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PAGE 2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, SEry. 29, 1945
ONE AIR PRIORITY
ONLY · AFTER SEPT. 15
~ An Editorial Priorities classed one, two and

While waiting for those discharge papers think_s~is one three for travel on commercial
Official Treasure Island publication, distributed ev~ry Saturday without cost to the airlines were discontinued as of
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications over: You are going straight home to see the folks and they September 15. They were replaced
and contributions should be directed to Th• Editor, Welfare Division, TADCEN,
Treasure Island. San Franci•co, California. TPlephone: EX brook: 3931, Extension are going to ask you questions. Soon you will find that the by a single prior-ity to be desig-
69. The Masthead la pabllshed In compliance with regulations of SecNav letter
of May 28, 1945, and is produeed couun•roially from non-appropriat..d Welfare sudden termination of the war has surprised them· no less than nated "P," which is the ,only pri-
Funds at no expense ·to the Navy DopartmN1t or Government. The Masth""d is a. ority issued for movement of
"!eniber of the Twelfth Naval District Press Association, the Ship's Editoria.l Asso- it did yourself. Uncle George is going to say, "Willie, you were
c,atJon, and receives material suppli•d by Camp Newspaper Service. Reproduction passenger or cargo traffic via
of credited material prohibited without permission of SEA and CNS.
: . . ·• ' : out there; what do you think we ought to clo with the Japs?" commercial airways.
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN The issuance of this -priority
-Commander U. S. Naval Tr11lning and Distribution Center You are going to make a hasty answer; after all, you really
will be handled 'by - the Ariny ,-,_
CLYDE F. BABB, Sp(X)3c, USNR were out there and can't afford to let them know that you are Regional Air Priority Council,
• Editor
undecided. The word of your answer gets around and it carries whose San Francisco Office is
Rex .N. Olsen, Y2c, Associate Editor located at 323 Geary· St. Rules
paroly_n-N.)~ro.wn.: Ylc, .Waves Editor - Robert H . Perez, BM2c, Sports Editor authority b~cause, "Willie said so, and by golly, he was out governing issuance state that ap-
,· , ; .. _ -, . . .Ed:,vard L_., Levitt, SK2o--Features and Activities
there fighting them." So, before you know it, you are molding plicants for priority must be on
~R"EASOR"e: ISLAND, s. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1945 public opinion and as quick as that some Congressman has a mission required in completion
of the war effort, one relating to
tuned in ~n the drift of your opinion. Hence, you are already military demobilization or to mili-
JUST PATTER Those 13 Po~t Men on the job without realizing it, and you hadn't thought of pre- tary occupational needs, or one "
of comparable emerg.ency justify-
paring for such a job. Now is the time to thinldt over. Now is
Step right this way, all you mighty lucky the shooting stopped ing the granting of emergency
·gn,uhbling bluejackets. Step right before they started. the time to inform yourself, weigh the evidence, deliberate, and leave (in the case of military per-
this way. It's free--it will not cost * * * -choose a philosophy that is sound. It is a man-sized job. sonnel). Leave papers should
you a single penny. Right here on "Points?" asks one seaman. He Whether you like it or not, you are going to do it. Are you specify nature of .emergency.
Treasure Island you can see a nodded and grinned-"Oh, yes, Likewise travel on commercial
group of sailorl? ~ho ar.e not points. I've got 13." Another ready for it?-The Breez~. lines from the United States to
-Central and South America and
·counting their discharge points. thirteen pointer explains: "It's
North from the United States to
They do . not expect to go home only fair that w.e young fellows Alaska will be handled on the
seem actually comparatively hap- brought out the idea that it will 11,e Island Trotter single priority basis.
soon, and believe it or not, they. relieve the veterans." Another
py about the whole darned thing. give him a chance to travel- a All priorities will be discon-
Furthermore - · that's right, chance he never hoped to get tinued October 15.
