Camp Adair Sentry
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A w»<kl) ni>*«p»p«r F«bli»b»d lor th»
aiilitarv and ci*ili»n p*-r»onn»l of Cafnp
Adair, Or.mn
»nd drsillst«« Ire* Io
sfficors. «oldior* »nd ei»lll»n» by written
pi-rinteal'-n of the <*mp eommaodrr
Camp Adair Sentry*
September 17,1942
Page Two
of your share in the deatiny of
America! Think clearly and look
homewapd!
He Always Was a High-Flyer
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You will receive a neat, compact
course in journalism to better fit
you for your position.
Credit for the rapid growth and
expansion of the Sentry goes to its
publisher, Don Wilson of Corval
lis, as well as to the public rela
tions office which furnishes the
copy. Mr. Wilson has worked ef
ficiently, and has always shown
the utmost cooperation with the
camp officers.
It is our aim and our hope to (
make the Camp Adair Sentry the
best military newspaper in the
United States. With your help, en
couragement and cooperation we
feel sure that this can be achieved, j
Last week in thia paper, a soldier
OMMANDER’S
suggested the Southern Pacific
Publiahed by the C»mp Adair «entry,
OLU.MN
pobhaher Boa 347. Oorr»lll». Urea»"- track« lie used for soldier trans
k-w- matter pertaining to Camp Adair,
turniahed by the C.mp Public reUliene portation between Camp Adair and
SCU 1911
Office, ia »callable for xmrrai rrieaae
surrounding towns. It’s a good
Fditor anil lhanaxer
- ■ -Don C. " ilaon idea.
The Sentry had the same
J- O. Addreaa. B..a 347, Corenllia, Orrjon.
idea some time ago, and carried it
Phone Sd.S-M.
With this issue the Camp Adair
Sabarripno* by ■•il II W • year or *1 to Jim Ormondy, general passen
Sentry emerges as a full-fledged,
tor nix montili
ger agent of this section, whose
full-sized newspaper. For some
Aderrtieinc rito» upon requeat.
office is in Portland.
VridrrMi »11 romninnieationa to "Camp
time now all material from the
Ari.ir Benin Hui 317 '''’*.»111«, Or. "
On the face of it, it looks simple.
camp has been furnished by a staff
Track* lead to all the town* around
of men who in civil life were ex
News contributors to this Camp Adair. They are there and
perienced newspapermen.
must
be
maintained.
The
soldier
issue: Lt. George H. Godfrey,
—
Publication of a post newspaper
Public Relations officer; ('pl. E. suggests replacing electric power
INSPECTION — Time for a
is regarded as a highly important
which
used
to
be
used
between
Cor-
A. Brown, associate editor; Cpl.
function. First of all it furnishes captain to count the number of
R. L. Black. Cpl. Henry Beck vallis and Portland. Gasoline power
microscopic particles of dust per
a medium of information about a
Elmer. the camp tramp, has a lot to dream about since he
ett, Cpl. Raoul Mound, T/5 Ray should be available to the army
square inch on the barracks floor.
wide variety of events. It is the
got into this man's army. lie isn't settled yet, and who knows
mond C. Johnson, Pfc. John J. men. Army six-wheel-drive trucks
when he will he.
most efficient way to reach the
equipped
with
flange
wheels
could
Gubclman, Pfc. Bert Shandler,
most men with news about what is
I pull a lot of soldiers in trailers.
Pfc. J. M. Lewis.
But it’s not that simple. Jim in the least ashamed of it. Who would find that Joseph took an going on.
Through the camp newspaper
Ormandy dismissed it with a shrug, can deny the fact that we have Egyptian wife and had two sons.
