Camp Adair Sentry
Post War' Topic Dances on Deck;
Why USO Doesn't Function Overseas
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Friday. December 10, 1943.
In Rain Like Th'rs, Fire Drill Is a Wonderful Thing
If you're “post war” minded, get*-------------- ------- ---------------------
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WHY NOT SEND THEM—
¿av night at the Corvallis USO . . .
A recording ot jour voice for
Speakers "who were there” lead Christmas ?
the . ups- Chemeketa USO sends
Nothing would please your folks
us an explanation pf why USOs do at home more than to have a re-
, ,pI , eiate in war areas. If you've j cording—and if you can’t think of
¡wondered, too, read below . . . The I anything to say, the USOs operated
¡regular weekend entertainment is ! by the Portland USO Council have
on deck at all USOs . . .
! especially prepared Christmas
I greetings.
No USO in War Areas I ) ou can make a record from 2
In reply to the complaints of Ito 3:30 and from 8:30 to 10 p.m.
-ervicemen from overseas that the ¡daily at the YMCA and YWCA,
1US0 isn't operating in war areas, i the Williams Avenue Center, the
the Chemeketa USO, Salem, sends Jewish \\ •'lfare Board and other
in this explanation clipped from [ISOs operated by the council.
I HIS PHOTO SHOWS men of the 276th Regiment, armed with shovels and other equipment. I
Yank:
faring forth to fire drill. It was taken in a driving rain, so the obvious question is, where are the |
Where the USO operates is up Dance Band at Albany
buckets-
Tr.ilW.>«r Ph,
to the Army and Navy.
The SCU band, under the baton
It operates where the govern­ of Sgt. Bill Wenness, will give Classification Apparently 'Gang Aft Aglie'
91st Band Presents
ment permits and requests. Clubs forth Saturday night for the week­
and services are maintained by the i end dance at the Albany USO, be­
Concert; 'Names' i
USO in the United States, Alaska. ! ginning at 8:30 p.m. This, like
Canal Zone, Carribbean, east coast i other post bands, needs no intro­
In Musical Outfit
Writing plays and scenarios isn’t |
of South America, Bermuda, New­ duction to EM or Junior Hostesses!
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I
I much background for training in an
foundland and Hawaii.
Tanks,
Mr
The
recently
merged
56-piee®
The USO is not permitted to FREE SINKERS AND COFFEE anti-tank company, so Pvt. Louis
91st Infantry Division Band will
i Rosenthal, alias Louis Lantz, for­
operate in Britain, Africa, Austral­
make its debut on the stand of
As usual — free doughnuts and mer radio script writer and Holly-
ia and South Pacific. However,
Service Club No. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
coffee to all servicemen from 9:30 , wood scenarist, is pretty busy these
other agencies do function in these
Sunday
when they present a con*
areas, and USO Camp Shows go I to 12 noon in the Albany USO on days (and nights).
cert of varied music, WO (S.G.)
Sunday!
Rosenthal,
now
with
the
A-T
Co.,
wherever servicemen are stationed. I
Erwin M. Gregory announced Wed«
275th Inf. and apparently right off
nesday.
EMWS MEET MONDAY
the Loew’s circuit, says, “In the
TRIP TO STATE PRISON
Special guest soloist will be Mrs.
Monday at 2 p.m. Enlisted Men's old days if anyone said, ‘Tanks.’ I
The sightseeing trip Sunday will
Josephine Albert Spaulding of Sa­
automatically said, ‘You’re wel­
Wives
in
Albany
will
meet
for
a
I
be to the Oregon State Prison, with
lem, a well-known concert sir.ger
come.’ Nowadays KI automatically
the bus leaving Chemeketa Street sewing class, instructed by Mrs. R.
it» the Northwest. She will ap ’ear
go into action with a 37-mm. gun.
A.
Fishman,
formerly
craft
in
­
VSO at 2 p.m. in order to get back
in two spots.
Versatile
Writer
structor
at
Marshall
Field,
Chica
­
to Salem in time for the regular I
Author of such well-known
The program will include a mix­
I
go.
