Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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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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have wiTh Them. IT's The lunches, commiTTee meeTings, The Talks beTore The bell rings: iT's The picnics, The games, The Track meeTs, The parTies, and The carnivals you aTTend wiTh Them. lT's cramming Tor +ha+ big TesT or sTaying up Till all hours To geT ThaT biology noTe book in on sched- ule. lT's working .hard TogeTher To make The plays, The musicals, The paper, and The iunior- senior a big success. This year we have had To seTTle down To serious war Tasks. We worked TogeTher on The scrap meTal drive. IT wasn'T so much Tun To dig in iunk heaps, and clean up The aTTic and base- menT To Tind every ounce oT scrap meTal we could Tind, buT iT was Tun To waTch our scrap pile grow and To know ThaT we had The second largesT scrap collecTion in The ciTy. ATTer The scrap meTal drive came The cloThes hangar drive, The paper drive, and The buTTon drive. Then some oT us wenT To work making sur- gical dressings. We leTT The polish oTT our nails and washed our hands in harsh anTisepTic soap. The work was oTTen slow and painsTaking. buT we did iT willingly because we were doing our parT Tor vicTory. Many oT us spenT our evenings Training To be messengers in The evenT oT an air raid, and we leTT The l-li-Y .dance To go on duTy during a pracTice blackouT. 4

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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