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Camp Adair Sentry =? j Play Starts in SCU Basketball Circuit PSTU, SCU QM Win First League Games -■ Page Nine Friday, December 3, 1943. Alaskan Vets Turned Traiibiazers Spin Many i i A Yarn of Days, Nights Spent 'Way Up North': Theodore the Wo// When the boys of the 275th Infantry start swapping varns with their new non-coms from Alaska, they can choose their topic of conversation from practically any military subject. For the Northern vets have*—;---------------------------------------------- comes from West Virginia. He has The SCU basketball league got had a wide range of experience. Many of these men like 23-year- Arpiy. His recent station was at underway Tuesday evening with two official league games and one old S Sgt. George R. Jenkins have Kodiak, Alaska, with the 201st. exhibition match being played at spent almost two years in Alaska. S/Sgt. James D. Coleman comes I Sgt. Jenkins comes frqm Idabel, the Field House. from RusseLville, Arkansas. Mar The PSTU eagers ripped the Oklahoma. He is an expert in rifle ried 13 years, he has a daughter, and bayonet. In the army 2 ’ - 18th AAA men. 42-36. and the SCU age 7. The Sgt. has 11 years of QM beat the 113th AAA, 27-12, in years, he served with the 4th Inf. service with the Arkansas National S Sgt. R. E. Conn, from Coeur the two league game«. In the non Guard, 153rd Inf., and four years j league game, the 457th QM ran d'Alene, Idaho, also served with the in the Army. He was with the first , 4th. in Alaska, ir. ski-patrols. He wild over the 253rd Station Hos was stationer! in Circle City which outfit that landed west of putch ' pital to win, 58-32. I is as far north as you can drive. Harbor and spent 18 months there. Two First Sergeants Circle City has a population of Sgt. Coleman says that bucking In heating the inexperienced three whites and 100 assorted In tne 60 and 80 mile winds up there . 113th AAA, the SCU QM were dians. To Gls who complain about is rough. spark-plugged by Pvt. Emil Tor Camp Adair, the Sgt. passes on T 5 Kenneth Hindman, who got i gerson. the quintet’s captain. It a little reminder that up yonder married on his furlough back in his was the first game for the ack a quart of Scotch costs 75 smackers home town of Morgantown, West i "Ya don t look hooman1 Do I gotta sleep with you?” ack boy», and they just never did —that is when they've got it to Virginia, is 22 years old. One of get started. Feature of the QM sell. his saddest experiences up in Alas five was two first sergeants pull j*--------------------- ------------------------- ** Another soldier who served with , ka was missing out on' a fine ham ing rank on each other, Atkins the 4th in Alaska for three years | supper with champagne because of and Jacobson by name. is 29-year-old Sgt. Franklyn Rob an alert. He’s seen thousands of With Sheffield, six-foot, two- erts. who is a native son of Eugene, | dollars change hands in some of ..1 ■ I ■ ■■ , inch center, running up a high- Ore. After three tough years Sgt. i the games at Excursion Inlet. A cheery letter from Warrant 1 score tally of 24 points, the PSTU Roberts has had the luck to land i While at Sitka he helped build an "some- I Officer “Chuck” Wolff, Wolff. “ 1 was never threatened by the 198th. piactically in his own backyard., amateur broadcasting setup into a Africa." brings to j Good as their shooting has been, Hannon and LaSueur starred de Sgt. Roberts was with K Co., which real studio, known tbday at KRAY. where in North . cu.u ....crackshots of the 275th are look- mind memories fensively fcr the “students.” Sgt. Ora Davis, 27, started out landed at Sitka and established a _ I ing forward to bettering their League play continues tonight base there. from his home town, Salem, West Bn., which was stationed at Camp | ^reg with the SCU HQ aggregation S/Sgt. Roy A. Benda is 25, has Virginia, 4'2 years ago when he Adair, in Tent City, until late this > al competitions. tangling with the 71st Evacuation been in the Army 38 months out came into the Army. After 21 past summer. The matches started Monday and Hospital. Further play next week of which 29 were spent with the months in Alaska he has come back An ^specially pertinent part of twill run until December 11. The will include, on Tuesday: 253rd vs. 4th at Anchorage, Alaska. Sgt. to Salem, but this time—Oregon. lis letter deals with recreational j contests will determine the out 71st and 113th vs. 198th. On Thurs Benda comes from Luray, Mo. He is an expert in machine gun facilities available overseas.' It is standing squad in each battalion day: 236th vs. 633rd, 740th vs. S/Sgt. Lawrence P. Sperandio and served as a Took with the 201st , Mr. Wolff's recommendation r~ ___ the ____________ ____ ___ as with following weapons: rifle, _ 457th and PSTU vs. 198th. Special Service Officer for the hat- [ light machine gun, heavy machine seen 7’2 years of service with the in Alaska. talion, that “all those outfits that gun, 60 — mm. mortar, and • “ 81 * mm. are scheduled to go overseas stock ! mortar. up with all available instruments. ’ The winning squad will bear the movie projectors, etc., BEFORE proud designation of “Battalion LEAVING. Don’t depend on the Commander’s Rifle (LMG, HMG, I