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Guantanamo Gazette Vol. 44 -- No. 26 -- U.S. Navy's only shore-based daily newspaper -- Wednesday, February 10, 1988 Charlie Daniels Band in Guantanamo /N Concert reminders Band to perform downtown tonight Beverages w E Bay News couldn't cut it in the rock 'n' roll There will be no alcoholic bev- By Michael Bane the world of the 1950's. So pretty soon erages or coolers allowed at show site. The Consolidated Clubs Charlie Daniels was born in Charlie Daniels and the Jaguars -- will provide food and beverage Wilmington, North Carolina, on so-named by record producer Bob Power outage slated booths. October 28, 1936, the son of a Johnston, who would soon be on his There is a scheduled power lumberman. It was an itinerant job, way to Nashville to record Bob Dylan one that set the tone for Charlie and Johnny Cash -- were slapping it Video Cameras outage for Tuesday, Feb. 16 from Because The Nashville Network Daniels' later life. "Wherever the out with the best of them. 8 a.m. to noon affecting all of will be filming the concert, no yellow pine grew," Charlie says, "Whatever was popular, we played New Villamar housing and 1st, video cameras will be allowed. "that's where we lived." His family it," says Charlie Daniels. "I played 2nd, 3rd and 4th Streets Old Residents are encouraged to bring traveled through North and South everything from 'Malaguena' to 'Ode Villamar housing. still cameras. Carolina and into north Georgia, to Billy Joe.' You learn to play Advancement worksheets from one sawmill town to the next. whatever is coming down the pike. I The towns were all the same -- hot started back when Bill Haley and Souvenirs A limited number of Charlie and dusty, with a sense of community Little Richard and all those people All E-4, E-5 and E-6 candidates Daniels Band souvenirs (ball punctuated by the lightning-quick were popular, and I played those who will be participating in the caps, t-shirts) will sell for $6 violence of a sawmill Saturday songs. The Presley-Carl Perkins era, March 1988 Navy-wide exams must and the ball caps will sell for on up through the Beatles. verify and sign advancement in night. From the honkytonks and the right $4.50. Souvenirs can also be front porches and churches of the Always with with a little country on rate worksheets. The worksheets ordered through the Recreation be available for signature rural South came the music -- the side." will Services Information Office. at the PSD ESO Tuesday, Feb. 16 bluegrass and mountain music, Charlie Daniels followed one of through Friday, Feb. 19. The filtered through the Appalachian the meanest, roughest, toughest worksheets for Leeward Point Mountains to the tail end of the musical roads in America -- the Reserved Seating The only seating personnel will be available for Smokys, rhythm and blues and the Southern bar circuit. That circuit reserved at signature on Thursday, Feb. 11 earlier field chant blues, and hit every nickel-and-dime honky tonk the show site will be for the Charlie Daniels and Friday, Feb. 12 at the gospel from black and white across Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Band crew. Leeward Point PSD office. churches. the Carolinas -- places with sawdust When he was 15 years old, a on the floor and chicken wire Restrooms Additional restrooms will be Office relocation neighborhood boy got a cheap guitar protecting the stage. as a gift, and in his spare time he Eventually he drifted up to moved to the show site the night of The License Examiner's Office showed Charlie the chords. Washington, D.C., looking for clubs the concert. They will be has relocated to the new Public "I learned a G-chord first," he with enough customers to justify located behind the permanent Works Department Duty Building in says, "After I learned two or three hiring a full-time band. Along the bleachers. front of the motorpool on Rogers myself, we started. bugging everybody way, his music was evolving, Road. All business will be else we ran into to teach us more!" becoming a mishmash of blues and In order to keep traffic conges- conducted at this location. The Music began to occupy more and country and rock and soul, maybe a tion to a minimum on the evening telephone number will remain the more of Charlie's time -- it was, he little jazz thrown in on the side. of the Charlie Daniels Band con- same, 4902. says wryly, a more appealing career It was a music people wanted to cert, the Public Works Department than picking cotton or following in hear and wanted to dance to, more will provide four buses as a Local announcements his father's footsteps in the lumber popular in some places that cover source of alternate