mand

T r e a s u r y , and was th is month ap-pointed to his present pos tion by Pres ident Tr t iman .

Vol. 7 No. 2

Little Creek Here For Boxing Tonite

"h< Little ("reek Amphibious ins -earn will visit Cherry Point il Hull tonight for a ser ies of

\iii(: hunts that will s ta r t at 2000. In a surpr ise announcement , the •>ial Services Depar tment re-ied that thi' Navy plovers were

• vinu this noun for card of '•t n • Hunts with the Fight ing

••r.<" and i a r ry ing four teen - ci> trotn which to choose.

u»rry I Vint <<>ach John Tinsley j * i ; : i d s to pit Lightweight Johnny ! !:i-an:i lIo against Abe P e r r y of j " >• visitors in what may prove to | he feature bout of the evening, j " ' : : . r sclii-duled pair ings thus fa r . •• • as follows: Zecea Vs Yarbor -

ough • »Middle we igh t ) : «Rous*e vs T k.-r 'UVIterweight ) : Smith vs Aiwater 'Lightweight or Fea the r -

and Beasley vs Avis i l lerw.- iglm.

orh;> will he the third t ime that ( l o r r v l'-oin: has enter ta ined a vis i'.ng service organizat ion in the St.,:;..;, Drill Hall, winning aga ins t Qii.::i:ieu and For t .Bragg by ».he ide:.', .si score of 5 bouts to 3.

• Pictures on page Si

CP GETS AIR ON WMBL To initiate a "good will ' policy i

between Cherry Point and the ou t -j side world aud under the direct ion

of tin Publii Informat ion Office, I a liti *-•n-minute program will be 1

| aired .4vr WMBL each Wednesday I af ternoon from 1645 to 1700. .

This i-.ograni will be a r egu la r , weekly feature uf tin* stat ion. On •

! the tir>i program last Wednesday, Rudy Lara and Johnny Bianca-

nel lo were interviewed by 'Ma j . W. i j T. Warren. Publnfo Officer, on I the i r prospects for tonight 's boxing > ' bouts.

SMS-11 Jumps Gun In Dimes Drive

MCAS Cherry Pt.. N. C.—Home of 2nd Marine* Aircraft Wing

n. of SMS-11, j ! p rema tu re ly placed his organiza-

' ' on in the I-..-1 for the March o f | Dim.-s campaign here last week. .

Immediately upon receipt of in-i format ion re'uardinc the pol io ' r d iwe . I lay son and Major. Cruger j I. Bright. CO of SMS-l l , swung j int.. a. •ioir. The result of thei r

inc was over

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Intra-Basketball In SuddenDeathFinal

T H E i n t r a m u r a l Basketbal l " begins * ser ies of playoff

games_ at the Drill H a l l , s t a n i n i ' ^ J a n 17, for the s t a t i o n , c r o w n and points toward the Genera l ' s Cup. V. T h e 'sudden death" , tourney was devised so that the l eague . could? finish play before m a n e u v e r s

All g a m e s except the finals wi be onu-loss e l iminat ions—finals be a "bes t - two-out -of - three" set T h e r e will be th ree games Monday night , four on Tuesday , four ou Wednesday, four on Thursday , and two finals on Fr iday . If a third game is necessary in the finals, it will be played S a t u r d a y night.

Opponents and game t imes a r e : J a n . 17

YMF-122 VMF.212 VJIF ( u ) - l l I vs AKS-1I HQSQSTA MACG-1

J a u . 18 V MP-3,, 4 i s VMF-223 HKDKO.V2 AES-42 YMK-252 >H VMT-1 SMS-11 \ s VMF-S22

J a n . 19 HQSg-11 AKS-46 1ST QUAKTEBFINAL 2NII QUARTERFINAL SKI) Q I A R T E R F L N A L

J a n . 20 4TH QUARTERFINAL 1730 1ST SEMIFINAL 1845 2NI) SEMIFINAL 200® CONSOLATION «1W

J a n . 21 FINALS (2 OUT OF S)

1ST FINAL 1830 2ND FINAL 214i»

J a n . 22 .11(1) FINAL (If necessa ry)

1734) 184* 2145

1730 1815 2000 2114

1730 1845 2000 2115

for the Dimes'

learned that th</ "arting the dr ive

COLORFUL RESERVE ABOARD; FLIES OWN PLANE IN

MOVIES TO AID DIMES Next Tuesday a n d Wednesday

n igh ts . MWSG-2 will sponsor a showing of combat movies and genera l in teres t wa r f i lms in Wing No. 1 of Mess Hal l No. 1 a t 2000.

Novel method to par t ic ipa te in March of Dimes will be presented a t in termiss iou . A s tand conta in-ing 48 milk bot t les , each named for a Sta te , will be displayed. P a r t i s a n s will place donat ions in a p p r o p r i a t e bott le in o rde r to see which S ta te can fill its bot t le first. S t a t e de legat ions a r e mus t e r ing fo rces for the contes t and the r a t t l e of change will be fu r ious a s they vie- for honors .

v - -• inded and halted thei r ; "••nsive until nfij. jal open-' ' • ' drive today Reports ; squadron indicate that 1 don'f expect to relin-' " 1 lead they gained by j•;tr.pll - ' a e gun

P « " » f ano ther cast of pol 'o • s.e i s ' - x p e c t e d to spur w r s . : .„i con t r ibu to r s to an all-: • - for the para lys i s fund.

'> were organized and : ^ ' • - • . the s ta t ion-wide catn-l-j:-u A. , i , officially got under v P rogres s of the drive. : ~ v individual unit con-!* be published bv

" vI 'SOCK. — — ~

Clinton Orch. Here For Dance Jan. 22

illnn and .his Orches t ra >r a dance at the Drill

•ry 22. "The.Old Dipsy-viTI f ea tu re several of •s fVom the " M a r t h a "

' in Brown " era as well *\"»w Sound" in music

is now advocat ing, for the -S till midnight be win te r service " A " ~r < a n d young . l ad ies ' indine towns will be dancing pa r tne r s .

The yellow and black Howard monoplane parked on the r a m p for the past two weeks has been

j the object of much s p e c u l a t i o n i and cur ios i ty* Although the c ra f t I looked incongruous among the un i formly blue-hued Corsa i rs . Hell-ca ts . etc.. the re is a- logical and in teres t ing explanat ion for i ts presence.

i Lt. C'ol. H a r r y R. Van Licw. ! I'S.MCK. here for two weeks activ

duty, flew the plane f rom New York, where he makes h j s home.

I For purpose of t r a in ing and j nyyn tcnance of mi l i ta ry pr-ofi-| ciency. Col. Van Liew is ass igned i t o VMK-252 here. He h a s acc j imula-, ted mi aggrega te of more than a | year ' s ac t ive peace- t ime service as a reserve since 1931. most ly

(/through short t r a in ing per iods | s imi lar t<> the ' one he is pa r t t c ipa t -jit ig in here. * i C o m m a s ion e.d a Second 'L ieu ten -ant in I 'SMCR o n ' M a v 6. 1931. the young New Yorker was ordered to act ive duty and Aviation Train-ing at *QUantico'Mn J u n e of that year . _ Along with i_pu o the r aspirant.- ,

^ a n Liew went th rough an in-tensive two weeks of f ighter and dive bomber . t ac t i cs gunnery , bombing. • message pick-up. forma-t ion flying, etc At the end of th is period, the fiedgings were given"

j "check" flights comparab le t( those given aviation cadets a t Pen sarolu. Second Lt. Van Liew passed

•j his "check" and was made a Naval Aviator

To those NA's who went th rough the 12-ls mouth V-5 program may seem a very abbrevia ted flight course , but the re was a reason tor th is .

At the . t ime he received ins wii the young pilot had over lOOb ho in. the a i r ami could hardly- be classified a s a novice. He learned to fly while»ac\ending Hobar t Col-lege in 1929 and was . engaged i..r the next two yea r s as a High: in-s t ruc to r and c ross -count ry pi 'ot for Cur t i ss -Wright Flying Service at Valley S t ream. N. Y.

Af te r a short t enure with Air Express , he went to Boeing Ait T ranspo r t , flying the Cheyenne-Salt Lake run. in April of ln3:!. Following tlie air-niafl controv* r.-v in 1934. Boeing became I 'n i ted Air Lines and re t a ins that name today. Except f o r . t h e war year.-. Col Van Li.-w has been With ' ha t orgairiz-

ion cont inuous ly since then. From May. 1942 to March. 1943.

ine seasoned t r a n s p o r t pilot u-as Opera t ions Officer for MAO-la at K e a r n e y '"—Mfsil Ca l i fo rn i a , and helper! t ra in hundreds o: Marine pilots ff.r overseas duty. Ordered, overseas in March, 1943. he took

command of VMK-153 Short ly a f t -e r w a r d . ano the r change sent him to SCAT as Opera t ions Officer, and his excellent service the re earned for him a Let ter of Commendat ion f rom Admiral Nimitz.

He re tu rned to the S ta tes in J u n e of '44 as Execu t ive Officer of MAO-62 and remained the re unt i l

Vbd of the war. In addit ion to the Le t te r of Commendat ion , he holds 3* DCF's. 6 Air Medals, and the Xavy Unit Citation. .

Col. Van Liew of the Marines reverted rt. Captain Van Liew of I nite<v Air Lines and resumed relat ively quiet life of an a i r jiilot. He sti l l r e t a i n s an act ive

the Reserve a s Chief of StafT of Reserve Wing VTU-3-3 with h e a d q u a r t e r - in New York.

\Vhen not engaged in flying the New York-Denver DC-C flight, the ( ol. is at St. J ames . L.I. where he lives with his wife. B a r b a r a , and thei r th ree chi ldren . The Howard

utilized for up- s t a t e h u n t i n g and fishing t r i p s which he m a k e s f r equen t ly with his family. Next "ti the schedule for the busy re-serve is an overseas j aun t (via air . na tu ra l l y i to visit f r i ends in Rncland and F r a n c e for t h r ee wt-. k.- With over 14,000 h o u r s in lii. log book. iir t ravel a s a pnssen-c - r «-hould h<> a novelty to this p:loj emphnsizps the act ive in-Reserve.

Under Siec of State /

Former CP Marine The I ' n d e r - S e c r e t a r y of Sta te ,

J a m e s K. Webb. 42 ;-ear old North Carol in ian , is a f o rmer Cher ry Point Marine. A rese rve flying officer. Mr. Webb went on act ive du ty in 1944 a s a Major in* Cora-

J of an a i r wa rn ing g roup of the Niiyh Marine Aircraf t Wing s ta t ioned at th i s base

Fol lowing the t e rmina t ion of the war . he- became execut ive a s s i s t an t to the late O. Max Gardn-er . fo rmer Under -Sec re t a ry of the

MARCH OF DIMES.

