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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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