Sn 2 SS THE SKYORACKER Published every Friday by the Office of Public Relations, U. . Navy Pre-Flight School, Athens, Ga., at no expense to the Goy- ernment. Opinions ‘expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the policy of the Navy. CAPTAIN CHARLES BH. SMITH, USN Commanding Officer Lr. COMpR. RALPH W. BURLEIGH, USNR Executive Officer LIgEUrT. Howard W. KRAMER, USNR Public Relations Officer—EDITOR | Coming Events ! Friday, December 24 Children’s Christmas Tree Party, Dahlgren Hall, 1480. Yuletide Ball, Dahlgren Hall, 2100-0100. En- tire station invited. Saturday, December 25 Movies. “So Proudly We Hail,’’ Auditorium, 1515. Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake. Cartoon and novelty reel. Movies. “Heaven Can Wait,’ Auditorium, 1945. Don Ameche and Gene Tierney, in technicolor. Bugs Bunny cartoon and Spots reel. Christmas carolers on the . Stage. Christmas Dance. Service Center, 2000-2330. Dance. American Legion Cabin, Lumpkin, 2000- Officers’ Club Dance, 2100-2400. Sunday, December 26 Church Parade, 0925. Chapel Service. Chaplain G. G. Lacy, Audi- torium, 0940. Holiday Breakfast: Service Center, 1015- 1130. Auditorium, 5. Bing Movies. ‘‘Dixie,” Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Paramount Save Donald Duck cartoon and novelty reel. Movies. ‘Mr. Lucky,’ Auditorium, 1945. Cary Grant and Laraine Day. News of the Day and cartoon. Friday, December 31 Basketball. Skycrackers vs. Charleston (S. C.) Coast Guard, Perry Gym, 2000. Dance. After game, Perry Gym. Liberty ex- pires at 0100. Dance. Officers’ Club on Jefferson Road, 2100. Saturday, January 1 Graduation Dance. Dahlgren Hall, 2100-2400. 386th, 387th, 38th Batts. Dance. Officers’ Club on Jefferson Road, 2100- 240) Sunday, January 2 Church Parade. 0925. Chapel Service. Chaplain G. G. Lacy, 0940. Movies. Auditorium, 1515. ‘Claudia,’ Dorothy McGuire, Robert. Young. Paramount News, cartoon, and Novelty reel. “Movies. Auditorium, 1945. “Stand By For Ac- tion,’’ Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy. News Of The Day, and cartoon. Cadets May Attend Mass Catholic cadets may attend any of the four morning masses tomorrow (Christmas Day) at St. Joseph’s Church, beginning at 0830. One week from tomorrow (New Year’s Day) a special mass will be cele- brated at 1730 during liberty. Havoc—61 Hotel clerk: “Inside or outside room, sir?’’ Guest: ‘‘Inside, looks like it might rain.”’ Junkers 88—66 CBM: “Tell me, where is the mizzen mast?’’ S2e: has it been missin’. PORT “JT don’t know, sir. How long New Year’s Eve Dance in Perry Follows Coast Guard Court Game A provide music in two places at once. A big. crowd of cadets, crew and civilians is expected at the New Year’s Eve hop in Perry Gym which immediate- ly follows the Skycracker-Charleston Coast Guard basketball game. Chief Anderson’s musical outfit will dish out the melodies, and the Welfare Fund will dish out everything else, including paper hats, noise-makers and free cokes. The dance ends at 15 minutes past midnight and liberty for all cadets ex- pires at 0100. Chief Maser will wield the baton for the formal Officers Club party the same evening. Attendance at that affair will be restricted to club members, wives or dates, and out-of-town house guests. Regular graduation dance for the 36th, 37th, and 38th Batts will be held in Dahlgren Hall the following evening from 2100 to 2400. Skymaster—118 A Whale of a Story! Flying Officer Ralph Witchie, a native of Ottumwa, Iowa, stationed in the Mid- |dle East with an RAF squadron, tells this story and he swears it’s the truth, s’help him: “My plane was badly holed during a recent operational flight. I had to fly low over the sea—only had one motor working. Two hours later I sighted what appeared to be an enemy subma- rine. I decided to shoot it up, so I went down to within five feet of the water. “Just as I approached I noticed it was a whale and I had to laugh as my front gunner was blazing away. But I didn’t laugh long. “‘As I passed over the whale, he blew and the water he spouted drowned out my remaining motor and I had to land in the sea—the only pilot in this war, I think, to be shot down by a whale.’’ Beaufort—58 Telephone Center Opens In South Campus Store A public telephone center for the convenience of cadets was formally opened last week in the South Campus Ship’s Service building. The center is located in a specially constructed wing of the building. The facilities consist of a switchboard and eight booths, served by two attendants. A public address system enables the op- erator-attendants to page the cadets when their calls are ready. Comfortable chairs, reading and writing tables, postcards and stationery, and many of the currently popular mag- azines are also provided by the tele- phone company for the center. A li- brary of telephone directories of other cities is available so that callers can help speed the long distance calls by looking up numbers whenever possible. SALUTE to the New Year will be rendered by all hands here next Friday night when the versatile 45-piece Navy band splits in half to Carolers Sing Tomorrow N ight Cadets, Girls on Stage A specialty arrangement of ‘‘White Christmas”’ and a surprise grand finale will be the feature offerings of the mix- ed choral group which will entertain at 1945 Christmas Night in the Auditorium before the movie. Director of the group of thirteen ca- dets and ten NPFS women employees, is Mrs. L. R. Wagner. Miss Wilma Wright is soloist. The chorus includes: Misses Gene- vieve Wilfong, Ruth Jarrell, Ruth Man- ley, Connie Thomas, Harriet and Jean Miller, Ineze Jones, Betty Puryear, Mrs. Hope Sailors, and Mrs. Thelma Ashman. Cadets L. A. Merritt, Jr. (36-K-1A), W. R. Laine (38-D-3B), W. B. Mathes (38-D-3B), B. EH. Wilson (36-L-1B), G. ¢. Ballman-. (37-B-2B), H. J. Thabet (38-C-2A), A. S. Coe (36-K-2A), J. L. LaBarre (38-C-2B), J. L. Plummer (35- J-1A), D. S. Roberts (35-J-1A), W. G. Christie (37-B-3B), W. J. Irvine (38- C-3B), and M. M. White (38-D-3A). Hudson—66 Brinson Heads CAA-WTS; Kettunen, Leffler Detached Lieut. Mose E. Brinson, former Navy operations officer at the Athens airport has been appointed resident Navy of- ficer of the CAA-WTS School here. He succeeds Lieut. Elmer Kettunen, former officer-in-charge. Since the decommissioning of the Navy Flight Instructors School and the transfer of its facilities to aviation cadet training, three other members of that station’s officer complement have received transfer orders to new duties elsewhere. They are Lieut. (jg) W. T. Leffler, former executive officer, who goes to NAS, Olathe, Kan.; Lieut. Joseph Jolly, flight officer, to Ferry Command, Columbus, O.; and Lieut. (jg) John Canny, first lieutenant, to NAS, Pensacola, Fla. The station has facilities for the pre- liminary flight training of approximate- ly 100 cadets. Airacobra—34 Honorable Discharge Buttons An honorable service button to be worn on civilian clothes has been au- thorized for men and women separated under honorable conditions from active duty in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The design is the same as that au- thorized by the War Department for those honorably discharged trom the Army, thus standardizing the emblem for all persons honorably separated from the armed forces.