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PERSONAL - CITATIONS Lt. James P, Madden, of the Fiscal section, Central Office, recently received two decorations; the 11 Silver Star” for gallantry in action in the Marshall Islands and the “Purple Heart” in conncction with an injury received at Saipan. The notice a8 to tho “Silver Star” citation was received by Lt. Madden in temporary form signed by Admirul Nimitz. The permanent citation will be &en by the Recretary of the Navy. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY Mr. Joseph McAuliffe, Official id charge of the Corpus Christi station, has been elected u Fellow in the American Oeograpliicnl Society.
FIELD SERVICE TOPICS HURRICANE EDITORIALS I Editorial comment concerning the Weather Bureau’R hurricane wading Hervice during the Atlantic hurricane of September 8 to 10 has bcen v~luniinous and uniformly coinnicndatory . Qaotcd below, ns an ex! amplo for information of Woatlicr Bureau personnel, is an editorial froth tho Philadelphia Record : THE IlEAL lIElt0 OF A 13UHItlCANE TY THE WICATIIlCHMAN ’ Entirely bo long the Weatherman, like the uinpire in baseball, has been the object of bum joken and recriminations, with seldom n kind word. When his forecneta am rig1it-1~ they are nearly 86 pement of tho time-nobody even notices. Let him call a few wrong ~tnd whnt does he got? The meteorological cquivulent of pop bdtlw from the bluachem. \ we hops Thursday’s destructivo hurricane whippod up a little more rcRpect and aPpreciation for the Weatliur Bureau. The Nation’e weather forucn&.ors performed a highly important service for thb PWc. Draniatized thin time. But it’H tilo stmo ~ervice given dag in and day out. Tho warnings of the buruuu, as early RH five daye in advnnco, that a hurricane *&a on tho wny North, wore tho differenw between boirig caught flntfootad nnd vultiorablo wid being prepared. While some live# worn lost dong t8hn IOOO-n~ilo conwtal lmlt plowed up hy Uie ptorm, many liven were saved. lcorewarned, they wen? not expoaed. While property darnago, particularly ho~ivy in thc Jersey mort area, roached the millions, it wiw held down becauw thoro WBH time to take promutione. . Of course them WON intiny who pooh-paoliud tlie storill wnrninga. They are the kind who profor tlioir own opinions to the pronouiiceiriantR nf experts, rely inore On 811 aching corn thiin on scieiitiflc lD&hfJdH. Among thein are perhaps the @VDrost critim of the Wrulther Bureau. Thin startling thought occum: Buppoae thuro hac1 bean no Weather Bureau, no “Qmings I Oheckod and double checked thng ita coafltnl route, watched like tl pet laboratory experhnont by Army and Nuvy personnel, this was probnbly the h~ost-plottnd, tnwt thoroughly announood hnrricano in hilltory . It iH to be hopeci that this valuiible job 80 pruRcieiitly porforind will encoaragp a Public rogard for tho Weuthor Uuroun thut ie-fair and yarnier. GLOWBAL (A digest of Cpl, Ala11 I-Iarrington’s nrticlc which appcmred in tlw *)ha 1944, ism0 of tlio Army Air l%rccH’ \I‘entlier Service hlletin.) AR Pfc. George Smit,h wm holding the pilot balloon in the raw northwest wind which dominated Newfoundland on that day, ho glanccd toward Set. Stanley Mingowelti who was glaring ut the sky with niorp than ri trace of chagrin, for on tho northwoat liorizon 11 solid shoat8 of atrntus hud aPPcared. Smith saw it too arid said, “That stuff is going to be on top ‘8 US pretty soon; maybe wo ouglit to infinto a rix~ balloon-just in cnse!’ “Not if wp hurry;’ his pm.tncr roplied, eomowhnt lwttlcd at hnving hie choice of a whito balloon questioned. €30 orimtod the theodolite and said, “O.K., leth go!’ Smith relensad the balloon and watched it (309)
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