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OREGON STA IT I’«R ARY JUN 2 9 1942 Trust your causa. Whatever is at tempted is never well done unless the doer breathes himself into his deed. - S. Parkes Cadman. Mounting Guard in and Around Camp Adair, Oregon Vol. 1., No. 10. Work On Roads Slows Traffic A weekly journal devoted to the Willamette Val ley’s share in Uncle S a m’s great war effort. Camp Adair, Oregon, June 25, 1942. Dorsey Bus Line Now Runs to Camp Adair SUNDAY SOFTBALL ■fly i Soldiers at Camp Get Evening Entertainment With a big double header, the Corvallis Sunday softball season will start next Sunday, June 28, at the Corvallis park. Albany and Corvallis city league teams will compete. Admission will be 15 cents for both games and the first one will start at 2 o'clock. The Albany Elks, will play the Four Builders in the first game and Warner's will meet the Laundries in the second. These games will bring together some of the all-state players from last year’s league eliminations and the games are premising real ball. Five busses are running on 1 To relieve the lonesomeness of schedule now from Corvallis to the soldiers now quartered at Camp Camp Adair and back, operated by Adair, they have been furnished the Dorsey Bus company of Cor with athletic equipment furnished Highways on Either vallis. The new run supplants the ( by the U. S. Engineers soft ball Oregon Stages busses which have Side of Camp Are in organization. The boys have long been making the run night and Growing Pain Stage evenings at their disposal and morning, and will continue to do so until September, Mr. Dean Dor greatly appreciate the equipment, Highways on both sides of Camp sey reports. they say. W’hen the Oregon Stages take Adair to the south are torn up with A radio has been placed at their disposal, given by the same en construction, and traffic must be over the runs again in September, : Mr. Dorsey says, he will be on hand gineers organization. The material controlled to one-way going at least ; tor helping with the peak loads, and radio were purchased from a part of the time. mainly on Saturdays and Sundays. funds saved from the engineers On the east side the Independ He will continue with his opera dance given at the Oregon State ence-Granger section of the high tion of the school busses for Cor memorial union building some way is being rebuilt and construc vallis through the winter on week weeks ago, and is a residue after tion work is being carried on right days. the purchase of equipment for the across the east gate to the camp. At present, Mr. Dorsey says, soft ball team in the Corvallis city W'idening and straightening this busses make a pick-up tour of Cor league. road makes necessary much heavy vallis before leaving the stage ter grading and the road is almost low minal for camp. They all go into gear going, with the necessity of camp at the Halversen-Sletten giving way to the construction road, but half go on the east side equipment in places where it is of the railroad track and the other 50 Per Cent Increase working. half on the west side. They are Allowed After Long This road has been the subject I making a strenuous effort to get Parleys by Johnson of much talk and negotiation with the schedule straightened out so Officers Are Given the state highway commission and that men may learn which bus goes finally the state body took it over nearest their work. Assignments in Order for reconstruction and maintenance Stations within 20 miles of the from the counties whose responsi Adminisrtation building at Camp Headquarters, Camp Adair, was bility it was formerly. Adair yesterday received an in organized and activated June 21, On the west side, 99-W is being crease of 50 per cent over their with an order and assignments is widened and straightened from just base in gasoline ration, it was sued from the temporary offices south of the camp into Corvallis. Grading is less of a problem here, learned from oil company repre in the Elks Temple, Corvallis, and made public Wednesday. The order except in a few places, but there Plumbers Eat Chicken, sentatives. The new ration will was signed by Maj. Victor N. Mil are several bridges which must be serve to almost completely meet ler, execut iri* of fleer and adjutant. Dance With Wives widened. It is at these bridge loca the present demands at stations in Nearly 30 officers and their tem tions where one-way traffic must be enforced for a part of the time. Dewey Martin, official boss and the camp area, the official esti porary duty assignments were named in the order