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ÖPFfinn Camp Adair Sentry Friday, March 10, 1944 Legion of Merit to Pfc. Maxwell ctätf r ino adv Page Three AS POST BAKERY HIT FIVE MILLIONTH Gl LOAF MONDAY Trailblater Photo WHEN MESS SERGEANT Peter I). Pasco? of the 70th Ordnance Co. heard that the Post Bakery was turning out its five-millionth loaf o' bread, he rushed down to claim it. and got there first. Here he is receiving it while Col. Samuel It. Hayes. Post commander. Lt. Col. W. It. Pirnie. Post supplies director, Lt. Col. Eugene 1. Foster, Po t executive officer and Maj. Kenneth W. llalton, office of th- Quartermaster-General, look on. M/Sgt. Paul II. Petre of the bakery hands S/Sgt. Pascoe his fifth-million treasure. • Trailblazer Phntc LEGION OF MERIT, for “displaying a high degree of physical and mental alertness, ineenuitv and resourcefulness." is awarded Pfc. Clarence Maxwell. 274th Inf., by his CO, CoL Win field R. McKay. Lt. Co). Raymond Bell, regimental executive of ficer, looks on. Legion of Merit Medal To 274th Infantryman Five-millionth Loaf of World's Best Bread (GI) Baked at Adair The five millionth loaf of GI bread, untouched by human hands (until it is pitched onto » the QM truck) came out of the ovens of Camp Adair's bakery Monday. ' Five million loaves is a lot of bread—about half the number, for instance, in the American Armed Forces, come the end of this year;*-------------------------------------------------- - or. laid end to end. there would be | bread is bake.:, according to M Sgt. I what tnev are getting. enough 10-inch loaves to reach I pau] Petrie who. with an enlisted In addition, the hakery has pro from Guam to Truk (that’s 979 ! personnel of 23, handles the big vided bread for many outlying miles of truking). 1 job of furnishing soldiers of this posts. ____ ♦----------------------------------------— Since the first batch of bread for Post with their staff of life. There are 13 distinct steps in the GI issue was baked November 21, W hole Wheat—No Soap baking of bread, front the time it Before a special regimental re White bread only is baked. comes out of the flour bind and is 1942, Camp Adair’s bakery has view, a Legion of Merit medal, the been one of the biggest, busiest For a time the bakery turned placed aboard QM trucks going out first award of its kind made to a and most efficient in the Ninth out whole wheat, but the bread the back door. It all takes place in member of the 70th Division, was loving GIs showed distinct prefer the one big building, at the end of Service Command. presented last week to Pfc. Clar Under the present set-up, only1 ence for white bread, so that’s (Continued on page 11, column 1) ence E. Maxwell, 2nd Bn., Hq. Co., 274th Inf., by his Commanding Of Go Well Over Top in ficer, Col. Winfield R. McKay. Waiting Line 4th War Loan Drive to Send Voice Records Home Official notification of the award came in a recent War Department Yes. the 4th War Loan Drive is general order, but the presenta over, but here’s a story that has tion was delayed because of Max yet to be told. You read how the well’s hospitalization. 91st Division bought over $544.000 Citing Pfc. Maxwell for this in bonds, but have you stopped to high military honor, the order read consider what that really means, that he “displayed a high degree of brother? physical and mental alertness and It means that in the 91st Div- resourcefulness” when a truck Arty, the men averaged $44.00 overturned near his post while he PER MAN and there was only one was range guard. Using a fence pay-day during the drive to draw post as a lever and his rifle as a from. prop. Maxwell was able to keep the It means that the 361st Inf. weight off a survivor pinned be bought $40.50 worth of bonds per neath the vehicle. , man; the 362nd, $39.60; the Special | Troops, $35.00; and the 363rd, Wearing the fourth 1 highest ’ * award that can be won by an Amer- $33.20. ican soldier, Pfc. Maxwell modest S/SGT. CLIFFORD M. G ASTON. 361st Inf., steps forward to record his voice on equipment It means that the division aver- o-ovided at Club 1 by the I’epsi-Cola company as others await their turn in line. This service is ly claims that he has done nothing 'age was $38.30 a head, and brother, free for Adair military and civilian personnel. John I). Weldon, Pepsi-Cola representative is in outside of his regular line of duty that ain’t hay. Just remember that charge of the equipment. and believes that any man in the a private pulls down fifty bucks 70th would have done the same. a month—then see if this will qual All That Stopped La Grable Was 'Commitments' ify him under the ten-per-cent-of- Visiting hours at the Station your-income rule. And you can set ’em up in the Hospital are 1400 to 1600 and 1900 to 2100. Get your pass at the in other alley for the 91st Divarty— I they're the division's bond champs. formation desk as you enter. GIs of 91st Divariy Average $44 Per Man Why Betty Grable Declined Adair Invitation—Her ’Commitment' Resolves into 'Blessed Event' ----- j------------------------------------------ ♦ Tec5 Joe Bonvicino. problem boy of 70th Div. Hq. Det., who wrote some weeks ago inviting Screen Star Betty Grable to visit Camp Adair, got a letter this week. From La Grable. But, we quote: The Army Emergency Relief Of “Dear Joe: ... I do wish so much fice has moved from the Post Quar that I could say “yes" to yonr gra termaster buildmg to the office of cious invitation to visit your Camp. the Post Special Service Officer, Unfortunately, my present com Capt. R. G. Floss, in the Poet Head mitments will keep me close to quarters building. Hollywood for some time to come. All accounts have been trans- Nevertheless, I am deeply grateful ferred to the new location. for your invitation (much more of The new phone number is 2941. •his sort of thing—Ed.) . . . Yours for Victory, Betty." OH. SH ADE OF SOUTH SEAS! “Commitments?” wondered Bon Twin Falla. Ida. (CNS1—Home vicino. “What could be more im tut leave. Capt. Richard Elliot or portant than upholding the morale dered a hamburger at a local stand. of ur brave boys in the service?” This week he found out. News He took one bite, opened the roll looked for the meat and discovered papers carried the announcement he had already eaten it. “I wish I of ar 8-pound baby daughter born had one of those real hamburgers to Bitty and husband Harry James. like we used to get in the South west Pacific." he remarked dream- j Camouflage blinds the enemy! AER Office Now in Post HQ Building ib- Keep idle equipment under cover. Trailhlarer Fbetv THE LONG-AWAITED answer to his invitation for Screen Star Betty Grable to visit him at Camp Adair «a» received this week by Tee.i Joseph Boneivino. Hq. < •.. TrvflWaaar Division. Th« giamoeoos gal of the lovely gams «aid she'd dearly love to some but roaldn't. owing to "previoon eeaamitmewts." if any owe wonders what there were, glamorous Hetty became the mother of a bounc ing baby girl last week.