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Camp Adair Sentry Friday, March, 3, 19-44. Page Two Camp Adair Sentry Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PLBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ^CHANGE It's A Great life Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book Mary: Doe« your boy friend have any ambitions? Ruth: My, yes, ever since he’s been knee high! A weekly newspaper published by ind for the military personnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” POME Mary had a little lamb; She fieeeed him white as snow, And when she got his last five bucks, She let the sucker go. All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless specifically credited tp the War Department. News material furnished by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail C mo. $1 — Year $1.50. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Gapt. J. D. McKay Lt. William H. Ross Director of Training Branch Post Exchange Officer Teel! Bob Ruskauff Pfc. Lionel Kay ............................................... Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin Tech .Don Lynch -A cerpts Latrine gossips claim Joan Bar ry took the advice of the wrong Chaplin. Managing Editor News Editor Staff Reporters Staff Artist ? ? ? ? ? MANICURIST WANTED. Must be good and fast. (Ad in Detroit paper.) Radio Shows for GIs: They Show Lack of Army Knowledge She: “Do you know what hap pens to GIs who feel low?” He: “No, what?” She: “They get slapped.’’ Among things which gripe us are some of the inane radio programs, supposedly funny and supposedly slanted for servicemen. Too many ndicate only colossal ignorance of certain busic courtesies which are a inirt and participle of the traditions of the Armed Forces “There’s a rat in my room.’’ she One of the programs we are NOT talking about is the Bob Hope phoned in great fear. show. For the past year and a half, this great ad libber has been l>eat- “Send him down.” said the clerk, rig his bruins out and working his entire troupe day and night doing "he must register.” a bang-up job of entertaining men of the service from Alaska to the 1 Mexican border and overseas. In the fieginnitig. Hope’s programs reeked Advice to Soldiers ... If she. >f ill-considered puns on things of the service. Lately Hope's writers seems cold at first,.don’t feel dis iiive “got hep.” Although the funny boy's gags are often ribald as the couraged. Chills are often followed ndio monitors will allow, and occasionally as corny as the stuff grows, by fever. “Corporal. was that with one lump or two*. hey have been in good taste and evidently carefully edited insofar as oncerns stepping on things pertaining to military conduct. f Judge: "And you shot your hus I Many other programs, however, bounce over all bounds of good I band with a bow and arrow?” aste. This is particularly true of programs in which the writing has . I Wife: “Yes, I didn’t want to t >een slopped out. loosely edited. But it is also true of a number of net » wake the children.” work programs. No writer with any Army experience, for instance, ((. I’m a draftee. Next month 1 •ould have unleashed the inane broadcast presented a couple of weeks BOB HAWK »ill have completed three years in Last night I held a little hand igo by those buffoons of the air, Pvt. Pic anil Sgt. Pat. Perhaps it Quiim.it.r the army. Am 1 entitled to long So dainty and so sweet; n’t the fault of the aerial blackface boys. At fault is their writing evity pay like Regular Army men? "THANKS I thought my heart would surely •tuff, if any. But the antics which the purported yardbiid, Pic, per A. Yes. selectees are entitled to TO THE YANKS break formed before his sergeant, Pat. and their colonel were utterly impos longevity pay amounting to five So wildly did it beat. Sotvrgay«. CBS 1 sible as well as out of all good taste. percent of their base pay upon No otjier hand in all the world This radio program is not an isolated case. There are many others. completing a full hitch of service Can greater solace bring As a suggestion, if writers are going to turn out radio continuity 1. What is the difference be just like everyone else in the Army. Than the pretty hand I held last lealing with Army subjects, they should either (al have their copy tween a Beau Brummei and a Cas You’re also entitled to wear a hash rail by a good GI, or (b, and preferably) la* familiar with military anova ? night: mark. Four aces and a king. urt icula. 