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OREGON STATE LIBRAR* Trust your causa. Whatever is at tempted is never well done unless the doer breathes himself into his deed. - S. Parkes Cadman. Camp Adair Sentry Mounting Guard in and Around Camp Adair, Oregon Camp Adair. Oregon. June 18,1942. Work Starts on West Side Road 81.50 ;; Year by Mail MAJOR COLLINS SWORN IN AT CAMP ADAIR Grading and Bridge Construction Begun On Widening Project Construction work has begun on widening the west side highway 99 between Camp Adair and Cor- vallis. Graders are at work, as are bridge builders, along with survey ors and engineers. E. C. Hall was awarded the grad ing contract. He is the man who has the grading contract on the Cor vallis airport south of Corvallis, on which job he is associated with J. C. Comptpn. Mr. Compton has the paving contract on the present highway job, also. The roadway will be widened and ■Straightened. The hill just north of Lewisburg is being cut away by heavy equipment and a dangerous curve will be eliminated there. Bridges will be rebuilt to accommo date the wider highway. The highway will be 22 feet wide with 10-foot shoulders on either side, according to engineers on the job here now. Traffic will be maintained, the engineers say, although it may be necessary to drop to one-way traf fic part of the time, especially at the location of the three bridges being rebuilt. The present project includes nearly six miles of con struction and will be completed to . Harrison street i-t (4nrvallis. The I job will be finished about August ; i 15, engineers estimated yesterday. B. O. Johnson is the resident engineer representing the state highway commission. M. W. Moore is the bridge engineer. So far. there i are three crews at work, the grad- : ers on the Lewisberg hill, excava- ' tors on the Lewisberg bridge, and ! the surveying crew. “One way traffic will be less I troublesome than usual," Mr. Moore, bridge engineer estimated yesterday, “for the reason that most of the heavy traffic on this highway now. that to and from camp, is one way mostly already. It's heavy going north in the morn ings going out to camp, and then normal again until shift closing time in the evening when traffic is about 90 per cent going south.” f 1 ÍHQi journal devoted to th« Willamette Val ley's share in V n c 1 e S a m ’* gnat war effort. Camp Surgeon Here for Duty I I Col. Mac Callum Is College Professor in U.S.C. as Civilian First commissioning of an army officer at Camp Adair—as Glenville A. Collins (left), civilian chief of operations, was sworn in Thursday as a major. U.S. engineer corps, by Lt. Col. R. E. M. Des Islets, area engineer. Major Collins will continue as chief of operation under Col. Des Islets. Cut by courtesy of Statesman, Salem. _ CAMP TRAFFIC IS BEING STEPPED I P Rush traffic in the late after- noon at the close of most shifts has been cleared up materially during the past fe«v days. At the last check by the U. S. Guards, the area was cleared in 28 minutes. This record was six minutes faster than the best time there tofore and the guards are well satisfied with the showing. Such movement of traffic is only pos sible through the help of every one concerned, the guards say. GENERAI. TO ARRIVE BY PLANE TODAY Added Bus Runs ____ it— Town Covered in New Schedules to Bring Men to, From Camp Brigadier General J. L. Brad ley, divisional commander to be stationed at Camp Adair, was to arrive today by plane from the east. General Bradley has rented a home in Corvallis. He will be here on this trip for a few days only but will return later for duty. While here this time he will be at the Hotel Benton. Cor vallis. Six new buses with accommoda tions for 200 passengers will begin operating Monday morning between Corvallis and Camp Adair. The buses, which are to operate through cooperation of the Oregon Motor Stages, the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce and Dean Dorsey, were brought in for continued regular service to the army camp and will Buck Apiece Donated be at the service of camp worker*. Makes Up Pot of $14 The six will leave the Ninteenth Camp and Corvallis and Taylor intersection at 6:30 each Soldiers are Invited morning. One will travel along Tay lor street to Eleventh, thence to Foreman De) Dishaw’s bolt and Polk street and down Polk to Sec strap crew. Four Builders, have Sponsored by the civilian em- ond street enroute to the stage 'raised 814 for a flag for Camp ployees of the quartermaster corps , terminal. Another will travel along Smith-Hoffman, W right here, a sport dance will be given , Van Buren street, one down Monroe | Adair, to be left here when they Saturday night in the Woman'» street, and two will cross over at are finished with their jobs ard Win; 4 Builders Lose i Twenty-sixth street to traverse Kone- The money was contributed club at Corvalli*. I Western avenue and Washington I voluntarily and turned over to Col. Invited to participate in the dance Earl Heckart's Smith-Hoffman street. These will converge at the i R. E. M. Lea Islets, area engineer, and Wright club edged into first will be 25 soldier* from the army _ stage _ terminal where the worker* who will see that it goes for a from second place last night in "nit quartered in Corvallis, en- wj]] the bus which will go di- camp flag. The idea wax bom in the Corvallis city soft ball league, listed men from post headquarter*. rectly to their particular job. The the group and no solicitations were The score was 2 to 1 in a game those here in the Quartermaster | buses are to leave the terminal en made either inside or