Vol. I—No. 2 U. s. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C. Saturday, September 26, 1942 5c a Copy V-5 Instructors Finish Course Today Havy Post Office A Popular Spot By B. G. Leonard, Jr., Sp. 3/c We did not build a better mouse trap. But part of the world is making a pathway to our door. For we handle the mail Mail is important to everyone. The business, the joys, the sorrows, the pathos and the heart-throbs, even the “scuttlebutt” of a nation pass through the United States mail. Letters from home rate 1-A as builders of morale. The authorities of the Pre-Flight School, determined that the mail should be efficiently handled, assigned four experienced postal clerks to ope rate the post office. We were enlisted as Specialists (M). Our somewhat vague conception of our standing in the Navy was crystal- ized some ten minutes after our ar rival. A seaman wandered into the small room that was then serving as post office. He spoke, sailor-fashion, from the corner of his mouth. The squint of his eyes hinted of service un der tropic suns. We learned later that the squint had been developed under the dim lights of a mid-west metropolis. The seaman said, “I’m glad we’ve got Mail Specialists.” We swelled with pride. The seaman elaborated, “Until the Mail Specialists got here, I was the lowest-ranking thing on the station. I’m GLAD we’ve got Mail Specialists.” With that indoctrination, we went to work. Chief Specialist F. E. Strowd designed the quarters that serve as post office. It is a complete P. O, in almost every detail, equipped with box sections, money order and parcel post windows, and a lobby that provides even the traditionally bad post office pens. The only missing features are notices of civil service examinations, photographs of fugitive underworld characters, and “Uncle-Sam-Wants- You!” posters. They seemed some what superfluous. The volume of mail has grown steadily to support the theory that “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” Sturdy cadet messengers sometimes See POST OFFICE, page U Short on Space Circumstances beyond our con trol make it impossible to pub lish more than a four-page Cloudbuster this week, and we are thus unable to carry all of the advertising scheduled. We wish to thank the follow ing advertisers for their coop eration in allowing us to hold their copy over until next issue: Campus Cafe Carolina Pharmacy Carolina Printshop College Sandwich Shop Community Cleaners Fowler’s Food Store Graham Memorial Grill Intimate Bookshop Pick Theatre Shields’ Food Shore Sutton’s Drug Store Tru-Ade Bottling Co. University Cleaners Varsity t*' *> V- The sight of honest-to-goodness football players actually studying and attending class while on a trip no doubt was quite a surprise to the other passengers aboard the train. Date for Radio Broadcasts Shifted The weekly sports broadcast over Station WPTF, Raleigh, N. C., featur ing interviews of athletic notables of the Pre-Flight School, has been shifted from 2315, Friday evenings, to 2100 on Tuesday. Lt. (jg) Ed Kosky, as sistant to Lt. Comdr. James H. Crow ley on the Cloudbuster football staff, appeared on the program last Tues day. Invitation to UNC Affairs Pre-Flight cadets have a standing invitation to attend University of North Carolina functions during their liberty hours, provided they have dates with coeds. A dance is being given tonight in Woollen gym starting at 2100. Tom Hamilton Promoted to Rank Of Commander Head of Naval aviation’s physical fitness program whose vision sparked the organization of the P r e-F light Schools — Lieut. Comdr. Thomas J. Hamilton — has been promoted to the rank of full commander. Comdr. Hamilton charted the course of the Pre-Flight program from its inception and much of its success is due to his spirited leadership. Comdr. Hamilton has ob served Pre-Flight training at Chapel Hill several times and has expressed enthusiastic satisfaction with progress of the cadets here. Comdr. Hamilton Mail It Home Why not supplement your let ters home with a copy of the Cloudbuster? You can mail a copy of this issue first class for 3c. 21 of Group Are Assigned For Duty Here The contingent of 135 V-5 physical training instructors who reported for Naval indoctrination at Chapel Hill Aug. 27 today successfully completed the one-month course, as officers well trained in Naval customs and tradi tions, disciplined in military drill, and in top physical condition for their jobs ahead. Like four similar courses conducted from March through July at the U. S. Naval Academy, the session at Chapel Hill was designed to meet the needs of the Navy’s rapidly growing air arm for instructors in the aviation train ing program. While it is not planned to operate another indoctrination course for officers here immediately, others may follow at later dates if re quired by demands of Naval expansion. Lt. (jg) William Clark served as officer-in-charge of the V-5 course, with Lieut. Norman Loader heading the academic instruction phase, Lt. (jg) E. R. Hodgkins in charge of mili tary instruction, and Lt. (jg) E. S. Masavage directing class athletics. Platoon officei's were Lt. (jg) R. T. C. Brown, Lt. (jg) T. R. Ward, Lt. (jg) J. B. McCabe, and Lt. (jg) M. R. Brownlee. In the graduating class of officers are many nationally known athletic figures, including Lieut. Raymond W. “Ducky” Pond, one-time football coach at Yale; Lieut. Charles Gelbert, for mer infielder with the St. Louis Card inals; Lieut. James Kitts, former head football coach at Rice Institute; Lt. (jg) Millard “Dixie” Howell, football coach at Arizona State Teachers Col lege; and Ens. Angelo “Hank” Lui setti, basketball standout from Stan ford. All but 21 of the officers are being transferred for service at Naval Re serve Aviation Bases, Naval Air Sta tions, Pre-Flight Schools, and Naval training schools widely scattered throughout the country. See V-5 INSTRUCTORS, page Coming Events Sept. 26—Movie at Pick Theatre, “My Favorite Blonde” with Bob Hope. Features begin at 1900 and 2028. Sept. 27—Movie at Pick Theatre, “Corsican Brothers” with Douglas Fairbanks. Features begin at 1250 and 1440. Sept. 27—Band concert at Kenan Stadium, 1630-1730. Sept. 30—Smoker at Emerson Field, starting at 1900. Oct. 9—Kate Smith program, 2000- 2100. Jimmy Taylor on Radio Cadet Jimmy Taylor, member of the First Battalion and now stationed at the Dallas, Tex., Naval Reserve Avia tion Base, will participate on the “They Live Forever” radio program over CBS on Sunday, Sept. 27, between 2230 and 2300. Subject of the program will be the life story of his father, Lt. Comdr. James B. Taylor, famous Navy test pilot who was killed in a plane crash last May.