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Camp Adair Sentry Thursday. Fehruary 25,1243. —— I i Age, 56; 29 Years in Army, 'Old-Timer' Sgl. Bill Murray Has Been, Done, Seen Dorothy O'Connell, home economics expert, cuts herself a slice from of Cl bread baked at the Camp Adair bakery. She is assisted by Warrant Officer Stanley and Col. Theod re a Baumeister. post quartermaster. Public Relations Photo. SPECIAL PORTLAND TRAIN Saturday, February 27, 1943 ROUND TRIP FARE—$2.00 LEAVES Wellsdale at 1:30 P. M. Saturday, Feb. 27. FLOWERS TODAY I USO CAMP ADA!R AREA uso WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS HOSTESSES AT EACH CLUB EVERY EVENING USO-Your Home Away from Home twom 2 and 4 a. m. It’s doing your own sowing and Welcome Churchof Christ (Not Christian Church) 730 E. 5th St. ALBANY,OREGON MOOSE HAI.1. 2nd St., Cor« allis Bible Class .10:00 A.M. Preaching .. 11:00 A. M. Communion . 11:45 A. M. Preaching ... 8:00 P. M. to Worship Soldier’s Invitation .. . by « ire. Bonded delivery *er.ice .. Florist Telegraphic Delivery Association .... A X Y U II E It E Leading Floral Co. ’h<>. 201. Coii.llis, 15.x Madison = Claude A. Guild, Minister = Supply Sergeant Rated You owe it 'Mr. Anthony' of Army to those Genial, Hard Boiled Guy So.vcs at home! Problem of Officers and EM Open Thursday and Saturday Evenings for Your Convenience Someone’in the Army should write a song entitled, “Just Take It to the Supply Room.” That is the first thought of | officers, non-coms and privates when they have some article that cannot be left in the barracks or any other place because Trip going and coming will be approximately four (4) hours. ' it would make the room unsightly. But the Supply Sergeant always has a nook or corner for it. One of his worries is to keep all kinds of property even though he has to use the Buy your tickets now from the Special Service Officers art of camouflage so his supply room will pass inspection. of the 96th and Timber Wolf Divisions or from the adjutant at post headquarters. The inspecting officer will not tolerate dust or dirt, or slovenly arrangement of the supply room and he does not approve of the use of any corner as a catch-all. One of the thoughts to from the biggest cities and the be worked into the song might lie, “A place for everything smallest towns, from the factories; i and the farms, from the mountains 1 and everything in its place.’’ Men from Texas to Maine Exchange Stories, Troubles, Homemade Cake DR. CHAS. O. ANDERSON Optometrist Send Her LEAVES Union Station in Portland at 8:15 P. M. Sunday Night. and the seashore, from the swelter ing bayous of Louisiana and the dripping coast of Maine. You begin to see America as something in finitely bigger than your home town. You can hear about the roads of Oklahoma and the hills of Ken *——------------------------------- - . _ tucky from the guys in the double- Ed. Note: “The Sentry," always ■ By IM. Bernard Frazier, 561st TSS decker bunk, two down from yours. I on the lookout for interesting items | Being in the Army now is your [ You can listen to the dreams of to toss your way (and always i personal contact with the richest California and the laughter of New- Sales and Service York from the kids from L. A. ready and willing to steal same) . experience of the 20th century. Modern Shop — Best and the Bronx. The Army is the U. S. A.; all came across the following feature | Mechanics "The Heart of America" the Fort Scott publication, which the glory, loudness, humor, and Hear the rambling-voiced Texan magnificance of America are yours we would like to pass on to you. ■ if you will but look and listen to talk about women and cattle from Take, it, Pit. Frazier!) Phone 43, 2nd & Jackson the Lone Star state. Let the barber what is all around you. from Tallahassee, Fla., tel] you It's Infinitely Bigger about big oranges and sunny skies. In the Army you eat, drink, Listen to the ex-song-and-dance shave, work laugh., march, study, man full of wearying, wonderful read, take a shower, listen to the words about the old two-a-day rou radio and swap talk of home and tines at B. F. Keith’s. “the girl I left behind” with men Humphrey Bldg.. 557 Monroe—Corvallis—Phone 121-J The barracks is full of men who are the heart of America and the -1iope of the world, the little guv who really live, who envy no om . and accept everyone, friends from I the start. They are part of the [ common people fighting a common enemy for a common cause all over the world. Listen to life, listen to the talk • National Catholic Community Service • YMC \ • Salvation Army of the barracks on a rainy night • Jewish Welfare Board • YWCA • National Travelers Aid Association just before lights out. It is talk of the real things, of home and love, of girls and food, a