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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1944)
Camp Adair Sentry ; July 21. 1941. Camp Adair Sentry jB'$ a GreatLife i Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY . . . . ByT-5lynchi Notes From a Soldier s Sketch Book ! A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel ci Gamp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. Published unuer permit of Army Service Forces, No. APN-W-25-M. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head- Quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” n r All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless ipecifically credited to the War Denartment. News material furnished ly th- Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. *1 — Year $1.60. HOTEL ttOOfwj JIS* BATW 35' The Sentry subscribe* to the matrix and news facilities «of? Camp Jfewspaper Service. ~ T i Capt. .1. D. McKay Tecd Bob Ruskauff. Pfc. George Simmons Tech Don Lynch Director of Training Branch I HARNÇSJ L C'RE^^ sugar □ r ! i , | ! X CHANGE CEBPTt v t Kr I J I She: Do you love me with all your heart and soul? He: Uh huh. She: Do you think I'm the most beautiful girl in all the world? He: Yeah. She: Do you think my lips are like rose petals, my eyes like lim pid pools my hair like silk? He: Yep. ' She: Oh, you say the most beau tiful things.—Bombardier. Supply Sgt.: Any complaints about your clothes? Rookie: My trousers aren’t right. Sgt.: I see nothing wrong with them. Rookie: Maybe so. But they’re chafing me under the arms. Managing Editor Staff Reporter ............... Staff Artist Swell to Have Served (Ince Arthur Brisbane commented that news is dead the moment it is bora. “Lady. you’ll have to pay haif True, in the sense Brisbane meant it, for news is a word fare for that ixiy.” • "But conductor, he's only three photograph of the moment in a swift-changing world—like years old." something in a hall of mirrors, a reflection of the passing “Hd. looks like six years old to parade. me." But there is a little something else in the work the Sen “Sir. I'Ve only been married for try essayed. This paper attempted to chronicle Adair—to three years.” "Lady, I don't want a co&feasioa, more than reflect, to be in a measure, part of life at Adair; I waut half fare«” ■-7-c- G1 life. In a hundred ways we have failed of perfection, in a few Maiiie was standing up to th; It was out yunder, by Coffin Butte—aud they used to bring we have possibly failed of purpose. In a few cases we have suc [bug iu a. London pub having i bus loads of them in every half-hour." ceeded in our effort. We have not tried to be a big newspaper; (spot of ale when a friend walked in. "Aye say, Maisie, are you havrruj we would have been a cinch to fail there. one?” But we do take pride in feeling that we have stacked up “No, Horace, it’s merely the cut well with our contemporaries. We are deeply grateful to the m in a post hospital where from this field unit to a hospital ‘i of me coat." kindliness and toll rance with which this newspaper has been I have been confined since coa- ship. How will I go about it? A. Generally speaking, very few reated from the beginning—by the officers over our effort tracting '«nerval dwease. My pa> 1st Pvt.: "Why are you wearing transfers are being made from my raincoat?” has been stopped, of course, but and, above all by you, the reader and our ultimate consumer. , I'm worried about my wife's allow- the ground forces. Our advice is 2nd Pvt.: “You wouldn't want There is sorrow in farewell, if we say farewell. ' ance. Has that been stopped too? for you to read AR 615-200. Para. me to get your blouse wet. would Let's not say it, let's just say “it was swell to have A. No. Loss of pay during ab- 7. ascertain if you're eligible uud you?” sprved you” and let that substitute for good-bye as we write s«n«e of duty caused by a vene- then talk it over with your CO. — "30” to a couple of years that in our heart we cannot regret I real disease does not stop allow Q. My wife receives a Class X Dunning after women never hurt ances of pay to dependents under allotment from me every month. ! anybody . . . It's catching them —B.R. I’m going overseas now and won ANSWER BOX f •the Servicemen’s Dependents Al- 5 that does the damage. Ilowunee Aet. The same applies to der what will happen to her if my I _____ < insurance payments, which are con- ship goes dow n and I’m reported “Who was driving the car when ■ missing in action. Will she still re : tinued by the Army mid you hit that pole?” ceive the allotment? ! ¡acted from the GI when “No one, sir, we were all in j stored to duty. A. Yes. The Secretary of War ! the back seat.” Here's whut you hiQe to do it' sisippi, Montana. New Jersey. Q. I'm connected w ith a cullect- has the authority to authorize the you're going to vote in the national South Carolina and West Vii - i ing company that follow •s an In- payment of an allotment from the “You look all in today. Bill. elections this fall. iginia. ' faatry regiment into combat. Be- pay of a soldier who is reported What's the trouble?” First, you're going to get :i J If you’re from one of these i cause I’ve had training in Qie I missing in action, beleaguered, be "Well. I didn't get home until regulation post-card application for I states, or from another state whose I1 Army's School for