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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1943)
1 C'a™** Adair Sentry - , v . • Page Three Friday, October 15,1943, These 270th Engr. Riflemen Collect Pin-Wheel Bulls New Major Eagle of Bakers and Cooks MRS. PEGGY MONTAGUE pins the gold leaf of his ne»l> acquired rank on the cap of Major Myron B. Eagle who is wearing the uniform symbolic of the calling for which the men in the school under his command are being trained.—Sentry photo. A PIN-WHEEL BULL—It’s a kind of animal rarer (on the Range) than prime steer beef. This is one of the blue ribbon squads of the 270th Engineers, all Experts and Sharpshooters: front row, left to right—Coach Sgt. Ansel Goodman, Pvts. Murray, Hagen. Holcomb, Muyers, Jones and Clark. Second row: Humschile. MacLean. Stout. Williams Ellis. Brock, »nd Shirck. These men helped atcount for the Engineer Battalion’s record of 98% qualified on the M-l Course “A.” Eagle Soars High; Into Oak Leaves Food Shortages Not Armed Forces Fault Newly elevated to the rank of the wearers of the gold oak leaf i I is Major Myron B. Eagle, Assist “Sunday, Monday or Always.” A kA _ Fire* Conservation Methods ant Commandant of the Camp trumpet and trombone duet, with rllSl Adair Branch, Ninth Service Com Effective, Says Major ■ Sgt. Osear G.r«sst„ and Pvt. row. mand School for Bakers and Cooks. len, played “Pavanne. Designated as SCU 1929, it is the “If the armed forces used no but The dance orchestra played for largest school of its type in the ter at all, each civilian would be dancing at the Service Club after Ninth Service Command. able to have butter enough only Band and Orchestra | the show. “Time” magazine devoted three Appointed 2nd lieutenant in the for about two extra slices of bread pages of its August 9 issue to Infantry Reserve upon his grad- per month.” Play, Soloists Star Major General Terry Allen, who j uation from N. Dak. State College, Thus spoke Major Myron B. With a Trailblazer announcer, will soon assume command of the | Major Eagle became a 1st lieuten Eagle, Assistant Commandant of Pvt. Manfred Ishmael, at the mike, Timber Wolf Division, and some of ant in 1931 and, after being placed the Camp Adair Branch, Ninth “Oregon’s Own" broadcast from i the anecdotes contained in the arti on active duty in 1935, received Service Command School for Bak (Continued from page 1.) Camp Adair went on the air over j cle are interesting mirrors of the his captaincy in Jan., 1936. After ers and Cooks, in an address made Station KEX last night with 70th ’ porary commission as a major gen man’s character and personality. some years as an inspector of CCC before the Commercial Club of Wil camps in the Ft. Lewis District, Division musical talent filling the : eral in August, 1942, prior to the Gen. Allen was born into the lamina, Oregon. He had chosen as activation of the Timber Wolf he was placed on duty with the half-hour show. Service Club 2 Army as “an Army brat.” His - his subject, “Conservation of Food Quartermaster Corps in Nov., 1941. was filled ‘ with an enthusiastic Division. in the Armed Forces.” father "was a colonel in the Regular Other stations at which he has Wears Silver Star audience. j Army, and his mother, the daugh served include Ft. Lewis, Presidio For those who blame food short Maj. Gen. Allen, the division's Following, the -theme song, “Oh j ter of a Spanish colonel who fought of San Francisco, Ft. Douglas and ages on the armed forces, “there new eommamding genera I, was . Suzanna,” the band, under the ba for the Union in the Civil War. must be a realization that the total Camp Cooke. ton of W,0 Lorn E. Christenson, also graduated from the United number of persona in these forces With Allen his men always came Major Eagle hails from Fargo, played “The - Colorado Concert States Military Academy. In first. At home in El Paso, he was N. Dak., and has, at times, operated represents only about 6 per cent March”, and “American You th L9M he'-received hi« contmission forever getting up in the middle hotels and restaurants. of the total population of this coun in the cavalry. Gen. Allen wears try, and the greatest possible March.” - the Silver Star Medal, awarded of the night to bail them out of amount of food that these people The dance orchestra, directed by > for gallantry and intrepidity