Poor, Sheepish Little Tank
Camp Adair
Friday, April 21, 1944.
’age Four
Jr
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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
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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
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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—
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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 ...
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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
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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