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Camp Adair Sentry • I t i i > j POST POLL OF GI OPINION ... Friday, May 5, 1944. Page Seven Touch and Go Deal With Mural New Sentry Feature: Today's Question—"What Do You Do with Your Extra Money?" Ed. Note: Do soldiers think? According to the field manual, they are supposed to Very well; WHAT do they think? In order to shed light on this all-important enigma the Sentry this week .inaugurates a new feat ire. The Post Poll of GI Opinion. The results speak for themselves. Yes, indeed * j This ain't the army. I must be THE QUESTION? What do you do with all your dreaming. It sounds g-od anyway." extra money? TECS EDWARD LAZAR, 570th 1 Signal Co.: Well, I spend some of' THE ANSWERS: I PVT. WILLIAM H. RATH ' it on PX beer, some on Post movies KAMP, Co. I, 275th Infantry: Af- and some on an occasional whing- | ding in town. The rest I just spend foolishly. PFC. JOE SWIERCZEK SCI The fighting Medics defeated the ’ 1911 Mail Man: "Are you crazy? I hard hitting QM team, 6 to 4. Sgt. [ I pray for seven. Along come box Churchill came out with two home runs; Kulick again proved his stuff on the pitching mound and gave out j with two hits at the plate, De ’ Bruyne and Skane checked in with three more hits to bring the total up PVT. HENRI JOVA puts the finishing touches on mural I to 9 hits during the game. With depicting “famed composer” at Service Club 1 before departure for Bokey Kelty other parts. each succeeding game played the Medics team is showing why it gave ter deductions for my allotments, the winners of last year’s pennant 276th GI Was Noted insurance, bonds, laundry, state i |such a good run. ment of charges, cleaning. Red I Toker Rodgers Cross drives and the company day “L" Company Wins room newspaper fund, I have Two From “K" Company T/5 Frank Brousek of Service around $3.47 in cash. This I spend cars. I get on my knees for an ace ______ - ■. , After playing a protested game Co. 276th Inf. who ha« played the for extra pairs of socks and GI high straight; I get a low-ball In a furious laat-miuut^-raoa i last week in the rain "K ” Co. and accordion with all the fervor, zest shoes—and legging laces. Occa hand. Then I borrow on next | “L” Co. agreed the winner of a nine and skill of the accomplished art against time and a GI who sionally I blow myself to a tube of months pay. Extra money? Are inning game could have credit for ist since the age of 12, used to di "San Antonio Rose” Hj til toothpaste, or a cake of soap. I you crazy?” one afternoon on the recorder, Pvt. both victories. PFC. GERALD RODGERS, Co. rect and teach at his nationally- can usually squeeze in a couple of “L” Co. started off with 2 scores known Englewood School of Music Henri Va table Jova finished 4 uni- - M, 276th Infantry: “What extra que mural, which covers the entiro in the first inning. Potter got a in Chicago. money?” north wall o£ the popular little home run with Wicklow on base in On his off nights at school the first inning and got another in Brousek was either busy on a ra mu«ic room of Service Club 1. It provides a bust of a master the sixth with the sacks empty, to dio network or playing with Don composer, plus his composer’s par.-t- account for most of the long range Chiesta at Hotel Sherman or the hitting of "L” Co. Sluitter got a Medinah Club in Chicago. Before phanelia, all rendered in a rich, ro homer for “K” Co. with Hover on entering the army he toured the mantic style. Works Exhibited base in the eighth inning. “K” Co. Midwest as a concert soloist. He's The artist, Jova, hails from threatened in the seventh and eighth a “must" at Officers and Enlisted the Hudson Valley, Newburgh, innings by loading the bases but Men social functions in Camp. N. Y„ and like a former felkanv were unable to push enough runs Very often the accordionist puts Workshop member, Mario Hidal across the plate. Stinger Swierczek out his best to his Service Co. bud R. H. E. dies in evening or Sunday after go. (now at paratroop schqnl), 1« Rathkamp Lazar this week honored as he leaves “ L ” Co. 204 411 000 — 12 21 2 noon sessions around his bunk. short beers before I have to start beloved old Adair with a one«- “ K" Co. 003 100 020 — 6 14 4 borrowing. PFC. MY RLE TOOKER. 