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I SENTRY QUESTIONNAIRE This week the Sentry is giving you a chance to say what you like and how much you like it. We hope that every one will fill in the questionnaire on page 7 and send it to the Sentry Editor. Post Hqs.. (amp Adair, and that we get a sincere picture of what YOU want. PI Vol. 2. No. 18. CampAdair, Oregon, Friday, August 20, 1943. Distinguished Guests of the 96th Division $1.50 a Yearby Mail Field Demonstration Highlights 96th 'Day' ---------------------------- * ____ SOON . . . MAYBE NOT TOMORROW The most significant sign in New York’s Times Square area these days appears on the mar quee of the World Theater on West 49th Street. Terse, ironic, profound and prophetic, it tells everything in seven words. It reads: “World—Closed for altera tions. Will reopen soon.” Infantry and Artillery Combine to Put On Graduation Exercises' FLIERS SHOW SKILL Highlighted by graphic field demonstrations of infantry and ar tillery fire power, strafing and dive-bombing, the 96th Division held its first birthday party last Saturday and heard Major General Tames L. Bradley, commanding of ficer. pledge the might of rhe 96th as a “combat division,” ready for active service. General Bradley, referring to the I '’elei ration of the 96th’s Activation Day as its “graduation exercises,” Comp?et3 Tanking addressed approximately 10,060 Services Offered troops and several thousand civil- n guests assembled in the Prune Camp Adair’s tank is expected Ridge area for the program. j to open next week, Mr. Nelson L. “ We still lack one thing—the de Leland, the manager, announced to sire to kill, ” General Bradley said. day. The three-way fire power demon j Located on Club Avenue, midway stration showed the skill of the betwien the guest houses and adja Air Force, divisional infantry and cent to the Bus Depot, the bank building will be large enough to artillery. Fighter’ and bomber planes of accommodate a well-rounded bank the Third Air Force demonstrated ing service, and will be easily ac what destruction air power might cessible from all paits of the Post. cause to unprotected ground Under authorization of the United States Treasury Department, the forces. On a target area approximately ¡agency will be operated by the (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) ; United States National Bank of Portland t h r o u g ’. its Corvallis branch. The services that the bank will offer will consist of taking de posits; issuing and cashing bank money orders, drafts, and travel ers’ checks; cashing of pay checks for men in the service; and selling War Bonds and W’ar Savings Stamps. . Tentatively the banking hours Be sure that all bivouac fires , have been set at 12:00 noon to 4:30 are out before leaving the I (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) bivouac area. Post Dfnk Expected To Open Next Week ONLY FOUR OF the celebrities who attended the 96th Division's field demonstration are Dale Evans, singer; governor of Oregon, the Hon. Earl Snell; Mischa Auer, star of screen and radio; and Diana Barrymore, daughter of John Barrymore, and actress in her own right.—Signal Corps and Sentry Photos. < ■ ■■ ■ " — V —' " — ' '■ New, Racy USO Show 'Hokey Pokey' Coming Filled to the brim with all-star talent, the USO-Camp Shows production, “Hokey Pokey,” will be presented to the men of Camp Adair at Theater 2 on Wednesday, August 25, at 6:30 and 8:30. and the following*------------------------------------------------- night at Theater 5. Performers who have amused and delighted audiences all over the globe will be on hand in this merry musical Show produced ex- clusively for the men in the armed services. Cpl. Louis Pugach, of Post Ord An expert on everything in gen nance, received the highest grade eral and nothing in particular is ever aiiuineu attained by student in uy any nuuem ill “Senator” Murphy, who admits . the final examination given in the that he is “the man who can out- ; Ordnance Supply Clerical course at argue anybody on anything.” ! Woodbury College, Los Angeles, Bob Easton and Company is a I Lt. Col. James W. Fraser, post monologuist with a boy and girl ordnance officer, has just an dummy. The boy plays the drums nounced. and the girl does double talk. Cpl. Pugach was on detached Vivacious and versatile Rosalind service at the Woodbury Detach- Gordon is a young tap dancer whose ment, SCU 1942, for the purpose creative routines and original delin- ’ of attending the course which he eations are done in whirlwind, successfully completed. To date, rhythmical tempo. Featured in the the school has had approximately Max Gordon musical show, “Sing 1500 students. Out the News,” Rosalind has also His home is in Englewood, N. J., appeared with Bob Crosby and and he attended Columbia Uni Harry James as well as at the fam versity, where he majored in ad ous club. Leon and Eddie’s in New vertising and merchandising for York. three years. The most unique hoop juggler in Previous to entering the service s.ho* business is Howard Nichols, he was associated with his father (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) in the leather business. Pugach, Ordnance Best Student Yet In Clerical School ADJUTANT’S SECRET ARYS HUSBAND NOW MAJOR Will'am H. Woodford, G.S.C., G-3 for the 15th Army Group overseas, has been promoted to the rank of major. Mrs. Faye Woodford, h i s wife, currently secretary to Capt. Gilbert A. Waite, Post Adjutant, just received the news Wednesday in a letter from the newly-appointed major. Congratulations were extend ed to the popular secretary by everyone in Post Headquarters and her many friends in Cor vallis. Fire Power En Masse The World This Week fall met the and Monitored by Cpl. John Stump THE 38-DAY BATTLE FOR SICILY ended Tuesday with the of Messina when American 7th Army troops, from the northeast' in junction with the British 8th from the southeast, and entered city. The Americans had captured Randazzo over the week-end pushed swiftly on toward the Messina bridgehead. (Continued on Par« 2, Columns 3 and 4) - THE FIRE POWER of an entire infantry battalion is graphically shown in the photo above. By no means an actual combat formation, this impressive array of unall arms showed the strength of a battalion’s concentrated firing. In the inset is Brigadier Genera) Claudius M. Easley, assistant division commander, master of ceremonies for the mdruing.—Sentry photo«.