Wednesday,
EM
and
their
>
Sunday-afternoon surprise program
ture of marches, waltzes, medlars,
radio shows as Dupont's “Caval­
wives
will
hold
a
card
party
with
j
at 3:30.
cade" and “The Human Adven­
parodies, semi-popular music, and
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i free table prizes and refreshments. ture” for NBC and CBS. Rosen­
one symphonic number.
OLD-TIME DANCES THURSDAY ,
thal has also written scenarios
THEY’LL SEW FOR YOU
Various name band name* ar®
Men who come to Salem Thurs-1
for Universal, Columbia and
represented
including Wayne King,
Free
sewing,
pressing
and
alter
­
day nights are finding the regular i
MGM in Hollywood, and has done
Charlie Barnet, Herb Miller, Ha!
Old-Time Dance at Chemeketa ations, including sox darning aial a bit for the Signa) Corps by
Trailblazer Photo
i Leonard, Jack Teagarden and Pinky
Scenarist Rosenthal
Street USO interesting to watch as sewing on chevrons, are being done writing film scenarios.
Tomlin. One member, T/4 Jaitan
well as fun to participate in. Pro-. for all GIs at the Albany USO, in
He is co-author of a play, “Ridin’
Robitaille, has played the trumpet)
the
club
reading
room.
gram Director H. R. Anthony
HE SAW IT ALL
on His Pony,” due to open at New
in the army for 23 years.
teaches, and it’s surprising how I Hours are from 2 to 11 p.m., Sat­ York’s Empire Theater some time
Mr. Gregory, bandmaster, war art
urdays;
11
a.m.
to
5
p.m.,
Sundays;
Sgt.
Floyd
L.
Hof
of
Serv.
Co.,
easy it is to catch on.
next week. He is offering 12 pairs ;
GSO members are on hand, as ! 5 to 11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. of ducats to the anti-tankers who j 276th Inf., is one man who can instrumentalist in Hollywood for
not only say, “I was there,” but eight years before he enlisted in
well
older men and women who I
have relatives in New Y'ork who can say, ”1 saw it all.”
the army. The last two years he
also come for the dance. There is FREE CHRISTMAS WRAPPINGS might be able to make it.
was with the recording orchestra
Along with all other nearby
a real old-time orchestra.
He was stationed at Schofield
Finds Army Relaxing
in the Paramount studios.
USOs, Albany is running a free
Barracks, Honolulu, when the
When asked how he felt about
The band is a combination of the
Christmas wrapping bureau, with
attack on Pearl Harbor took
W/5C0 of George White , Christmas
Army life. Rosenthal answered,
old 91st Infantry and Art.iry
papers, stickers and
place.
hands.
After their performance last tags. They mail and insure pack­ after working on an Olsen and
At the time of the attack he
Sunday from Field House, the "We ages for you, too, if you leave the Johnson picture (“Louder and
Funnier"), the Army is relaxing.”
" ork for WISCO” broadcast will money with the USO workers.
' Rosenthal started his play- was on pass, but as soon as the
Yank Holiday Issue
new reached him that the Har­
return to George White in Port­
I
wright
’
s
career
ten
years
ago
by
At
Your PX Dec. 17
bor was being bombed, he rushed
land Sunday night for their regu­ ‘WINTER LODGE’ DANCE SAT.
¡winning a $1000 fellowship award to his post atop one of the hills
lar weekly Sunday-night show in
Doors of the Portland YWCA, from the Theater Guild in New- overlooking it.
NEW YORK—As a salute t the
the Little Theater on the third I
converted Saturday night into a York.
merriest Christmas since 1 .rl
floor.
He was in charge of a 30-cal. Harbor, Yank, The Army Wee ly,
Winter Lodge, will swing wide for
He is 30 years old, married, and '
If you liked them at the Field all servicemen for the "Winter
machine
gun emplacement which will break the bank to give GI*
1 has a six-year-old son who likes to '
House (and who didn’t?), drop in
Lodge” Dance sponsored by the play with a typewriter. “This will j did not fire for fear of giving a holiday cover in four colors on
to George White’s this weekend.
group. It starts at 8 p. m. and is have to stop,” he says, “either he , away its position. You can well ¡the Christmas issue which hit- the
imagine his itching trigger fin­ IFX stands Friday. Dec. 17.
(free, of course.
FREE HOLLY
stops trying to be a writer, or he ,
ger!
FOR YOUR FAMILY
The 24-page GI magazine will
pays his own psychoanalists’s fees j
TO SKI SUNDAY
Being on duty for 96 hours, also contain these extra feature*
An average of 100, you count
when he grows up!”
the little sleep he did get was | in addition to the regular material:
eni. boxes of holly are being sent , The Helonski Ski Club of Cor-
in the mud and rain. He saw the A full-page Christmas Sweetheart
dsily by the George White center valiis plans a trip Sunday to Mary’s
whole itattle, including the sink­ pin-up girl for your Christmas t-«®
in Portland for servicemen's fam- Peak (snow conditions permitting),
ing of the Arizona and the Ok­ (or for any other appropriate dee«
■lies all over the country'.
and GIs are welcome, according to
lahoma, from his “ring-side” orating); your December 25 dime»
All vou have to do is to drop by President Charles Rising.
seat.
and let Mrs. Hibbs, on the fifth
Leave at 9, return at 5. There
menu; stories and cartoons in th®
The following privates of Co. B, j
floor, know the address and leave are plans for a portable tow. Call
spirit of the season.
275th Inf., have bean advanced to j
her the money for postage. Port­ 561-J.
the grade of Pfc. during the past |
landers donate the holly, the Cen­
week: Henry C. Shibiey. George S |
FORMAL CHARITY BALL
ter wraps it and sends it out. Fair
Martin, Wilbur R. Jackson, Louis I
tiough?
With proceeds to go to the Red
C. Dupuy, Charles H. O’Rourke.
Cross Blood Bank, the Corvallis
Robert F. Bryant, Edwin G. Geiler. |
'Post War World'
Spinsters are sponsoring their an­
Wayne E. Wagner, Arnold G. Bork. |
"Will France regain her former nual charity ball next Friday night Thomas R. Croxton, I Hl vid Kulchar.
glory?”
in Hotel Benton.
George C. Kerr, George W. Trip-
Tickets. $1.50 a couple, may be
That will be the topic Sunday
Jett.
night at the Corvallis USO for the purchased at Jack Porter’s Insur­
Walton L. Thibodeaux, Neal Win- ;
second of the current monthly ance, 137 S. 2nd. during the day,
-eries of discussions on “Our Post and at Corvallis Hotel evenings. field. John V. Brinkman. Giendon
"ar World.” Dr. Edouard J. Bour- Servicemen are especially invited, C. Longworth. Anthony P. Zaffu-
Bousson, graduate of the Univers­ and the 70th Division Rhumba to, Patsy M. Panella, Joe C. San­
ity of Paris and now teaching Band will play for dancing. Dress ches. Paul H. Harbaufh. Ivan W. I
Sheffer, Francis G. Mondulick,
French at Oregon State College, will be formal.
Paul W. Mattson, Herman A. Up-
will lead this meeting of the Sun-
her. Alfred J. Southard, Roy O
DAUGHTER BORN
lav Evening conversation club.
For your convenience there is a jMirtrait studio
’Ahich will open at 7 p.m.
A s« ven-pound baby daughter was Severson. Leonard L. Keith. Wil­
regulated by the Post Exchange in PX No. 1. opposite
Last Sunday the first meeting of bom early Wednesday morning to liam Chin, James F. Hickman.
the group was held. The topic was M Sgt. and Mrs. Cleve R. Birkes.
main bun terminal. Open daily and Sunday from
London (CNS)—Thirty of every
Should Austria be Revived’" A Sgt. Birkes is Sergeant Major at
1 I’. M. to 10 P. M.
graduate of the University of VI- Poet Hqs. The mother and baby, 1.000 American soldiers stationed
♦aaa. Dr. Thomas O. Brandt, was their first child, are at the Ball in the British Isles have married
English girls.
Clinic. Corvallis.
Ue lead«-.
Former Script Writer Now Anti-Tanker
Co. B, 275th Inf.,
Lists Promotions
That Christmas
Portrait Can
Be Made Right
On The Post
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