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Page Four CLOUDBUSTER Saturday, May 20, 1944 Cruising with Covey By David Y. Coverston, Ylc, USNR Super service with a sincere smile, the lowest prices in town for all military and naval per sonnel and their families, with no sales tax, no luxury tax, for the highest quality merchandise ob tainable, is found at the Cadet Store. Truly, the oasis of the sta tion. In command of Lieut. R. F. Dugan, USNR, the Cadet Store employs fourteen civilians, and two service men. The manager of the store is Mr. Charles M. Gra ham, the tall genial gentleman who hovers around the establish ment keeping things running smoothly. The store is divided into two parts, the store proper in the east ern end of Emerson Stadium, handling magazines, luggage, candy, cigarettes, and some eight hundred other items; just outside of the stadium is the cold drink stand which handles, in addition to all the popular soft drinks, ice cream, cakes, cookies, and other gastronomical delicacies. Keeping the books for the ac tivity, which sells on an average of six hundred thousand cigar ettes, ninety thousand bars of candy, and eighty thousand soft drinks per month, is Mrs. Jane Chichester. Also included in the scope of this Department are the accounts of the barber shop, the cobbler, and the cleaners. A big job for a small place. The two storekeepers who assist Lieut. Dugan are W. S. Kimbro and I. V. Hughes, both second class, and experts they really are. Charles Holloway, Bill Smith, John Webb, Eric Gooch, • John Canada, L. T. Colie, Tommy Hoe- nig, G. P. McCoy, Clarence Mac- Farland, R. L. Sparrow, B. L. Till man, and Don Sparrow make up the balance of this smoothly func tioning establishment. Lieut. Dugan states that the purpose of the Cadet Store is to furnish all personnel on the sta tion and elsewhere who are in the service,^ together with their fam ilies, the best of service with the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price. Each month the store turns over an average of $1,000 or more to the Welfare fund, which is pretty good considering the store does an ‘Tell the Captain To Go to Blazes’ We now have our favorite Navy story. It concerns the old salt who retired after long years of taking order from gold braid. He settled down in a little .house and, every morn ing, neighbors noticed a small boy knock on his door, go in, come out again in a few min utes. After weeks of this, one curi ous neighbor stopped the boy on his way out, asked him why he visited the old sailor every day. “Well,” the youngster replied, “he gives me a dime if I say to him, ‘The Captain wants you immediately.’ ” “And,” asked the neighbor, “what does he say to that?” “Oh, he lies down on his bed and roars: ‘Tell the Captain to go to blazes!’ ” Duke Pitcher Hurls No Hitter Against Pre-Flight The Cloudbuster baseball team continues in top spot in Ration League play, but. Duke’s Blue Devils, behind the no-hit pitching of Bob Houghton, handed them a 6 to 1 defeat last Saturday after noon at Durham. Pre-Flight’s only run, in the first inning, was unearned and only two men reached first base after that. Felton started on the mound for Duke, but gave way to Houghton after walking the first three men to face him. The latter had complete charge of the pro ceedings the rest of the way. Score by innings: r h e Pre-Flight .100 000 000-1 0 2 Duke 000 230 lOx-6 11 1 Farley, Somerville, Merrill, and Hoos, Mills. Felton, Houghton and Little. —Coming Up— Today at 1330: U.S.S. Card vs. Pre-Flight in football at Kenan Stadium. Today at 1430 Duke vs. Pre-Flight in track on Fetzer Field. Today at 1500: Camp Butner vs. Pre-Flight in baseball on Emerson Field. Sunday at 1500: Tech-Hawk from BTC 10, Greensboro, vs. Pre-Flight in baseball on Emerson Field. Wednesday at 1530: University of North Carolina vs. Pre-Flight in baseball on Emerson Field. Saturday at 1500: 397th Infantry (Ft. Bragg) vs. Pre-Flight in baseball on Emerson Field. Sunday, May 28, at 1500: Morris Field, Charlotte, vs. Pre-Flight in baseball there. BUSTER BITS Cadet Elo Sexton, 47-J-l, was a First Class Fireman aboard a de stroyer before becoming a V-5er. ... As an Aviation Radioman, Cadet Robert Osmond, 47-J-l, has served three years in the U. S* Navy. . . . He has over 500 hours of flying time to his credit. . . • Cadet Owen Mullen, 47-J-l, par ticipated in the North Africa and Sicily invasions as a Third Class Fire Controlman. . . . Cadet Ru pert Phillips, 48-L-l, served two years aboard the USS New York- ... Cadet Leonard Kistner, 48-L-l> states on his questionnaire that he is a member of Veteran’s of Foreign Wars and American Le gion. . . . Only 22, he has been the Navy for the past four years* Movie Schedule Sat,, May 20—Free movie a* Village Theatre, “Frisco Kid’ with James Cagney and Hum* phrey Bogart. Feature starts 1938 and 2103. Complete show o**® hour, 25 minutes. Sun., May 21—Free movie at Village Theatre, “His Butler’s Sister” with Deanna Durbin and Franchot Tone. Feature starts a* 1317 and 1500. Complete sho^ one hour, 40 minutes. Buy Bonds Until You Drop Bombs— average business of $18,000 per month, and never sells anything at a price exceeding 10% of the cost. Each month, according to regulations, the store must be closed for one or more days for in ventory, every cent having to be accounted for, and it might be well to add that on the last inspection of the store, it received the high est possible rating. As a rule the employees say that the spirit of cooperation and will ingness to help of the customers is exceptionally high, and that very few honest-to-goodness “gripes” are made. The toughest proposition in running the whole store is in getting soft drink bot tles returned. They said that one month alone found them short some 1,600 bottles. The store was opened shortly after this station was commis sioned, and since that time has served practically every person at tached to the station at one time or another. Lieut. Dugan has en deavored to make the store into one of service to the personnel of the station, and considering his cramped quarters, the scarcity of many items with all the headaches of rationing and the slow return of bottles, I think he has done a very good job, an opinion that I feel will be upheld by everyone on the station. As their motto reads, “The mostest of the bestest, with the prices the cheapest, and the ser vice the highest, we are glad to wait on you at any time, BUT PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOT TLES.” First Navy Fleet Composed of 2,024 Men One hundred and fifty years ago — March 27, 1794 — President George Washington approved Con gressional legislation which gave the United States Navy its first ships, guns and personnel under the new Constitution of the United States. The prime purpose of this new Navy was to combat the growing pirate menace in the Mediter ranean. The new fleet was to con sist of four 44-gun frigates, two 36-gun frigates, and 2,024 men. Two of the ships constructed under the 1794 authorization are still a part of the U. S. Navy—the USS Constitution and the USS Constellation, The President of the United States was authorized to procure and employ the ships and guns, commission and enlist all neces sary personnel, and establish the size of the complements, pay scale and food rations. The pay of a Captain was set at $75 per month, with six rations a day. A Lieutenant drew $40 a month and three rations per day; a chaplain drew $40 a month and two rations per day; a warrant officer $14 a month and two ra tions per day. Rations specified by the law were abundant in beef, cheese and butter, and “there shall also be al lowed one half pint of distilled spirits per day, or, in lieu there of, one quart of beer per day, to each ration.”
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