Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944, September 24, 1942, Page 4, Image 4

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Camp Adair SeutrV
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Service Clubs Scene
Of Dances Friday Nite
Congratulates Commanding Officerof 104th Division
Infantry Orchestra Is
Here From Salem Hqrs.
Men Suffer Burns in
Oil Barrel Explosion
Burned Soldiers Help
Each Other Douse Fire
By Adele Adair
The social whirlpool eddied
around the two service clubs last
Friday night far the second time
in. the regular series of enlisted
I
men’s dances.
Music for the soiree at Club 2
was furnished by a Field
Artillery orchestra, playing its sec­
ond consecutive dance, and was
pleasant to listen and dance to with
Its diversified repertoire ranging
from rhumbas to Viennese waltzes.
Fir boughs were used throughout
the clubs for decoration.
PFC Nick Sansonia, man of vo­
cal and piano chords, entertained
during intermission with the ever-
popular ballads "I Surrender, Dear"
and "Embraceable You." Pvt. Rich­
ard Iskovitz entertained at the
ivories and was well-received with
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his boogie-woogie treatment of
Borne of the new and old tunes.
Chaplain Alf W. Jorgensen and
Maj. Gen. G. It. Cook, (second from left) 101th Division commander, is congratulated by Maj. Gen.
Mrs. Jorgensen, Cliapluin Lloyd
<’. IL White, commanding officer of the IX corps. Left, Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley, commanding
V. Harmon and Mr. ami Mrs. Earl
officer of the 96th, and right. Brig. Gen. C. M. Easley, also of 96th. Occasion was activation of 101th
Creager were among the guests
here last week.
v»ho dropped in during the evening,
together with Capt. Frank C. Wi­
Red Cross chapter there. Corvallis I
mer, Special Service officer and Madison Square Mail
Deadline for Mailing
is to be the regular meeting place
Service Club Officer Robert E.
Man
Is
in
Camp
Adair
of
the
workers
and
the
next
session
Overseas
Gifts is Set
Mallonee.
is to be held at the chapter house*
■ The Junior Host efl rpn attending
Squure-pegs-in-round holes de­ on Tuesday, October 6.
this dance hailed from Salem and
November 1 has been designated
partment:
In checking up on the furriituri as the deadline for mailing Christ­
Corvallis, and Miss Helen Shu­
From Madison Square postman needs for the camp duy roopis, the mas parcels to service men over­
maker, librarian, pinch-hitting for
workers found generous response
Cafeteria Hostess Carrie Reedy, to the Medics of Camp Adair is the
is being made, although additional seas and have them arrive in time
took charge of the cafeteria. Miss way Pvt. l.eo B. Sehuchter bus furnishings will be needed. Among —according to a joint agreement
Elizabeth Rogers, hostess, and Mrs. gone in the army so fur and he the “desirables” are ping pong of the war, navy and post office
Florence Merriam, assistant hostess wonders why, although liking it tables, curd tables and amusements. departments, just announced.
were in charge of No. 2 club dance. well enough.
Existing re-tril lions on overseas
There Is an immediate call for
lie just hopes that his old cus­
At the other club, the Infuntry
ash trays und preferubly metal parcel post of 11 pounds weight,
tomers
on
the
Madison
Square
mail
Orchestra from the Salem Fair
truys, for the hospitu), und also 18 inches length and 42 inches com­
grounds provided the tunes for route in New York City will learn for coat hangers. These articles bined length and girth, exist at
dancing, and the Hostesses at this his camp address in time for the may be left ut the Red Cross chap­
present. Those wishing to mail
to
affair came from Salem, Albany usual Christmas regards. If not, ter
packages are urged to voluntarily
and Monmouth. Hostess Blodgett the Madison Square station has a
observe these limitations. Volume
major domo-ed the affair assisted Victory club that includes some
is not to exceed that of an ordinary
war veterans and they are looking
by Pvt. Leonard Green.
James W. Gerard, former a m- shoebox and weight to be not more
Large crowds, numbering well after the fellows in the service.
bassador to Germany, wrote tbat than six pounds.
over 125 couples ut each club, at­
German war psychology was based
All mail matter will remain sub­
tended and joined in making the
on a kind of fear that has existed
MEDITATIONS
evening a social success. The cafe­
ever since the Thirty Years War ject to censorship.
terias, equipped with modern furni­
(1618-1648), when the European
of
ture, did a land office business.
