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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1944)
Poor, Sheepish Little Tank Camp Adair Friday, April 21, 1944. ’age Four Jr ★ ★ Got All Bogged Down LATE I.AST WEEK this poor little tank had something: happen to it which -houldn't happen to a dog. Il went over a steep road emhankment and "trapped" itself. It couldn't hack up and it touldn't go forward. It was simply snafu'd. So here’s »hut happened: in picture 1. soldiers of 770th Ord. Co. look over the poor little tank, who,e fame, by the way. is "Antelope.” Picture 2: they bring a 18-toti ordnance wreck- Ex-Salem Justice Deals Justice: As an MP nd-wtiite braSsard, do double-tnkes,*------------------------------------------------- Mik again, yell "Well if it isn't j wj[| be for the balance of the six- ,lne ... I I’ll l-e a so-and-so-iind-so yeilr term. .” ami pump his hand. Felton feels pretty good about It's considerable of a start to being one of the Trailblazer MPs. cm to see their ex-Justice of the ()Ut he confesses that at first he felt fh-aee pounding a 'beat in ODs g |,jt queer about keeping a father swinging ii («1 night stick. | |y 0f| week-ending soldiers til "l)r»am Come True" ¡along the same streets he used to Up). Felton, 36, admits his assign- walk as a leading private citizen ment to Camp Adair, only 25 miles of the city. Irom Salem, his home for the past , Occasionally he runs into some- 15 years, is something of a Cl one he “threw the book" at during I dream come true. He graduated his period in office, as on the night ■com Willamette University there, j he stepped into a pool-hall for a was admitted to the Oregon bar and ! moment and n disreputable local iter practicing privately for a character, eyeing the tall solder, bile, became chief deputy in the blurted, "That guy gave me 90 Marion County District Attorney’s ! days, once!” Trice. In 11*40. when a vacancy As he pounds his beat along the >i the office of Justice of »he Peace , Salem streets, he often-times pass- or the Salem District occurred, he;es the office-building in which are i located his former law law-offices. was appointed. He ran to retain the post at the On the door, "Joseph B. Felton" e»it election and was victorious. | is covered by a strip of paper •n the hooks, he's still "J.P.,” and but not * painted out. • He USED W SIT behind this desk, but a»« in the-e rlothe*. t'pl. Joseph H. Felton. 79th INviaiea Combat Ml* Platoon. » bo was Js»t»ev of the Peace. Salem district, oben be wan inducted, finds himself on town patrol along the street gist below his old office wtwdew these days. Here he penes with the (avek symbol of bin civilian authority, and the nightstick, emblematic of bia we» job, with law-books all around ★ In Its Own Quagmire Ordnance on the Job! This Time It Rescues MiredTank When CpI. Joseph B. Felton. 70th Combat MP Platoon, ¡>iilln town patrol in Salem, its like Old Home Week. Salemites passing the stalwart figure, wearing the blue- Ex-Salem JP, Now MP, Still in Salem ★ Trailblsirr Photoi ing rig and Antelope begins to stir from the mud. In the right photo, the rear of the tank grasp» ignominously over the edge of the bank. A short time later, obviously w'eak-at-heart and shaken but otherwise undamaged, Antelope was bound home under its own power. Gets Gold Leaf You Can't Beat This for Break in Army— ★ Eighteen tons of Trailblazer ordnance equipment last week gave dramatic proof of what it can do with 13 tons deadweight of helpless tank. It happened late one rainy afternoon ... ' ♦------- —. The light tank, making the run *jlf back to camp from a combat range area, misjudged the sharpness of a turn. It shot clear across the highway, plunged down a 30-foot embankment and came to rest with its nose buried deep in pasty mud Dear GI: —an effective tank-trap. Did you know that about 10 per Ordnance Case The driver was unhurt. But cent of the mail received at the one tank had to be rescued. It Camp post office requires locator was a case, not for Superman, service because it is improperly but for the Ordnance. In jig time addressed? Most of this mail the 770th Ordnance Co.’s mighty eventually reaches its destination wrecking rig, complete with due to the determined efforts of a winch and boom, was parked a- crack locator staff.