Page Twelve
Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, November 19, 194-3.
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Timmons Goes Scouting:
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'Enemy’ Kills Hero
Before He Kills Self
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T .3 Bob Ruskauff
Managing Editor
Wayne Wagner’s squad from Co.
i B, the 275th Infantry, to which our
> redoubtable Pvt. Timmons is at-
; tached for rations, quarters and so-
called duty, approached a wooded
i area bordering along a deceitfully
' gentle creek. Wagner sent his men
over one at a time.
All. that is. except Timmons.
“Timmons,” said Wagner, “you stay
here!”
The Kansas athlete, well trained
now in military discipline, queried
not .wherefore, but obeyed, "taking
cover behind a large cluster of
poison oak.
A sergeant supervising the prob
lem espied the tense, alert figure
of our hero and hollered: "Hey.
you, what are you doing over
here?”
Not knowing himself, Pvt. T.
naturally answered, “I don’t know
.... »>
“Well, you obscenity of an ob
scenity, get across that creek . ..
and fast!”
“I can’t swim,” protested Tim
mons.
“Get across that creek, you jeep.
■ before I boot you across!” whis-
' pered the three-striper—hoarsely.
Thus encouraged, Timmons
j plunged in up to his knees, crossed
and took cover behind a bush. He
was just getting settled when he
I looked up and found himself star-
' ing straight into the barrel of
Wagner’s rifle.
Wagner was staring at Timmons
| and cursing quietly. “Get back
across there where I told you to
¡stay or I’ll bust-your skull in!”
It required no further hinting for
♦
Timmons to get back to his cluster
of poison oak, this time soaking
himself to the hips.
Snuggling under his cover as af-
; fectionately as a new-born babe to
This
week's
pulchritudinous
Post
employee
is
a
dancing,
You will be hearing further from
its mother, Timmons glanced sky
Most of us will be enjoying mess
roller-skating Salemite, who reportedly can only be reached by
these swell GI literary lights: T/4
ward—once. He beheld a counte
hull
Thanksgiving
dinners
in
tradi
appointment.
Albert Scott, 91st Signal Co. and
nance, a scowling countenance,
A native Oregonian, from Wallowa, highly personable and
T/5s Warren Chamberlain, 361st tional GI style but—Are you the
that resembled not at all the be
guy
that
has
been
thinking
about
attractive
Miss
Rosemarie
Billings
stands
5'5".
tips
the
beam
at
Inf.; Bernie Smith, 362nd Inf.;
nign face of a young mother when
inviting that cute little welder
118 and is 19 years of age.
George W. Wolpert, 363rd Inf.;
gazing upon her first-born.
down from Portland and—
She likes the Oregon rain! A veteran of over a year in
John H. Marolf, Hq. 91st Divarty.
“Get across ....”
surgery
at
the
Station
Hospital,
she
also
loves
her work and often
Has the problem of providing a
♦ His wife wrote to his draft
“O. K., sarge ....”
feels like doing a little cutting-up herself.
holiday
dinner
in
the
best
tradition
board, but he couldn't read the
Back on the wrong side of the
Her education. Rosemarie maintains, is very little, but “I
letter, which he presented the board of a good host given you some con
fateful little creek, now soaked
CAN read and write." (hence, the Esquire?). Of other matters
cern?
'
in some hope, perhaps, of continu
above the stomach,Timmons picked
her "heart flies high with the Air Corps." Get it?
Cast aside your fears, soldier,
ing the highly enthusiastic life he
himself up disgustedly and pro
the
Service
Club
Cafeterias
are
the
had pursued for eight years, in
claimed
to all and sundry (but
preference to toting a gun in the answer to your prayer — and one Are You a Photogenious?
mostly the poison oak and spiders),
supper
de
luxe,
will
set
you
back
Army. That is why our heart bleeds
Genius Earns $1.56
“I’ve just been killed by the enemy,
for this Poinsett County, Ark., fa only 75 cents.
and I'm damned if I'm going to
Ball Studios, publishers of
ther of seven. The letter, United
cross that lousy creek again.”
the Trailblazer magazine, an
Press reports from the selective
G/ GRIPES!
So saying, he stomped off to
nounce that they will pay $1.50
service bulletin, reads:
await HIS turn to kill the enemy
for any picture taken by a sol
"Dear I'nited States Army: My
Two different patches adorned some day.—Pvt. H. L. Michelson.
dier which is acceptable for the
husband asked me to write a
the shoulders of the Alaskan vet
70th Division publication.
recommend that he supports his
WHAT'S IN NAME DEP'T.
