Thursday, October 15,1942.
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New Telephone Center
Opens to Service Men
Theatre Ave. Building Features
Novel Aids to Communication
The new Service Meli’* Telephone ( Heading those who dropped in
Center on T heater Av. wa for the opening were Major General
opened Monday, and is now ready to James L. Bradley and Major Gen­
contribute its bit in serving the eral G. R. Cook, and their staffs,
personnel of Camp Adair. The tele­ mid Col. Gordon II. McCoy, post
phone center building has attend- commander.
Representing the Pacific Tele­
ants on duty to assist in placing
outgoing calls, und houses 14 tele- phone and Telegraph company
were Harry V. Collins, Salem, dis­
phone booths.
The building, with its tublvH, trict manager for the Willamette
chairs, magazines, a world globe, valley and Calvin P. “Cal” Horn,
a U. S. map with typical telephone camp telephone manager.
The Service Men’s Telephone
rates, and its telephone directories
from major cities, was said by of­ c< liter will be open from 1330 to
ficers and enlisted men alike to In- 22-30 o’clock for the time being, but
one of the finest of its kind in the hours may be extended later,
Manager Horn stated.
American army camps.
Open Telephone Center
Sgt's Wife Asserts
Camp Life Is Tops
Capi. Summers Upped Crack Artillery Band
To Major in 104th
Returns to Ft. lewis
15 Extra Buglers
Taken With Them
Is Third in Line of
Illustrious Family
Captain William II. Summers,
son of Brigadier General Owen
Summers, now nt. Trinidad, mid
grandson of that older Brigadier
General Summers who commanded
al| the forces of Oregon in the
Spanish-American wnr and Fili­
pino Insurrection, has been promot.
cd mid is now Major Summers,
lldq. Co., 104th Division.
Four years ago Oregon news­
papers published pictures of him
shuking hands with Governor Mar­
tin, of Oregon, when the new major
appeared at a convention of Span­
ish-American War Veterans mid
presented the first American flag
ever to fly over the Philippines.
Major Summers was born in
Portland, is a University of Oregon
graduate, became a second liiiuti -n
mil of reserves there, nod has had
active duty with the Regular Army
Infantry nt Vancouver Barracks
and I’muumi. But he first grew
a<quaintisl with the Army al Fort
1-euvenworth mid ns the on of mi
Army officer he lived at Army
posts inOklahoma. Georgia, Texas,
Indiana and Panama.
Portland dedicated a park li» the
memory of the Spanish Xmeroan
Ik nr commander and the Morgan
building there was built l>y his
maternal grandfather. The ma jot'
father wa< professor of military
»entice at Kill Military Academy
in Portland Incidentally the flag
Which he presented at the convell
tian was to have gone into the
battleship Oregon, now to la- brok
en op f»r : c.-ap.
Stencil
Duplicator Supplier
ENGELSTAD'S
lit Madison St.. Corvallis
>0
Corvallis
Salva and Service
Modern Shop — Heat
Mechanics
Wilson Motors
Phone 43. 2nd & Jackrnm
were
Camp Adair’s gm «1 h -u
officially opened lest vv---k end
when Tillie Scotland, wife of Sgt
Ken Scotland, spent two day - ini
of them on a visit from Sacrum- - to
Cal. The guesthou
-uppliid
with every convenience, provi-l
comnualations for visiting famil
and friends of enlisted nun, I
tinned at Cainp Adair. Gue ' limy
stay at the houses for three ilnv-
longer when some emerg- ncy ju.-i- |
fies it.
Attractive Mrs. Scotbiml via
"thrilled” by the guest bou
uml
the camp in general
much alMiut the wonder . of an iirmy
camp that her husband Ken felt i
•lighted. Trilled, thrilled Mr- Scot­
land: "I was impressed that the
guest house, service club, theater,
post office and telephone office
were h II situated within mm l-lm-k.
It certainly makes it com - ni- nt f- >
guests.
My first night 1 ute nt th- I’ X
and then attended one of th- camp'
theaters. The next night I had a
thrilling experience eating nt the
mess hall with my husband. We
found a table in front fixed iqi p-
cially for us, I expected th- boy
to cut up n little nt meal tin - hut
was surprised to find them qui<-t
Was it bei-aii-e then- vvii a f< in .1
ill the room?
"The same night I attended a
thrilling dance lit the Servu- Club
I was much ¡tuple--<-d by th
ar
ner in which the dunce wu eon
ilucted. The behavior of nil attend
ing wns superior to any coll,.
dance I’ve attended.”
Sgt. Scotland vvns mi insurance
salesman in civilian life lit« wife,
Tillie, got a job with the Tax
Equalisation Board of Califm in o
that her husband could enlist
Camp Adair today (Thursday)
bid« farewell to the artillery band
which ciime down from Ft. I xw I h
to welcome recruits arriving at
tlii ciintonment. The farewell is
said with beat wishes and with re­
grets, for thin fine build has aprend
rhythm mid melody through much
of the camp and hands are sadly
lucking here, anyhow.