transportation business. His big break, though, versions of hit songs. Call it to and from the show site. Effective Feb. 12, any person came not in a bar, but in a creosote boogie music, call it Southern rock One bus will run from the Naval filing for local announcements plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, -- people couldn't get enough of it, Hospital to the Marine Corps Ex- must use the new local where he was working days to make a point not lost on Charlie Daniels. change, Deer Point BOQ, Gold Hill announcements applications which ends meet in the mid-1950's. Charlie Daniels knows what it's Barracks and on to the Downtown are available at the Naval Base The creosote business was on the like to feel a million miles roll on Lyceun starting at 6 p.m. and con- Civilian Personnel Office. skids, and somebody was going to by, to watch a hundred thousand tinuing on the half hour until have to be laid off. The choice was telephone poles click past a tour 7:30 p.m. Return hospitality kits between Charlie and another bus window, a steady metronome for a Another bus will shuttle people employee, who happened to be black. life on the road. Curiously, though, from Cooper Field to the lyceum Those who have hospitality kits In those days in the deep South, time spent with Charlie Daniels is starting at 6 p.m. checked out from Family Service that wasn't a choice at all. To keep uplifting time, because he is a man Also, two buses will run from Center, who have received their the black worker with a family from in love with the life he's chosen to the Ferry Landing to Central household goods, please return being laid-off. Charlie quit, live. He gets mad and he steams at Fidelity Bank, Pier Lima then the these items immediately. reasoning he could always make a people who'd divide the music, lyceum at 6 and 7 p.m. All buses living with his music. because he -- better than maybe will make a return trip after the Tax forms available His first band was bluegrass, the anyone else -- understands that the show. Misty Mountain Boys, but bluegrass divisions are false. The finance sections of both Post Offices, Windward and Leeward, has a limited supply of 3 members advanced to Eagle Scout during Court of Honor various Internal Revenue Service tax forms in the lobby. By JOSH J.D. Parks Scout is a lifetime priviledge and future," he said, adding, "What responsibility." makes a good leader is the ability Report water leaks A Court of Honor was held Monday, The Boy Scout rank system begins to make people want to follow." Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Windward with the title of Scout. From there, "There are schools for leadership, If you happen to spot what chapel to recognize the achievements Scouts proceed through Tenderfoot, and there are also those who believe appears to be a water main break of three young men. Second Class and First Class Scout, leaders are born, not made. I think or leaking pipes, or even much Ronald Campbell, Jr., Christopher then on to Star and Life Scout. The it is a combination of these more water in a place where it Campbell, and Shawn Malo were highest rank, Eagle, belongs to very elements that creates a great shouldn't be, call the Public awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, an few Scouts. leader," Capt. Condon explained. Works Department. If you don't honor given to fewer than two Clark read the qualifications of He continued, "A good leader must see people from PWD working percent of all scouts. the Eagle Scout, then was joined by be available to even the least of around it, assume no one knows The ceremony began with RMCM(DV) Ronald Campbell, Sr., Troop his followers, and must never forget about it. presentation of the colors by a Boy 435 Scoutmaster, for presentation of where he started from. He must The number to call is 4424. Scout color guard. Lt. Cmdr. Norman the award. always be informed, and most This number is manned 24 hours a Clark, Staff Judge Advocate, then During the ceremony, Capt. John importantly, never lose his temper." day. introduced the Eagle Scouts Condon, COMNAVBASE, recited the To end the Court of Honor, attending the ceremony as guests. Eagle Pledge, and explained what is Chaplain Schwarting delivered the School safety tips Following an invocation by Lt. required of a good leader. benediction. Immediately following Cmdr. James Schwarting, chaplain, "The Boy Scouts promote good the ceremony, a reception was held Motorists are reminded that it Clark introduced the three new leadership training, and America in honor of the three new Eagle is illegal to pass a school bus Eagles, saying, "The rank of Eagle will need good leaders in the scouts.