Red Lion Area High School - Lion Yearbook (Red Lion, PA)

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letters to the Editor Cllontinuedb EIlITllII'S NUTE: In the l943 summer issue of The Cross and Ilreseeutfi the publieatiou of the Lambda Iihi Alpha Fraternity. appeared this pieture and artiele: Twenty-three-year-old Capt. William Charles Day. .I r.. Gettysburg, '42, one of the Fraternityis more deeorated fliers. is ered- ited with shooting down six ,lap planes in addition to tive other probable kilIs. United Press dispatehes from New Guinea. telling of a number of Iliers qualifying as aees. said of the Red I.ion. Pa. ollieer. who then had five planes to his eredit: 'Cenial I'iIot Day is known by his pals as the Battling Parson because he is the sou of a Red Lion pastor. Day is extremely proud of his uiekname. 'Day beeame an aee Mareh Il when. in a single light. he shot down a Zero and a bomber oll the eoast of Northern Papua. He registered his first kill over Lae No- vember I and then aeeounted for two more Zeros in the same seetor .lanuary 7. Dur- ing the last two months Day has lost sev- eral opportunities to improve his reeord be- eause he was away ou leave or was not posted on the alert when the .lapaneso struek. 'Already this year Day has been awarded the Silver Star. Distinguished Flying Cross Ian Oak Leaf Cluster siuee theul. and Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters Ia third reeeutlyl. Day does not drink or smoke. Although he is quiet. he is one of the most popular among fellow lliers in the unit. I'Ie holds an important exeeutive post in addi- tion to other duties.. A' IT'S IIAINING IN ENGLAND Somewhere in England Dear Editor: I am somewhere in England. The eoun- try all around me is very beautiful. All the grass is uiee and green. It makes me think of home in the springtime. I donit think I will like the weather though. It is too mueh rain and mist to suit II16. I surely wish I I-ould see all the students in my 1-lass again. Sim-erely. ere. Hoy ri. Asirrou. WITH THE IRISH B-2-I Nlobile Training Iluit North Ireland Dear Editor: Our eamp is lovated iu a very beautiful spot. I guess the reason I like it is be- eause it looks so mueh like York County. Quite a few of the rural homes around here have thatehed roofs and part of the barn eombined with house. I just finished building a fire in the stove. The days are pretty warm but the evenings are eool and a little hre feels good. Vlfish you eould see that stovel Itis a square job and looks like a ITOO model. It Causes us a lot of trouble. At first we didnit have a lid so we used a brick instead. Now We found a lid but it falls into the stove ev ery- time we tix the fire. One of the fellows had to fish it out about three times this evening and I gave him the laugh but I had the pleasure of fishing it out awhile ago, so he gave me the dirt right bark. I instrueted maiutenauee men for about six hours today. lNIost of the men weive in- strueted so far seem to think they are learn- ing quite a lot so I guess our little eruise wasnit in vain. Yours truly. S, SCT. DALE KEEPOHTS. NAVY BLUE AND WHITE Dear Lion Stall: I am now writing to let you know that I have reeeived your Hilltop. I really en- joyed reading it from beginning to end. This is my first time to write a letter to the llilltop. If I bungle the job please overlook it. I guess most of you would like to know what I have been doing siuee I entered the serviee. It was early one bright .luly morning that I boarded the train leaving for eamp. The trip was a pleasant one. with a few hours to spend in Washington. seeing some of the sights. Late the same day we entered Camp I'eary, Virginia. This is the plaee where they 'ldeeiviIiZe us. The first thing we did was to get our hair eut, or should I say. heads. The bar- bers are blind Nlaehiriists' mates with Saint Yitus's dance. You are gently hurled into a ehair. the operator lays a elipper on your dome. gags you. and asks questions. Whether you nod dyes or no,', the effect is the same. Your onee proud dome looks like a desert oasis. Then you wipe the blood oil and leave. No eharge. Wlhen the guys are all in the barracks. it looks like a table of unraeked billiard balls. The town here is divided into three parts. One side is the eamp. while the other two are a lnortuary and an insane asylum. You get a thorough examination coming in and you go to one of the three areas. I am in the Seabees. You know, C, B. I'Ie's the only man