Surgical Tech sieged. captured or interned when after daylight, and I was just un-1 a state absentee ballot. Fill it out, voting regulations leave you in nicians and experienced in a sta ever these payments are considered dressing when my wife woke up get-it witnessed by gome officer or | doubt as to your status, send a tion h<M>pital laboratory and in the essential for the protection of the and said, ‘Aren’t you getting up -«■rgeant in your outfit, and «end j V-mail letter to your secretary of dental clinic. I'd like to transfer soldier's dependents. early?' In order to save an argu it off to the secretary of state of i state au«i find out if you're eligible ment. I put on my clothes and came | to vote. Be sure to list your full your home state. down to the plant.” Continued Pretty soon you will receive a l name, serial number, military unit, From Page 1 land APO. Tell him how long you -------------------------- --------------- ballot from home, In moat ca»e» Gl to date: “De you mind if I J this will be the regular state I have lived in your home state, what government, headed by Premier Tojo resigned collectively. The an turn out the light? I freckle easi ahaentee ballot. Some state*, how your home address was and the nouncement followed the day after Tojo had been relieved as chief ly.” ever. do not authorize the use of i number of your voting district, if you can remember it. of the Japanese general staff . . . thin ballot and in these instances, Stark le. Starkle little twink If. after hearing from your sec special lulllots will be sent to Gls GERMANS WERE REPORTED IN GENERAL RETREAT al) Who the Hell you are you think? retary of state, you're still in who request them. I’m not undec the Alcofluence of along the front in Normandy as their lines crumbled at both ends of The dates and details for voting doubt about your eligibility, con the peninsula. At the eastern end of the front, British and Canadian Inkelhol. in states may vary, but they can sult the Soldier Voting officer of Though some thinkle peep I am. forces broke through the German lines across the Orne river in an be checked by consulting W'D your outfit. One will be appointed I fool so feelish Soldier Voting Poster 2, which for every military organization offensive rolling acroa. the Caen plain. Americans in the w«t sector I don't know who me. under General Bradley, captured the stronghold of St. Lo after an eight- soon will be posted on your bulletin down to company and battery. That the Drunker I sit here Additional information may be day battle, while oth«r units reached the outskirts of Periers and The longer I get. board, or in some other conspicuous secured from WD posters issued place. Umy General Dempsey's troops were converging for a fresh effort OK ? wVll, after you receive your Ion the subject. One of these posters to crack open the 120-mile front leading from Caen to Paris, while outlines general information on ballot, you should mark it and mail i voting, another ' contains data pn General Montgomery struck at the gateway to interior France under it buck to your state capital again. I requirements on voting by state cover of tbe greateet aerial bombardment since D-day. In the tremen- That's about alt there is to it. absentee ballot in each state. A One thing you want to make sure I third is a map of the U. S. show- doua air assault. sustained for four hoars, waves of heavy, medium and about before you send out your ap | ing e\ery Congressional District in hght bombers unloaded at least 11.000 tons of Explosive- on the Caen plication is vour eligibility to vote. I the country, and a fourth will list in area . . . Find out, for instance, whether the addition to the Presidential and REELING RACK ALONG A 150 MILE FRONT .cross Italy. Ger ■«Mite you come from permits ab Vice President ml candidates, the sentee voting, whether it permits senatorial and congressional nom man forces continued their retreat northward Allied armies captured voting by the Federal ballot, and inees in states whoee laws allow Arezzo, last big transport hub on the way to Florence, and l^gan driv KNOW your weapons thorough.» * whether you have to pay a |«oll tax the Federal ballot to be used. The ing up the Amo river valley toward Florence and the Nazi Gothic line If you come from Georgia, you can fifth poster outhne* just what IWapne .Uff «»my resistance, both the 5th and Sth armies made ability to fir stoppages quickly can w* not only your Ufa but also the hwa • vote if you're IM or over, but in servtcvmesi who are eligible A» us their greatest gam. m recent days Th« Sth launched a frontal assault vour companions. on Livorno, third largest Italian port, while other unit* were attemnt all other states you've got to be St. the Federal ballot must do. mg to outflank and encircle the stronghold . . . Gls from Washington, D.C.. can't vote at all. I. . 7 WE PA< 1FIC^ GU*,n •*** “* concen- In M states, simply -ending in traud softw-up assaulu of the Pacific war-Army Liberum raiding an application or voting ballot is 1 al. American m.nne. s.r, nuAtI< enough for regwtrauun. You have I ta wmte home for special voting i mrtria tion. however, if you came j from ear of the following «tates: | Arizona. Ibmnecticut. Dels ware. ! Florida. I4eorgia. Louisiana. Mis- If You Wont to Vote This Fall, You Can Do It by the Numbers The World This Week lli
