of ·
for the victors. .ments, including this base, veloe- ranking officers in BuShips felt the school. Coming from Pre- chief of personnel, said veterans
now are being discharged in five
ity-power is the use of gunpowder that, for one reason or another,
OTS won the right to play for in productive labor instead of de- VP was not getting the chance to Commissioning Training Center separation centers, that eleven
the Island championship by going struction. Generating immense prove . itself in the fleet. For orie a nd from ships, fifteen men each would be in operation within the
through the class "B" division un- forces, with pressure as great thing, damage ~ control parties day will enter th e school. Men next ten days, and that the total
defeated and then turning back as 112,000 , 11;:>s, to the square with training only in the theory whose duties include damage con- would be bo~sted, to eighteen by
the T.I. Hospital ten, division "C" inch, velocity-power accomplishes of VP were afraid to handle it. trol' will get preference in enroll- September.
champions. seeming miracles in ship repair. Also, since VP was "restricted," ment for the three-day course. The eighteen centers will have
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Tadcen walked off with the
tournament by knocking over Punches Holes in Steel the e-xplanatory -booklets found· Will Dive in Tank a discharge capacity of approxi-
As easily as a stapler machine their way into the publications
On the first two days, the stu- mately 500,000 per month, but
Armed Guard, pre-tourney favor- clips together two sheets of safe on ship and · the tools re- dents will operate the VP tools in Jacobs pointed out that it was
ites, Pre-Commissioning, Radio paper, velocity-power can affix mained below, forgotten. th~ classroom. Most versatile of not kp~vm how soon that total
Materiel, and then cinching the
\..J with steel pins a patch of half- A convert to the usefulness ,of t:hes~ tools is th~ ' vp ·driver, in would be reached.
pennant by walloping the former
inch-thick steel plate over a hole VP, Dion came to the notice 0f effect a ''gun" which;shoots bullet- Await Pacific Action
for a second time.
in a ship's side. BuShips. He was sent to the New shaped spikes to pin steel plates ,J·a-:cobs said the maximum
The class "C" chai;npionship de-
Easily as you snap, a thread York Navy Yard to teach VP on together or blunt sitigs to punch monthly discharge rate would not
veloped into a three-way fight with your teeth, velocity-power the then limited scale, commis- holes in the steel. Other VP. tools be determined until developments
with T. I. Hospital,_ Dispensary
can gnash inch-in-diameter steel sio,ned and sent to the Mine Safety are the rivet expande·r and rivet in . the Pacific crystallized so that
and Receiving Ship. _ The latter ca:bles fouling the propeller of a Appliance Company plant for ad- remover, both of whose functiOns the Navy could determine how
was eliminated after losing to the
Hospital teai:n,_· aJi_d the Dispensary ship. vanced instruction and then sent are being incorporated into the many men·- w_ould be needed for
Velocity-power can punch neat to Treasure Island to establish driver; the cable cutter and lC active duty.
outfit. Then the . 'Hospital base-
baller~ proceed,ed to defeat the holes through half-inch-thick steel the. s.chool. press, for pipe bonding, and the The total eligible for discharge
Disp~~sary f9r ,'lhetit1e: plates , or gouge_ a rivet from its Built School in 29 Days wire rope press. as Of August 15 was 327,000, in-
seat in inch-thick steel. When Ensign Dion and his act- On the third day of instruction, eluding 261,000 - enlisted ~ en,
In spite of the immense power ing chief, Walter Halvorson, the students will put on a ·full •5,200 enlisted women, 40,000 male
,, .d.. they exert, the velocity-power SFlc, arrived at T .I. four months diving suit or diving helmet or officers, 500 Wave officers and·•20;-
Arm e d , GU(:] r · tools can be wielded ,easily by one ago they were disappointed to face mask and enter the 35~foot 000 combat award holders. Tibat
,.. man. They weigh as little as an learn that a skilled-labor shortage by 17-foot tank. Under water; the total must 1;:>_e processed through
Beats Frontier Base M-1 carbine and have no more washoldingupconstructionofthe men will apply steel patches td :the separation centers within .1_20
recoil. Furthermore, VP can be school. After chaffing at delays holes in a simulated ship's hull;' :days of Augusl-•15. , ~-,-•, .
