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Vol. 1, No. 47.
Order of Purple Heart
Posthumously Given
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Camp \dair, Oregon, Thursday .March 11, 1943.
Notification from the War De­
partment of the awarding of the
Order of the Purple Heart post­
humously to 2nd Lt. George W
Hynes, Jr., son of Lt. George W.
Haynes, Camp Adair postal officer
was received recently by his fa­
ther.
Lt. Hynes, Jr., an Army pursuit
flyer, lost his life while in defense
of his country somewhere in the
Far Eastern theater of war, ac­
cording to information released by j
his father. His preliminary flying
experience was obtained at On- ■
tario. Cal., Stockton, Cal., and
Moffett Fields. His major flying
base was Hamilton Field.
Lt. Hynes, Jr., prior to his en­
trance into the Army had always
been keenly interested in aviation
and during his academic career,
his main interest lay in that field.
His flying training while in the
Army embraced all types of ships i
and recently had been piloting a
P-41) pursuit type, admittedly one
of the most important types of
combat ships that the Army has.
Lt. George W. Hynes, Sr., has
been the Camp Adair postal offi­
cer since December of last year
and during his past military career
has seen action in Vera Cruz, Mex­
ico, and the 90th Division overseas
during World War I where he was
wounded twice. He also participat­
ed in the Pancho Villa encounters j
along the Mexican border in 1916.
G I 'H* Kite HelD
Soffit” Wnrhlert to
Croon I 'Irp R. Crosby
Here's good news for all G.I.
crooners who find their vocal per­
formances somewhat cramped be­
cause of not knowing the words to
popular songs. The War Depart- :
ment is coming to the rescue of
all frustrated warblers by issuing
“Hit Kits.” containing lyrics of
current favorites to men in the
armed forces.
Special Service Division, Head-
quarter-. SOS.. has announced that
the first “Hit Kit,” with words to
six popular tunes, will be distrih- :
uted this month to.soldiers in this
countrv and oversea«. Songs are
selected by a committee made up
of twentv-one outstanding enter- i
tainers in the fields of radio and
popular music. Bing Crosby, Kav
Kyser and Kate Smith are on the
committee, which is headed by Fred
Waring.
The local Special Service Of­
fices will distribute the “Hit Kit«”
to men here this month. Distribu­
tion will be on the basis of one fold- .
er containing the words of the six
songs to each four men, and piano
music in the ratio of one to each
50 sets of lyrics.
The six tunes in the first kit are:
“This 1« The Army. Mr. Jone’,"
“There Are Such Things,” “Move
It Over,’’ “I Had The Crazic-*
prt>ain.” ”I've ('ot Sixpence.”
and "Pr ise the Lord and Pas« the
Ammtinition.”
Preparing 15 'Parks'
For Spring Program
Positively Not G.I.
Son of Camp Postal
Officer Was Flier
$1.50 a Year by Mail
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Grading, Sodding Now Started;
Main Field Will Have Grandstand
Fifteen athletic fields, strategic­
ATTENTION, C. O.’s!
ally
situated about this Army Post,
At a meeting of the Camp
Adair Exchange Council held , are being graded and sodded in
Tuesday, the first distribution preparation for Camp Adair's great
of Exchange profits was an- spring athletic offensive.
' nounced.
This was the announcement yes­
All organizations which to terday of Lt. Walter E. Sindlinger,
date have riot turned in monthly Camp Athletic Officer, who re­
strength reports each month vealed that effort is being for­
since activation of the unit are warded to build up playing fields
requested to forward these re­ which will be easily available to
ports to Major Rudolph Ayres, every soldier on the post.
Exchange officer, immediately.
One field, centrally located (plana
on which are now being detailed)
will be the Camp Adair “Home
Field’’ and site of important ath­
letic contests.
Many of these will he with other
Army Posts and civilian athletic
aggregations.
Boast Grand Stand
Final Decision to
The
"Home Field’’ will boast
Be Made Next Week
a grandstand and all the trim­
The votes in the Camp Adair I’X mings. Some of the others will
have bleachers, according to
girl contest are pouring in and it
present plana. Backstops for
looks like we’ll have to dig the baseball are already being in­
judges out from beneath the huge stalled on the fields throughout
stack of votes being sent in for the Post.