ARMY CENSORSHIP
you not only learn about what is
saying that it involved Public Ser the best guards? Doe* not the
Christian Science Services
There are two basic reasons for vice commissions, commerce com most important branch of the army r
taking place in your own division,
Christian Science church services but what other men in other parts
military censorship. Contributing missions, the powerful Railway receive its impetus from our post t
why* and wherefores are myriad brotherhoods and too many obsta office clerks? Who does all the - will begin at Chapel No. 1. Il Av. of our military community are do
but all point in the same direction. cles, the existence of which The work at headquarters ? By the • North and 3rd St., on Sunday, Oct ing. You read the views of others,
To suppress “aid and comfort” to Sentry and John Public (not to way, did you ever hear of Captain i 4, and will be conducted by Grover which helps to form your own opin
Paul S. Rutledge who guides our • C. Ferguson, wartime minister, as ions.
the enemy and to fortify morale in mention soldiers) do not realise.
destinies to our complete satiafac- First Reader. He also will conduct
our own military and civilian peo
Transportation to town is a real
The newspaper is also a cheering I
midweek meetings.
tion?
ple, are these basic purposes.
problem hero — and elsewhere in
Hi* duties, as Minister Ferguson note in our routine. Its columns
Saturday a brilliant young M.P.
For the layman, totally untrained army camps. The person who can
■
himself
says, are to serve enlisted contain a good share of entertain
and entirely ignorant of the highly work it out will do a real war-time strolled into the Supply Office of
ing matter, live pictures and lively
Two-and-a-half million men
technical methods used in assem service, and he’ll earn compensa Hq. Co. and asked for some sky men nnd ministers who are Chris
cartoons. The new size will give use Schick Shavers—best proof
tian
Scientists
and
to
give
aid
and
bling data and arriving at conclu tion for his ambition in profit«. hooks. I asked him what kind he
the editors a greater opportunity that Schick is top choice among
wanted and he replied, "The kind spiritual guidance to any who ap
sions constituting “military infor too.
to “play up" these features as well dry shavers! Own a Schick and
peal
to
him,
needing
help
in
solving
they use to clear land.” I filled
mation,” to question military con-
be safe!
as news.
their
problems.
out an order for three sets, medium
Enjoy the new i ill prsv e <1
sorship, is absurd.
HERE’S ONE WAY —:
“The wartime minister,”
The real purpose of a camp news STANDARD SCHICK SHAVER,
sited, and told him to get it O.K.'d
Little things which apparently
It’s a mighty important business
adds, “is mindful of the fact
paper, however, is to build ami with more powerful motor, more
arc unimportant, when correlated
this of getting mail to and from by our first sergeant. Sergeant every kind deed done for
maintain military morale. In a uniform speed, longer life, $12.50
Atkins
wanted
to
know
what
ho
and classified with other little un our armed forces. It is the joint
(was $15).
soldier
helps
to
make
that
one
bet
way,
the paper is the common
important things, may reault In a responsibility of the U. 3. Post wanted so many for, and was told
COL. SCHICK SHAVER
ter
mentally
and
physically,
and
meeting ground for thousands of
complete picture of a highly im Office, War and Navy departments, that there Were quite a lot of
Or the new “COLONEL”
even as he drive« about camp he men, all interested primarily in one
stumps in front of the Provost
portant scene to a smart enemy, It is also yours and mine.
has many opportunities to pick up thing, to achieve victory in this SCHICK SHAVER, the greatest
Marshal's
office
that
had
to
be
chain
of
and may be links in a
in shaving! It has all the
The V-Mail service has by now
men and take them to a PX, a post way, but all doing their part in a luxury
Schick refinements plus six nr»
information which will lead to been well launched. This new serv removed. Back came the M.P to office, or elsewhere.”
different way. By following the I extra features, including high
enemy success.
ice reduces the weight and bulk of the supply office. Supply Sergeant
Mr. Ferguson, who is responsible
speed motor with forced draft
None of us wants to help the mail to and from our armed Keep asked him the usual ques to Post Chaplain Harmon nnd re paper, all of us will have a better, ventilation. Gives quick, dose,
clearer
idea
of
the
other
fellow
’
s
tions
and
finally
sent
him
on
his
comfortable
shaves. $18 Deluxe
enemy. We all want to fight him forces abroad, and thus makes
ports to his office daily on arriving
to the last ditch. But there an available precious space for the way. When last seen he was headed at camp, was appointed to his job. and we will find it easier to Ivory; $15 White Ivory Bakelite;
work as a team.
