Regimental
News
1st
Regiment-----
Four companies -------145, 147, 149 and 158 ------ will bid for
pairings in First Regiment's basketball title game to be
played Saturday night, at the semi-finals tonight. ...... Co. 136.
which had 92.4 per cent qualified swimmers, paced the field of those
completing tank tests for the week 2 December ...... Physical
fitness banners, as a result of high strength test averages, have
been awarded to Cos. 133, 136, 138, 139 and 142.
2nd
Regiment---- Harry
D. ( Buddy) Baker, Co. 223, Rochester, who coached the Second
Regiment's varsity basketball team, set what is believed to ba a
station record last week when he performed 1,111 sit-ups in
connection with his second strength test........... Co. 224 has won
the station's 100 per cent swimming banner, the 11th company to win
the award for the regiment.......... Tumblers Francis Raye and
Robert Lewis, both Sp(A)1c, attached to regimental physical training
office, featured the entertainment at Tuesday night's Happy Hour.
3rd
Regiment
---- A technical knockout awarded Settimmio Ciccizzi, Co. 317, of
Monaca, Pa., over Ralph Tobjy, Co. 306, New York City, in the second
round of their middle-weight bout highlighted Third Regiment's
boxing smoker last Thursday night ...... "E" varsity
basketeers ran up a 40 to 28 win over "C" cagers on
Monday--- their second victory of the week--- after nosing out
"F" Unit's quintet Saturday, 42 to 38, in the station's
championship court playoffs.
4th
Regiment-----
A guard on the Washington Redskins' pro football team in 1935-'36,
Rayford A. Mann, Jr., 27, of Pittsburgh has entered recruit training
with Co. 420.... The Fourth Regiment's inter- company basketball
tourney has been won by Co. 403, which defeated Co. 483, 36 to 33,
in the playoff finals ...... Regimental varsity cagers suffered a
pair of setbacks over the weekend at the hands of Second and Third
regiment teams and dropped out of top place in the league.
5th
Regiment-----
Fourteen months overseas with the American Field service, a
volunteer ambulance unit, Richard A. Dougherty, Co. 564, of Avalon,
Pa., came to sampson to don a bluejacket's uniform 13 November, and
went home on leave Wednesday wearing an officer's uniform....... He
was commissioned an Ensign 7 December......... Within range of he
station's 100 per cent swimming banner are Cos. 556 with two
non-swimmers, and 559 with five "sinkables.
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Excerpts
from
Sampson
News
10
December, 1943
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Station
Publication Starts Second Year with Today's Issue
With this issue the Sampson News begins its second year of
publication.
Appearing on the scene when the station was just eight weeks old,
the Sampson News in the 52 isses of Volume 1 has attempted to record
the progress of the station's groth and the activities of the
personnel who have had a part in that growth.
All
Departments Helped
Whatever sucess has been achieved is due in great measure to the
splendid cooperation re-
ceived
from Captain harry A. Batt, USN, Commandant; Captain Will- iam B.
Coleman, USN, Executive Officer, and the officers and men of every
department on the station and at the U. S. naval Hospital.
To
all of them---fron all of us on the staff of the Sampson News--
we extend
our sincere thanks.
USO
Show Coming
"Have a Look," a USO--Camp Skows, Inc., stage production
will provide entertainment for Sampson Bluejackets and officers
during a three-night appearance in Sullivan Auditorium starting next
Thursday night.
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$51,750
In Bonds Sold On Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor
Pearl harbor Day, 1943----- the second anniversary of the Jap sneak
attack----passed without any formal observence at Sampson Tuesday,
except for the wholehearted support which the Naval and civilian
personnel gave to the navy's "Pearl Harbor" War Bond
campaign.
Sampson's
participation in the drive was termed a high success Wednesday,
after Ensign R. H. Makemson, USNR, War Bond Officer, tabulated total
cash sales of bonds at $51,750, based on maturity value. He
indicated that the figure exceded expectations, in as much as the
bonds were "extra" and were in addition to regular
purchases by personnel through allotments and payroll channels.
Outstanding among individual in- vestments was a $5,000 purchase
made by John Bilotta, Newark, N.Y., a recruit in Co. 244.
Ensign Makemson expressed appreciation to group agents who helped
promote th bond sale in various departments, shops and at the U. S.
Naval Hospital.
Nurses at the Naval Hospital topped all other military groups.
Carpenters and electricians took the lesd among other larger
civilian shops, with railroad men and pump house workers heading the
smaller shops.
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Service
School Classes
Graduate
Lieut. William R. Anderson, USNR, Discipline Officer, ad- dressed
graduates of two classes from Service Schools Monday in Building
K-2. Lieut. Comdr. Cyril E. Bently, USNR, assistant Service Schools
Officer, presented awards to the honor graduates.
C.
J. Salamore, EM3c, of Rochester, N.Y. was honor man of Electrician's
Mate School and L. Smith, Bkr3c, of Hempstead, Tex. was honor
student of the Cooks and Bakers School.
Lieut. P. B. Winterstein, ChC, USN, pronounced dedication and
benediction.
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Rooster
Companies
1st
Regiment, Co.157, CSp Hol- land, and Co. 160, CSp
Barber;
2nd
Regiment, Co. 245, CSp Marushi, and Co. 243, CSp Manarel; 3rd
Regiment, Co. 323, CSp Mangone, and Co. 317, Sp(A)1c Fisher: 4th
Regiment,
Co. 413,
CSp Raney, and Co. 417, CSp Barantovich. 5th Regiment,
Co. 559,
CSp Ward and Co. 569, CSp Boyle.
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Dance
At USO
A
dance and entertainment for servicemen will be held tonight at the
Geneva USO.
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