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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1943)
mp Adair Sentrv Page Five Friday, August 13, 1943. Means, Bud? $4000 Prize Money Offered Playwrights Contest Ends Sept. 1 In ell Four Closses £>1.0 1 lHUiul Gi lilt 4 o: . .J live. Nationally nroir.i’ent writers and cr’tics of the American The-1 ater will be judges in the National Theater Conference playwriting contest for men and women of the , armed forces, which ends Sept. 1, 1943. Experienced playreaders em-! ployed by the conference will first grade the manu-cripts. Then a pan el of judges, rt presenting institu tions in various regions of the coun try, will pars independently on the excellence of the entries. Final awards will be made by a group of successful dramatists,' critics and editors closely allied with the interests cf the theater in this country. A total of $10?0 in prizes for winners in each of the four classes of competition, I ng plays, one-act plays, short skits and musical com edies, are being offer'd. In addi tion, authors of premise are to be recommended by the judges for post-war scholarships in leading American colleges ar.d universities. The playwriting contest manu scripts must be received in the | central office by Sept. 1. 1943. An additional 30 days will be allowed if they are sent from overseas com bat zones. The address is Play- wiiting Content, National Theater Conference, Western Reserve uni versity, Cleveland 6, Ohio. IS with pride and determination at the new shoulder pat;h which t>e entire company is nov. wearing. Designed by Lt. George Kressaty, it is similar to the shoulder patch of New Jersey State Police.— Signal Corps Photo. MPs Make 'Hit' With New Shoulder Patch Post MPs blossomed out with a snazzy new shoulder patch last week, another extra addition to their regular GI clothing, all of which goes to make the detach ment the best-dressed troops on the Post. The new patch was designed by Lt. George Kressaty and Lt. J. P. Loffredo, modified from that of the New Jersey State Police. Blue and gold, the device has the insignia of the Ninth Service Com mand centered in a three-sided shield, with the words “Military Police” spaced on top and bottom, The MPs have already been is- sued Sam Brown belts. white leg gings and white helmets, and in the near future expect to receive white lanyards for their sidearms. The total effect this, bunch of men creates is one of the snappiest of any company in Camp. rHEY’RF THE «nn; WHO? AH. THE RATS A long time.ago the Sentry •arried a notation to the effect that all rats caught in the pre-, •incts should be turned in for whatever purposes rats are turner in for to M/Sgt. Cleve Birkes, Post Hqs. Yesterday the good M/Sergeant came up with the startling information that roughly 400 of the rodents have thus far been processed, Pro- cessing, be it known, is a mat- ter of checking them for com- municable diseases. You simply bite at them, and if they bite back and you catch something, they’re communicable. Of course, if they don’t bite back—but maybe the good M/Sergeant was just pulling our leg. Is that communicable, too? Gottfried, of Ft. Lewis, Returns I To Haunt Adair I Sgt. Edwin Gottfried, erstwhile monarch of the mimeograph sec tion at Post Headquarters, forsook us recently via the transfer route. Word came that he had found his , way to Fort Lewis I On TYiesday, lo and behold, who should pop into Post Headquar ters, happy as a.bee on a spree? Yes, you guessed it. None other than Sgt. Gottfried, himself, pom pous and beaming. Having acquired a coveted three- ‘ day pass, he took advantage of it i to return to his old hunting grounds. ‘ DEFINITELY THE LONG and short of military life. Cpl. Elmer F. Daley, QM Det., SCI 1911. has a chance to look down on Sgt. Everett Odle. 101th QM, when he gets up on a> couple of steps. Daley is 4’ IO1/,”. 125 pounds: Odle stands 6’ 4” and tips the scales at 299 even.