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this is “30."
Vol. 3, NoCQ. 1 £
Camn Adair, Oregon, Friday. July 21, 1944
and may proceed to Normandy to
meet Marshal Stalin ... The lat-
eat total of the Port Chicago ex-
plosion—319 dead or missing • • •
Portland's temperature nose-dived
Wednesday after scattered prank­
ish thunder storms Tuesday. The
airport weather bureau reported
104 degrees Tuesday and only 69
degrees after the showers . . .
Oregon Motor stages are back to
normal after a strike in which 100
drivers of Portland and Astoria
refused to work.
$1.50 a Year by Mail
SENTRY ENDS PUSUCATION
*Vol. 3, Issue 14 Taps
Coffin Butte Etches Oregon in 'Final Silhouette
of
Newspaper
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4 Divisions, Attached Troops,
Post Served; Was Widely Read
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THE BUGLER. TerS Dick Var’snian. surerimposed against the familiar outline of Coffin
Butte—familiar to all Adair, that is—blows the long, wavering nobs of taps into the Oregon night.
SCU Soldiers Stand
Last Formal Retreat
EM and officers of SCU, standing at present arms
viewed Old Glory as it was hauled down in Camp Adair’s
last formal retreat parade last night.
POST OFFICE AT HQS.
Effective beginning Monday,
the Camp Post Office will be
ntnated in Post Hqs. building,
it was announced last night.
Inter-department mail and
memoranda will be obtained as
usual through message center,
although messenger service will
be discontinued and mail picked
up at MC.
With the exception of two, the
officers taking part were the same
* RUSS HIT GERMAN SOIL
officers who made up the first for- ,
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mal retreat a little over two years
Inis Week
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ago.
Led by the SCU band in its last
Monitored by Tec4 John Stump
performance at Camp Adair, troops
marched past the reviewing
ALLIED VICTORIES MOUNTED, enemy strongholds crumbled
mound and off the field.
and
the
world waited on the eve of the first march on enemy territory ..
Col. Samuel D. Hays, Post Com­
GENERAL MONTGOMERY, in a broadcast from France, said that
mander, took the review in this the
it was “quite likely" that the Germans would be knocked out of the
final parade of SCU.
war this year. Anthony Eden gave assurance that the United Nations
Lt. Col. Eugene I. Foster was are ready with peace terms and that »hen victory comes we shall be
CO of Troops and Capt. Gilbert A. ready with the paspAsals . . . Precipitated by a succession of recent
Wait«, Adjutant.
triumps in the Pwcifi- or by a shift of Japanese strategy, the Jap
Major Clarence T. Stonebocker
(Continued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 41
acted as Battalion Commander with
Capt. William G. Langhauser as
Battalion Adjutant.
Capt. James D. McKay. Capt.
Wesley P. Herrmann. Lt. George
Kresaaty, and Lt. Henry J. Bau­
mann were in command of lit.
2nd. 3rd and 4th companies re-
spectivoiy.
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With this issue. Vol. 3, No. 14, taps will have sounded
for the Camp Adair Sentry.
Much has happened in the two years and 14 weeks
since the first Sentry was published by Don Wilson, Corvallis,
later to become a strictly GI newspaper.
The Sentry has served the reading tastes of four divi­
sions which have trained at this cantonment; of numerous
ittached units during their tenure at Adair; of civilian per-
>onnel back to 1942 when engineers and contractors were
building the Camp; of the SCU 1911 officers and enlisted
oersonnel; of the Station Hospital detachment.
Because hundreds of newspapers were sent home and
followed “alumni” of this Post to other stations and over­
seas. the paper was attained an extensive and diversified
reading circulation.
Although the Sentry began life as a tabloid newspaper,
it was an eight-column periodical from September 17, 1942,
until March 11, 1943, when it resumed its present size as a
five-column, 12-page tabloid.
Much of the current issue will be devoted to “covering”
highlight events at Camp Adair and to other items pertinent
to this, the “taps” edition.
Trailblazer Writer in
Tribute to Adair Paper
By Tec.V Roby Wentz
i Organization Day in September,
The Sentry was an important, 11943—it wu the first day in OD
looked-forward-to feature of Camp clothing for the new fillers.
Adair life to men of the 70th Di­
Then, in December, came the 4th
vision.
Army Testa, with many pictures
Trailblazers today recalled high as the division passed with flying
spots of nearly a year of reading I colors. There were the first of the
the smart, newsy paper «'hich rated j over-night exercises, some of them
well among other U. S. camp sheets. attended by big town daily news­
They remembered arriving here paper correspondents and photog­
to find a paper which featured, raphers. The Sentry printed the
largely, news of the 94th and 104th pictures that were taken and ran
Divisions—but which soon began to the stories of the outside news­
run large amounts of Trailblazer paper men, and the Trailblazers
news.
sould see themselves as others saw
Their first big news break was them—in the pages of the Sentry.
tCont. on Page 11, Col. 5)
Message from Col. Hays *>&**•**
Property Io Be SoM
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According to an Aseo ¡tinted Pres*
release some 45.000 Mrft of Camp
Adair property wOJ be twnwt over
by the war department soon to the
regional war surplus property ad­
ministrator, the Portland »a—K-r
of commerce said Wednesday
Sale of this 46,000 acres in Camp
Adair would cut the Wdl.o.-^
valley army center to spproomafj
y 11.000 acres.
It is expected that the land wifi
he »old through public bids ar by
auction, although there has been
no official r vtifieatten of such an