$12.60 Flyer, Maroon.
other ways of fighting than point transporting of vital military ma in the general direction of the Q.M. present position by the hoard of
Let u.s show you these
Every
man
on
this
|a>st
should
ing a gun nt him and squeezing terial. Moreover the new set-up mess hall still in quest of three directors of the Mother Church,
feel that the Sentry is HIS news Schick Shavers—today!
sets
of
sky
hooks,
medium
sized.
the trigger!
provides the most expeditious pos
the First Church of Christ, Scien
Are some of us so shallow-mind sible dispatch and handling of mail. (I wonder If you hang them on a tist, nt Boston, to serve the Cor paper. Its columns arc open to all
who have journalistic ambitions,
ed that the- gun method is the only
When fully established V-Mail skirmish line?)
vallis area. He began his duties at Even poets and artists will find
I
Pcf. Kenneth Struve. camp on Aug. 3. He lives at 3490
understandable one?
service will be available for trans
their contributions welcome. And
For the ordinary civilian — and mission of letters without enclos
Donald Way, Salem, Ore., and
there will lie a column for “letters
even ii smart civilian—to ridi ures to and from our arnn-ik forces.
through Chaplain Harmon may be I
to the editor" where you may regis.
cule military censorship is Just only, outside the Continental Uni-
reached day or night.
ter your complaints, or pay tribute
as silly as to tell Gen. MacArthur ted State«. This is a service ex-
J
During World War No. 1 Mr.
to some achievement of your fel
110 volt*, AC »nJ DC
how to conduct his campaign in the clusivi-ly for the bencflt of armed
Ferguson was n musician 1st class
low soldiers. Staff correspondents
soldiers abroad and will provide
Pacific islands.
at the Hampton Roads Naval
ALBRO & TEN BROOK
The unly thought in the minds the most satisfactory means for
Training Station. He played n for the various units on the post
Jewelers
of military censors is the ultimate the transmission of letters between
trumpet. He also was a bugler in are still needed, and if you wish to
Certified Watchmaker
write for the paper, get in touch
the Nebraska National Guard.
safety and success of our military fighting men and their parents,
313 W. 1st St. — Albany
Following the war he was super with the public .relations office.
establishment and its responsibili relatives and friends.
These V-Mail sheets have been
intendent of a grain elevator where
ties. If some military censorship
two brothers of Brigadier General
seems unreasonable mid even silly explained before, but to go over
H. F. Kramer, assistant command
to us, let us remember that it is it again briefly, they nri- a eom-
ing officer of the 104th Infantry
really we who are the unreasonable bination letter and envelope, Each
Division, were then employed. He
ami silly ones, la-cause military is a piece of stationery of stand
Camp
Ailair’s first
Sunday
censors know what they're doing, ard minimum weight, grade ami School was opened lust Sunday by was acquainted with General
grain, which Is so constructed as
Kramer when the general of today
and we don't.
to fold into a uniform and dis Chaplain Lloyd V. Harmon with a wa* R.O.T.C. captain at the Uni
• A Place to Meet
stem warning against the effect versity of Nebraska.
LOOK HOMEWARD, SOLDIER! tinctively marked envelope. The of life in barracks.
• A Place to Eat
One of the complexities in our sheet is so arranged as to allow
“We've got to blast those men
daily thinking is an attempt to the greatest space for the message. out of the barracks," cried the OFFICE OF HIE CH(PLAIN
Tuesday evening. September 15,
create for ourselves s picture of The message may be typewritten chaplain. “They were there, lying
41» Court St.
what the post-war world will look or written with dark Ink or pen on their bunks, even at the open at Post Chapel, newsreels followed
like Surely you and I have a share cil. The envelope side of the sheet ing of the Service club, when the by the showing of the religious
gives full instruction for use, the
film, “The Prodigal Son"
in that picture and it is our good
sheet is also constructed In such a camp's first dance was being held."
attendance.
fortune, in this American army, to
Barrack
life
can
be
degrading
way as tn be uniformly folded and
From time to time efforts will
I k - able to prepare in some small
and unwholesome. Chaplain Har
scaled.
be made to show this type of sound
measure for the part we may be
mon
went
on.
