/\ocfzCJM STA fE LIBRARY
A weekly journal de-
T"<«1 to maintaining
n'u.r,?'e *’,h the respon­
sibility of circulating
PO't information and
news at Camp Adair.
Oregon.
Bv s p e c i a I arrange-
i>APP «SO -programs
for towns surroundin'-
tamp Adair will 1
published each week.
Ion will find them tab­
ulated on page nine.
ol. 1, No. 51.
Chest Drive Is
Over The Top'
Camp Adair. Oregon. Thursday. Apri) 8, 1943.
Timber Wolf Engineers Receive Colors
Launch Liberty Ship
At Portland Yards
Mrs. CeCe Cook is Sponsor at
Ceremony Dedicating New Vessel
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EM, Officers and
Civilian Personnel in
Generous Voluntary
Fund Contributions
For the second time, and this time as an appropriate
post-observation of Army Day, units of Camp Adair havfl|
helped consign another “victory shop” of the Oregon Ship*
! building Corporation to the waters.
Mrs. CeCe Cook, daughter of Major General Gilbert R,
The Red Cross War Chest Drive,
which closes Saturday, has “gone
over the top," with generous con­
tribution frem EM, Officers and
Civilian personnel on this Post,
Verl Lewis, field director, said yes­
terday.
Lewis announced that a total of
nearly $8000. contributed strictly
on a voluntary basis, has been re­
ceived.
In the break-down to date, EM
have given $5.337.91; officers, $1,1
064.58 and civilians, $842.
“There has been no active solici­
tation of enlisted personnel,” Lewis
said. Many contributions were “re­
peaters’ and the civilian personnel
here were praised, for many have
contributed also in their home
towns.
Timber Wolf Program
In National Contest
$1.50 a Year by Mail
: Cook, commanding general of the
Timber Wolf division, yesterday,
stood as sponsor as, amid colorful
Overheard in Corvallis anil ceremony, the “S. S. Henry Fail­
Monmouth, while SCU 1911 was ing," named after a pioneer Ore­
out on the Rifle Range:
gonian, was rolled down the way«
“Praise the Lord, they’re OCT in Portland.
of ammunition!"
This was a Timber Wolf event,
for there was a divisional convoy
of troops, music by the Timber
If Man Bit a Dog it
Wolf infantry band, a display oj
Would Be no Better
field pieces.
Miss Mary Atwood, Generaj
Than This Rare Yarn
Cook’s niece, accompanied Mrs.
Cook as matron of honor, along
This happened Tuesday at Ser-
with his small grand-daughter,
vice Club 2:
Patsy Cook.
Three staff sergeants were wax­
In a previous “Army launching,”
ing a floor—and a Pvt. was show­ last January 31, Mrs. Gordon IL
ing ’em how. The reasons for it McCoy, wife of the Post Command­
are a little obscure but that was er, sponsored the George W. Bibb,
the situation; and there is nothing O.S.C.’s 129th Liberty Ship.
I
at all obscure about the words later
Fire At (Poor) Will
At a colorful ceremony last week when the Engineer Bat­
talion of the Timber Wolf Division was made a full-fledged combat
unit. Major General Gilbert R. Cook, commanding general of the
Timber Wolves, presents the officials national and battalion colors
to Lt. Colonel Chester W. Ott. commanding officer of the engineers.
—Public Relations Photo.
KOAC Deems Lecture
On Orientation Best
"Hats Off!"—But it
Station KOAC. considering the Wasn’t Time to Cheer
Timber Wolf Orientation Lecture.
Have you ever had a hat that
“The Far East. 1940 to the -Pres­
ent,” the best thing they have aired went on a voyage? June McDowell,
this season, plans to submit the pro­ who works in Personnel at Post
gram to a nation-wide contest
Headquarters, has. Walking down
which seeks to find the best educa­
tional-dramatic presentation of the the street on an unusually windy,
rainy day, her hat took off, like an
year.
The station has requested per- amphibian plane, After staying in
mission from the Timber Wolf Di­ the air for approximately a minute,
vision to record this lecture, which
it nose-dived into a rivulet which
KOAC broadcast on March 23.
runs along G street whenever the
Timber Wolf Radio Programs
_r__. 6 _ — Orientation
__________ “Rains Come."
______ ,, . April
Tuesday,
program, 1756-1815. Station KOAC, I It floated from First St. South
Corvallis. Topic: “The role of the to Post Headquarters at which
armed forces in the United States point Miss McDowell caught up
Continued on page 5, column 3 |with it.
