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Page Two ABBOT ENGINEER ABBOT ENGINEER Col. Copeland Is Published Every Friday A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel of Camp Abbot, Oregon, under supervision of the Post Special Service branch. All editorial matter pertaining to Camp Abbot is available for genera! release and reprint in other publications. All article« represent personal opinions ami are not official news unless specifically credited to the War Department. A ll editorial matter should be directed to the ‘ Abbot iingineer,” Poet Head- Quarters, Camp Abbot, Oregon. Copies o f this official post newspaper distributed free to camp personnel. Sub scription to the public, by mail: 50 cents fo r three months; six months, $1; one year, $1.50. 11th Group (TO. Friday, Kiay 21, 1943 The first copy of the Abbot ENGINEER, o f f i c i a l post newspaper, will lie mailed to Miss M. S. Abiiot, daughter of Brig. Gen. Henry' L Abbot, for w hom this ERTC was named. Miss A Idiot, despite of being in tier seventies, leads an act ive life in philanthropic and churity affairs in Cambridge, Mass. •She will receive weekly the camp newspaper, accord ing to Lt. P. H. O’Brien, post Public Relations officer. The 11th Group, consisting of four engineer training battalions —the 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th— is under command of Col. R. M. Copeland. Lt. Col. Carl G. Kust- ner is executive officer. Other executive officers on Col. Copeland’s staff are 1st. Lt. W il 1st. Lieut. P. H. O’Brien...................... Director o f Special Service 1st. Lieut. Wayne B. Leitzel! 12th Group, Special Service Officer liam T. Pascoe, III, adjutant; 2nd Lt William I. Taneiwy, assistant 2nd Lt. S. D. Hopkins..—... 11th Group, Special Service Officer adjutant; Capt. L. P. Staman, S-l; STAFF PFC. Morrie C. Guss................ ........................ ................ Editor Capt. Earl B. Merrill, S-2; Maj. T/4 George S. F l y ... ..... ........... ............ ....... Ass’t. Editor Howard F. Brook, S-3; Capt. T/5 Richard Shearin........................ ....Features & Photography John N. Gilboy, S-4; 2nd Lt. John Utilizing 49 buildings in the T/5 Roy L. Rider................................................... Sports Editor D. Tracy, assistant S-4, and 2nd Photography and art work by Map Reproduction, Engineer Lt. Stephen D. Hopkins, Special extreme southeast section of the Replacement Training Center, Camp Abbot, Oregon. ERTC is the 400-bed Camp Ab Services Officer. bot hospital, believed to be one A Message of Greetings from Col. Frank S. Besson of the best equipped in * .e northwest, and under supervi To the Officers and Enlisted Men of Camp Abbot: sion of Col. Frank G. Crandall, Welcome to your new station. It is an ideal installation C b s ta c I g S Jr., post".surgeon. in which to train soldiers in the rudiments of becoming pro At present there are only 29 ficient Army Engineers. We, of the Corps of Engineers, T - Q n e t a i e P O patients hospitalized for medical have a reputation to uphold. As a component unit of the 1 V* U IC and surgical treatment. the Hospital personnel consists of Arm y Service Forces, it is our prime requisite to equip in- , , ack o f e q !*f1 .PITie" t and yet dividual soldiers with the necessary technical and military been & authorized* for3 C a m p eight medical officers, a dental two Medical Administra education to cope with any situation against the enemy on Abbot failed to stop Capt. John officer, tion officers, a veterinarian, a the ground. | C. Burgerson, postal officer, sanitary officer, one chief nurse Camp Abbot is destined to become the largest of the when the arrival of training and 133 enlisted men. Arm y’s three Engineer Replacement Training Centers, cadre began to tax postal facili- Capt. John W. Summers is the post hospital adjutant. Eventually, it will be known as the “ Ft. Belvoir of the tie* last week-end. 400-Bed Hospital Is Well-Equipped Capi. Burgerson Northwest.” It’s facilities will increase periodically as will its personnel. Our training programs must keep abreast of the times. A mutual espirit de corps must be cemented to insure proper morale. Comforts right now are limited; upon com- plot ion of our camp-wide projects, everything in the interest „ -II u, 0 mi diets ‘ I ^ available. . . , . I11 every theater ot war, the Engineers are using their tools and their weapons with equal skill. Let us continue with all our efforts of training soldiers who are the “first ones in and the last ones out” when the going is toughest. “ ESSAYO N S." fu S and in a short time had a tem- porary office functioning as ef- ficiently as if it had been estab- Wished months before. Stamps were olj,ained ,by Ca.pt- Bul’ger' son and postal employes from personal funds and made avail- abie to soldiers, and arrange- ments w'ere made for receiving and sending registered mail, No facilities are available for handling