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£^nip_Adair Sentry Friday, February 18, 1944. Bond Buying Spurts In Trailblazer Drive Generals, Film Star Join in 'Valentine Bond Day' Rally Division Draws Near Quota of $113,063 With neatly two weeks left go in the 4th V. S. War Loan drive, seven outfits in the 70th Di vision are over their quota. Topping the list is the 274th Inf Regt., which has oversubscribed its cash quota alone by more than $10,- 000. Other infantiy regiments are climbing steadily toward the “over subscribed” mark. Among other units in the list over the top are Division Artillery , HQ. with a quota of $433, the 370th ! Medical Bn., quota $3600 and 70th division HQ quota $1504. Headquarters Special Troops, 1 Headquarters Company and the i 70th M.P. Platoon are also above quota. Lieutenant Shelby Dukes, head ing the bond buying drive for the I Division, expressed belief several ; other units still unreported may be j over their quotas and urged unit chairmen to report to'liim at divi- j *'on HQ. Every indication points to I the Trailblazers exceeding their ■ quota of $113,063, he said. 275th Poised for Find Bond Push Page Five AGD Personnel Taking Port 100% In bona Program One hundred ana eleven Adat,' civ'iiun employees charged t<» th. Adjutant General's Depai fluent are participating 100 per cent in the war bond program through the pay! roll deduction plan, it was an nounced yesterday by Cap*. Gilbert A. Waite, AGD, Director of Per sonnel. With 99 of the group all. tting 10 per cent or more of their’ pa) check» and an overall average de duction of 15 per cent for the en tire group, this is a particularly fine record. The group is made up of civilian employees in the following sections; civilian -guards, provost marshal, military personnel, civilian per sonnel, fiscal office, rail transpor tation office, signal office, chemical warfare office and engineer prop erty office. ALL IN BONDS Sign.) Corp* I’ll, t VALENTINE BOND D at Camp \dair. last SatUrdai. brought out combined efforts of the Post to sell war bonds. Fea tured on the broadcast »ent out » ia K EX and KOAC were Ma jor General ,I< hn E. Dahlquist. 70th Division Ctimmander, left, and Major General William G. I.ive»av. 91st Commanding Gen eral. shown at right. Above, a shot from the ba! onv of Club 1 during the speech of Victor Ma ture. former film star now a chief boatswain’s mate in the Coast Guard. The 70th Division rhumba band provided music for the half-hoijr show. To date. Hitler and Hiro are still , . raising around on the thermometer I a front of the regimental head quarters. However, according to Mr. Hawes, regimental War Bond drive chairman, it won’t be long now before the boys shoot them down. The cash sales quota has been passed by well over a thou ATTENTION! REPUBLICANS sand dollars but the figures are Hyde Park, N. Y. (CNS)—Presi not complete on the allotments as dent Roosevelt has deeded his an- I yet. cestral home and 33 acres of his The watchword of the 275th in land here to the United States gov regards to the Bond Drive is “They ernment. The Tamed home, which shall not fly,” and they are deter will become a national historic site, mined to knock the two rats off banks on the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie. their posts. j Invest in the future. Buy War ¡ Both service clubs are open to all the personnel of Camp Adair. Bonds! \■ Signal ClorpM Phut • ASK CARL A. JIREL, prin cipal engineer with the Post En gineer Office, what he thinks uf war bonds. He must know sunw thing because he puts all his salary right back into bonds. She Buys Wounded at Attu, 70th Sgt. Buys $1,000 War Bond Valentine Bond Rally Broadcast From Post A buck sergeant, a wounded vet-* eran of the battle of Attu, and a Looking to the Future thou mind-dollar war bond formed the rare combination of patriotism, sacrifice and foresightedness that “For it’s Valentine Bond Day at Camp Adair!” was found in the Trailblazer's 570th