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Vol. 2, No. 10. Camp Adair, Oregon, Thursday. June 24. 1943. WAIT! Language Study Courses Arrive Classes Start at Once; I Advance, Streamline; First Crack-Japanese Records and mimeographed les son material for learning the Jap anese language arrived in camp yesterday and classes will begin at once. Enlisted men and officers should sign up at once in either library if they desire to learn this, or any other language. Classes will be held in the service clubs. This method of language study is the most advanced one and makes learning much easier than older systems. Other languages will be offered to those wishing to learn them, in cluding French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and many others. THIS IS EASILY EXPLAINED Construction Started On Camp Bank Bldg IT’S DARLENE OT- TUM, Camel’s Caravan girl, who invites ail EM and officers to see her novelty dance fea ture of the Caravan, at Adair July 1 and 2 There will be a cast «f 20—not all, of course attractive as darling Darlene because there are some men in it. COLLECT YOUR BOUNTY FROM GOOD M SGT. BIRKES Old-Time Movies Now Shown Twice a Week The old-time movies are now be ing shown at both the service clubs oh the post. Sunday evenings th are exhi- ’ bited in Service Club 1 at 9:00 P. M. The following night, if you’ve missed them Sunday, the pictures are shown in Service Club 2, also at 9:00 P. M. ^Scheduled, for this -week. is ’ “Death Goes Noi^th”. short aubjpcts. . U. S. National Bank Of Portland Will Run Servicemen's Branch A sign on the bulletin board at Post Headquarters reads: ATTENTION ALL POST HEADQUARTERS PERSONNEL Any dead rat (rodent) found in the vicinity of Post Headquar ters will be brought to the Post Sgt. Major’s office.” OPENING TENTATIVE After months of planning the bank for soldiers at Camp Adair is finally becoming a reality. Construction of the hank build ing, located on Club Avenue be tween the Guest Houses, began last week. The contracts call for the building to be completed July 15 but Ifrere may be a little delay due to the recent rains. I Free Sewinq Service Offered Io Soldiers 70th Division Wives At Clubs Every Day Complete Facilities The bank, a branch of the U. S. I National Bank of Portland, will offer members of the armed ser It’s finally happened! What a vice all banking facilities. Sav soldier has dreamed of for years! ings and checking accounts will be the main features, though all Get all your sewing done AB the other regular banking ser SOLUTELY FREE at either serv vices will be provided. Sentry's Staff In Shift; Luck, OCS Cadet, R.C.J No longer will there be corpu lent drawings “doodled” alongside cryptic drawings upon the desk and signed “R.C.J.” For another reporter has gone the way of much Sentry flesh—to OCS. The last of the original guard which started on this paper hack in the warmth of a full sum mer ago, left Saturday for Camp Barkeley, Texas, to win his bars in Medical Administration. Part of our heart went with you, Sgt. Ray Johnson. Only fledglings now are left. First to PC w»s Sgt. Beckett, vet eran news hawk; then Cpl. John Gubleman; then fabulous T Sgts. Black and (Editor) Brown; now Johnson. Al of them worked with Don Wilson, civilian publisher, in the original days. The old staff opened business July 27, 1942, in a nook of the former Red Cross bldg., 501. Johnson, of the “Ft. Dix 400 cadre” (born July 7, 1917), came from NBC studios and first started in radio dept., along with Black. Of late months he did general re porting, plus the work of your secret sorrow, viz., Adele Adair. Sgt. Johnson’s tools of trade are consigned to Pvt. Lionel Kay, Scarsdale, N. Y., flash, whose writ in’ weight is around 150 pounds. $1.50 a Year by Mail ice club. You can bring it in any time and leave it to have chevrons, insignia, braid or buttons sewn on, or for mending and repair. Or if you want to wait for it, bring it in from three to five any afternoon. Camel Caravan Bound For Post July 1 and 2 I i In the mood for a WOW of a show? Yeah? Then listen. The Camel Caravan comes to Camp Adair next week to give wit’ glamor and song and dance that’ll make the gig-happiest guy forget his troubles. There will be two shows*------------------------------------------------------ nightly, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., at Yank Quotes Us; So We Theater 2 on Thursday, July 1 and at Theater 5 on Friday, July 2. In Quote Yank; In