Page 8 - Mastheads July-Dec 1945

PAGE 8 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, JULY '7, 1945

TREASURE /SlllND WASTE MIi TER/lllS GO TO THE NATION'S WAR Pl/INTI

REAL WAR JOBS are those performed by personnel of the Salva ge Division. Above, at wooden crat es t hat will be tu rned over to fruit g rowers, etc., fo r refil ling. At ri ght is
left, a re shown stud ents of t he weld ing school r,educing large sections ,of steel to sma ller, pictur,ed one of the t rucks that haul ga rbage off the island every day which is used t o
more easily movable pieces. In the circle is s hown only pa rt of a huge stack of soun d feed hogs that may wind up back on y,our mess tray as a juicy pork chop.

Salvage Is Big Business At T. I., INVENTION, WHICH
GIVES DAT A ON GOLF
Supply Department Figures Reveal BALL, COMING HERE
A wind t unnel for a golf ball has
building jobs here and at other
been developed. At least it gives
Staggering Amounts -of nearby installations. This lumber the informatton relating to a golf
is sorted and stacked according to
"Waste" Are Trucked Off size and is being issued regularly ball, that a wind tunnel gives on an
to various Treasure Island activi- airplane. Moreover, this succo•r for
Island Every Month ties where good used second-hand the golfer is to be tested here on
Treasure Island at 1600 on July 10,
lumber will "fill the bill."
behind Gym No. 2.
Burla p Bags By the Score
'
Growth from a neglected "prob- The mechanism is supposed to
One of the oldest functions of the
lem child" to an outstanding mem- check the reaction of a golf ball
ber of the Supply Department salvage division is the gathering when it is smacked by a golf club.
and sale of used burlap bags.
family is the story of Treasure It will register the distance the ball
Island's- Salvage and Conservation After being emptied of their thou- would travel and will indicate the
sands of pounds of potatoes, onions
Division. degree of h ook or slice. The mech-
and carrots, they are dried and
In the beginning, the entire bundled. This procedure fulfills a PAPER IS BALED in the bali ng m ach ine (upper left) located in the anical unit requires use of a twenty
salvage personnel consisted of one Sa lvage and Conservat ion bu ildi ng. Before it is placed in the machine, foot squa re.
two-fold purpose. / Empty bags it must be sorted with ra kes a nd brooms. This is accompl ished by brig
seaman operating u nd er Public stored in galleys have a tendency prisoners. Just a few of t he ba rrels of shoes and o vel"shoes are shown L t. Commander R. S. Kimbell,
Works. Now, under th e direction of to create a musty odor, sponta- at upper ri g ht. A sea led bi d sale for t heir d isposa l is held fr.om time Chairman, 12th Naval District
Ch ief P ay Clerk I. Baker, nine neous combustion, and are a con- t o time. Athletic Council asks that those in-
permanently assigned men salvage sequent fire hazard. Then, too, they terested in golfing be on hand to
enough material to return to th e are not only a "critical item," but the transportation pool, mount in WAVES witness the demonstration.
coffers of the Navy over $1l,OOO the Navy receives a yearly return a month's time to gigantic truck- • • •
per month. This is a marked in- of approximately $3,000 from this loads of material headed for recon- Contin ued from Page 7- "Guess I'll have another litU-e
crease over the total return of item alone. version plants throughout this area. nip," said the Marine as he picked
$80.45 for the whole year of 1942 · T,ons and Tons of St eel Huge amounts of tin cans are sold ... Ask the Waves at the Hospit al a Jap sniper out of the nearest
In those days t here was no segrega- It is not uncommon for the sal- to bottling companies that make if their party at the Palace last palm tree.
tion of salvageable ·scrap items vage yard to receive large, pre- them into bottle caps. Bundled week wasn't the best yet ... Lady
from trash and rubbish generated _fabricated sections of steel decking, newspapers are fed into shredding ,vi.th a double talent is Charlotte
at many base activities. gun platfor.ms, etc., resulting from machines to make packing for vital Wolford who works in the Chapel her husband, newly returned from
A glimpse at the figures released the repair and overhaul work at ·materials going overseas. and still finds time to make good overseas ... Mary J o Worley fed
by Salvage will give you a partial the Industrial Shops. The difficulty When the amount of scrap ma- use of a lovely soprano voice . . . all her roommates bing cherr ies
from home and they, poor souls, all