Southern troops have the biggest
population was reduced from 20,000-
THE MEDICS
000 to 4,000,000 and cannibalism feet, the Quartermaster corps finds.
was practiced, and the land became Those of the north have a longer
by Pfc. Bert Shundler
Joe Miller Told It,
waist line. Texans are tallest.
plmost a desert.
So Why Shouldn't We?
Those who try to get themselvea
Speaking of priorities, Grover admitted into Station Hospital with
Vignette* of Army Life------
C, Ferguson, Christian Science the prospect of a few days of neat
goldbricking have another think
minister, offers us this one:
coming. That’s the warning of Pfc.
An army truck, crashing through
By Pvt. R. C. Johnson
Lloyd Wunderling, medical Rection,
the landsca|w, picked up a soldier
SCU 1011, day ward-attendant.
and a hill-billy. When It reached
Lloyd refera everyone to this
Sick and tired of writing letters favorite song on the ’vic' and re­
camp, a sentry challenged, und the
ward rule: “Convalescent patients on his G.I. bed contorted like n called the night”...
driver cried:
selected by the Ward Surgeon will swastika to achieve even the slight­
“Hey, there, stick-in-the-mud,”
“I got a soldier, a pile of manure
be detailed to nssist in keeping the est degree of comfort Joe Rookie came a clarion call. It was Gus, the
and u hill-billy.”
ward, corridors and patientR* rooms decided he would take his barrack­ PFC, the camp playboy whose sole
Further on, the same challenge
and grounds clean and tidy.”
mates’ advice and amble over to regret was that he couldn’t bring
arid the same answer. Next time
Practically every patient able to the Post Exchange. There, in peace his string of polo ponies into the
the truck slowed up the hill-billy
get around must do his share in and comfort, he could spread out service with him.
called to the driver:
sweeping, mopping, dusting win­
"("mon over to my barracks and
"Say, pardner, if you have to tell dow -ills, says Lloyd. And ho his paraphernalia on one of the
'em again, du you mind giving me rarely I ihr troubla getting patients yarning tables und pen his nightly have a piece of Mom's cake," in­
billet-doux to the lovely Daisybelle. vited Gus.
priority over this manure?”
to cooperate!
B««»'.J..
.... I
•'Thanks, no, Gus. Gotta finish
With his half-killed deck of cig
Patients physically able must
arettes, matches and change for this letter. Mayla* later," Joe re­
also ussist in regular window wash­
MORRIS
some ice cream anil cokes jammed torted politely. The cake would be
ings. Of course, bud patienta are
(MI K Al.
into his pockets with bis hands, delicious - but his loyalty to the
exempt. Hypochondriacs with an
CO.
and his portfolio of Bond squeezed intangible Daisybelle outweighed
eye to an army rest cure, warns
the lure of the tangible cuke for
Sunday or
Lloyd, better think before signing under his arm, he burst triumph­ his stomach. Gus smiled, und left
evenings b y
antly
into
the
seething
muss
of
up. Hut if they do, Lloyd can use
appointment -
humanity bunched around the P.X to seek another patron.
’em!
if uot con­
..."when we went to the couth-1
door.
Like the college half back
venient other
wise.
with one minute to piny in the last try club dance and the band was
The dully early morning drills
playing that song as we came in,
Phone 552H given to the medics of SCU No. down, Joe plunged down the sol­ and We decided it should be our
1911 hold no terror for Pfe. Leo dier-strewn aisle and found seclu very”...
Dr. Harry E. Morris
I
Schachter.
When his barrack mates sum at one end of n momentarily
444 State St., Salem
The lights of the P. X. blinked
puff uftcr the ordeal. I-eo suggests unpopular table.
the wanting that closing time was
Despite the din of boisterous
| they take in u brisk walk after
■I I Mi ■
only five minutes away.
L
breakfast. For la-o was a New York voices and the drone of the juke
As hopelessly futile as the late
Send Her
City letter carrier in civilian life. box, he managed to bring his mind Prime Minister Chamberlain must
After pounding the big city pave- into focus and started writing: "My have felt when he courageously
' ments for two years, Oregon drill Dearest Daisybelle ..He always predicted "peace in our time.” Pvt.
is like walking on air.
started that way for it made his
Rookie gathered together his ma­
Hut law's buddies think it heart miss a beat when those ten­
terials, screwed on the top of his
...by wire. Bonded delivery
mighty strange that Leo is always der words bounced back at him off
servica .. Florist Telegraphic
pen. and uncoiled his legs from the
I looking for someone to "run over the paper, ...“Needless to say. I table.
