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Friday, March 10, 1944
Legion of Merit to Pfc. Maxwell
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.