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Trust your cause.
Whatever is at
tempted is never
well done unless
the doer breathes
himself into his
deed. - S. Parkes
Cadman.
Camp Adair Sentry
Mounting Guard in and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
Vol. 1, No. 19_______________
Ft. Lewis Sends
Ball Team Here
Oregon All-Stars to
Meet Northern
Champs Sat., Sun.
Crack baseball talent, drawn
from all over Oregon, will be
matched against the nationally
famous Fort Lewis Warriors Sat
urday night, when the two teams
will meet in a benefit game at Al
bany.
The event will be a rip-roaring
jamboree, and the game itself will
be embellished with a band con
cert and snappy vaudeville acts.
The festivities will start promptly
at 8 o’clock on Central field.
LEWIS TEAM TO
PLAY IN SALEM
After their game in Albany
Saturday night, the Ft. Lewis
Warriors will meet the Portland
Air Base All-Stars in Salem Sun
day afternoon at George E. Wat
ers park.
Proceeds of this game will go
to the recreation funds of both
Ft. Lewis and Camp Adair, ac
cording to Capt. Frank Wimer,
Camp Adair athletic officer.
The exhibition will be staged
by Camp Adair through the
courtesy of the Salem ball club.
The Oregon team will include
leading players from the semi-pro
and amateur nines, with a sprin
kling of professional aces thrown
in for good measure, it is declared
by James W. Jenks, Albany, chair
man of tlie arrangements commit
tee. The proceeds from the event,
for which an admission of 50 cents
will be charged, will go to the mili
tary athletic fund. Tickets are now
on sale at all post exchanges at
Camp Adair.
The Oregon All-Stars will be
paced by a quartet of pitchers who
can throw everything in the book
at the invading northerners. Red
Miller, Eugene, with his deceptive
curves; Ray Heiser, Salem, who can
change his pace and delivery al
most in the middle of his throw,
and Leon Suman, master of con
trol, will be aided and abetted by
Henry Fox, from back in the hills
of Oakridge. Fox is reputed to
throw the hardest ball on the Pa
cific coast, and his occasional lack
of control is said to keep the bat
ters back so far from the plate that
only the tip of the bat is ever
used.
A sextet of heavy hitters will be
available for the Oregon outfield.
These include Joe Leptich. who also
can take the catcher position; Ken
ny Manning, hard-hitting ace from
Silverton; Bill Tate, Silverton;
Homer Parks. Hills Creek top hit
ter; Henry Fabian. Eugene swatter,
and Don Bubalo, Portland Fireman
star.
Reliable Bill Whitley. Silverton,
will hold down the first sack. Bill
Moye, Albany, will cover second and
John Dunn. Eugene, will take third
base Bill Hammel, one of the best
roving short-stops in the northwest,
will start at this position. Two
other star’, both of whom will see
action, are Bud Fortier, Albany,
and Zed Merrill, also of this city.
Dick Bishop, long hailed as the
•utstanding semi-pro catcher of the
coast, will receive.
From Fort Lewis will come an
aggregation that is reputed to be
able to hold its own with any team.
(Continued on page 4, column 1»
Camp Adair, Oregon. August 27,1942
BLAME UNCLE SAM
Lack of cuts in The Sentry
this week is laid to Uncle Sain.
The cartoon, Elmer, the Camp
Tramp, and others were mailed
in Salem Tuesday afternoon by
the Salem Engraving company,
and they’re lost.
The Sentry telephoned all over
the valley and every avenue was
investigated—but no cuts. It’s
the first miss for Elmer and we
had a dandy of the champion 4-
Builders softball team. Blaine
Uncle Sam’s mails.
Camp Theater
Opens Tonight
»$1.50 a Year by Mail
STEP UP. SOLDIER!
REPORTERS: The Sentry is
anxious to give more complete
coverage of every activity and
all units at Camp Adair. Men
who have had experience in news
writing, or would like to repre
sent their units, are asked to per-
sonally contact the Public Rela
tions Office located upstairs in
Bldg. T-7-502. The call is for
news, not feature writers. It is
requested that those who have
already submitted their names
for this work, do so again as the
reorganization of the Sentry
news staff necessitates addition
al instructions to those men. The
number of men needed is limited.
Program Will Feature
Abbot and Costello in
Bill With News, Shorts
The first of Camp Adair’s five
theaters opens this evening with
Abbott and Costello’s new picture,
“Pardon My Sarong" and March
of Time’s latest release, “Men of
the Fleet.” The first theater to
open is to be known as Number
Five and is located at Avenue “D”
and South Sth street with a seating
Non-Coms Get Reward capacity of 1038. Two shows will
In City League Play be shown nightly, the first starting
at 6 o’clock, the second starting
One of the local battalions now immediately after the first run.
Veteran Officer Has
has a complete softball outfit, Each house will have matinee
from suits to mitts. Presentation showings Saturday and Sunday
Long Military Record
was made in a ceremony Tuesday afternoons.
noon by H. C. (Sven) Johnson, co
Elevation to the rank of Briga
Capt. Frank Wimer, special ser
ordinator, and accepted by Major vice officer, announced that admis dier General of Colonel Herman F.
