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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1944)
L’ OREGCM A a A FLASK! Victor Mature, the reason why wom en leave home, just returned from 15 months of combat duty with the Coast Guard in the North Atlantic, and Singer Joan Wineberg will be at Club 1 on Feb. 12 at 1415 to autograph war bonds purchased at an informal bond rally. Vol. 2 No. 42. New Trailblazer Mag To Be 'Strictly GI’ Division Project Now Run Entirely Dy 70th “Strictly GI”—that is the label that can be tacked on the new ver sion of the Trailblazer Magazine which has been taken over as a purely division project and will be published for, by and about the 70th GIs without any civilian con- n ection. The entire magazine will be new and different from any previous editions. Combining the format and style of Life and Look, the Trail blazer Magazine will contain: More pictures and more names than ever before; all original pic tures that have never appeared in print; a photographic essay, “A GI Day” by the division's own photographers. A pictorial series by Les Old man, one of America’s best-known news cameramen and staffman of the Oregon Journal; the first photo graphic appearance of Timmons, the hapless hero of tjie popular weekly Sentry yarns. Cartoons by Trailblazer artists: photographs snbmitted by amateur photographers throughout the 70th; a picture record of the successful completion of the division’s rookie days; and representative material from every Trailblazer unit. The new Trailblazer will «hit the stands the end of this month. It is being prepared by the 70th G-2 section, public relations office, and will be distributed through company orderly rooms. 361st Reaches Its Goal, 'Berlin/ In 91st Bond Drive Carrying the fight to the enemy with every dollar they can spare, the men of the 91st Division have pushed their War Bond Drive to a total of $230,325. With a month of the drive still left, almost half the distance to the goal of $500,000 has been covered. Reports early Wednesday morn ing showed that the 361st Inf., which has been leading all the way. had more than filled its quota with purchases of $100,581. Co. M leads the regiment with a total of $9350. The 362nd Inf., which is in sec ond place, is still quite far behind the leader with purchases total ing $54,000. The center of interest these days is the huge map on the wall of division HQ which registers the advances of the various units as they move toward their objective— Berlin—half a million dollars. Camp Adair. Oregon, Friday, February 4, 1944. Measures His Little Baby Bare $1.50 a Year by Mail I Picture Frame Queen To Be Picked by YOU SOLDIER SOUGHT Would the 70th Division sol dier who was in the Senator Ho tel lobby, Salem, Oregon, about midnight January 26-27, and who pointed out a suspicious ci vilian to an MP, please contact Lt. M P. Farrell at telephone number 2442? Every man in Camp Adair will have his chance in the next ten days to vote for and boost his candidate for the title, “Queen of the Picture Frame.” To the win ning girl will go a handsome prize and the honor of ruling as queen at Club 1 Valentine’s formal dance. For the past six months the Sentry has been running its Pic ture Frame Girl of the Week to prove (to whomever it may con cern) that the girl employees of Camp Adair have as much on the ball as the best of Hollywood and Broadway stars. Only two or three The long overdue SCU Medical of the featured girls have not been Detachment NCO Club will have Post employees. its formal opening tomorrow night In conjunction with the opening with a distinguished list of guests of the newly-refurbished Club 1, to honor the occasion. Col. Charles Mrs. Margaret Blodgett and Miss W. Comfort, .Jr.. Post surgeon, and Dorothy (Stevens, hostesses of the Col. Samuel D. Hays, Post com club, conceived the idea for this mander, head the list, which in- contest. Ieludes all the officers and nurses All the former Sentry- Picture | from the Station Hospital and Frame Girls that are still working ---------w I many others from other units on ,,n the Post, and there are 19— !' thf» the Post. '(count ’em—19, now have their pic- Untold quantities of 3.2 bever- tures ppsted on the club bulletin age will flow freely for the occa- ’ board. ' — Every man on the Post is Toth lii- ph.»!» sion and special refreshments and entitled to vote for his favorite. .MRS. JEAN WACHTEL, Philadelphia, couldn't send hus a buffet supper have also been A ballot box is located right next* band Pvt. Laurence Wachtel. of the Trailblazer Division Hq. Co.. prepared. Sgt. Joe Sieff and his to the hostess’ office, and all one their six-months-old daughter. Laurie Jean, so she did the next Rio Grande Valley Dixieland hep- has to do is to fill C ,.e printed best thing—laid Laurie on a sheet of wrapping paper and traced ’ tet will provide music for dancing, ballots with the name of his choice her outline so Daddy could see how Baby had grown since hr was inducted, five months ago. Pvt. Wachtel, who is with G-4. 70th j The club, which was built from and his own name and organisation HQ. is shown measuring Laurie's growth. the foundation up by the Medic and drop it into the box. i NCOs alone, was first started in All the girls have been invited August, 1943. Under the guiding to attend the big formal dance influence of M/Sgt. John Birkes, which will take place on Valentine’s hospital sergeant major and first Day, February 14. Voting will con president of the club, the building tinue until the last minute, when gradually took shape. the ballots will be counted and the The Oregon CIO donated large winner announced. Because of his prompt and ingenious use of materials quantities of equipment for the The winning lassie will be at hand when an accident occurred while serving as range club — some $7500 worth of lum- crowned as Queen of the Picture guard. Pfc. Clarence E. Maxwell, 2nd Bn. Hq. Co., 274th Inf., (Continued on page 3, column 4) (Continued on page 11, column 21 will soon be presented the Legion of Merit at a formal review before Destination — Berlin — $500,000! the men of the 70th. Official notification of the award | came in a War Department general order last week, following the orig inal recommendation by Col. Thom as R. Gibson. CO of the 274th. Displaying a high degree of phys ical and mental alertness, ingenu ity and resourcefulness when a truck overturned near his post, Pfc. Maxwell used a fence post as a lever and a rifle as a prop to keep the weight of the vehicle off the survivor who was pinned un- deaneath. Before help arrived. Maxwell ad ministered first aid, substantially reducing the seriousness of the ac cident. The Legion of Merit is the fourth highest award that may be presented to an Amer ica n soldier. Medics NCO Club To Open Formally Tomorrow Evening Legion of Merit Won By Pfc. Maxwell, 70th The World This Week Monitored by Text John Stump THOUGH THE ALLIES WERE ON the move on all front, of the world this week, attention shifted to the Pacific to the major action there.... AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND MARINES opened big attacks against three main Japanese strongholds in the isles of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. In a day and night bombing, planes and (Continued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 4) Stasai Corp« Pturfs JI loyd V. Jehnson discu-s the big "Target — PVT. CHARLES D. DIN NIE (left) and I Berlin" map which hangs in 91st Division HQ le rec the progress of the division towards its 4th War Bond Drive genl of a cool halfmillion The 301st Inf. is “over the top." having accomplished Its SIM. 000 objective shortly after thia picture of the operations was taken—a fell month ahead of time. Division troops. however, are lagging so far behind that they may possibly endanger the seeress of the overall movement.