14-31 JANUARY

CHERRY POINT GOAL

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...., —.Editor-Staff Pho tographer

THE WIND BOCK l« pabllalird * « U j b j and for penonnel of Marion Corp* Air E MariDT Oorp» Air .Station. AlrFMFlant , and 2nd U. A. C i i r r r j Point. N. C. i the •upr rT l i lw of tl»e Public Information Offlc*. T H E WINDSOCK l> pobUvbed In p l i u c e with L. I . No. 1100. Circulation la 0.000 eop tn per laaue. I 'rlnted b j the Eicbardaoa Printing Co.. New Beru. N. C. Financed b j the tiutloa Special Serrice .Dept. from unappropriated Welfare and lUcrvaUoo (undo. T1JE WINDSOCK accept* no adrer t la tac . Subscription rate* by mall. | 2 . 6 0 a JMI .

Republication of credited material without perml»»iuo from SEA 1* prohibited. T n E WINDBOCIT recelrea Armed Force# 1'rraa Uemce and '8bipo Editorial

REACTION TO PAY REPORT The comprehens ive report of the Hook Commission on Revision of

Service pay has met with general approval th roughou t the Military Es tabl i shment . The proposed ra tes of pay and a l lowances for those on the act ive list a re genera l ly regarded as fa i r and amply justified by* in-creased living costs. Some Congressional opposi t ion is expected, be-cause the recommended percen tage increases we?e g r ea t e r in the senior commissioned r a n k s than in the lower enl is ted grades . However , the Commission pointed out that enlisted pay had been tr ipled in the last •10 years , while the compensat ion of senior officers had increased only 11 per cent in the Bame period.

Air officers were disappointed because of the relat ively lower ra tes proposed for flight pay. The proposal fo r death benefits for surv ivors of mil i tary persounel met with universal approval .

Some concern was felt at the a t t i tude of the Commission with refer-ence to disabili ty re t i rement . The belief was expressed that an of-ficer or enlisted man with at least 30 per cent disabil i ty due to wounds in action should receive 75 per cent of the proposed new active duty pay of his grade , i r respect ive of length of s e r v i c e . / Under the proposal of the commission he would cont inue to receive his p resen t re t i red pay, hut would not benefit by the . proposed increase, un less qualified by length of service.

In some q u a r t e r s the belief was expressed tha t re t i rement of en-listed men should be more l iberal than proposed by the Commission. wlii.clC.wouId limit serv5< • re t i rement of enlisted personnel to those with SO years* service, and those of 50 years of age who had 20 or more years of service. It is felt that the present 20-year re t i rement f ea tu re , regardless of age. is an incentive for re-enl is tment which should be retained.

CORSAIR PILOT BATTLES HAWK IN COCKPIT

Ever s h a r e u Corsair cockpit with a fighting spa r row hawk? A Marine Lieutenant tried it the o the r day wi thout too much success .

His plane captain told him he thought he heard a scra tch ing noise in the cockpit , but Lt. Joseph Nelson d idn ' t spot the bird unt i l he taxied to the. catapul t on the I". S. S. Bairoko at sea. It was too l a te then to do any th ing about lt.

tjfl the take-«»ff. while the pilot was busy t ry ing to take cure of flaps, wheels and navigat ion, the spa r row h a w k a t tacked his leg. F o r 20 mi-nutes the bat t le kept up with Nelson flying to North Island near San Diego, t rying to catch the hawk and handle the fighter at the same time. He finally t rapped the bird and put it in the tool box. Af te r he land&i and had signed an armis t ice . Lt. Nelson released his p r i soner and ret i red f rom the wars to sick bay for a bit of patching. (From Edgar Buuman 's column "Aviation News and Views.")

DIVINE®} SERVICES)'

PRO T E S T A. \T SERVICES 0915 Sun.—Sunday S e k o o l

(Nurse ry ) 1030 Sun.—Worship Service

Main* Chapel 1830 Tue.—Youth Fel lowship

Recreat ion Center 2nd Deck

1900 Wed.— Cfcoir Rehea r sa l

CATHOLIC SERVICES Sun.—0645, 0845. 1200 Main

Chapel Weekdays—1145 Catholic Wing Mass Sat.—0800 followed by

Reci ta t ions of Rosary Confessions Sat.—1900-2100 Other t imes by appoin tment 1900 Tues.—Novena Devotions

J E W I S H SERVICES 2000 Wed.—Divine Worship

in P ro tes t an t Wing CHERRY POINT COMMUNITY

CHURCH 1100 Sun.—Morning Worsh ip 1815 Sun.—Chris t ian Endeav-

or 1930 Sun.—Evening Worship

{The Padre Saysl)

HAIRCUTS

WAIT!

Wtr! I ONLY WAMT Tfllf).

OFFICER'S SOCIETY NOTES

By Chaplain Ralph A'. Curt is 1!« J a n u a r y 1807 General R o b e r t ;

E. Lee was born. He lived to be one j of the ou t s t and ing pe r sons in American His tory . His judgement j has sometime been qt i ts t ioned when j lie decided to fight with the South 'against the Union. His mil i tary abili ty cer ta in ly never has been in doubt. Many a t ime Lincoln and every o ther I 'n ion man m u s t have wished for such a genera l for the L'uion troops.

Even to a g rea te r extent than for his mil i tary abil i ty Rober t E. Lee has been admired for h is s t r eng th of cha rac t e r . T V s is re-flected In a let ter which he wrote to his son in November 1861. The let ter was lacking in news, but s t rong on advice tha t is a s good for us today aa it was for h is son a t tha t t ime. The fol lowing is a quotat ion f r o m this l e t t e r :

" In r ega rd to duty. 1H me. In conclusion of th is has ty le t ter , inform you that near ly a hundred years ago the re was a day of re -m a r k a b l e gloom and darkness— stil l known as ' the d a r k day'—a day when the light of the sun was slowly ext inguished as if by an eclipse. The -Legislature of Connec-t icut was in session, and as the members sa>r the unexpected and unaccountab le d a r k n e s s coming on they shared in the a w e and t e r ro r . It was* supposed by many tha t the last "djiy—the day of ju lgement— had come. Some one in the con-s t e rna t ion of the hour moved a n a d j o u r n m e n t . Then the re a rose an -old Pu r i t an Legis lator . Davunpor t of S tamford , and said tha t if the last day had come he desired to be found a: h is place doing his duty, and the re fo re moved that candle be brought in. so tha t the house could proceed with i ts duty. T h e r e was a qu ie tness in the m a n ' s mind, the quie tness of heav-enly wisdom and flexible wil l ing-n e s s to obey present duty.

Duty. then, is the subl imest word in our language. Do your duty in all th ings , like the old Pur i t an . You cannot do more, you should never do less. Never let me and your mother wear one gray ha i r J[or any lack of du ty .on your par t . "

By Pat l Wit te On Tuesday of las t week. Lt.

George Smith was honored at a bir thday cocktail par ty by his wife Norma in thei r home in Havelock— since George is well known for h is love of fishing, a s t r aw hat decorated with flies, ins tead of candles , was the center piece.

Lt. and Mrs. Howard Baugh en-ter ta ined on Monday with a ga la bir thday par ty for thei r youngest son. Gary Allen. At tending were Misses Jan ice Kinard . Linda Pr ingle . J a n e t Hende r son ; Masters Ronald Pr ingle . J immie Kinard . and Howard Baugh. T h e par ty was highlighted with games , home movies and the t rad i t ional r e f r e sh -ments. P a r e n t s of the young gues t s were also present .

Visit ing Cherry Point this week a r e Mr. and Mrs. Car l Decker f rom Warwick . N. Y.. gues t s of CaPj-and Mrs. F . S. Krasmiewcz . Mrs. Decker was honored at a coffee hour on Monday morn ing by b»r daugh t e r . Ruth .

Mrs. F lorence Mitchell re turned to Bi rmingham. Ala. th is week a f t e r an extended visit with he r daugh te r and son-in- law. Lt. and Mrs. B. E. Roueche.

Mrs. Emil Skocpol en te r ta ined the wives of VMF-461 at a d l n n e r

par ty Sunday evening. Following dinner , br idge was enjoyed by the guests , j

Mrs. A. F. McCaleb gave a gol-to-getber on F r iday for the wives of VMF-225. who a r e - a l s o alone these days due to win ter maneu -vers. Punch and par ty cha t t e r were the evenings en te r t a inmen t .

Mrs. W. G. Mars and Lt. Dal<* Hansen were honored by a jo in i b i r thday par ty on Fr iday at Han-cock Lodge. Mrs. Mars was given the waffle iron she had been at-tending Bingo to win for several

! weeks. P ic tures were t a k e n throughout the par ty.

Mrs. Wal ter S tuar t gave a bridge party to enter ta in the "Lonely Wives" of VMF-461 on Thursday at he r home in Havelock.

Lt. Edward Geichecker was i honored at n belated "Stag P a r t y " ! on Monday at the "O" Club bar . The

par ty followed his recent marr iage , j Capt. W. W . Atkins gave a pro-

motion par ty on Tuesday evening in the Chess Bar at the Officers Club.

j Catholic Society Meets Mrs. D. L. Forde. president , an -

nounced today that the . Catholic Ladies Al tar Society will meet in the home of Mrs. E. W. Berry. MOQ 353. on Wed. J a n . 19th at 8:00 P. M. All members and those in teres ted in becoming members a r e urged to a t tend.

STAFF NCO SOCIETY NOTES By Lu Tomiinson

Master Char les Lamber t Query, son of TSgL William Query, was baptized by Chaplain W. W. Winters last Sunday. The simple ceremony took place In the P ro tes t an t Chattel at 1130.

Two lovely addi t ions to the base were Mrs. Faye Lamb and he r daugh te r Joann , gues ts of MSgt. Har ton . The i r s was a brief visit as they were p lanning to exchange the cold of Chicago for the Sun of F lor ida . .

TSgL and 4frs. U' lberg asked me to say " t h a n k s a million lor them lor the many lovely wedding c i f t s . Muriel Is ge t t ing qui te a - b a n g out of the way we do th ings . . . including the " F i v e and what you cal l t h e m " s tores . Right now she is looking lor an English tea pot. In case you l i i i l o n e ; they ' re ul home at 949B TMQ.

MSgt. Sears , manage r of the Staff NCO Club, speut last weekend in Washington. D. C.

Mrs. Thomas Wood spent :f couple of days last week tak ing advan-tage of the mid-winter sa le - iu Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh. Tomorrow *lie p lans to a t tend the School*ot' Ins t ruc t ions in Vuneeboro for the Order oi the Eas t e rn S ta r .