Other addition the cast of 20 will put on Words, Repeat Ourself a matinee at 2:30 p.m., July 2, in the Red Cross recreation hall at The following happened at this Station Hospital. here Army post a good speck back Included Are If you don’t appreciate the Caravan’s glamor department, turn in your dog tags, brother. You ain’t human! There’s gor geous Kay Carroll, who sings; tiny but buxom Ellen Sutton, billed as the “Sophie Tucker of radio”; Darlene Ottum, shapely tap and acrobatic dancer former ly featured by Earl Carroll. Fid Gordon treats a violin like it was his worst enemy and yet gets music out of it. Top notch l»ands like Jack Hylton, Isham Jones, Little Jack Little and others have featured Gordon and his fid dle-murdering. These are among high spots you’ll see and hear if you stay off KP and guard those two nights. Also—smokes will be on the house. Two lovely .Camefettes come down several : th? aisle to past» them out-1—Camels, j of course—and moke ’em late^. - and was used. Then it was picked up by Yank and used in the June 25 issue. Then it was sent out by Shrapnel, Yank newscast to all Army papers. Since we are an Army newspaper, here it is again —from Yank: “Pfc. Joe Barbato was on guard duty at Camp Adair, Oreg., early one morning when an officer ap proached. “Halt!” said Barbato. “Who’s there?” “Gen. C----------,” was the answer. “Advance and be recognized,” said Barbato. The general advanced, Barbato saw two silver stars and became confused. “Well.” barked the general, “should I stand at attention all night?” j “No, sir,” replied Barbato. “Parade rest!” The exact date of the opening is I not yet known, but Lt. Col. Lee R. Woods, Jr., Post Finance Officer, expects it to be very shortly after the contractors turn over the build i ing for use. Not Enough Work! This boon to soldiers is furnished by the wives of officers of the 76th division, who voluntarily offered their services, and are eager to do as much as they possibly can. They are complaining that they are not getting enough things to work on! Mrs. Raymond Bell is in charge of the group at Club 1, and Mrs. I Albert Morgan will supervise the ladies at Club 2. PING-PONG TOURN AM ENT USO Club, Corvallis, is planning grand Ping-Pong Tournament. All those interested can register at the desk. Contest will begin Saturday, June 26. Cash prize will be awarded to the winner. OH RATS! OH RICE! OH, HAIL! SOLSTICE! HOW’D YOU LOSE IT? In the Swaps Column this week is listed “One GI shoe for the ; right foot; found on Salem bus.”!! When the soldier who lost it picks I it up" at the Provost Marshall Of- | fice, if he will call at the Sentry j Office, we have something for him, too—a tootsie roll! As of 11:13 p. m. Monday summer was officially here, ar riving with the summer solstice. So— The post sergant major was looking for dead rats. The circus will soon be in town. Nights again start getting longer and there are only six days left to become a June bride. 1 j Sentry Saga of This Week: ' The Dentist & the MP I ! By Pfc. Joe Love It was a sunny day and Lt. Everett W. Disney of Dental Clinic No. 1 had spirits to match as he guided his jeep along 1st Street and across the tracks at Welsldale Station. But, (alas) he didn’t see the new stop-sign put there just foui* ; days before and, (alack!) he didn’t gone conclusion, The Lieutenant see MP James (Dick) Tracy who pocketed the ticket and drove away, was behind the station. now with a disposition to match the But MP Tracy saw Lt. Disney— rain (you know how unusual the and in a matter of seconds he ap- weather is this year in Oregon). proached on his bike, book and MP Tracy righteously mounted pencil in hand, and made himself his bike and returned to the com known to the Lieutenant. There pletion of his appointed rounds. followed a discussion of such sub- Affairs Clinical ■ jects as eyesight, the size and visi bility of Post stop-signs and the Back at the clinic, Lt. Disney newness of the sign at Wellsdale worked with unusual vigor when tracks. ever he recalled the ticket. Eve’» Tracy Affirms Tracy took the affirmative. Lt The Post Provost Marsh id's Office, located at 1st Street N Disney defended the negative, Al- ami Avenue D, has a Lost and though the Lieutenant made a vali- i ant attempt, the result was a fore- Fouod Ite part ment. four days later the affair still lingered in the back of hi«« mind as he looked at his watch and decided there was still time for j Continued on Cage 3 Column X)
