SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20560 , 
DROPPINGS FROM THE EAGLE'S ROOST 
July 18, 1966 
We seem to have people coming and going at very odd times 
this week - the Elys left Honolulu last Thursday on separate planes, 
with one cat, one bird, and one child divided equally or -unequally 
between them. They had to spend 24 hours waiting in San Francisco 
and then got to Dallas where there was nothing available for them 
to get to Oklahoma City so they rented a car and drove there. 
Fortunately they had had;reservations on American Airlines from 
there into Washington on Sunday and they got in yesterday afternoon 
with a minimum of confusion. 
Dayle Husted, who had also been on standby, is here but we 
have yet to figure out how he got here. We know that his baggage 
is lost, he's been on a train, he's been on a plane, and he's here*. 
He says he's going out to buy some new clothes anyway. A letter 
from Binion came in this morning saying that he would be back 
next Monday. He's going to have quite a shock when he sees where 
he's moved to - it's not good English but the office arrangement 
is better than it was before. 
Mary Johnson came back in today from her 2-weeks of vacation 
- from her description of the trip it will take her a week to catch 
up on her rest here. Anne is considering going on leave this week 
but more on that later. Pat, Dr. and Mrs. Ely, and Dr. Humphrey 
all have reservations on Pan Am for London Friday night out of 
Dulle s. 
We got some mail from Alaska today. A letter from Bob DeLong 
reminds me that we are now going to start sending people's payroll 
stubs directly to them. We have been accumulating them here but 
nobody that way ever knows how much leave he has, how much money 
is going into the bank, etc. We will send all the ones in the 
Pacific to Box 8095 and suggest that the Honolulu Office keep a 
mail file for each man as we have previously done here. This will 
be much more sensible than leaving them here for such long times. 
A letter came in today from Brian Harrington from Honolulu - 
he's also depending on the lack of an airlines strike to get to 
the west coast and take one of the ships back out to Honolulu on 
the 20th or 22nd. Letts: hope he makes it. 