— Signal Corps Photo. Typical Army Situation Too Big & Too Small! Definitely disproving the old adage, “like father, like son,” a couple of QM men got together last week to look one another over. Pfc. Elmer F. Daley, QM Det.. SCU 1911, is 4' 10" tall, tips the scales at 125. A native of Sche-*------------------------------------- nectady, N.Y., he works in the tire Everett Odle, of the Timber Wolf repair department of the Post Mo- QM Co., is the son of a 5' 6" fa tor Pool. ther. In commenting up n the re- cent “long and short” controver sy about short men and tall girls at dances, Daley says, “I prefer tall blondes, and never have any [ trouble at dances.” Hailing from Chicago. Odle in sists that he displaces his weight in water at an even 299 pounds. Testifying to the health and abundance to be found in army life, Odle’s weight when he first came into military service was a Daley’s father is 6' 2” and has mere 249. See two free shows by buying a never forgiven his son for not 'Patent Neck' Visits Camp He was formerly with the Chi theater coupon book—$1.50 value growing up. cago police force, and on the “1 rg | On the other hand, 6' 4" Sgt. for $1.20. and short” problem, says he likes “big gals and small gals alike” and has no trouble at dances either. Corporal? I Sgt. Muriel Ferby, wife and at the bn« «tation waiting for the So, there! highest ranking non-com in the girls to arrive. Also th“ R»«t family of T/5 Michael Ferby, ar Though there were a few old. rived in Camp Adair Friday to visit her husband, and she was 30-vear die-hards at Camp Le immediately awarded the fictional f jeure, after the men saw the title of “First Woman Marine to women drill, they were com- pletely woi: over. O'ficer after Arrive at Camp Adair.” Sgt. Ferby (the missus) came officer has praised th? unit for Part of the Tent City encamp up from the Marine Department of “th? best close order drill ever ment, the ‘"ighting bakers’ cf the the Pacific in San Francisco on a seen.” 614th QM Bn., have depaited. Although she calls seven-day furlough in order to be | Arriving at ( amp Adair on Mt?*-. with her husband on their first “typewriter commando 12, 1913, the unit entered int» and wedding anniversary, August 10. ' tie of San Francisco,” completed tactical training here. It had been five months since they i feels that she is doing something Included were tactical problems, in the war effort. The man she had seen each other. bivouacs, extended order drill and replaced in San Francisco has al One of the First infiltration ta tics. Under simu-* Mrs. Ferby enlisted February ready been ordered into a combat lated battle conditions the unit 15, the first day the U. S. Marine zone. practiced its bread-baking in im Oh yes, her husband, T/5 Michael Corps accepted applications for provised field ovens. Ferby, is in the ration section of its Women’s Reserve. She was The Sentry is h debted to its offered an opportunity to obtain S-4, the 275th Infantry. It peeves officers and men for their ready a commission, but because her him no end that he should be* out cooperation which enabled us to husband was an enlisted man, ranked by his own wife, but he obtain much material cf interest she decided also to stick to the steadfastly claims that he is “sfill to all roldiers on the Post. wearing the pants in this family.” enlisted grades. To Capt. Edwin Toxen, 11. Ja- “Boot” training at Hunter col- cob Cotiway, Lt. Marvin Smith, Hot Music For Co'd Mornings lege, in New York city, was fol- Lt. Tom Setze, W O (jg) C. E. North Africa (CNS) — “Tiger lowed by a course in NCO school Wolff and the men of their com LOOKING LOVINGLY AT his wife, after a separation of at Camp Le Jeune, N. C. She was Rag,” not “Reveille,” was played five months. T/5 Michael Ferby, Service Company. 275th Infantry, mands go our best wishes wher in the first class at that school , by a bugler who borrowed a trum- wonders just how he is goi’g to manage his domestic relations now ever the fortunes of war may take and claims that the entire camp, pet to awaken men during their that his “better half.’’ Muriel, a sergeant in the women’s Marine them. Corps, outranks him.—Signal Corps Photo. 50,000 marines tried and true, was . voyage over here. Leather Our 1st Woman Marine V/hat Did You Say, Fighting Bakers' Leave; Received Training Here