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Camp Adair Sentry PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY An Independent weekly newspaper pub Htbed for the laboring and military per • <nnel of Camp ^dair, Oregon, and ita ■ rrounding interests by the Camp Adair 6*nlry at Corvallis, Oregon. «Editor and Manager____ »... Don C. Wilson & O. Address, Box 34T, Corvallis, Oregon. Phone BÁ5-M The Camp Adair Sentry is circulated free at Camp Adair and is available to every workman employed there daring • instruction, by permission of Lt. Col. p. E M Dea Islets, U.S.A., area con itruction engineer. News from the camp areg undergoes censorship prescribed by area headquarters and is available for r»print. Subscription by mai) 91.50 a year or Bl for six months. Advertising rates upon request. Address all commiiniestion* tn "Camp Midair Hentry, Corvallis, Oregon.” FILLS A GAP When Camp Adair was first an nounced for this location, stories were rife of the devastation of communities where cantonments had been built. Most of the reports here came from California camp centers. There were a few from other sections. It was told about this peaceful valley that we were due for an awakening and that it would be rude. Wild stories about the depreda tions of low-life workers who built the camps were bandied about free ly. Then the soldiers came, and they completed the wrecks. All the crimes in the book were to he expected, according to the stories, and to cope with the lawlessness was next to impossible. Intensive studies of camp areas already in operation were made. Delegations took trips to (rather facts and men of experience from operating camp areas were invited here to tell us what to expect and help us meet the deluge. We were warned that we could hot realize the situation we were developing. To date, the cry of “wolf, wolf,” has proved to be only a mental hazard. Towns in the Camp Adair area have prospered from the ad vent of the big new payroll and jails have been the only empty living quarters in the communities. The workers have shown them selves to be just like our own people. There have been some few problems, but they have been solved. And now the soldiers come We will get more, of course, but if the ones here now are like the others to come, communities are prepared to welcome them for the gentlemen thy are. • ••••• There may be a reason for our good fortune here. There may be several reasons. That the experi ence in the Camp Adair area has been different from others is grati fying, to say the least, and The Sentry salutes the communities for their preparation and foresight. Of what did this consist? Organization of a group known as the Four County Cantonment Camp Adair Sentry Augustß, 1942. Page Two Council was the basis upon which months — participated actively in ' there is an allowance for artistic was built the good relations be the drive to make every citizen a imagination or poetic lleensr or i what you want to call. To make tween the strangers here and the shareholder in the United States I writing vivid and of interest one homefolk. This group consists of government. When the transition to olive drab | must be given leeway in the use of Marion, Polk, Benton and Linn counties and the larger communi and drill fields took place, the new colorful expressions for better ties within those counties. Mem army had other things to think character portrayal. Anybody can say, “A man came bers of the council are the county about. They reasoned, and with judges of the counties and the justification, that the buying of into the room.” But to present a bonds and the financing of the war strong picture of a writer s re mayors of the cities. The set-up has been appreciated, was up to those who remained at action to a person, it is necessary to say that a “huge” or a “fat both by the army and by civilians. home. Now comes announcement that or a “scrawny” man came "stag Whether or not the work of Mr. Johnson’s office is entitled to all soldiers are being asked to buy gering” or "plunging“ or “stumb- the credit for the fine relations bonds out of their army pay — a , ling” into the room. Thus H. B. existing may be a question, but salary that in most instances seems in his picture of me. There Is no need of a defense both sides of the fence concede far below the one garnered in civil that it has been, in a large mea ian life. “Why?” asks the soldier. for H. B. in his portrayal of Zack “Why should I give the govern presented in a recent issue of the sure, responsible. Ail manner of problems have ment back the few dollars it gives Sentry. Only I want to say public me? I’ve given up my daily way ly that the job was well and sin passed through Mr. Johnson’s of of living, my family and my home. cerely done and that I enjoyed it. fice with resulting accomplish Uncle Sam is asking a little too ments that are desirable. A better reason for writing is much. Phooey.” that 1 might be permitted to give “The office was set up for six Outwardly it would seem that my reactions to H. B. The first months. The six months are almost the soldier is justified in his “beef.” time that this writer saw him was up. Certainly he is doing his share during “chow" one night. Henry If there is any serious question and more in this fight. was doing kitchen police, and I had as to the necessity and desirability But, let’s look at the record, as of keeping this office doing its Al Smith says. Are the soldiers approached a water ban-el to clean stuff, that question arises from making an