under authority Engineers believe that this will check-signer of General Installa mated. cause less trouble on this job, tion, was honor guest at the Dude In allowing the half increase, the i of Col. George C. Ferch, command however, because heavy traffic is Ranch west of Corvallis Saturday larger demands upon locul stations ing officer. Maj. Miller has two active assist mostly one way now, at the morn night, when his employees, “the was taken into consideration by ing and evening change of shifts plumbers,” staged a party for him. the Pacific coast coordinator's ants. They are First Lt. Ernest at Camp Adair. The affair was a sort of return office. The added influx of workers M. Featherston, Coast Artillery No estimate was available as to engagement for one given by the at Camp Adair has made this officer, who is personnel adjutant, and First Lt. Arthur D. Van Ors- when these vital arteries would be boss to his employees earlier in increase necessary. del, adjutant general's department, completed and opened again to full the Camp Adair game. The base before the present order traffic, but engineers estimated Chicken dinner was first on the was set at two-thirds of last year's assistant adjutant. In addition there are non-commissioned offi that the operations would take evening program. Wives and office sales. The 50 per cent increase, cers and other soldiers who man most of the summer. gals had to wait until after that to based upon this figure, will give dance. Then they danced. The Dude local stations approximately the the office. Maj. Ralph E. Riordan is mili Ranch barn was in excellent shape same amount of gasoline available Warm-Up Dance to and "a good time was had by alL” as they had during the past year. tary intelligence head. S-4 and Be Saturday Night Leo McNally, coordinator and That this will meet demands, even acting utilities officer is Maj. Ar general man-about-the-job, organ in the face of added users at Camp thur Dysart, C.E., and Capt. Carl B. Forsman, F.A., assistant. ized and promoted the party. Em Calapooia Roundup directors are ployees paid the bill. When Mr. Adair, was explained by the fact Other officers now on duty here to stage their annua! “Warm-up McNally’s authority was questioned that the normal local users—those and their new assignments are: Dance” Saturday night, June 27, —in but few cases—he flashed his buying gasoline last year — buy Quartermaster, Col. T. A. Bau- at the roundup hall at Crawfords leather medal. This medal, by the much less now on account of tire meister, Q.M.C.; surgeon, Col. Dan ville. This is an annual event for way, is a prize possession awarded shortages. iel B. McCallum, M.C.; signal,*Capt. The order issued yesterday by Norval J. Reetz, S.C.; special ser the benefit of the Calapooia round to him recently for being the most up association and will be attended stuck in the mud man on the job. the various oil companies to their vices, Capt. Frank C. Wimer, Inf. local distributors was the result (C.O.); 2nd Lt. Victor J. Mix, Inf. by Queen Inez Mudgett of Shedd General Installation and its and her princesses, Wanda Hulet head. Mr. Martin, are from Olym of piles of correspondence and (service clubs); 2nd Lt. Hugh T. of Eugene and Betty Wallace of pia, Wash., and are installing heat hours of work on the part of H. C. Teresfeldt, Inf. (postal officer); (Sven) Johnson, coordinator at 2nd Lt. Harry T. Watson, Jr., Inf. Monroe. ing and plumbing for Strong-Mac The Roundup this year will add donald and some in the National Camp Adair. Mr. Johnson has (theaters). pushed the necessity of more gaso several patriotic features, and will Builders area. Post exchange, Major Rudolph line in the camp area from the Ayres, A.E.S. (C.O.); 1st Lt. B. C. be held at Crawfordsville July 4, beginning of his term of office Wright, Inf.; 1st Lt. M. S. Gran and 5. Cantonment Council which was April 1. Action was der, Cav. almost to take place when the an Police anJ prisons, 2nd Lt. Ed- i Has Monthly Session Sentry Is Ordered to nouncement came out that gasoline ! win S. McAllister, Inf.; D.E.M.L., Do Splits on Guard would be rationed through the I Capt. Paul S. Rutledge. Inf. (C.O.); The four-county cantonment card system. This delayed action [ 1st Lt. W. R. Padrick, Inf. Confusion spread through Mc council met Monday night at Mon under the present plan of handling , Chaplain, lat. Lt. Alf W. Jor Clellan Field, Calif., recently when mouth for a regular monthly meet rationing through the oil com-1 genson, CM.; public relations and a particular military order was ing and reports from