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NOTICES %ve Boy Scout Court of Honor and Banquet will be held ‘Tuesday, February
9th at the Club Caribou®. The opening ceremony will be’ at 6:00 P.M® This is a
family night and all are encouraged to attend® The dinner will be roast beef at
$1*75 per plate* Tickets are available from all Patrol Leaders®
NOTICE: Here'S a great opportunity for all you ladies, 12 years and over, to get
in. on the know—how, the safe handling and shooting of - firearms® Don’t be left at
home0*®huntihg season can be fun®
The " Adak Sportman’s “ Club, will be starting another FRA-approved safety and
shooting course, dn February, for the ladies« If you are interested, please con
tact Mr,® Gay Ristow, Ext* 310 during the day or Ext® 709 evenings, for addition
al informa tibia or‘‘. .. * '• !
PERSONAL: To the people and our friends we have met' during our tour of duty on
Adak, we wish to thank all we have met, mostly because 95$ of them; have become
dear friends® . The .tour has been short but sweet and we hope we will once again
cross .paths. ,r f > Mr* and Mrs
FCR SALE: Toule sterling silver flatware*
Recent pattern, excellent' condition^,bare
ly used 1 Includes complete 8 piece setting
of 5.pieces with major serving pieces®
Phone 399, or'call at'QtrO*-0“45 anytime
except Wednesdajs evening.^
D.L. McClain
ATTENTION FLEET RESERVE MEMBERS;
There .will be an old fashioned Box
Supper at the Fleet Reserve Home
Wednesday night,.Feb, 2nd®at 7 PM*
Each lady is requested to bring a
box with food for two. There will
be prizes for different contests
and dancing to the Saints Band,
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WASH IN GTON (NAVNEWS) - The Aircraft carrier VALLEY FORGE- will take part in a sci
entific experiment later this month when two mammoth balloons, designed torecord
> the^ffeots-of -, cosmic, rays,., are ^l^unched from her flight deck.
The experiment, part of a Nayy-National Science Foundation project* will take
plapfe during a ten day operational. ^ercise;;in/the Caribbean.The balloons, which
areydesigned to carry a payloadt of-2,500 pounds miles above the earth, will
tower* --5Q0 feet ev-Sr^the carrier fs/» flight deck • when, inflated with 10 million
cubip 'feet of' gas© v * ’; :\'
Called' "Skyhooks,", the balloons bin be launched over a four day period when
there is little: or rio wind» '• Jjhen they are launched, . they are expected to stay
aloft' for' 4^ hpurs at altitudes between 18 and 22< miles.
Each balloon*, will carry a^oft an 800 pound slab of jpure emulsion, similar to
that.^sed-on photographic film, The emulsion will trace the. path of cosmic'rays
or nuclparparticles^ passing through* it. ;. \
After the experiment* the VALLEY FORGE will return .to Roosevelt Roads.