Camp Aaair Sentry
Thursday. April 15.1943.
Page Twelve
November, 1942
Gov. Sprague visits camp ... Adair firemen bag deer ... “Sven" Johnson named
area rent czar ... bond sales boom among civilian employes, as well as among officers
ar.d men ... tournaments booked in giant post athletic program ... ‘Carmichael."
bear mascot, given by Hostess Merriam ... Col. Woods outlines army pay system ...
tall and short corporals meet ... officers, men describe experiences on Armistice Day.
1918 ... Divisional Assembly marks Armistice Day in 96th ... 500 tons of scrap
gathered in month ... Timber Wolves play host to civilians, and “induct” them into
army life ... sales commissary opened ... Red Cross distributed sweaters to MP's...
Col. McCoy turns first spadeful of earth for Non-Com club ... “Dogs of War" sought
by Major Riordan for post duty ... 81 mess officers graduated ... bulb shipment for
landscaping arrives ... war reviewed by 96th orientation course ... Chaplain Jorgenson,
first chaplain in camp, leaves for new post ... “Soup to Nuts,” first USO-Camp Show,
booked in December ... Adair bakery opens by producing 37.000 loaves a day ...
Mp’s entertain officers at Thanksgiving Dinner ... Signal Corps lab set up ... Gen.
Dunkel tells Cooks and Bakers “victory hinges on food” ... new officers club opened
by Timber Wolves.
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News and Views
Of 329th Medics
Bv I’fc. Gorden M. Gauthier
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PRINCIPALS IN SIGNIFICANT LAUNCHING CEREMONY
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Major-General Gilbert R. Cook, commanding the Timber Wolf division, stands at the right,
As soon as the men can
above, with principals in the Army Day launching of the S. S. Henry Failing at Oregon Shipbuilding
trained, fifes will be added. They j
corporation. Others, from left. Mrs. Margaret Atwood, matron of honor; Mrs. Cece Cook, sponsor:
will give the corps that “extra '
Miss Margaret Atwood, flower girl; Chaplain Frank J. Worthington of the Timber Wolf division.
something" which makes it really
click. Once a week we have a
ie Boost
Battalion dress retreat, and have ■
Denied
been march ir. g to the tunes of a
borrowed band, but last week for
Voluntary offers by 10.000 employ­
the first time, our drum and bugle (
ers to raise wages and salaries will
corps did the honor-. From now on
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be
denied as a result of the war
The
full
story
of
the
American
air
they will probably be the standard
labor
board's refusal to permit ad­
raid
on
Tokyo,
including
the
loca
­
“I christen thee—the S. S. Henry
The launching last week was the
operating procedure < SOP in G.I.
justment
of inequalities and inequi­
tion
of
mythical
Shangri-La.
will
be
Failing.”
second that Camp Adair officers
language >.
ties.
told
soon
for the first time.
I These traditional word- spoken have participated in. Last January
There was no official estimate of
Director Elmer Davis of the of-
Sgt. Clifford Jorgensen of Com­ by Mrs. Cece Cook, the daughter the wife of Colonel Gordon H. Mc­ fice of war information told re- how many employes this would af­
pany “A." 329th Medical Battalion, of Major General Gilbert R. Cook. Coy sponsored the launching of the porters today that unpublished de- fect, but unofficial estimates ranged
tails of the raid would be released from half a million to a million.
and Miss Julia Larson of Salem. Timber Wolf division commanding
soon by the army. He added, how- i ; Most of the cases involve fewer
general,
fell
upon
the
ears
of
Oregon, were married recently
Sponsor
ever,
he did not know whether the than 100 employes each,
thousands
of
noon-time
lounging
in Salem. Company “A” congratu­
release would be timed for the first-------------------------
shipyard
workers
and
invited
lates them and wishes them many
anniversary of the Tokyo bombing, Open Up Those
years of happiness and prosperity. guests at the Oregon Shipbuilding
April 18.
Pearly Gates
Now with two cooks in the family, Corporation’s 171st Liberty ship
launching
last
week.
San Francisco (CNS) - In a
the needle on the penny scales will
Try ìli is Recipe
The
launching
of
the
latest
unit
hotel
lobby a man played a pinball
be straining to a higher figure.
Take two empty
barracks,
place
in the vast Kaiser yard was ob­
- -
- . - - machine for several hours, pouring
I in them one Company Commander nickel after nickel into the slot,
served as a tribute to Army Day
New Guide Book
with driving force, imagination, Suddenly he drew a gun. turned
and had as its principals, Major-
For Jungle Use
an i an ability to use the Lend- around and held up the hotel clerk.
