Friday, March 31, 1944.
Camp Adair Sentry
70th PTC Looking for
Pot o' Gold—Rainbow
Ends Right in 'Campus'
Theodore the Wolf
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Floats in Oregon Breeze
The boys over at 70th Division
| PTC are going around looking for
I that pot of gold . . .
Rainbows are infrequent visitors
I around an Army camp, possibly
I because the multi-hued arcs are,
traditionally harbingers of hope.
But one morning last week as GIs
looked across the “campus” toward
Coffin Butte, there was a large and
handsome rainbow dead ahead.
The pay-off came when they
realized that the “end of the rain­
bow” was directly over the Provis­
ional Training Center!
Benefits to Veterans
Described By 'Yank'
NEW YORK—An article of vital
importance to every man in uni­
form is featured in the March 17
issue
of “Yank.”
Gosh*— have you ever been in such heat before*
This article deals with the service
offered by the Veterans Adminis­
tration to honorably discharged
members of the armed forces. It
h
presents every detail of disability
benefits and explains the procedure
for applying for such benefits.
The March 17 issue will be avail-
Strictly GI even down to being ly written, the FO pointed several able at PXs during the week be­
good-natured remarks at various ginning Mar. 10.
alerted to dance!
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That’s the story of the 2nd Bat­ men in the battallion from the
talion of the 274th Inf., whose men commander down to the first ser- [ Nine Million Yanks, of
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cast querilous glances at each grants.
22 Million,
in
Service
Trailblazer Photo
other last week when the Warning
Entertainment for the party
FLOATING PROUDLYJ)UT on the Oregon breeie. the new
Order was read to them by unit consisted of several acts presented
Washington (CNSI—Maj. Gen.
regimental standard of the 275th Inf. takes the air with its color­
commanders.
I by 2nd Bn. EM in addition to the Lewis B. Hershey, director of the
guard. ready for the battle-streamers to come. The guard, left to
right, ( pls. William O. Griffith. Clyde Copeland. S/Sgt. Joseph A.
Describing the situation
artists supplied by the special serv- Selective Service System, has re­
i Silbernagel.
“Hostile forces estimated 600 Ama- j *ce office,
leased a breakdown of the draft*
■sons have landed on the western ( A dunce contest judged Cpl. Ger- situation in the U.S. which shows I
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ele-, «rd Schaefer of Co. F and Miss that of the 22 million men now
Coast of Oregon, i Advanced
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merits Consisting of 200 luscious Audrey Ames of Eugene best in registered for the draft, more than
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girls have pushed their way by use the waltz, Pfc. Don Brison of Co. nine million are already in the !
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of tweezers, eyebrow pencils, mas- j E anil his wife tops in fox trotting service.
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cara and bewitching looks to the, and Pfc. Marvin Branscum of the ’ Gen. Hershey’s figures, which : One of the most successful pro­ Berge, original piano and vocal ren­
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Cantonment area in the vicinity of ' Medics and his wife the best jit-1 cover draft registrants between the grams ever presented to men at ditions by Cpl. Kenneth Millar and
the Station Hospital took place several musical saw numbers by
Salem, Corvallis, Monmouth, Al­ terbugs.
- i aRes of 18 an<* 381 f°3ow:
la.t week under the auspices of Cpl. Ernest Brook.
bany, Pedee and Tartar (Men,
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.
Total living registrants 22.138,000
Mrs. Winfield R. McKay, wife of
The entire event was an r.M ,
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we’re surrounded!!!)"
|In the armed forces (in-
Colonel McKay, CO of the 274th
Followed up by a regulation five- iN*'ow but the GIs couldn t pass up
ducted!
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6,540,000 Inf., and Mrs. Raymond E. Bell, Army Boasts no Typhus
paragraph field order with an over- the opportunity of seeing Major In the armed forces en-
I I wife of Lt. Col. Bell of the same
Deaths so Far in War
2,430,000 regiment.
lay sketch to accompany it, the - General John E. Dahlquist cut a I listedl
communication was made official j big cake which was the beginning j Disqualified physically . 3,357,000
i Comprising a full hour of enter-1 (ANSI—The Army is mighty
In process of
by “Geesmo” and "Snafu." Clever- of the evening’s chow line.
1,090,000
the show featured a host proud of the fact that so far in
classification
Occupational deferments 3.834.000 I of talent from the 274th in addi-Jthis war not a single death due to
• Dependency deferments 4.645,000 t:on to other attractions from the louse-borne typhus has been re-
¿¡»ision and civilian organizations. ported among Yank soldiers.
