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Page Ten Gamp Adair Sentry Friday, March 17r 194 L T*7 Soldier Goes to Navy 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. 1st Sgt. Jack Vinson, president,! who returned from furlough to | challenge S, Sgt. Mike Holzman’s ! statement that the club had held the best social affair of all Jime I during his absence. Adding to "Mairzy Doats” charm 1 were 32 feminine guests, plus the symphonious music of Tcc4 Joe Sieff’s talented Medics musicians. Spec. Trps. Sgts. Dance Sat. Night . . you mon ar» 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 19-year-old rifleman was notified of his Congressional appointment Saturday night when a bevy of to the Naval Academy at Annapolis and will soon leave to attend USO girls from Salem will be in prep school at Bainbridge. Md. attendance again to augment the affair, S/Sgt. Edward J. Cpnnors. president of the club, announced Navy Appointment for Soldier: yesterday. Admission 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- I This unusual experience came to a Trailblazer last week when tainment for the dance. I 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. Tcc4 Lay Fong, who firmly be-* lieves 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 hut willing feet. The amiable Chinese, wh<> has bben n first cook in Hq. Co, since the Trailblazer cadre arrived in The 19-year-old rifleman from Camp Adair last May, has been little Rock, Ark., received the patiently waiting, as only an Ori To Master Sergeant i award by certificate instead of 348th F\ Bn.: Orville O. Caster. ental can wait, for either a dis To Technical Sergeant 34 8th FA Bn.: Sylvester C. Gro«ch. < charge or a transfer to SCU, which j (examination because of his schol- • 362nd Inf : John T. Alien. lastic record. he mixed up constantly and always To Staff Sergeant He graduated from Will Rogers : 347th F \ Bn.: ______ Roland .. .1. ____ Krogstad. referred to as “CCD.” He was non Eric J. Huval. 3 48th FA Bn.: Joseph E. Brridinger. High School in Tulsa, Okla., in committal but still in a quandary Jumps 1). Goodwin, Robert J. Conners, 1942, later attending Drury College this week after winding up in the William Jf. Jenniufr-. 362nd Inf.: Zeb H. Smith. Donald L. in Springfield, Mo., for one year on PTC whether he or someone else Spurlock. Kenneth D. Henderson, Lloyd a scholarship. He was inducted B. Collins. wasn't still mixed up as far the ab To Sergeant from his home in Little Rock, Ark., breviations are concerned. 348th FA Bn : Carl J. Gardiner. 362nd Inf.: Omer D. Hurt, Je*« Me in July last year, arriving in the Fong's big ambition, so he says, Trailblazer Photo Gowen. Fete S. Chavez. Alvis C. Full mer. Dale C. Goodman. Harvey W. Far 70th Division with the fillers near has been to get out and hike with TRANSFERRED N O W is quhar, Vern G. Albertson ly two months latei. all the rest of the “nice Amelican . Tec4 Lay Fong. 33-year-old na- To Technician Fourth Grade 346th FA Bn.: Grover C. Tucker Jr., He will leave within a few days boys,” but his feet have consistent live Chinese who goes from 70th Samuel Kirkham, Robert G. Landen«. 347th FA Bn.: Vincent C. DeFao. Eu- for the Naval Academy Prep ly refused to function after two Hq. Co. to PTC. Hikes got Lay rene A. Johnson, Robert f>. Lathrop. Fong, who said. "Me like the Mandrn I*, Sampson, Anton R. Redjin School at Bainbridge, Md., where miles of road pounding. infantly, but Double to hike.” ski, Melvin E. Zieber, Marvin II. Chris- he will be stationed for several So Fong has been building GI tenson. 