If
soldier*
pass
too
The V-Mail because of it* reduc
able to play in it. History has
film also musical programs with
tion In weight and site will be ac much of their time there. Barracks
Indicated to us that a war never corded the moat prompt and pre are for sleeping, he said, and clean choirs from nearby communities
end* with the armistice or the ferred dispatch possible to destin ing up, and only indolent, sluggish, participating.
peace treaty that follow*. Were it ation.
September 30, Rev. Waggoner of
apathetic men hang around in them
not for the “war of creation" that
Pallas,
Oregon, former missionary
during
hours
of
leisure.
To further expedite this V-Mail
followed the Revolutionary war. or destined overseas, or from over
The chaplain, who ha* the rank to Alaska, will give lecture and
the “war of reconstruction" that sea* home, where large volume* of captain, scarcely gets to his own show movie of Alaska.
followed the Civil war. who knows and great distance* are involved, quarters for a full night's sleep.
Al.F W. JORGENSON,
F COURSE the Armed Service* get Coca-Cola
that \meiica might never have a photographic micro-filming fa He lives in the camp and in two
1st Lt.. CH
just as they gel all the good things that are
progressed to the extent it ha* in cility I* used Here's an example months has not been out of it for
Asst. Camp Chaplain.
wanted and needed to do each job.
recent times. Therefore it is a of weight and space saving: A dis- a single night, although his duties
POST CH APEL SER\ ICES
'* V “’’'^Coca-Cola has that extra something to Jo
plausible solution thst we will have patch of 160 .(MM ordinary one-sheet take him to nearby towns as well
Sunday, September 20
the job of complete refreshment. It has a
another war to fight — here, at letter* will weigh 2.576 pounds and a* all over the post area
Avenue D and 3rd St. North
\ taste that's uniquely satisfying—a qual
home
when hostilities have require the use of 37 mail sacks
0800
(8:00
A
Ml
Catholic
Mass,
There was a disturbing element
ity that's unmistakable. And there’s
ceased and victory is ours!
In a dispatch of IAO i MM i V-Mail in the form of a corporal, at the
Conducted by Chaplain Tall>ot,
reason. Coca-Cola holds the orig-
1st us I k * frank for a moment. letter* the weight will he 1,500 first session of Sunday school. 0830 (0:30 A. Ml Church School
accret of unique refreshment
What are you doing to enable pound* and i-equirv only 22 mad Chaplain Harmon, who talked
Class.
. a finished art in its making
YOU to provide a path of security sacks, thus leaving the space of about Joseph and his brethren, re
Conducted by Chaplain Harmon.
. a blend of wholesome Havoc*
in the fields of insecurity which ¡6 mail sacks for vital military marked that the fine Old Testa 1000 (10:00 A. M.i Protestant Ser.
at can't be copied.
wars inevitably bring both to the material.
v ices.
ment character had resisted the
The
only thing like Coca-Cola is
V Mail forms may br obtained at wife of Potiphar. captain of the
conquered and the conqueror? Our
Conducted by Chaplain Jorgenson
another Coca-Cola ... delicious
greatest rconomic expert* arc all camp post offices. Your gov- guard for Pharaoh, when she tried
Sermon by Chaplain Harmon.
taste with no cloving after-tsate
working feverishly NOW to cope eminent is trying to help you to to seduce him Then Chaplain Har 1800 (7:00 P M.) Evening Worship
refreshment in the fine»« form.
with the problem« of America in help make thing* better for your mon suggested that it was religious
tProtestant I
•
•
•
the post-war world What are you buddies oversea* Cooperate.
