Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                J i Matt Mcdade Dhahran it is piquant experience to from Bahrein Island to Dhahran by army trans port within a space of i you leave the indolent atmosphere of a tropical Island and hurdle nimble into another world seems older and Wilder and More deserted than anything you Ever saw the vivid contrast of cluttered ports and Green stretches of Palm Groves accentuates the Fawn dior de arabian desert of extensive fat Ness and it also brings to fore that Dhahran is strangely like a whistle Remote and far removed and relatively Sel Suffi country store of this whistle Stop the army air base is toeing rapidly converted from blueprints to is the like and Rural it is the most popular place the Only place and life in can revolves around they Call it Hells half Moon the is a Stra steel appropriately resembling half of a shiny Beer can sliced neatly Down the Mincile and Laid is White inside with a wainscoting of steel a coun Ter and soda Fountain extend Down the right Side and Are flanked by a Row of sturdy wooden the a shoulder High partition isolates the office of the two Joe Hovsepian and Joe and the combination pm special service the two Joes the two alike in Tempe Are direct opposites in a Hovsepian is a Swarthy and muscular armenian lad from with a definite aversion for saudi the other and consider ably lighter in Ika ils from the Atlantic Baltimore in at first the Joes were threefold but general overseer for the italian reenlisted in the army and quit Dhahran for Shang i the two Joes and a squat operate their Oasis with an easy friendliness and its relation to Camp is certainly that of a country store to an isolated but apart from the two Joes and Bernhardt Are unwittingly the Camps chamber of shortly after we arrived in Dhah had collected our mess gear and bedding from the first ser Geant and through Drifting Sand to a Joe Hov sepian popped his head through the Fly netting and he came chatted hospitably and invited us Over to Hells half Moon which we found surprisingly pleasant and but the piece de resistance came a few said Joe to Tho italian clerk behind the rustic us up a Cunja already impressed by the feeling that it was something of an anachronism in this tent we were even More amazed when it turned out to be a real Coke in a real Dixie cup with real and albeit that the Coke was slightly Salty because a brackish it tasted in is the Only pleasant Quality of rails Rush hour when Hells half Moon opens at theres a steady procession of customers until it closes at but the heavy Rush comes after when a flood of Indian rupees Stream across Iho bar and the where card zanies Arp soon its customers Are an Odd assortment of individuals dressed in t no shirts and fatigue pants construction More Burly and less in a weirder assortment f mustaches and Virk Soniat the others just some play cards and Many drink the Supply i5f 4 m of ctr if Tkv will flight so l5t w f of which seems to hold out admirably despite its its hot to see a impervious to the com quietly Reading in mental Solitude or someone else writing a under the Hells half Moon is a recreation soda service read ing room and poker parlor All rolled into its something of since purchased from the arabian Amer ican of Are catered nightly by a grinning at the pm is drained to a certain extent when customers Stream out to an open plot and seat themselves before a screen for the evening that the the film is projected from the rear of a truck and ones private ranges from jeeps to Terra Tho two Joes and la Bernhardt served As projectionists until one of them unearthed a talented As you might social life in Camp is nil and the arrival of a a new or the Depar Ture of someone Are big and even the slightest improve ment is magnified in that Day we remember with vividness a particular Day at Dhahran which seemed extraordinary at the about the most Gratifying improvement in Camp life had occur red that Dawn when the mess formerly a tent to the was transferred into a completed Butler warehouse and i mess gear supplanted by heavy White stainless steel cutlery and in the Sanders serenity of the empty Grey the meal was served family style at freshly painted Blue the difference was and the cooked and served by Eye tie tasted ten times you should a seen the in the old said were getting Swanky around Here that two planes came a bored flight sergeant swung Down out of the newly arrived g47 at the emergency Landing strip and took a Quick look see at the eager faces of us who swarmed out and crowded around like children waiting for Santa he what whistle everybody out to meet the a Hardja Mac some body i see some mail said another fresh fresh meat and beamed the flight we bounced Back to Camp by across the bumpy to spread the news of the wonderful cargo and also tantalize the less fortunate with something else wed a few minutes before project e5s plane the army ship  to Aramco arrived with a cargo of Oil com on a flight not so Long ago he casually carried a full Sase 61 Beer into his it was just be fore the Takeoff t passengers looking on several on their Llesi flight squirmed uneasily i their they would even have been frightened with a Soberman at the the empties emerge the plane was airborne and settled on its the apprehensive passengers were not so the cockpit door swung quietly an empty can of Beer rolled Down the eyes slowly followed its i minutes later another can emerged from the Forward part of the another and another and then the plane began cutting sky Capers and bumped seemingly unsure of you1 can imagine what frenzied state of mind Tho passengers had been whipped into by this How were they to know that the Pilot was Naids Nadia on an other one of his whimsical Esca Pades and that the Beer cans were empty when he carried them on the ship and were just borrowed for the gag Pany females a truly Oneman Shakespeare at music for All an English John tre who has played in new the top attraction for the music for All Hes worked out u theatric Novelty in doing Oneman versions of famous in which he appeared in some of our persian Gulf Camps under the ensa ban next on thursday and Fri Day nights at hell play the merchant of Venice and the hell do his Oneman in line with the current trios to Luxor special service reports that there have been two cancellations for the weekend of the music for All is offering a series of talks on ancient Egypt by Fairman of the egyptian expeditions Beautiful sight in this desert waste but the arrival of fresh meat and was the important thing and a fitting Climax to a Day by and had been highly this is the third of a series of four articles on he Doest pregnant wives Casablanca a group of Gnant wives of gis were booked for passage to the states on the Robert to nibs skippered by because one of the women was eight months with the Cap Tain refused to allow Tho rest of them aboard unless the army provided him with medical protect said Ive been sailing the sea for Twenty been on this tub for nigh on aint Haver heard of a kid being born during Calm its always in a rag intr storm they never in quiet and that Why i aint carrying these Here heat the at  of is included interested who the necessary Points i should Cut Tom Lutary c i application Wanks sent to the american Lega As male  at Jidida and Dhahran Are open a slightly 1 j to tit f indoor mom Palace the career of v acc Barracks has just reached some Point or other of a theater at Civ ids us orientation lectures and what have you under special service Banner Joice was part of the the seating was opened wednesday night a and then there were film version of Aratha Chris ties Little which had been seen in these parts As a Uso the maintenance Crew gets the credit for the buildings present stance on the Headquarters parking lot Barrymore Beverlly Hills the Hilltop estate John which he used to Call his chinese has been sold his former Dolores to Jeanette operator of a childrens the Price was not but Barrymore is known to have spent at least on the miss Wolf is on the prowl in Casablanca As More and More troops Are pulled from North Casablanca local women Are getting bolder and and Many who formerly were chased by Cis Are now chasing along with this reversal of biological Veness comes a revived interest in Ken Vares feature u miss the female counterpart of famous after a we Learned rest last appeared in Reno Nevada at paper the saucy will resume the Chase in care ties after her fangs and learning some new promises to beat the Cis at their own who got his Start As a cartoonist in 1943 when a noticed one of his fee thy sketches in is Here recreating his uninhibited female for the Cis at cases air Hes from gazes base photo by Douglas