OREGON STATT LIBRARY
AUG 1 1ÌA42
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
Vol. 1, No. 17.
Camp Talent Is
In Albany Show
Varied Program Well
Received; Is Benefit
For Athletic Fund
Mounting Guard in and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
Paints Placard
U.S. GUARDS
' rcauííííalwj <y’
By H.B.
Some 1,200 people crowded into
the high school at Albany last
Monday night, paying 50 cents a
head to attend a show by Camp
This cut was made from a
Adair talent. The money goes to
placard designed by U. S. Guard
buy athletic equipment for camp Runion with the Camp Adair Force.
use.
The original is 18 by 24 inch«* and
The talent was rounded up by was done in color. Runion did two
Leonard Green, who ran dance of them. One hangs in the Guard
studios in and around New York house and the other in the identifi­
City before entering the service, cation office at the west gate.
and who is now a kind of Renerai
camp impressario.
With Angelo Calabrese as the
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effervescent, brazen master of
ceremonies, the program ranged
from high-brow to low-brow and
it’s up to the reader to say which
Informal Program at
was which. The audience applauded
everything and everybody, laughed
Women's Club Today
heartily at the gag about the se­
lectee who said, “What chart?” I ! In order to create a social feel-
when asked to read the fifth line ing of “at home” in Corvallis, the
down on the chart, and was so wive« of the army officers now
all-fired enthusiastic that the mor­ stationed at Camp Adair, are be­
ale of the soldier talent improved ing entertained at a tea and recep­
tion this afternoon, from 3 to 5
as the show progressed.
Music, the poet said, hath o'clock in the Corvallis Woman’s
charms to soothe the savage breast, club. Seventh street, by the club
so maybe it’s natural that five members. An informal progRlm
medics were in the show, mostly and entertainment features to pro­
musical, as against one DEML sec­ mote acquaintance, have been
planned by the various committees
tion soldier, one MP and no KP.
In that enchanting voice of his, in charge.
New army women located in the
John Walsh, opera singer and
Rochester School of Music product, city are now believed to numtier
gave them a Handel aria, part of I w.ell over 150 and all effort is
Iago’s role in Verdi's “Otello,” “Old being made to contact as many of
Man River,” and a bit from “The these as possible. Only those who
Vagabond King.” He closed with have not been located yet have been
the national anthem. The perform­ omitted in the invitations and a
ance of Walsh was an effort for special invitation for them to at­
him because he had just learned tend is being extended hy the club
of the death of a woman in Vi­ members.
Tn charge of the affair is Mrs.
enna. a friend of his family. She
was partly Jewish and he thinks Burdette Glenn, general chairman,
she died of slow starvation. Her and her committee includes Mrs.
son is a corporal in the United I A. M. Sheets, who, with the aid of
Mrs. Henry Garnjobst, directed in­
States army.
Four colored soldiers. Pomp Bui. vitations; Mrs. C. A. Ingle and
len, R. C. Crosby, R. C. Moore and Mrs. Edgar Edmonds, in charge of
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Charles Smith, making the Aeolian Í greeting and welcoming. In the
quartette, sang choice spirituals receiving line will be Mrs. John
and grew better as they sang. H. Gallagher, club president, Mrs.
These four will become an institu­ J. L. Gault, Mrs. W. M. Atwood.
tion. if they train. They were in­ Mrs. George Y. Martin, Mrs. Carl
troduced by Sergeant Boutte, him­ Sutton, Mrs. K. L. McIntosh. Mrs.
J. F. Brumbaugh. Mrs. G. R. Hys-
self quite a gag man.
James Martinband, medievalist, lop and Mrs. A. L. Keeney.
Presiding over the tea table will
musicologist, pill-roller and what­
i be Mrs. Howard Pratt, Mrs. Laura
not, sang his exquisite. "1 Heard
Three Birds,” and played ’•Mary- Olson and Mrs. A. R. Woodcock,
Had a Little Lamb,” with imagin­ and Mrs. V. L. Goodnight is in
ary variations by Mozart. Beetho­ charge of decorations. Assisting
ven. Chopin. Wagner. Schubert, with the serving are Jane Keeney,
Marjorie Maris, Nancy Teutsch,
Grieg and Gershwin.
