.:v< } '. . , ." Morton Downey Head . USO Show Here July 11 Service personnel at Naval Air Station Jacksonville will be served generous slicesof Broadway and Hollywood entertainment next Wednesday, July 11 when Morton Downey. - famous singing star of radio and television, brings his specially organized USO-Camp . Shows unit for a one-night stand * -_ -. .. . The show will be presented from based on the station. listeners than any entertainers In the stage of NATTCenter Auditorium I Featured on the Morton Dow- the history of show business. He: ney Show will be the original has almost continually been heard with curtain time at 2000. Three Stooges, headliners In the on his own starring broadcasts I Admission will: be by tickets comedy field; Yvette, popular and since the days when radio was II only with the tickets to be pro- petite song stylist; and Helene and just a novelty. In addition, hp< t"1 .t]> f.i.. .,. .- I rated among. _. personnel. of. all units Howard, the comedy dance team. has been featured in most of the( x -- --- --- --- Music will be provided by Car- top cafe and night clubs. SHOW HEADLINERSThl' men Mastren and his orchestra Pleasantly insane are the Three! year's biggest show comes to Stooges. They go crazy at regu- the Naval Air Station next The appearance) here at NAS Is lar intervals to the delight of Wednesday Headlining the all- one of a six-weeks tour which will fans. In real life the Stooges are star cast of the USOCampShow cover Army, Navy, Marine, and Moe and Shcmp Howard and Lar- is famed radio-telfvision Air Force installations from New ry Fine. Larry Is distinguishedby singer Morton Downey lower England to Florida The unjt will )his fuzzy looks; Moe by his left. Also on the program will be on the road continually until naive bangs; and Shemp by his be the hilarious Three Stooges, July 13.Downey, I long straight locks. top, famous comedy team; vivacious and Carmen Mastren's * Yvette, songstress, orchestra, which accompanies all Ytette, a charming blue-ev: .l lower right, and Helene and his radio, television, and personal blond songstress, is adept at giving - Howard, comedy dance team appearances, will share the mu- expert delivery to any son Admission to the show will be sical portions of the performanceswith (Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 3) by tickets only. a a s Yvette. And, naturally, the ---- --------- - i i I hilarious Three Stooges will corner I ii i I the slapstick market. Gentler Malaria-MosQuito j I type comedy will be handled by Royal Canadian 'Helene and Howard. Control Unit Has Officers Headlining the all-star show Navy I 'Morton Downey has probably been Second Birthday heard by more radio and television Attend SchoolTwo --- --- The Navy's first, and so far only permanently established officers of the Royal Malaria and Mosquito Con Canadian Navy are attending trol Unit, located at the NAS Dispensary, observed its sec- aviation electricityat classes on ond anniversary Mondav. the N a val Air Technical Acting as hosts for the birthday Training Center here .....- party and open hou e held for. - the occasion was Lt. Comdr --- -- -'- -- --------- --- Lt. Jim G. Hutcheson, of Van- .- .- -.- _. John M. Hirst, officer-in-char couver, B. C., and Lt. Guy Cros- i VOL-9 No. 14 Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida July 5, 1951 of the unit, and his staff. Lcdr Rock Falls, Ont., Hirst has been largely responsible of Smooth well -- --------- for the establishment of the arrived here recently to attend 39-Year Career Unit on a oermanent basis. NATTCenter's Aviation Electri- i There's ReasonFor During the past two years the cian ((8)) School."Ordinarily Rear Adm. Retires staff has been tripled and the Montgomery importance of the work accom- Hutcheson ex- Cutback I In plished recognized by designationof plained, "we would have gone to the Unit as an advanced school After Illustrious Career England to study, but, now thatwe're Long, for enlisted entomologists, and usingso much American i it'quipm'nt -- Jax Air NewsHave the training of reserve officers in I -------- A brilliant and colorful Naval the newest methods of insect con- they decided to send his 39 years of Naval service has career that spans almost been assigned duty aboard combatant you noticed a cutback trol. to the states, Instead." Hold Classes us I two and two world score years surface ships, submarines, in your amount of Classes have been conducted in "In we're guinea pigs, in 1922 became Naval avi a way wars ended June 30 for Rear and a Croswell added. "I expect that if copies of the Jax Air News groups ranging! from one up to Adm. Alfred E. Montgomery: ator.After 18, with an officer quota set for make out well here, theie'llbe still air we joiningthe young lately? Commander Fleet Air Jacksonville the new year of 10 per quarter of to follow. Admiral more us of the U. S. Navy .. [ who retired from arm attached There is a reason for all this Instruction, however is only a active to sev- Montgomery was ---and, in answer to the many small part of the Unit's mission.It . Koth general service Na'alAil' men were service. eral aircraft squadrons I is for control complaints, the cutback in copies responsible meas- Electrical Officers "in ships"before carriersand Stations and aircraft .... unit has become neces- ures used at all naval establishments being selected to qualifyin '.... in 1942, having attained the per within the 6th Naval Dis- '" due to the influxof Aviation Electricity. They had I j t :, rank of Rear Admiral, he became sary personnel at NAS.steady