A weekly journal de
voted to ^maintaining
morale with the respon
sibility of circulating
post information and
news at Camp Adair,
Oregon.
By special arrange
ment, USO programs
for towns surrounding
Camp Adair will h
published each week.
You will find them tab
ulated on page nine.
Vol. 1. No. 51.
Camp Adair, Oregon. Thursday, April 8, 1943.
Timber Wo/f Engineers Receive Colors
Chest Drive Is
Over The Top'
Fcr the second time, and this time as an appropriate
post-observation of Army Day, units of Camp Adair have}
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 from 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 Progr
In National Contest
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
“'Camp Adair Sentry” Plans
To Celebrate First Year
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,
year.
rainy day, her hat took off, like »n
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.
Timber Wolf Radio Programs j runs along G street whenever the
__ , „ April 6 _ — Orientation
__________ “Rains Come.”
Tuesday,
program, 1756-1815. Station KOAC, I It floated from First St. South
Coi-vallis. 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, columft 3 (with it.
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.
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Towser, Io Be a 'Dog of War’ Must
Be First a Mascot and Work Upward
I Departs With a Tear;
■ Hdq. Lt., Pete Lafka
I Was Tent City Pioneer
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many stray dogs at Camp Adair
and he has asked to have them
picked up-,
In order to keep a dog on the
post, it is necessary to pay a
dollar to have it immunized, once
every twelve months. No animals
will be allowed in the Hospital area,
the exchanges, service club, cafe-
terias, or other buildings where
food is stored, prepared, cooked or
eaten.
Post Regulations further states
' that all dogs will be restrained
¡from 7:30 a. m. to 11 a. m. and
from 1-6 p. m. with the exception
’ of Sundays and holidays.
Do you want a mascot? There’s
a half-chow who would like to join
the army. Due to army regula-
tions he can’t do so, unless he is
accepted by some outfit.
Lt. Hugh Tonsfeldt gets fre
quent calls that they have a dog
who would enlist his services in the !
army. The Post Guard has filled
!
its quota and can’t use them.
The only way that a dog can I
join the service at Camp Adair 1
Lt. Tonsfeldt said that there are
Launch Liberty Ship
At Portland Yards
Mrs. CeCe Cook is Sponsor of
Ceremony Dedicating New Vessel
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EM, Officers and
Civilian Personnel in
Generous Voluntary
Fund Contributions
is to become th“ mascot of some
outfit. Anyone adopting such a
dog. however, is advised to abide
by the Post Regulations.
$1.50 a Year by Mail
Personnel of Headquarters Com-
| pany, SCU 1911. were sorry to see
First Lt. Pete Lafka leave for
Pittsburgh, California »?e was one
of the earliest members of this
organization having arrived in tent
i city as a second Lt.
«
were less than fifty
SCU.
I . Lt. Lafka expressed genuine re
' gret at leaving although Pitts-
ourgh is onjy forty miles from
nis home city. San Francisco. He
had watched the Service Command
Unit grow from infancy and had a
I tear in his eye when he left.
"Male Animal" (Page 12)
f Cook, commanding general of the
Timber Wolf division, yesterday
Fire At (Poor) Will
stood as sponsor as, amid colorful
Overheard in Corvallis and 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 ways
“Praise the Lord, they’re OUT 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 ofl
Would Be no Better
field pieces.
Miss Mary Atwood, General
Than This Rare Yarn
Cook’s niece, accompanied Mrs«
This happened Tuesday at Ser Cook as matron of honor, along
with his small grand-daughter«
vice Club 2:
Patsy Cook.
Three staff sergeants were wax
In a previous “Army launching,•
floor—and
a Pvt. wa« show-
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,
B last January 31, Mrs. Gordon H.
ing ’em how. The reasons for it1 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.
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at all obscure about the words later
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uttered by the non-com in charge,
FOR
10
CENTS
—
A
BRAIN
Sgt. Nick Sansonia:
The peanut contains more pro«
“Those guys never stopped or
took a break. Why the three ci ’em tein than beefsteak, and half a
did the work of some details of 20. small peanut holds all the extr«
No wonder they’re Staff Serge- calories needed for the energy de«
ants!”
mands of an hour of brain work«
f Nobody Bui 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 contests, “1 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’Har«
to continue his writing effort.
I i
' We were impressed enough. Bui
on what should O’Hara write ? Thia
young man then proceeded to put
the most important idea in the
world into our mind, Said he:
I
i , “T am KP the week now.” Th«
subjectf Without more ado w«
. Continued on page 10, column 4 j
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