Chief, step right up close and until now. "Why, I'm planning on A $2 purchase order good at got 47 points and should bP. out of Naval personnel will observe
stare at them..:._furthermore they seeing this old world before I go any Ship's Service Store on Treas- the Navy. Instead I find myself these instructions for air travel
are not asking "when do we go home," another r-eplied.- Another ure Island goes to Louis Hen- at T.I.-and hitting working par- as issued in Alnav 266 dated Sep- ,......
home?" If you listen closely you thought the educational part of dricks, Slc, Welfare. The ques- ties regularly. tember 17, 1945.
can hear what they are asking. the trip would be worth it all. tion submitted was: * * *
It's "Where are we headed for?" .* * * Ray Saracino, MM3c, USS
What was the most embar- Nereus. The night I got in the Navy Contracts to
* * * The educational part has been
Don't be bashful, mates. Go troubling some of the young men. rassing moment of your naval dog house with Jeanette. I had a
right ahead and ask questions. It's One stated that by the time he career? date to meet her but just wasn't Be Settled Jan. 1
a strange and curious sight to gets back to college he could have in the mood. I phoned her saying
see such men as these. Why don't had his degree in engineering. Connie Kaufman, SC2c, Armed that I wasn't feeling we-Jl and The Navy has announced a time
they care about points? Well However, like many of the sailors, Guard. It occurred just last w:eek asked her couldn't table for settling most of its ,,.....
in San Francisco. I was at the we make it some
brother, it's because they don't this young man is planning on terminated war contracts by New
have any to speak of. Why don't taking some courses through the Snappy cleaners, waiting in my other night. She Year's Day.
they expect to go home soon ? Navy's educational plan. "We are shorts for my uniform to be said okeh, but I H. Struve Hense-I, Assistant
Well, mostly because they just fortunate our education was just pre·ssed. After twiddling my could tell she was a S.ecretary of the Navy, said the
came from there. And why aren't interrupted, not canceled entirely, thumbs for an hour, I was handed bit peeved. After I 7 Navy wants to clear up the bulk-
they having hysterics in the bar- like some," one tow-headed blue- a uniform. But it wasn't mine. It made the call I was strolling on of contract negotiations promply,
racks about the whole business? jacket said seriously. seems as though another sailor Broadway Street when I bumps not only to facilitate plant clear-
got my uniform by mistake in into this chick that I knew. I ance and reconversion to civilian ,,..-,
Well mate, they seem to think it's * * *
only fair that they do their share That's all for this week, mates. place of his own. There was only hadn't seen her for some time and production, but also to speed the
one thing left to do. And I did
out there and let the battle-weary Keep right on moving. After all we went to a cafe for a few drinks return to civilian life of Naval
just that. I squeezed into the other Reserve contract-termination per-
men come home. this is just a Pre-Embarkation guy's outfit. After all, I couldn't and talk over old times. We were sonnel.
* * * sideshow. Under the big top you get back to the ship with just chatting for about a half hour
You see them' every day. Hun- will find thousands of veteran scivvies on. The jumper was• so when the inevitable happens.
Girl: "What do you mean by
dreds of them, in fact thousands sailors still joining their voices in tight I could barely breathe. And J eanette walks into the place. saying that our dates have been
of them if yoµ are where you can that old battleweary ballad, "We Sl:_le looks at me and then at my
see them plainly daily-they're Wanna Go Home." those pants- they ended where companion without batting an like a string of pearls to you?"
in Treasure Island's Pre-Embar- my knee caps· began. The payoff eye. I try to smile back but noth- Sailor: "Neckless, dearie -
came in the rate. I may have come
kation Center. Over there just ing gives. Finally she_ walks past neckless!"
waiting and wondering where Course in Management into the store as a Ship's Cook, without a word being said. She
but I left as a First Class Boat-
they're next stop will be. Most of swain's Mate! ignores me completely and I'm time I stayed clear of Market
Engineering Open to
them are kids who got caught in squirming like a worm. Oakland's Street.
