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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1944)
SPRING FEVER If it isn’t n military secret, Ore gon has ■"suffered’ ’under the driest »inter of the past 50 years, and now that spring is around the bend it al most seems a sin that some of us may not enjoy it. However, there is a spring dance for all GIs of the Post at Memorial I nion Building, Corvallis, tomorrow night, another at Salem Armor» on the 31st. Vol. 2. No. 49. Camp Adair, Oregon, Friday, March 24, 1944 ÿ 1.50 a Year by Mail I Post Boosts Big Trailblazer Hero: Red Cross Drive K‘,,ed a* Attu SEND YOUR VOICE HOME John Weldon, who operates the I’epsi Cola voice recording machine at Service Club 1. has alread) made thousands of GI -ecords, announces that the re corder will be on deck for your use every afternoon and evening. The record prove a great morale builder for the home folks. If you haven't made one. do it. By S-Sgt. Edward Connors Bayoneted three times, shot three times, stripped «of most of his clothing in sub-zero weather and then left for dead by the Japs—this was the harrowing experience of Pfc. i The 1944 Americsih Red Cross drive for funds at dhmp Adair is progressing “much better than ex pected,” reported Mr. William Grainger, Jr., Post Red Cross rector, yesterday, and it has ready exceeded last year’s total more than 50 per cent. Though no quota was set, the total amount already contributed by the camp’s personnel, both mil itary and civilian, is over $11.500. The only complete returns turned in to date are those of the 91st Di vision, which raised almost $6.500. The drive continues until the end of the month, and with another pay day next, week, it is expected that many more gifts will be do nated. Final figures for the 70th Division, SCU and civilian em- ployees will not be available until that time. 70th Inf. Band, SCU Medics Win Dancefest As 5000 Swing 'n Sway ♦Jessie B. North of the 70th Divi sion Provisional Training Center, who lived through the worst that By Pvt. Paul Rosenberg I war could produce, to tell another j Five-hund red hostesses from of the limitless tales of the struggle neighboring towns, thousands of olive-drabbed GIs and their dates for Attu. . took to the floor dancing nnd lis The 21-year-old communica tened to the greatest assortment tions scout fought gallantly for of beat and ballad ever presented, 19 days before being carried in Camp Adair’s first Battle of the from the battlefield hut only af ter he killed 11 of the oriental I Howard Klein, the hypnotist Bands held at Field House, last enemy and helped to turn the famed on the Hobby Lobby pro- Friday evening. I tide of two major engagements. gram and thc man who has put The drums were beating, the Shoving ahead and alone to con- people to sleep by remote control i horns were blasting, the place was tact the fog-covered, hidden foe, | over the radio, will be a featured 'jumping from the moment that u North cleared out a rest of the performer at the next USO-Camp jam session, which hud side-men Japanese on Buffalo Ridge single- Shows performance, “Come What from every outfit, started off the handed after the rest of his com- May,” which will play at Theater evening. pany had been wiped out. [2 next Friday night and Theater From there things started roll Like most men who have narrow- ■’ on Saturday, gratis to Adair ing, with the introduction by emcee Tec5 Clarence Quirk of the fl bands ly missed being killed and who s,,ldiers. have fought gallantly through the ' Klein was recently honorably who were vying for prizes of $25 heat of close combat and lived. discharged from 309th Infantry, for the best large and small bands Signal Corp* J’boto the serv- and a half-hoar program over sta- Pfc. Jesse B. North, PTC. 70th North likewise cannob Vccount far 7Mh Division. While in either his heroic actions in the ice, he gave hundreds of demon- tion KEX Portland, the hands I (Continued on page 7, column 4) face of what could have l>een sure strations for the men. death, or how he squeezed through I Killed 14 at Attu i Trailblazer's Candy Bars in PXs Reduced to 3 Cents Magazine Aids New Soldiers Dispensine Machine i I Record Crowd At Band Battle a « u cLZn t,m* I HobbyLobby Hypnotist In 'Come What May' hc Suggestion System for ASF Military his buddie« Personnel Now in Operation on Post iu'i K After the last of dropped beside him. North turned | ” ' A decentralized suggestion sys- [monetary award (recommendation ¡in time to meet the poised bayonet of one of the twenty remaining tern for all Army Service Forces for Legion of Merit, letter of com- Japs, flipping it aside just in time military personnel has been cstab- * mendation, considerable for promo ¡to pour two shots into bis would- lished in conjunction w ith the civil- | tion. furlough, preferment in as Profits Benefit GIs Fillers who have been added to | be murdered and end his life. ian plan. Major Arthur Dysart, | signment) for a suggestion per the 70th Division within the past The rest of the enemy were scat president of an appointed board for! taining to doctrine and organiza processing civilian and military Post Exchange has announced a several days didn't have to exert tered over several hundred yards, tion, new techniques or new wea reduction from four cents to three much effort to find out aliout their but they moved in to his position suggestions, revealed yesterday. cents for candies and confections. I new organization. They merely as one man. The darkness saved , ASF circular 63 states that all pons, or improvement of efficiency At the same time it was pointed turned the pages of the "Trail- i his being picked off by the onrush military personnel of the headquar or increased economy in operation dy sold from blazer” Magazine and received a 1 ing Japs. ters and field units, both super- or administration of any activity in out that while vending machines “he Post will quick, pictorial impression of what (Continued on page 11, column 3) visary, are eligible to receive a non- the War Department. remain at five r "•r bar. the has been done by their Trailblazer) machines are ow y the Ex- buddies and what is expected of I RECORD THRONG JAMS FIELD HOUSE FOR BAND BATTLE change and not b. the vending them. machine operator. Copies of the latest edition of the Thus profits from the machine book have been furnished to each sales go to the Exchange. This in of the new foot soldiers this week turn makes dividends available for by the 70th Division Public Rela troops per the Exchange policy. tions Office in an effort to ac Vending machines in day rooms, quaint them with activities of an etc., mean you can buy candy infantry division and to orient without need of a trip to the PX, them to Camp Adair. Any filler who has not received or during hours the PX is closed, but the extra two cents you pu* hi* copy can get one .by calling at out eventually goes back for Gl Division Headquarters Public Re lations Office or calling 3410. use in the form of dividends. The Trailblazer is still on «ale Camouflage blinds the enemy! ■ at variou* PX’s this week, wrapped Conceal black shadows under nets, ¡for mailing at 25c per copy. The World ♦ CASSINO BATTLE VOLGA ADVANCE POLITICAL PATTER Monitored by Teel John Stump ♦ An avalanche of victories for th« Ros-iaaa, the steady aerial l«>m- bardment of the continent, and continued successes in the Pacific, pre saged the crumbling of the enemy in the world this week . . Great procession« of homber« streamed over the English channel »e ’ " Mediterranean bases for new assault* against Hitler’s Europe, n southern and western Germany, rail yards north of Paris, anti the French invasion coast. American bomber- hammered Vienna for the first time—Nazi plane« fire-bombed Ixndon . . . ♦ In an effort to bolster the Balkan def ens e*, th« Nazi puppet govern ment Kok ever the rule of Hungary followed by German troops seizing YOl’RE LOOKING AT the greatest thnag ever aaaeaibled at Field H Basic of sii r'»' Post bands in last Frida» night’s band battle.