General
Cook,
who
gave
the
ad
­
The War Department also an-
Lease Act to the company’s advan- ( The nickel dropper got away with
nounce.- a brand new kind of G.I. dress to the shipyard workers and
tage;
add 24 hard-working, stripe- $80.
guide book entitled: “Jungle and his daughter, the “Failing's” spon­
happy.
pass-hungry men, call them
Desert Emergencies.” For use by sor.
“cadre.” Composition of cadre is a
M ith Pitcher of Ice Water
men in the Army Air Forces in ( In his address to the ship work-
First Sergeant, who is everybody's
New York—A letter i-eceived by
case they're forced down in the ers> General Cook compared them
friend, a Supply Sergeant, who the St. Regis Hotel here reads: “I
jungles or deserts it will be includ- j
his troops,
would like to be supplied with a want you to reserve a double room,
ed in all pilot bail out kits.
“Your job in winning the war is
new set of hair, and a Mess Ser­ sitting room and bath on the third,
It has a bright red cover so it building ships; ours is killing the
geant, 13 Corporals, three cooks fourth, or fifth floor on the comer
won’t be lost, is printed on special enemy,” he declared. I hope we
and u clerk; shake them up well of 5th Ave. and 56th St. for at least
water-resistant paper and has in­ can do as good a job of killing the
together and you have Company F. a day before and two days after the
sect-repellent powder in the bind- enemy as you are doing in building
Seasoning will improve.
victory parade which will be held
ing glue.
ships.
—“The Trainee Tribune.” in New York at the end of the
“The enemy may sink this ship,
Mrs. CeCe Cook
war.”
MESS SGTS. ONLY
3 STRIPES. YaR IN!
but until it destroys that spirit of
Goshen. N. Y.—Every man cor- team play that exists among labor. “George Bibb,” another Kaiser
For Workshop Fund
Camp Grant. Ill.—The order in
rectly “classified” is the policy of management, capital and the armed shipbuilding product,
Portland
Museum members have
which soldiers love things are list­
the authorities at the Orange forces, they can never win the war.
Both launchings were under the ed as follows:
subscribed $200 for the soldier­
County jail. Just as the cook quit We are in safe hands.”
direction of Mr. Hal Bauer, gen­
Private: 1. Himself, 2. Chewing artist’s studio under the direction
the clink a 60-day sentence was
Mrs. Cook christened the vessel. eral manager of the Kaiser yard, gum, 3. Beer.
of Cpl. Don Lynch at Camp Adair.
handed to Frank Kelly whose rec­ Her aunt, Mrs. Margaret Atwood, Mr. Hal Babbitt, public relations
Private, First Class: 1. Himself,
Late last month the first install­
ord showed he had been a short or­ was matron of honor, and her cous­ director, and Lt. George H. God­ 2. Beer, 3. Stripes.
ment of easels, paints, brushes,
der cook. He is now a jail cook. in. Miss Margaret Atwood, was frey, post public relations officer.
Corporal: 1. Stripes, 2. Himself, clay and other supplies were sent
l flower girl. Chaplain Frank J.
3. Beer.
out. Further supplies will go for­
Love on the Double
Worthington of the Timber Wolf
Sergeant: 1. Himself, 2. Himself, ward shortly.
Indianapolis. Ind. (CNS) — A
Ellington Field. Tex.—Maj. A. division gave the invocation.
theater here advertised a double 3. Himself.
The
band,
directed
by
Warrant
C. Greig concedes you can’t ration
feature as follows: “George Wash-
Dead Madame Snafoo: With ra­
love and that nothing can be done Officer Fred Frey, dedicated a new ington Slept Here” “Between Us
One pound, or 31 tablespoonsful, tioning and all, maybe you can tell
about officers and men dating girl division song, “Rally the Pack,” Girls.”
of waste cooking fats will produce how to make anti-freeze.—Chilly
mechanics. “But,” he writes in the to General Cook. The number was
the
gycerine, processed as an ex­ Willie.
i w ri
Post paper, “two minutes is plenty . written
by First Sergeant Ever-
The call of a trumpeter swan plosive, required to fire four 37
Dear Chilly Willie: Sure. Hide
General's Daughter Is 5iory of Tokyo Raid fo oSSiSl
Sponsor of 171st Ship Be Told to Public Soon
ef trine to make arrangement? ”
lard, a member of the band.
can be heard as far as two
•tea.
mm. anti-aircraft »hells.
her long underwear.