Having an impromptu s lag d inner par ty at the Club Sunday t were- MSgt "Chuck" H a r r i m a n . SSgt. Mouch. SSgt. " C r a s h " Col

,gt. "Lou" Chase and TSgt . " P a t " Bri t t . i best man at the Jowdy-McWat te r s nupt ia l

t OI.. 4. C. MI NN, rohiuianding Officer of JtWSG-2 points out San Juau , P. R. on map to indicate lora t ion oi his headqua r t e r s du r ing for thcoming maneuvers .

OFFICERS ' WIVES CLUB

By Anu Sloan Af te r a short business meet ing

of the Officers Wives Club on Tues-djrV. J a n 1). Mrs. B. C. Bat ter ton gave an informal ta lk on "Life in Pe ru . " It was most evident tha t

*Mrs. Ba t te r ton had thoroughly en-joyed he r l i fe in Lima and he r account of he r exper iences the re was very in teres t ing . After t h e t a lk luncheon and bridge were t>njoved.

I N T E R E S T GROUPS ACTCYITIES RESUMED

MONDAY—Bridge Lessons by Mrs. A. D. Gould Formal lonnge of

t Off icers Club. 1:15 P. M. ! TUESDAY—Bowling. Recreat ion

Hal) . 1:30 P. M . / | W E D N E S D A Y ^ Ceramics Class. I Hobby Shop. Mrs. David Forde I ins t ruc t ing .

J T icke ts a re now on sale for " T h e Male Animal" sponsored by t h e Officers Wives Club—Jan 20 and

; 21 The Pr ice is 96 c e n t * including ^tax.

night e re : MSgt. "Chuck" H a r r i m a n . SSgt. Mouch. SSgt. "L'rasn Colgan.

TSgt. "Red" Grigsby. MSgt. "Lou" Chase and TSgt . " P a t " Bri t t . (Pa t . incidental ly, will act i •eremony next week.)

MSgt. Johnny Melius can' t find much else to talk about since he got a new Ford. More tr icky push-bu t tons !

The personnel of the Staff NCO Club had an a f t e r -hou r s stag par ty Sunday night at the R ive r r i ew Club.

Ten couples had a wonder fu l t ime at a "no hos t " buffet supper par ty 4 J a n . ut 2000 in the Club's pr iva te dining room. It was riven in honor

TSgt . and Mrs. Robert Hawkins who left the fifth on a t r a n s f e r to Norfolk, Vs.

Ka thy Wood gave a su rp r i se supper par ty for he r husband. Eldred. at the Club last Fr iday night. They were celebrat ing the end of nine

•ars .in the Corps and wishing him luck on the tenth. The eight couples topped off the evening dancing to the Stat ion Orches t ra in the bal l room. . . . . , .

TSgt- Scroinrin* and family leit the sixth on a twenty-day tu r louch . Vlttiouirh thei r two-and-a-half year old son, Gary, was all excited over his coming: visit to C h i r a c * th i s will lie t h e first t ime that D o r o t h y s pa ren t s ha»e had the oppor tuni ty to meet h is l i t t le s is ter .

Hazel Nicholson and Marion Schmedlin were dual "hostesses at a " s to rk" par ty given for Marie Richards .in the Schmedlin q u a r t e r s Wednesday at 2«HH< The ten gues ts presented Marie with m a n y lovely g i f t s . . . . •

TSe t . Eddie Mitchell and family recently r e tu rned trout a twenty-one day turlouirh which they -pent visi t ing the i r families in Galveston and Hous ton . Texas.

Miss J e a n n e Moore, daugh te r of s>Sgt. and Mrs. W a r r e n Moore, was hos tess to six children and thei r parents . .a t he r first bi r thday par ty J a n u a r v fir.-t. J eanne was Quantico 's New Year ' s baby for 19<S. .

The lat-?st on w h o ' s ' w h o In MEMQ. TSgt . Brice S h a d l e . . . TSet WHiism Myers. J r . . - . 640A: HM1 Rober t Davis . . . .>15A: MSgt. George Austin . .*»4:»A: aud MSirt. Reuben P r l t c h a r d . • • 67SB- I n pe rmanen t homola h o n - l n e : T ^ r t - C h i l e s Vlckers . . . J87B: SSirt. Claude H sn ican . J r . . , . 9 7 S A ^ S e L John Driggers , . . . 9 s5B: SSr t . Talmatre Msthew* . . . M S A : TJict>***^f»h Couroy . . - 9 M B : and . TMrt. Henry Yonng . . . 9S4A. , A

May I have your news be rare Tuesday N» > 8159.

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C H E R R Y

-BACKSTAttE V I E W of new soda foBBtaln as It was belnc installed last week. Insta l la t ion is na jor nnlt of nes^BO l a p w H i n i t profcraai a t t h e Post Exchange. ^

the new year gels under way and the r emnan t s of last .year a re , tossed aside, it seem* onfx fUMmc that everywhere the old s h o u l d ^ give way to the new. No excep-tion is the Post Exchange Soda Founta in , where the old Founta in is being replaced by a' completely lew and modern instal la t ion.

For the past few weeks, all over -the stat ion such quer ies as . "Why is the ' juke jo int ' being remodel-ed?". "Wonder what i t 's ponna look like." and " I ' lO^e t it 's cost-ing 'em plenty" could be heard . To accommodate those who a re in-teres ted in the PX and its appear -ance. the WINDSOCK r u n s this a r t ic le as a possible answer* to these and o ther quest ions?^

Though it will come a s no great revelation to regu la r ' pa t rons of the SF. the p r imary reaaon for

Military Aviation Comes of Jet Age By Hanson Baldwin (From N. Y- Times)

I nited S ta tes mil i tary aviat ion made ma jo r s t r ides in i t s t r ans i -tion to the jet age in 1948.

Many new types of high-speed a i rc ra f t were test-f lown; a i r c r a f t

— peed records were b roken ; hun-dreds of jet fighters were added to the Air Fo rce ; the Navy s ta r ted t quipping its ca r r i e r s with jets , and the Berlin air l if t broke all rt cords for sus ta ined mass cargo handling.

The United S ta les commenced to replace many of it6 obsolescent war t ime types with new planes, ..mi the Air Force and naval a i r a rm s tar ted last sp r ing a m a j o r expansion p rogram. The produc-tion ra te of mil i tary a i r c r a f t fo r the year increased f rom about 1.800 of all types in 1947 to be-tween 2,200 and 2.400 in 1948 and indications were that a consider-ably g r e a t e r ' i n c r e a s e would occur in 1949.

The Air Force ' s North American P-86-A .swept-back wing fighter unofficially, but publicly, set a world 's speed m a r k for piloted planes at the Nat ional Air Races in Cleveland. The new, though un-official. mark se t by Major Rich-ard L. Johnson of the Air Material ' ' innuand. was 669.480 miles an

" u r : but because the cf imeras Missed: it is not official. It exceeds he old—and still official—record

of 650.6 miles an hour , set by Ma-I r ine Major Marion E. Carl in a ; Douglas "Skys t reak"—an exper i -I menta l research plane. ! The Air Force had on o rder j about 647 of the F-86 type, but

vir tual ly none hud reached opera t -I ing squadrons dur ing the year . [However , hundreds of F-80 Lock-

heed "Shooting S t a r s " and F-84 I Republic " T h u n d e r j e t s " have been delivered to the Air Force and hundreds of o thers a r e on o rder . The year also witnessed del iver ies of the first j f t f - t ra iner—a two-seat model of the original propelled F.-80.

A s t r ange l i t t le s tub-winged par-asi te fighter, the McDonnell XF-S5, intended to be car r ied in the bomb bay of the giant B-36 bomber, a lso made its init ial appea rance dur ing the year . The McDonnell XF-88, de-signed <as fighter-bomber or bomb-er escort , was alBo delivered for test du r ing the year . The Nor th rop XF-89. a n ight and a l l -wea thear je t fighter, with a gross weight of model of the or iginal jet propelled under test in prototype form.

In addition to th is g rea t " s t ab le" of jet fighters, a l a rge number of o ther types—some je t -propel led— were delivered or flown for the first time. The Air Force ' s B-36, the largest combat plane in the world, a 135-ton ship, commenced \ to come off the production l ines in small quant i t ies .

T T I L I Z I N G ELECTRIC DRILL, Mr. Thomas O'Connor, n a m f f t r tu re r s ' representa t ive , speeds Instal lat ion of new fonBtain.

the " face- l i f t ing" is tha t wart ime ma te r i a l s used in the original con-s t ruc t ion had deter iorated badly. Now the leaking founta in , the un-su i tab le display counters , and the durable , b u t ' hardly eye-worthy, benches and tables a re being re-placed by modern, a t t rac t ive fix-tures .

The gleaming new fountain wilt end the problem of wasted dr inks and unsight ly floors, and san i t a ry conditions will improve accord-ingly.

The revamped display sys tem will give the founta in an impres-sive appearance and w i n aid c le rks and cus tomer s alike. Per -haps the most noticeable f ea tu re will be the rep lacement of the meas-hall type tables a n d benches with modern tables and cah i r s— each table to sea t four .persons.

All k inds of food and d r i n k s will be offered on the menu. F r e s h s a n d w i c h e s , / a variety of milk shakes , a n a ice cold d r i n k s will head the^ l i s t for " s n a c k - h o u n d s . " F o r a f t e r movie s t ro l le rs , there will be sundaes , sodas, shakes, " p o g e y - b a i t a n d other delicacies.

The major i ty of labor was pro-vided by Publ ic Works , especially plumbing, electr ical , and r e f r ige r -ation modifications. A welcome innovation will be the place-ment of all e lectr ical motors out-side the building proper. An out-side housing was constructed for these motors to minimize the noise inside the building. . A s h a r e of credi t should be giv-

en to all the Marines in the PX who helped Mr. Thomas O'Connor instal l the founta in . These boys worked t i re less ly with the manu-f a c t u r e r s ' r epresen ta t ive so that the S F would be " sh ip - shape" by th is weekend.

P a t r o n s of the P X can be jus t ly proud of the Job, for it was the i r pa t ronage which made all th is possible. Cost of t h e en t i re pro-jec t was borne by profi ts derived f r o m P X sales. I t ' s Your Soda Founta in—Use it and en joy i t !

A t i le deck will be instal led in the founta in a t a l a te r date. Next on the l ist fo r t h e "new look" will be the Beer Garden, and a con-solidat ion of the p r e s s shop, ta i lor shop, and cobbler shop is a lso un-der considerat ion.

The fol lowing four men were de-tached f r o m this s ta t ion to Naval Air Sta t ion. Norfolk. Va.: TSgl . Wal te r F leming. Cpl. Oley ' R. Gable. Sgt. John M. Pa t ton , and Cpl. Char les J . Spal l i t ta .

MSgt. William A. Coleman ex-tended his en l i s tment for a period of two years .

