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OREGON STA »T l Trust your cause. Whatever is at tempted is never well done unless the doer breathes himself into his deed. - S. Parkes Cadman. Cam p Adair Sentry Mounting Guard in and Around Camp Adair, Oregon Vol- l.No. 14. Corvallis Gets Soldier Center Down Town Church I To Be Remodeled for Recreational Activity Camp Adair, Oregon, July 23,1942. United States Band To Appear in Concert A United States army band of about 30 pieces will visit Cor vallis and play a concert for the citizens on the court house lawn at 7:30 Friday evening, July 24. This concert has been ar ranged by Mayor H. W. Hand, through the cooperation of the commander of the troops sta tioned in the vicinity, and as an expression of appreciation on the part of the troops for the friendship and hospitality that has been extended to them by the citizens of Corvallis. Camp Command Is Now on Post Headquarters Offices Are Established Here In Permanent Homes devoted to tha Willamette Val leys share in V r. c 1 e S a m 's great w'ar effort. $1.50 a Year by Mail 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. Salem Soldier Office Opened Hostess Leaque and U.S.O. Provide New Information Center If his time office does not Vacating the third floor of the have the Sentry, anyone there The Madison Street Methodist Combining related activit' ;< of church building, Fifth and Madison Elks Temple, Corvallis, where tem can get copies necessary by ask the U.S.O. and the Hostess league, streets, Corvallis, has been pur porary quarters have been occupied ing for them. Or address Box Salem has opened an office and chased and will be remodeled im for several weeks. Camp» Adair 347, Corvallis. information center for soldier« in mediately for a recreational center headquarters are now established on the down-town business district for for soldiers. It is the location in the post. Headquarters of the {With i the convenience of soldier visitors. which “Harper Soldier center” is division were established here last The room is in the Senator Hotel now operating. This basement week. building, at 212 High street^ Mrs, room has ben popular with the Camp Adair headquarters, under William Phillips is chairman of soldiers, but will be closed dur command of Col. Gordon H. McCoy, home hospitality and Mrs. Lowell ing the remodeling operations on I includes the service command as- Kern is in charge of the H ><tess the building. I signed permanently to the camp. lea gue. Roy Zahren, Seattle, from the This includes the various service Comforts for Men in Rufus Holman Is On Mrs. James T Brand has accept regional office of the Federal groups for the camp such as the ed the responsibility of providing Military Committee Uniform Are Avoilable Works agency, was in Corvallis hospital, quartermaster corps, and entertainment for officers' wives Wednesday ironing out technicali Camp Adair Exchange. Other de who will come into the community ties and obstacles incident to the independence has opened a new to live. Rufus Holman, junior U. S. sen partments include public relations, purchase of the building and its re ator for Oregon, was a visitor at special services, intelligence, and soldiers’ recreation center. It is Dances, parties, home enUr'ain- modeling. The purchase, although Camp Adair Tuesday. He is on an heads of post activities such as the located just west of the telephone ment and receptions arc planned not entirely completed, is in the inspection trip here and said he aters, recreational activities and office and is being furnished and by the organizations and the office process of completion. Mr. Zahren would confer with camp authori all the life of the post outside regu fitted out for many kinds of recrc- is now registering homes who will said, and will include the property ties with a view to assisting them lar work hours. ation for men in uniform. The invite soldiers out to dinner and and its remodeling for recreational in any way he can. He believes in same room accommodates the of- home functions, Soldiers will be Telephone lines ail come through use. Mr. Zahren's agency builds or getting his information first hand, fice of the city service department buys buildings for the purpose and he said, and was conducted through the camp exchange now and dial of the Independence chamber of invited through amp authorities. acccpta/-4 for | Rules in gen system phones have been installed then turns them over to the Fed- Camp Adair on his inspection. commerce E. L. Gray, coordinator. hdsteabur are throughout the camp. the registcrin eral Securities agency which, in Senator Holman was the speaker A full time hostess will be in hPjng fo|V.w< n §ahmi. Kiri« in turn, passes them along to the at a chamber of commerce lunch-j C “ Officers in charge of the wide (.haI.g,.'(’,f the' sot,n ami sol-' list- wifi At avail I this member ’./s* mav* operating agency. eon in Corvallis before his visit to ' vni-iafv« variety of ronin camp l life may nntr now be wj ... |j . we • ](.onu. at anv time partner/ at. regu- ' able for dan The operating agency for the Cor Camp Adair. He reported on his ' found on duty in offices at the j|r Qray saj<|- Writing facilities dflnces, ifrhich will vallis recreation building will be work in the senate and told how he camp headquai ters. !anrf gamea will be available and larly schedu >e times the national organization of the had promoted better protection for I Moves to occupy the camp build- any information about the lnilc-1 probably he ' a weak, begin k. The l .____________ * *__ . - .