Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday. Fehruary 25,1243.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Uniform Buttons
Garrison Caps
wood
□ Money Belts (With zipper)
□ Shoulder Patches
□ Shoe Rags
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! ] 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. Laundry Bags
J Sewing Kits
□ 'V Shirts
(with Division Insiffnia)
i ¡Souvenir Pillow Tops
Top Kick Chevrons
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□ Glastic Dog Chains
i ] 0. D. Scarfs (loo-,. wo«i>
Metal Polishes
□ Soap Boxes
O. D. Army Coveralls
□ 0. D. Wool Sweaters
□ 0. D. Cotton Er Wool Sox
Officers' Raincoats
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L Shoe Brushes, Shoe Paste
J Leather Wallets
' Field Cops
Tooth Brushes
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Stationery
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Allied troops figli
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of the scarcest corm
water.
Garrison Cap Rain Covers □ Copper Button Boards
keeping your bra « bottom
ing. shining your »hoes tat
tian. and making your bed
any wrinkle»
This i« the Army.
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it .till ha« the rreat
gayety of any Armi
Thu man'«
toughne-s, humility and f r
it’» nothing that -pelh defe
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