Nick Sansonia was, as usual, all Betty Donaldson, Shirley Garman,
over the place, tickling the ivories, Agnes Hoemer, Ann Bosworth,
squeezing the accordion, manhand­ June Ronne and Margaret Glenn.
Corvallis Tea for
Wives of Officers
ling the mike, imitating sacred
cows.
Two other colored soldiers,
Charles Miles, tap dancer, and Ru-
fua Johnson, jive trumpeter, made
hit«, and there were really thrill­
ing banjo numbers by that MP,
Andy Dahl.
Henry S«'hafer contributed some
amusing chatter.
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Camp Adair, Oregon, August 13, 1942.
Softball Teams Point
To State Tournament
The winner in the Corvallis city
softball league in the play-offs in
progress this week, will be faced
with a district play-off, prnbahly
next week, when they will meet the
be«t trama from Albany and Leba­
non.
Thera is only the district play­
GOLD BRICK — An individual
who w so low as to pretend he’s off
—. —
between ...
the Corvallis winner
sick to get out of work and sac-¡and the state tournament, usually
coeds at it — the lucky stiff
played early m September.
?1.50 a Year by Mail
This Soldier Picks
Good Hideout in Any
Other Circumstance
Adair Hostess
Is Here on Job
A wtekly journal
devoted to the
W'llamette Val­
ley’s share in
Uncle S a m ’s
great war effort.
Military Police
Fit Into Duties
For obvious reasons the hero (or
villain) in this vignette will be
Margaret Blodgett Is nameless. But it actually happened
Lt. Hale in Command
in Camp Adair yesterday.
To Be Head of Camp
Of
New Organization
The guard list was being called
Soldier Social Life
in one of the company streets. One
Is Old-Timer in Army
I private could not be located. His
There’s one personality. with name was called far and wide with­
By Pvt. Raoul Mound
headquarters at Camp Adair, that out result. A substitute was pro­
cured
and
the
guard
marched
to
the
Well,
boy, here we are. Pretty
you- really ought to meet because
guard
house.
well
organ
ized and as the weeks
from this time she’ll be playing an
There on the first bunk was the ( roll be we are becoming the outfit
important part in making the sol­
diers’ leisure hours as enjoyable missing guard. He had sneaked in|we should be.
We of the Military Police of
as possible .... A job you say ? for a quiet nap, away from the
Camp
Adair Service Command,
hustle
and
bustle
of
non-com
whistle
Remember how much trouble you
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salute our commanding officer. 2nd
had getting one of those little love­ blowing.
Lt. Julius Hale, Inf. Lt. Hale came
lies to swing around with you at
up from the ranks with 30-odd
one of the local dansants the other I
years of army service. He has a
night? Well, how would you like
tough assignment on his hands but
the chore of rounding up, say
has the experience and qualifica­
about 250 of the same for one of
tions to make our M P. detachment
the EM’s dances soon to be sched­
a crack outfit
uled for release in one of the Camp
In thia. Lt. Hale is ably assisted
Adair service clubs?
Top Kick Bridegroom by Master Sergeant Gillis Murra­
That’s just a minor part of the
in Military Ceremony more, of DEMI., but attached tem-
duties assigned to Mrs. Margaret
_______ I porarily to the M.P.’s Sgt. Narra-
Crossett Blodgett, principal host­
more, by the way of report, is one
ess for the post. Hostess Blodgett,
Miss Miriam Malcor, formerly of of the few men in service who can
whose home is in Seattle, is ideally
suited, both in temperament and ■ Manhattan Beach. California, be- quote verhatum the Soldiers’ Hand­
jcame the bride of First Sgt. George book, No. FM 21-100. (Ask him to
experience to head this important
work having been in public rela­ Evans Saturday afternoon at 2 if you don't believe it.) The master
tions work and social “charge o’clock in the first wedding to be sergeant has seen some 26 year«
d’affaires” for several national or. solemnized in a regimental chapel of service and is a soldier from
ganizations during the past 15 at Camp Adair. Chaplain C. O. his now greying hair to the toca
I Churchill officiated at the cere­ of hia shoes.
years.
Now tn promotions: Sgt. Joseph
Since taking the oath of office mony.