2. A man was a Simon I.egree It is especially important that good taste and understanding be but his wife was a Pollyanna. De Q. My «ife requires medical care viitten into the programs which are slanted overseas. Hundreds of Then there was the gal. who, scribe them. but because her income has been when asked the rank of the navy iettetf fsohi men in the forces show that service men are grateful, 3. Describe an hour-glass fig reduced since my induction into the man she was running around w>t|U -nthusiastic, and responsive to funny, intelligently-handled radio shows. Army, she can no longer afford a said she didn’t know for certain, 1 lunildC-M ritten air sequences which advertise ignorance of the sub- ure. 4. Periwinkle, Eleanor and Alice doctor. Is there any organization but she suspected he was a chief vet treated create only resentment. are all shades of what color? that v» ill help her out? petting officer. 5. What is it that you go for A. Of course there is. You tell ward through by going from front your wife to get in touch with Husband: “Sorry, dear, I won’t to back? Army Emergency Relief in your be home from the office ’til late. (By Camp Newspaper Service) (Answers on page 12) home town. I have a form here I must work If you happen to be a soldier, sailor, marine or coast guardsman I over.” vho has tangled with the enemy in Europe, Africa, Asia, in the Pacific >r in the fog-bound Aleutians, or served with our armed forces at any GI MUSINGS •ther post overseas, you’re going to get $300 to put in your pocket (Continued from Page 1) when you come marching home for good. To heck with machine guns, to If you’re a serviceman who has served more than 60 days in the Helsinki. t’HM) Russian bombers, in a devastating 12-hour raid, wrecked heck with that jeep, continental United States when discharge time comes around, you’ll get much of the capital. The Soviets demand internment for all German It’s past nine o'clock and I’m going '200 in two monthly payments. Anil even if you're just a GLwith less troops and ships in Finland as a preliminary to official negotiations to sleep. than two months service on your record, you’ll get a present of $100 in Moscow for peace. IN 11 ALT, THE B\I TLE TEMPO is increasing on the Rome front To heck with the sergeant, the from Uncle Saiu when it's time for you to go home. with 5th Army troops still clashing with the Germans along the Anzio Those are the principal provisions of the servicemen's Muster-Out captain and all, beachhead. The Germans are mounting thousands of men for anothei Hill, which l>ecame a law recently. To heck with that sentence. "Let s This legislation affects virtually all the nation’s servicemen and possible attack and were said to be reinforcing their squadrons in the get on the ball!” women up to and including the rank of captain in the Army or equival beachhead area for a new offensive. Rain and snow hampered fight ent ranks in the other service. Also affected are many of the 1,300,000 ing generally on all fronts and practically cleared warplanes from For night now has fallen and the skies. men and women »who have been discharged from the services since dreaming is near, WHITE RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD OF Vitebsk fell to the Soviets Dec. 6. 1041. Surrounded by blondes I'll Not eligible for these payments are persons discharged under dis I while other troops converging on Pskov, gateway to the Balkans, top swimming in beer. honorable conditions; those who at the time of their discharge were re pled the rail junction of Dno, and farther south captured Rogachev, turned to the inactive list and those discharged or released from active stronghold guarding the road to the capital of Minsk. Germans were nearly eight hours I’ll do as I duty on their own request to accept employment who had not served withdrawing swiftly to take new positions along the Latvian frontier. please, The battle of Pskov, itself, is underway, the Red Army pressing in outside the continental limits of the U. S. or Alaska captains “Attention.” g>ve Air Corps Reserve officers, who already are entitled to receive a from three directions to the city’s very outskirts. colonels "At Ease IN THE. SOI THM EST P At IE IC. the Admiralty. New Ireland and lump sum payment on then return to inactive duty, are not eligible for the additional benefits, nor are members of the armed forces whose New Britain Bland groups are definitely neutralized, according to Now here is my story, my story is total service has been as students detailed for training under the General MacArthur. American warships hurled salvos, into shore in brief. ASTU, the AAF College Training Program or any similar program in stallations oFRabau. while bombers followed up with 112-ton bombing Tonight I shall dream I’m Com- for the 24th straight day Others attacked northern New Guinea and the Navy. Marine Corps oi Coast Guard. • mander-in-chief I West Point and Annapolis cadets and officers above the rank of Bougainville at will, destroying planes, barges and vessels. American —Pfc. Bernard Handelman. invasmn forces in the Admiralty Islands. 610 miles from Truk are captain complete the list of inéligibles for discharge payments. 276th Inf. RoK1 spreading out rapidly from their first landin» noints K W1 1 ANSWER BOX Discharge Pay for Servicemen The World This Week