348th FA Bn.: Harlan II Meers, .lames weeks before going on to the mid- [ muscle and morale with his excel A. Lowe. dies’ next class at Annapolis. Dying to lemembel it, ” maintain To Corporal lent cooking since he was inducted 346th FA Bn.: Joseph T, Tleniirer. Looking towards his future life in October, 1942, keeping his com ing that the two names he had 347th FA Bn.: Alvin D. Fergnsun. .'14 Sth F \ Bn.: ______ ____ Norman _ _______ A Hairman. as a sailor, Wofford dryly remark bat buddies on their own two feet. were sufficient for his purposes. Arthur R. Washburn, Lester A. Ledoux. 362nd Inf.: Perry B. Butler, Sam ed about the wetness of the wea Fong came to the Army with an Discussing his married status, Vento. ther here, saying that already he excellent culinary background, too, Fong said he preferred to remain To Technician Fifth Grads FA Bn.: Thomas J. Keemle. Rol- has been more or less initiated into owning and operating his own a bachelor, because in this war a • nd 346th J. Stelzner. 347th FA Bn.: Louis Orlicki, Frank the Navy after having spent six Chinese restaurant in Sacramento. “single man bettel” as a soldier. Talarico, Glen H. Spink. He likes to keep this a secret, He refused to elaborate further on 34«th ^F r*. \ “ Bu Elwood * * L. Schmidt, though, liecause he gets too many what he had lined up or whether Stanley Muten. To Private Tirât First Class F\ Bn Jn«»er T Rabon Mil unfilled requests for the very un- he was engaged, but he did say. ton 347th E. Satterfield. Edwin O. Sundberg. GI dish, chop suey. with his Joe E. Brown grin, that The 33-year-old cook, whose uni he would "aftel the wall, melly Sgt. Cantrell Carries versal popularity with the Trail anyhow.” A Load; Mere 4 Miles blazers is exceeded only by his gens iality, was born in Canton, China, With 2 Machine Guns which the Japanese have pounded unmercifully at intervals during the Sgt. Robert K. Cantrell of past several years, destroying part 1275th Infantry’s Company I will of his homeland and killing some of soon be known as “The Human hts relatives. Only when he dis X party and dance will be held < Weapon Carrier" if he keeps cusses the Oriental enemy does he louiorgpw night for non-commis ¡the way he is going now. sioned officers of the 275th In- i It seems that he came out just lose his composure. Asked about his middle initial, i fantfy and their ladies at the regi- three greenbacks ahead after the Fong said it was too much “wolly. I n < ntal KOO < tub. M Sgt. John N. Regiment's last extended bivouac. Dimas announced yesterday. Xnd all he had to do was carry two A contingent of girls frpm Cor- ¡<21 machine SWAPS COLUMN ■ vallia will be in attendance at the 1 miles —with I party, music for which will be 'saysl. Lasts — Founds ' furnished by the rhythmic 275th Pfc. John K. Pidcoek. the Wants — Salea ¡orchestra. Sgt. Dimas said I who had to shell out, says he plans at cetera to check up un all the other eg- FAIR Tl RN- A-BOl T piano movers in the company be- FOR SALE: ”45 Graham 6-cyl- Pvt. A. Hawkins, of Serv. Co., fore he starts making any more Inder, 4 door sedan. 80" r rubber, 382nd Inf., ia a firm believer m , wHd bets. — Cpl. Walt Werwath. runs good. 1200. Phone 2942. | the old saw- about “turnabout is 4-H CLIRS SOCIAL NOTE LOST: One red fountain pen fair play.** At least he is now. l.ast Saturday night Hawkins Newark. N. J. (€NS>—A 300- around P.\ K by the telephone booths. Finder notify Pfc. Eugene took a Salem minister's daughter pound pig was given to the highest Pieffitt. Hq. Co. 2nd Bn.. 342nd Inf. out to see the town. On Sunday bidder in a war bond auction here. Lent Sunday morning between 0330 morning «he took him to see the The runner-up got a picture of inside of the ghurvh! and 1130. Frank Sinatra. GI Goes to Annapolis PROMOTIONS I 275th NCO's Party Saturday Night Xii.MedN‘valAcademyatAnna' Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! GOING FAST Pillow Tops Reduced to to 25c