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SANTA"‘TOi *' INSPECT TOYLAND AMD PRESIDE AT OPENING FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER - MCB-Ten per
sonnel are busy preparing for their annual administrative inspection by CB Pac
and our Warehouse personnel have been busy these past weeks getting ready for
an inspection by SANTA CLAUS. Santa has graciously consented to make a short trip
tb Adak from the North Pole to say an early HELLO to our Adak younger set with
perhaps a reminder to be good little girls and boys (as if they aren't already. )
He has consented to let our photographer take pictures of him and your children
on these opening days, FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER and SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 1961. Santa will
have to leave for the North Pole after we close on Saturday and won't be back
till Christmas Eve but he has brought carloads and ship lodds of gifts that will
please every member of the family.
TOYLAND will be located on the second deck of the Navy Exchange and the stairway
) leading to it can be found at the left of the main Retail Store near the sund
ries check out counter. There will be trains, boats, trucks, dolls, doll cloth
es, doll furniture, footballs, football helmets, and all sorts of electrical and
mechanical toys for Adaks good little girls, a and boys. Since Santa’s helpers
have worked so hard getting' toyland ready and obtaining the toys it is only fit
ting that we take good care of Toyland, Please be careful when handling the toys.
GOING, GOING, GUN! Hurry, Sportsmen, Shotgun shells have been received, along
with some 22 caliber rifles at reasonable prices you’ll find mighty.' hard to
beat or match elsewhere. There are lover action, pump and automatics in this
stock of 22 rifles soon to be on the sales floor* Watch for them. We regret
that the shotguns ordered were still not received with this ship. Another
order not received and overdue was our order for snow-tires as the vendor foil
ed to Ship them. By rapid communication however we hope to receive verifica
tion ’that they will be on the next ship.
THEY WORKED DAY AND MIGHT and most of another day unloading the ship last week
and this was one of the largest shipments ever received by the Navy Exchange.
THINGS LIKE Card tables and chairs, floor wax, shoe polish, more portable radio,
and record players (those transistor models so well liked by you men in the bar
racks ) tape recorders, sweaters, socks, trousers, baby furniture and record
players, radios were all received on this ship. So if items we've mentioned
here are not on the sales floor please be patient. We will work as fast as
possible to get as many of -these ti terns on the floor as soon as possible. Some
items will be coming down each day*