idea of how much is realized in handling this material has been terial gathered here is multiplied Last Sunday found her singing at suffered .with a stomach ache .. .
through the sales of various scrap overcome by arranging with the by all the naval establishments in Theatre No. 3 for the 1000 church Some people never grow up . . .
materials each month. During one welding school to "torch" and "cut this country, we realize how im-
month's period, garbage alone re- up" t hese large sections as soon as portant the Navy salvage program service . . . Gal to watch is Betty Our orchard this week, even as last
turns ov,er $5,500. Kitchen grease they arrive at the salvage yard. is in filling the steel mills, the Bier at Armed Guard . . . She week, goes to the storekeepers who
collected in the galleys nets some- Almost every day you can see stu- paper mills, and the war plants of teaches men to handle the big guns have been wo,rking nine and ten
thing around $2,000. Ordinary dents getting practical experience, the nation. and t hen steals top honors with hours a day, including week-ends,
small arms at the pistol range . .. to meet the semi-annual book bal-
wooden crates~ produce and eggs, and at the same time reducing the So far as we know, Margaret Wood- ancing required by "Bu S&A" f· . .
will yield $300. The bones from ponderous masses to easily movable
those steaks you eat at chow are pieces. "It's not just the work I enjoy," mansee is the first Treasure Island They are doing a good job and
worth $500 a month. A . t 1 200 000 d f said the DeLuxe Cab driver, "It's Wave to get a thirty day leave their tempers seem to be holding
pproxuna e y · ' poun s O the people I run into." which she is happily spending wich up in spite of the long hours. ·
Usable CJ.othing Revamped scrap iron is accum ulated and dis-
During the early part of A ugust, posed of each month. Broken radi-
Salvage Personnel Gatl,er Material Wortl, 111,IJIJO Montl,/y
1944, a survey was made by the ators, barrels, steel shavings from
salvage officer. as to the quantity t he lathes, iron pipes and brass
of discarded, soiled clothing and tubing are only a few of th.e items
rags that was being hauled off to that find their way to the salvage
the burning pit. The quantity of depot.
salvageable material was unbe- Newspape rs Are Baled
lievable and a program was imme- When you throw away that Time
diately inaugurated to sort out all magazine, chances are that if will
clothes and rags regardless of con- end up on a truckload of waste
dition. paper bound for a paper mill. The
Clothing t)lat is found to be barracks MAA ties all discarded
ripped is put aside and considered newspapers and magazines into
as rags. The daily usable soiled bundles and sets them out for fre-
clothing is then turned over to the quent pickups by the truck.
T.I. brig to be washed. A very Sometimes waste paper is not
small percentage of clothing sal- caught until it reaches th-e burning
vaged is retained to fill the brig pit. H ere a prisoner detaii attacks
pr isoner requirements. An average it with rakes and brooms, sorting
of 5,000 pounds of t orn clothing it for the baling machine. All clean,
monthly is washed, bale d and dry waste paper is pushed into the
turned back to the Supply Depart- press and baled into bales measur-
ment for reissue as clean rags. ing about six feet by 36 inches by
Scrap Lumber Helps Shortage 30 inches. 'fhese bales weig h ap-
In the midst of the extensive proximately 800 pounds each.
construction that accompanied the Hundreds of Items
enlargement of this base, it was This story could go on and on,
discovered that huge amounts of enumerating the literally hundreds
scrap !umber were being taken to of items salvaged every day on DISCARDED CLOTHING is salvaged and washe d by F. J. O'T,oole, S1c; H. R,oosevelt, S2c ; T. W. Boggess,
the burning dump and destroyed. Tr-easure Island. brig prisone rs as s hown in t he pictu re at above left. SK1c; R. J. Tar19way, SF3c; D. W. Taylor, S1c. F:ront
Because of the critical shortage· of Seemingly small items, s u ch as After clot hing requirements for prisoners have been . row: J. S. Dabr,owski, F1c~ H. J. Sc-ott, F1c; W. E.
met, the ba la nce is t a ken to Supply Departme nt Unters, S1c. Inset is I. Baker, Chief Pay Cl,erk', ,of-
lumber, steps were taken to re- coca c6la bottles, paint cans, wire
st orerooms for reissue as clean rags. Salva ge pe r-. __ : ficer- in -charge of the Salvage and Conservati-on
trieve t he usable material for small and cable, and even waste oil from sonnel, at abov-e ri ght a re (left to r:ig ht, back row); P ivisi<;m :