New Page 1

Myrtle Beach Reunion
This years reunion will be held at the beautiful Bay Watch Resort & Conference Center, located at 2701 S. Ocean Blvd. North Myrtle Beach SC 29582 is the site of our 2008 reunion. The rate is $75 per night plus taxes totaling $85.80 single or double. Add $10 for each additional adult. Make reservations at (800) 845-9700. Mention the Salisbury Sound reunion when calling. A first nights room and tax deposit is required on all rooms. Rates are good until 8/17/08. Reservations after that date will be at the regular rates.

Alabama Theatre Tour
The Alabama Theatre’s “ONE The Show”, located at Barefoot Landing in Myrtle Beach, delivers a prestigious level of entertainment the likes seen only in New York or Vegas! Dozens of new songs in this year’s talent rich show, cover America’s favorite music, country, Broadway, blue-grass, gospel and everything in between. The show has been voted #1 by Myrtle Beach visitors. Our host, Jack Bourhis, gives it four stars.

This tour includes bus transportation to and from plus dinner as well as the show for the low price of $60 per person.

2009 Planning
At the printing of this news letter the 2009 reunion is still in the planning stage with no firm site. Leaning toward Memphis.

Ladies’ Coffee/Gift Exchange
The coffee/gift exchange is scheduled after the memorial service while the men are conducting their business meeting.

Ladies are asked to bring a wrapped gift priced at $15 with your name inside to exchange during their coffee.

Each of you are encouraged to provide a recipe for the book that is being compiled. Send them to Sally Little at 725 Bridge Lane, Newcastle CA 95658-9671 or FAX to (916) 434-9674.

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO SALISBURY SOUND ASSOCIATION. MAIL REGISTRATION AND CHECKS TO MARIAN BRUCE , 813 BRANDING IRON SE, ALBUQUERQUE NM 87123.

Historical Items Needed
To preserve the ship historic photographs Bill Lewis. 314 W. Malvern, Fullerton CA 92832, is putting together two new albums. to add interest to the pages he needs the following items:

1. A dozen assorted cloth uniform rating patches, E1-E9 Whites, dress blues and dungarees.

8 Photos of the ship’s interiors and crew activities. Names and dates on the photo.

9. A dozen individual Campaign Ribbons earned while aboard Sally. Indicate year.

SAL GAL Book Pick
SAL GAL’s book pick The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. Sal says good reading. She hated the ending.

A Laugh - Submitted by Richard Hart '59-'65
Out for lunch a 2nd class, a 1st and chief come upon an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out in a puff of smoke saying, “ I usually only grant three wishes, so I’ll give each of you just one.”

“Me first!” says the 2nd class. “ I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, a beautiful woman at my side and not a care in the world.” Poof! He’s gone.

“Me next!” says the 1st Class. “ I want to be in Hawaii, relaxiing on the beach with my personal masseuse, and endless supply of pina coladas and a beautiful woman.” Poof! He’s gone.

H. R. Bean (45-6) (S) R - 12/07/07 Note the date. He was a Pearl Harbor survivor serving on USS San Francisco

Missing Shipmates
Correspondence has been returned for these members marked undeliverable. If you have a current address please notify Marian Bruce at the above address.

Galley
The galley is the kitchen of the ship. The best explanation as to its origin is that it is a corruption of "gallery". Ancient sailors cooked their meals on a brick or stone gallery laid amidships.

Starboard
The Vikings called the side of their ship its board, and they placed the steering oar, the "star" on the right side of the ship, thus that side became known as the "star board." It's been that way ever since. And, because the oar was in the right side, the ship was tied to the dock at the left side. This was known as the loading side or "larboard". Later, it was decided that "larboard" and "starboard" were too similar, especially when trying to be heard over the roar of a heavy sea, so the phrase became the "side at which you tied up to in port" or the "port" side.

Pea Coat
Sailors who have to endure pea-soup weather often don their pea coats but the coat's name isn't derived from the weather. The heavy topcoat worn in cold, miserable weather by seafaring men was once tailored from pilot cloth — a heavy, course, stout kind of twilled blue cloth with the nap on one side. The cloth was sometimes called P-cloth for the initial letter of "pilot" and the garment made from it was called a p-jacket — later, a pea coat. The term has been used since 1723 to denote coats made from that cloth.

How to explain what it was like to live on the Sally

1. Buy a steel shipping container, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for
six months.

2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.

3. Repaint your entire house every month.

4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and
move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you
turn off the water while you soap down.

5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.

6. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind
carries the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.

7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.

8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back door so
that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.

9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.

10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature
up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On
Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the
week, so no bathing will be allowed.

11. Raise your bed to within 6" of the ceiling, so you can't turn over
without getting out and then getting back in.

12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a
curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go
to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."

13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house -
dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.

14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so loud
Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave
out and trice up."

15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the
following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while
she reads it to you.

16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to
leave your house before 1500.

17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three
times a day, whether it needs it or not. ("Sweepers, sweepers, man your
brooms. Sweep down all upper decks, lower decks, ladders and passageways.
Dump all trash over the fantail.")

18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your
magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.

19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have
your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.

20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone
shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle
stations. ("Now general quarters, general quarters, all hands man your
battle stations.")

21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry
or refrigerator.

22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are
having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they
finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can
have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just
ask for hot dogs.

23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly.
Spread icing real thick to level it off.

24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich on stale bread. ("mid-rats" or midnight rations)

25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm,
jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt
button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out to the backyard and
uncoil the garden hose.

26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man
overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.

27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them
in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the
stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready." After an hour
or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and
paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.

28. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand
watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when
the weather is worst. January is a good time.

29. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair,
sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure
to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.

30. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and
run it all day long.

31. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per
pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.

32. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.

33. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.

34. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that
at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for
"liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World
has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it
will be another week before they can leave the house.

Galley The galley is the kitchen of the ship. The best explanation as to its origin is that it is a corruption of "gallery". Ancient sailors cooked their meals on a brick or stone gallery laid amidships.

Galley
The galley is the kitchen of the ship. The best explanation as to its origin is that it is a corruption of "gallery". Ancient sailors cooked their meals on a brick or stone gallery laid amidships.