Vol. 2—No. 15
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Friday, December 24, 1943
The Station’s Santa Claus, in Most Cases, Was the Post Office
THE BUSIEST SPOT on the station for the past two weeks has been the Navy Post Office, located in the basement of Navy Hall. In the
photo on the left is shown Gene Strowd, CSP (M), USNR, with an armful of packages, while in the center, left to right, Ralph Bauthues,
Sp3c (M), USNR, and Alan Abner Barker, Sp2c (M), USNR, are shown sorting a part of the mail which came in Monday morning. On
the right the photographer snapped a group of cadets from the various halls as they started back with the mail. What the picture
doesn’t tell, though, is that most of them had to make more than one trip.
Cadets Get Special
Christmas Dimer
An extra-plentiful holiday fare,
including turkey with all the trim
mings, is planned for the Regi-
nient of Cadets for Christmas
Dinner tomorrow.
The menu, designed to satisfy
all appetites with tasty holiday
foods, follows;
Eggr Nog
Beef Consomme
Hearts of Celery Stuffed Olives
Sweet Mixed Pickles
Snow Flake Potatoes Tiny Green Peas
Roast Young Turkey
t)yster Dressing Giblet Gravy
Cranberry Jelly
Baked Virginia Ham
Lettuce, Tomato and Asparagus Salad—
Dressing
Parkerhouse Rolls Butter
Pruit Cake Orange Topping
Crapes Apples Mixed Nuts
Assorted Candies
Coffee
Cigarettes
In observance of Christmas as
an all day holiday, town liberty
■'vill be granted to ca<Jets from
0830 to 2400 tomorrow.
Today (Christmas Eve) the
Saturday schedule will be oh-
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Stores to Close
The Chapel Hill Merchants As
sociation Office, as well as all
business firms downtown, will be
closed tomorrow (Christmas Day),
it was announced yesterday by
the secretary of the association.
Episcopal Services
Christmas morning services
will be held in the Chapel of the
Cross (Episcopal) starting at
1030, Dec. 25. Pre-Flight person
nel are invited.
Movie Schedule
Dec. 24—Free movie at Village
Theatre, “Hit the Ice” with Ab
bott and Costello. Feature starts
at 1410, 1532, 1940 and 2112.
Complete show one hour, 32 min
utes.
Dec. 25—Free movie at Village
Theatre, “Love Crazy” with Wil
liam Powell and Myrna Loy.
Feature starts at 1310, 1500 and
2110. Complete show one hour, 49
minutes.
Dec. 26—Free movie at Village
Theatre, “Billy the Kid” with Rob
ert Taylor. Feature starts at 1320
and 1504. Complete show one
hour, 44 minutes.
Cadets Invited to Dance
Pre-Flight cadets are invited to
a Christmas Eve dance being giv
en in Graham Memorial Lounge
by the Town Girls of the Univer
sity from 1930-2400, Dec. 24.
Post Office
Kept Busy
At Christmas
A Chief Boatswain once re
marked that mail specialists work
ed only twice a year—Christmas
and New Year’s.
Just how much truth is in the
above statement is hard to say,
but it’s most definite that the mail
specialists on this station have
been kept more than busy for the
past 10 days.
There is a famous slogan of the
Post Office Department, which
says, in part, that the mail must
go through, regardless. And as
special assistants to Santa Claus,
the local post office crew has had
to work long hours, extending far
into the night, in order to carry
out that slogan.
See POST OFFICE, page