Vol. 3—No. 50 »• S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Friday, September 7, 1945
NEW ACADEMIC HEAD—Lt. Comdr. Clinton C. Couhig, left, has
been designated to succeed Lt. Comdr. Robert H. Bruce, right, as
head of the Academic Department.
Lt. Comdr. Couhig
Heads Academic
Department Here
Lt. Comdr. Clinton C. Couhig,
of Lackawanna, N. Y., who has
' been serving as assistant to the
; head of the Academic Depart
ment since last June, has been
named to succeed Lt. Comdr.
Robert H. Bruce, Laramie, Wyo.,
as head of the department. The
latter is due to be released from
the Navy and returned to ci-
; vilian status in the near future.
I Lt. Comdr. Couhig, who
I served in the Academic Depart
ment here for six months in
i 1942, was on combat duty as
I navigator and operations officer
I with Patrol Bombing Squadron
54 (Black Cats) from Feb., 1944,
to March, 1945. He holds service
ribbons for the American The
atre, Asiatic-Pacific Theatre
(with two combat stars), and
Philippine Liberation (with two
combat stars).
At the time of entering the
Navy in 1942, he was assistant
principal of the Lackawanna
High School. He is a graduate
of Canisius College, Buffalo,
N. Y.
Lt. Comdr. Bruce has served
in the Academic Department
here since May, 1942, and has
headed the department since a
year ago last April.
A graduate of Ohio State Uni
versity, Lt. Comdr. Bruce was
chairman of the department of
psychology and philosophy at
the University of Wyoming from
1933 to the time of entering the
service in 1942.
Civil Service Workers
Go On 40-Hour Week
All Civil Service employees
of this Pre-Flight School will be
placed on a 40-hour administra
tive work week to be accom
plished in five 8-hour days be
ginning Sept. 9, Lt. Harry W.
Lawson, personnel officer, has
announced.
Employees may be furloughed
without pay one or more of the
five days of the basic work
week for time equivalent to the
number of hours of service
needed on days outside the five-
day week. Such action, how
ever, must be approved in ad
vance by the personnel officer.
No employee will be author
ized to work more than eight
hours per day except in cases of
emergency with previous ap
proval by the personnel officer,
it was stated.
Surplus Items Are
Available to Vets
By Ship’s Editorial Association
Veterans can now purchase up
to $2,500 of government surplus
properties for their business or
farm through the Smaller War
Plants Corp., the Surplus Prop
erty Board has ruled. Surplus
items released by the armed
forces and federal agencies will
be sold to discharged servicemen
at cost, less depreciation.
To be eligible no commercial
enterprise can be capitalized in
excess of $50,000, of which the
veteran must own one-half in
terest. Purchased items may not
be used for personal purposes or
for resale.
More than a million service
men have indicated a desire to
set up their own business. The
$2,500 limitation was set to pro
vide an equitable distribution of
surplus properties available.
The SWPC has established
110 field offices to handle appli
cations.
Happy Holidays!
A return to pre-war observ
ance of national holidays by
all hands of the Navy was in
dicated by AlNav issued Aug.
24. First of the holidays was
Labor Day, last Monday.
The other seven non-work
days will be Nov. 11, the
fourth Thursday in November
(Thanksgiving), Christmas
Day, Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May 30,
and July 4.
72nd Batt Wins
Regimental Title
With 282 Points
Coming through with 107
points in the Sports Program
finals last week, the 72nd Bat
talion of Lt. G. A. Bankston
compiled an overall total of 282
points to win honors for the 31st
period of regimental competi
tion.
Only a third place in Aca
demics prevented the 72nd from
making a grand sweep in all
phases of competition, since it
was tops in Military and Class
Athletics, in addition to the
Sports Program.
Lt. W. R. Holmer’s 69th was
the runner-up with an aggre
gate of 205 points, including sec
ond places in Military, Class
Athletics and the Spoi'ts Pro
gram.
A summary of point-making
in the regimental competition
follows:
69th 70th 72nd 73rd
Military 50 25 75 10
Academics 10 50 25 75
Class Athletics 50 25 75 10
Sports Program 95 94 107 84
Totals 205 194 282 179
Picnic For WEAVES
At Hogan’s Lake
A picnic for the WAVES of
this station is scheduled for
Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Hogan’s
Lake starting at 1700.
Refreshments and a chicken
dinner will be served.
Cadets Ponder
Release Option
Until Sept. 14
To be or not to be a civilian
soon is the weighty question
pondered by the regiment dur
ing the week past, and still to
be answered by many cadets in
the week ahead.
Deadline for decision is next
Friday. As announced by the
Navy Department late last week,
those cadets who declare their
intention to withdraw by Sept.
14 will be sent to separation
centers and mustered out with
enlisted personnel.
While opportunity is being
given now for voluntary with
drawals from the naval aviation
program, the Navy will continue
to make flight training available
to 17 and 18 year old high
school graduates, or students
now in their last semester at
high school, in order to guaran
tee a continuous flow of new
pilots into the fleet.
Applicants must be unmarried
and agree to remain single until
they are commissioned. They
will be given, the Navy Depart
ment stated, three to four se
mesters of college training be
fore entering flight schools.
The option of returning to full
civilian status is being offered
a large number of aviation ca
dets, it was explained, to avoid
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“After I dry the dishes I’ll have
enough POINTS to come out and
play.”