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ly issue of interesting,
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sonnel of Camp Adair,
Oregon.
Ry special arrange
ment, USO programs
for towns surrounding
Camp Adair will be
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You will find them tab
ulated on Page 11.
Vol. 2, No. 8.
Camp Adair, Oregon, Thursday, June 10, 1943.
$1.50 a Year by Mail
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'Wolf Ball Nine Plays Army & Loggers
Portland, Sacramento To Combat Fires
Meet Coast Guard Here Friday;
Battle Solons in Salem Monday
Two great ball games, one on the Post tomorrow, will be
played by the Timber Wolf Division nine.
Lt. Bob Duffy, division athletic officer, yesterday an-
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played by the potent Wolf team
will take place on the Sea Gull
diamond at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow,
against the powerful Coast Guard
team of Portland.
Post Switches to I
Sun Tan Monday
Memo Out Today;
No ODs In Camp;
Field Jackets Taboo
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Monday, the division nine will
play the Pacific Coast league
contenders, the Sacramento So
lons. at the George E. Waters
ball park, Salem. Game is called
for 6 p. m.
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Monday, Camp
Col. Frazier Warns
Oi Incendiary Fire
Menace to Timber
A
program
of cooperatiqp
to
combat incendiary forest fires be-
gan last Monday with an opening
adaress by Lt. Col. Joseph E. Fraz
er, Post Ordnance Officer, before
loggers of the Willamette Valley
Tree Farm Association, in Dorena,
Giegon.
Col. Frazer attacked the mili
tary aspects of the problem while
Major Earl F. Armstrong, Post
Chemical Warfare Officer, dis
cussed various types of incend
iary bombs.
All EM are invited to attend both
The main point of Col. Frazer’s
Adair will games. The Sea Gull playing field
is
at
12th
St.
N.
and
C
Ave.
Details
speech was that “a basic strategy
switch over to sun tans.
in Sentry sports section.
of modern warfare is to weaken
This was the announcement re
| the enemy by knocking out his war
ceived just before going to press
. industries.”
last night, from the office of Capt.
The enemy objective is “to cut
Gilbert A. Waite, Post Adjutant.
off or destroy the supply of raw
Today’s memo, signed by the Post
materials.” Few, if gny, raw ma
Commander, Col. Gordon•. H- Mc
terials ate- more basic to national
Coy, will detail the general condi
defense than the timber stands of
tions, viz.:
Opportunity Offered
the Pacific Northwest.
(1) Sun Tans will be the dress
To Advance in Ranks
The responsibilities of combat
uniform on the Post at all times.
ting saboteurs and incendiary
(2) ODs may only be worn off
Captain Joseph C. Herron, Resi- bombs lie with the loggers, Who
the Post.
dent Engineer, Camp Adair, Ore- know the local terrain better than
(3) Field jackets may not be gon, has announced that nine
Army authorities do. The Army,
worn off the 0ost unless the wear thousand trade specialists per however, will advise and assist
er is going to or from his home.
month are needed by the construc to the fullest extent.
tion branch, Army Corps of En
The order is Post-wide.
A series of meetings were held
gineers.
in the local lumbering towns, but
The Army does not want men the
“Buy Bonds Now! Later Is Too
movement will eventually
who are at present engaged in es spread to every logging communi
Late!”
sential war work. However, skilled
ty in Oregon.
construction workers, who are
shortly to be inducted, are urged
NO. THIS ISN’T A MIRACLE!
On
Corps of Engineers
Needs Specialists
SGT. JACK KNOTT, former St. Louis Browns’ pitcher, who
will not start in game against Portland Coast Guards tomorrow,
but will exercise some of his big-league potency against Sacra
mento next Monday in game at Salem.
Who Stole My Cerne? or —
'Dix Cadre' in Conclave Blow It Out!
By Sgt. Tommy “Blivet” Ryan
THEY HAVE EVEN LESS
HAIR THAN THE EDITOR
During the course of every man’s
life there must come one unforget
table moment—a moment that will
always live in his memory, that will
withstand #the repeated attacks of i
time on the march; that will be |
vivid and burning long after, far
into the years.
Such will be June 28. 1942, in
the minds of 400 men from Ft.
Dix, New Jersey, whose fate it was
to be the first official group of
men to arrive at Camp Adair. Re
cruits from the induction center, j
they liked to be called “cadremen.” I
Sits and Gazes
As I sit here and gaze at the
maze of buildings that now dot
the Oregon countryside my mind
races back—no, not to New Jer
sey, but to Wellsdale. as the se
lect few really saw it.
A dilapidated SP Station house
just across the tracks from a big
red barn. It was early summer,
the breeze was balmy, too. The poi
son oak was in bloom. Bloom was
from the Bronx.
The red men had long since van
ished. tired and oppressed by the
^ver-rising taxes. The local hoosiers
had gone to work for Kaiser. Camp
Adair, in the shadow of Coffin
Butte, was dumped into the laps
(Continued oh Page. A Col. 3)
Scene: Mess Hall, Post Head
quarters company.
Opposing each other at noon
chow are S/Sgt. Bradford Col
lins and Sgt. John Bach, both
capable of getting sunburned
on the terp of the head (to put
it mildly).
Peering across the stacks of
food S/Sgt. Collins asked: “By
the way Bach, did you have
blond hair when you were a
baby?”
Sgt. B., suspiciously: “I dun-
no—why ?”
S/Sgt. C.—“Well I did. And
it was curly. And lots of it—
honest.”
Well, old fellows—.
Pfc. Andrew Soreiano found
a field jacket which had been
returned to him by mistake by
the Post Laundry. According to
Miss Betty Schliep, in charge of
the office, he promptly turned
in the jacket.
Surprised? We aren’t; every
one is honest here! Oh yeah?
NO SPEAKAPHONE
EDDIE DAVIS ILL
Genial Eddie Davis, the Pepsi
,
Cola representative who operates
the Speakaphone machine at Serv
ice Club 2. is on sick leave this
week.
He wishes to inform those
that want to make voice recordings !
that he will be hack again as soon
as the Doc says it is O.K.
Have you bought your theater
coupon book? 12 for $1.20—Save:
And buy war stamps.
FROM TAPS TO REVEILLE ... or more correctly speaking, from reveille to taps. Pfc. Ted
Dutton is the bugler who, with the assistance of th s newly installed gig-t megaphone directly in front
of Post Headquarters, awakens the EM and makes with the bugle call« until taps at 11 p. m. He
demonstrates the new megaphone for Capt. Gilbert A. Waite, Pest Adjutant.
...-.•“little boy blue, let’s blow that horn!”
—Public Relations Photo.