; Towser, Io Be a 'Dog ol War' Must
I i Be _ First
_ _ a _ Mascot
_ _ _ _ and
_ _ _ Work
_ _ _ Upward
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“Camp Adair Sentry” Plans
To Celebrate First Year
Believe it or not, next week’s
issue of the “Sentry” marks the
first year of publication! Yes-
siree! It’s 52 weeks old.
The “Sentry” started as a
publication for the civilian
workers who were then in the
process of building this canton­
ment. When the first cadre of
the military personnel arrived,
this publication had been pub­
lished several months, and was
an established project.
Watch for next weeks’ special
anniversary edition, which will
carry pictures and stories of
the “early days” as well as last
minute events.
Departs With a Tear;
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I Hdq. Lt., Pete Lafka
I
I Was Tent City Pioneer
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Personnel of Headquarters Com­
Do you want a mascot? There’s many stray dogs at Camp Adair
pany, SCU 1911, were sorry to see
a half-chow who would like to join and he has asked to have them
First Lt. Pete Lafka leave for
the army. Due to army regula­ picked up.
tions he can't do so. unless he is ' In order to keep a dog on the Pittsburgh. California. He was one
post, it is necessary to pay a of the earliest members of thi*
accepted by some outfit
Lt. Hugh Tonsfeldt gets fre- dollar to have it immunized, or.ee organisation having arrived in tent
quent calls that they have a dog every twelve months. No animal«
city as a «econd Lt. when there
who would enlist his services in the I will be allowed in the Hospital awa.
armv. The Post Guard ha« filled the exchange«, «ervice club, cafe- were less than fifty soldiers in
its quota and can’t use them. -
| teria«. or ether building« where
The only »ay that a dog can food is stored. jreparni, cooked or
join the «ervice at Camp Adair eaten.
l. to become the mascot of -<>me
P«»sl Regulations further «tat
outfit. Anyone adopting Meh a that all dog- will be re«:-aired
dog. however, is advi«ed to abide from 7:30 a. m. to 11 a. m and
bv the Po«t Regulation«
from 1-6 p. m. with the except
Lt. Tonsfeidt said that there are 1 of Sundays and holidays.
uttered by the non-com in charge,
Sgt. Nick Sansonia:
"Those guys never stopped or
took a break. Why the three of ’em
did the work'of some details of 20.
No won,
he)
.Staff Serge-
ants!”
Al
FOR 10 CENTS—A BRAIN
| The peanut contains more pro*'
tein than beefsteak, and half a
small peanut holds all the extr«
calories needed for the energy de*
mands of an hour of brain work«
: Nobody But a Writer Like O'Hara, (Pvt),
Could Make So Glorious, Inglorious KP
(Foreword: He was bespectacled,
young and so diffident he made us
feel very important as he stood by
our desk and said:
"My name is Pvt. Thomas J.
O’Hara, now with a Depot Com­
pany. My captain feels that my
talent is as a writer and I would
like to write for The Sentry ’’ Thus
honored, but of the dubious sort,
we proceeded with the natural
question: “What did YOU ever
write?” Pvt. O'Hara, who has
been 100 per cent Irish for the last
250 years, he says—proceeded to
knock properly on the chin we’d
led with:
He is 19, from Manhattan and
has already won two state-wide
essay content.«, “Effect of the New
York World's Fair on World Af-
fairs’’ (1940); “Pan American Re­
lations and How to Improve Them”
. (1941) — plus honors in a national
essay contest sponsored by the New
York Journal American.
,
He has written poetry, fiction^
articles. His work has been read
by Mary Roberts Rinehart and th*
C.O. of his dad’s outfit, the “fight*
ing 69th” who is none other than
the distinguished author, Rupert
Hughes. Both advised Pvt. O'Hard
to continue his writing effort.
|
We were impressed enough. But
on what should O’Hara write? Thia
young man then proceeded to put
the most important idea in th«
world into our mind. Said he:
|
“I am KP the week now.” Th«
subject! Without more ado w«
Continued on page 10, column 4 |
SCU
Lt
go is only loriv mi:e« iron
his home city. San Francisco. He
nad watched the Service Command
Unit grow from infancy and had a
tear
Male Animal" (Page 12)
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