To the 28 pieces of the band
propel-, 15 liuglea were lidded und
the -- enlivened guard mounts daily
and also usher in the dawn with the
traditional cull which has not yet
be<n heard over the camp us a
whole In addition, the bund has
been meeting detachments return­
ing from the range lute in the duy,
mid playing them luiek to barracks.
Moat popular airs remain the one
about the caissons ami that ar­
rangement of “The Old Gray
Mme” which the king and queen
of Eimland i,-qiiested when Ameri­
ca troops reached the British Isles.
Mlhotigh military composers ar»1 Quartermasters Up
lm-\ trying to turn nut a war hit,
22 in Non Com Ranks
nothing of hit proportions has come
mit vet, the players insist, and they
Twenty-two promotion« in Ihr
thmk it is because the composers QM Section were annoii
I laut
try to duplicati- Cohan’s famous week.
“Over There,’’ which is again in S Sgt. Paul It Petre Wa a-lv.u ,‘d
servin today.
ito T Sgt ; nod Sgts Howard i»,
I*iiimilietit in this band’s ecpcr- Heilhron and Ah-xaiid* i W i-r;-
iki
t -., however» b "Hut 2 3 I." bv were made S Sgt«.
Johnny Iturdell, member of the
T.
Raised to Tech 3rd <!r
I miiii I, ami Martin Harvey, Chris­ 4th Gr. Renton W <‘ox.
Sr
tian Seiemo leader nt Camp Rob­
erts. when1 Itunlell used to be, uel I.. Fenner, T 5 Franci
A
Within the tankt of the Ft. la'Wls lonll, Cpl. Michael Gam- a .1 i pl.
hand are il dunce orchestra of 14 Charles M. Solum m
pie,,« that has played at service
Pfi’s Dominick .1 \iliui, .1
club dances, mid a swing bund of Bloom, Dentils .1 i’ll my. Il< * i !>
five pieces Half of the men in the Henedictis, Michael Hamm, I; 1
band me married and therefore anl T. Kelly olid Peter K>-i
'.
tiny are glad to go back to Ft. together with Pvts. Harold Dw-u
|,w , because the wives are tlv- kin, Carl 11. I.uttmer«, It-. ■ A
ing around there.
Mosher, Franci« M O’Conner, \\ ill
iam R. Smith and Sidnev lb-ei
ware advanced to ha Techno in
5th Grade.
it's Hands Across Sea,
Arms Around Waist
Scouts Find British
Girls Have Hearts
Latest V-Mail from England
brings the happy news that the
girls over there have been trained
right and are properly apprecia­
tive of soldier« and responsive to
the needs of the A.E F , as their
mothers were 25 years ago.
“Roomie and I gathered in a
couple of civie gal» at a city, aft­
er taking in a big am u terne nt
park,“ reads a letter Pfc Roger
I’. Mullin, of Hdq. Co, SCU No.
It’ll h<i» reeefved from the rirht
'of the bureau and secretary’ of the I
Guests were first taken in groups Former U. of O. Man
WE TAILOR
League of Oregon (ities. Major
and shown through the impressive
Beistel took a prominent part in a
ARMY officers'
new hospital and then escorted to Elevated to Major
number of research and study pro-
a dinner in the Red Cross center.
AKril UNIFORMS
jects on municipal problems.
Colonel William B. Lewis, recently
Promotion from captain to ma-
Prior to accepting active duty
In Our Own Shop
arrived here to assume the post of jorr for Henry Beistel, a
hat talion Major Beistel was an active mem- j
chief surgeon, presided.
PORTLAND, ORE.
executive officer of the 104th in-
her of the Lane County Reserve i
After being introduced by Col. Gantry at Camp Adair,
was an- Officers’ association.
Lewis, talks were made by Capt. nmunced here this week.
William Rettie, adjutant; Lt. Joe
Major Beistel was transferred to i TOLEDO, Ohio - Paul Wallace’s ,
K. Ellsworth, Capt. Oliver C.
Camp
Adair as a cadre member of plight began when he enlisted in
Stauffer, Major John Riley, Major
the 104th from Camp Barkeley,
Malcom M. Wilmes, Major B. H.
the Navy the same day his draft ;
IVx., where he was a battalion ex­
Henning, Major George M. Wilson,
board set for induction. The two I
ecutive of the 00th division.
Lt. Col. Richard B. Peel, Lt. Col.
services
began to bow to each other, j
Major Beistel is at present on
William H. Christian, Jr., Lt. Col.
haive of absence from the Uni- The Navy yielded to the Army; k.
J. H. McIntyre, and Principal Chief
I versity of Oregon, where for sev- the Army deferred Wallace because
Nurse, 1st Lt. Anne E. Hynds.
isral years he was a staff member of the Navy. Finally, the Navy no­
HURLEY'S LOTION
<rf the bureau of municipal re-, tified him to report. Two hours
UNION CITY, N. J. - The City search.
For Poison Oak
later, the Army instructed him to
Over
5000 bottles sold. Guar­
Hall Tavern, former hang-out of
During his career at the uni­ show up; it had obtained priority
anteed treatment for poison
German-American Bund members, versity Major Beistel was an as- front the Navy. He’s in the Army
oak relief. 50c bottle bv mail
whs leased for a USO center.