70th Here the boys listen to Frankie’s PVT. CHARLES KELTY. Co. B. i Div. Hq., Co.: “Well, you know how ((Batteries: “L” Co. Puhi & Wick- endless and nostalgic repetoire. man show in the Service Club Library. low; “K” Co. Valvanjs & Bailey. 370th Medical Bn.: I admit that it is in the Army. Golf on Satur One moment it’s the “Missouri Jova, 24, studied architecture at extra money in the Army is a ser day afternoons, the bridle-path of Waltz" or “East Side, West Side," Cornell. His color is rich and trop all, but any that's left goes into ious problem. The problem is, how- a Sunday morning and dinner in then perhaps “Deep in the Heart of ical, and some of his subject mat 1 do you get some? (Ed. Note: Portland that night, then the sym- bonds. Texas” for Lone Star Statesmen. ter is reminiscent of the year ho PFC. ALFRED BOKEY, Co. K, I phony on Monday nights, usually, Who’s being interviewed here?) In fact, he apologetically played Infantry: "There’s not much "Rain” one dismal evening for the spent in Puerto Rico working as a : PFC. PHIL STINGER. SCU 1911 ¡a musicale in Corvallis during the 274th surveyor on the Roosevelt Road but what’s left, it's a toss-up native GIs.—Tec5 Sherman Man 1 Band: “Buy hot discs, dig the solid week, and a three-day pass every left, project and all his many other vis beer and cards or cards ning. I bands, go out with the neatest other week. Just one constant round between its to the islands in the Caribbean. chick in Corvallis. By the way of social engagements. I have very |t and beer—hey, that's not what I where do I get all this green stuff ? little money left, what with it'said. I was misquoted!” Medics Take QM In SCU League ACCORDIONIST Jova, Shipped, in Race with Time, Completes Mural 4 to Be Recommended ‘ For Suggestion Awards Recommendatioo for four awards to Camp Adair per sonnel—one military and three civilian—will be presented to- the Post Commander for approval, it was announced last night following an afternoon me»t*~— --------------------- - ■ ‘ ■ ing of the suggestion award board. Any member of ASF and civil It was revealed synonomously ian« on the Post may make a fug that thus far 173,000 has been paid gestion directed via message cen by the War Department for sug ter to the Suggestion Awards gestions by civilians and military Board at Post Hqa. personnel which will help directly After investigation and conaid- in conservation of materiel or man ' eration of a suggesHon, th« local I power hours in the war effort. committee may recommend to the Officers, EM, or civilian em Commanding Officer its adoption. ployees of Camp Adair are eligible If adopted, there may be payment to present ideas. Rewards are of an initial award (to civilians, '9 bountiful. Favorable consideration not less than •5 or mor« than- for each award is given »-hen a UM». suggestion submitted results in: To military personnel, th« fof- Points of ( ontest lowing awards are in order: 1) Conservation of manpower, Officer« may »< r« commended aleriel. time or space; 2) It eliminates annecesssry for a Legion of Merit awaiM; let oeemes or improves existing I ter of commendation; or considera tion for promotion. ■thods; Enlisted men may be recom 3) It improves conditions mended for lerion of .Merit a- »hich affect safety or health; ward; letter of commendation; pro 4) It increases productivity; 5) It eliminate« excess or im motion; preferment in wtig«M«*t; proves eiiating tooling or equip or furlough. ment; Those meeting in the suggestion • > it is a mechanical develop awards »««rd session »ere Maj< r meht ar Invention which »hen Hardt, hospital; (apt. Preston, adopted proves of valne; Post Engineers; Capt. Prank, 7) It improves quality; Quartermaster; Lt. Bauman, fiscal, •) It conserve« critical mater Messrs. Standage, safety ■ ¿p d f tl’ iel or atiMtea materiel previonaly s«r. and Cramblitt, chief of eivffian personnel.
