TRAFFIC COURT
r The"'folibWin-p personnel received sus
pension of i&eir driVer*S license &nd
all privileges as listed below* * '/•
Case Ho. Violation Suspended
152 : Ignoring Traffic Signs 15 days ,
154 Speeding 30 days
155 Driving under the in- 4 months
fl-uenCe of liquor,reck
lessness j speeding & .
’ ignoring traffic Signs
157 v Negligence 8. Over Loading Referred
a Vehicle / to C.O.
■ 158 Speeding 30 days
159- Ignoring Traffic Signs Referred
to C*0»
ATTENTION ENLISTED WIVES!!)
•Do you have' the housewife blues? If
so, you,could do something pleasurable
and important.outside the home, THE NAVY
WIVES CLUB NEEDS YOU*? The Adakian Navy
Wives Club performs many important funct
ions that not only benefits every member
of-our community, but others as well;
The Adakian Navy Wives Club supports
a boy at the Open Door Orphanage in
Kentucky,
A monthly donation is sent to the
Cat-frolic Charities Society Casework .
Bureau.in San Diego, California, ■
A contribution is made yearly to the
National Scholarship Fund which enables
several boys and girls (yearly) to
attend college, . . . /■ •
Every.monday,evening, the Club visits
the hospital with baked goods and sand
,whiches for the patients. Gifts are
giv.en to the chil.drep: and wives, -We have
also proyided drapes and a Television
for the hospital.
Many Adakians in stress have been
helped financially,
A member is on the Board of Govern
ors to the Base Nursery and we try to
help where help is needed.
Twice yearly, the Club tries to give
a free Buffet Dinner for ail service jnep,
living in the barracks,
Members of the Club write "Over the
Fence" in the ADAK SUN.<
Help is always given for the HALLOWEEN
and CHRISTMAS parties for the children
on Adak, .
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Future plans include the sponsoring
j of 'Wail • and, Faieweil--Club Bayview and
| helping to .sponsor the Youth .Bowling .
League and-.Brownie; Scouts*
j , Welcome Kits are available for new
Adakians who cannot obtain them from
Special Services, .
Our weekly Steak Sales at the .Club.
Bayview1 and our morVtiiy Bake Sale's at
the local trading post are our only
sources of. money making to support
these activities,
ENLISTED- WIVES JOIN US IN .OUR EFFORTS
TO CARRY ON THIS WORTHWHILE WORK! MM!
BROWNIE TROOP #3 INVESTITURE '
On Saturday, 21 .April, eighteen girls
of Brownie Troop #3.became official
Brownies in an Investiture. Cer.er.iony
held in the R&E Building;* The girls
all received their Brownie’:-pins. After
the ceremony the,girls served refresh
ments to their mothers*
WELCOME USS CHOWAN 0 C
She’s all engines. Riding low in the
water, the Navy’s Fleet Tug CHOWANOC,
just arrived here at Adak is a water
born beetle. More powerful than any
locomotive, her four diesel engines
driver a single 14 foot propellor, dev
eloping 3,000 horsepower, at sixteen
knots* . When CHOWANOC is fully loaded
with fuel,*weighing approximately i6£0
tons, she can tow a 1,000 foot carrier,
weighing 60,000 tons, for 2,000 miles
without- stopping*
Fleet tugs are named after Indian
tribes. CHOWANOC was* named after the
CHOWANOC Indians who lived in settle
ments on the Chowan River in North
Carolina. . They .were first contacted
by white settlor's in 15G4. Their comm
unity was neper ’large and their numbers
dwindled over the .next-, few centuries*By
1820 they were considered extinct* • ; '*
•During.; .WW11 the CHOWANOC spent5 20
months in the forward.areas of the Pac
ific to win the Navy Unit Commendation,
i-.... The GHCWANCC is not new to Adak havinr
spent a tour here:, in the summer, of 1960.
WELCOME. TO ADAK OFFICERS -AND MEN OF THE
• : USS CHOWANOC (ATF 100)