Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, May 27, 1943.
Page Three
At
Vital Ceremony in Graphic Review Guests
Ceremony,
Reception
Old Glory
Among notables present in the
distinguished list present in the
reviewing stand at Tuesday’s flag
ceremony and later as guests at
the reception held at SCU 1911 Offi
cers’ club, were: Colonel Gordon H.
McCoy, Post Commander; Colonel
T. A. Baumeister; Governor Ear)
SnelJ; Miss Margaret Phillips; Colo
nel Elmer V. Wooten; Leslie M.
Scott, State Treasurer; Robert S.
Farrell, Jr., Secretary of State;
Harry S. Schenk, Deputy Secretary
of State.
Old Glory catches the breeze
as it is made fast to the flag-
pole halyards by the color guard,
composed of soldiers attached to
the SCU Military Police Detach
ment. from the 2nd Battalion.
Due to mechanical difficulties
encountered, the flag could not
be raised.
The huge. 19*jx.38-foot flag,
which will henceforth fly as the
symbol and center of the life of
one of America’s greatest Army
Posts, proved a slight bit too
much strain on the travellers
built to sustain it.
—Signal Corps Photo.
Hal White, representing Mayor
Riley of Portland; J. M. Doughton,
Mayor of Salem; Clifford Knodell,
Mayor of Albany; C. H. Woodcock,
Mayor of Corvallis.
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Col. Gordon H. McCoy, camp commander. Governer Earl Snell of Oregon, and (right) Col.
Robert N. Young of the new division review troops at Tuesday’s flag dedicatory ceremonies.
Foreign Languages
Made Easy by Means
Of Phono-Recordings
“Languages are very popular
with the soldiers at Camp Adair,"
said Lt. Walter Sindlirgcr, assist
ant special service officer at Post
Headquarters.
• He reports that 28 men have
signed up for the Armed Forces
Institute language courses at li
braries at 1 and 2. Foreign tongues
that interest soldiers at this post
are Spanish, French, Geima.i and
many others.
such times of peak demand the
Long Distance Calls
operator will say at the start of
Not to Exceed 5 Minutes conversation, “Please limit your
call to five minutes—others are
The Pacific Telephone and Tele waiting,’’ according to Mr. Albrich.
graph Ccmpany is now starting to
ask the cooperation of long distance
Bob Hawk, whose Yankwiz, is
telephone users to limit their con
versations over heavily loaded lines now a Sentry feature, has been
to five minutfs, according to H. J. having trouble obtaining chicken
Albrich, manager for the company sandwiches—his favorite food —
these days. At one restaurant the
here.
The goal is to speed up telephone other day, Bob gingerly lifted the
traffic over congested routes dur top slice of toast, and glumly de
ing hours when demand is heaviest livered himself of an opinion: “I’ve
and calls are sub.ect to delay. At seen more meat on feathers."
Major General G. R. Cook, com
manding neneral of the Timber
Wolf division; Brigadier General
Bryant E. Moore, commanding gen
eral of the Timber Wolf artillery;
Brigadier General J. E. Dahlquist;
Colonel C. H. Owens, chief of staff
for Gen. Dahlquist; Brigadier Gen-
end Roland Schugg; Colonel E. C.
Snow; Colonel W. R. Scott; Colonel
A. H. Stackpole; Colonel Robert N.
Young; Lt. Colonel E. Henry; David
Eccles, War Savings Staff; Wilbur
M. Carl, War Savings Staff; Dr. C.
A. Howard, Oregon College of Edu-
, cation.
Among the newspaper publish
ers and editors were: Palmer Hoyt,
publisher of the Oregonian; P. L.
Jackson, publisher of the Oregon
Journal; Charles A. Sprague, pub
lisher of the Salem Statesman;
Claude Ingalls, publisher of the
Corvallis Gazette-Times; R. R.
Cronise, publisher of the Albany
Democrat-Herald; William M. Tug
man, editor of the Eugene Regis
ter Guard.