. Softb<!II
used under water, to a depth of for four weeks, Dion and Halvor- cut cables away from ship's , .- "The Navy's disch_arge PC!J!'lt
V-J-Day might have ended most 150 feet. screws as large as four feet in t ·11 b I d
of t~e fighting around _Japan, but son, both practical men with ex- d" t d d ·sys em w1 e ower~ as soon_;-as
Built School Himself perience in every skilled trade iame er ; expan an remove milij:ary, commitments permiJ,"
here on Treasure Island battles G
continued more . fierce than ever Head of the Velocity-Power from carpentering, plumbing and rivets and punch hol~s. raduates Jacobs told reporters. r•--.t-·
with the league favorites coming School and apostle of VP is En- steam-fitting to heavy construe- will be classified as velocity- The staging · areas from which
through after some stiff competi- sign John R. Dion, who was se- tion, requisitioned material and power men. men in the .Pac;ific _will be start,ed
• tion. lected by the Bureau of Ships built the school themselves. homeward are located at Pearl
and sent to T.I. with orders that By laboring sixteen to eighteen Two sailors lost their way. Said Harbor, Guam, Saipan, Leyte,
American League were a challenge. The orders were hours a day, seven days a week, one : "We must be in a cemetery, Hollandia, Manila and Manus and
The best game of the week de-
veloped when the league-leading to establish a school and prove the ensign and petty officer fin- there's a gravestone." The other possibly later Tokio.
Jacobs - said the Navy is re-
the value of VP to the Navy by ished the school in 29 days, prob- lit a match and replied: "Yeah, he
Armed Guard team battled the
strong Frontier Base for eleven getting it into practical use. A ably a record in building opera- lived to the ripe old age of 128." questing President Truman to re-
mart with a mission, the thirty- tions. A large, two-story, seven- "What's his name?" voke the portion of the executive
innings before winning, 7-6. A year-old ensign met the first half room building, 47-feet square, is "Some guy named Miles from order that now prevents the vol-
weird tussle between Tadcen and
Pre - Commissioning found the of his challenge by literally a monument to their determina- Los Angeles." untary recruiting of men between
building the school with his own tion and industry. Furnished al- - ----A-- - -- 18 and 38 for naval duty. The
former on the long end of an 8-6 hands. most completely and most in- Sarong- A bright colored pota- present legal limitation on the
win. Armed Guard and Tadcen
will play for the second half lead A native of Duluth and a thir- geniously from salvage, the school to sack- for tomatoes. size of the Navy is 500,000.
next Tuesday on Diamond No. 1.
Time: 1400. Powerful fiunpowtler Tools for Damage Control to Be Studied Ill 1, I,
National League
The only game played ended in
a 3-3 deadlock between Pre-Em-
barkation and Operational Train-
ing Gunnery.
International League
T. I. Dispensary continued on
their victory march, this time de-
feating the Destroyer Pool aggre-
gation, 9-2. A wild scoring contest
developed between the Post Office
and , ·the Medics. The
finally won out, 15-14.
STRIKER
VE;LOC,lliY-POWER IN THE CLASSROOM-Under watchful eye Clarence Lake, Daniel lorillo and• Harry Frazier. All men are in-
o.f Walter' Halyorson (in white cap), senior instructor, Leroy Jack- structors in new school. Right, Ens. John R. Dion, head of scl;i_oo!,
son (center) uses velocity-power driver to "shoot" steel pin into tends air line as instructor Jackson, in diving suit and carrying
,l'!~,l,f,jnqh-thick s~eel plate in -. sand box. In foreground, practicing velocity-power driver, is lowered under water in demonstration o'f
loading projectiles in dril(er barrels, are (left to .right). Will.lam Neel, how students will practice ·in school tank.