Saturday, December 5, 1942
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Three
Stolen Humor,..
A little humor can go a long way,
but when said humor is about the Army
or Navy those of us in the service seem
to enjoy it even more. A clipped item
from the Santa Fe Magazine tells of
the sad plight of Jasper Higgs. Writ
ing to his father he had this to say:
“Dear Pa: If you want me to come
back to the farm when Uncle Sam says
he don't need me any more—here’s
what you’d better do. Buy two of the
meanest mules you can find. Name one
of them ‘Corporal’ and the other ‘Ser
geant.’ I’ll be glad to spend the rest
of my life just telling them two jack
asses why I made a mistake when I
didn’t join the Navy instead of fall
ing for this soldier stuff. Your loving
son, Private (no class),
Jasper Higgs.”
* * *
Then there’s an item from the
Greensboro, N. C., News. To quote
again:
“In Leesville, La., a Marine Corps
sergeant saw a sign on a night club
saying ‘For Officers and Civilians
Only’. He went in but the club re
fused to serve him. He went back,
got a sound truck, returned, played
‘From the Halls of Montezuma’ 110
times so that is could be heard a
mile and a half away, read the con
stitution and the bill of rights^—
and found that he was the only cus
tomer left. We think he had the situa
tion well in hand. Snobbery has no
rightful place in the Army, Navy or
Marine Corps. There is no use to try
to set up a spurious barrier of social
inequality between officers and enlisted
men off duty. Everybody knows it is
a fake and that not all the gentlemen
are to be found among the officers. .. .”
Better still is the story about the
sergeant at Ft. Dix who ordered all
college graduates under him to spend
the rest of the day picking up cigar
ette butts, and all the high school
graduates to pick up match sticks.
“Now the rest of you guys,” said the
sergeant, turning to those who were
left, “I want you to watch those edu
cated fellows and find out how they
do it.”
Boston’s favorite tale of woe at the
present is about George Lyon, con
ductor on a Boston & Maine train.
“Madam,” he said as he looked
doubtfully at a boy who was traveling
half fare with his mother, “are you
sure this boy is not over 12 years old?”
“I certainly am,” the woman re
plied.
“Well, he looks at least 15 to me.”
“Can I help it if he worries about
the war?” the woman snapped.
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Rufus S. Tucker, II, 13th Battalion
member from Bethlehem, Pa. Tucker
shed 60 pounds in his determined ef
fort to become a naval aviation
cadet. . . .
If officers on Sunday morning Cap
tain’s inspection should encounter dif
ficulty in locating the entrance to
Room 305 Lewis, or any of the regular
furnishings within the room, they
should not fear for failing eyesight.
One of the occupants, skilled in the art
of protective concealment, is Cadet
Harold G. Leaver (12th Battalion),
from Cranston, R. I., who attended the
Rhode Island School of Design for
three years before joining the Navy,
taking the course in complete camou
flage offered there. . . .
Cadet Edwin H. Bradbury (11th
Battalion), of Brewer, Me., tasted both
Army and Marine life before trans
ferring to naval aviation. Bradbury
has served two years with the U. S.
Army and eight months with the U. S.
Marines. One of his brothers is a first
lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps,
while another is an apprentice sea
man in the Navy. . . . Cadet Victor J.
Zaro (10th Battalion), W. Engle
wood, N. J., was rated the “most valu
able wrestler” for three years at Co
lumbia College, New York, and was
elected captain of the school’s mat
squad. ...
Previous experience may prove
quite useful to Cadet Edward A.
Teed (11th Battalion), of East Bos
ton, Mass., should he get lost in one
of the many jungles dotting the world’s
battle areas. Natural history study is
his hobby, .and he was formerly em
ployed as animal keeper in a zoo. . . .
Cadet Robert F. Thompson (12th
Battalion), of Sharon, Pa., has had
10 months of active duty in the Navy,
specializing in chemical warfare
work. . . .
Captain of the varsity football team
at the University of Chicago just be
fore the grid sport was discontinued
at that Big Ten school was Lewis B.
Hamity, of Chicago, 111., now a mem
ber of the 12th Battalion at Chapel
Hill. Hamity had the unusual honor
of serving as captain of his high
school football team for two years, and
he lettered three times in football at
the U. of C. before finishing there in
1939. . . . Cadet John H. Freemyer
(13th Battalion), of Utica, N. Y.,
speaks German, Spanish and French.
He was formerly employed by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation in Wash
ington, D. C. . . .
Cadet Richard J. Peggs (10th Bat
talion), of Canton, N. Y., taught
school last year at Dannemora High
School, Dannemora, N. Y. . . . Cadet
Karl J. Orcutt (10th Battalion), of
Portland, Ore., worked as a drafts
man in the engineering department of
the Kaiser shipbuilding company, Van
couver, Wash., before enlisting in the
Navy. ...
No novice with the violin is Cadet
Eugene V. Erskine (12th Battalion),
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who once fiddled
under the direction of Walter Dam-
rosch at a concert in Madison Square
Garden. A graduate of Johns Hopkins
University in June, 1941, Erskine has
served as a naval inspector at Glenn
L. Martin Co., Baltimore, Md. . . .
The N & R course should be proving
a soft touch to Cadet William B.
Walsh (12th Battalion), of New
Britain, Conn., who was formerly an
aircraft spotter at Post 6A in New
Britain.
Production Progress
The remarkable progress being
made on the production front was re
cently summarized as follows by Ad
miral William D. Leahy, chief of
staff to President Roosevelt:
The U. S. is building submarines in
a little more than one year, twice as
fast as before the war; aircraft car
riers are being built in 17 months;
battleships that used to require five
years ai*e being completed in about
three; modern destroyers are built in
six-months, one-third of the time for
merly required. Aircraft carriers,
large and small, escort vessels, land
ing boats and other kinds of naval
units are about to be built “with a tim
ing almost equal to the pre-war mass
production of motor cars,” Admiral
Leahy said.
Comdr. Kessing Bids All Hands Good-Bye
At Reg'imental Review in Kenan Stadium
FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER of the station, Comdr. 0. 0. Kes-
sing is shown at the speakers’ stand bidding farewell to Pre-Flight per
sonnel, university officials, townspeople and friends gathered to honor
him at special ceremonies held in Kenan Stadium, Nov. 26. As reported
in the Cloudbuster last week, Comdr. Kessing, who was transferred to
sea duty in the Pacific, thanked Chapel Hill citizens, university officials
and students for their “excellent cooperation” with the Pre-Flight School,
and urged officers, cadets, and crew to “keep on giving your best to the
service and we’ll win this war like we’ve won all those in past history.”
Shown seated behind Comdr. Kessing, from left to right, are Capt. W. S.
Popham, head of the local NROTC, Comdr. Tom Hamilton, director of the
naval aviation physical fitness program, and Comdr. John P. Graff, com
manding officer of the Pre-Flight School.
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