PX Queen contestants, Dorothy
Fields will have primary incep­
Caldwell and Hetty Frick.
tion for baseball use, since the
The PX board judging the con­ great American game is now com­
test have decided, in view of the ing to full bloom here, but will be
tremendous amount of votes being constructed to also house other
cast, that they would delay judg­ sports.
ing the neck-in-neck race between
Included importantly is track
the two girls until next week. It and soccer football.
will not be necessary for soldiers
Details of the big program in its
to send in additional votes as the full scope will soon be complete
judges have just about all they and revealed in the Sentry.
can handle.
The entire big prospectus has
The girls, to review the contest t>een worked out by Post and divi­
in part, are’ Brown-eyed Betty sion athletic officers and Post
Frick, wrtb is now the manager of Post Special Services Officer, Ma­
PX No. 10, and blue-eyed Dorothy jor Carl B. Forsman.
Caldwell, the second assistant man­
ager of PX No. 5. Both girls be­
ISS DISS VS. 8HARLEY?
came finalists in the contest after
Soldier “to make a mere show
the preliminary run-off of candi­ of work; shirk”—Webster’s Mod­
dates two weeks ago.
ern Dictionary.
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PX Girl Contest
Judges Swamped
Me’ve waited a long time to publish this picture of Mias
Margaret Gohries, but here it is at long last. Margaret (by proxie)
dedicates the launching of the Sentry as the OFFICIAL post
publication. She was selected for this signal honor because of her
beautiful blue eyes, or didn’t you notice?
LOOK AT US NOW
Don’t look now, bu> we’re different from la«t week.
With this issue the Sentry becomes the official
publication of Camp Adair and to mark the momentous
occasion we’ve decided to streamline ourselves and have
our face lifted. We may be vain, but we think you’ll like
us as well.
Just a word of explanation about this “Official”
business. When this camp was an engineer's nightmare
of blue prints and piles of lumber—way back in April
1942—Don Wilson, an astute and enterprising publisher
of Corvallis, started this sheet with the permission of
Col. R. E. M. Deslslets, then in charge of construction.
Later, when soldiers came (remember Tent City)
Wilson continued with the permission of Col. Gordon H.
McCoy. He did a good job of it, too. Expanding as the
camp expanded and growing up right along with it.
But now the time has come for us to stand on our
own. Mr. Wilson, with other worlds to conquer, has
turned his sprawling, husky infant over to us in com­
plance with an Army regulation that provides all "offi­
cial camp publications” be written, edited and distributed
by military personnel only.
We hope we can do as good a job as Wilson did. It
is up to you and you to help us. This is your paper,
soldier. With your tolerance, understanding and co­
operation we can make it the best doggone post paper
in the army. Without it, we’re sunk, we make no bones
about that.
So see that your unit is represented in every edi­
tion. See that someon^ in your outfit gathers a few
items and gets them to the Sentry office not later than
Monday noon. The Sentry is now your paper. Let’s get
going .. . The Editors.
I Softball Thriller, Yowsah! Officers
: Surprise as QM 'Out-Stars' SCU, 11-10
By Pfc. Bob Runkauff
If all of the softball frame« between officers of SCU 1911 and the
QMs and others to come along as trams are developed prove as close
a.« Monday night’■ opening battle, they’ll never have to close the winter
"hot stove” league for lack of fuel.
You can see what we mean by witnessing the next game, Monday,
5:30 p. m.
One would not say it was a bit ♦---------------------------------------- —»
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league battle; but one could say I work on the part of the rival
it was as interesting a piece of batteries, viz.:
sand-lot competition as you’d find
The Batteries
anywhere. And then say it twice.
For the winning QM outfit—
The final score was 11-10 in (apt. Tony <’. Frank, pitcher
favor of QM, after six innings of and Major Julian Brandt, catch­
effervescent ball. This included a er; for the Fightin’ HCU— team
"believe it or else" play on third, captain, ( apt. Gilbert R. Waite,
in which Major Ralph E. Riordan pitcher, and Lt. Emory L. Jack-
and his pipe «tarred; a Ruthian son. catcher.
home ?r from the hat of Lt. George
Umpires were Maj. Rudolph J.
Kreasaty; the strange cane
Ayres, who gave ’em a fair-and«
Chaplain
in Lt. Victor E Newman square cold deck deal on the base*
and some surprisingly big-time i (Continued on page 7, column 4)