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                 CIVILIAN  PERSONNEL                              'TRA~N~  G SCHOOL

         Charlie  Meighan  Typical  of  Many

         Civilians Who "Converted"to War Jobs                       Proving  that  you  can't  lose  a
                                                                   true friend,  Elmer Welcher, form-
           Treasure  Island  civilian  per-                        er member of the  OTS  instructor
         sonnel includes many who dropped
                                                                   sto/f,  came back to say  hello  and
         whatever  they  were  doing  and                          see  his  friends· a  few  days  ago.
         resnonded  to  the  Navy's  call  for                     And,  sporting the latest thing the
         civil  employees.                                         well  dressed  ex-sailor wears,  too!
           Tvoical  of  these  is  Charlie                        · Welcher departed in  April  of  this
         Meighan,  shipfitter  at  Industrial                      year  to  attend  the  V-7  school  in
         Department,  who  has  a · long  and                      Troy,  N.  Y.,  received his  commis-
         interesting- background as a  jour-                       sion and was put on inactive duty
         nalist and in radio production and                        when  the  school  closed  recently.
         advertising.                                              While  at OTS he was  an instruc-
           He  assumed  his  present  repair                       tor in Lookout &  R ecognition and
         job  in · November,  1943,  and  h_as                     in  addition  acted  as  reporter  for
         been  there  ever  since.  For'' two                      The  Masthead  column.  Welcher
         years  he  has  been  a  consistent                       is  a  native  San Franciscan.
         contributor  to  the  Navy  blood
         donor  program  and  with  other
         members  of  his  family  has  pur-                        The  C. I .C.  department  has  al-
         chased more than $5.500 worth of                          most  enough  news  to  rate  a  col-
         War Bonds.  He  was  the  "speaker                                        There  is  the
         in  ·overalls"  at  the  Industrial                                          Henderson
         bond  rallies,  and  made  several                        joining  the  ranks of the  benedicts
         radio appeals for Navy war work-                          by  saying  "I  do,"  together  with
         ers,  and  blood  donors  .                               Leora  Foster,  a  Treasure  Island
           At  19  years  of  age,  Meighan   Charlie  Meighan     Wav,e  who  hails  from  Barracks
         was managing editor of the Dailv                          232.   The  ceremony  took  place
         Examiner  at  Ogden,  Utah,  and                          last  _ Saturday  at  1000  in  the
         was  contributing  feature  article;;  $66,000,000 Saved  by   Treasure  Island  Chapel,  Chaplain
                                                                   Rice  officiat ing.  The  happy couple
         to  Colliers,  Leslies.  Illustrated
         World  and  other  national  maga- Suggestions  of  Navy   enjoyed a  brief honeymoon in  Palo
                                                                   Alto-well,  after  all,  how  far  can
         zines.
           The vear 1907 found him a  cor-  Civilian  Workers      you  go  on  a  48!  ... Then  the1·e  is
         respondent  for  Associated  Press,                       the saga -of Francis Marion  Boeck,
         plus other duties as feature writer   In  announcing  last  week  the  who  displayed  a  lack  of  his  much   JITTER BUG-Esther  Isaacs,  18-year-old  Chicago  stenographer, can
         and  news  editor  of  the  Sacra- continuation of the Navy's Benefi- discussed  old  age when  he  got the   cut a  mean  rug  and  is  plenty  hep  to the jive, testifies  Armed  Guards-
         mento  Union.  During  this  period  cial  Suggestion  program  as  a  word  that  he  was  to  get  ready  to  man  Ed  Fox.  Ed's a  photographer  (he  made the  portrait above)  and
         he  covered  President  Taft's  visit                     leave  for  Shoemaker  on  his  way  will  first  go  back  into  the  business  and  then  marry  "Blue  Eyes"
                                      peacetime measure,  Under  Secre-                         ( Esther)  when  he  gets  his discharge.
         to California and other big stories                       out.  Such  speed!