Sgt. Alfred C. Wil l iams was t r a n s f e r r e d f rom this s ta t ion to MCAS. El Toro, Calif.

FROM THE EL TORO "FLIGHT JACKET' I he Dec. 31 issue of this El Toro news sheet came out with a lot

't highlights in the news at El Toro both in news copy and photos. It ' ' h i d e d , t i i / fol lowing headl ines : T o u r n a m e n t of Roses P a r a d e to

!»:..w Crowd of 3,000,000 . . . El Toro Welcomes New Year With Dances c lubs EI Toro Squadron Going to Alaaka . . Bulls Face Santa

\ ' u XAS. .March Field Next Week . . . Camp Pendle ton. El Toro Boxers : Cattle Here . VMF (Nl-542 Wins F i r s t General ' s Cup. . .

FROM "THE NORTH CHINA MARINE" " - not o f t en that T H E WINDSOCK pr in t s data f rom this paper due

• la teness in a r r iva l here in the s t a tes f rom North China. However , • \ rnied Forces only hand-set six pages weekly newspaper came in r Dec. ^ and we fe l t - i t might be of in teres t to some of you aboard

•f-'> i»ase. Headl ines a r e : Ninth Marines Arrive In Ts ing tao l a s t , "inlay . . . Cor respondents ..Cover Activit ies In Ts ingtao . . . One-

v ! ! 'nth S e r v i c e m a a - t J s i t s YMCA . . . Navy Chief Kenneth A. McLeod ; 1- Return To l«. S . ' W i t h Bride . . . F i r s t Mar ines Eleven Receives}

FROM THE "PENDL&TON SCOUT" •"Hines in Dec. 31 issue of T H E SCOUT read : TSgL Tro t t e r |

r - s on 32 Years of Service . . . MSgt. P. L. Boles Ret i res Today ] "• -V Y e a r s . HDQ BN Awards 70 Promot ions X m a s Eve Day . . . !

Team Is Gjjren Pra ise By Maj. Gen. E r sk ine . . . Real Texas i - Horns At XCO Club Now . . . Commandant Invi tes Ideas F r o m !

Pendleton Downs Fal lbrook In Easy Contest 64-42 . . . ; - ' A White Opens Addition to Golf Course . . . 1st AmTracks Win I

' ' •uMura l Hoop Tit le Over 6th Marines. . . FROM THE QUANTICO "SENTRY"

Jan . '> issue of T H E SJEXTRY contained the fol lowing news . . . Q u a n t i c o Holds Clean Sweep/As Gloves T u r n to 3rd Round . . .

• -! Home After Jgi%iug S a i p a i u j n Rescue Attempt . . . Quantico-. ; Hahv "Out of Rounds ' Iu Firs t of Year Race . . . Marines Ready .

>wtnc Behind "The March 'o f Dime's" vs Polio . . Quantico Bank Twenty-F i f th Anniversary . . . Quant ico Beats Citadel By

x Wres t l e r s Meet Bainbridge Here . FROM THE CAMP LEJEUNE "GLOBF'

, - i f : . f r o r a j a n t; "issue a r e : Sir Dusty Official Camp Le jeune I : Contest Underway To Find Sui tab le Name For Bulldog . . . Orch. Plays Pavil 'n Ton igh t : Div. Band-MPC . . . Boxers J

• •••rwav Again : 82nd Airborne Tackled Tuesday : Golden Gloves ' i t Ft . Monroe Five Toppled By Locals To Tune Of 76-48 . . j

T o P 5-Man Bowling Team At Staff NCO Club: Mixed! R u b l e s Next. .

- H E Y , MlsTFI I . l u i r n up so I can gel a chalk III s o d a ! " says l i t t le K e a Monroe, 9 yea r old SOB of Lt. and Mrs. L. A. Monroe, as he wai ts impat ient ly f o r new soda founta in to open. Mr. 0*C«BBor smiling-ly obliges.

Fountain Being Remodeled; Features New Fount> Seats

POINT WIKOtSOCK. 14 JAN. 1948

CHERRY FOI f fT WINDSOCK. 14 JAN. 194Q MOTOR TRANSPOHf

March Of Dimes Begins TODAY

Give Generously For The Fight Against Polio

Contribute Through Your Dept. Representative Or Send Directly

To Major W. T. Warren « Room 216. Ad. B'ldq.

Telephone Exchange

Few of us imagine that our te lephone m a n n e r s a re bad. But f rom lb* compla in ts I receive daily, il is obvious that most ol us must have fau l t s of one sort or ano ther .

To lest yourse l f , see if you can answer "yes" to all of the follow-ing ques t ions :

Do you make sure of the correct number . instead of d i s turb ing s t r a n g e r s by •ca l l ing f rom mem-ory?" When calling a person who may not recognize your voice, do you identify yourself a t once and avoid put t ing them in the embar -rassing position of not knowing to whom they -are ta lking? '% l f you want to have a convei sation of any length, do you ask the o the r -person whether or not he is f ree to listen or whether to call back at ano ther t ime? .Do you t rea t wrong numbers a s a mutual inconvenience and answer . "Sorry , wrong numb-er . " in a tone of polite sympa thy , in-stead of showing i l l - tempered an-noyance? When leaving a message requi r ing no answer , do you leave ti with whomever a n s w e r s instead of insisting tha t the one it is for come to the te lephone personal ly? If you a re an execut ive and tell your sec-re tary to put in a call, will you-be ready to take the receive;- the mo-ment the call comes t h rough? When you hear an unexpected voice, do you at once ask . " I s th is SStU" in-s tead ' of the less cour teous "What number is th is?" When you re-ceive a^ ' a l l and a re unable to s top what you a r e doiug. do you exp'ai t i and offer to call back, or do v-%u say "Wait a minu te" and then keep your caller .wai t ing indefinitely? When your call is not answered quickly, do vou wait long enough for the persou you a r e call ing to answer , so tha t they will not have been distt rbed just to answer a "dead" phone? f .

If you can a n s w e r "yes" to the abort ' , you have good telephone

Wedding Plans Mr and Mrs. A. W. Jowdy re-

• .11.1 lr aunouueed -the engagement and approaching m a r r i a g e of thei r daughte r . Helen, to Tech Sergeant

"Robert A McWattVrs. U. S Marine Corps

Miss Jowdy. is superv isor of t h e Issue Control Section. Navy Supply and Fiscal Depar tment and has re-cently completed her sixth yea r of employment on the s ta t ion.

Sergeant McWat ters i s^a t tached "to VMIl-252 and is f rom Cleveland.

Ohio. The wedding will "bo solemnized

m thv Statiort Chapel on 2fi J a n u a r y at r.: 00 p . M.

PUBLIC WORKS

N'o im :.ttion> ..re the s'.ation or in. tin ject. bt!' all triends.

-:i.re invited to a t tend.

being sent on Housing Pro-of the couple

•Join the MARCH

OF DIMES

B j Helen P a r k e r Condolences go to Ann -Denny,

who is now a t home in Chicago to a t tend the bur ia l of a brother who lost his l ife overseas, dur ing the war , and whose body has recently been re turned home.

"Dub" Stembridge. H. L. Brown, and "Sk ipper" P ra t t have been on the sick list. "Sk ipper" having lost his voice r ight down to a whisper with laryngi t is .

Mary Healey, whose husband h a s repor ted to California for over-seas orders , is now making her liome with Mabel Roundt ree in Havelock, awai t ing t ime to make more concrete p lans for the fu tu re

FAREWELL, to Es the r Dunn wlu> said goodbyes on Wednesday before Chr is tmas , aiid everyone was really sor ry to seeJ ie r go. Es the r has been an employee of the s ta t ion a lmost s ince its inception, and wafc gen-uinely liked throughout the depar t -ment. She is now making a fu l l -t ime job of housekeeping in Beau-for t .

Bernice Vary, a fo rmer employee, is working again with the depar t -ment in the Maintenance Building. . . J une Willis and family report a fine t ime in Charleston. S. C. dur ing the New Y6ar holidays.

' Susie Moore says t h a t the walls of her a p a r t m e n t were bulging because of all the company she had dur ing the Chr i s tmas holidays. It seems that the Moore Clan had thei r annua l reunion at S u s u ' s house. Sounds l ike tun, even if it was a little crowded.

HOUSING PROJECT Bt Glenn (It-land

Haymond Baylor and family have re turned f rom a vacat ion in New York dur ing which they did some visiting a round with relatives. Donald Miller and his family spent two weeks dur ing the holidays with thei r famil ies in Indiana. 1 th ink that Donald halt 's to admit it. but I do believe that h e - i s glad to be back in North Carolina. Can't say that 1 blame h im!

-At the t ime I 'm wri t ing this, Shir ley De§ut le r and he r husband a re still suowed iu up HI Wiscon-sin. I have been reading t h e , n e w s about the big blizzard they had t l iere, and all I can say is tha t I am glad 1 went home to Washing-ton. N. C. for the holidays, ins tead of heading for the "f rozen North.!*

Sure ly the re Is a grea t deal of news floating a round the - Housing Project that is }ust wait ing to oe passed around. 1 don't want to appea r nosy,. biit you people jus t a ren ' t tel l ing me wha t ' s going on these days. Drop by and let me know, won't you?

NOTES TO TOT

you ' have a secret longing to "be a wr i t e r ? Then, f r iend, he re is your chance. We a r e looking for addit ional r epo r t e r s to he lp g a t h e r the news for this page. Our old fa i th fu l s slill keep the news pour-ing in. but don't you th ink they j need some he lp? Bet ter yet . maybe j ' i p " «hnm n par t i cu-lar subject that you would like to see published and discussed on th i s page. If so. let us know what your suggest ion is.

Send your ilea tc "Civilian News." WINDSOCK. I n d u s t r i a l Re-lations Office, and we will be glad to develop it^/for you. Or. if you Wish, .-all -5114 and let 's talk it over ' *. " " —

B j R i t a W alb row n Now tha t the holidays a r e behind

j us and everyone has r e tu rned to work, we find t h a t t he r e a r e some

j of us who didn t real ly h a r e too good a t ime. In pa r t i cu la r , Mr.

j Rlackweil was off for a week— j and all tha t t ime he was sick with a cold. H e r epo r t s he went to Virginia, but when he saw al l

I tha t snow, he came s t r a igh t home. ! He says the "whi te s tuff" , scared ; him. Could be tha t ' s where the j cold s ta r ted . j Mr. May had a happy holiday ! season. He spent the t ime off i-hunting—And Carlton Garner had ] two weeks off. but h is being mum | about where he went, what he did, leu-.!