Deferred for other
reasons
152.000 I Popular among the latter group
In fact, the preventive methods
j Unclassified
90,000 were Miss Betty Erickson of Ore­ , used by the Army have been so
Included in the 1,090,000 men gon State College, a Hawaiian successful that there hasn’t been
now in the process of classifica­ daneer. and a vocal sextette of fem-' enough typhus even to try out the
tion,
examination or induction, are mine charm from the same insti-I , new and improved anti-typhus
YAKIMA Alligator and Anesthesia are in Battery A. Battle-
tution.
treatments developed.
wagon and Blondie in Battery B and Happy Sack belongs to HQ Battery. 43,000 men who have been found
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Hitting the high spots of the re-1
qualified
for
induction
for
limited*
Which means, those goofy names stencilled on the jeeps, peeps and
American forces have been ex­
. J service under present requirements ■‘‘ent "Oth Division show, “As You posed to typhus in Egypt. North
trucks of the 882nd FA aren’t so*
Sgt. Howard Townsend Africa and other localities, but
ailly at all, because they all begin | dome . . . We don’t know about but whose services have not been |"ere.
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required
the _ armed
forces as,’»ng and * played the piano, giving the preventive methods—especially
w ith the battery’s designation-let-1 Hangover or Half Stewed.
1 a well-acclaimed interpretation of the new deiousing powders and vac­
yet, Gen. Hershey said.
ter. You can tell at a glance which
Battery A has Awkward, Alber­
• some original compositions. assist- 1 cinations—have done their job.
battery a vehicle’s from.
ta and Augurtine and Battery B
jed
by Sgt. Howard Don Tabler do- i
kelly
.
WINNER
MEDII.
OF
It started track in the brave old has Bird Island. Boots. Brain Storm
j ing the vocals.
days of horse-drawn guns, when arid Buck Eye. It’s all good, clean HONOR. ONE-M IN IRMY
Camouflage blinds the enemy!
the GIs of that era began naming fun and there's a historical note to
Italy (CNS) Number One hero
Other entertainment consisted Uncovered soil will show even
their steeds thus, and the motorized »to with it. It’s not new; they of the Italian campaign—to date of violin solos by Pvt. Clifford through a garnished net.
is T Sgt. Charles E Kelly, of |
steeds of modern warfare are used to do it the same way, l>ack
named in like manner. For example. in the good old days.
Pittsburgh, who ha« received the
Soup Wagon in Service Battery is
Congressional Medal of Ronor for
• you guessed it the chow truck. NON-COMS SELL PISSES
his extraordinary achievements in
And, since Service hauls the am­ TO CALLOW RECRUITS
action.
munition for the outfit, they've
Kelly fought at San Pietro, Cas-
New Cumberland, Pa. (CNS)
tried to name their vehicles accord­
sino and in the Rapido River cross- <
A group of non-commissioned of­
ing to explosive nomenclature —
ficers stationed at the New Cum­ ing He's had 70 days of active j
Safety Pin, Super Quick, Smoke­
combat and is credited with killing ,
berland Induction Center have been
less amt Short Charge are
at least 40 Germans. But his big- j
broken in rank for selling week­
examples
Although, a one-and-
gest day was last Sept. 13 — near .
end passes to greenhorn inductees.
one-half tonner which was as-
Altaville.
The non-com«, according to a
signed to them just fifteen min-
On that date he established the
lites before they left for Camp post spokesman, took advantage of position of the enemy by crawling
the recruits' ignorance of post through sniper, mortar and artil­
Adair is christened So Mte!
Hq. Battery is on the ball with rules, which permit them a week­ lery fire, then worked with an­
Hirohito Hearse (medics' truck!. end pass seven days after induc­ other patrol which he “assisted
Heat Wave, the Bn. CO’a CAR' tion.
materially” until he ran out of
2nd 8., 274th Inf., Alerted! It's All OK,
However, It's All for Sake of Simple Fun
1
Men of 274th and Girls from Local
Institution Entertain at Hospital
Artillery Vehicles
Named for Batteries
j
car. Hash House, the kitchen truck. !
ammunition. The next morning
VERY SNAPPY. INDEED
Some of the names derive from pe- |
Kelly peppered an enemy advance
cuharitie of the vehicle*» jockey
Oroville. Cal (CNS)—A local with rifle, mortar and bazooka
The driver of Hot Tips always has newspaper ran a classified ad with fire until his unit had a chance to
'em, or maybe it should be Hot a snap to it: “Wanted—Pair of1 withdraw His wounds during this
Rumors. It*» said that Hi Ball has men’s garters, new or old, if there action consisted of a skinned nose
something to do with the lack of M some stretch left. Price no oh* (and some small rots on his hands
hirsute iiefbage on its driver's jert-
from shell fragment«.
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