Camp Adair Sentry
NEW 70th G-4
Friday, March 31, 1944.
Major Munster Named
70th Division G-4
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To the Alert and the Wise Forever Goes the Prize
Reported as Youngest
Staff Officer in AGF
One of the youngest general staff
officers in the U. S. Army took
over the reins of the 70th Division
G-4 Section when Major Daniel F.
Munster assumed his new position
this week.
Major Munster, who has been
with the Trailblazer Division since
the first meeting of the original
cadre at Ft. Leavenworth. Kan., j
last year, has been the Division
'Quartermaster since the arrival of
MAJOR D. F. MUNSTER, •the division in Camp Adair last
youngest Trailblazer general . May.
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Rirniil Corp« Photo
staff officer named G-4 of the
THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER at the heating shop of Post Engineers and together, like
He is the youngest staff officer
division.
D’Artagnan’s boys, they submitted an idea which Tuesday netted them a 420 check as part of the
in the 70th and probably one of the
drive for civilian and military ideas which will save man hours in the Army and in civilian life and
omi a a a
'youngest men to be appointed to a
will in some measure compensate for the acute manpower shortage. Receiving the check from Lt.
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general staff position in the Army ; Col. Clarence U. Steele. Director of R 4 U Division, ns Capt. Gilbert A. Waite, Director of Per­
sonnel. looks on are. left to right. Louis A. Borde. Charles Willey. M. J. Rounds and Clyde Govro.
¡Ground Forces.
i Entering his tenth year in the
Army, the major first saw service
as an enlisted man with the 258th
FA. He won his first commission
(Nasty Critic)
by competitive examination in
By PFC Lionel Kay
1936, remaining in the artillery
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Proving that non-coms of the until 1941. In that year the trans­
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SCU will do anything to make the ferred to the Adjutant General’s the WAC band will unlimher for i
reportedly will save many hun­
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Civilians
Win
$20;
Sentry, lst/Sgt. Jack Vinson, pres­ Department in Wa.vhington, D. C., one hour of dancing. Then every­
dreds of dollars, is simply a U-
ident of the SCU Non-Coms Club, and in 1942 changed to the Quar- body will go home.
shaped piece, of sheet metal which
Submit Idea Helping
_
. Sgt. W’ebb Tilton, who was once
8. (Jack, wasn’t the anniversary termaster
Corps,
can be manually inserted into slots
Post
Furnace
System
party will be held Saturday, April | Major Munster had an unusual lh‘‘ rirht bower for Fred Waring)
of grate shaker spindles on hot air
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8. (Jack, wasni’t the anniversary experience in 1938 when he report­ and who is accompanying the tour,
furnaces.
way back in February? Who you Jed for duty to the 6th FA. He dis­ will be a feature performer. What MANY AWARDS TO EM | Made from scrap metal, the
kiddin’?)
«covered that the man to whom he he will do is in the lap of the gods,
j simple and inexpensive device holds
for the Sentry couldn’t find out.
"My kingdom for a horse” has I grates in the horizontal position
Failing to get dates any other (was reporting, Col. Rene DeRussy
Arrangements for the showing nothing on the new slogan of Camp in which they fire designed to lx*
way, the hard-up NCOs promise Hoyle, was the son of the man to
here
of the W AC band were made Adair—“A reward for a good idea”;
gifts (nothing-but open bribes) to whom his father reported in 1911, by Miss Caddy via Major Elliott
held and thus prevents the burn-
any gal that dares enter their sa­ when he, too, reported for duty Benson, officer in charge of the | an idea, that is, which will save ing out of grates.
man hours in the Army and help
with the 6th.
crosanct portals.
If you have any ideas that
tour.
j relieve the manpower shortage.
