Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, March 17, 1941.
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Soldier Goes to Novy
SCU NCOs Have
Members Tonight;
Gala Party 27th
Theodore the Wolf
’
It will be “member night” at the
SCU Non-Coms club this evening,
but on next Friday a “double deck
er” party is planned to exceed the'
record-breaking “Mairzy Doats”
affair held last Friday.
This was the announcement of
Sgt. Jack Vinson, president,
returned from furlough to
challenge S Sgt. Mike Holzman’s
statement that the club had held
the best social affair of all dime
during his absence.
Adding to "Mairzy Doats” charm 1
were 32 feminine guests, plus the
symphonioua music of Tec4 Joe
Sieff’s talented Medics musicians.
Spec. Trps. Sgts
Dance Sat. Night
Oh*
. . you mon act all alike’
Chinese Trailblazer Believes Napoleonic Maxim
Anyway He Finds Cooking Easier Than Hiking
The 70th Division Special Troops
Trailblazer Photo
Sergeants' Club will be the scene
IT WILL RE no more “head set” and crackling light signals
of another special dancing party
for Pfc. William G. Wofford, Co. A, 274th Infantry. This week the
Saturday night when a bevy of
19-year-old rifleman was notified of his Congressional appointment
to the Naval Academy at Annapolis and will soon leave to attend
USO girls from Salem will be in
prep
school at Bainbridge, Md.
I attendance again to augment the
affair, S Sgt. Edward J. Connors,
president of the club, announced Navy Appointment for Soldier:
yesterday.
Ailmission to the dance will be by
membership card only, Sgt. Con
nors said. Members were also re
quested to wear their Class “A”
Soldiers often become candidates for Army officers’ schools, but
uniforms. A five-piece orchestra it’s a rarity when a GI gets an appointment to a Naval school.
will furnish the music and enter
This unusual experience came to a Trailblazer last week when
tainment for the dance.
Pfc. William G. Wofford of Co. A,*------------------------------------- ----------- -
¡274th Infantry, was notified of his ¡months as an Army private in
'congressional appointment to at- Camp Adair.
; tend the Naval Academy at Anna- .
I polis, Md.
The 19-year-old rifleman from
! little Rock, Ark., received the ■
To Mister Sergeant
i award by certificate instead of
348th F\ Bn.: Orville O. Caster.
To Technical Sergeant
i
examination because of his schol-!
.ifeth FA Bn.: Sylvester C. Grobch.
3H-’nd Inf . John T. Alien.
las tic record.
To Staff Sergeant
347th FA Bn.: Roland J. Krogstad,
He graduated from Will Rogers I
Eric .1. Hural.
348th FA Bn.: Joaeph E. Breidinger. High School in Tulsa, Okla., in
James D. Goodwin, Robert J. Conners, 1942, later attending Drury College
William H. Jennings.
362nd Inf.: Zeb If. Smith. Donald L. in Springfield, Mo., for one year on
Spurlock. Kenneth D. Henderson, Lloyd
a scholarship. He was inducted
B. Collins.
To Sergeant
from his home in Little Rock, Ark.,
348th FA Bn : Carl J. Gardiner.
362nd Inf.: Omer I). Hurt, Jess Mc in July last year, arriving in the
Gowen, Pete S. Chavez. Alvis C. Full-
nier. Dale C. Goodman, Harvey W. Far 70th Division with the fillers near
quhar. Vern G. Albertson.
ly two months later.
To Technidaji Fourth Grade
346th FA Bn.: Grover C. Tucker Jr..
Reduced to
He will leave within a few days
Samuel Kirkham. Robert G. Lander*.
347th FA Bn.: Vincent C. De Fan. Fu- for the Naval Academy Prep
gene A. Johnson, Robert D. Lathrop.
to
Mandrn T*. Samnson.
"
Anton R. Rcdjin . School at Bainbridge, Md., where
«kl, Melvin E. Zieber, Marvin II. Chris- he will be stationed for several
tenaon.
348th FA Bn.: Harlan H. Meers, James weeks before going on to the mid-.
A. Lowe.
dies’ next class at Annapolis.
To Corpora!
Corporal
346th l'A Bn.: Joseph T. Pleniger.
Looking towards his future life
347th —
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FA Bn.: Afvin D. Ferguson.
348th FA Bn.:
... ______
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Norman ______
A. Hacinan,
as a sailor, Wofford dryly remark-
Arthur B. Washburn. Lester V Ledoux.
362nd Inf.: Perry B. Butler, Sam ed about the wetness of the wea-
Ven to.
ther here, saying that already he
To Technician Fifth Grade
346th F \ Bn ; Thomas J Keemle. Rot- has been more or less initiated into
and J. Stcl/ner.
