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High Post Officers Attend Post Commander's Dinner, Honoring General Livesay
Shown
to r) during
Wednesday
honoring General
in G. I.ivesay arc Col.
«lavs*
f .>1 (1 Samuel
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I .. I_ dinner
1.’ E. Il-Li
a ■ Willia
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... Jos. I*. Donnivin, l.t. Col. Eugene Foster General l.ivesai. Pont
Commander
Col.
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Hays.
Major General I John
Dahlquist and ■ ■>
Brigadier
G eneral Ralph Hospital.
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Dinner Honors 91st
General and Staffs
Sure, and it’s St. Patrick’s Day today, and in honor of
Begorra, St. Patrick's Day Finds USO
In Corvallis Celebratin' — Big Dance
!
Florence (Pat) Merriam to New Post;
Ann Caddy Acting Hostess at Club 2
Florence Coardy (PatI Merriam, of the real Camp Adair "pionee
| long a highly-active member of first came to the Post in Jure.
Commander Hays Host ‘the civilian personnel at Camp 1942. nnd worked for a time as:PX
At
Wed. Night Fete I Adair, this week left her post as I manager under Major Rudolph
morrow night . . . New Pops Con-*■■-------
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director of Service Club 2 to as Ayres, opening PX 2 in August-
f>
cert series begins in Corvallis Sun for each game, and the more GIs
Major General William G. Live- sume a similar work at Muroc,
In
September,
1942,
she
was
day . . . Regular Saturday dance and wives who attend, the merrier!
say, Commanding General of the ; I Calif.. Air Base. Assuming her sworn into the ASF as an Army
tomorrow night at AlBany USO
j 91st Division, was honored guest ■
hostess and on September 11 the
. . . Trip Sunday by Chemeketa
SATURDAY DANCE
at a dinner tendered to him and |
club
was officially opened—tfith
USO, Salem, is to the state peni I
To New Post
i The regular Saturday night his general and special staffs by
12 GI benches and a grand piano
tentiary . . . One of last of Che-
I night dance will be held at Al Col. Samuel D. Hays, Post Com-
as primary accoutrements. Sire*
meketa’s weekly surprise programs bany USO from 2030 to 2300
to- ' mandcr, Wednesday.
that time. Camp Adair's Ser' . 'e
also on Sunday, 1530 . . .
Other guests of Col. Hays and
! morrow, with junior hostesses for
Clubs have been «quipped to g.iin
' dancing partners and a band to bis staff included Major General
recognition as the most up-to-tbe*
John E. Dahlquist. Commanding
St. Patrick's Program
furnish music.
minute in the Ninth Service Cù i-
General, 70th Division; Brigadier
j ma nd.
As a part of the Corvallis USO’s
General Ralph Hospital. 91st Di-
MOVIES AND SING
During her periml on the Pc «t,
St. Patrick’s Weekend program,
varty Commanding General; and |
. Mrs. Merriam has been active in
the festivities will open tonight
•A feature length picture and Col. E. C. Snow and Lt. Col. E. T. |
, the development of club activities,
with the popular square dance I short subjects will be shown at Henry. Commanding Officer and I
i particularly in the creation of lyu-
class, under direction of Miss Betty i 1400 and again at 2000 Sunday at ( Executive Officer, respectively. 7th
Isieul revues and shows. She «a»
Lynd Thompson of Oregon State, the Albany USO. The regular Sun ' Hq. Ill Corps.
college.
instrumental in developing the r.< w
day sing will be held at 1900.
Following dinner in the SCU Of
ficers' Mess, at which General Live-
weekly “Army Hostess on the Ar”
The monthly formal will be on
say and Col. Hays spoke briefly,
show over KW1L and the success
TUESDAY DANCE NIGHT
deck Saturday night, with the mu
ful Sunday music hours.
sic of the Rhumba band of Matt j Tuesday dances at the Albany the group adjourned to the SCU Of
Prior to her departure for Mu.- e,
Carneval and his 70th Division ■ USO—time, 2030 to 2300—are be- ficers’ Club, where a program of
I entertainment had been arranged.
she will sjiend a brief leave in Eu
boys expected to swing out.
(coming more and more popular with
Music was provided by the SCU
gene with her family.
At 1630 Sunday the first in a hostesses and GIs from Adair as orchestra. Entertainers included
new series of Pops Concerts will well as Oregon State College and 1st Sgt. Ben Stein, 91st Division, |
take place. This series will be a the Corvallis Air Base. KWIL’s as- master of ceremonies and dancer; ,
Acting Director
monthly affair, taking place the sistance with emceeing and broad- Pvt. Dean Nelson, pianist, also of ;
Florence (Pat) Merriam
third Sunday of each month. Plans casting the dance music may be the the 91st; Pvt. Chico Salazar, 70th
are under way for a gala opening, reason.