Serving
with
Major
Munster
as
will save man-hours in the Army
Refreshments will flow freely
The “Four Freedoms” show is
(and be imbibed similarly) and Joe Asst. AC of S, G-4, is Major L. H. reportedly one of the best of those | Although a .varus are offered un- or in the work being done by
Sieffs hot-blooded contest-winning Silverman, who has been efficient­ to hit any of the Army Posts. Aug­ jder a different set-up for civilian civilian personnel, submit them
jam band will arouse memories of ly carrying on the duties of the mented by the style show, in which land military personnel, both are to attention of Major Arthur Dy­
more youthful days in the worn- G-4 section since Lt. Col. J. G. Con­ only girls with poise, purpose and ¡urged to enter into the suggestion sart, chairman of the board for
plausibility will appear, the tour program, according to a directive processing military and civilian
out, jaded bodies of our beloved ley, former G-4, was reassigned.
[recently issued from the offices of I suggestions.
feature has been heralded as the
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“higher authorities.”
rent Lieutenant General Brehon Somer-
The breakdown of awards and
Come one! Come all! Where else W. C. BUCKLES, 81. BUCKLES potentially-greatest social event
Ivell, chief of Army Service Forces. how they are to be applied for
Caldwell Springs, Tenn. (CNS) staged at the Field House.
can you go on Saturday nights ?
Five civilians connected with suggestions is as follows:
(Ed note—There’s nothing more —Cupid matched June with De­
cember and a heavyweight with a 4 GIVE YOU Mi PFC. STRIPE the heating department at Post En-
A. Officers:
to be said, kid.)
IndianapoUs (CNS) — A home gineers developed the idea which
bantamweight here when W. C.
1. Recommendation for Legion
Buckles, 81 years old and 115 owner ran this advertisement in a on Tuesday won a $20 cash award, of Merit.
Mary had a little swing.
pounds, wed Mabie Sarah O’Dell, local paper: “If you’ll rent my i They were L. A. Borde. C. W. Gov-
2. letter of commendation.
It isn’t hard to find,
34, who tips the scales at 356 house, I’ll loan you my maid and ro, M. J. Rounds, Earl McGarry and
3. Consideration of promotion.
Everywhere that Mary goes.
introduce you to my butcher.”
(Charles Willey. The device, which
pounds.
The swing is right behind.
B. Enlisted men:
1. Recommendation for Legion
of
Merit.
One Member of This Family Is All Wet
Clothes Have Helluva Time Making Man
2. Promotion.
3. Letter of commendation.
4. Preferment in assignment.
5. Furlough.
By Pvt. Edmund Arnold
C. Civilians:
Many an American father is proud of the part his son is playing
1. Cash or bonds from $5 to
in the war, but none can be prouder than T Sgt. Lloyd Lewman is of
1250.
the part his Dail is playing.
Father Lewman, just turned 50,
I has just finished his boot train- [
His Daddy Has Gone to the Sea
! ing at Farragut Naval Station and
I is visiting his sergeant son here,
f First thing on the agenda of the
'visit was admiring each other's
stripes. Father, S.’2c A. L. law­
man. wears a brand new white
stripe of a seaman around his right
' shoulder and Son Lewman's latest
I rocker is only two months old.
Seaman Lewman was an apple­
grower at Manson. Wash., when
, Sgt. lewman volunteered four
years ago. Meanwhile another son.
S Sgt. George, enlisted in the Air
Corps, participated in four mis­
sions over Germany from an Eng­
lish bare and was killed in action.
But let Seaman Lewman tell the
story:
Bought Bonds—Not Enough!
”I’d bought thousands of dol­
lar« north of str bonds, con­
tributed to the Red Cross, the
War Chest and all the other
, special funds, but I still felt that
I wasn’t doing my «hare in the
[ war. So I just joined up. If I'd
' known how easily I could pa««
the physical tests. I would have
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I
enlisted lots «saner.
"No. I didn't have any trouble I
keeping up with the younger men.
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Non-Coms to
Celebrate First
Anniversary Apr. 8
WAC Band Will
Appear Thursday
In Field House
Civilians, Military Get
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Prizes
For New Ideas
Soldier's Pop in Navy
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