___________ cross the highway, and Lt. Alfred One improperly-addressed letter M. Jampol was directing the can make a lot of people unhappy, "spading in." and running a line especially the chief locator who is down to the quiescent tank. the guardian of a directory service “She won’t come up the bank i of 100,000 locator cards. He would toe fast to get a picture of her as much prefer to confine his detective she goes onto the road, will she?" activity to guessing whodunit in asked an anxious PRO reporter. a mystery thriller. “No. she won’t” assured Lt. Jam Mrs. Cleo N. Smith, assistant lo pol, kindly. When the winch be cator, says, “If I can’t find it. I gan to turn, the chunky little com return it to the sender." That s bat vehicle stirred, creaked, and passing the buck, but then nothing began to crawl up the bank at bothers Mrs. Smith (except Pfc something like a foot a minute. Smith). It was a slow, delicate process. P. S. Please be more careful in Even when steel cables are sup posed to stand the strain of 47,000 the future. Write your address pounds, you don't take chances. ' plainly so that the folks back home They must wind over the spool can read it. Yours for better addresses. evenly, plus a lot of other little (And I don’t mean the Httle things. Eventually the rear end of black hook» the tank poked over the lip of the The Chief Locator fill, climbed in the air, then fell Camp Adair Post Office down to normal on the road. A little later the tank was on its way into camp under its own Teaches Tate Rhys Tippling power. It waw just another job for New Haven, Conn. (CNS)—Dr the Ordnance boys, work for which E. M. Jellinek is director of the they were given exhaustive train ing at Aberdeen Proving Ground, section on Alcohol Studies of the Yale University Laboratory of Ap before they ever saw Adair. plied Physiology but when a friend naked his 8-vear-old daughter wha: Camouflage blinds the enemy! her I addy did for a living, she rv- Uncovered soil will show » even plied: “He teaches the boys at 5 ale — ------ through a garnished net. how to drink." Improperly Addressed Makes Up of Total Signal Corp* Photo IF Post week, Major YOU’RE CALLING the Ordnance Officer this it will not be Captain but Harry Kautz. Post Ordnance Chief Promoted to Major Maj. Kautz Served Overseas in 1917 The golden leaves of a major were lust week conferred on Capt, Harry G. Kautz, Post Ordnance Officer, an Adair "old-timer" whose serv ice here dates back to August, 1942. His Army career began in Sept ember, 1917. when, as an enlisted man, he was a member of the 355th Infantry. 89th Division. He took part in front line action overseas at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse- Argonne and also served in the Toule and Theaueort defensive sectors, was discharged as a 1st I Sgt. In France Major Kautz attended i th» Infantry Tactics School at Chat- I tern stir Hein and the signing of the armistice found him at the Of ficers’ Training Camp at La Val- bon. then the equivalent of our ! present Officer Candidate Schools i overseas. From 1929 until return to active duty in Jone. 1942. Major Kautz ■served with his old regiment, the 1555th Inf., a reserve unit; and with the 54th »nd 4th Infantry Regi- ' menta, both regular Army compo nents. He advanced tv» 1st Lieu tenant in 1932 and to Captain tn HM. Transferred to Camo Adair in Aug.. 1942. from Ft Warren. Wy oming. Major Kautz assumed charge of Motor Transportation for the Quartermaster Section wttmg up the Post Motor Pool on its pres ent site. As present Post Ordnance Offi cer. his responsibilities include not Imvtjr all types of vehicles but also -.mall arms and artillery weapons, ammunition and armored equip ment. Major Kautz hails from Lia- Icwln. Nebraska, where hr was eoa- neetvd with the Post Office De partment. Servkemen Urged fo Draw Up Their Wills The importance and need for mHi- 'Committee on War Work of any tnry personnel to make out will» he- ■•tate. Cotmty or City R*r Aoo> - fore reaching »taring areas or e-n- ■i:»1ion irr of an extal»b'hed leg: barkntion points were pointed nut .sil onrjniz<t<h»n: any staff jadg th», week by the War Department idvneatt». assistant staff judge ad- in a resume of the mean, available vocM*. or other officer of th for completing final statements. rudgo Advocate General'« Depart Emphasising that will, w ment; » member of any Select i» be drawn at permanent in»tailo- ' Service Advisory Board who is tion. — such as Adair — the <je- iattorney, or a member of th- partment cited the following means farmed forces who is an attorney aod places where soldiers can have | Under no circumstance« will a their last testament« drawn: member of the Army be directed er Civilian attorney*, the legal ,s- urged to prepare a will against hi- siMaree officer of any Army m wishes. since to be legaBy effective e.«mp or station: a member of the it must be drawn voluntarily