Parker, commander, for the bat sion will be 15 cents per person Kramer was announced in camp
talion. General James L. Bradley but that coupon books containing Friday. In a brief ceremony at
and Paul V. Kane with staff mem 10 theater tickets can be purchased 104th division headquarters, the
bers were present and the battalion at the box offices for $1.20. Each silver stars of rank were pinned
was in formation for the event.
theater wil lhave at least five on the new general by Major Gen
Sgt. Tommy Thompson and Cpl. different billings a week and unless eral Gilbert R. Cook, comanding
Sydney Simmons of the battalion double-features are scheduled, all the division, and Colonel W. T.
played the last part of the season showings will include news, comedy ¡Waltz, senior officer. General
I Kramer’s promotion dates from
with the U. S. Engineers team in and other selected shorts.
the Corvallis city league. Com
Theaters One, Two, Three and July 29, it was announced.
plete equipment of the engineers Four are being rushed to comple-
General Kramer, a graduate of
club was turned over to their out j tion but no opening date has been the University of Nebraska, was
fit for future use. The two non ' set. Four of the houses are of first commissioned as a lieutenant
coms front and centered during the 1038 capacity and one, located in in the Nebraska National guard in
presentation.
the station complement area, is 1916. A year later he was com
missioned in the regular army. His
In brief remarks Gen. Kane com somewhat smaller.
mended the players as good sports
Friday, August 28, Number Five raise in rank was steady, to captain
men and expressed satisfaction in is showing “This Above All,” with in December of 1917, major in
their mixing with distinction and Tyrone Power. Saturday brings 1929, lieutenant colonel in 1939,
neighborliness in such community the first double bill with “The Af and colonel in October of last year.
activity.
In 1937 Colonel Kramer was
fairs of Martha” and the Iaiurel-
The Camp Adair Recreation as Hardy “A Haunting We Will Go” sent to Berlin to study with the
sociation, also represented by Mr. as the companion picture. Gary German general staff academy. He
Johnson, presented the battalion Cooper in “The Pride of the Yan participated in troop and field ex
with a new radio for its recreation kees," the story of the life of Lou ercises with the German army un
Gehrig and easily one of the finest til the fall of 1939 and was then
hall.
pictures of year, will be held two assigned to duty with the military
SUN TANS — The army’s gift days, showing both Sunday and attache in Berlin for several
| months.
to dry cleaners.
Monday.
Baftalian Presented
With Ball Equipment
General H. F. Kramer
Gels New Star Friday
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Best Softball
Clubs to Play
State Tournament to
Begin Next Sunday in
Corvallis City Park
With 13 clubs to vie for *ho
championship, the state softball
tournament will be held in Cor
vallis next week. Beginning Sun
day at 1:30 o’clock, double headers
will be the regular program. Teams
to compete are those who have won
district championships throughout
the state in the regular city league
schedules.
Dr. E. G. Quesinberry, local dis
trict commissioner, will run the
tournament. He has chosen a large
group of Corvallis fans to assist
him in the various departments of
preparation and extra seating ca
pacity will accommodate visitors
and local fans.
Tickets for separate games will
be 30 cents. Dr. Quesinberry an
nounced, and season tickets, good
for all games, will be sold for
$1.10.
The schedule set-up of the tour
nament appears on uA<dh(T) pa Jal
of this paper Tea nJ ‘coUrpetiaM
and their districts are as follows/
District No. 1 — Portland, (in*-
jor city champion).
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District No. 2—Portland, (Sun-
ner-up to major champ).
District No. 3—Portland, (minor
A city ehampion).
District No. 4 — Astoria (Clat
sop, Columbia counties).
District No. 5 — Tillamook (Til
lamook. Washington, Yamhill).
District No. 6 — Oregon City
(Clackamas, Multnoman, exc. Port
land).
District No. 7—Salem or Wood
burn (Polk. Murion).
District No. 8—Albany (Lincoln,
Linn, Benton, exc. Corvallis),
District No. 9—Cottage Grove
or Eugene (Lane, Coos, Douglas).
District No. 10—Grants Pass or
Klamath Falls( Curry, Josephine,
Jackson, Klamath and Lake).
District No. 11 — Hood River
(Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Uma
tilla. Union, W’allowa, Baker, and
Morrow).
District No. 12 — Prineville or
Bend (Harney, Crook, Jefferson,
Wheeler, Grant, Deschutes, Mal
heur).
District No. 13—Corvallis (host
team).
Soldier Is Drowned
In Willamette River
Tech. 5th Grade Jack R. DeLay,
stationed at Camp Adair, was
drowned while swimming in tho
Willamette river Friday, it was
announced by the camp public re
lations officer.
Technician DeLay was 25 years
old and lived in Belen, N. M. He
is survived by his father and moth
er of that city. He was inducted
into the service at Albuquerque on
March 31, and promoted to Techni
cian 5th Grade last July.
More Promotions for
Enlisted Personnel
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Four DEML men and two from
the Finance section received pro
eivs aowt ••>•••■•
motions during the past week.
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From Pvt. to Pfc: Raymond C.
(.«»VII
Johnson, Edwin A. Brown. John J.
Cut courtesy Chandler Engraving, Albany. Gubelman and Robert Black. In
the Finance Section to Pfc; Felix A.
Remember when? Pvt. Lynch sketches development of entertainment in tamp Adair,
McAllister and Ja m»»» A. Malloy.
—old »tuff to the veterans of last July.