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PAGE. TWO CAMP ADAIR EDITION, THE OREGON STATESMAN SCU 1911 Golems .Gontonwrniii "City 99 5 Commander; Says: Camp kdr, or practically completed, Is; one oi Oregon's 'thriving; bumtling communities. It ha Us own churches, post exchange stores, .laundry, theatres. and ? all other facilities found In cities. It has streets and avenues. Voter system, pow er and recreational facilities. . 1 ' y f I ' Vl . -Jesten-MUler- photo. themselves wholeheartedly and completely into the war effort. Camp Adair wants to be considered by ohter cities as a city.. The men who live here want to associate with the citizens of the other cities, and within military limits, want to receive friends as visitors to this post ' Naturally, establishment of Camp Adair, adjacent to;a num ber of other communities, makes consideration of some special problems necessary. Men from Camp Adair will want to visit the other cities, and will tax their hotel and other accom modations to the utmost. These men will also appreciate the opportunity for entertainment, and above all. will want to meet people. j . -. Officers in charge of the camp will cooperate In every way with other cities in solving of problems. Housing and recreox tion are but two of the problems which cooperation will help solve. The officers stand ready to meet with any city officials, civic affairs in their communities. Many of the officers at; Camp Adair have moved their fam ilies to this vicinity, and nave located in nearby cities. These officers and their families will be residents of this area, and as far as their military duties permit they will be active in civic alairs in their communities. The war we are in is an all-out war, and service men and citizens must work together to win IL j GORDON H. McCOY Colonel, r. A.-. Commanding I . Headquarters Camp Adair I ' ' ' " - Post Commander Graduate Of US Naval Academy Col. Gordon H. McCoy, artillery officer, who is in com mand of Camp Adair, is a graduate of the Naval academy at Annapolis, a veteran officer of World war I, has made the army his career and is jiow in his 50s. His experience as an artillery officer covers, a large portion of the world and he comes to Camp Adair with a background of j ser vice in many capacities. Decorated with the Medal of - Military Merit byi the Mexican government. Col. McCoy served with distinction as military! at tache in Mexico City for three years ending in January, of j this year. Since that time and until his assignment to; Camp Adair on June 2; he served on the Board of Economic .Warfare in Washington, DC. , I , A native of th: Shenandoah valley in yirginia" CoL McCoy has been, en artillery officer -throughout his ;army career. Since the World War 1, .in which he served as 'a captain and then as major, he has been graduat ' ed from the Field Artillery school at Ft. Sill, the Command and General Staff school at Leavenworth and the Army War college at Washington, DC.f . In France with the 91st dl- - vision composed of troops . from the northwest and Cali fornia, CoL McCoy saw front line service. During this ser- : vice, he became - acquainted .' f with Dr. J. N. Shaw of Cor vallis, now head ef veterin ary medicine at Oregon State college, when Dr. Shaw was i veterinarian for the regiment . to which CoL McCoy belonged. : 'i With Spanish at his command, . the. colonel has seen service in , the Philippine Islands and : the Panama Canal zone during peace 'time, in addition to his diplo- . The citizens of 'Camp Adair are . lust like those of any oth er. Ore f on municipality, except that here all, except a few nur ses ' and' hostesses, are men. The ' Camp differs in another respect, since here all hare a single aim, that of training troops to help win. the war. All other activities of the post are subordinate to this, "i r.'; The people . who lire In this military city are I drawn from all parts of the United States, but they differ, in no way from the sons and ; brothers ' of the citizens of other Oregon com munities. They -are a fine lot of men, average or above In intelligence and behavior, who - have trlvon tin fhe comforts cmA 1 luxuries o rfvil m. own ma tic. assignment at Mexico City. Col. McCoy, with Mrs. McCoy and their ten-year-old daught er, Beverly, have leased an at tractive residence in Salem for their home. Promoted, T-5 Buy Bonds Do soldiers buy, war bonds? They "certainly do, and in many-, instances, set an out standing example for loyal civil ians to' follow. Take Albert Smith, techni cian fifth class, at Camp Adair, for example, k A few weeks ago he was Pfc. Smith, 32, clerk-stenographer in