CAPTAIN J. W. ROBERTS, USN
Commanding Officer
THE
CDR R. L. STRAUB, USN A D A K
Executive Officer SUN
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ADAK STATION
IS FIRST NEY
NOMINEE
Washington - If promptness counts, the
Naval Station at Adak, Alaska, should win
this yearfs Ney Award as the Navy *s best
general mess.
The 17th Naval District * s entry was the
first nominee for the annual mess champ
ionship received this year by the Navy
Subsistence Office here. NSO expects
about 35 additional nominations will be
made before the May 1 deadline. - -
All personnel on Adak wish the General
Mess, Good Luck, in this contest.
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On the left-hand side of a newspaper page some time back was a close-up of
one of the most horrible hotel fires of recent history. Above the picture
of men, women, and children cowering on 3moke-surrounded ledges, shrinking
from the flames, was this searing caption: "People Aren*t Fireproofi
Reason for the strong wording was contained in the account of the' blaze,
and the facts presented were terrifying. There was violation after viola
tion of fire ordinances, carelessness, and stupidity. tTThe Sixty-one people
who died in the Hotel perhaps thought they were safe. Its twenty-one-storied
layers of" steel and reinforced concrete were fire resistant - but architects
and* decorators had “built a potential funeral pyre inside.”
It»s easy to feel secure, to bo certain of ourselves, to think we are safe* <
Yet, as architects or our own destiny, many of us have built the external
structure of our spiritual lives without paying enough attention to the in
terior. What a sad awakening is in store for those who wait to die before
doing anything,
"Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest, he :
fall." (I Corinthians 10:12)
Chaplain Morris
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Miss Helen Dowdy, a junior at Adak School, daughter of LCDR and Mrs# James
C# Dowdy, left on Reeves Airlines Wednesday for Anchorage# She is submitting
a project to the Greater Anchorage Science Fair# The project is a comparative
study of the mosses of Glynn County, Georgia, and Adak, Alaska# The mosses
were collected in the two areas, they were planted in trays and slides were
made of each moss. They were examined microscopically, identified and then
compared. Only eight mosses were found common to both areas.
The school is very appreciative to Reeve Airlines for making it possible
for Helen to attend the science fair where her exhibit will be shown.