MAVF\C; NEWS
This week the Maintenance Department dominated the picture at the Facility#
LTJG Jack BANNING led his hard charging divisinn as they initiated a new system
for checking out vehicles, it took them two days of planning to .hit on the sys
tem and the rest, of the week to figure the d.irned thing out. Now the rest of
'the crew is faced with the seemingly hopeless task of complying with all the as
sorted instruc t ions and records. They issued an impressive new assortment of logs
with places to sign in, .sign out, places to record number of miles driven, not
driven, ID card number, place of .birth, career intentions and other .pertinent in
formation vital to the operation of the Maintenance Department and its vehicles#
The two leading Petty Officers, STEVENS, CE1, and CZVCP.NYEK, UT1, spent one
whole morning scouting for a truant two tenths of a mile that some unthinking
sailor failed to-record# The not result was $70*00 spent in manpower costs, an
unprecedented, pinpoint, concise record of every tenth of every mile driven in
every Naval Facility vehicle, and estimated savings in maintenance, upkeep and
^ gas of nearly 5C'cents!!.!
Suburban Adak is feverish with excitement about the highlight of the 1963
social season destined to occur this weekend* The "Den of the Forty Thieves, "
will have two gala openings in order to accomodate 'all the advance reservations#
Bunnies' BE ARCH and MILAN will serve the food while ORONNFLL and ATilLLA will be
the cocktail waitresses. The "Big baddy Rabbit," K.O. WILSON, 3MS, NAVFAC,S
"playmate of the Month"
visit, this night spot in
oversee the entire event. For those wishing to
the hope of getting a glimose o:
e of the celebrities,
just'look for the place with the round roof,
Robert H. JOHNSON, ETSN, returned
so now he begins the 5 month wait until
"•'—tell him about it, STLINLACHER.
,o the island as a married nan this week,
his tour is up and he can get home again.
Yes fans, the Shorthorns moved into first place in the bowling league this
week under the leadership of STEVENS and IM\N. Chief' DYdJ> hasn*t even mention
ed bowling since his team slipped out of its long hold first place position.
Ensign Peter KIERLAND came running in and nearly knocked oyer a couple of
the stewards at the HCQ this w ek# PULLIDO and TuLDOZA followed the rating
cheering Ensign as he tore down to the PGQ cellar. They found him crawling a
round on his hands and knees# When they asked him what he was looking for,
Kierland explained that he was searching for his' morale where ho thinks he left
it three months ago*
And to top this week off, Karl LENGTH ,
on his fifth and final attempt, achieve, wi
zeal, a shattering 2.5 on his Seaman exam,
of the all time hi h set in 19GO by Chief Y
career SA and Yeoman Striker, did,
th a tremendous show. of energy and
Dy so doing, he fell just one short
eonan Lilly DYRD, of six total at
. tempts.