Camp Adair Sentry
July
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Anybody knows that among men, sailors are probably the most adept with needle and thread.
Above we see Donald Dahlke, seaman first class, having a button sewed on the cuff of his blouse by
charming Dolly Kilgallen. a hostess in a New York City USO clubhouse. What the picture does not
and could not show is how that button got off that sleeve. To be a seaman first class a fellow has
long since learned the simple operation of sewing a button on his middy. Could it be that Donald
deliberately pulled that button off? Could be. what with such an attractive young seamstress
standing by to sew it on again. At any rate, Don, nobody blames you. Seaman Dahlke's home is in
Portland, Ore.
Girls Found to Fit
Into Air Field Work
Number Increases as
More Pass Training
The duties of a housewife and
welding a strip of fuselage or ham­
mering rivets into the belly of a
gas tank are as different as the
contracts-trf traffic on east coast
highways in 1941 and 1942, yet, so
that key machinists and technicians
may be relieved for fighting jobs
with Uncle Sam’s armed forces,
women have answered the eall for
work in March Sub-Depot machine
shops at March Field—and like it!
In July, 1941, had a pulchritudi­
nous bit of feminity walked briskly
down March Field’s hangar line,
scores of khaki-topped heads would
have raised for a moment and
noses would have pointed in the
general direction of what was then
called “sweatin’ material.” Now
when a uniformed soldier — the
number of military personnel em­
ployed in the shops and engineer­
ing hangars greatly decreased —
passes through this area he gets
the “eye” and probably feels as
lonesome and conspicuous as a
three-month-old pup at a bridge
party.
The number of women workers
on technical jobs on the “line” and
in the shops is steadily increasing
and more are being trained as
each week passes, according to
Maj. Paul R. Blair, commanding
officer of the Sub-Depot, and their
ASK FOR SENTRY
If you have a fellow-work­
man who is not getting his Camp
Adair Sentry regularly, let him
know that there is one printed
for everyone and that he prob­
ably can get one at his time
office, any of the canteens, or
in the reception room at the
Administration building.
If his time office does not
have the Sentry, anyone there
can get copies necessary by ask­
ing- for thwL Or addrea» Box
347, Corvallis.
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work is highly satisfactory, he are finding American women ade­
says. Natural ability to perform quate as replacements for men, the
delicate tasks on intricate machin­ war department recently an­
ery and an enthusiasm for their nounced. These women at March
new type of work is making good i Field form a small part of the one
fetnale machinists and aiding the fourth of all 700.000 war depart­
ment civilian employees.
war effort tremendously.
The army air forces are grad­
The women are employed in
many phases of the technical work. ually adding women mechanics to
Strolling through the machine the air fields throughout the coun­
shops it is no uncommon sight to try as a part of its program to
see several girls engrossed in wield­ employ 25.000 women during the
ing a welding torch over damaged present calendar year.—Post Bea­
airplane parts or other equip­ con, Riverside, Calif.
ment.
Fifteen spring and bumper com­
Sheet metal workers run heavy
panies have pooled their facilities
presses with dainty hands the “boy
to build $25,000,000 worth of armor
friend” strokes with a soft caress
plate a month.
at night in the moon light. They
use screwdrivers with the deftness
they formerly exercized on a can Employment Office
opener, and wrenches, hammers, Has New Manager
drills, bits and braces are no long­
Dean Beistel, Corvallis manager of
er strangers to them.
On the “line” they drive tugs the U. S. employment service, has
running errands, hauling supplies been called to service in the army.
The new manager will be Charles
or towing airplanes. Girls, used to Paradis of Ontario, who has been
“back seat driving" in the boy with the employment service for
friend’s sedan before the war, are many years in eastern Oregon.
now at the wheel for Uncle Sam.
Soon it is expected that they will
be working on airplane engines
and many more will take their
places in the hangars.
They work in the stock rooms,
pack parachutes and are employed
in myriad other duties.
The girl you see in the machine
shop, attired in slacks, blouse, with
a curvaceous figure camoflaged by
a leather apron, looks different
from the one you see on the March
Field bus enroifte to work in the
morning or evening because she
wears street clothes then—yet it is
th« same girl with the same spirit,
cheerful and enthusiastic al>out
doing her bit to whip the Axis.
Some were experienced workers
before coming to March Field, how­
ever. others had never had any
experience with anything more me­
chanical than a combination egg-
beater and hair curler. One was
a school teacher before joining
Uncle Sain's corps of “women in
overalls,” another worked in a five-
and-dime store. They come from all
walks of life awd from all part* of
the country. Some are married,
some (ingle, several have husband*
in the Army Air Forres and other
branches of the service.
Air field* over the United States
ARMY CASH TAILORS
UNIFORMS ... INSIGNIA ... SUPPLIES
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*52* Jefferson St.. Corvelli«
Red Cross Courses in
Disaster Are Offered
Two trained workers will come
to Corvallis Friday to lead disaster
preparedness and civilian war aid
meetings which will begin at 9
o’clock in the morning and con­
tinue through the day and evening.
These sessions are to be held in the
new Red Cross headquarters at
Fourth and Jefferson streets and all
members of the two divisions and
others interested are invited and
urged to attend.
John K. Scott of the disaster staff
will lead a disaster conference to
be followed by individual meetings
with each of the disaster sub-com­
mittee chairmen and his full com­
mittee. At the conclusion of these
meetings a meeting is to be held
with the disaster preparedness com­
mittee as a whole.
Miss Anne Carter, trained so­
cial worker, will give a course on
instruction on disaster case work
and civilian war aid. This course
will cover case work procedures in
the emergency period of enemy
action and natural disaster for
which the Red Cross is very defi­
nitely responsible.
The First
National Bank
of Monmouth
Complete Banking
Service
Safe Deposit Boxes
Breakfasts
Lunches
Sandwiches
Fountain
5 & 10 DINETTE
Open « A. M. to 10 I’. M.
Gazette-Times Bldg , Corvallis j
Salem Trying to Get
Critical Area Status
A Salem delegation went to Port­
land Tuesday to confer with federal
housing officials in an attempt to
have Salem designated as a criti­
cal defense housing area.
The delegation consisted of Clay
C. Cochran, business and extension
manager of the Salem chamber of
commerce; Ray J. Stumbo, chair­
man of the city transportation com­
mittee; and F. I. Bressler, lumber
dealer.
A new type of opaque glass that
floats like cork and can be used as
the buoyant element in the con­
struction of life boats, life rafts,
life preservers and pontoon bridge
supports has been developed by one
company.
THE PRESENT
with a future!
When other gifts have
been long discarded,
YOUR PHOTO­
GRAPH will still be
treasured.
After all, nothing is
so truly you as your
photograph, especially
if it has been made in
our studio.
He — “Would it be improper
for me to kiss her hand?”
She — “It would be decidedly
out of place.”
Let us help you sur­
prise your friends at
home.
CORVALLIS LODGE NO. 1411
Meets Every
Wednesday
Evening
At The Corvallis
Moose Temple
THE BALL
STUDIO
Ball Bldg.
Corvallis
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