Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Guard J' l ef ians sTriking Tor more money or shorTer hours. l'd sure like To run one oT Them Through our I4 To I6 hour day. AnoTher lNlorTheasT graduaTe, Ray Bish, wriTes, am expecTing To board a new minesweeper in The near TuTure. Minesweepers are small ships which have a crew oT 30 To 40 men. They are Tor mainTaining clear sea communicaTions and sea lanes, eTc. BaTTle experience in The souTh PaciTic wiTh The Marine Air Corps is an experience Tom Con- nelly is noT likely To TorgeT. The only work is K. P. and drill. The drill is using miliTary police eq'uipmenT and Judo, sTaTes PrivaTe Glen Eis oT The MiliTary Police EscorT Guard. The duTies oT The M. P. E. G. are To escorT prisoners oT war To any parT oT The world, and To guard prison camps and ships. Learning The basic principles oT The phases oT CoasT ArTillery is The main iob Tor Bill Mouse Jenkins. l-le wriTes ThaT his TaTigue cloThing geTs consTanT use and, l'm disgusTingly healThy when hard work presenTs iTselT and They choose deTails. T Army PrivaTe Ted YosT is in a new company in SouTh Carolina. l-le will have Tour weeks oT basic Training and Then learn To drive all kinds oT Trucks. . 6

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OThers ioined The naTional VicTory Corps or- ganizaTion, pledging Themselves To a physical TiTness program and some deTiniTe line oT com- muniTy or war service. The sewing classes have done Red Cross sew- ing-making such arTicles as--Red Cross Tlags, nighTgowns, aTghans, and 'carpeT slippers. Even The Tiny ToTs have been doing Their biT 'For vic- Tory-aT ChrisTmas Time They made carol books Tor The U. S. O., and down in The shops The boys have made cribbage boards and oTher games To help amuse soldiers in The infirmary. A war service, which meanT vacaTion Tor pupils buT added work Tor The Teachers, was Tood raTioning. Our insTrucTors labored long aTTernoons and evenings issuing raTion books Tor sugar, coTTee, canned goods, and shoes. ' BuT we'll noT gripe abouT a pair oT shoes or noT having enough buTTer when so many oT our numbers have gone inTo The service. As Marine KenneTh Riner wriTes AT 5:30 a. m. our day begins and we're on The double unTil 9 and someTimes IO:OO p. m. My plaToon leader, a corporal, is Tough asirailroad spikes. l-le spends so much Time bawling us ouT I can'T.undersTand when he geTs Time To Think up his various Torms of punishmenT. Then he goes on To Tell oT his numerous acTiviTies, buT laTer he remarks IT does make us angry Though To hear abouT civil- 5 JE A4, NN-YEN

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Miss MargareT E. Servine lilces The W. A. A. C. -l'onighT l'm C. l24 hour duTy as ,Charge oT QuarTersl, wriTes Miss Servine. l ThoughT iT was going To be horribly boring, buT iT has lcepT me running my legs oTT insTead. One oT my duTies as C. is To scrub The Commanding OTFicer's oTTice. You would have laughed To see me halT an hour ago carrying a scrub pail and mop Trom The barracks, and aT The same Time all dressed in my uniTorm, haT and all. Cn This day l've ceased To be a common sailor and have been selecTed To ioin The ranlcs OT honorable 'Gold Braid', declared Lloyd Rob- erTson. We are also allowed To Talce The V-I2 exam Tor oTTicer maTerial which They gave aT school. Lloyd was high poinT man on The TirsT TesT. sec- ond on The second TesT, and came ouT on Top on The physical examinaTion. l-le will spend one and a halT years in The universiTy and Then he will be commissioned in The navy wiTh The rank oT ensign. - As many oT our alumni have gone inTo The armed Torces, so This year's grads will be scaT- Tered To The Tar corners of The earTh. So ThaT They, wiTh us, may recall The happy, careTree days aT NorTheasT, we presenT This boolc. 7 .D+