trict, while at the same time studied this technical subject at i Commandant Naval Air Training serves in an advisory capacity to the H. M. Electrical School in 1 Command Corpus Christi Texas. The total circulation of the all civilian control agencies - requesting Halifax, N. S. ; < For his services in this capacity Jax Air News is limited due to such service.In . Neither officer has ever visited j he was awarded the Legion of the rising costs of printing. addition, much valuable research - Florida before, though both have Merit. Whereas 10.000 copies have both in insecticides and made coast-to-coast Illustrious CareerAs been more than enough in the trips across I methods of application, includingthe the more northern part of the ; a commander of a fast carrier past. this same number must development of new eouip- United States. The two Canadiansfind task group from August!:: 1942 now be distributed among many ment. Onlv recently Lcdr. Hirst the heat "rough." Lt. Hutch- I to December 1944, Admiral Mont- more personnel. Copies of the attended the unveil,ng of a new weekendsunbuti : particinated in all of the Jax Air News are being as C- eson sports & typical gomery air evacuation version of the }, major raids and assaults on enemy evenly pro-rated as possible-- 54 Douglas Skymaster which was .. .. I held strongholds in the Pacific which accounts for almost a equipped with the centrally con- "We've' IMNMI taken for all soils during that time. Among the cut in half of distribution to trolled automatic disinfectization of things," said Hutthcson I many: raids made by forces under certain units. equipment perfected in the local "There's never been( any of the Admiral Montgomery's command Due to the lining costs of Malaria and Mosquito Control KCN down here before." I I"Yes" were those launched against Wake inting it Is impossible to print Unit within the past two years. I Island, Rabaul, Kwajaleln, Truk a copy of the paper for every This equipment is now being installed - Croswll. agreed "They 0'1" 'Safpan Tinian Palau Yap. \\'a- person aboard the station.In in all Military Air Transport - seem to think we're French leai, and the Bonins and in addition and considerationfor Aircraft. respect Italian, or anything but what we , his task group supported others, readers, when they Complete Insectorv really are. People keep saying: American landings in the Gilberts Visitors during the afternoon are through with their copy 'What are they? Marshalls, Hollandia! the< Mari- should pass it on. were impressed with the scope ot Croswell says his wife likes Hear Adm. Montgomery anas and the Philippines. (Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 5)r..www..w I I"She's _. . Jacksonville. For his many combat exploits .._... _..u-..._-._-. _-. .____-______ --- ----- only been over here a Admiral Montgomery who as- during World War II AdmiralMontgomery -" "" -- -- - couple of years, you know. Eng- sumed command of Fleet Air was awarded the lish," he explained. Jacksonville In February 1050. in Please Turn to Page 8, Co!. 1)) ; I . I ; --- -- ----------- "We're to have little ----I ': '::::",:' going a : ... j FASRON 9 H&S ONLY QNSPOT : Yank he paused a moment, i - moistened his lips, then continued. r "I mean a little American soon. I JET ENGINE STAND ; I forgot about using that word | ------ ----- - down here." He told about the Adding another achieve- ' I are available are not immedi- dual citizenship status that pre-I' nient to a series of accomplishments ately needed. they go throughan : , veils over Canadian children well done, Fas-!! ; oil preservation process for in this country until they reach ron Nine at Cecil Field can i stowage. the of 21. I age now boast the only "on thespot" | When the operating squad- After completing the NATTC manufactured rons leave their engines to be AE-B course, both officers expectto jet en- overhauled they are put proceed to NATTC Memphisfor gine stand known to be in through a Class C overhaul advanced electrician training. I' existence within the United which involves a complete' e 1 States Navy. change of turbines, combustion ./ Fasron Six originally started chambers and fuel nozzles. 85 Win PromotionsVia the stand, but when Six re- When these steps are completed _a I' ceived one already assembledit they are put on the stand f ExaminationsEightyfive turned the unfinished device and go through the rechecking - I over to Fasron Nine's Chiefs' stage. non-rated person- I Don McMillan and Ken Renfro With a crew of experienced L nel advanced to pay grade E-3 who in three weeks had the fix- jet specialists like Francis as a result of examinationstaken tures rewired, and with a complete Brannagan, AD C Anthony last Wednesday, June 21 fuel system installed. Simmons, AD, and Billy Man- ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND-Alongside the ingenious jet- Sixty-six: airmen apprentices The stand is capable of test- ley, ADI, Chiefs Renfro and testing stand at Fasron Nine at Cecil Field are left, to right, Ken c were promoted to air- Ing and re-calibrating the McMillian state "that they can Renfro, ADC; Bill !Manley ADI; Francis Hrannagan, Aft and i men, sixteen seaman appren- many overhauled engines sent test and calibrate two enginesa Anthony Simmons, ADI, who team together to operate this, th. 4 tices to seamen and three den- from the squadrons through the day, unless major difficulties only "on-the-spot manufactured jet stand known to bt iu tiki* tal apprentices to dentalmen jet shop. If the jet engines that occur" I once in the Navy," lr ( t1