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Adlai Stevenson for President. I wrote home that I liked “Ike” and that I thought he
would be the best man for the country.

Hamburgers here cost 50 cents and dinners around $2.00 to $2.50. A movie costs
$1.20. One of my friends spent ten dollars just going to town, eating a meal, and taking
in a movie. On the base, a movie costs only 25 cents, so I only went there. A stamp for
mailing a letter cost only 3 cents, but it took 8 or 9 days to reach my mother in
Jacksonville. Sending it by airmail took only 2 ½ to 4 days. I had ordered one of the
New Revised Standard Version Bibles from the Baptist Book Store before I left
Jacksonville. I asked my mother to check on it and mail it to me when they get it. I
planned to read that entire version of the Bible while in Alaska, especially since it
replaced many of the outdated wording in the King James version.

At the 7th Weather Group Headquarters at Elmendorf, we spent a week being refreshed
on our previous weather training. We plotted and analyzed three large maps with
weather reports that stretched from China to Europe via the Pacific, United States, and
the Atlantic Ocean. We continued for about three weeks, with weekends off. The first
weekend I visited the First Baptist Church in Anchorage. I loved that church, especially
when one of my friends, Mike Ledbetter, sang “His Eye is on the Sparrow” with his
beautiful tenor voice.

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