Bettie Askea and tamily spen t j the New Year 's weekend in Nor-| tolk and the repor t is they really 1 ushered 1S*4S out in style. Speaking i ot t ravel ing, Blanche Barker went

home to Wilson for a pa r t of the I holiday season .-.ml when she came ' back it seems i good sized sha re of her re la t ives came back for the weekend. Blanche says he r house couldn' t have held ano the r person.

That proud look on Mr. Saca-towski 's face is due en t i re ly to the fact tha t Ba rba ra J ? a n was on the Honor Roll . Can' t say tha t we blame him for being proud.

I'm happy to say t h a t the mail lines to Pa les t ine a r e sti l l open, and I 'm even about convinced t h a t it should nb longer be called the " T u r j l e Express . " By the t ime you read this I shal l be enjoying my-self in Boston. 'Two weeks vacat ion! If only Pales t ine wasn ' t so fa r away! •

THE FACTS OF LIFE

Today. 7 per cent of all Ameri-cans a r e over 65 yea r s old. Out of lu million Amer icans , over 65 yea r s of age less than one million have independent incomes. Three and a hall' million still have to work tp ea t ! The res t must- look to the chari ty of re la t ives for food, cloth-fug . and a place to live.

Not a pre t ty pic ture , is i t? You don't like the* thoughts of facing the- same fu tu re , do you? Well , what a re you doing for YOURSELF and your family to he lp insu re thei r secur i ty? Are you ac t ing or just th inking and hoping?

Kegular purchases of UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS THRO-UGH T H E PAYROLL DEDUCTION PLAN is the best wj^y to be s u r e that you don' t have to accept

I char i ty , or keep on working when | you a r e old. BUY BONDS FOR j YOURSELF—HOLD ONTO THEM I while you a re able to work, then,

when you/uius t—or jus t plain want to s top working, the income f rom those bonds will let you do it with-out worry . Ny

See the Savings Bond Repre-senta t ive in your Shop or Depar t -ment Today. He will be able and more thau glad to d iscuss the Pay-roll Savings Plan with you. Let ' s take some action now and save for that " ra iny day" that we hea r so much about ! ! I t ' s . bound to come someday, so let 's be prepared .

"THANK YOU SOCK" —SAYS FORMER WR

A letter of t hanks was received b> T H E WINDSOCK today f rom Miss Myrtle J . Wilson, of Cardiff. Wales Miss Wilson, a fo rmer WR. was s ta t ioned at Cher ry Point dur ing the war . Miss Wilson sends he r t hanks because of a package of p ic ture? ' that we re sent to her. The p ic tures consist of scenes

ARE VOU INTERESTED?

In a n effort- to d i ssemina te to all civilian employees on the s t a -tion the per t inen t po in ts of S ta -liqp Orders and Memorandums, we a r e beginning in t ins i ssue of the WINDSOCK a ser ies of a r t i c l e s on sub jec t s o t ma jo r in teres t .

The first a r t i c le of th is se r i es concerns gr ievances .

A . g r i e v a n c e in itself is a com-plaint ux .misunders tanding tha t is personal to the individual. The solution or se t t l ement of the m a t t e r will usual ly affect only t h a t pa r t i -cular individual. Exper ience h a s indicateu the necessi ty of d rawing a dist inct ion between individual gr ievances and those involving more genera l issues, which a r e normal ly the subjec t of considera-tion by m a n a g e m e n t and g r o u p s of employees or thei r r ep resen ta -tives. Mat te r s affect ing genera l working condi t ions a n d which may be m a t t e r s of employee in te res t a re not t r ue gr ievances . Mat te r s of such genera l concern which have broad appl icat ion, such a s those regard ing genera l policy, adminis -t ra t ive pract ices , and working con-dit ions. a r e not app ropr i a t e for handl ing under this gr ievance pro-cedure ; they fa l l nore proper ly within the c lass i f icat ions of mat t -e r s to be deal t with by manage-ment in thei r g r o u p dea l ings with employees. However , r eques t s and inquir ies which do no t conta in the e lements of an individual gr ievance and which a r e related to genera l conditions of employment will f r e -quent ly be made by individual em-ployees, and a l though no t bona fide gr ievances , they , should be re le r red to the employee 's im-mediate supervisor . The supe r -visor concerned should immediately a t t empt to a n s w e r the employee 's reques t or inquiry and set t le the ma t t e r prompt ly , or he may wish to re fe r the employee to the ap-p ropr i a t e au thor i ty for advice or reply. In any event , the employee should be given a decision and the reasons the re for , together with o ther per t inent in format ion regard-ing the disposit ion of the ma t t e r .

In any depa r tmen t , at t imes, it may be expected that condi t ions conducive to employee dissa t is -fact ion and re sen tmen t will ar ise . Unless employees a r e given a n oppor tuni ty to seek redress , thei r a t t i tudes and consequent ly thei r work will eventual ly be affected. The Stat ion and the Navy Depar t -ment recognize and endorse the impor tance of br inging to light and ad jus t ing gr ievances prompt ly . Be-cause gr ievances and misunder -s tandings will inevitably a r i se in almost all working condit ions, i t fol lows that the ini t ia t ion of a gr ievance shpuld not be considered as a reflection on his s t and ing with his superv i so r s or on his loyalty and desirabi l i ty to the or-ganizat ion. On the o ther hand, the init iat ion of a gr ievance should not be considered a s a ref lect ion on the employee 's superv isor or

the genera l management of the depar tment . It is the policy of the Stat ion and the Navy Depart-ment to t reat all employees fa i r ly .

nd to insu re that employees will be unimpeded and assured f reedom from res t ra in t , in te r fe rence , coer-cion. d iscr iminat ion , or repr i sa l in filing gr ievances in accordance with the procedure es tabl ished in In-dus t r i a l Rela t ions Order Number 1P-194S.

In the next i ssue of the WIND-SOCK a full descript ion of the pro-ctMiure to be followed in filing ii •grievance will be presented .

NAVY SUPPLY

around the base. The p ic tures 6he says, "will fill in some of the blank pages of the s c r ap book of my life in the.-Marine Corps."

' Miss Wilson is now employed as an exchange teacher in Cardiff . Wales.

B y J . n l Navy Supply s t a r t s looking a round for i u family a s t h e holiday sea-son came to a close. Our beau t i fu l Chr i s tmas t ree is gone bu t many of us sti l l hold t h e memor ies of the good t imes t h a t we h a d over the holidays. Looking a round we see many events tha t have happen-ed du r ing the p a s t two weeks or more , so sha l l we enl ighten our-selves a s to who did w h a t ?

LaRue Lockhar t h a s r e tu rned f r o m Daytona Beach , F lor ida where she spen t New Year ' s weekend with Dottie Weeks, fo rmer Navy Supply employee. Ru th Will is spen t las t weekend with Jewel le Cannon in Ayden. F r a n c e s Taylor was in Nor-folk visit ing K a t h r y n e Cheek. I t seems Norfolk was a favor i te spot for visi t ing, because, J an i e Ti lgh-man , Caroleen Fan tone . and Ver-non Crow son a n d family were the re a t the same time. Maxine and Roy Dempsey spen t Chr i s tmas in Alabama with Roy 's family. Mr. Gilbert a n d family spent a week 's vacation in Maryland. Mrs. Lodge vacationed in Washington, D. C. Agnes Hil l enjoyed a long visit in Charlot te , and Lois Baily visited he r g r andmothe r in New York. Mr. and Mrs. S h r u b a r spent the holi-days in Washington , D. C., and has Att ie told you about how good Santa Claus was to he r? Seems the jolly gent left her a new bed-room sui te complete with match ing cedar chest . M. W. J . Bradt spen t the weekend in Cedar Is land visit-ng relat ives . Mr. Saleeby spen t the

holidays in Washington . N. C. I l a Emer spent Chr i s tmas with her mother at Merr imon and then she and Dick went to New Je r sey to spend New Year 's weekend with his people. Ru th Bender h a s re-turned f rom Bal t imore where she spent the holidays. Vilma Hamil ton spent the holidays in At lant ic , N. C. and Shirel Stanley and family have re turned f rom Texas and New-Mexico where they spent t h e holi-days. Marion Gr imes went on a hun t ing t r ip to Matamu6keet Lake. Albert Ball a lso enjoyed a l i t t le h u n t i n g durfcig the holidays. Lois Wilson and h e r husband went home to MemphiB. Tenn. for a two weeks vacat ion and came back the proud owners of a new Nash. Some c lass—and especia l ly tha t back seat . Get Lois to tell you all about i t . I th ink t h a t acoounts for most of our wander ing ch i ld ren .

We a r e glad to have Joy M u r r a y and Sue Malone back with u s a f t e r thei r recent i l lness. Joy h a s ' b e e n kui te ill with pneumonia .

Sara Bledsoe's mother has been ser iously ill. She has been moved to Wilmington. N. C. Here ' s hoping that she will soon be up and

round aga in , Sa rah . Seems like a couple of our

chi ldren became engaged over the holidays. Willie Dennis is engeged to Freddie Padge t t (Engine Over-haul i. The date has not been set yet. she tel ls us. but maybe some-time in the Spr ing the wedding bells will r ing. Helen Jowdy is en-gaged to TSgt . Robert McWat te rs and has set the da te for J a n u a r y 26th Congra tu la t ions to F redd ie and Bob and best wishes to W'illle and Helen.

Marilyn van Benthuyson h a s a hou^f in Havelock now. She looks about it a f t e r wai t ing a few months . Virginia Willis has resigned in order to awa i t a blessed event . Wc hate to lose you Virginia , but we a re happy for you.

All ot you people in Supply who have news i tems, don't just keep them to yourselves . How are we going to know what is going on. J u s t give me a r ing on 4126 and give me the news as it happens .

LODGE 1859 INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS At the regu la r Tuesday evening meet ing of the 1AM Lodge No. 1859

past' Pres ident C. E. Brown officiated in the ceremony of ins ta l l ing the new officers for l f49 .

D. M. "Pop" Connor of the Plant Division Machine Shop was re-elected for Pres ident H. E Arnold o f t he OfcR Machine Shop as Vice-Pres iden t . Clyde Caton of P lan t Division a s F inanc ia l Secre tary . Lillie McDaniel of Reproduct ion as Record ing Secre tary . • E. J . Clark of S m a i r S n r f aces as . ,Treasure r . M. G. West of the Fabr ic Shop a s Con-ductor . N. G*. Robinson of the TemT l la te"Sbop-as-Inside_Sentine^. R. W. Evans . P r o g r e s s m a n . as a Trus tee . E. C. Fowle r of the I n s t r u m e n t Shop a s a Trus tee . R. L. White of thp Paint Shop a s a T rus t ee . "Gene" j Lewis of Power Plant Division a s Cha i rmar of the Shop Committee, j

Officers of the lodg«r wish to express the i r apprec ia t ion to each ' and every member for thei r generous donat ions of food which went to five'n«»edy fpmil ie? in Havelock

The next meeting for all r egu la r members will be held on Tiiesd'ay. J a n u a r y 1£. 1P4P at s• Qu P. M. in the Communi ty Building in Havelock.