additional sacrifice in my mess kit, when 1 saw a rather ignorance as to the work of the buying War Bonds and Stamps ! A skinny old gent “stoking the fur nace.” I wondered how this old- office. careful analysis of the situation In setting up his organization shows something else again. It is timer had landed in the army (he's here as commandant of the camp, never foolish to save money. It’s 63) and was doing “K.P.” at that. We got to talking and the most Col. Gordon H. McCoy has had pretty difficult but it’s not foolish. invaluable assistance from Mr. And no one can gainsay that a startling fact that came out of Johnson, according to his own fistfull of War Savings bonds isn’t that chat was that Henry actually enjoyed being on “K.P.” Later on statement to The Sentry. Almost a savings. as I came to know him better. I every day the camp commander The War Department tells us I consults with the coordinator on that the buying of bonds by sol learned why he felt that way. subjects concerned with the rela diers must be voluntary—a desire H. B., the old-timer, had the tionship of the camp and its per on his part to invest and save right spirit. He was in this man’s sonnel, to the civilian communities money. The War Department is army to give everything he had. and their personnel. These frank insistant that this policy be carried If there was a job to be done, no and open discussions nip many out by officers in charge of the matter how hard it was, he wanted prospective problems in the bud selling program. This should help it. If he could get-into a combat through informed decisions. Col. a lot in the case of those who auto outfit (at 53!) he would be tickled. McCoy continues the confidence in matically resent being told what Meanwhile, whether it was latrine Mr. Johnson’s advice and judg they must do with their own money. orderly, kitchen police, taking down ment with which Col. R. E. M. Des In other words, buying War tents, drilling, or any other kind Islets, area engineer, solved many Bonds is not an “army must” in of work, H. B. wanted to be on community problems during the any sense, but a pretty smart way the detail. construction of the camp. That’s the way H. B.. the old- for the soldier to set aside a few In the humble opinion of The dollars every pay day. This war timer, does everything. He may Sentry, the office of the coordinat is coming to a close one of these punch hard but he punches clean. or should be continued for the days, not tomorrow surely, and Let's all work the same way and duration and Mr. Johnson should maybe not for some time. But it it won’t be such a long war. be maintained in that office. Upon will come to an end and when it Sincerely yours. a basis of past and present experi does a few dollars in U. S. bonds Pvt. Lavon Zakarian, ence, the office can be of more will come in pretty handy. DE ML Section, value than ever now with the Camp Adair, Oregon. Leaving out, if you will, any population of the camp about to patriotic motive, the purchase of mount. The value will be in direct War Savings bonds by soldiers and FORT — I. A reservation for proportion to the added numliers of civilians alike is sound business free soldiers where they can do soldiers. anything they want except leave, judgment. The office should continue fb be which is the only thing they want to do. financed as it is, from public funds, “HANGOVER” except that the budget should prob Here I lie upon the bed ably be increased. And now is the Throat so sore and throbbing head time to make this decision. Bloodshot eyes and l>ody sore— Here’s to Sven Johnson, co The morning after the night before. ordinator. Long may be wave. TOUGH—HI T GOOD By E.A.H. Almost every soldier had ex perience and contact with the pur chase of War Savings bonds in civilian life. The majority of those regularly employed — and who wasn’t during those last hectic HE LIKES THE LOOKS OF IT Haaee. the carni» traap h bragging. He let» the soldier do that for hi«. And the «ecgrant rea lb means it! FLORSHEIM SHOES DESIGNED and BUILT EXPRESSLY FOR MILITARY WEAR They were made at the request of thousands of regular Florsheim wear ers now in uniform . . . who helped with their advice. These shoes meet all Service specifications ... straight inside lines; re inforced arch; ample toe room; extended heel; oil- treated sole. The maintained Quality of Florsheim materials an dworkmanship guar antees better fit ... extra comfort .... and longer wear. $11.00 FREEMAN MILITARY OXFORDS NOLAN'S 3rd and MADISON CORVALLIS Can't eat a thing, got no pep— Lost my money, lost my rep: Can’t get up. I feel so bad. Boy! What a wonderful time I had. Never felt so bad before. Even my darn old tongue is sore. W hen I sneeze I still taste gin. Gosh! What a party it must have been. Can’t remember where I went. Don’t know where the time was spent. But what a time it must have been- Look what a helluva shape I’m in. —Pvt. D W K.—CASCV To the Editor: Many of us coming into the army from civilian life look forward to a new way of living, *4 our first impulse is to forget our old jobs and try to orient ourselves to the strange life that >s the army. When H. B. wrote his reactions to nie. I read it with interest because I have been reading most of H B.'i stuff, and it was about me. I know and understand a writer's problems So it seemed strange to me that my friends thought that H. B. had been laying it on rather thick. Now I know that there is no more kind-hearted man in the army than H B. In writing a character sketch. $25.00 up. Corvallis, Or*.