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Camp Adair Sentry Friday, August 13, 1943 Timber Wo/f Page Nine » Baseball Champions Parody Hit Kit Idea Catches Sentry Scoops Again! The Sentry does it again! Some I tinned, by the Army Special Service weeks ago it recognized the value , ' Division. The Ninth Service Command of parodies on popular songs, Now I memorandum states that as a re an official memorandum from ) sult of requests made by soldiers Headquarters Ninth Service Com- in every part of the world, the next mand requests similar material for issue of the Army ‘Hit Kit’ will use in the Army ‘Hit Kit’ causing contain the soldiers’ own original us to mutter, “I told you so,” and songs and parodies. with pardonable pride. Submit your songs, lyrics and Soldier song writers, lyricists and parodies. Many will be used in our these of you that can write paro pages. The outstanding works will dies based on familiar tunes, the be forwarded to the Music Sec Army wants your stuff for the tion of the Army Special Service September issue of the official Division. Army ‘Hit Kit’ pamphlet. The idea Get ‘on the beam’ at once. Get and its details follow. your stuff into the Sentry office In the issue of July 29, 1943 the within the next few days. Worthy Sentry inaugurated its own ‘Hit efforts will be forwarded by us Kit’ feature, the inspiration for to the Army Special Service Office which came from the pamphlet of in New York, and they must be the same name distributed wher sent out in time to arrive there ever American soldiers are sta- before August 20. MEMBERS Or I'HE divisional champion. Sea Cull baseball team are. from left to right, front William R. Sipe, Walt Thompson. Wee WllUe Hall Banjo Kane, Bay Graulich, Lt. Nig Nyers, Lan Ressin, Dean Frye. Al George; second row, Earl Alloway. Eldridge Rauch, Charles Rogers. Albert W akefield, Stumble Gulish. Fred Myers. Joe Brekis, Swede Erickson.—Sentry P.hoto. Divisional Softball Champions Anagrams of Location i Only Cause Confusion r ~ -,ar 1 North Africa (CNS) — Military censors are becoming expert I at . detecting and decoding enigmatic codes, cyphers and amateur “se- i cret” messages which soldiers write ! in them letters to let the folks back home know where they are sta- 1 tinned. Lightner Eulogy To Timber Wolves ^en- Eisenhower Agrees Season Ends With 16 Wins, Only 4 Losses Wlth EM s Complaint New York (CNS)-Lt. Howard Lonergan was home on leave when his sister found a medal hidden ’neath some socks in his bag. “What’s that?” she asked. “Oh,” said Lonergan, “it’s just something they gave me for a lot of time in the air.” It was the Distinguished Flying Cross. I Disclosure of locations of mili- i tary units here is strictly taboo j but soldiers writing home have ; tried ways of informing their fam- ilies of their whereabouts. One man tried to spell out “Tunis” by (writing five consecutive letters to . his mother and giving her five different middle initials. Unfortu nately the five letters arrived out of sequence, the initials spelled l“Nutsi” and the bewildered parents ! wrote back that they could find no name like that on their map of North Africa. MEMBERS OF THE Sea Gull softball team. 'Timber Wolf division champions, are, front row. left to right. Sanley, DeWoody, Wiener. Newsome, Ferguson. Mars. Krawiecki. Finne; back row, June. Nicoletti. Williams, Bennett, Karnosky, franz, Kilpatrick, Smith.—Sentry Photo. One Of Those Little Gadgets We All Want CACE Camp Adair Civilian Employees Column Ì i By Mrs. Lois Dodd Movement seems to be the “spice of life” at this camp and especially in the Quartermaster building. Saturday Colonel Baumeister’s and Major Smith’s office moved in with the Purchasing and Contract ing Office. Of course. Helen Hol comb and Mr. Bon’s new secretary, Gertrude Kaplan, moved with them. The Sentry sports department Salem for more games. Both Beau General Eisenhower has com- was about to write a paean to the and myself had one of the best mended an unidentified NCO’s pro now disbanded Timber Wolf base years we’ve enjoyed in several, and test that “most officers do not ball team. The pack climaxed a it’s «ure going to be tough checkin’ salute properly. 9f marvelous “season” by scoring in this early.’ The NCO, in a letter to the Army their 16th win (as against 4 losses) Army Title newspaper, “Stars and Stripes,” “The two Texans did have fine complained that officers frequently v when they defeated the Fort Lewis * ♦ Warriors 10-6, to win the mythical seasons at that. Knott’s first ven- brush off enlisted men with “a I Payoff letter was from a soldier I i Betty Bennett is really on the Northwest service championship. ture as a skipper brought the club flabby gesture in which the salut who wanted his folks to know he was stationed in Casablanca. He blushing side after one day on the Northwest army ing hand looks like a bent fork.” Then we read the following yarn the mythical wrote that for months he had been beach. We took her for a boiled in the “From the Bleachers” col championship. He was beaten only Gen. Eisenhower, expressing his I singing “As Time Goes By.” His lobster when we walked into the Sacra umn, by Sportsed Al Lightner, in twice against six wins. appreciation for the “soldierly ob- I ■ mother didn’t get it. She wrote File Section Monday morning. mento downed the 10-year major the Salem Statesman: servations” made by the NCO, said back that she was sending her son Well, not really! “Jack Knott and Beau Bell, leaguer 3-0 and Pasco Flyers that he hoped the incident would i j some new phonograph records so ... major league members of the | accomplished it, 3-1. Knott’s 3-2 j result in an improvement for which i that he could sing another song for i It ’ s almost come to tlie place now defunct Timber Wolves ball j and 10-6 victories over Fort Lewis he has been striving “in instruc- a while. where the Assistant Adjutant has club, dropped in to say farewell i Warriors, for the “title”, were of : tions, training memoranda and to carry a baseball bat—the only this week and to return the three I course his best wins. 