stuff you may get overseas. There ' 60 mm. Mortar, or 81 mm. Mor Single matches in the current is none to speak of. Why. we don’t tar) Squad.” table tennis tournament spotlight even get used magazines." • 1 PROGNOSTICATION! ed the activities in the 274th In The speed and color of big-time Wherever Mr. Wolff and the I "I haven’t paid much atten fantry last week with Co. B win-1 varsity basketball loomed this Edgar Smith, 39-year-old left tion to the boxing game since I r.ing three out of four in their 614th are today, it can’t be much of week for Trailblazer Division sol handed pitcher for the Chicago a spot. Either that or the desert entered the Army, but I figure match against Co. D. diers as a call went out for basket heat has gotten him raving mad. White Sox, has been inducted into those boys who have been over Played in the Co. B day room last ball players from whom will be se 'the Army at Ft. Dix, N. J. Smith seas will be plenty tough when Saturday, the matches were in ac- ' He writes, “Corvallis is really Par lected a 70th Division varsity to, adise compared to where we are already has two brothers in serv the war is over. cordance with national table tennis play other service and civilian “I think there will be plenty rules and provided many a thrill for now." I ice. teams in the Camp Adair area. 1 good fighters developed in the the spectators. The special service office, which 1 service and probably some new is sponsoring the team, revealed champions,” was the prediction also that colorful uniforms bear- I The Old and The New of Sgt. Joe Louis (Barrow) at mg the Bloody Axe insignia are al- , Camp Beale. Cal., recently. Co. B, 275th, welcomes Lt. ready on order for the team. George MacDavid as its new com Unit commancers have been re Officers or enlisted men wishing manding officer and extends best quested to cooperate “to the extent to practice should report at the wishes to Lt. Reid for success at that training requirements permit” in releasing team aspirants, both 'e ■' *‘* " House. , at 1900, Monday. Ft. Benning. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday With a great deal of pleasure officers and enlisted men, for prac ) the boys welcome back Lt. Clarence tice on Monday, Tuesday. Thurs evenings. Bello, who now takes over the first day and Saturday nights from 1800 I platoon. • To to 2200. From Alaska has come 1st Sgt. Talent Turns Out • Corvallis I ournamenr Joseph Belloty to take over the mul Plenty of big-time talent has titudinous duties of that office. • Albany already turned out, but the lists With many years of experience the are wide open, and there is every | The first round of games in the • Salem new first sergeant should soon have chance for one of the Podunk 1363rd Infantry basketball tourna- things humming around the quad- • Eugene State Normal School squad to ! ment got under way last night. ! rangle. »in a place over a be-medalled From a strong field of company • Portland star from some better-publicized T/Sgt. Joe Gallagher, who pa- 1 teams, a regimental champion will school. be declared on the night of Decem troled the outfield for the New Men who so far have turned out ber 23 when the finals are played. York Yankees, St. Louis Browns for the team include Pvt. Oliver The regimental Headquarters and Brooklyn Dodgers before he Brown, forward and later coach at Eastern Illinois' Stale Teachers; company quintet, last year^i cham- entered the service in 1941, now is stationed at Harding Field, La. Delivered Anywhere in U. S. A. Pvt. Rudy King, forward and cen pions, will be minus the services of two of their stellar hoopsters. Howers For ('amp Adair Parties ter. University of Oregon: Pvt. Mel Bunstine, center, C.W.C.E.; and M Sgt. Singleton and Sgt. “Whit Flowers Arranged For Weddings SWAPS COLUMN Pvt. Jules Schlicter. ail of 275th ey" Nicholson, former Carleton College long-shot artist. Inf. Loots — Founds Sgt. John Setting; Pvt. Jack, Despite these losses the former 1 Wants — Sales Mendel, guard and center for Col champs are expected to be the lead et osterà Order As Far In Advance umbia University and “Little All- ing contenders for the champion As Possible American" choice for 1941-42. both ship again. Many company teams are now LOST: Men’s gold wedding ring, of 276th Inf. Pvt. Dave Parka. 274th inf.; Pfc. Loren Planet. University holding work-outs in the huge Field believed vicinity bus depot. Find of Missouri guard. 270th Engineers. House, sharpening their shooting er contact Sgt. Swint ack eyes for the opening games this j Schwientk, 517 Ord. Co. Phone Master Sergeant« and Private* Orders Received At... 2264. Reward. M/Sgt. Ben K. West; Pvt, J. week. Laurence Attnre. University nf Pvt. Horace Bell, star guard at LOST: green raincoat on 1st St Richmond, forward, both of Spe Minnesota in 1938. is a basic North. Nov. 30. Will finder please cial Troop«; Pvt. Jeww Kaym Pvt. Opposite Bus Depot return to Sentry office. Pvt. Stanley A. Cole. 725th Field Ar trainee, stationed at Jefferson Bar Joseph Quinn, Hq. Co., SCU 1*11. i racks, Mo. tillery. ALUMNI 275th Launches Shooting Tests 70th to Meet Outside Œ Keeps ab,e Tenni ^'?y on in 274tn Cogers With 'Varsity' 363rd Hoopsters SEND FLOWERS HOME ★ ★ POST EXCHANGE NO. 1 i
