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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013 WWW.CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM VOLUME 46, NO. 44 75¢ ‘Dare to Think’ conference focus of special called meeting School Board last night. vote in which members asked the confer- prepared release sent out Oct. 24. considers legal action Chairman Carol ence founder, William Korach, to remove Prior to and during the Oct. 15 meeting, By Eric Cravey Studdard called the any mention of the district as having co- board members called the conference ma- Managing Editor Oct. 30 meeting sponsorship of the event. terial partisan claiming Korach is pushing that had only three “As Chairman of the School Board, I an ideology with his self-published book FLEMING ISLAND – A planned November agenda items. The am calling this Special Meeting to discuss “Rock of the Republic.” However, Korach conference about teaching U.S. History meeting came in the the Superintendent’s actions and the dis- points to studies showing that Ameri- and Civics was the main topic of a special wake of a unanimous Carol Studdard trict’s continued involvement in the “Dare can public school students are lagging in called Clay County School Board meeting Oct. 15 School Board To Think” conference,” Studdard stated in a SEE THINK, 10 Spicing up lunch across cultural boundaries By João Bicalho Staff Writer ORANGE PARK – Thirteen-year-old Jonae’ Sanders walked into her school cafeteria, accepted a brightly colored piece of candy from a volunteer and listened to strict in- structions. The candies – while tempting to the palate – were not for immediate consump- tion. Instead they guided students to sit at tables that matched the color of candy they were given at the door instead of their usu- al hangout and eat spot. The goal – have kids make new friends and possibly learn something about someone who is not from their race or culture. “It’s important to make new friends and STAFF PHOTO BY JOÃO BICALHO to show people the other side of you, and Mix It Up At Lunch Day it’s like, if they’re just lonely, they can have Volunteers from the U.S. Navy, right, hand Orange Park Junior High students candy as they enter the cafeteria on Tuesday as part of “National Mix It Up At Lunch Day,” a program aimed at getting kids to make new friends and possibly learn about another race or culture. SEE LUNCH, 10 INSERTS We Insure USA WEEKEND NEWS AMERICA COUPONS HARDEE’S HOMES BAPTIST HEALTH Jane DiLoreto Agency SAVE 215-2121 $ 3701193-01 111 2 CLAY TODAY • October 31, 2013 COMMUNITY CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM by Clay County Mary Jo [email protected] Memories [email protected] Mothball Fleet was a major industry for Green Cove Springs It was January 12, 1946 and the plane Chief of naval operations and hero of In preparation for this new mission, The engine, other machinery and bright carrying the biggest of the U.S. Navy’s the strategy that defeated Japan in the Lee Field a wartime auxiliary airfield for metal galley equipment was disassembled bigwigs, Adm. Chester Ninitz was due to Pacific, Nimitz and other brass were de- Naval Air Station Jacksonville, underwent aboard ship and coated with preservative. land at Green Cove Springs momentarily. termined to never again be caught playing major alterations. Finally, humidifiers were installed below Anything that stood still was polished to a catch up in a war. Eleven permanent piers measuring deck to keep the interior of each ship free blinding sheen and jeeps raced frantically After World War One, the United States 1,845 feet long were constructed with a of moisture. Finally, the hatches and doors hither and yon to clear the airstrip of rau- dismantled its reserve naval power in the price tag of more than $10 million to moor were sealed. cous seagulls. hope that other nations would do the same vessels of the Sixteenth Fleet. With a full crew onboard, reversing the Birds screeched, engines roared and and pursue peace. But, considering how In the first year of operation, almost process to a condition of war-readiness the base band played full blast when the that worked out, the vast fleet of warships 200 ships were inactivated and the instal- was projected to require only 10 days. plane touched down – soft as a baby’s be- built to win WWII was to be preserved and lation reached its full complement of more In the early 1960s, the people of Green hind –much to the pilot’s relief. stored, just in case. than 5,000 naval personnel and more than Cove Springs and the Mothball Fleet were 1,000 civilian employees. The first, most caught in the grinder of national politics. important and back-breakingly tedious The Florida Group Atlantic Reserve Fleet step was the chipping and scraping of rust and its payroll packed up and sailed away and flaking paint from all surfaces of the to Orange, Texas. The Lone Star State’s deck and bulkhead spaces. Several coats Lyndon Johnson was vice president. of light gray paint followed. The base was sold to a private devel- Ordnance equipment was encased oper and later purchased by the City of in a web of plastic to eliminate moisture Green Cove Springs. Reynolds Industrial and the corrosion that follows. Inside was Park provides jobs and a unique facility full sealed an instrument to measure humidity of possibilities. then the cocoon was spray painted gray. Adm. Nimitz never visited again and it The Mothball Fleet (Florida Group Atlantic Reserve Fleet) slept peacefully in the St Johns River at Regular inspection of the exposed gauge got real quiet when the Navy left and took Green Cove Springs for more than a decade. alerted immediately if the seal was com- their band, the seagulls and hundreds of promised. jobs with them. 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