Delivery Association ....
In utter disgust he meand­
to the PX” for him!
A \ Hi II E It E
miss you more and more"... but
ered out, with a dejected "Iliya”
a lusty slap on the back and a or "Hullo” as
,, •* 1—i------- j-------- ;
he wormed past his
Leading Floral Co.
hearty "Hi ya. Joe" jolted the pen friends.
‘ho. J01, Corvallis. 45R Madison
from his fingers and brought the
He plodded hack to his barrack
hulk of Corporal Hill over him.
ami checked his watch at 8:57.
"Writin' home?” Hill asked, as
Three more minutes before "Lights
if he didn't know.
Out." Well, he could ’always get
"Nope, ta my girl." was the
into bed, cover his head with a
Twenty-five representatives of stoic reply.
blanket and Use his flashlight to
the inter-county committee for
Silence settled momentarily, and sec to finish the letter ... er he
camp and hospital service were
present at the meeting Tuesday Bill was quick to take his cue and could advance to the day room...
!
afternoon in the Risi Cross chapter leave. “Well, take it easy,” he or to the ... OH NUT8I
house, rallevi together to talk over said walking away, and mechanic­
"I’ll get up a half hour earlier
and plan furnishing of the day
ally Joe mumbled, "See ya later.” in the morning and finish it. be­
rooms and hospital service for
.., "needhwa to say I miss jAni fore anyone e(se is awake,” he
' Camp Adair.
more
and more" ... "dear and I informed himself.
The representatives set up a
IteKularly
Rut somehow we doubt if he did.
committee to direct the work and long for the time when 1 shall"...
By Mail
elected Milton E. Meyers of Salem but the thought trend was severed. Don’t you?
I chairman. Mrs. Charles Green­ The strains of "You Made Me Ix>ve
wood of Dalias, co-chairman, and You” cycloned through the P. X
Rev. Charles Neville of Toledo ftom the daily-lighted juke box.
I treasurer. Mr. Meyers was in­ Joe propped apart his teeth with
structed to select a secretary from
j his own trained staff of Marion hit pen, stared out of the window
Send 9 Bill and
county assistants working with the with a my-mind's a-millHm-miles-
Address to
away look and remembered the
first time he met Daisy Iwll
She
CAMP ADAIR SENTRY
Sales and Service
had freckles, big ones, i cute
Box 847
Modern Shop — Best
turned-up nose and eyes like sap­
( orvallin, Oregon
Mechanics
phires ... ahhhh ... he sighed. His
Funeral Home
fingers retrieved his pen and con-1
(Formerly Hollingsworth)
Corvallis
tinued ... "return and we shall j
OR 01.50 A YEAR
Phone 43. 2nd A Jackson
Madison St. al «th.
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plan our wedding I just heart! our 1
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That
Letter
Home
FLOWERS
TODAY
Committee Members
Plan Aid to Camp
Five men were burned, one seri­
ously and another painfully, when |
a partially filled barrel of waste
oil exploded last Saturday. The I
soldiers were spreading the oil in
preparation for burning an area |
adjacent to a road near the camp |
incinerator.
Seriously burned about the back
and arms was Pvt. •Joe E. Roland,
of Cookeville, Tenn. Sgt. Clarence
D. Leach, Hamilton, Texas, re­
ceived painful burns about the neck
and shoulders. Slightly burned were
Pvt. William O. Skaggs, St. Louis,
Mo., Pfc. Robert L. Doyle, Steub­
enville, Ohio, and Pvt. Lawrence
T. Coombs, Silverton, Oregon.
Corvallis
DeMoss-Britt
J
Wilson Motors
I
The Salem USO organiaation,
through Mr. R. F. Kunz, pro­
gram director, asks that de­
mands for entertainment during
the next 10 days, be held to the
minimum—or as nearly that as
possible. The reason is to allow
those helping with the routine
entertainment program to be re­
leased for assisting in the food
harvest, now in its fuH swing
in the Salem area.
Regular dances will be con­
tinued, Mr. Kunz says, but fewer
will attend a» there will be
fewer hostesses available.
The* USO asks this coopera­
tion as a patriotic duty, as well
as in ail good neighborliness in
helping save the food crops.
