Evening star., 1961-09-17
NOT DRILL THIS TINE
5Novy Resevists Prepare for Duty

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In some 85 homes around
the Washington area this week
end, the story was the same:
Husband, father or son was re-
porting for the preliminaries
leading to active duty with the
Navy.
It was real this time-not
the regular monthly 4S-hour
drill period that these Navy
reservists had gone through for
several years.
They were going down to the
sea in ships, specifically to Join
the North Atlantic Fleet in
Destroyer Escort 419, also
called the USS Robert F. Keller.
These rs men and 10 officers,
the Naval Reserve Training
Command said, are the first
naval reservists to be recalled
in the Washington area. The
men, ranging in age from the
slender 20s to the fat sos, will
sail with the Navy for-their
orders say-one year.
They are joining the two Of
ficers and AZ men, regular Navy,
already aboard the 306-foot
submarine killer, brought up
Friday from Norfolk, where she
had been undergoing repairs.
Forms Galore
There they we're yesterday,
the reserve officers and men,
lin the auditorium of the Naval
Reserve Training Center at the
Naval Weapons Plant, filling
out forms.
Forms, forms. forms Is
of them to be exact. And there
will be more, chucked an Off
Ger. when they report for duty
on October 2. the date the Kel-
Ter is commissioned and sails.
The dependency allotment
form, the identification cards,
the active duty physical record,
the subversive organization dis
claimer, the service record, the
Withholding tax blank, the dis
ability benefits.
And one more little card, new
to the veterans of World War
II: The Geneva Convention
Identification card. Name, rank,
serial number, date of birth.
Nothing more.
There were the shots. too
typhoid, paratyphoid, polio and
cowpox.
So the men lined up for 1t all,
resigning themselves to spend
ing all day yesterday and a
good part of today. Off beyond
the riverfront meadow, with
cannon and torpedo trophies
from bygone wars, the Robert
F. Keller lay Stiffly at anchor.
Engineer In Charge
Her 5 = inch guns, which
blazed at Leyte in 1914, and
Luzon, Two Jima and Okinawa
in l945, pointed low in the sky.
The 17-year-old ship will be
commanded by 1t. Comdr.
Charles w. Jones, a 35-year-old
engineer with Vitro Iabora-
tories, Silver Spring, systems
engineering contractor on the
Polaris missile program.
| Waiting for him at home.
2907 Hardy avenue, Wheaton,
Md, will be his wife, Margaret,
and daughters, Julia, II, and
Allyson, IA. .
Next February, when the
third child arrives, maybe
Comdr. Jones will be home and
maybe he won't.
Il went on extended military
leave of absence" he said la
conically.
And there was round-faced,
solemn-looking George F. May
erie, "a, who dropped his books
to come aboard for a year.
He was supposed to be gradu-
ated next year in business ad-
ministration at American Uni
versity. THE orders read for
IL months" he said. 80 I'll
graduate a year later"
Mr.. Meyerle, who lives at 6l2
Bennington drive. Silver Spring,
worked nights as a bookkeeper
and grocery clerk at the Ia
koma Park Coop.
New Set of Worries
Lloyd r. Eshenour, 25, is an
Offset pressman who helps put
out the National Geographic
magazine.
Now Electricians Mate Fire
man Eshenour, who has served
in the Navy and Reserve for
7l2 years, has a new set of
concerns.
We're buying a car and a
house. We're Just going to have
to meet the payments-I know
can't do it on what the Navy
will pay me.
But with my wife working
and with the allotment we're
planning on making the pay
ments. Of course we're not
going to be able to take care
of all the bills. like the :nsur-
ance and the Stereo set, you
know"
Mr.. Eshenour. married three
years, lives with his wife, Jean,
%. secretary for a radio-mak-
ing company, at 81 Plateau
place, Greenbelt, Md.
The story is almost the same
with the rest of the men-only
the names and the details vary.
Julian j. Alexander, "a, a
plumbers helper, becomes a
fireman first class. That new
home he was planning to build
at Woodbridge, Va. next spring
will have to wait.