347th FA Bn
Louia Orllcki. Frank the Navy after having spent six
Tcc4 Lay Fong, who firmly be-*“
lives Napoleon’s old maxim that ,
Lay Fong Goes
an Army travels better on its!
stomach than on its feet and tries
to prove it with his good cook
ing. was transferred Monday from
the Trailblazer Div. Hq. Co. to the
70th Provisional Training Center,
where he expects to give more rest
to his weary but willing feet.
The amiable Chinese, who has
brim n first cook in Hq. Co. since
the Trailblazer cadre arrived in
Camp Adair last May, has been
jmtiently waiting, as only an Ori
ental can wait, for either a dis
charge or a transfer to SCU, which
he mixed up constantly and always
referred to as “CCU.” He was non
committal but still in a quandary
this week after winding up in the
PTC whether he or someone else
wasn’t still mixed up as far the ab
breviations are concerned.
Fong's big ambition, so he says. |
Trailblazer Photo
ha« been to get out and hike with I
TRANSFERRED N O W is
all the rest of the “nice Anielican Teel Lay Fong. 33-year-old ns-
boys," but his feet have consistent five Chinese who goes from 70th
ly refused to function after two Hq. Co. to PTC. Hikes got Lay
Fong, who said. "Me like the
miles of road pounding.
infant!), but Double to hike."
So Fong has been building GI
muscle and morale with hi* excel
lent cooking since he was inducted i tlying to lemembel it,” maintain-
in October, 1942, keeping hi* com ’ ing that the two names he had
bat buddies on their own two feet. | were sufficient for his purposes.
Fong came to the Army with an
Discussing his married status,
excellent culinary background, too, | Fong said he preferred to remain
owning and operating hi* own . _
_______ ,_________
n bachelor,
because in ____
this ____
war _ a
Chinese restaurant in Sacramento. | "single man bettel" as a soldier.
Talarico, Glen H. Spink
346th FA T
Bn
Elwood L. Schmidt,
He like* to keep this a secret. 1 He refused to elaborate further on
though, liecause he gets too many ¡what he had lined up or whether Stanley Musen.
To Private First
Firat Class
Ft Bn Jnsner T Rabon. Mi!
unfilled requests for the very un- he was engaged, but he did say, i ton 347th
E. Satterfield.
“
Edwin O Sundberg.
GI dish, chop suey.
with his Joe E. Brown grin, that j
The 33 vear-old cook. whose uni he would "aftei the wail, meiiy | $gf Cantrell Carries
versal popularity with the Trail- I
A Load; Mere 4 Miles
blazers is exceeded only by hi* gen,
iality, »a« born in Canton, China. >
With 2 Machine Guns
which the Japanese have pounded ,
unmercifully at intervals during the !
Sgt. Robert R. Cantrell of the
past several years, destroying part I
1275th Infantry’s Company I will
of his homeland and killing some of j
soon be known as "The Human
hi* relatives. Only when he dis
A party and dance will be held Weapon Carrier" if he
cusses the Oriental enemy does he tomorgpw night for non-commis- I the way he is going nov
lose hi* composure.
I «ioned officers of the 275th In- . It seems that he came out just
Asked about hi* middle ihitial, ■ fantry and their ladies at the regi- three greenbacks ahead after the
Fong said it wa* too much “wolly. 1 i ental NCO club. M Sgt. John N. Regiment's last extended bivouac.
Dimas announced yesterday.
And all he had to do was carry two
A contingent of girls from Cor- I (2) machine
SWAPS COLUMN
palli* will be in attendance at the ' miles — with
I party, music for which will be ' says).
loots — Founds
j
furnished by the rhythmic 275th
Pfc. John K Pidcock. the
Wants — Sales
j orchestra, Sgt. Dimas said.
' who had to shell out, says he plans
et refera
to check up on all the other eg-
FAIR HRN-VBOl'T
piano movers in the company be-
FOR SALE: 7i5 Graham 6-cyl
Pvt. A. Hawkins, of Serv. Co. fore he starts making any more
Inder, 4 door sedan. NO', rubber, 3<t3nd Inf., is a firm believer in
wild bets. Cpl. Walt Werwath.
run* good. 1300. Phone 2942.
¡the old saw about “turnabout is
I 4 H CLUBS SOCIAL NOTE
LOST One led fountain pen I fair play.’* At least he i* now.
I-ast Saturday night Hawkins
Newark. N. J. (CNS1—A 300-
around I’X K by the telephone
booths. Finder notify Pfc. Eugene took a Salem minister’s daughter pound pig was given to the highest
Proffitt, llq. Co. 2nd Bn.. Mtnd Inf. out to see the town. On Sunday bidder in a war bond auction here.
Lost Sunday morning between 0930 morning she took him to see the The runner-up got a picture of
inside of the thurvh?
and 1130.
Frank Sinatra.
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275th NCO's Party
Saturday Night
GI Goes to Annapolis
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Hurry!
Hurry!
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