who eau walk up to a Nlariue. look him squarely in the eyes. and say. Vl'hat kept you. Blltlifu lt's niee in the mornings. The C. I'. U.. that's a Sing Sing warden who has been discharged for erueltyfstamps in and gently sereams, 'Tall out, you guys. Then you regain eonseiousness. dress, wash. brush your teeth. shave, and look for your hair. They feed you well here. For breakfast. they realize you need plenty of energy. They feed you what the Navy r-alls eou- densed vitamin tablets. by the bowlsful. We always ealled them beans at home. Out on the drill held you stand at atten- tion. Attention-that's suspended rigor mortis. This is the way the Navy treated me the first four weeks in whit-h we are generally known as boots. Iloyl Vl'ere we generally known. The only diflerenee be- tween a boot and a prisoner is that the latter eau be pardoned. .-Xt the end of four weeks we were plaeed in the Ilslth battalion. They then shipped us to Camp Endieott in Rhode Island for our advanee training. It was here that we learned the better parts of the Navy. I aiu now stationed at an advanee base depot. At this plaee we complete our train- ing. Here in this eamp I got ninety days of K.l'. Ilere in I-amp K.I'. is easy. The only thing that's wrong with it is we have to wear our whites. Will elose for now. I want to thank you again for the eopy of the 'llied Lion llilltop. Sim-erely. LLOYD KLINEDINST. EIlITOR'S NUTEZ In the Nlareh issue of Xladeuioiselle mag- azine this pieture aml article appeared: Under the U. S. lladet Nurse Corps pro- gram. Nlary Elizabeth Detwiler, of Red Lion. Pennsylvania. is learning nursing the- ory and doing praetieal work in the Nursing Arts Laboratory at New York Hospital-- makiug Ilaxseed poultiees and mustard- plasters. using other Cadets and NIL Cliasef' a dummy. as patients. Elizabeth enrolled in the first Cadet Nurse Class last September. She has had two years at Temple University. and will spend two and a half years in training with a government- paid tuition plus a monthly allowanee. Graduation will give her a ILS. and R.N. I.ike other eadets. she lives at the nurses' residenee. whieh has its own library, tennis eourts. student daneesf' 9

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letters to the Editor Cllontinuedl A lllNG'S llFE Dear Editor: I don't know if you have surmised it, but this Navy life is better than a king's. After you get over your homesickness every- thing is swell. Some fellows said they weren't homesick, but for me, well, I was so homesick that first Saturday night I could have cried. After going to bed at 9:00 o'clock and lying there you start to think about what you would be doing if you were home. Boy, it really gets you. But now that we only have nine days left, we kind of hate to leave because it means go- ing out to sea shortly after our boot leave. I didn't get to see Coach here because he was on the main side of the tracks, but I did get to see Buck Stump before he was discharged and he seemed glad to be sent home. , Well, I must get ready to go on guard duty, so Iill have to close. So long, and thanks for the lSHilltop'7 and I'll be looking forward to one every time they are pub- lished. From a former studcnt, CLAIR REXROTH. ..R6X,. Dear Editor: I am out here in the Pacific. During my I5 months at sea on this ship, I have been three-quarters the way around the world, and experienced actual combat with both our enemies. My duties aboard ship are several and varied. As chaplain, my chief duties, of course, are religious. We hold divine services every Sunday at 9:30 in the crew's mess hall. For Christmas service we had a Christmas tree and decorations as background, special vocal and instrumental Christmas music, holy communion. I am also Educational Officer of the ship and supervise the training program, using the training films. Now I am helping men in their study for credit in high school and college, in the Institute Courses for Army and Navy Personnel. Then, too, as Recrea- tion Ofhcer, I supervise and organize ath- letic games, picnics, dances, smokers, and other happy hours when welre in port. As a daily duty I have charge of a I000-volume library. The chaplain is very busy during actual battle in ministering to the wounded, and even conducting sea burials. I have not once been seasick. CHAPLAIN CHARLES C. WALLICK, U. S. S. Monrovia, F P. O., San Francisco, California. The following article appeared in the Gazette and Daily, York, Pennsylvania, re- cently: Aboard a Navy Transport in the Pacific -Sailors and marines fresh from the battle of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands prayed for dead and wounded comrades at simple services today. The shipboard services were conducted by Lt. Charles C. Wallick fU.S.N., Ch.C.J, of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, and Lt. Iohn V. Loughlin fU.S.N., Ch.C.i, of Rochester, N. Y., Catholic chaplain attached to the Marines. The services included hymns, prayers and a scripture reading from the I8th Psalm. They concluded with silent prayer for the dead and wounded. Many men left the services weeping un- ashamedly. 