NAVFAC MEWS
Now that the examinations1 for advancement are oveJr there should be many more
petty, officers around the facility in May* We- hope that everyone did well|»>
The "Den of the Forty Thieves'1 is coming along real well* The deck-is paint
ed. and the stove is working. When the Chief Boatswain's Mate returnes from
leave'and reclaims his CMAA badge from the Chief Storekeeper, a grand opening
* will be -held, . \ / .7 .'** "... • - v *...... . . ~
(LTJG George MILLER and ENS'KOSTIN are representing-.the facility on the All
Star Basketball Team that will represnet Adak in the 17ND playoffs.
• Joe CUZZORT, C0G2, has been thwarted in his attempts to impress the crew with
the importance of leaving his stereo set,untouched. His-first signed notice
read “DO NOT TOUCH." ' The next -morning inky fingerprints were found all over his
notice. tUZZORT fumed 'ahd staged around and. spent many laborious hours over
the drawing board and came up with a much more impressive proclation. This lit
erary bombardment read “HANDS OFF* THIS RECORD. PLAYER nND THESE RECORDS WILL NOT
"BE USED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION „0F CUZZORT. VIOLATORS WILL SUFFER A FATE
WORSE THAN DEATH." He signed it affectionately, “Uuz." The: next morning he char-/
. ged -through the maze of buzzers and security measures, rushing up to his stereo A
" set and found-the following penned in lightly at the-bottom of his pronouncements
“Cuz, just knowing you ■ is a bad enough, fate. The Phantom* “ _
-Jack PEARCE, SKSN, Philip CALHOUN, CMA3, Norman STEWART, UTA3 arranged a royal
feed last Sunday,' They boiled four King:Crab in a G*X* can outside the NavFac
warehouse. They invited ENSIGN Jerold TWEDDELL who in turn, invited ENSIGN Pete
KIERLAND who in turn invited ENSIGN Gordon HEIME, ENSIGN HELME, a staunch member
of the Aleutian Skin Divers Club, was unable to invite anyone else .due to the
fact that he was snorkeling in the shower at the. time. /STiHAHT served as Chef and
used up—to—date cooking implements such as two by fours to stir the delicacies.
PEARCE led a rather lengthy aesthetic discussion on what might make him as red as
• the color of the cooked crab, as the tiny-gyoup of pseudo-Aleutes huddled around
the fire in, the falling snow. ■ -• i.
The Misfits are still leading the NavFac Bowling League. Their-record to date
is an impressive H and 1, Chief BYRD had high game last week with a score of
206. John BjNVINI, RM1, has disappeared into the vault and is making nothing . ^
• more than a few plaintive whimpers the last few, days.,His team, the impressive
sounding ]?ut .].owscoring Catkillers, were going to trounce their opposition, the
Topcats« Tab Tcpcats turned around and despite all of BONVINI.' s noise, mangled
the CatkilleVs. three straight. Word ha it that the Catkillers arenTt even Kitten
Mangier? anyrwsre*.*. .. . - .rv . _ '• ;
As the v-sv .-.pocff .of Spring was considered some months .back,. thoughts of the
great' oi;l c^:rVi- f.nd. the exterior appearance of the Maval Facility were discussed^
• The prospect of spending a balmy summer ^afternoon sipping ice tea under a shade
tree, coclld by the caressing'breezes from Kulukv Bay Jiad great.appeal. Showing
icharacter istto verve and initiative,* iLTJG George MILLER wrote to the University
taf Alaska a\i asked that a-soil sample that.he enclosed be analyzed for the pur
pose of planning and extensive landscaping, program, nothing the like of which .
had e« ev before been seen'in.the Aleutians* The following is a paragraph of the *•
answering letter sent by Mr* Paul F• MARTIN, .Research Soil Scientist, of the
Alaska Agricultural Experimental Stations- .....
•Your problem; is one o‘f weather and- climate, not soils* Soils, can be amended
readily, climate, not;• Our past attempts to .advise-as to plants, grass, and shrub
bery in an area such as yours, have not been successful due to other growing fac
tors* I feel that the -ultimate solution to your problem is to spray the entire
( area to be landscaped with green concretej