<ev. Sir . I tie tired Hit m u l e d a jr.i.ict»t."

B* J o h m j Kelly -HOW AM 1 TO KNOW—HE

W AS A GOOD MAN AS GOOD ME> GO*", Stan Kenton and his orches t ra .

"Know" i6 s t r ic t ly an in s t ru -mental and jus t a s s t r ic t ly in a d i f ferent groove than t h e usua l S tan Kenton presenta t ion . Th i s i s a medium-tempoed version of a s t a n d a r d tune , melodic a n d s t r a igh t - fo rward in • con t r a s t to S tan ' s usual f r a n t i c a r r a n g e m e n t s a l though it s t i l l bears the £*><iton t r ademark throughout . This side spots some in teres t ing piano a n d bass pa t t e rn s by Stan and Eddie Sa f ransk i .

"As Good Men Go." is a novels-number which conies off a t medium beat and is dominated t h roughou t by the s inging of J u n e Christy. Stan and his band keep away f rom their noted progress ive jaaz p re t ty much on th is one. a l though some of Kenton 's charac te r i s t i c i n s t rumen-tal pyro technics a r e hea rd between J u n e ' s vocaL

" R I F F T I D E — W H A T 18 T H E R E TO NAT** Coleman H a w k i n s and hiB orch . Riff t ide is a bop in s t ru -menta l which the renowned Cole-man H a w k i n s and his gang of famous sidemen played a t a br i sk jump tempo, much on the same lines as the previously released "Stuf fy ." In .addition to the g rea t tenor-sax soloing of H a w k i n s him-self. this* pe r fo rmance also fea-tu res some great bop t r u m p e t by Howard McGbee a n d also Sir Char les Thompson is f ea tu red on the eighty-eight .

The reverse side is an old bal lad wri t ten by Vernon Duke. " W h a t Is There To Say." I t was wr i t ten at t h a t t ime for a Broadway Show and now is considered a s t anda rd .

Coleman Hawkins is he&fd through-out th is s ide demons t ra t ing his vir tuosi ty o n the tenor-sax and proving t h a t he is one of the g rea t e s t tenor men in the music world of to -day . ' Melodic ra the r than boopiah, th is side is played in excellent danoe tempo all the way.

"FOUR BROTHERS— .\ 0 TIME" Woody H e r m a n and hiB o rches t r a : "Bro the r s" is a fine rendit ion of polished big band bop as only H e r m a n and his herd can do i t . With such grea t s idemen a s Zoot S imms and Stan "Getz on tenor . Serge Chaloff on bari tone, the " H e r d " is real ly runn ing wild. With a few m o r e record ings such a s th i s one, no band will be able to touch H e r m a n and h i s boys. ' Af ter you hear this selection you will fu l ly ag ree with yours t ru ly . On th is s ide of the record you will a l so hea r some g r e a t d rumming by a l i t t le guy who i s j u s t s t a r t ing to be known a s a fine big band hide beater , the name is Do a t Lamond.

"No Time" is a medium tempoed t u n e with a vocal by Woody him-self. I t h a s a good dance tempo th roughou t but is a l i t t le too cool, no t a t all like t h e usua l H e r m a n jump-vocal . The only spark on th is side is provided by Don La-mond on d rums .

" I T S UP TO YOU—TEA FOB TWO" Gene K r u p a and his orches-t r a : "You" is the typical K r u p a commercia l j u m p tune, bu t Gene seems to be working behind his hand much bet te r than he usua l ly does. Fea tu red on th i s s ide a r e two grea t s ax solos, first on tenor is Charlie Ventura , second solo is rendered by Char l i e Kennedy on al to sax. not to ment ion some flashy st ick work on both tom's and sna re by Krupa . Reed section does except ional ly well on th is side.

"Tea for Two" is a reissued ver-s ion . vocal rendit ion by Anita O'Day. This is one of the poores t records that I have heard Anita do with the K r u p a orch. I t could have been much bet te r all t h e way a round .

STATION 1 I B B A E T Top Deck F X BaiMJa*

Mo.-Kri H M . i ; N ; 18— 1 1 1 Sat-Nan 1S00-17M; 1 — M —

FICTION By F r a n c e s Howell

>EW NOVELS: ' ELIZABETH* CAPTIVE PRINC-

ESS, by Margare t I rwin . A color-ful cont inuat ion of Queen Eliza-beth 's story begun in "Young Bess.". Now 19 she spends a few t e r r i fy ing weeks in the Tower of London, knowing that every hour may be her last .

THE T E N T H SYMPHONY, by Mark Aldanoye. A vivid p ic ture of life and society in Europe immedi-ately a f t e r the downfa l l of Napo-leon, seen th rough the eyes of J e a n Isabejj. a r t i s t , and P r ince Raxu-movsky, p a t r o n and f r iend of the g r e a t Beethoven.

T H E F I R E BALLOON, by R u t h Moore. The au tho r again wr i t e s about her own kind of people— the old t imers a round Scra tch Corner th rough the s u m m e r of 1947. Theo and Wess and Gram Sarah a r e well wor th knowing.

T H E OLD BEAUTY AND OTH-ERS. by Willa Gather. Here a r e the last th ree s tor ies of a t ru ly g r e a t A m e r i c a n novel is t—"The O 1 d Beauty." "The Best Years . " and "Before Breakfas t . " In the words of one cr i t ic they "a re the final expression of Miss Gather ' s m a t c h - ; less a r t . " INTERESTING L I V E S :

JUNGLE MAN. by Major P . J . Pretoriu&.

LAUGHTER IN T H E N E X T ROOM, by Sir Osbert SitwelL

SO FAR SO GOOD, by Morris L. Erns t .

GEORGE WASHINGTON. by Douglas Southal l F reeman .

T H E SEVEN STORY MOUNT-AIN. by Thomas Merton. OF SPECIAL I N T E R E S T : MATHMATICS FOR ELECTRIC-IANS AND RADIOMEN, by N. M. Cooke.

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND TUBES, by the Cruf t Labora to ry .

LORAN: LONG RANGE NAVI-GATION. by J . A. Pierce, e tc .

T H E AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPH-ER 'S HANDBOOK, by Aaron Suss-man.

EVERYDAY AUTOMOBILE RE-PAIRS, by W. H. Crouse.

BETTY GlLMQRE WALTER THORNTON

PIN-UP

STATION RECREATION ACTIVITIES THEATRES

INTRAMURAL 1800-2030

Whispering Smith Alan Ladd

Brenda Marshal l

TODAY Whiplash Dane Clark

Alexis Smith J a n u a r y 14

Child Show—1000 Check Your Guns

^1800-2030

Live Today For Tomorrow

Double F e a t u r e

The Creepers and

California Fire Brand

SATURDAY

J a n u a r y Jj

1300 Anna Karenina

Vivian Leigh

1800-2030 Act Oi Violence

SUNDAY t Technicolor) Larr>* P a r k s J a n u a r y 15

General's Cup Elimination Basketball Tourney

The Street With No Name

1800-2030

Behind Locked Doors Dan Fowley

Carlson Bremer

MONDAY

J a n u a r y 17 Mark Stevens Lloyd Nolan t

General's Cup Elimination Basketball Tourney

1800-2030

Gun Smugglers ' Tim Holt-Richard Mart in

(SAME AS MONDAY) J a n u a r y 1*

1800-2030 "Flyers" YS

Ft. Jackson Basketball — Away —

General's Cup Elimination Basketball

Tourney

Michael O'Halloran WEDNESDAY

Scotty Becket t Ail en e Roberts J a n u a r y 19 Gloria J ean

J immy Lydofi JACK POT NIGHT

r N . THURSDAY

1800-2030 Miracle Of The Bells

Fred MacMurray F r a n k S ina t ra

Tap Roots YOUK TIME IS HOBBY S H O P

TIME Van Hell in Susan Hayward Boris Karloff

J a n u a r y 20

Birds!

f rom

ager_

XA J A N 1 p « P

. Cherry Poin t ' s "Fight ing Flyej repeated" the resu l t of thei r N Savannah boxing pe r fo rma i when the Tinsleynien placed close second a n a captured the o s tanding individual honors a t 1 T u r l i n g t o n , X. C. tou rnament , N

This t ime,- i t weight , Rudy ] fistic laure ls . * caniello, S. E .

Second At Burly; Individirai Champion

Genera l ' s Cup

-S'laytd la!-;. < basketbal l ! y , r s " ami guard the

! scoring sparkp lug , eld and Ford . so effect-' " F l y e r " player was iit for more than .e ight i'ii. ( 'as! a Hi i and "Wood

squadron piaV HJ»O BIG " H O N K E R S " b a r r e d iast week at Lake Mat t amu>kre t a re displayed b r T S r t . B a r B a r r k Cleft) is t ime f t A l> -46 and J lSc t . Archie l . Har t . YXF (a)-SJ1.

' ''••• . . . V " . : : T — r — ' • • \ \ •

Pool

Point s "Fight ing F lye r s " thei r Nor .

a ou t -the

X. C. tou rnament , Nov. 7, and S, as fo r ty - f i r e hundred

f ans watched the show. was ano the r Light -

Lara , who won the while Johnny Bian-

A. winner , d i d n t fight in the tu rnamenL For RcMtjr, it was pe rhaps a n added m a r k of sa t i s fac t ion s ince he 's s la ted for m a n e u v e r s and h a s probably seen his last r ing action, for some time to come.

Lara came out f a s t a n d f u r i o u s to knock cuit t h e highly touted J immy Davis7 Bur l ing ton ' s ace s t r a p p e r who hadn ' t been defeated in three years , and t a k e the cup. Rudy s taggered Davis with a hi«rd le f t at the end of the ini t ial s tanza and turned on the hea t in the see»& ond f r a m e with a pair of ha rd r ight hands that ' sent Davis into s lumber land .

Oddity Costs Delennre A real boxing oddity, cost J im

Delenge the Heavyweight crown at the meet, a f t e r the Cherry Point-

won a forfe i ts victory f rom J i m T a t e of the Schoolville. Va. in his first match*

Delenge. with a super ior advantage , sent his opponent read-ing to the canvas no less than thre t imes dur ing the tirs't tw;o roUcas. but tired in t h e . t h i r d s tanza and

- disqualified by -' the re fe ree when he tu rned his back on his oponent and walked a w a y . ' The s t r a p was awarded J immy ' s bat-tered adversary .