Division, guitarist; and Betty ! place as acting director will lie
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and the best civilian and Army tai-
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Erickson of Corvallis, dancer.
I Ann Caddy, who has lieen recrea
ent has been lined up, they tell us.
7/jof Shme
tional and social hostess of the
Club, and who came to the Post
Gen.
Chennault
Sees
| Just wait ’til you see the “Stars .
with a wealth of experience in this
Surprise Program
of Tomorrow” twinkle at their I Japs Licked From Air
type work, from an instructorship
What may be one of the last of|***k»y broadcast Saturday mom-
China (CNS)—Maj. Gen. Claire .at -Stephens College, Columbia, Mo.
Cbemeketa’s weekly surprise pro- ing at 11M in the Little Theater L. Chennault believes that the Al IThis was the announcement yester-
grams, now that spring weather cn
third floor, George White
lies can destroy Japan from the air [day by Capt. Russell G. Floss, Post
will bring outdoor activities on Center, Portland.
with only one-tenth of the air force (Special Service Officer.
If you’ve never seen a “Stars of
Sunday afternoons, will take plaee
Mrs. Merriam, who rates as one
now being used to wreak havoc on
this Sunday at 1530. It promises > Tomorrow” program, you’ve missed
Nazi Germany.
excellent entertainment.
{something! It’s a KGW presenta
According to a United Press dis
Perfect Gift In Gratitude
tion, and a few minutes of each
patch, the commander of the U. S.
India (CNS1 — Home safe at his
show
are
given
over
to
GIs
Who
TRIP TO STATE PEN’
14th Air Force is eonvinoed that if
base after parachuting from his
want to take a chance before the
A trip to the state penitentiary
he can knock out the enemy ship
"mike.
”
is the scheduled educational event
ping lanes in the South China Sea bbrhing jdane, a pilot drew his Hf-
for the Chemeketa USO, Salem,
and Yangtze River and the rail qu<u ration, hustled over to the
CONCERT SCHEDULED
with the bus leaving the USO buihl-
roads in northern China, Japan’s parachute shop and presented the
Sunday a concert will be given I industry and her army will col whole bottle t<> the private who had
ing at 1400.
packed his chute.
During this popular educational at 1730 in the main floor lounge of lapse “easily.”
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trip, it will be possible for service George White’s Center by ghe ■ i —- --------.... ------------
men to buy myrtlewood articles Tamiesie Concert Orchestra, under
made by prisoners. All proceeds direction ef Sylvester Tamiesie,
from sales go into prisoner’s ac one of Portland’« well-known con
counts for the time when they are cert violinists, formerly a member
“We have come a long way in a far-reaching, complex jolt . . . which haa required
of Portland’s Symphony Orchestra.
released.
vast
organization.
Today we Bet our sights on future targets , . . how long it taken, ho *
Your favorite numbers will be in-1
much
it
costs
is
the
individual concern of each of us , . . and let us not be deluded by
I’ALM READING SERVICE - eluded in the concert, which prom-1 thoughts that the war is won.
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ises to be excellent.
One of the little-publicized ser-1
"We fight for simple things." j second anniversary of formation of men'« «oals. The summrr soldi tr
vices given by volunteers at the
in short, "for town meetings, for ! the ASF on March 9.
and the sunshine patriot will, n
PORTRAIT. SIR?
• he right to organize for any de
Chemeketa USO, Salem, is palm i
In a stirring talk, delivered at this crisis, shrink from the ver ■
That’s what you’re liable to be cent purpose, for the right to I Ft. Belvoir, V«., and broadcast, ire of their country; but he th,
reading by Madame Rahn from
iked if you happen to be in the work at jobs of our own choos General Somervell recited that stand, it now, dene
1700 to 2200 every Sunday. Her
lounge, George ing. to read the books we WANT (“these rights, privileges, traditions and thanks of man
readings are both interesting and 5th fl<
Wednesday af- to read. We fight for the high ire precious enough to fight a txl i Tyranny, like hell,
White'
helpful.
privilege of throwing pop bottles I h - for They are not easily wor
conquered ; yet we h
Eileen Cron
al the umpire.”
Words Ring Tadai
solation with us, thi
Friday Night Bingo!
He said, “Tom Payne’s words a
the conflict, the mor
ASF Birthday
triumph.*
rue now as they were th
ive in summary high-
address given by Lieu-
"To my tro.ps, tn
y night beside the Delawa
rirait
and the captain.,, the M'rgt anta ar <1
General Brehon Somervell,
he wrote them on a drui
Ming general of Army Serv-
with a stubby pencil;
the privates, Mnd to I ail our «ivilaJl
rces, to commemorate the
These are times that tr
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the big day for all Irish GIs . . . Corvallis USO is sponsoring
a full weekend program, with the monthly formal dance to
ASF Address by Gen. Somervell