18-year-old inductions six months * * * certainly a small place! * * *
or less ago. Very few of them are Experienced Officers Stanley Rice, R DM 3c, RecShip. * * * James Linden, S1c, USS Rad-
b.itter about being stuck with a I was riding down Market Street Luder Behling, ARM1c, Rec- ford. We were just outside Tulagi. r---
long hitc~ i? the.P11,cific, no"'i th_at A small number of officers, with in Frisco during the rush hour on Ship. A few weeks ago in San Everyone was nervous, we had
the war has been won and other- experience in the field of indus- a very populated street car. There Francisco I found myself slightly just been in . the battle of Kula
shipmates are being allo,wed to go trial engineering, may apply to was one lonely strap remaining in red in the face. I jumped on the Gulf. It was a dark and peaceful
home. Mostly, they feel (indeed the Chief of BuPers for enroll- the front of the car, and my hand street car downtown, and decided night. Then it happened. Someone
not without ~ea.son_) that they're ment in a course to be held at was around it. It began to get to find a seat in the center sec- sung out that there was a sub off
NAS Alameda, starting about De- warm and I must have dozed off
tion. I tried to slide the door open the port bow. General Quarters
cember 1. These men will be for a moment. All of a sudden the
HELEN HIGHWATER to get inside, but it wouldn't give. was sounded. The men rushed to
trained for jobs all staff assistants car gave a jerk. I lost my balance
-I pushed once, twice-but still their stations. I was on watch at
to the A and R officer at major and my elbow went through the the door refused to open. After a a 20mm at the time. I opened up
air stations. window. Glass shattered in all di- third try, I gave up in despair. at what I believed to be a moving
The course will include cla.sses rections, but particularly on a
Just then a small tot, no more target. Later, much to my cha-
in methods of increasing the utili- sailor nearby. He had so much
than six years old, grabbed the grin, I found out what I was
zation, of manpower and facilities, broken glass on his jumper that
handle of the door and SWISH- shooting at. It proved to be a
plant layout, production control, when the motorman stopped the
the door opened. Embarra.ssed! harmless submarine detector
organizatiop.al structure and new car to investigate the accident, he
You can say that again. sticking out of the water. Was I
problems in industrial engineer- thought this other guy had the embarrassed!
ing. mishap. Luckily no one was hurt. * * * * * *
Interested officers should ad- I was fortunate to be wearing a Darwin Smith, PM2c, RecShip.
It was my first liberty in over a Meyer Lipson, CSF, RecShip.
dress Chief of BuPers via the pea coat at the time. The whole
year. This was the day I was We were going through a gas
Chief of BuAer stating their pre- thing proved embarrassing.
vious pertinent naval and civilian looking forward to for a long time. chamber at Port Hueneme in Oc-
experience and approximately * * * But it didn't turn out that way. I tober '43. We all had our masks
how long they are willing to stay Harry Levine, WT2c, RecShlp. had no sooner stepped on Market tightly around our faces. I ·kept
on active duty. Further details It's embarrassing as hell to lay Street in Frisco when an officer kidding with the fellow in front
may be obtained from Alnav 265. around here for four weeks when passed by going the opposite di- of me. He was·a slow-walking guy
y-ou have more than the necessary rection. Two minutes later I and,.eyerytime he paused an extra ~
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Two burly cannibals caught a points for discharge. When I was found myself hustled into a pa- second, I'd give him a shove to
beautiful young white girl and transferred from my ship and no- trol wagon and SP's around me. speed_ Up. When we got on the
tified that I'd be discharged with- Before I could say beans, one SP outside and we all removed our
j brought her before their chief. He
glanced casually over the girl, in 72 hours, I immediately phoned hollered out the fact that I failed masks, it dawned on me what I
my wife and kid about the good to salute a lieutenant. I spent ten had done. The guy who I was
yawned, and said: "I believe I'll
. have breal,ffast in bed this morn- news. That took place four weeks minutes in the brig, and then back shoving around turned out to be
ag-o. And I'm still waiting. I've tci my liberty pursuits. But this a Commander!
"Rough road, eh, Helen?" Iing!" -