The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-07-29
JUNEAU'S US0 NEWS
 .s as yt Interesting Items for Everybody
PROGRAM

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 Thursday, July 29, 8:3o pm.-- Dance at USO. Friday, July 30, GAS pm Serv- iccnlcns Council Meeting in USO lobby.
 7.38 pm. 24 Picnic outdoors, |weather permitting; party at Uso, If it rains
 Saturday. July 31. goo pm. = uSo Formal Dance at Masonic Temple.
 Sunday. August l, 100 pm. Cor later at convenience of Seryicemcn) Trip to Mcndennall Glacier. 9:30 p.m.-Vespers in USO lobby. 1o.OO pm = Songfest ("Around the Piano With LouiseD.
 Monday. August 2, 800 pm Forum Club Meeting at private home. Get your reservations at USO desk.
 Tuesday, August 3, TOO pm. - GSO Council l-Servicemen's Council Party for Duck Creek Orchestra.
 800 pm.-Bingo Games an d Quiz Contest in USO lobby.
 Wednesday, August 4, 800 p.m.-- Book Discussion Group at private home.
 8:3O p.m.-Old- Fashioned Dances ill USO lobby.
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 NOTES
 WHEN A FELLOW NEEDS A FRIEND; or WHERE USO COMES IN4-One day last week it was sev- cral hundred fellows who needed a friend, and badly. They were HScebees," Navy Construction Bat ,talion men-and boys, for most of them looked hardly more than 18 years old-and they were on board a ship in port here. Thousands of miles from their homes on the East coast, they were headed for what they had reason to believe would be very lonely spot a long way off. Moreover they were hun gry for ice cream and they needed cigarettes, and none were available on board. But the ship was in port for only a brief while; and nobody had liberty ashore. So, what to do? At 1:30 o'clock USO was tipped off as to the situation by Bruce Thomas, famed war corres- pondent who was aboard and who wondered if we could do anything about it. The answer wasn't long i in coming. By 2.15 o'clock every Seebee had been amply supplied with all the ice cream he could eat and with cigarettes, and large box of games, books and puzzles was theirs also for use on the long voyage. Best of all, friendly and charming Jeanne Winther, GSO Igirl, presented the gifts on the Clubs behalf and for an hour after ward she stayed on the dock and talked with the fellows. Measured in terms of each ones share of the ice cream and cigarettes the Clubs contribution wasn't so much. But to one observer who during the hour watched the young faces of those westward-bound boys, eager for girls companionship hungry for someone to talk with about back home" in Massachusetts and New York-to that observer at least, it seems unlikely that the local Club in it's entire history ever did better two-hours of service than it rendered that after noon to several hundred lonely young fellows with whom it prob ably never again will have any contact and who happened this way just long enough to give it the chance to do quickly an act of simple friendliness:
 
 And. while on the subject of GricndlinesS. That was very thoughtful thing done by Bob Few and the other members of his or chcstra last night. They generously volunteered their services to the Club when they learned that we were planning special party and dance in honor of an outfit in port for only a brief time, many of whose members are fellows from Juneau or other Alaskan towns. Of course their offer was prompt Fly accepted. On short notice, the GSO girls turned out in goodly numbers and with an abundance of their customary enthusiasm; and the resulting festivities seemed likely to serve as a source of many very pleasant memories for this outfit in the months of active service that lie ahead. To all who lent helping hands to make the party so successful, especially to Bob Few and his band, the Club