Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, August 13, 1943
Timber
Wo/f
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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
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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
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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
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Song & Parody . • •
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