hamburg ALBANY SALEM CORVALLIS MONMOUTH DATE er at the PX after the movies, a 11.1-11ft E«»l Third St i Fifth and Madiaon Stt. Hiway 99 \V- A Main St 693 Chemrketa St. beer, an anxious fare at mail call, 7.30 pm Stamp Club J Informal a girl with spun-gold hair at the THVR8DAT meet Actiritiea Ì H p m. Informal USO in St. Louis. Dancing It is the life of the men who have been around and the inno- I 6:0010’30 pm Informal 7:30 pm Small fitDM FRIP\Y Informal AetivitieB activities activities cence of the green kids from th»* February 26 ft 30 Informal dancing sleepy towns of Indiana and North i Dakota. It is a long distance phone i ’•M pm Tnf< rmal Av call on 8unday night to the girl tivitiea P tTTRDAY 4 Informal Artiritiea February you love, heal ing the sadnes i be ft neath her voice, being angry at not being able to do anything 0 am tn boor Visit th» about it. rhurrh rf vnnr choire It’s Ma's Cake am to 10:30 pm Can 1 Informal Artirif le» teen open It is a box of chocolates and a SrvPAT *» im Ballroom danrinr r<-hru»i 15 5 45 pm Mtitira! cake from Ma and the impulsive t>rorram generosity with which it is pa > d ft '»<) |>a Siaftfeat around the barrack«. It is a week- old copy of the home-town paper 3H pm Smail Game« MONDAT Informal Artirilioft with news of the soldier from To •eti*i<iea. March 1 ledo, Ohio, who married a girl yo-i used to know. The Army is doing a hundred THSMT , Informal Art tritimi things you never did before and Mareh 2 being a hundred things you never were before. It is «weeping th» barracks in the morning and peel 11.«wM wrr>sF.«DAT ing potatoes in the mess hall. It'» Marr-h 3 beefing about GI fo»xi and eating every bit of it. It’« second» on the pie at noontime chow and listen ing to the juke box for an hour in SERVICES AVAILABLE-Libra y. Shower». Snack Bar. Ping Pong. Reading Room, the PX. Writing Room. Craft Materials, P- itngraphy. Pool Table«. Small Game«. Dancing Classes, Counseling. Valet Room. Information Servoe. Checking Service. Comfortable Heavy Thinking, Too Distribution« of Religious Lounges, Housing Information. S It'» getting some papers and <>n- velopoa from the service club and saying "liear Ma”; it’s walking your po«t in a military manner and doing a lot of heavy thanking be Wilson Motors Promat d from 2 d I t. t« were: Franci.» F. Eowe:', < Gunderinan, Jr., William C. Heck ert, Jr., Thomas R. Riggins. Joseph T Ku. n’ier. , Th< in:’.- S. i v. Ji.hn F. Ligon, Jr., Harty D. Malstrom. Vergil W. Olsen. >’ . .1 E Radlin- .-ky. Charles A. Rir.ehnrt, R- bert W. Saunders, Den mon T. Scouyer-, Mike A. Waiters, William B. Whit ney. Isna Woltsh.-ck. Che tei R. Young, Edward L. Zah.-ki. John B. MeSha ne, Wayne !.. Powell, Julius J. Zdebski. William IL War ren. Raymond Lal’orte. Walter Leon, Cyril A. Walter. Among the enlisted men, the fol lowing promotions were announced: l-’rom private ; to corporals : B. C. Britton. D. T. Esposito. A. Gen ovese, W. W. Hofer, IL C. Hunter, A. Kempt. C. J. Kirov, E. H. Knut sen. N. Massa, R. Nurmi. F. II. I’ett email, A. C. l'ritehard, W. S. Snothen, R. Taldi. G. A. Weaver. From privates to privates first I d ,ns : M. L. Bounds, R. 0. Brown, J. < < cl. -.; •>. E. A. Cottifri. P. F. M ... t. R F. Dav F. W. Fau- . E. P. I eaiii.g. N. M. Fenati, | T. A. Guinn, U. G. Janney, L. Jundt, J. R. Kam, F. R. Kapp, E. W. King, | F. Muhl, S. N. Parrino. J. I’eur- ii. I.. R. Robertson, C. F. Roos,' H W. Triplett, F. J. Voller, C. D, \V ml.- worth. F. 8. Zenibo, F. R. ; Live: more. B. Levine. For Return Trip Soldier Pot-Pouri Is Seen in Army Barracks Corvallis 25 Timber Wolves Now 1st Lts.; EM Promoted What? No Butter to Go With It? ; Most any newspaperman will I came in the Argonne Forest. As agree that one of the toughest jobs | usual, he tries to dodge around any in the world is to get ap old army descriptions of what went on. Plain nian to talk. Interviewing First and simply, he said, “We’d just Sergeant William E. Murray of shoot and keep shooting and those Company E, 383rd Infantry, was who didn’t know when to duck no exception. However, from w’.at didn’t come back.” we were able to pump out of him, Murray was 32 when he switched anyone can see that the newest aver to the army because he “hadn’t member of the elite 96th Division ' slept in a bunk or eaten out of a Old Timers’ Club has really been dish for 26 months.” His success around. was- little short of meteoric and in Now approaching his 56th ad 11 months he was promoted to first venturous year. Sergeant Murray sergeant. From the United States he went boasts 29 consecutive years in mili tary service and has visited nearly to the 14th Infantry in Panama and 1 every country on the face of the after a brief visit back home in j earth. 