With that catchword, military anti civilian personnel of Signal Co. this week. Adair, as well an visiting celebrities, joined in last Saturday's Sgt. Colin B. Harvey, slugged bond rally at Service Club 1. The*--------------- •——— through the right side of his body half-hour rally was broadcast j formerly of New York city, who during: the first assault of his bat throughout the state over stations | sang “Oh. What a Beautiful Morn- talion up the steep sides of Mas KOAC. KEN and KGW ing." GI talent was furnished by sacre Bay, modestly-dismissed his Highlighting the program was Pfc. Bob Smith, 71st Evacuation purchase, the largest single one in the appearance of both division jHospital, who sang "Embraceabie his company, as "a good invest commanding generals, Major Gen- ]' You," and Sgt. Bill Rhodenbaugh, ment." 70th Div., sang,“My Ideal.” oral William G. Livesay, 91st. and Representing his savings for Music, including the theme, Irv some time, plus the sale of a smalt Major General John E. Dahlquiat, ing Berlin's “Any Bonds Today.” piece of property, Sgt. Harvey has 70th, who spoke briefly over the was furnished by the 7Gth Divi this "good investment" plus bondn air. They reported on the divi sion’s Rhumba band, under capa worth a few hundred more, pur-| sions' progress in Adair’s 4th War ble direction of Sgt. Matt Carne chased since he joined the Army j '^-vitola irr rhr.to I Loan Drive. vale. nearly thi-ee years ago. SGT. COLLIN H ARVEY of the I Victor Mature, former film star 1 Coeds from Oregon State college, Tomorrow will be the third an Trailblazer 570th Signal Co. ! now a chief boatswain’s mate in Peggy Keown, Alice Ann Bauer, niversary of hia entrance into the doesn't have to look into the armed service, beckoned by his crystal ball to se» whether hie |the Coast Guard, related some of Jeanne Harding, lone Johnson and in» e»tmenta will brine him his experiences while on convoy Darlene Fairchild, were <m hand Sonora, Calif., draft board, Feb. | bond liood return* in fhe future. The 19. 1941. He was with the 41st Di veteran of Attu. holder of the ,duty in the North Atlantic for as volunteers to sell bonds during vision at Ft. Lewis, Wash., for Purple Heart, bought a thou^and- the past 15 months. Often referred the rally. Authorized issuing I to as “that gorgeous hunk of num.” I agents from the U. S. National several months, discharged under doliar bond recently. ¡Mature said his pals in the Coast | i Bank of Corvallis issued Imnds im- ' the old 28-years-of-age ruling be cage Harbor. Harvey waa injured 1 <*■»•* cjdl "H“»1 gorgeous i 1 mediately upon pur*-hase by GIs fore Pearl Harbor, called hack ih and .civilians who crowded the Feb.. 1942. and sent to the 17th during the evening of the «econd t hunk of junk, ( , rally. day <>f the assault that demoralized i Featured vocalist on the pro- Infantry of the 7th Division. When the 17th Infantry moved in the Japs and led to eventual vie-'gram was SPAR Joan Wernburg, ' The program was supervised by | Mrs. Margaret Blodgett, director j to attack on May 11 last year. lory. Reeent War Department General ; Sgt. Harvey, who waa amHgned of Chib I. Announcers were CpI. j Sgt. Harvey worked in his battalion message center. Ordered to estab Orders highly praised the work ofito the 7Oth Drvtaian last October. | Herme Smith 3411 st Inf., and Bgt. i lish communications among the the 17th Infantry, and awarded I is again working in a message ' Robert M McDaniels. Ill Corps j three battalions slated to take the them battle honor citations for ¡center, this time in Division Hdq PSTI unit. The program was pro | by Sgt. Jerry Lakefish, Mat i < area around Massacre Bay. Sarana group heroism and effective pro- wbsrh the ,r.7<Wh Signal Co. »per- dueed Bay and Holtz Bay and into Chi-' seewtion of their miasiene at Attu 'atns. DMsion SSO Hlrnal Corps Fbot > ONE OF THE first civilian rm- pio) res to buy »»r bond". pretty Irene I .ove signs up with Pegg) Teitelbaum. Mrs. Albert Buys