                                      tary  of  the  Navy  A.  L.  Gates
         of  the  day.                                             First  Lieutenant
                                      stated  that  the  first  year's  sav-                    Look-out  &  Recognition    vance agent to get the home town •
           He  later  went  to  Pendleton,
                                      ings on more than 17,000  adopted   It's a  leave for  J . W. Hutchison,
         Ore., and while editor of the "Live                                                     Departing  to  the  USS  Norris  ready  for  his  return  to  those  fa.-
                                      ideas  submitted  by  civilian  em- Y2c,  who  says  that  he  is  going
         Wire"  helped  organize  the  first                                                   is  Lynn Dudney,  CBM,  one  of the  miliar  scenes.   Incidentally,  he
                                      ployees  exceeded  $66,000,000  dur-  to  Reno  for  pleasure- no  busi-
         Pendleton Roundup.           ing World War II.            ness!  J .  Partanen,  SKlc,  who  is   best instructors to hail from OTS.  has  added  a  few  more  letters  to
           In  World  War  I  Charlie  saw                         taking over  "Hutches' "  duties  as   Dudney will be greatly missed and   his  USNR- it· now  reads  USNR-
         service in Siberia, the Philippines,   Mr.  Gates  pointed  out  that   official dispenser of transportation   all  hands  wish  him  "smooth sail•   MN-F;  all  this  meaning· military
         China  and  Hawaii.   After  dis-  while  the savings were important                  ing".                        necessity and frozen . . . Cold isn't
                                      they  represented  only  a  portion   requests  and  car  passes,  re-
         charge he became  coast publicity                         marked, "It's cold in San Francis-  Kaleidoscope         it ? :-Mentioning the word frozen
         director  for  several  automobile   of  the  benefits.  Through  the  ap-  co,  but at least I'm not  'frozen'!"   Advance  Agent:  -  Deadline  reminds us of the terrific let down
         manufacturers.  During  that  time   plication  of  these  ideas  valuable   And,  the  best  of  luck  to  R.  E.  finds  reporter  J.  J.  O'Neill  on  a  suffered by the Yeoman Circle up-
         he  sponsored some of  the earliest   time  was  saved  in  supplying  im-  Broderick,  Slc,  and  Robert Lave- short leave  saying goodbye  to  his  on  receipt  of  the  chilly  news  of
         radio programs and later became   proved  munitions  of  war  to  our   rick,  Slc,  who  ar.e  well  on  their  wife.   O'Neill  tells  me  that  he
         managing  director  of  the  old   fighting  Navy  to  meet  the  ever   way  to  discharge.   is sending his wife home as an ad-  the  big freeze.  Popular wisecrack
         Pickwick BroadcastingCompany's   increasing logistics  requirements.                                               around  these  parts  right  now  is,
         KTAB  in  San  Francisco.  Later   These  17,000  suggestions  for                                                 "ICY  you're  still  around."
         he  was  owner  of  KDE  at  Santa  which  awards  were  paid  were   THE 8/t; GIJNS ARE SllENT NOW                  Demobilization:- The personnel
         Barbara  and  then  commercial  submitted  by  workers  at  Navy
                                                                                                                            office  these  mornings  looks  like
         manager  of  KOY  at . Phoenix,  yards,  air  stations,  ammunition
                                                                                                                            Grand  Central  on  a  Labo·r  Day
         Ariz.,  until  he  started  his  unique  depots,  torpedo  stations  and  va-
         weekly paper there known  as the  rious  other  types  of  shore  estab-                                           Holiday.  A  quick  check  of  the
         "Jumping  Cactus."           lishments  operated  by  the  Navy.                                                   transfer  book  tells  us  that  Cle--
           "Nothing I  have  ever  done has   They  ranged  all  the  way  from                                             ments,   Kenworthy,   Littlejohn,
         given  me  more  satisfaction  than  skillfully  designed  tools,  jigs  and                                       Quinn,  Rogers,  White are  all well
         trying  to  help  in  this  war  job,"  fixtures used in streamlining pro-                                         on  their way to  civilian  duty  ...