Watch Your Step, Men
When Giving Address
Surgical Dressing
Shipment Arrives
—
A large shipment of surgical
I dressing material has just arrived
I at the local Red Cross Chapter house
and help will be needed to make
the material into dressings.
Small groups of women workers
have been supplying the hospital at
1 Camp Adair with the dressings, but
J as the hospital needs grow more
I workers will be needed to make up
j the necessary supply. The work
I is being supervised by trained worn-
I en, and the workers are meeting
every afternoon from 1 to 4:30
o’clock, in the chapter house.
A class to train supervisors is
planned.
From Chemical Warfare Service
news letter: “Ours is not the glory
of the battle in the field, but ours
is the deep satisfaction of those
who make the wheels go round.
Our combat troops are carrying the
ball; we are the passers. You and
our combat troops are on the march
together—let us work that way.”
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
For time brings only sorrow,
Girls you might have kissed today
May wear gas masks tomorrow.
Selfridge Field News entitled it
“Lament of the WAAC.”
OFFICERS
'Maun taifi States
■ Power Company
Star Exchange
Loan Office
........
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EXPERIENCE
I’m just a recruit who knew it
Who couldn't be told bow to
the ball.
Went my own way — Scorned1
advice,
Thinking myself pretty nice!
Although I had a very bad ease.
Woke up one morning, way off my
bale,
Courtmartialed — two months in
jail.
Learned to my sorrow, I couldn’t .
get bail,
I’m learning my lesson—I’m learn­
ing it well;
Outside of the guardhouse, the
Army is swell.
So, take this advice of one who
knows,
Button up your lip, keep on your
toes.
Buck «up a breeze — make your
own breaks,
Learn to profit by other’s mis-
takes.
I know there are others as foolish
ns I,
Running around with their heads
in the sky;
So, take this warning and heed it
well, or—
A ou'll make your life one sweet
little Hell.
Hy Sgt. “Lucky” Hutchinson.
311 N. Commercial Street
SALEM, OREGON
! Herman's
I
Men's Store
=
Corvallis
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HURLEY'S LOTION
For Poison Oak
Over 5000 bottles sold. Guar­
anteed treatment for poison
oak relief. 50c bottle by mail.
HURLEY’S DRUGS, Albany
MILITARY
TAILORING
At The
we want to meet you
ARMY STORE
Third and Monroe
t'orvallis, Oregon
. . we want you to know our store and personnel,
we welcome you, too, to shop through leisurely and
renew your acquaintance with familiar brands of
merchandise you liked so well back home.
. over one square acre of floor space devoted to
good quality, nationally advertised lines that we know
are worth one hundred cents on the dollar.
Sweetie-Pie
The
6 Months For
A Buck
HOLD EVERYTHING
FOR FOOD HARVEST
The explosion was caused when
the spreading oil became ignited, i Soldiers fortunate enough to get
Cause of the fire was not deter­ to register in a hotel these days
mined. All men received immediate i must no make reference to their
unit, organization or army post
attention at the camp hospital.
i office address.
Alertness on the part of three
These instructions have been is­
of the men prevented more serious sued by the war department to
injuries and possible damage to eliminate any chance of impending
the truck, it was reported. Private troop movements being discovered
Doyle, although burned himself, by the enemy merely by scanning ^JIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllHIllllillt^
grabbed Private Roland and as­ the registration book. It’s all right
sisted in extinguishing flames on to give your correct name, rank
Roland’s back and arms. Private and either “U. 3. Army” or home
Skaggs, who was not injured by address, but stop right there.
Q. M.
the blast, was burned about the }
Air Corps
hand when he put out Games on |
Engineers
Sergeant Leach. Although painful- 1
M.
ly burned, Leach jumped into the I
GUNS - SUITS - LUGGAGE
Infantry
ti uck and drove it to safety.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Artillery
Private Roland was reported [
"A Self-Supporting-. Tax-Pay lag.
WATCHES & JEWELRY
OVERSEAS CAPS
PrÀïate Enterprise.”
Wednesday to be slightly im- |
82.00
proved, and the other injured men 1
e serve the cities and rural
are also making satisfactory re- '
territory surrounding
covery, it was stated by hospital .
Camp Adair •
officers.
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f
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truck inaurarn e—
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• Complete prvtecttoa
•
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•
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satisfaction on everything you purchase. And, at
ceiling prices, you can’t lose!
«gain, we say, welcome neighbor ... we want
to meet you.
We Have It
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211 W. 1st. Albany. Or.
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