1926 he sailed for China and the 1 best time hi ever had in his life. * Picked Rugged Outfit Said he. “We could take in every When at 26 he decided on the life night club in town and get our of a soldier, he picked what was laundry done for the total expendi then the most rugged outfit in the ture of six bits. For two years I book, the United States Marine never made up a pack and we al- ; Corps. From Quantico, Ya., he ways used to marvel over the China shipped out to the big naval base boys who swept the barracks and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 1913. did KP. They told us that they I As a member of an advance base were never richer in their lives.” rifle company he was sent to Nica From 1929 he literally commut ragua two years later and politely ed between the mainland and the assisted in escorting the Nicara Hawaiian islands, with the excep guan president out the country j tion of a year spent with a guard when his compatriots threatened to detachment at the military prison assassinate him. on Alcatraz Island in 1932. Then The spring of 1914 found him it was back to Schofield Barracks aboard the U. S. S. Utah (sunk at on Oahu in 1933 where he remained Pearl Harbor) on a world wide until 1937. good will cruise. No sooner had the He took in the Texas and Louisi man-o-war arrived home when she 1 ana maneuvers in 1939 and trans was ordered to proceed to Vera ferred to Camp Adair from San Cruz to quell the Mexican revolt, I Luis Obispo last summer. Murray landed with a Marine de Although his predictions about tachment at 5:25 a. m. on April the future are as good as any-- 21, 1914, and twenty minutes later body’s, Sergeant Murray has de the Stars and Stripes were flying finite plans for his 22-year-old son, from the masthead of the Federal William, Jr., who is in his third building. This incident was followed year at Princeton University. by three dull months of guarding If the old man can swing it, the the municipal water works to pre youngster is going to be a lieuten vent the possibility of poisoning ant, tailor made at West Point. the government sympathizers. In 1917 he went to Europe with the Fifth Marine Regiment, the same outfit which covered itself with glory in the occupation of Guadalcanal. In Argonne First His first active engagement Page Three —- ——=- s To the E.M. (enlisted men) of j * the organization, the supply - ergo- ' ant is “hard boiled." But those who , knew him in his basic training period, remember him as i friendly fellow: always jovial and ready to "shoot the bull ’ with anyone who happened around. He w: ■ and till is interested in “wine, women and song" as is the next soldier. Plea-1 sure has become his one “out" from long hours of work and worry. Al though he doesn’t handle much actual cash, his is just ns much of a business as a merchn-.t in civilian life and he has the same re. poll, i- bilities that most small merchant; have. A few months in the supply room finds the sergeant'; ea y going mannerisms disappearing and a firmness taking their place o that when his orders me given, they are accepted and carried out with out question. The ergenrit ha:: the responsibilities of taking charge of and keeping the company’s proper ties in good condition, of outfitting the men with weapon . clothing Hnd equipment; looking after theirl laundry and dry cleaning; supply-j ing cleaning mateiial and all oth er supplies ne< led in the harrnek ■ ' and mess hall. He is almost a nurse maid to the enlisted men for when their clothing wears out, he takes it in for salvage and ex- . changes it for new.n aterials. When articles are lost, he makes a state ment of charg«- o> that r.ew one • can l»e procured. Hi, »ole interest< are in his com puny anil the enlisted men within the company. At times his patience is worn thread-bare by the carelessness of | his men and then coming lack of I appreciation of hi efforts. At hi« wits end to get hi work done ac curately and hurriedly in older to take ax little of t possible, there ar bursts and so classed as “hard-1 such an explosion up from the dept! it isn’t hi« natur like to be tough c --ucee«« in the v> pends on his ki locked tightly aw: strictly buxine s t SEND YOUR PHOTOGRAPH BISHOP Photographers 520 State Street - - - - Salem OFFICERS - NON-COMS SOLDIERS WATCH THIS LIST AND CHECK ITEMS NEEDED Or better still — come into cither of our stores—at Albany or Salem and qo over the stocks with us. . -------------------------- arwMM :— □ All Wool 0. D. Shirts □ Serge Pants ( ah I Uniform Buttons Garrison Caps wood □ Money Belts (With zipper) □ Shoulder Patches □ Shoe Rags □ Chevrons for All Grades ! ] Slippers - Packed in Kit ' J Web Belts, Brass Buckles □ "Aunt Lydia's" Thread □ Reg. Buckle Oxfords^’*P^^T^pTFfy ^CcHTar Stays □ Officers' Slacks □ 0. D. 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