SPAR Cadet Long
In Officer’s School
PALM BEACH, Fla., Cadel
Helen L. Long of the Spars, wh<
jeft Alaska in < > ber 1943, t(
enlist in M«e Coast Guard Worn
•a's Reserve, is enrolled in th<
third class of the Pay and Sup pi j
Officer’s School United State!
Coast Guard Training Station
Palm Beach, The course is ex
pected to conclude on Decembei
5. Training of Coast Guard male
officers has been discontinued,
throwing the entire responsibility
on the Spars.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William -G. Long of 136 Optical
Street, Geneva, N. Y., Cadet
Long went to A aska in 1940 as
secretary-bookkeeper for a Sitka
lumber company.
Later she worked in the same
capacity at a trading post in Ko
diak, and finally, she was em
ployed by the Army Transport
Service in Valdez, routing and
keeping records concerning ship
ments, road and ship traffic, and
keeping a payroll.
Her tarainarity witn tne Alas
kan services of the Coast Guard
is given as the reason for her sel
ection of the Spars. Cadet Long
expresses admiration for the
work which the United States
Coast Guard is doing and has
done m peacetime, as well as
war, in Alaska
Cadet Long is a gradua'e of
Geneva, N. Y. High School. Af
ter being employed by a Geneva
firm as a cost Clerk, she followed
a longfelt desire for travel by
taking a trip to Seattle. There
she secured a job in Alaska,
where she remained until she
joined the Spars
After enlisting, Cadet Long
was sent to Hahn Beach, Fla,
where she has been since that
time, first as a boot, taking her
recruit training; then as a
trainee, attending a specialist’s
Storekeeper’s School; and, final
ly, as a member of Ship’s Com
pany, working on purchase ord
ers in the Supply Office. As a re-1
suit of her excellent record there
she was selected for the admit
tedly difficult cadet course.
She has a brother, George E.
^HRISTnM
May
ALL HflPPintSS
Be Yours ot
Aiii Every Doy of the
fifuj ytflR
DINNER NOOK
Amanda Price
Eula Sperling
I Long, who is in the Maritime
Service in the South Pacific.
(Editor’s note; The above
official release refers to a “trad
i ing post in Kodiak where Miss
, Long worKed. Readers unfamil
iar with Kodiak and thus pio
( turing the “trading post” as a
log-covered, isolated store sur
i rounded by dog teams and snow,
must be apprised that the trading
post in this case is one of Kodi
ak’s two, large, modern general
department stores with no dog
teams, no snow (as of this writ
ing—we’re still hoping for a lit
tle for Christmas) and in this
c»se the W. J. Erskine & Co.)
Mrs. Richard Stock well and
infant, and Mrs. Jack Cowan
and infant were dismissed from
the GM hospital this week.
| GREETINGS For An Aracri-=
dVi;
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DAD’S LIQUOR STORE
Joe Loughran
(tyi&faiOd “Wiii
£1 The joy of Christmas . . .
the carefree, heart-warming gladness wc have aU
known in other years . . .
cannot be fully-realized in wartime.
For too many husbands, brothers, friends are far away,
and our thoughts follow them into danger.
P So this must be a Christmas of faith . . .
faith that Christmas bells will ring again,
as certainly as America is the home of Freedom,
as surely and as clearly as the Star of Bethlche*
shone on that Christmas night so long ago.
H We of The Alaska Line join you in wishing
all those who are far away a safe return,
so that next Christmas will be A Merry Christmas.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY