Camp Adair Sentry
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Les Brown Bend Wows
EM at Coca Cola Show
A small handful of blonde dyna
mite named Kim Kimberley sans
what “My Heart Tells Me.’’ to in
trigue two packed houses of GIs at
Field House last night as the Coca
Cola Co. of Salem brought Les
Brown and his nationally-famous
jive band to Camp Adair.
She did it again singing “Mexico
City” to vie for top spot in soldier
favor with Butch (Knock Me a
Kiss) Stone in his rendition of
“GI Jive’’. Brown and his musical
aggregation played Coca Cola’s
Victory Parade Spotlight broadcast
over NBC Blue Network at 6:30.
They repeated the performance for
GIs only at 8 o’clock.
Tonight they play at .Jantzen
Beach, Portland, while the Coca
Cola progiam switches to Quonset
Point, Rhode Island, where Abe
Lyman’s band will perform at the
U. S. Naval Air Station. Tuesday
I.es Brown and his boys will again
appear rn the Coca Cola show' from
Gowen Field out of Boise, Idaho.
For one moment of last night’s
program (one of the few big-time
shows seen at this Post), a special
tribute to Camp Adair was read
by Jackson Wheel, r. regular West
Ccast announcer for the show.
Fortifying the Les Brown troupe
for their three hours of performing
after arrival from Portland at
noon, they were served a roast beef
dinner at Service Club I. The band
was to depart for Portland again
after last night’s show.
274th Gets Baptism Under Fire as
Men Run First Infiltration Course
Col. Thomas R. Gibson. CO cf
the 274th Inf. led his men through
infiltration cour e No. 80 for their
first "bapti-m under fire” last
Monday.
The men of the regiment, having
completed their rigid basic train
ing. put their knowledge ard train
All visitors at the Station Hos ing into practice under simulated
pital must first obtain passes at battle conditions.
The infiltration course consisted
the Information Desk.
of cleveily arranged baibed wire
entanglements, craters, nitro-
ehaiges, and overhead machine gun
fire wbi h kept everyone crawling
on their stomachs or sliding on
their backs while slowly worming
their way through 110 yards of
slippery, slimy mud and slush.
The entire regiment ran the
course as a lequirement to obtain
the much coveted Infantryman’s
Medal.
Despite the use of high explosives
and live ammunition no casualties
were suffered.
This is high tribute to the train
ing and courage of the men and to
the safety mea«ures employed by
Capt. J. L. Meyer, CO of Co. M,
under whose direction the course
was constructed and run.
“When you arrive overseas,»it
is too late to begin learning your
job, but by paying attention to
duty now, you ran enter combat
with the assurance that you are
a well-trained soldier.”
The General concluded his speech
by pointing to the fine record made
by the 91st Division, not only on
the West Coast, but throughout
the country as an organization
that wan neat and courteous at all
times.
He askerl the new men to con
tinue and to add to the splendid
record of military d i s c i p I i n a
achieved by the division.
Go to church on Sunday.