The hride, a former instructor in H. Omning ia our new staff ser-
pn July 15, Hostess Blodgett has
the Manhattan Beach schoofc, wore geant. * Cpl. '"Budd E. Howard ia
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-ganiza-
tiow of t
which will in-,a corR*l^‘
white gardenias and , now supply sergeant. Seven other
elude another principal hostess. ■W,R
Mr"- E<Hth M ¡corporals have been raised to scr-
serving as } , grants.
four junior hostesses and two li-j I Pelly
Prl'y of Corvallis, servmg
geants. They arc
are William H.
brarians to be appointed by Colonel 1 matron-of-honor. To Lt. Colonel S p r i n g e r, Joseph campagnone.
| List, the bridegrooms commanding Charles U. Paxton. Robert Portal,
McCoy, post commander.
Ball. Frank L. Ixtpez
The principal hostesses, with the officer, went the honor of giving j Howard E. Ball,
and Jack S. Vinson. Sidney Frankel
aid of their assistants, will be re­ the bride in marriage.
The bridegroom, whose home is is now Tech. 4th grade. Five new
sponsible for all dances, entertain­
ments and other social affairs held in Valley Center, California, was i corporals are Clinton L. Franklin,
on the post and will also be the attended by Corpora) Philip Lash James B. Porter. Hugh McKinley,
contact for all civic groups or in­ with Sgt. Larry Reutenaurer act­ Ogden S Beatles and Harold G.
Morell. John Katzenmeyer is the
dividuals planning entertainment ing as usher.
for enlisted men either on or off
<„. | Sgt. and Mrs. Evans will make new mess sergeant.
.their home in Corvallis.
the limits of Camp Adair.
Mrs. Ira Allison of Corvallis pro­
Both Salem and Albany are pro­
For the number of men at Camp
vided
gladioli,
butterfly
bush,
roses
viding
free swimming for soldiers.
Adair it’s going to be a big under­
taking but you can rest assured, and other flowers for the occasion There is one pool in Albany avail­
men, that the job is in capable and comredes of Sgt. Evans saw to able and three in Salem. Towel
chapel
was and suit are needed.
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hands. As Hostess Blodgett told it that the regimental
a
lieautiful
and
appropriate
setting
| Information may be had at the
your Sentry reporter, “There's go­
soldier centers in either town.
ing to be entertainment of all kinds, for the ceremony.
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for every soldier stationed at Camp
Adair."
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Firs! Camp Marriage
Solemnized Saturday
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Oreaon State Alumni
Asked to Eat and Gab
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All former Oregon State men
who are stationed at Camp Adair
are invited to attend a meeting of
the 30-Staters Club August 18 at
6:30 o'clock in the evening at
Wagner’s restaurant in Corvallis.
Dinner and a program to follow
will be free to soldiers and officers.
If you plan to come, you are asked
to telephone Harald Johnson at
Nolan's store to check on the meet­
ing place.
Camp Softball Team
Winner From Lebanon
Registering a 16 to 9 victory over
a Ix-banon team. Camp Adair soft-
bailer* played in Albany Tuesday
night. Private Garrity »a* the bit­
ting ace for the soldier«, JuMiek-
ing out a homer with tww tin. sr-
Ray Atkins and Joe Oneing wen-
on the mound for the -oMjene
Another softball pants between
two camp teams » aArduled to i*
played in Albany Friday night
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WAR DEPARTMENT
CAMP ADAIR. OREGON
Camp Headquarters
Augurt 10. 1942
Mr. Don C. Wilson,
641 Tyler Street,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Dear Mr. Wilson:
I have been very favorably impressed by your paper,
the Camp Adair Sentry, which you have been publishing
ing for the workers building this camp. It is my belief
that such a publication would be of material aid in
maintaining morale and in the rapid dissemination of
Camp Adair news.
With these thoughts ip mind and upon a strong
recommendation from Col. R. E. M. De« Islets, I am
requesting you to publish the Camp Adair, Sentry as
the weekly newspaper of Camp Adair.
It will be necessary that you conform to the regula­
tions governing this type of publication and follow
strictly the policies of the War Department regarding
cenaorship. This will necessitate complete cooperation ■
with the Post L’ublic Relations Section.
Sincerely,
(Signed) GORDON H. McCOY,
Colonel, F. A.
Commanding.