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Vol. 3—No. 51
U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
Friday, September 14, 1945
Close Battles iRear Admiral Hardison Detached As
Chief of Naval Air Primary Training
Expected Here
In Sport Finals
Although trailing in the over
all competition by 62 ¥2 points
as they enter the Sports Pro
gram finals this afternoon, cadets
of the 73rd Battalion are con
ceded a good outside chance of
coming through with the regi
mental title.
No less than five teams of the
73rd have qualified for the
championship events, and their
point-making today will do
much to determine the winner
of the regimental competition
for the past fortnight.
In the leading position with
135 points going into the Sports
Program finals is the 71st Bat
talion, which has qualified three
teams in the finals. The 72nd,
with SIV2 points at the moment,
will be represented by four
squads.
Sports Events
In the ring today, leather
throwers of Lt. (jg) F. E. Pel-
lerin’s 73rd squad will be pitted
against Lt. W. Jurkovic’s 70th.
Wrestlers of the 73rd, coached
by Lt. A. M. Learned, will take
to the mat against Lt. N. P. Car
ter’s 71st grapplers.
Track will find Lt. H. P. Cor-
mack’s 73rd competing against
the 71st squad under Lt. P. M.
Mariner.
On the hard court, the 73rd
basketball team, coached by Lt.
A. F. Rohrbough, will match
shots with Lt. J. R. Conroy’s
72nd.
In Kessing Pool, 73rd tank
men of Lt. (jg) P. E. Lavietes
will go against Lt. G. F. Laird’s
72nd.
The soccer finals will send Lt.
(jg) R. B. McLeary’s 71st hoot
ers on the field against the 72nd
team coached by Lt. H. Camp
bell, while the 70th football
eleven, coached by Lt. R. A.
Daly, will clash with the 72nd
gridsters of Lt. R. Potvin.
Aviation Cadets Released
Will Not Be Drafted
Naval aviation cadets released
by curtailment of the training
program are being placed in in
active status and therefore are
not subject to the draft, the
Navy Department announced in
Washington last Monday. Dead
line for electing one of the op
tions available to AvCads has
been extended to the end of next
week.
Rear Admiral O. B. Hardison,
USN, has been detached from
duty as Chief of Naval Air Pri
mary Training with headquar
ters at the Naval Air Station,
Glenview, 111.
As Chief of Naval Air Pri
mary Training since January,
1944, he has had supervision
over the Pre-Flight School here,
as one unit of his command.
“Upon my detachment this
date,” Admiral Hardison stated
in a farewell message received
here, “I wish to express to all
hands of NAPTC my admiration
for a job well done, my appre
ciation of your loyal support
and the wish that we may be
shipmates again. Good luck.”
Admiral Hardison, who was
the heroic commanding oflBcer of
the aircraft carrier. Enterprise,
during the battle of the Santa
Cruz Islands in October, 1942, is
a native of North Carolina and
attended the University here at
Chapel Hill before entering the
Naval Academy in 1912.
He served aboard the Texas in
the first World War, became a
naval aviator in 1923, and served
in the Lexington, Saratoga,
Langley, and Ranger, before be
coming Skipper of the Enter
prise.
He was awarded the Navy
Cross ‘for extraordinary heroism
and conspicuous courage as com
manding officer of the USS En
terprise during action against
enemy Japanese forces north of
Santa Cruz Island, October 26,
1942.”
After detachment from this
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carrier, he served as Com
mander, Fleet Air, South Pacific,
and for this duty was awarded
the Legion of Merit by Admiral
Halsey.
To Have Special Movies
A special program of enter
tainment is being arranged by
the Welfare and Recreation De
partment for the Able, Baker,
and Charlie groups of separ
atees on this station.
The entertainment will con
sist of full-length feature movies
at Memorial Hall. The movies
which will be shown Monday
through Thursday evenings will
start at 1900.
FRACTIONS—A wife can be
the main difference between a
civilian and a sailor these days,
concludes sadfaced Joel Esmail,
Y2c, left, of the yeoman pool,
after comparing his score under
the Navy’s point demobilization
formula with that of happy and
married George Belisario, SM2c,
of the communications office.
After chalking up five and a half
points of overseas credit which
will be granted starting tomor
row, Belisario finds that he hits
the critical score for enlisted
men right on the nose—with an
assist due Mrs. B for 10 of his
big 44 points. Also benefitting
from the newly granted overseas
credit, but missing 10 points for
want of a wife, Esmail falls nine
and one-half short of the re
quired total. In this game of
fractions, he muses, a wife is
worth 20 months in the Navy.
Navy Gives Credit
For Overseas Duty
In Demobilization
Officers and enlisted personnel
with overseas service returned
to fractional arithmetic in re
computing their demobilization
scores last Monday when the
Navy Department announced re
vision of its demobilization
formula effective Sept. 15.
Amendments to the original
plan provide that:
1. On Sept. 15, each officer
and enlisted man or woman in
the service will be entitled to
one-quarter of a point for each
month of duty outside the con
tinental limits of this country
since Sept. 1, 1939.
2. Effective Sept. 15, Medical,
Hospital and Nurse Corps per
sonnel will be released in the
following manner:
Nurses under a separate criti
cal score of 60 points; female
doctors under the same critical
score as other female officers,
35 points; male and female offi
cers in the hospital corps, in
cluding hospital specialists, un
der the same critical scores as
other male and female officers,
49 and 35 points, respectively;
pharmacist’s mates and hospital
corpsmen, both male and female,
in the same manner and under
the same critical scores as other
enlisted personnel, 44 points for
men and 29 points for women.
750,000 Now Eligible
A total of approximately 750,-
000 persons will be eligible for
demobilization on Sept. 15, an
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