         Charlie said, "and I  am but one of  duction  to  new  and  ingenious                                              Yeoman Jordan from Engineering
         many civiliails who have sincerely  methods  of  construction  and  re-                                            got about as close to going out as
         tried  to  back  up  the  men  at the  pair.                                                                       he will  for  the  time  being with a
         front."                                                                                                            transfer to Shoemaker SepCen for
                                       In addition,  several new instru-
           His wif.e•,  called back  to  an  old                                                                            demobilization duty.
                                      ments  were  invented  by  Navy
         civil  service  appointment,  has
                                      technicians  outside  of  their  as-                                                    Career Men:-Not all  the  boys
         worked since Pearl Harbor, and is
                                      signed  duties  which  played  an                                                     are  going  home.  Ye  old  record
         no,w  employee relations councellor
                                      important part in 'tactical opera-                                                    books indicate  that there are still
         for the Army at· Fort Mason. Two   tions  and  training programs.                                                  some  career  men  around.·  Little
         sons are now in service.                                                                                           Willett  signed  up  for  another
           "I have  one  more son who will   Secretary  Gates  stated,  "I  am                                              stretch  of  four  and  Chiefs  Scott
         be  17  next  March,"  Charlie· told   p1e·ased with the accomplishments                                           and Harley put their names on the
         us,  "and it looks  like we  are go-  of  the  program  during  the  war                                           line  for  four  more  .  .  .  Chiefs
         ing  to have  to sit on  him.  Of  all   time emergency. We will continue                                          VanBuskirk  and  Wallin  are  now
         things  he  is  determined  to  enlist   to  encourage  the  submission  of
                                      constructive  ideas  so  that  the                                                    full  fledged  member'i, of  the fleet
         in  the Marines."
                                      Navy may operate at the highest                                                       reserve ... Well,  after all,  some-
                                      possible  efficiency on a  peacetime                                                  body  has  to stay around  to  keep
         No  More  Students  to       budget."                                                                              things going.
                                                                                                                              We  boast two  new _members of
         Enter  V-7  Program                                                                                                Ship's  Company  -  Norman  E.
                                      40,000 in  Europe                                                                     Dietrich,  S2c  (Y)  and  Arthur K.
           (SEA) .- Effective  immediately                                                                                  Ward,  SM2c.   Both  have  been
         no  additional  students  will  enter   (SEA).-The Navy will remain                                                one of us for  a  number of weeks
         the  Naval  Reserve  Midshipmen's   in  Europe  only  as  long  as  it  is                                         but moved in officially last Satur-
         program  (V-7).  The  5,000  mid-  necessary  to  support  the  Army                                               day.  Welcome aboard, fellas!  ...
         shipmen now in training will com-  of  Occupation,  it  has  been  an-                                             Latest  achievement  of  the  Con-
         plete  their  courses.       nounced by Admiral H. K. Hewitt,                                                      fidential  Reading  Room  is  the
           In  five   years,   midshipmen  Commander,  Naval  Forces,  in                                                   composing  of  crossword  puzzles.
         schools . have  trained  more  than  Europe.  Naval personnel now to-                                              All  well  ,and  good,  but  we've
         60,000  reserve  officers.   One  in  tal  less  than  40,000.  Only  one                                          heard  that  once  they  get  them
                                                                   TYPICAL  of  U.  S.  fighting  ships  whose  power  speeded  the  victory
         every  five  naval  officers  is  a  V-7  U.  S.  base  in  England  is  now                                       completed  they  can't  solve  the
                                                                   over  Japan  is  the  USS  P.ortland,  which  participated  in  20  weeks  of
         graduate.                    in operation.                continuous operati-ons pri-or to the surrender of Japan.   things! .
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