Zeeca Lick- Champ ^ Next to La ra , it was capable

, -Mike Zecca who provided the event with it 's biggest news when he out boxed and Outpointed Dick Young of the Durham* club, taking

, the Middleweight c rown. A student at Duke Universi ty ,

j- oung was one of the mos t ex-perienced pugi l is ts in the tou rney and boasted a victory over Hal

' Anspach, one of the leading l ights , ol Cherry Poin t ' s "Golden Boxing | E r a " when L a r e r n e Roach and Joe • Ridone were fighting here . • In addi t ion to his conquest of ) Anspach. Young held Golden Glov-. es t i t les in New York and Chicago, and. was a heavy favor i te over Zecca. H o w e r e r , Mike put on a spir i ted thi rd round ra l l£ to sp r ing a s t i r r ing upset and c a p t u r e the verdict.

Vicknair Tally* OB k O fctarting off the show f o r the

"Fight ing F lye r s " in smooth fash-ion was Bantamweight George Vicknair , 111, who pounded out a two round knockout to a d r a n c e into finals. However , the c lassy l i t t le pugi l is t dropped a s p l i t ; decision to Wal lace H u r l i n g ol Bur l ington to lose ou t on final honors . Vick-nair showed lots of promise and should de re lop into real threa t for the l ea the rnecks at Char les ton and Greenr i l le .

Lloyd Rousse . the "F igh t ing F l y e r " wel terweight , emerged on the wrong end of a "nip and t uck" threfr-rounder . Rousse s ta r ted off by flooring hi6 opponent . Roy Burns of Greensboro, in the first round, but was downed himself soon a f t e r w a r d . Both boys put on ah in teres t ing exhibit ion that drew plenty of app lause f rom the spec-ta tors . K. 15owe, Beas l e j Lose

Ralph Rowe. a new Middle-weight acquis i t ion of the Tinsley stables, had the mi s fo r tune to meet the talented Young before the la t t e r fel l a t the h a n d s of Zecca in the finals. The conqueror of Anspach was jolted by a pa i r of hard r igh t s by the courageous Marine in the first round, bu t took a th ree round verdict . Rowe put up an except ional ba t t le and ex-hibited a grea t deal of gri t and s tamina .

The only o ther Cherry Poin ter to s c r ap was Baseom Beasley. who dropped a three round decision to ex-Marine Char l ie Crisco who mixed boxing effect iveness . and r ing s tyle to ou tc lass "Bad Ba scorn."

—Ln-n~:short—two-main swing through Virgin:.!. Cherry Po in t ' s hoop-s te rs t i l l below tin five hundred mark for tl.< -eason by dropping a i'.iii •>: basketbal l d a she* to tin Norfolk Naval Air Station a n d the Li t t l" Creek Va Amphibious- Bus*.- The r« verses put the "Flyers' record for th< v u r n - u t >-.-ason a: seven w rf> and eight losses Tin Victories were ..t th . e\peii>< •: Lane ley Field. Little- Creek . MB. Wash ing ton : Fort "Brasi: NOB. Bermuda , and a pair front Kindley AFB. BVrmud.t Tin "Fly. :•>" h.,v.-. dropped „iir each to Littlt Creek. NAS Norfolk MCS. ijiiaiit 'i •>. I ' a t r t s I - l and . NOB. Bermuda . Fort Bragg , Fort .la. HM.I. MI*S ,,nd AFB. Mitchell Field. 1. 1

Bowling

Cherry Pointers Drop Two Games; Parris Island _ _ . ( B a s k e t b a l l )

race uuantico hve lonite Away MONDAY JJIGHT. 2000

HOI M M ! o l THK Cherry Point "Flyers '* scores it Ii a oiie-lumder despite an a t t empt by a » w Bern p l u j e r to block the «.lu»t. Action took place i n a recent inline between the " F l y e r s " a s d Xevr Bern Independent*..

Two Big

The Ions of > w Crevis tea m m a p r e t t y M t t e r >IMM far C f c u i j Point baske tba l l fo l lowers . T h e l i t t le f o r w a r d f r o m Calamet City, IIL

becoming - h o t t e r by the secmrf" l a t a l ly ing th i r ty e ight points f o r his last . . two appea rances la «*Flyer" l i m y .

- Sixteen of these c a m e aga ins t Quantico, one of the * most highly rated squads of t h e eas t in cour t actiVfty,

. .and twenty two more were accounted f o r aga in s t | Mar ine Bar racks . Wash ing ton , D. C. in Norm's final

CHERRY POINT WINDS&CK. I # JAN. 1B48

most highly .and twenty two Mar ine Bar racks . appea rance

Casbea, Ford Row On Spot ' Bob Ford is t h e a u on the spot right now, t h a t is a s f a r a s Coach U GrasseUTs prospec ts a r e con-cerned. Mach has been predicted f o r the r a a g y cei who hit his high mark of t h e season aga in s t Langley Field a few n ights ago with twen ty oae points .

Another rea l backbone of t h e sqaad is J o h n n y Cashea , who has been pret ty "hot and cold" lately. P a a l Hatfield is an above average g a a r d and can hit f rom the set posi t ions. X a e h of the saceess or f a f l a r e of the " F l y e r s " for the res t of the campaign will fal l «a t h e shoa lders of these t h r ee men.

I n t r a m u r a l Faaof f l a Fa l l Swing A full schedule of act ivi ty in the Stat ion Drill Hal l is on the agenda

with the s tepped-«p runoff of the I n t r a m u r a l p r o g r a m by the Special Services Depar tment . This "rapid fire" t r e a t m e n t should produce some fireworks in most fields of In t r a act ivi ty, with basketbal l scheduled

to receive a "sudden dea th" windup and boxing to have a s lam bang tournament .

A.i -present , i t 's been an all-AES-46 show, bu t it may not wind tha r -way . MACG-1 has been giving the Eng inee r s a rea l run for thei r

•y. and a r e out in f r o n t in t h e Basketbal l show. Six Go To Charleston

i$ix boxers a re slated to t ravel to Char les ton for the "F igh t ing F l y e r s " as they p repa re to tackle some rugged opposit ion at the next boxing rendezvous next - Wednesday.

Amont; the t eams included at Charleston a r e Fo r t Bragg and Camp 1/e.ieune. This will be the first t ime t h a t Cherry Po in t has met t h e Le jenne club and J o h n n j Biancaniei io will spearhead t h e list ef pro-s p e c t h e contenders for individnal honors . The " Jo l t ln J a b b e r " will - c r a p In the Lhrhtwefarfat division.

Don Spencer, the ha rd -punch ing Lightbeavy. is t icketed for the t r ip a f t e r missing the Burl ington meet , and the "Detroi t Dynami t e r " should be in peak form a f t e r r e tu rn ing f rom a nice holiday leave. T h e "Er in Kxpress" f rom Boston. J i m m y Smith , who is p lanning to t u r n pro a f t e r his service r ing career , probably will fight in the Fea the rwe igh t class.

Bantamweight George Vicknair . I l l , smal les t pugilist on the squad, is coimr a lone , and so is Lloyd Boasse , the Wel te rweigh t glover who <lru|>|>ed a split decision in Bur l ington .

Zecca Grows More Impress ive l ,ast . but by no means least , is Mike Zecca. the Middleweight! "Maul in ' Mike." the rock-r ibbed puncher f rom Newark has been

ureat ly overlooked as f a r as p ra i se is concerned unt i l he dumped <'hicago Golden Cloves Champ Dick Young in the Bur l ington tourney.

However . Mike has a lways contr ibuted a fine pe r fo rmance every l ime he's s tepped into the r ing and has been Improving grea t ly d a r i n g •be last couple months . Zerca ' s oa ly flaw, a tendency toward w H d a e s s has been curbed, while Mike's boxing has become much s h a r p e r in his last two fights.

< > i >

>VI1F-I22 LL C. D.

Locking a r o u n d th i s week I find Sgt. Joe Stock is on a diet-has shaved himself down round, firm, fol ly packed 220 t o svel te 210 . he can now get back into the cockpit of a Corsair .

MSgt. F r a n k Bar tos ik a n d CpL Ray Studdar a r e both TAD to t h e USS Pa l au for "Cold w e a t h e r " ob-servat ion and t ra in ing . The b a n d played "ANCHORS A WEIGH-

Sgt. J o h n n y Burne t t of the " f r o n t office" h a s been looking for-ward to the fo r thcoming m a n e -uvers . I t seems J o h n n y h a s been penning l ines to one Carmen Aguado of Santurce , P . RI7X» tha t ' s not P a r r i s Is land e i ther !

Another guy gone Greenvi l le is Green wai t . A Miss P a t Simpson lives in Greenvil le Bty I a m told. Any connect ion?

Pfc . W. W . Landeek, J r . , a l though sl ightly swamped has been mov-ing mounta ins for Material of la te . F4U's o rdered r ight away. P u l l m a n ca r s t ake a l i t t le longer!

Eddie McManus looks l ike the dr ibble expert of 122. H e ha i l s f rom Boston. Mass.. and has been known to r ack up 22 points a game. Did anybody else m a k e any baske t s?

The pilots ready room has a new addition that the Squadron may be juBtly proud of. I t ' s a complete navigat ional m a p of the U. S. put up by our opera t ions de-pa r tmen t .

Newcomers to the Squadron th is week include Captain W. F. J a -cobs. I s tL t . Maglll. and I s t L t . Dorn. all fo rmer ly of H e a d q u a r -t e r s 14.

AES-41

BIRTHS-D,ec. 22—A daughter , Henr i e t t a

Marie "Shaver, born to MSgt. and Mrs. Zebulon V. Shaver . J r .

Dec. 2H—A son. Chr is topher Ar-nold i ' e rv in . born to MSgt. and Mrs. Michael V. Cervin.

Dec. 31—A daughte r . Ruth Ann Brocius. born to TSgt . and Mrs . Rill S. Brocius.

Dec. 31—-A daugh te r . Mary Susan Eubank, born to SSgt. and Mrs.

Willian S. Eubank . Jan . 1—A son. F r a n k Lee Kend

rick, born to MSgt. and Mrs. "A" " J " Kendr ick .

J a n . 1—A daughte r . Sandra Kay Tessanne . b o m to Pfc . and M^s. David^R. TeBsanne.

Jan . 2—A son. Thomas Augus-tine Gribbin. I l l , born to IstL".. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gribbin. I I .

J a n . 6—A daugh te r . Gayle Ann Fauvi l le . born to TSgt. and Mrs. Ar thu r J . Fauvi l le .

By LL D. F . Miles on _j LtCol. J . L. Neefus ' r e tu rned

f rom leave 8 J a n . He is due to be detached f rom O&R the l a t t e r par t of Jan .

Col. L. S. Reeve h a s reported for duty at O&R. He will succeed Col. Neefus a s Execut ive Officer.