in jail. “My men never keep me would eat would still be less than Sgt. Bill Rhodenb&ugh, played dpi. action, and an Oak Leaf Cluster waiting,” he would say. “I won’t 10 per cent of our total production.” Defenbach’s arrangement of “Night on the Purple Heart. make my men wait for me.” The point rationing system, he _ Wind” and followed up with “If I A songfest for the Station Hos In 1942, he was promoted to The new commanding general told his listeners, is binding on Could Be With You.” also holds a permanent commission 1 major general and given command pital Medical Detachment and pa military personnel in much the Sgt. Don Miller and C-pls. Dave as a colonel and received his tern-! of the 1st Division, which had no tients was held last Monday night Black and Boz Cozine gave forth porary, w-ar-time commission as a superior in the Army, and in the in the Red Cross Recreational Hall same manner that civilians are affected and that “the ordinary with a smooth trumpet swing ar major general in June, 1942. under the direction of Miss Madge ! opinion of its men, no equal. person would not know the dif- . rangement of “Annie Laurie.”--Two The 1st went overseas early in Kuhwarth, social hostess at Ser- fercnce if he had the same food Thursday nights, 9-9:3u, Station the course of the war and was on [ vice Club 1, who led the singing, solo numbers were Cpl. Fordyce I Army has per Waldo singing “Home on the KEX, “Trailblazers on the Air”; I hand at Oran when North Africa Major Hertzmark and Lt. Saxton, allnttment as the person. ” I Range” and-Cpl. Bob Kirkpatrick’s 620 on your dial. was invaded. They have since in Special Service Officer. Miss Wini- Major Eagle informed the mem vaded Sicily under Gen. Allen’s 1 fred Thompson was the Red Cross bers of the Willamina Commercial command. ( nurse in charge. Anniversary Day For Post Adjutant! Club that the Army has attacked Gen. Allen is aware that his men j The Red Cross furnished a band, the problem of food wastage with will get killed carrying out his under the direction of Sgt. Joe amazing results. Referring to one orders and does not like it, but he Sieff, which played during the pro- of the units at Camp Adair, he has accepted the inevitability of it. gram. Members of the band were said: “Actually the table waste of He will spare or spend his men as Pvts. Dave Orwitz, Mack Sutin and edible food is no greater, by the military necessity demands, but Irvin Fishman of the Station Hos approximately 300 men who are fed i while they live, he will see that pital and Pvts. Bill Keim and Ken- in a mess hall, than in the ordin i they get every comfort and con- neth Cool of the 70th Division. ary family of six or seven civilians eating at home.” This is due, in sideration. simply, “ You know who is responsi part, to careful preparation and the any for When congratulated brilliant piece of work, Gen. Allen ble for that — the enlisted men, fact that all leftovers are com pletely utilized within 36 hours. assumes no credit. He will say that’s who.” Trailblazers on Air From Service Club 2 New Timber Wolf Commander General Cook Given 12th Corps Command Community Sing Held at Hospital Second Best Howitzer Squad—And That's Plenty Good NO, WEDNESDAY WASN’T a birthday for Captain Gilbert A. Waite, Post Adjutant, but in times like these it was more signi ficant, for it marked one year of service at this Post. Nobody, thought to whip up a cake but somebody stirred up a candle and the cup cakes seen in this picture. Since adjutants seldom have lime to eat anyway, it didn’t matter and Capt. Waite took time off to enjoy the girlish serenade being rendered by the “Post Secre tarial Trio” — Faye Woodford, secretary to the adjutant, Marion Cleveland and Jean McReynolds.—Sentry photo. RUNNERS-UP IN THE 884th FA Bn. contest to determine the best howitzer section was Hqs. Btry. In this picture, reading left to right, are Acting Cpl. Robert E. Pierce, Butte, Mont.; Acting Cpl. Wallace Odell, Chaska. Minn.; Pvt. Thomas O. Olsen, Salina, Kan.; Pvt. William A. Cirrincione, Buf falo. N. Y.; Pvt. Ralph Goering. Hutchinson. Kan.; Pvt. Jury Toone, Greenriver, Wyo.; Pvt. Vernon Navue, Lansing, Mich.; Pvt. Joseph Cygan, Chicago; in the rear. S/Sgt. Carl R. Gapczyniski, chief of section. Milwaukie, Wia.; Lt. Robert H. Miller, executive, Hastings, Neb.—Sentry photo.