H. C. (Sven) panics. billeting, 2nd Lt. Robt. E. Mal- posted on the bulletin board. Many Johnson, coordinator. The group When the card system was de lonee. C. E.; fire marshal, 1st Lt. met at the Monmouth hotel foAiin- a thoughtful head was scratched clared out, then Mr. Johnson went ! Julius Male. Inf.; judge advocate ner and then held their session in as perusers read: • to work again, with the present and bond officer, 1st Lt. Arthur “One sentry shall walk this post the city hall, guests of Dr. Bower result. Kirschenmann, Inf.; mess officer, sox, mayor of the host town. continuously in opposite direc-j 2nd Lt. Pete A. Lafka, Inf.; audit Assisted in his effort* by Col. { Transportation, housing, roads tions”! and highways and recreation plans. Des Islets, the chambers of < >m- I ing officer. 2nd Lt. M. E. Marris. were some of the subjects covered merer and city organizations of the Inf.; medical section, Capt. Oliver President Rbosevelt signed the in the report of Mr. Johnson. He towns surrounding the camp. Mr. C. Stauffer. M.C.; provost marshal. «er* i ce men’s pay allotment and also told something of negotia- Johnson had ample evidence of the . 1st. Lt. B. C. Wright, Inf.; 1st Lt. allowance bill today, paving the Julius Hale, Inf., and 1st Lt. M. S. way for financial aid to depend tions going on between here and i local shortage to present to coast j Grander, Inf. Washington, D.C., regarding of-1authorities. The delay has been the ents of fighting men and reclassi fication of married men for the ficial appraisals of property taken , change in rationing plans and justj Inspector, 2nd Lt. M. E. Harris. Inf. over for the camp. ordinary governmental red tape. draft. Gas Ration Is Upped in Area Martin Guest at Big Party at Dude Ranch Camp Headquarters Organized This Week $1.50 a Year by Mail Col. G. C. Ferch New Camp Head Veteran Officer of Artillery Branch Is Organizing Adair HQ ) Col. George C. Ferch, artillery officer and veteran of two other wars, is here in command of Camp Adair and is rapidly getting his headquarters organized in a part of the Elks temple third floor of fice in Corvallis, pending activa occupancy at the camp. Coming here directly from Camp White, Medford, Col. Ferch’s for mer home is in California. He was stationed at Ft. Ord, CaMf., where he laid out the training aids, in cluding target ranges, maneuver and drill areas. He performed the same duty at Camp White and now, will lay out the training aids here, "in addition to hie other duties,” as army orders are quoted. “I grew up with Ft Ord,” Col. Ferch said in an interview yester day. “I went there in November, 1940, and was there all the time during the development of that great post.” Col. Ferch served on the Mexican border in 1916. He was overseas 18 months in World War I. He was formerly a soldier, having come up from the ranks, of which he has held all but that of second lieuten ant, he sayx. During his service overseas in the A.E.F., he served in the famous Rainbow division under General Douglas McArthur. Col. Ferch saw action in France and his army ex perience has been varied. In taking command here, the colonel does not know the term of his duty, since he is of “troop age,” meaning that he is still eligible to command troops in com bat duty. Also, it may be that he will be moved on to organize an other new post somewhere and es tablish the training aids on account of his past experience in that work. His command does not clash in any way with that of Cd Dea Islets, he says, and Col. Dea Islets will remain the area engineer, probably until the completion of the actual construction work at the camp, when his work will be completed. Col. Ferch has a daughter 12, and Mrs. Ferch in his family. Ho was expecting them to arrive in Corvallis yesterday, but had not definitely located a home for them at the time The Sentry culled upon him. There are nearly 30 officers who have arrived here and are assigned to Col. Ferch's command, which in known as the Corps Area Service Command, No. 1911. Four Builders Annex Hot One From S-H & W Four Builders took Smith-Hoff man and Wright 2 to 0 last night in the rain. It «»« a hot game through six innings when it was called. Four innings in a drizzle bogged down when in the fifth the rain really began. When a batsman threw his rlub clear up into the -lands in the sixth, umpires said “stop.” The win put 4 Builder* in a tip with their opponent* for first place in the (orxallis city league, the l>sm for Smith-Hoffman and Wright being their first. The second game. Soldiers vs. Engineers, was postponed.
