Saturday, October 28, 1944
CLGUDBUSTER
Page Three
AROUND THE STATION
. . . news from here, there, and everywhere ...
THE FIRST PICTURE TAKEN of the seven Navy nurses serving at the Navy hospital
here is that above, showing from left to right, Ens. Gladys Ryder, Ens. Gertrude E. Thomas,
Ens. Frances A. Tirrell, Lt. (jg) Anne Check, head nurse, Ens. Martha L. Gonser, Ens.
Mary E. Horney, and Ens. Eleanor A. Bliss.
While the 58th Battalion has done an out
standing job in every phase of competition,
the record of the swimming team has been
especially outstanding.
Sixteen records are on the books for out
door and indoor competition which have been
held for a year or more. Over the two week
period just completed, four of those records
were broken.
Cadets Kueng, Carpenter and Hoefler broke
the outdoor medley relay record, reducing the
time from 1:30.6 to 1:30.1. This same trio
also set a new indoor record in the same
event, the old time of 1:44.6 being bettered
to 1:43.2.
In the outdoor cross chest carry, Cadet
Smith lowered the old time of 22.4 to 21.9.
Most surprising of any of the new records
was the indoor free-style relay 200 meters.
The old time of 1:54 was bettered by 3.6 sec
ond by Cadets Scoble, Goodloe, Smith, Poli-
schuck, Place and Hoefler.
Since the 58th has reported aboard they
have won the swimming competition on three
different occasions,
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Reports from the Navy Department indi
cate that the new Hellcat which is being
used in the Pacific is bringing down Japanese
planes on a thirty-one to one ratio, a major
contribution of the sweeping advances of the
past six months.
The new ship is called the F6F-3. The en
gine cowling has been further streamlined,
stepping up the speed which already was bet
ter than four hundred miles an hour.
I The new ships mount six .50 calibre ma-
j chine guns, also can carry rockets and
j bombs,
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Cadet Harold Gustafson, 63-E-l, has a
^ brother who is Second Lieutenant in the Ma
rine Corps, He is stationed at Santa Ana,
California.
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Cadet Arnold Weber, 63-E-l, has no broth
ers in the service, but two of his cousins have
I been recently decorated. One, “Hank” Kirsch-
I man, is a Chief Petty Officer in the Subma-
I rine Service, He has just received his fourth
I decoration—the Navy Bronze Medal. The
i other, Ray Webee, PhMlc, was recently dec
orated for service in the Mediterranean.
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Tool making is the hobby of Cadet Fran
cis Bullen of 63-F-2. For six years prior to
enlisting in V-5 he worked for the Sperry
Gyroscope Company. Among other things
he worked on Naval gun sights and other
I l^istruments made for the Navy of a re-
; stricted nature.
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j Cadet John Van Wie, Jr. served as Scout-
jWaster of Troop 74, Rochester, N. Y. before
j coming into the V-5 program. He was also
director of its Air Scout Patrol for two years.
Football fans in this section will see two
top-flight football games next week-end
without leaving Chapel Hill.
On Saturday afternoon the University of
North Carolina plays host to the Univer
sity of South Carolina and the following
afternoon one of the top games in the na
tion will be played between the Cloud-
busters and the Bainbridge Navy.
The visitors from Bainbridge have not
lost a game since they started playing foot
ball on a national scale two years ago. In
cluded on their roster are some of the finest
stars in the nation, players who would do
credit to any college or professional team
in the country.
Three of the starters are well known in
this section, and a fourth participated
against Duke in the 1942 Rose Bowl game
played at Durham. Garrard Ramsey was an
All-American guard at William & Mary,
Lou Sossamon received the same honors at
his center position while at the University
of South Carolina, and Charlie Justice, who
played at Asheville High School, is one of
the greatest backs to ever perform in this
state. Another Bainbridge player—Don
Durdan—led Oregon to victory in the
aforementioned Rose Bowl game with Duke.
Other players well known for their pre
vious experience are Joe Davis and Alfred
Yanderweghe at the ends, Frank Hrabetin
and Elwood Gerber at the tackles, Len
Akin, a guard, and backs Harvey Johnson,
Joe Michaels and Jim Gatewood.
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It’s official now, packaged and sealed, that
WAVES are to have their long-awaited op
portunity to serve overseas—with qualifica
tions—beginning in December, Overseas serv
ice for this group will be on a purely volun
tary basis, plus recommendation of the indi
vidual’s Division Officer and Commanding
Officer. Training for such duty will be meted
out at Receiving Centers, just as it is for
sailors.
In addition to recommendation by appi'o-
priate officers, the volunteer must have a
good conduct and health record. There are,
however, no age specifications, although six
months’ service, in addition to school training,
is required.
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Next Wednesday’s entertainment in Me
morial Hall promises to be the best held in
some time. Movies of the Jacksonville-Cloud-
buster football game will be shown, and the
Four Clefs will “give out” with 20 minutes or
so of what they call, “Rhythm Supreme.”
For late comers to the station it might be
said that the Four Clefs are a musical quar
tet composed of drums, piano, bass fiddle and
guitar.
On the juke boxes around town there are
several selections by the group, and all told
over 32 sides have been recorded. William
Chapman, who plays the drums, is featured
most of the time on the vocals.
Of the original group only two are in the
Navy—Chapman and George Roberts, who
plays the piano.
In the band at present, other than Chap
man and Roberts, are Jasper W. Allen and
James H. Brown. Allen came into the Navy
via Kansas City, and played in the Wee Wil
lie Smith band at Great Lakes. He plays the
bass fiddle. Also, it might be said in passing,,
that he has a son in the Navy stationed on
the West Coast,
Brown, the guitarist, worked with Artie
Starks Walkathorn Band at Chicago and also
with Chuck Logan,