Capt. F . G. Phi l l ips h a s been on a ten d a ^ leave in St. P e t e r s b u r g . Fla . He h a s been visi t ing h i s p a r e n t s who a r e vacat ioning in the Sunshine City.

Capt. L. I. Beat ty received his permanent commission in Limited Duty S ta tus last week. H e ac-cepted the commission F r iday , 7 J a n .

MSgt. P. J . Rupakus has been t r a n s f e r r e d to Quantico. H e was

VMR-252 By LL G.

Thursday, J a n u a r y 6th, found our "2az • Commandos" in Jacksonvi l le , X. C-. fo r thei r first scheduled game in the "Tidewater League ." *Ve a r e happy . to announce they handed the league leading "Rock-e t s" a 60-47 defeat . The Jackson-ville qu in te t was undefea ted in 10 games u n t i l - t h e y me t our "Com-mandos" . The fol lowing m e n ac-counted tor the 60 points—Mobley 17, D a r t IS, Selepes 12, B u r k e 10, Minick 4, and Rush 2. Quick/ Den-ney, JSnight a n d Hawkin&^flgured in the game in the ever-relief role.

Along the spor t s ang l e ; it as if TSgt . A. J . Fauvi l le t h rown a s l ight curve . I t he was dead set on ra is ing a base-ball team of h i s own. But old man S tork evidently d idn ' t ge t the word and delivered a fine 6 lb. 11 oz. gir l , "Gail Anne," on Thursday , J a n u a r y 6th, ins tead of t h a t first ball p layer .

One of our few remain ing eli-gible bachelors h a s depar ted over the sea of Matr imony. Capt . R. J . But te r s and the fo rmer Miss Fran-cis Maria S te fan ik were mar r i ed J a n . 9th a t a Nupt ia l at 1000 a t St . jQhns in New Haven, Connect icut . Mrs. Bu t t e r s was former ly Ens . Stefanik , USN (NC), and has been s ta t ioned h e r e a t Cherry Point fo r the pas t few months . A total of n ine officers and four men f rom the squadron were o n hand to wi tness the cere-mony and wish the br ide and groom bon voyage. Capt. and Mrs. Bu t t e r s will r e tu rn to t h e Po in t a f t e r a Honeymoon in Nassau , Ba-hamas .

VMF-212 By LL C. M. Greea

Marine F igh te r Squadron Two-Twelve has a new member . Capt .

W. Baker recent ly became a f a t h e r for the second time. I t ' s a gir l .

Congra tu la t ions a r e also in o r -der for P fc . L. C. J o n e s on his cen t mar r i age , and a l so f o r P fc . C. L. Sea r s on h i s r ecen t t r e k to the a l t a r .

Recent ly joined was I s tL t . C. W. Tuxbury , f rom Ai rFMFPac .

t h e senior NCO in AES-41 with 22 y e a r s in the Corps .

MSgt. O. H. Gray was dis-charged and reenl is ted f o r t h r e e

His t ime in t h e Corps i s eleven years .

MACG-1

jvtir-ea By K. C. Langness

Monday night saw a determined v q u i n t e t nose out a te r -n n c MACu-l ball club by a score oi 32-3L Cont ras t ing s ty le of play was fea tured , MACG-1 using a f a s t breafc and VMF-223 ut i l is ing a s lower version, which m a d e it a n i p and tuck bat t le a l l the way. P ic . Carrol Enzor broke Lhe ice a n d scored t h e first two points to pu t VMF-223 ahead in the opening moment s of the game. VMF-223 forged ahead , bu t was ha rd -p ress -ed and the first period ended in a 7-ail tie.

A see>-saw battle ensued in the second period, ne i ther being able to pene t ra te the cxeai lent de-fense pu t up by both teams, re-su l t ing in a ha l f - t ime count of 12-11 in favor of MACG-1 cagers . VMF-223 grabbed the lead quickly in the thi rd q u a r t e r 21-20, but was jus t a s eaaily over taken a t the end of the qua r t e r to the t u n e of 24-21. In a terr i f ic las t period scramble , which saw severa l p l aye r s go out on fouls , both t eams kep i up a sear ing pace. With 1 m i n u t e 2s seconds to go the score was 31-20 in favor of VMF-223. A double foul was called and both ™»i made thei r shots good to m a k e the score 32-31. F r e q u e n t fou l s were called on MACG-1 a s VMF-223 monopolized a n d f rose t h e ba l l to the flnai gun.

Individual* scor ing honors were t aken by Pfc , Carrol Enzor for VMF-223 a s he r immed the baaket for 11 points . Cpl. P a u l C la rk followed up with 5 points and Major Tom Mann, TSgt . Dee Min-nick , and P fc . J i m Madara tied for th i rd place with 4 points each. Won-lost s tand ing for VMF-223 a re now 3 and 1 wi th a n overal l total of 4 games played. Two more games a r e scheduled th is week a s the team endeavors to keep a clean s la te s ince losing thei r opener to AES-46.S

<The , Squadron a t p r e sen t b " s t a r t e d to p r epa re for t h e f o r t h -coming maneuve r s scheduled f o r nex t mon th and t h e r e is p len ty of work to be done before w e c a n go into the field and func t ion a s an efficient organizat ion. Neverthe-less we will have to find t ime for the in te r - squadron horse shoe tourney in the next two weeks. Trophies have been ordered f o r the single and double champs a n d f rom the looks of t h e "•> of en -t r i es they have crea ted plenty of in teres t .

AES-42

TIE SQUADRONS REPORT I

c ream of the crop. If the best a th -letes a r e selected, the cry will be, "Watch Cherry Poin t ' s smoke in s p o r t s ! "

A few random sho ts f rom here and the re : Cpl. Bellone f r o m MGCIS-5 is t ak ing on another s t ack of ch ips in the Marine Corps. Sure g lad to have you r ema in with us , old t imer.

A l i t t le birdie told us tha t P fc . Bayer f rom MarTacRon-1, the lad with much oomph and wavy h a i r , found his hear t '6 des i re a t Have-lock. N. C. (Spl in tervl l le to you MWidentM. Careful of them cur ly Ipeks, boy. be t te r see if t h a t l i t t le 9tgeon is ava i lab le first.

The g r o u p boxing team is now being formed nnder the able and wa tch fu l eye of Pfc . Griffen who wil l ooach it. P len ty of room fo$ y e n f u t u r e whi te hopes, and now i s y o u r chance to go ou t and r ep re -s e n t your g roup on a boxing team. It may help b r ing the Commanding Genera l ' s t rophy cup back for a n o t h e r year . Besides tha t , you may ga in a l i t t le knowledge in the m a n l y a r t of self defense.

The la tes t hot scoop is that l a s t week 's w r i t e u p h a s helped "Woody Woodpecker" Lorenzen to obta in t h a t e lus ive point fo r the F lye r ' s basketbal l team. H e m a d e a bucke t f o r TWO LARGE POINTS aga ins t S e w Bern, and to top tha t , he was se lec ted for the t eam. Nice work boy. Remember t o keep on mooch-in t he r e and never quit t ry ing. Who knows, you may become a n o t h e r Joe F u l k s . We wish to extend our s incere welcome to all new men jo in ing th is command. T ime a n d space does not permit us to ment ion yon all by name, but we a r e real ly glad to have you with us.

What an outfit to be in, fine qua r t e r s , good working condi-t ions. shor t h o u r s .and bea t of al l , PROMOTIONS. Sta t i s t ics show t h a t AES-42 gives m o r e promo-t ions pe r capi ta than any o the r squadron on the s ta t ion. T h a t probably accounts for a l l the re-ques ts ju s t recent ly received to join ' o u r g rea t organiza t ion . In fact a l a rge fence had to be in-stal led in the f r o n t office to pre -vent the c l e rks f rom being t r a m p -led .

To ca r ry the subject a bit f a r -the r the re were 4 s taff , 8 se rgean t , and 34 corpora l promot ions p lus 46 orders for new Jacke t s , fo r some reason the old ones jus t don' t seem to fit anyntofev

The squadron b a s k e t b a l l ' t eam suffered quitA a loss t^hen P fc . HOWARD sus t a ined a knee in ju ry in the i r recen t c o n t e s t However , the team coach and cap ta in . SSgt. BOOZIER, announced t h a t they will be in peak condit ion for t h e big t o u r n a m e n t commencing on the 17th.

VMT-1 By Capt . Herber t R. Waltz

Congra tu la t ions a r e in o rder for the men spor t ing new chevrons these days. Onr newly promoted corpora ls a r e a s fol lows: Cotter . Kicks and Urban . As f a r as n e w se rgean t s go w e have : Pender -g rass . Miller, Pogue, P rokopchnk . Schwar tz and Wil l iams.

Congra tu la t ions a r e a l so in o r -der for MSgt: Ju s t i n ' J . Mackel-p rang who. a f t e r serving eight years , has jus t reenlis ted for two more years .

A FAMILIAR SCEXE a t Cherry Point t he se days a s Second W i a g Squadrons p repa re for sh ipboard a i a a e a t e r * . Two, possibly three , Mjaadrons will go aboard f o r the Car ibbean exercises .

By H. k e n s k i Once again congra tu la t ions a r e

in order , this t ime to Captain Wil-liam A. Shepherd of MGCIS-6, who received his new rank f rom 2Nov 48. T h e cigar smoke is still so dense f rom this promotion tha t w e hope the fire depar tment doesn ' t mis take it fo r a fire.

The last basketbal l game be-tween MACG-1 and AES-41 made that never- to-be-forgot ten Demp-sey-Fi rpo encounter look mild. MACG-1 finally came through with a 44-41 win in an ex t r a period. Mayhem to m u r d e r would b e a very gent le expression to descr ibe what went on in th i s game.

It is on such occasions a s t h i s that a couple of good officials fu rn i shed by the Special ServieMk D e p a r t m e n t would come in h a i t d ^ and would aid i n t r a -mura l s p o r t * 100 percen t

If these officials have to be select-f rom a source o t h e r than Spec-

ial Services', it should be done. This is i n t ended /mere ly a s a con-s t ruc t ive suggest ion, mean t to be t t e r the i n t r a - m u r a l spo r t s pro* g ram now in opera t ion .

Rega rd l e s s of t h e m a n y a r g u -ments pro and con. the op in ions of many of ' u s a r e tha t Che*.T Point can pnt out spor t ing jus t a s good if n o t , be t t e r t han those f rom Quant ico. Camp L e j e u n e and "Fort Bragg.

The personnel a r e h e r e to select f rom. The spade work m u s t come f rom a success fu l i n t r a - m u r a l •sports p rogram. T h e top athleffcs from t h e pa r t i c ipa t ing t e a m s in th is p rogram should be extended an invi tat ion to t r y out f o r t h e

: Stat ion Vars i ty Team. This way. f Cher ry Point would have f h e

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