C. R. Logal of the Capitol Jour
nal; Ralph Curtis and Al Lightner
of the Oregon Statesman; Ralph
Kletzing of the Independence En
terprise; R. B. Svenson of the Mon
mouth Herald; Myron K. Myers of
the Corvallis Gazette-Times; Ianthe
Smith of the Oregon Journal; and
Wallace Eakin of the Albany Demo
crat-Herald.
Yea sir, Sgt. Rankin;
The USO Salutes You
USO CLUB CORVALLIS sa
lutes Sgt. Bill Rankin and his six-
i teen-piece orchestra! This very
fine orchestra made their debut at
, the Cabaret Nite in the USO CLUB
and scored a tremendous hit in its
first appearance. A record attend
ance for a weekday helped make
Cabaret Nite a very successful one.
The Three Lewis Sisters helped
entertain the service men and
brought the evening to a success
ful close.
Thank you, Major Townsend, for
your splendid cooperation in get
ting us this band.
Adair Tribute
In Addresses
Cogent Speeches Here
Express Thanks; Tell
Purposes of Our Post
In brief, aftermath addresses to
the Tuesday ceremony at P st
Parade Grounds, held that evening
in the SCU officers club at a din
ner-reception for honored guests,
the significance of the day was em
phasized.
Speakers included Post C om-
mander Col. Gordon H. McCoy,
whose laudation of the Lt. Adair,
for whom this Post was named, is
carried elsewhere in the Sentry;
Governor Earl Snell of Oregon and
former Governor Charles A.
Sprague; Major General Gilbert R.
Cook of the Timber Wolf division
and divisional Commander Briga
dier-General John E. Dahlquist
and Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the
Washington, D. C., to become a ist-
Oregonian, who soon leaves for
ant to Director of War Information
Elmer Davis, by appointmen
f
President Roosevelt.
In his principal address, Hoyt
reiterated the truth that victory
in this global and devastating
war hinges upon three factor----
production, air power, fire pow er.
Production applies the third quo
tient directly to Camp Adair where
the one and sole purpose is the
production of men—men who are
the kind of soldiers trained to win
a war. And the prominent publisher
lauded the accomplishment evi
denced at this cantonment.
News in War
Diverting to his own field, Hovt
dwelt upon the vital strategy of
news in the plan of successful war.
If a people, he pointed out, know
why they are fighting—and how
they are progressing—they will and
can fight. For knowledge is one of
the great essentials of freedom.
The great irony is Germany. It
was lack of knowledge—through
with-holding of facts and total non
acknowledgment of public intelli
gence, which caused the cataclys
mic collapse of Germany in World
War I. The German peoples, total
ly misinformed, were unprepared
when the avalanche of fact anent
German war reverses finaly broke.
Germany collapsed.
Governor Speaks
Full-souled support and friend-
, ship of the people of Oregon to this
post, was reiterated by Governor
Snell in his brief talk. "Oregon to
day," the governor said, “shares
its pride with Camp Adair.”
Likewise, former Governor
Sprague lauded the spirit of c op
eration in pointing out the geo
graphical advantages of Camp
I Adair for the purpose intended.
This, and the spirit of coopera-
! tion evidenced between the Po*t
(Cont. on Page 11, Col. 2)
Military and Civilian Dignitaries Assemble for Review
The special service officer ex
plained that all languages are
taught by means of phonog: aph
recordings and text books.
“It is necessary to have an en
rollment of at least 15 pupils be
fore the government will open a
class," said Lt. Sindlinger.
He advise# all who have a desire
to gain a comprehensive knowledge
of a foreign langisage to sign up
with either library I or 2 as soon
as possible.
DANCES IN ALBANY
Miss June Powell, f amp Adairs
own little dancer, entertained with
her familiar Mexican dances for
the Albany Elks last Saturday
night. She works in Service Club
1 library.
An assemblage of prominent military officials and civilien dignitaries take their places on the reviewing stand to watch the
dedication ceremonies conducted on the Post Parade Grounds, Tuesdav afternoon, at 4 P.M. Officers representing the divisions were
guests of the high-ranking militarists from the Service Commai d Unit in charge of the affair. —All photos by Post Signal Corp«.