money orders, but the postoffice has arranged to obtain them in Bend in an emergency. Enlisted men assigned to the postoffice are Sgt. Ed Purcell, Cpl. R. Whatford and Pfc. Sidney Resnich. Five civilians assist soldier personnel. No permanent postmaster has been appointed, but nominations have been sub mitted to Congress. school and was graduated from Baylor University and the South western Baptist Theological Sem inary. Chaplain Andrew's great greadfather was scalped by In dians "deep in the heart of Tex as” near the present location of Camp Hood. Not the least among the facili Chaplain Vernon A. Cooley ties provided by the War Depart has been on the field before the ment for the benefit of officers Camp Abbot offices were moved and enlisted men of Camp Abbot from Bend. He comes from a is the inclusion of a complement busy ministerial life in Cedar of six Chaplains and the erection City, Utah bby way of the Chap Reading is most popular form of three Chapels. Two o t the lains’ School. Chaplain David Chapels are conveniently located Segerstrom is to arrive soon of diversion of a soldier and in the very near future, Camp Ab on Group Avenue in ‘ he heart of from a pastorate in Boston. the group areas, while the Post Chaplain Andrew will spend bot servicemen will have a mod Chapel (Mobilization type) is lo ten days until May 30 in Camp ern, well stocked and pleasantly- cated near the intersection of Adair on temporary duty observ appointed library that will be Group Avenue and Center Street. ing the activities of the Chap the envy of many small Ameri As soon as all three Chapels are lains and schedules of the Chap can cities. f or the past week, hundreds completed, services for Protest els there prior to complete or ant, Jew, and Catholic will be ganization of the Chaplains’ of packages of books have ar rived from publishers to fill the scheduled weekly or oftener and Branch in Camp Abbot. at hours to conform with the Schedules for Services each shelves in the main library in the training schedule of each battal- : week are posted now on all bul Service club and two sub-libra ion. ! letin boards. All services until ries. An experienced librarian will A fourth Chapel will be acti- further notice will be held in vated in the hospital, using a Chapel B u i l d i n g No. 754, on soon be named, according to the Special Services office. room designated by the Post Sur- Group Avenue, Besides books—on every con geon and as soon as practicable j ceivable subject—there will be there will be a Chaplain desig- i available to Abbotmen hundreds nated as the Hospital Chaplain MORE ABOUT of the latest periodicals, maga with an office assigned in the zines and home town news hospital. Offices of all the other papers. Chaplains will he in the Chapels. At present the Post Chaplain’s office is located in Headquarters (Continued from Page One) Jewish Services Planned Building No 201, in the Officer • • • For First Time Tonight Personnel section His correct Camp Abbot officers and en general staff school at Fort title is "Chief of the Chaplains’ Leavenworth, Kan., and his most listed men of Jewish faith are Branch.” ecent assignment in that work | *nvd,„ d t0 a,ten(l services tonight The Post Chaplain, (Major) at 1845, and every Friday eve William H. Andrew, arrived last was in Kansas City as division ning, in the Post Chapel. engineer, Missouri river divis week from Chaplains' School at Services will be conducted by Harvard university. He has been ion. He is a graduate of the a group of servicemen from in the Chaplains' Reserve since army war college. Two son* and a daughter of ERTC and SCU. Sgt. Morris 1929 and has held pastorates in Stavsky, Medical detachment, Texas and Arkansas. His last Col. and Mrs. Besson are In SCU, will serve as cantor. Lt. B. Pastorate was at Bryan, Texas, some branch of service during the home of the Agricultural and the present world-wide conflict Klabanoff, assistant post adju One son, Lt. Col. F. S. Besson, tant Is directing arrangements Mechanical College of Texas, where he served a Church of Jr., is head of the engineering for the services, assisted by the some 1500 members for over ten and development section in the Post Chaplain. years. Born In Lampascas, Tex office of the chief of engineers, SCHEDULE OF CAMP ABBOT as. he attended the local high Washington, D. C. CHURCH SERVICES Another son, Major Robert Sunday, May 23. 1943 Besson, is a prisoner of the Jap Catholic Service« anese, following his participa Catholic Services will be held tion in the Bataan campaign. A daughter, Lt. Jean B. Bes at 0900, Sunday, May 23. Con son, is in command of a W AAC fessions before Mass at 0830. Protestant Services officer candidate company at the Protestant Services will be Dos Moines, Iowa. Tng. Center. Mrs. Besson will arrive in held on Sunday, May 23, at 1030 Camp Abbot after June 1. The and at 1930. Jew ish Services post commander's garrison resi Jewish Services will be held dence is located in the area op Friday, May 21, at 1845. posite headquarters square. 