■dstant to Herman Kehrli, director now.
HURLEY’S DRUGS, Albany
Soldiers! You Are Invited Fa
Camp Guest Houses
Officially Opened
\t thè "open limisi■” la f Monda» al Ilio Service Men’s Tele­
phone < enter, t roni !< 11
< alvin P. “(’ni” llorn, camp telcphone
manager; Col. Gonion II. Mi-Co.v, post commander, and Harry
V. ( o II ìiik , districi manager for thè Pacific Telephone und Tele­
graph company for thè Willnmelte Mille).
Station Hospital
Host at Banquet
little, tight little isle. "Walked ’em
home, you know and made out sat­
isfactorily. Got date with her for
Saturday and hope to recognize
, her—it was dark that night. She
liked her lovin’ wolf and I never
300 Medicos Shown
did refuse any of that stuff . . .
“Have been courting a cutie for
New Hospital Center
past month—a gal in the servici
A.T.S. and engaged, too. A Yank
Good will and complete accord
is pretty well liked by the gals . . .
|.< tivi-i-n th-- army medical fratern­
Most of gals, and women, too. go
ity and their professional brothers
without stockings here. Some
from surrounding towns was the
print their legs.
keynote of a get-together last
“Have had several good l.-tt i
Tl.ui lay night at the station hos­
from girls. They write good let­
pital attended by more than 300
ters -while they marry between
physicians, surgeons, nurses, den-
times . . . Went to musical com­
-ti t- and veterinarians. More than
edy. Tea, cakes and ice cream
half of these were from Salem,
served. Not free, though girls
Corvallis, Albany, Dallas, Inde-
brought things around to you. At
I pen<l<-rice and other nearby cities.
most movies some girl go< up
Medical officers of the hospital
and down the aisle selling ic<
' were hosts.
cream.
"Whenever I go to town I have
fish and chips. Costs 25 cents not
bad. Includes bread and margin-
ine. (No butter here), I buy milk
and make cocoa once in awhile. 1
miss milk shakes over here. Send a
couple. Beer is still the aim- anil
wine and whisky by the gla
(small ones, too). Costs too much
for mild imbibers like me . . . Had
pork chops today
and that’
something to brag about, al­
though as a rule we have good
grub.”
Camp Adair Sentry
I
Corvallis USO Has
Printed Bulletins
The Corvallis l’S(>«la’» i -it
out a special aniioiiiieeiii-nt
,-rt
for soldier» known as the • t r-
vallis Salute** and «pin -al t»ull< -. n-
■re issued from time to time on
occasion. Special planned ev.i rigs
•re available Wednesdays and Sat
urdays, in addition to the regular
recreational and relaxing special­
tier
Regular classes in l«ll room
dancing, water color« and pastels
• mi block printing are now avail
able and soldi» rs are making nidi
VHiuai Christnu- cai , t‘
• !
e»» ins<>wi«"
INDEPENDENC
"The Most Friendly Town on Earth n
Your buddies like to come here—and it has been
necessary for Independence to
Enlarge Our Soldier Center
I
Double The Room - New Games - Free Snacks - Music - Drinks - Relaxation - Good Times
Every Day and Evening
“She’s Headed for the Barn”
Tom Smith
Independence I. G. 4. Grocer
Wonts to Meet
YOU
We Welcome You A hearty welcome
to
Independence
to the soldiers from
Camp Adair.
★
And Our New Soldier Center
Welcome to Our City
And to Our Store
Addison Furniture Co.
Hart Motor Co.
CRAVEN'S
Invites You to Come In
and Get Acquainted
THE FRIENDLY STORE
Independence
,
A. L. THOMAS & CO.
Everything in Hardware
Independence, Ore.
Meet me at
THE CLUB
Always Welcomes You
for refreshments.
Wc service all makes of cars.
HART MOTOR CO
F. P. Ellis
you at The Barn
//
Independence
★
265 Main St.
Bob"
Independence
^dependence People Invite You—You'll Feel Welcome!
In Independence
CAFE ADAIR
Air Conditioned
Excellent foods properly prepared.
Prices reasonable.
You
Are Welcome
In Our Store
First National
Bank
Of Independence
And in The Nevr
Soldier Center Here
Established in 1889
Cafe Adair
2'8 Mam St
Independence
Hello Buddies!
I've got my card, too!
Be seein' you soon’
Harold Lacy
Independence Bakery
280 Main Street
WILLIAMS DRUG CO
Independence
Locally Owned and Operated
Welcome to
Robinson Realty
House of Jewels
Watches -- Diamonds - Jewelry
170 C St.
Independence, Ore.
A large selection of farms to choose
from, one acre to 1,000 acres.
Varied locations.
VISIT THE BARN
The hack room of the Independence
Soldier Center has been remodeled and re­
done in the motif of an old barn. Pool table
and other games are available and decorations
make for complete relaxation and informality.
The impression must be seen to be appreci­
ated.
Also homes in Salem
Robinson Realty Co.
148 C St.
Independence