the military intelligence of fice at Adair, who was a typist at Mare Island navy yard be fore his induction into the army. The day Pfc Smith was ad. " vanced to his T5 , rating, equivalent to corporal' (a T corporal to the layman), what . did he do? lie bought two bonds end authorized the post ' war bonds office thereafter to bnr bond m 'month oat of his Increased pay check. T5 ; Smith didn't tell this story, on himself; but his chief, Maj. R. E. Riordan, the mili-' tary intelligence officer, ' gave the secret away; proudly. " Service Unit 1 i to Operate Adair An armyi camp or post has its administrative organization, just as do the cojnbat training divi sions that 'may be temporarily assigned there, and Camp Adair is no exception. , At Adair the admi n i s t r a tive organiza tion, which is . to .the CantOn- mayor, city, council tad depart, mental employes ; are to a ; city, is known as j Service Command unit Wo. or SCU 1911, for short..-. .- ' j! j, :; . " i. The service command unit if - an arm of ths army's Ninth nr ; vice command, ; organization - which in rasny respects con 1 forms to that of the old Ninth corps : area. j i So 'it -is that offi cers and men! of SCU 1911 wear the Ninth ( service ; command shoulder pitches blue - a n d white dries, the inner patches '-' bordered by; nine reverted arcs. '. - 4 11 if - .:; -i r lh The ewnp i eommtnd has eight - principal of licet: Office "o the com . manding officer; adminUtrBtive. per. sonnel. operations and training, aup ply, repairs j and uuliUes, - internal security and Intelligence, and mad" lcaL i -; : 'fj-.:,: -: - .j-. - In the office: of the commanding officer are the executive and as- " sistant executive officers, the con ; trol officer and the public relations officer.;, The I administrative l subdi visions include the adjutant, the judge advocate and the fiscal officer. Other subdlvislonal groupings: Repairs ' and i utilities UUlitles operations branch, maintenance and ' repairs, engineering and real estate. . Internal security and intelligence - Intelligence, internal security and provost marshal. f ; i. . Medical I Medical . service' sani tation, and hospitalization and evac uation. : ), ,., ; .... . I ;, . Organized SALEI1 COIICriETS PIPE & PRODUCTS GO. Portland' Highway S . .. lOo .. it . r s Scwcr Septic Tanks Building Blocks W!Hfii'.H)..n'uwi. . . -nT1 TTr.-niiiiiiiiiii - V1' i- ' - Wv mtxaxiif i 'Hi i i ii I C ill i t , , j) j -.Hi Executive Of ficer Began Army Career in Ranks; Colonel NoW I - r Executive officer of Camp Adair is Col. George C. Ferch, ar tillery officer and veteran of two other wars, who arrived in Corvallis last June to set up the station command soon to be formally assumed by CoL Gordon H. McCoy. ' 1 J , CoL Ferch came to Adair COL. GEORGE C. FERCH m Jesten-Miller photo. Contents : Pott Command : Name origin Construction : SSUi division 104ttt division Chapels Salem. VSO Sergeant's Tour Dallas Monmouth , Independence Albany , : ... . S. 3 . S-ll ia-ie -si 2Z, S3 '14 1 zs' SO. 32 - 4 1 7 S8 . 40 -lu- . 41 Hospital 4-County . council j , ' Jefferson Hostess Houses Corvallis . - Spprts ; SO. 81 r'n Pipo i Culver! Drain TUo f i ' 1 - ) :;iiililt$ifij: fill : ' -1 , , -. , 'JS SALEM ;.: I :fsA',y r Pro-Cast '.Cbncrcto Products from Medford's new Camp White, but he considers himself a full fledged Calif ornian. While sta tioned at Fort Ord,. Calif 4 he : laid out the training aids, includ . ing target ranges maneuver j and J til . - . . m Jj ai . uriu . srew. ne penonnra me , . same duties at Camp White, re- peated for Adair a, short time Jater. ' ; . i. ' ' "I. grew up . with Fort Ord," says Col. Ferch. "I went there in November, 1940, and was mere au toe time during tne de- velopment of that . great post." ' CoL Ferch served on the xnexlean border in 1916. , In the following World Wsr I, he spent 18 months overseas. Tim urwJ I ha famAna If in -.1 r dow division under tne pres- i . ent Gen. Douglas MaeArthnr. xne coionei Knows wnat it means to be an enlisted man, too, because he started there. He has since held all grades to , colonel except that 1 of second lieutenant. J : ; . 1 CoL and Mrs. Ferch have a ' daughter,' aged 12, who probably hfflwt that thir ffpnial and father remains at attractive ' Camp Adair despite the fact 1 that for his. grade he is still of "troop age." : Offices Donated The , air-conditioned offices of Four Builders were donated by the company to the US army en- j gineers and the company offi ces were moved to a warehouse, while the firm was completing . its construction of Area Cat , Camp Adair. . . ' ; . Phone 3500 .r f '4f r r Pipo Well Curbing Manholo Blocks