8 GRASS SKIRTS AND NATIVE DANCES Southwest Pacific Dear Editor: If I had known last year at this time that I would be sitting out in jungles somewhere on top of a foxhole, well, anything might have happened. I believe at this time I was sitting on the bench during a basket- ball game. Since I left Camp Peary, Virginia, I have really done some traveling. Our first stop was Gulfport, Mississippi. There we got aboard ship and sailed to New Orleans. Liberty there was pretty good. From there we crossed the Gulf and Car- ibbean Sea into the Panama Canal. Don't let the movies fool you about that either. Our next stop was at Bara Bara about 80 miles north of Tahiti, the prettiest little isle in the south sea. There is where we saw the grass skirts and native dances. The next three stops ran about the same way. Pago Pago, in the Samoa group: Suva in the Fiji islands, and Nurmea in New Caledonia. That is the last place I can mention so you will have to use your imagination from there. We are living in tents now with mahog- any floors and furniture. We even use it for fire wood. W From the interior of Africa, Robert Kelley sends these snaps. We do have movies every night. Al- though they are old they are still interest- ing. Ice cream is unknown out here. I wish the basketball team the best of luck. A fellow graduate, S IXC ROBERT A. BURKE. Chapel Hill, N. C. Dear Editor: I have now completed Navy Pre-Flight Training at Chapel Hill, N. C. It was a tough grind, but since it is over, I have the feeling that I really accomplished some- thing. The main purpose of this course is the physical training to build future avia- tors so they can stand the hardships of aerial combat. Not all our work was phys- ical training, however, for we studied navi- gation, aerology, communication, aircraft recognition, and Naval science. Under the physical training course, we engaged in almost every known sport. Each week we were given instruction in a differ- ent one. At the beginning of the course we selected one sport in which we majored. This one sport was carried out through the entire program and we were placed in leagues for squadron competition. There were I2 squadrons at the base, and each was divided into six teams. My major was swimming. Rut the course I liked best was relaxation. This is actually taught in pre- flight school. because it is necessary to be able to get all the rest possible aboard ship between flights-and quickly overcome the fatigue of combat flying. The entire program is very well planned with outstanding men from all sports and walks of life serving as instructors. We completed our training with a five day hike -and carrying a seventy-five pound pack through jungle-like Woods and snake in- fested swamps was no picnic. The purpose of this hike was to teach us how to survive in the event that we were forced to land in the jungle. In a few weeks I'll he back at the job I like best-flying. I will receive my pri- mary llight training in Michigan. Sincerely, AXC MDICKN ROST, '42. Dear Editor: I received your letter, glad to receive the boys' names too. Only a few changes are needed, my brother is a Tech. Sgt. and I am a P. F. C. I'll soon be a Cpl. I hopeg I'm acting Cpl. Well, I don't have much to say, but I'll let you know I made expert on the rifle. Please tell the school friends of mine, I want to wish them all the luck in the world, as you know my class graduated last year. I guess you know Ray Sprenkle. He was in my class, and tell him I said Hello, and please show him this letter. There are also a few girls I would like to say hello to, but I hope to see all of them once before I go across the pond. Well, I will close for now. So long. Luck to you and all of my school chums. Yours truly, PFC. VERNE W. LAUCKS.

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