« Y.W.C.A., according to H. W. Hand, . the northwest country. He will Ings are considerably ahead of the pendency neighborhood will be' girls will also he available for oth mayor of Corvallis, and a crew will leave shortly for an inspection of original time schedule and con available at any time. I er kinds of parties and entertain be organized here August 1, when, ^laska and the Aleutian islands on tractors and workers were con ment. the manager will be here, accord an assignment of the military af- gratulated last week by Gen. James Soldiers who visit Salem from ing to present plans. fairs committee of which he is a L. Bradley, commander of the 96th Albany Beats Its Goal l Camp Adair may call at the new Mr. Zahren was unable to tell member. In Selling War Bonds division to come here for training office in the Senator Hotel build when the remodeling will be com as the first body of combat troops pleted and the building ready for Engineers Knock Over Far exceeding its quota of war ing for information of any sort assigned to Camp Adair. In a let occupancy, but said he is here now ter to Col. R. E. M. Des Islets, area 'bonds and stamps during its c< le-, they require. A general directory to get work started and it will be Nine of Four Builders engineer in charge of construction. bration of American Heroes day of the city and its entertainment rushed through as soon as possible. The Great Griffin finally took Gen. Bradley promised complete last Friday, Albany was pleased possibilities will be available at all The choice of the Madison Street one on the chin last night when the 1 cooperation with the builders dur- with its showing, according to Vin times, the organization announces. Methodist church building for the Engineers won a hot one 3 to 1. ing the remaining coastruction at Hurley, president of the Albany Corvallis soldier center is the con- Griffin got into trouble in the the camp, giving construction work chamber of commerce. Might Be Rivalry in ' sumation of efforts on the part of fourth when he loaded the bases first place in plans and operations. With a quota for the day of Troop Training Work local committees who have been and an infield ground ball scored Water for everything but drink- $5000, more than $16,000 was sub working for some months. The the second run. scribed by the time the day ’ s work I ing has been supplied in the mains There may be no question in total cost of the building including The only score by the builders of the camp from a special well was all counted- More than $20.000 1 Medford, but there may be a ques the remodeling will be $45,006. in stamps and bonds, will be the . was Pete Krueger's homer off Sgt. dug for the purpose, pending com- Members of the church have 1 Thompson. a new twirler for the pletion of the regular camp water direct result of the day's effort. Mr. I tion here at mut the following news I story which was on the'Associated sacrificed greatly, Mayor Hand I Hurley believes. Engineers. system. I Press ticker Tuesday: says, in making the building avail “Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt told able within the purchase price ! a group of officers and men at available. With other properties (Camp White that he 'proposes to considered, this location is thought make this new 91st division the to be the most desirable and the best the United States has ever building is a good one with great seen'.” The speech was at a cere possibilities. Mr. Hand believes. mony organizing the new division. “With the completion of the pro i posed remodeling on this building, Corvallis will have a recreation cen Library Offers Books ter for the soldiers second to none To Soldiers of Camp in the state," Mayor Hand said yesterday. “Members of the church With special hours and service have done a marvelous thing in for soldiers, the Corvallis public making this building available with library announces the following in the limits allowed for the Cor open schedule: 1:3(1 to 6:00 week vallis center. The building is un- i day afternoons, 7 to 9 o'clock in doubtedly worth much more than I the evenings. Sunday hours 3 to the negotiated price and Corvallis ! 6 afternoon and 7 to 10 o'clock and the soldiers will have the church evenings. to thank for the fine center which Soldiers are invited to Use the li will be developed.” brary, Mi-s Evelyn Krueger, li Remodeling plans include level brarian, announces. They may Use ing of the floor in the auditorium the reading room’ for resiling and and the installation of «bower heads writing and may lake books out and all manner of recreation rooms, after completing a form furnished when completed, the building will at the library desk Service to provide as much floor «pace as any ; soldiers front Camp Adair has been class A building being built for the considered by the library board for purpose, Mr. Hand said. some time and is planned in future months while the camp ia m cupii I. Some of the tent-houses at the Smith-Hoffman and Wright camp The concrete stack in the hos have been taken down for ship-j Shown above are Mr«. Sena Patton, one of the women welding trainees, and Ralph Brendle. pital area has been carried up *o ment to the next j«* They knock in«trector. demonstrating the a«e of an ozvgen-acetslene automatic ratting machine. Thi« is a part its full height. Finishing work down flat and are loaded on rail-j of the training received at the Corvallis Welding school The first woman to complete training here remains. • ill leave foe the shipyards this week, while five other women are now in training. road cars. U. S. Senator Visits Camp Adair Tuesday .Independence Opens New Soldier Center