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GITM01S_ 196 3 IMMUNITY _FUND CAMP1ICN UNDERWAY HE~d -& v A WEEKLY PUBLICATION July 21, 1963 . AND YOU MAY WIN A RED RAMBLER Americans, as a rule, love a chance to buy a chance on something as they do few other things. We've known people who'd take a chance on the sun not coming up in the morning just for the sake of playing. Gitmoites are currently enjoying their lat- eat chance at taking a chance through the med - ium of the 1963 Community Fund Drive, now being conducted here on the Naval Base. For each $1.00 contribution to the Community Fund, you'll receive a ticket. The stub goes into a big hopper--and come Sept. 2nd, there'll be a drawing. The lucky holder of the winning ticket number will be presented with the keys to a red 1963 Rambler convertible. In addition, the individual selling the highest number of tickets during the campaign and the person who sells the winning ticketwill each receives $50 cash prize. What is the Community Fund? It's a many-faceted fund administered and disbursed through Commander Naval Base which helps our community to be self-supporting. Your contribution to this fund for example, supports the Summer Recreation Program; the Teen Club; Retirement Parades; Junior League Base- ball, the Ladies Softball League and the Spring Clean-up Campaign. It helps maintain the Base School Nursery and Kindergarten, and any other worthy community affairs which may need community support. And if any Base activity should need a loan, the Community Fund is always RADM J. W. DAVIS, COMNAVBASE, officially kicked off the 1963 Community Fund Drive here at Guantan- there to lend a helping hand. amo Bay last Wednesday morning by purchasing the first ten (10) drawing tickets. He's shown here It is then, as you can readily see, one of handing his check for the ducats to CDR H. H. Rumble, Base Intelligence Officer, and Naval Base the most worthwhile fund-raising campaigns Coordinator. you could possibly be asked to put some of your do- nation dollars into--because any donation, large POPULAR CHIEF NURSE LEAVING. or small, that you make helps the Community Fund make Gitmo a better and happier community for all of us. CDR EATON TO TRANSFER Chairman of the Fund Drive is CAPT Bruce Weber, Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station. TO WEST COAST TUESDAY In addition, each Base command has appointed a Drive Coordinator, who in turn has named in- Gitmo's loss will be California's gain when dividuals from each division within his command CDR Dorothy Eaton, NC, USN, relinquishes her to serve as salesmen. duties Tuesday, July 23 as Chief Nurse at the So for the next six weeks or so, if someone Naval Base Hospital. asks you "how's chances," tell him-"one green- After a 30-day leave, Miss Eaton will assume back dollar each, Friend. Won't you join me in similar duties at the Naval Hospital, NAS, Le- buying several, and support CFD." moore, Calif. You'll be glad you did, and besides--there's CDR Eaton's 18 months at Guantanamo Bay have always thq swinging chance you'll wind up with been memorable ones for her. She cites the in- that red Rambler. numerable sports and recreational facilities, and the opportunity to visit various islands of the Caribbean, as the main embellishments of the EVERETT'S YARD "MOST IMPROVED" excellent social life. CDR Eaton feels that Senior Chief Ship's Serviceman Jack and Mrs. all of these factors ad- Everett, who reside at 1241-B, Villamar, are ded together have com- winners of the Naval Base Civic Council's Yard bined to produce the Improvement Award for the month of July. happymemories which make The Everette were presented the $25 cash for highly enjoyable prize which accompanies the award by Mr. B.D. duty, and adds, with a Buckner, Vice-Mayor of the Civic Council, in smile, that working in ceremonies at Morin Center last Monday night. the Navy's first air- The Yard Improvement Award, just one of the conditioned hospital THREE OF THE MANY INTERESTED ART PATRONS who many programs sponsored by your Civic Council, here was another "morale visited the Summer Art Festival at Chapel Hill is presented monthly to the resident chosen plus" for Gitmo. July 9th and 11th view a portion of the exhibit. from nominees from each enlisted housing area Her 30-day leave will for the "most improved" yard--not necessarily be spentin her hometown, SUMMER the most beautiful one. Athol, Mass., where she ART STUDENTS Chief Everett is attached to the Commissary started onthe education- Store. al road that eventually EXIBIT THEIR WORKS culminated in Columbia Last