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Custodians, of the Navy-Marine Corps
jfootball stadium fund are $500 richer,
j thanks to four midshipmen who lack a
| sense pf humor. The quartet,all member
i of the,Class of *58 won the money on
I TV’s "Make Me Laugh" show by— keeping—
| straight faces for three minutes while
! three ■ professional comedians tried to
! break them up. The middie then donated
I their winnings to the fund drive.
Jody McCrea, son of movie actor Joel
| McCrea and now an Army private at Gover
jnors Island, N.Y., played the lead in a
| recent TV drama.
I Most expensive TV package of the com
| ing season will be a two-hour offering
|of "Show Boat." Total production costs
|are expected to run more than $1 million
Gary Crosby, recently discharged form
ithe Army after a two-year tour, stars
|with Pat Boone and Sheree North in 20th
jCentury Fox’s "Mardi Gras."
TOP IN POPS
Taking over as the top song in the na
|tion just three weeks after its Release
is Sheb Wooley’s tongue-in-check rendi
tion of /'The Purple People Eater."
Other tunes among the top ten, accor
ding to Billboard Magazine’s "Honor Roll
of Hits," in order;
"All I Have To Do- Is Dream"
"Witch Doctor"
: "Twilight Time"
"Chanson D1Amour"
"Return to Me" . , v,
"Big Man"
"Secretly" ..
"He1s Got The Whole World In His
Hands,f
"Sugar Moon"
(AFPS Weekly Feature)
DID YOU KNOW? *
; that the Navy's new guided- missile
'.destroyer has nearly twice the tonnage
>of the World War II 2,200-ton destroyer?
that nuclear powered submarines can
■go faster submerged than on the surface?
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»»» BUPERS NOTICE U30,Ht
The Chief of Naval Personnel has an
I nomiced that the service-wide examina
j tions for petty officer third class that
| have been held in May and November for
I the past few years, have been cancelled,
I according to BUPERS NOTICE 1430 dated 10
I June 1958. This Notice is effective im
! mediately; which means that there wi3.1
! be no E-4 examinations, held in November
11958.
I The reason for this change is that the
| full facilities of the Naval Examining
j Center will be required during the Nov
| ember examining period to process the
j Proficiency examinations.
T^e Chief of Naval Personnel futher
| announced that the interim examinations
! have accomplished the purpose for which
I they were intended, to put additional
; petty officers into certain critical
I technical ratings. Better reenlistment
! rates, and inproved distributional pat
j tern have reduced the need for these
I interim measures. In the future, all
j examinations for advancement in rating
j to pay grades E-4, E-5, and E-6 will be
j conducted in February and August of each
i year, Examinations for pay grade E-7
! will continue to He held annually — in
I February.
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