outside, but which was tight all the way. corps and those in the medical sec- route to the camp at 7 o'clock, Leaving Camp Adair on the re each man contributed a dollar, The former league-leading 4 U«n. Expenses for the dance have Following are the men who con- turn to Corvallis, the buses will Builders lost their first ball game provided for. bring the men back ax rapidly as tribyted, in addition to Foreman when the soldiers came through in , Refreshments for the latter part they check in from their work. Dishaw: a 6 to 5 heart-breaker. Both chibs of the evening have been provided, Subject to change, the schedule A. E. Sims, John T. Shannon, had one bad inning during the also, and the group experts to have will be varied if necessary, the run* T. G. Kieper, Jesse T. Hayes, A. F. ■ightcap allowing four runs for a wonderful time. Army officers to be made to best serve the needs Hager, Sherman Blume, E. E. Kin- of the worker*. Ticket book* may their opponents. ■ here will not attend. be obtained at the terminal or at ! nett, Frank Lofquist, Glenn W. The Builders went two frames the chamber of commerce office, or Otto, Kenneth Brawn, E. E. Boise, into a 5 to 0 lead. The soldiers they may be delivered to men at Robert H. Moore, R. V. Middau^e. Philomath Firemen to came up to 5 to 2 and then ran the camp who find it impossible Stage Saturday Dance in four all at once. call to obtain them. A... in .* t . In a checkup made Tuesday mom- Utt ICC IS Remodeled The Philomath Firemen are stag ing between 6:15 and 7:30. it was 1 At Rushlight Company Another Officer Here ing a benefit dance for which the found that 711 car* left the city In Quartermaster Corps limits for the camp and carried department is famous this Satur 1781 passenger*. This is s percent Office accommodations at the Lt- Benjamin H. Frank has re day night. June 20. at the Philo age of 2 38 100th person« per car. A. G. Rushlight and company have recently been remodeled for the ported here for duty with the camp math high school gym. Music will or 198 one-man car*. be furnished by the Corvallis dance Operation of the buses, in addi better handling of the business ef quartermaster's command. band. tion to saving gasoline and rub the company here at Camp Adair. Serving for 13 years in the ber. would take 200 can from the Popular prices will be charged, Ft. Leavenworth. Kan., A new counter has been added Q.M.C. at highway and save congestion, in Lt, Frank brings experience to his the money to go toward, new addition to getting the men directly which partitions off the office from equipment for the new fire truck. to their location«. the reception part of the room. job here. Civilian Employees 01 Q.M.C. fo Dance Camp Labor Crew to Leave Flag for Post “L.. ———. Col. D. Mac Callum, camp 5un> geon for Camp Adair, arrived this week from Ft. Lewis. Wash., and is organizing his detachment here for service at the camp. Col. Mac- Callum was a divisional surgeon at Ft. Lewis, and hails from Los An geles and the California National Guard, of which he has been a mem ber since his cominp west to Los Angeles in 1926. He has traversed the ladder from the bottom during that time, serving in each rank to his present colonelcy. Military experience of the new camp surgeon has not been limited to the medical corps in the army. At the age of 20. he served as a second lieutenant of infantry in the first World war. and although not overseas, he climbed to the rank of captain in the reserve corps before completion of his medical degrees and his entrance into the : medical corps of the California Na tional Guard. He also completed advance courses in machine gunnery 1 at Augusta. Ga., during the other war period. “My infantry training and ex perience have been of infinite value to me in my medical corps work,’’ Col. Mart’allum said yesterday, in discussing his army service. “I wouldn't take anything for that experience, and it undoubtedly was of value to me in attaining promo tions along the line.” Col. MacCallum organized a medical regiment in the California Guard and was its commanding of ficer until its dispersement in a j new organization of forces when i the outfit was inducted into federal service in March last year. He wax, thus, the regiment's only command ing officer. When his regiment was divided into battalions in the new organiza tion, his “boys” presented Col. Mac- Callum with a fine watch, inscribed with his individual service record with the regiment. He has a high sense of pride in thia former com mand and believes they will acquit themselves admirably in active service, although they an separated into battalions, he says. As a medico, Col. Mac Callum possesses the highest quality of educational and professional equip ment. He went into active service last year with the California Guard, leaving a post as head of the de partment of anatomy at the Uni versity of Southern California, on a leave of absence for the dura tion. Prior to his association with U.S.C. in 1926, he served on the medical school faculties of both the University of Chicago and the Uni. versity of Wisconsin. His medi* cal degree is from the University of Chicago and he also has a Ph D. degree in anatomy from there. He attended the army's Field Servic« school at Carlisle. Pa., in 1936 and wax graduated from the advance <. nurse there. Col. Mas-Callum's family includes a daughter, 12, and a son, 3. They are at Ft. Lewis with Mrs. Mac- Callum, and the colonel hopes to have them down here within a week, he s^s. He has found a home on Sunset Hill, Corvallis, which will -ready for occupancy within a few day*.