l^age Two
CLOUDBU STER
Saturday, October 28, 194‘^
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No, 7
Saturday, Oct. 28, 1944
Published weekly under the supervision of
the Public Relations Office at the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., a unit
of the Naval Air Primary Training Command.
Contributions of news, features, and cartoons
are welcome from all hands and should be
turned in to the Public Relations Office, Navy
HaU.
Cloudbusteb receives Camp Newspaper
Service material. Republication of credited
matter prohibited without permission of CNS,
War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N.Y.C.
Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, USNR
Commanding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. Howard L. Hamilton, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Relations Officer
Editor: Orville Campbell, Ylc
Navy Pay..,
The observance of Navy Day was inaugu
rated October 27, 1922, under the auspices
of the Navy League of the United States,
in order that the American people might
become more familiar with the United
States Navy, and gain a greater apprecia
tion of its importance and influence in our
national life.
October 27 was chosen as the date for
the observance because it marks the anni
versary of the date in 1775 when the Con
tinental Congress received the bill provid
ing for the original United States fleet.
Although the fleet was authorized at that
time it was not until 1798 that the Navy
Department was made an independent and
recognized unit of our Federal Government.
October 27 also marks the birthday of Theo
dore Roosevelt who recognized the need
for a strong Navy, and is widely credited
with being the father of our modern Navy.
This year the United States Navy will
be 169 years old. Its origin is mingled with
the very roots of American life and thought.
From the era of the wooden sailing ships
to the present day its tradition of seaman
ship and courage has been one of the proud
est chapters in American history.
Today the United States Navy is the
greatest and most powerful that has ever
sailed under the Stars and Stripes. On all
the seas of the world, it is writing new and
glorious annals in the struggle for freedom
that can end only in victory. Certainly
there has been no year when the American
people can join more wholeheartedly in pay
ing tribute to its Navy.
Twenty-five per cent of all Naval person
nel is in Naval Aviation.
On The Lighter Side .
“I heard your kid bawling last night.”
“Yes, and after four bawls he got his base
warmed.”
*****
The average man likes a girl with a good
figure—^physical or fiscal.
* * * *
When a car stalls on a moonlight night on
a dark road, and the sailor looks into the
girl’s eyes—he’s single. ... BUT if he gets
out and looks in the gas tank ... he’s married!
^ ^
Local Gal: “It seems silly to instruct sailors
in the use of arms—I’ve never been out with
one yet who needed any instruction.”
*****
“Dearest,” said the young girl, “sometimes
you are so strong and masculine, and at oth
ers you are so soft and gentle. Why is it?”
“I suppose it’s heredity,” he replied modest
ly. “You see, half of my ancestors were men
and half were women.”
*****
Most popular GI corsage—Four Roses.
*****
Dear Old Lady: “Are you a little boy or a
little girl?”
Junior: “Look, lady, what the hell else could
I be?”
* * * * *
“What did you name yoah baby, Mose?” a
friend inquired of a proud colored father.
“Electricity,” said Mose.
“Queer name,” said the friend. “Why that?”
“Well, mah name’s Mose and mah wife’s
Dinah, and if Dinah-Mose don’t make electri
city, what does dey make?”
*****
“How did you find the ladies at the dance?”
asked a sailor of his buddy who had just come
in from an evening of doing the town.
“Oh, I just opened the door marked ‘La
dies’,” returned the Bluejacket nonchalantly,
“and there they were.”
The husband who knows where his wif«
keeps her nickles has nothing on the husband
who knows where the maid’s quarters are.
* * :it :it !i:
The two southern Minnesota towns of
Myrtle and Martha—some ambitious travel
ing men try to make them both in the same
day.
*****
He who laughs last . . . lasts!
:S * * *
“I won’t offer you a cocktail,” said the host
ess, “since you are head of the Temperance
League.”
, “Oh,” came the reply, “I’m not head of the
Temperance League. I’m head of the Anti-
Vice League.”
“Oh, well, I knew there was something I
shouldn’t offer you.”
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Definition of a WAVE; “Gi’ablebodied Sea
man.”
*****
Names on a hotel register: “Pat Murphy^^
Irish and proud of it!” Next was signed, “Jocl^
McIntosh—Scotch and fond of it.”
News of the success of the Cloudbuster
football team has carried all over the world.
A letter from Lieut. Paul Deaton, a Flight
Surgeon in the South Pacific, reveals that
he heard a play-by-play account of the
Duke-Pre-Flight game played at Durham
recently.
Lieut. Deaton, who is a brother of Mrs-
Gordon Clark, attended the University of
North Carolina.
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Cadet Paul Rouillard, 63-F-l, has one broth
er who is in his second year at West Point'
and another who is a Second Lieutenant i’’
the Army Air Corps. After winning his wing*
he hopes to be assigned to a multi-engine<)
squadron, preferably a medium bomber outfit
in the Pacific Area, north or south.
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AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL . . . Shortly before the kickoff at the Georg»Jr
Pre-Flight game the cadets marched onto the playing field. However, when the comma*’ c
to dismiss was given it didn’t take them long to get their seats in the stadium as the abo' ^
photo will indicate.