Camp Adair Sentry
August 27,1942
Buck Philanthropist
Would Assist Student
With mother's permission. Bill
hied up into the home attic where
piles of old magazines were
stacked. He took them out. cleaned
them, spent hours sorting them and
arranging them according to date
and tied them into neat bundles.
Savings Divided for
were several files of the
Two Oregon Colleges There
popular magazines without a miss.
Especially proud was Bill of a
Private Frank D. Coenders of Saturday Evening Post file con­
..........„ the whole story of the life
Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri is the taining
sort of soldier that makes the rest of Will Rogers, a favorite of Bill’s
of us feel a little uncomfortable_ as °f everybody else,
hut perhaps that’s because he real-1 Dad furnished the transporta-
ly knows how important this war tion and Bill delivered his “Bun­
is and how ruthless and savage the dle« for Buddies” at the east gate.
enemy we face.
The Red Cross did the rest. There
It’s this way—read it and think. were several hundred of the maga­
Late in July President Gilfillan zines, all in order and all in good
of Oregon State college received a shape for ill and convalescent read­
letter from Private Coenders which ers.
stated simply that the college
Bill did a good job. He’s a good
would receive every month a re­ American and did what he could
ceipt for the sum of $7.50 which toward the war effort. Are the rest
he was putting aside for the pur­ of us doing as much?
chase of war bonds. These bonds
were to be turned over to the col­ If You Don't Believe
lege. President Gilfillan replied
with thanks and asked how come. There's One Left in
Coenders replied.’
The World, Read This
The soldier, it seemed, was a
native of Nymegen, Gelderland
Captain Rutledge looked up from
province of Holland, where he was his desk and returned the military
the eldest of 12 children. He left salute of the private. Then some­
home from Rotterdam in 1914 “be­ thing like the following took place:
cause there were too many mouths
“Sir,” said the private, “I’m
to feed” and has lived in Marsh­ from the M.P.’s. I was sent over
field for 22 years. When the Ger­ to DEML for some skirmish
mans invaded Holland in 1940 and ; and a squad measure.”
brutally burned Rotterdam to the
Captain Rutledge blinked,
ground, by way of testing the pos- , somehow managed to keep his face
sibilities of air offensive against straight. “You'll have to talk to
a modern city, both of Coender’s the supply sergeant,” he said, The
parents and a number of his private saluted, about faced, and
brothers and sisters were killed. I marched out. In 10 minutes he was
Hitler’s Luftwaffe was a big suc­ back. Again the salute:
cess.
“Sir,” the supply sergeant was
While Coenders lived at Marsh­
out, but the man in charge told me
field he came in contact with many
to fill out a special form for skir­
students of both O.S.C. and U. of
mish line if I wanted it in red."
O. While his own education had
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captain,
been limited, he said, he had be-
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“that does take a special form, but
come a firm believer in education. I
i the squad measure is G.I. You
He wanted to help America today
can get that with a regular form,
and education later—thus 15 per
j “But I haven't got any forms at
cent of his monthly pay goes to
all. sir, and the sergeant told me
O.S.C. and 15 to U of O. in the
to hurry.”
form of war bonds—$15 per month :
in all.
I “Sorry,” said the captain, “but
As to the use of the fund Coen-1 you’ll have to find some proper
forms. Might try the quartermas-
ders wrote,
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| “Thank you, sir, replied the pn-
anything you see fit ... I don’t
I vate. “I’ll do that.”
know how many (bonds) it will be,
| Again the salute and the about
but it will be as long as the war
i face. He isn’t back yet.
is on.
“As for my own education, it
came mostly from wandering "Wings for the Eagle
around the world,” Coenders wrote. Current Albany Show
"I have visited Belgium, France,
Germany, Sweden. Norway. Rus­
A timely film, crammed with
sia, Finland. Spain. France, Ar­ action, romance and ezictement,
gentina, Brazil, Peru, Panama, will open at the Venetian theater
Australia, Japan, China. India. 1 in Albany today when Warner
Dutch East Indies. Hawaii, New Bros.' “Wings for the Eagle"
/-• aland, the African continent and makes it local debut. The picture
many others ... I can speak Span- i features Ann Sheridan and Dennis
' h, German, Dutch, Flemish and , Morgan in the top roles with an
English, which will come in handy ,impressive supporting cast made
"hen I go across." Coenders needn’t 1 up of Jack Carson, George Tobias
worry about his education. He’s and Russell Arms, The realistic
just about got the equivalent of a setting is the huge Lockheed Air-
Ph.D. right there.
craft plant where the constant
Weil—there’s the facts of the fight against time surpasses all
story. A lot more to that story than personal conflict.
facts, though—but well let you
Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan
fill in the rest.
and Jack Carson are all workers
A WAR BOND GIVES YOU A at the Lockheed plant who con-
NEST-EGG AFTER THE DURA- stantly are at odds aiqong them­
TION—WHIPS THE AXIS RATS selves until Pearl Harbor puts their
NOW.
own problems into the background.
Lloyd Bacon, who has directed
Bill Driver, 14, Has
many a hit Film, comes acrdhs with
another in "Wings for the Eagle."
Record of Good Job
Thought Up and Done
Camp Office Manager
Bill Driver. 14, son of Mr. and Dies in Hotel Room
Mrs. Wiley Driver of Independence,
Edward Yager, 44. office man­
has a record at Camp Adair,
Bill buys saving stamps and ager for the Parker-Schram con­
Jocks forward to the time when he struction company with 4-Ruilders
can be in uniform, like all other at Camp Adair, died suddenly in his
kids his age. but unlike most oth­ room in a Corvalli« hotel Tuesday.
ers, Bill decided to do something He had not been well for some
about it now. He had heard that months, but had continued his
there was little reading material duties with the company,
available in the huapital. newly | Funeral service« will be held in
opened, sb he saw a job he could Portland, it was announced Tue.-
do.
[day evening.
Page Five
Old-Time Sergeants
Sport Shoulder Bars
Announcement has been made of
the promtion of two sergeants to
commissioned officers in the Mili­
tary Police section.
M Sgt. Alex J. Juniewicz, in­
fantry, of Waukeegan, Ill., was
commissioned a captain, and 1st
Sgt. Leo T. Davis, also of the
1 infantry, a second lieutenant. The
new officers will leave shortly for
Fort Oglethorp, Ga., for training.
Sgt. Juniewicz enlisted as a pri­
vate in 1918 and has held all of the
non-commissioned grades in order.
He served two and one-half years
with the army of occupation in
Germany.
Sgt Davis Is from Lewiston,
Maine, and has been in the service
since 1923. He was with the Fifth
infantry for 18 years, spent two
years with the Sixth infantry.
Prior to coming to Camp Adair, he
was stationed in Panama.
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