Camp Adair Sentry
QUARTERMASTER
“QUOTES and QUERIES’’
Pfc. F. Smith—Sgt. M. Gaines
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Happy Birthday Dear ‘old’ Sentry
You’ve passed your very first
year
If you think that was tough
Try the second, with this pair
here!
Since this is the Sentry's first
anniversary edition, we wonder if
you readers would mind us “Old
Adair Men” (IO*
1« months) rem
iniscing back to the days when we
first arrived here; when barracks
aijd the present day Sentry were
just dreams. REMEMBER back
there when Cpl. Dom Arbia, Major
Brandt’s driver, didn’t drive for
Major Brandt! Or for that matter
wasn’t a Cpl. but a “goldbrick”
like the rest of us! Remember?
It was there also that he started
corresponding with a Miss Renee
Ring of Roseland, N. J. (have we
got spies!! Who’s this guy Win
chell?) Which correspondence, by
the way, has progressed to the
stage where they now exchange
opinions on things in general.
(Dom borrows his for the occasion.)
Remember back in his “younger
days,” the hazard Bill Shnelwert
made with his extra large PRO
BOSCIS (nose to youse guys)
sticking out of his tent?
Remember S/Sgt. Milt Wein
stein (who in those days was JUST
Milt Weinstein) and the trials and
tribulations he went through for
Tent City’s mascot, Stinky? In
those days, it was Milt who lead
the DOG’S life! Remember?
Speaking of “Stinky”—Remem
ber the trouble Bill Shnelwert, he
of the before mentioned “enlarged
nostrils,” and Mike Gaines, he of
these mutterings and the Station
Hospital, had getting him back
from Salem, where they bought
him for 75 cents. It was in the
dead of night, and both are Limited
Service because of their eyes! Fig
ure it out for yourself.
Remember the disappointment
on both sides when we received our
first passes and went to Corvallis?
We expected a larger town and
they in turn expected SOLDIERS!
Remember?
Remember Murray “Michael An
gelo” Kruger, who disappeared
every morning into a tent outside
the, then, partly constructed QM
Warehouses, not to be seen again
till noon. (Chow time—don’t you
know!!) After chow, back again
like a groundhog who’s seeing
things, Mike would go. Night would
find Mike, (which is more than
the Non-Com’s could do (emerg
ing from his canvas home with a
board with ONE NUMBER on it!!
Remember?
Remember way back there when
Sgt. (only then he was Cpl.) Van
was resting peacefully (like Sgts,
always do!!) little dreaming of the
part he was to play in Adair’s
“growing pains.” Namely, “Bull
Gang Pusher,” “Foreman of the
Bar QM Stables,” and last but not
least, the role for which he was
Male Call
Thursday, April 15, 1943.
Page Seven
most suited, “Hector, The Gar
REMEMBER THE FLOOD? WHAT FLOOD?
bage Collector!” Remember?
Remember the “reading rooms”
at the east end of Tent City?
And the greenish concoction that
S Sgt. Moss (then Pfc.) would
pass out as coffee? And then WE
would PASS OUT!
And Tom Duddy, now a "fugi
tive” from Adair, (he left on a
cadre). He was Author, Director
and Cast of “Famous Latrine
Rumors No. 1-1000 From Adair.”
Included amongst others was the
famous “QM 1911 is going en
masse to North Africa.” Remem- :
ber?”
Remember the day Will Hamm,
Dom Arbia, Howie Blitting (since
gone to OCS) moved Post Head
quarters from Corvallis into camp?
Driving this detail, which we’ll
never forgive, was John “Mad
Russian” Deskievitch! If Head
quarters came unmarked through
that creature’s driving, we’re afraid
all our secret wishes will go for
naught, fellows' Remember?
And the tough time we had
getting Tom Ryan to use the make
shift showers alongside the tents?
He wasn’t afraid of the showers’
themselves, it was the WATER
that frightened him!
Remember the first dances in
Corvallis with the Oregon State
co-eds? And the threats, of re
Spring is at Adair, and to stay the Oregonians tell us, until followed by summer (and gentle
signing from school rather than
showers. But it flooded once (we can tell it now), though this was unusual. And civilian gals on
the post took refuge for three nights about Jan. 1, in these comfortable uuarters at Service Club
to face those “Horrible Hoofers”
1. Did they like it? ----- , yes They loved it. This Public Relations Photo proves it.
again!
Remember that “drought” of
get in 15 practice rounds Best shoto ■ Off on furlough this week, is
two days without rain last sum Post Ordnance
were Pfc. Chuck Hammett and Pri- i T/4 Eddie Hoyt. It's “Back Home
mer, that the natives told us was Post Scripts
vates “Jake” Jacobsen and “Major” J Again In Indiana” for Eddie and
unusual? And we didn’t believe
, Brown. Outstanding contender for wife Betty. When last seen, Eddie
them! Remember?
Chief event of the previous week ; the booby prize was “Field Soldier” was headed for the depot with that
was the transfer of Tech Sgt Leo Johnny Adamson. Blame it on the “Wabash” look in his eyes and
We hope we haven’t bored you nard A. Tanner, chief clerk, and gremlins, Johnny. Further episodes “Terre Haute” on his lips.
with our ancient history
Challenge is hereby made to the
First Sergeant of the detachment ’ of “They Gave Me A Gun,” or
We promise, for the second year ever since those dear, old, tent city . “Home On The Range,” will appear; Frenzied Finance to a softball game
of it, you may be free.
to decide the championship of Bar
days. Taking his place will be T/3 l in subsequent editions.
So, once again, one year OLD Ralph A. Gleissner.
rack 465. The prize?—a quart of
Sentry, we say to you,
The other Saturday, the intrepid
Strange mutterings came from linament to ease those creaking old
Good luck! But let’s hope we’re all Sons of the Flaming Bomb went to the bunk of “Hop-a-long” Studdert, bones.
home before you’re Two!
the range to complete their course last Wednesday night. They sound
in rifle marksmanship. But, rain ed like “Four Sixes” and “I’ll play I Best Wishes Dept.-----
The golden bear of California, a and fog necessitated the postpone these” It seems that Studdert went I To our C.O., Captain Emery I.
variety of the grizzly, has long ment of firing until some future to bed that night a poorer, but a I Jackson, on his recent promotion.
been extinct.
day. However, we did manage to much wiser man.
i To T/3 “Bud” Gleissner. new
Chief Clerk and First Sergeant.
To Sergeant and Mrs. Frankie
LESSON 102 IN STREAMLINING
L. Veitschegger on the birth of a
I nine pound son and heir—their first.
! I To Private and Mrs. David L.
, Cheney on the birth of an eight
■ pound girl—their third.
To civilian emplayees Earl Mus-
tonen and Milo Lawton. awaiting
induction into the service.
That’s about all for now. Meet'
i you again next week.
i If you’re captured, don’t let tho
j enemy talk you into speaking over
i the radio “so the folks at home
j know you are all right.”
The War Department recently
prohibited soldiers from “making
use of enemy wireless broadcast
ing facilities,” so you’d probably
face court martial when you got
back,
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But the most important reason
is that the enemy uses such broad
casts for propaganda.
We only used this picture because T 5 Don Lynch, recognized here and there as an artist, said
she displayed dynamic tension.
by Milton Caniff, Creator of 'Terry and the Pirates” \
Abaca, a banana,like tropical
plant, is the source of Manila hemp
I fibres.
Lackey in Khaki
WAACY