7 * 1 * A11 services to be held in Chapel No. 754 on Third Ave. flu RANKS My secretary, being a lady, AH are urged to attend. cannot take what I think of you. Invest qour mo*eq in IM itiil StJtw __... ________ _ I. being a gentleman, cannot say tf she were twice as cute as she tries to be, she still wouldn't understand w hat I should like to be half as cute as she thinks she ■..............---------------- say. is. The Chaplain’s COLUMN Books Arrive For 3 Camp Libraries Abbot C. 0. G.l. Insurance Is Best Buy in Army Two Abbotmen Attend ASTP Thousands of Yank soldiers are going to college under the Army Specialized Training Program. Mattor of fact, two Camp Alibot- men Were selected recently — first of the hundreds in the fu ture to be afforded an oppor tunity to attend school while in the service. T/3 Leo A. Cooper, cashier in the camp finance office, was the first Abbot man selected, fol lowed by Pvt. John R. Hanson, principal clerk in the camp Pur chasing and Contracting depart ment. Both men will attend the STAR unit, University of Idaho at Moscow. The former soldier was in the first contingent of EM’s on the post, arriving from Camp Roberts nearly five weeks ago. Every logarithm they master . . . every liook they crack . . . will he a kick in the teeth to Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini lieeause dealing hard blows against the enemy demands trained specialists in many fields. Right now the Army is sending men to college who can be train ed in engineering, medicine, psychology, foreign area studies and other specialized fields. The biggest call is for men to become electrical, civil, chemical and me chanical engineers. For many soldiers the college courses will open the door to OSC and lead to commissions. For others the course will lead to recommendations for techni cal ratings upon successfully completing their studies. See your first sergeant about qualifications for ASTP .and STAR college training. As Army authorities issued an other plea for troops to “ think about buying government war risk insurance before your foot is on the gangplank,” Camp Ab bot officials launched a concert ed drive for all personnel to pur chase G.l. insurance— the cheap est form of investment protected by Uncle Sam. With the future arrival of trainees, an Insurance officer will be named, and working with the Special Service officers of the 11th and 12th Groups, Abbot- , men will be able to purchase, in crease policies and change bene Col. '-'rank S. Bes-Son post ficiaries of National Service Life commander, believes a singing Insurance. army is a fighting army. G.l. insurance is practically a Music—which has played such gift. Uncle Sam is willing to bet an important part in military his soldiers $10,000 against $7, victories of the past—will be that they will live another come a daily pleasure when month. These odds are terrific, plans of Col. Besson are a real considering the bet holds g o o d - ity. even in combat. The C. O. lias suggested that all enlisted men give their vocal chords a healthy workout for 15 minutes at reveille. Personally, we think it is an excellent idea. Can’t you just picture a company of alert G. Formal dedication of Camp I ’s at 0610 burst out with such Abltul will be held either in old time favorites as “ S m ils ^ ^ August or early September, ac “ When Irish Eyes Are S m ilin l^r cording to Col. Frank S. Bes and a couple of request ditties son, post commander. for the “ top sarge,” namely, Two dates— Aug. 12 and “ Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” Sept. 2—are under considera and “My Buddy.” tion, and either, said Col. Bes Okay, sarge, sound you “A ’.’*" son, “ will be suitable since they mark significant dates in the life of Gen. Abbot, for w hom this |>ost is named." Promotions of officers and en August 12th marks the 112th anniversary of Brig. listed men at Camp Abbot will be Gen. Henry L. Abbot's birth, publicly announced in this EN and it was on Sept. 2, 1855 GINEER feature column. Items that he visited the present site may either be phoned or mailed of Camp Abbot—destined to to the Public Relations Office, lie the largest of the natiou’s giving full name, rank and grade three ERTC installations. of promotion. Definite selection of the for To Be Major mal dedication will lie an Paul L. Diediker, ERTC adju nounced in the near future. tant. Reveille Serenade Suggested byC.O. Camp Dedication Dates Considered BARS and STRIPES ABBOT EYE OPENER NO. 1 UMSAKf WARiJIfitt BONOS AND STAMPS! >»• Yi,u- «hat you are. «m BABY TALK —The lovely gal above it Dolores Gillen who makes baby talk pay dividends— but good. Although »he's a capable actress she rarely gets a speaking role. Babies are her specialty. She plays the twins on "Abie's Irish Rose" and ainriler parte on meny ether NBC shows. She geos. gat. end cries. Some babyi