Both the negative and the erans who now wear the insignia
family. He cannot read, so don't
Philadelphia (CNS)—The judge
print should be taken to the of the Trailblazer Division. Both
tell him. Just take him. He ain't
studio in PX No. 1. by the bua signified the Alaskan Defense Com asked a man why he registered for
no giaai to me. He ain't done
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mand of which the Attu fighters the draft under a false name.
depot, for examination.
nothing but raise hell and drink
This opportunity for everlast were a part before joining the "Ashamed of my own,”. sajd the
lemon essence since I married
ing fame (and a little extra 70th. One, a seal juggling the let man sheepishly. “What is your
him eight years ago. and I got
ters ADC against a background of name?" the judge asked. "Julius
money) is open to anyone.
to feed seven kids of his. Maybe
the Northern Lights, was designed Caesar,” was the reply.
you can get him to carry a gun.
by \\ alt Disney at the request of
He's good on squirrels and eat-
the northern soldiers. Somehow or
ing. Take him and welcome. I
other, the design was never offi
need the grub and his bed for the
cially approved by the War De
kids, Don't tell him thia, but just
partment and recently a new patch
take him and send him as far as
was issued.
you can."
Against a blue background, it j
♦ After such we feel something
1. The stars.
shows the full-faced head of a
coming on We think it may have
2. Patty means a little meat pie; grizzly bear and the yellow North '
something to do with the "De-Em-
dolly means a platform mounted Star. Both insigne have become ♦ It is easy to understand why we
phnaia of Sex" program, or some
on wheels; sally mean* a trip or familiar to Camp Adair in the ten hear so much about "Target: Ber
thing:
T/4 John Regley. Hq. Co. of the jaunt.
days the men have been on the lin" and “Target: Tokyo”— they ’re
“Mary wrote a little poem.
76th Division, snared the $2 award
post.
X Beef
both black spots.
But no one read it twice
ed via the Poet Exchange for artist
♦ Now that the divisions with the
4. Two.
Nor mentioned it to anyone.
T/S Eddie McConnelFa GI gripe of
wolf insignia is gone, do you sup
X Both.
Where Are They Now?
’Cause it was too damned nice!"
the week. For Sgt. Kegley** pet
pose the WACa will venture to
6.
Two.
The
child and the
gripe was "doing those gran exer
Lt. John Kimbrough. All-Ameri come to Camp Adair?
Texas soldier in North Africa: rise* in the rain every morning, trunk. You would have to pay ex can fullback at Texas A. and M. in ♦ Definition*: Stockade—A small
"Our job here, among other things, for instance the so-called rowing tra for the dog.
19-19 and 1940. has reported for body of men surrounded by courts
is to promote g<ssl neighborliness. exercise«." T/S McDonnell ha-
duty at Kirtland Field. N. M.. af martial.
We've got to be friendly with the done that too and felt right at
Remember — next week's Sentry ter completing his training at the ♦ A man's word is his bond: but
natives If they say Africa is big- | home drawing the picture. Send in will be out on Thursday. Thanks Marfa. Tex., twin-engine advanced a man's Bonds speak for them
ger than Texas, agree with them" your Gripe.
giving day.
'."lying school
selves.
♦ Interesting human interest-ac
tion photo was the Oregon Jour
nal's of Sunday, showing Mrs. Ter
ry de U Mesa Allen swinging (“as
she would drive down a fairway”
to quote Louise Aaron) the cham-
pagiM bottle w hie h officially
launched the newest sub chaser
built by Commercial Iron Works
in Portland. Major General Allen,
in tlie back-ground, had raised his
own right hand in an instinctive
inotiop to help.
Interesting, too, was the reply
of the new Timlier Wolf division
commander and hero of Sicily, to
the request for a few words,
“Damn few," said he laughingly.
♦ We have just been advised of a
piece of high-finance, featuring one
Pfc. L. F. Swanson of SCU QM,
which leads us to wonder a little
about it all.
A certain Pfe. named A. L. Kel-
beit was interested in buying out
of his duty ns day room orderly.
He offered Pfc. Swanson one dol-
lar to take the job. Pfc. Swanson
refused. He then offered one Pvt.
George Cruthers a dollar and Cru
thers accepted. Now Cruthers is,
it says here, a mercenary type of
fellow. He didn’t want the job so I I
began casting for takers, at fifty
cents. Eventually he reached Pfc.
L. F. Swanson, who took the four
bits—and the job which, one hour I
earlier, he'd refused at twice the
figure.
♦ Camp Adair may not be heaven,
if the “wet weather” poems we have
in stock mean anything, but to
men of the Fir Tree Division it
isn’t a bad spot at all. We base
this on comments from five unit
reporters of the 91st we had the
good pleasure of meeting the other
day.
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Cafeterias Offer No. 17 Pieframe Lass Has Heart—
75c Holiday Meal Yes, But "It Flies High With, etc."
Colorful Insignia
Adorns Shoulders
Of Alaskan Vets
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