week a group of very promising children University in New York. showed some of their accomplishments during the When World War II start- first half of this summer in a Summer Art Festi- ed, Miss Eaton wasa member of the Naval Reserva val. She commenced active duty in 1943 at the U. S. The 21 students in the six-week Summer Art Naval Hospital, St. Albans, N.Y., and eventually Class, under the direction of Mrs. Vera Rich- saw duty in New Guinea. Before coming to Gitmo, ardson, exhibited more than 100 very colorful CDR Eaton was a nurse instructor at the Hospital paintings and drawings of scenes in Guantanamo Corps School, Great Lakes, Ill. Bay. Eighteen months of outstanding nursing for The children, ranging in age from 8 to 14, the benefit of Gitmoites will be culminated when gained a great deal of knowledge in the use of CDR Eaton leaves us Tuesday. We can only con- color and design, and proved this by their out- gratulate NAS Lemoore for its good fortune, and standing paintings. wish Miss Eaton all the best at her next duty Those of you who attended the exhibit had station, and in the remainder of her Navy career. the pleasure of seeing art depicting a high de- --Bob Dunphy, JO gree of imagination, unmarred by adult emotions, which so often overcome older artists. Highlight of the festival was a mural, de- picting scenes in Guantanamo Bay. This mural represented the combined effort of the entire MR. B. D. BUCKNER, VICE - MAYOR OF THE NAYBASE If it's news. Call 9247 class, aid will be presented to the Naval Station Civic Council (left) presents $25 Yard Improve- Library, where it will be permanently placed. ment Awardto SHCS Jack Everett and Mrs. Everett. -- R.S. Souligny, JOSN The Everetts live at 1241-B, Villamar. Trrg Two THE GITMO REVIEW July 21, 11 JUST WONDERIN' SHIP OF THE WEEK. CHAPLAIN'S CORNER .IF YOU'VE BEEN WONDERIN' PRAY? ABOUT TV. AND SAY -- by Chaplain A. F. Mendonsa How often have we been witness to dispar- WHO TOOK THE SIGNS? aging remarks made in reference to prayer! There must be a reason for such reaction, such as lack by 1). Koze, JOC of confidence and trust, a misunderstanding of You're no doubt wonderin' what happened to prayer or purely indifference on the part of the individual. These remarks then may be WGBY-TV. here's the straight dope. The deli- made in an unconscious effort to justify cate electronic equipment used in the television such atti- tudes a person may have. industry cannot be operated if the proper temp- Any message we may desire to make known erature is not maintained--usually around 75 to or to emphasize to Our Maker is prayer. This in- 80 degrees. Should the temperature in our TV cludes any manner of expression control room go beyond 92 or 94 degrees, damage vocal or mental, in the form of would result to the tubes and other component poetry or prose, song or slang. The feeling we may have of the need parts. The breakdown of the air conditioning of some kind of assistance is in itself a type prompted the action to curtail televising until of prayer. We can and do frequently talk to the proper temperature was obtained. Temperatures God in our own individual and sometimes unique way. in the WGBY-TV control room ranged between 97 to There is the example of the little 99 without air conditioning. If the TV equip- old man who spent hours in church just sitting and looking ment would have been put into operation an ad- at the altar; the Marine who spent some time often do- ditional 10 degrees could be added to this temp- USS GREAT SITKIN (AE 17) ing what he liked to call "sentry duty" for erature. Consequently, in an effort to elimi- his God; the child hurrying from nate excessive repairs and possibly permanent The ammunition ship USS GREAT SITKIN (AE-17) class to make a quick stop inside the door damage to the TV equipment, Mr. Wigbee just is one of the few remaining ships in the U.S. to say, "Hello, Lord. It's a nice day today, isn't. it? Well, closed shop for a few days. Navy originally designed for civilian use. She I don't have any more time but I'll be back so don't Unfortunately, the breakdown of the air con- was built in 1945 by the North Carolina Ship- building Company for the U.S. Maritime Commis- you go away." These are fine examples and should ditioning was unavoidable. You can believe me encourage us to be humble enough also to when I say that the Refrigeration and Electrical sion. con- verse with God in our own way and discuss what- Departments of the Public Works Center did all Later the same year, GREAT SITKIN was ac- cepted by the Navy, converted into an ammunition ever we will.