Chaplain Jorgenson
faith which kept Joaeph straight
It"« natural for popular n«mr« to acquit«
doing to solve YOUR OWN prob
Chaplain
Harmon
at that time, and turned to a cor
friendly abhreviatitma. I hat’« why vwt hear
NEW BI.OOD HELPS
lem ? lie not rocked in a senae of
HOSPIT 31 \RF \
poral in the class ami asked if he
Cucu-CoU culled Cehe- C. xb A o U and C«à«
A new contributor to The Sentry didn't think so.
mean the aame thing ... tKr real thing .. . “a
false security; don't I k - the hsppy-
0830 ( 8:30 A. M > ('Mtholic Mns
•ingle thing coming from a «ingle fc’un.r. and
•go lucky chap who believes that this work is Pfc 1 M U-wi*. st
it happen* that this particular 1000 (10:O0 A M i Projetant S r-
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everything "take» care of itself in present in the tent area. I’vt twwi* corporal wa* the plague of the
vices.
»end*
along
a
little
do|w
on
several
time*'; don't *ay that the a orbi
Chaplain Bartell.
Sunday School as a boy, tiemg
of hi* buddies there, and its' ac given to teasing the teachers with
A ■ ’
owe* you a living!
tion erntrn,
Wo, in the armed force* of ceptable. The Sentry need* more uncomfortable questmns, especial
••• hi»w haprily
[fl
ASK FOR
FOR—
ice-cold Coca-Cola
America, have a glorious oppor- of thia kind of personal »tuff. Hi* ly the spinster teachers This time
“cut* in“ to make
'
interraiMuwi'' a re*
contribution
I*
in
another
column
tunity that no uther country in
he was m his old form Speaking
fveahtn* moment
the world can claim the oppor-
of Joseph, he »awl:
[hm« |< lUAkr. lor
lututy of the soldier to prepare for To ths- Editor
“Don't you think he might have
Week after week I read in this
the future, his future! Our govern-
been under-sexed? To tell the
HI TTER and
aunt ha* set up an elaborate sys paper how wutuh-rful the M.P.'» truth, sir, his behavior on that
ICE CREAM
tom whereby the man in uniform are Of co«roe they write it them, •evasion is the only thing I've ever
(Biggest Variety
can make a voluntary pay reserva selves l-ut still we have to read it. had against Joseph Seems to me
id Froten Barai
tion which put* money la safe They tell Us what excellent »«am he wa* a bit unchivalrvu*
Distrib
keeping for him for the duration ple* of good housekeeping their
The chaplain appeared wilting to
of me war In helping yourself, barracks are They tell o« how fine drop th« subject, but the corporal
utor» fol
you are rendering a dual service their ground* are and how high relished it ami went too far
T»r Acif
“Perbap» Potiphar'* wife wa* not
—to yourself ami to your country their I Q is. They even tell u*
h
ho«
many
hash
mark.*
that
man
The government 1$ the people! If
attractive.*' he said. Anyhow, why
lift Sttter Suy!
you believe that and trust in its has who can quote verbatim our did Joaeph never marry?**
field
manual
(didn
’
t
I
read
some-
There wa« a gleam of triumph in
significance, you cannot fail to
saTHos.Ti o* nw cots cois ccmeaMv »v
j*4*ea)e yourself on ilia- War ------
Bond where that thia gentleman »»the the i liaplain'» rye lie told the cor
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Corvallis
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SCHICK
SHAVERS
CHAPLAIN'S
COLUMN
Salem's Only Sandwich Shop
...You can
spot it every ttnte
@reen Valley
Green Valley
Creamery
pigeon — that soldiers in that de.
partment get promotions, too.
It seems that several weeks ago
Pvts. Adolph Bangl and Constan
tine Von Schaler were made cor
porals and Alma Nielson was pro
moted to Pfc. It might be added,
though needlessly of course, that
these men are assigned, not sen
tenced.
This Good News Didn't
Travel So (w.k.) Fast
Probably because our reporters
nawrally fizht shy of voluntarily
visiting such an awesome sounding
place as the Police and Prison sec
tion, The Sentry didn’t learn until
this week — and then by carrier
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