'every other way that has occurred way he can keep his office clear of “Bell hit .354 in the 20 games, dozen Senator suits lent the club Waterproof to me.” admiring males. They’ve certainly for the season by Mrs. Geo. E. drove in 23 runs with 28 hits and been gathering since the Glamour Waters. Both men were reluc slammed two homers and five picture of “Jean the Queen” in. Average tant to hang ’em up so early in doubles. A 1-A performance. last weeks paper. “Incidentally, the Timber Wolves the season and sorry to see such The latest item developed by the 5' ... kept up the tradition of a winning a fine team busted up. QMC for overseas GI’s is water “Dixie” Moorehead of Civilian “ ‘We had a real good club,’ ball club—all members of the team In the camp and on the front proof matches for jungle and moun- Personnel disappear«! for several opined Manager Knott, ‘and I’m I were given their uniforms as sou they’re tall and short, and fat and tain troops in tropical climates, days last week. She reported backr sorry we couldn’t get back to venirs.” thin, but what does the average I Matches have been a real prob with a G.I. haircut and a crop of soldier look like? Here’s the an- lem for many years, Beeswax was new curls. I swer straight from the QM cloth- tried as a waterproof agent, but Forces the high temperatures melted it. ing records. Stimson Uses Old Formula Discharged Lea(J The new jungle match is nothing I The average American soldier is Henry Stimson, Secretary of Soon five feet eight inches in height but a common household match War, at the fall of Mussolini said, and weighs 144 pounds, wears 9 ¥2 dipped in several coats of wax. It “De mortius nil bonum.” Unschol- Lapel buttons, indicating service The Medics’ ball team c a m e D shoes and size 7 hat. He has a can stand several days under water ,’rly reporters found out that this» to the nation, will be awarded soon through in fine championship style waistline of 31 inches and a chest and will not melt until the temper- means: “Speak nothing but good to all men and women honorably with a 9-2 score, last Friday night, measurement of 33% inches. ature reaches 160 degrees. of the dead.” discharged from the armed fofces, against the Corvallis Air Base the War Department announced re team, breezing on to the head of I cently. the city league. These are not yet ready for dis i The outstanding play of Sgt. I Met Her on Monday Ode to a Stripe tribution but are in the process of “Fat Stuff” Churchill, Cpl. “Alice” I met her on Monday, being manufactured under the di Skare, Sgt. Joe Tarango, Cpl. Jack- I got in on Monday, t The meeting was grand, rection of the Quartermaster Corps. son and M/Sgt. Schickeranz were It surely looked good, The next day was Tuesday The button is small and is made the clinching factors in the game. I sewed it on Tuesday, And I held her hand. of a piastic material with a gold The game left the Medics, Elks i As tight as I could. i Wednesday night I met her dad and mother. plating. It is simple in design, con and MPs in a three-way tie for the ■ Went into town on a Wednesday night, And gave a nickel to her freckle-faced brother. taining an eagle within a circle, its lead. Kissed her on Thursday, quarter till 10, Before I knew it I was in a fight, wings extending beyond the circle’s The next day was Friday—kissed her again. And of ail. people I chose the MPs, edges, ard no other lettering or Ore Mile Handicap What do you think happened on Saturday night? All that was wrong was unbuttoned ODs, ornamentation. Pv\ Donald Blair, form r Dart Hmm, that’s right, we met the preacher, Hmm, What do jou think happened the following day, mmm, W’hen the button is ready for mouth track ace, wants to race that’s right. I found it didn't pay, mmm, no stripe. distribution, full particulars will he Gunder Ilaegg, Swedish wonder made public so that eligible persons rui n r, under the same conditions The Sentry Hit Kit s'O’ies seems t< goirfr o’"'-, bu* repd ex««•••♦ narodv writer0. The songs Blair had when he won th« mile must le salty but not too, well-seasoned. If it’s a good thing, though, it can't be wrong, and s> w« hereby may know how to obtain them. championship at Camp Stewart, ar.noun e that, starting next week, a parody contest wm ne lanncned. hirst sorg in the cort st will, naturally, be “It Can’t Re Wrong”; C.e words to appear in the Sentry of the following week. Thia week’s The Camp Post Office is located Ga. Blair won that one in 6 minutes, <ong, “I Met Her on Monday.” was written by Charles Newman and Allie Wrubel; published by ABC on Postal Ave. between 1st St. N. 31 seconds, wearing GI shoes and Music Corp. The parody. “Ode to a Stripe,” spra ng from the fertile brain of our soon-to-be-lost-to the* 1 Aimy (he thinks) Pfc. Dick Walden. carrying a pack and a rifle. and 1st St. S. I Soldier 8", 144 Lbs. Armed Members Medics Honorably Tje For Get Lapel Button -------- 77—7 Matches Developed by QMC in 3-Way |„ Corvallis League Song & Parody . • • . Sentry Hit Kit No. 3