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ABBO T ENGINEER Page Two ÂBB0T ENGINEER Friday, May 28, 1943 Awarded Purple Heart S g f B u tte rs Published Every Friday ’ « n * 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 Abb t is available for general release and reprint in other publications. All articles , «present personal opinions and are not official news unless specifically credited to the War Department. All editorial matter should be directed to the “ Abbot Engineer," Post Head quarters, Camp Abbot, Oregon. Copies of this official post new paper distributed free to camp personnel. Sub scription to the public, by m ail: 50 cents for three months; six months, $1; one year. The ENGINEER receives material supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, War Dep’t., 205 E. 42nd St.., N. Y. C. Credited material may not be republished without permission from Camp Newspaper Service. ■ MP Awarded Honor For Bravery in African Battle by Gen. McNair 1st. L ieu t P. H. O’Brien........ ............. Director of Special Service 1st. Lieut. Wayne B. Leitzell. 12th Group, Special Service Officer 2nd Lt. S. D. Hopkins........ 11th Group, Special Service Officer S T A F F PFC. Morrle C. Guss........... „ ............... ....... ......................Editor T/4 George S. Fly................................................ Ass’t. Editor T/5 Richard Shearin............................. Features & Photography T/5 Roy L. Rider........................................... Sports Editor Cpi. Pauline Cohn..... ................... ....W AA C I V : Correspondent Cpl. Harlan Weeks .............................Hq. ERTC Correspondent Aux. Henrietta Kirkpatrick ................. ................. „...Circulation Photography and art work by Publications, Engineer Re placement Training Center, Camp Abbot, Oregon. A h u s k y, dauntless Camp Allied military policeman—23- year-old Sgt. Deryl E. Butters— is entitled to wear the “ Order of Military Merit—the Badge of the Purple Heart”—second oldest decoration for valor in the world. The enlisted soldier, former resident of Maynard, Iowa, was awarded the Purple Heart on Dec. 8, 1942, at Walter Reed hos pital in Washington, D. C. while recuperating from severe bums W H Y TH E W A A C ’S A R E H E R E PROUD SOLDIER—The contagions smile belongs to Sgt. Deryl E. and shrapnel wounds suffered The W A A C ’s are coming not merely to release men for Butters, attached to the MP branch, SCU 1973, shown in Walter E “ in A f r i c a n waters when his the fighting fronts; they are improving on their jobs. They Reed hospital, Washington, D. C., after being awarded the Purple ship was torpedoed.” Oddly enough, the officer who appear to thrive on the diet of administrative detail and Heart for "bravery in the African « amoaign.” The attractive Army technical duties, the same “paper work” which stifled men Nurse pauses to offer her congratulations. He was hospitalized from pinned the decoration on his G. Nov. 26, 1942 to Feb. 4, 1943— (U. S. Army P h o t o . ) _____________ I. pajamas, Lt. Gen. Lesley .1. hungry fo r action. McNair, chief of the Army With proper training and experience they are check Ground Forces, was recently ing superchargers and clearing fuel lines of our fighters awarded the medal for bravery and bombers. They become photo lab technicians, weather in the North African campaign. observers, medical technicians and cryptographers. “ That was the happiest mo ment of my life,” the Abbot sol The list could go on at length but it is enough to state dier says. “ Gen. McNair asked that the present expected use of women covers 142 different me when I would be able to re job titles, and these are exclusive of officers. turn to duty and I told him “as Many of the jobs are new . . . as new and unique as The sharp ring of steel . . . soon ‘as my bums were healed’.’* Veteran of 22 years as a pas this U. S. Army. Women must be trained for them, just tor in various Massachussetts the crackle of pine chips as they Sgt. Butters “ sweated it out” as were men before the women’s corps was started _____ ___ ................. cities, _ Chaplain (1st .......... Lieut.) flew from the bark of pine trees,! in the hospital until last Feb. 4, On the other hand, many of the jobs parallel those which David i. segerstrom became the sounded in the area west o f > h e n was transferred to .women have held down for many years in industry and in H nLo pilot” nseiming /-* , ITOTr1 i l l a ninirac luct Klliulav. cirri ago. V “sky assigned ♦ to ERTC v rifte ranges last Sunday. at aboUt five weeks the professions. And the women who come into the Army (jirect religious endeavors at t These sounds heralded the initial He n hjs three-stripes on April from these are extremely valuable. Their training and Camp Abbot. £ “ * * * of ,h« * “ * fB“ nymn 16 and is assigned to the B^nd of thp c£mp.s „n ita r y ^ ability on the broad average is superior to that of men Four weeks ag0 he was grad. I Woodchoppers society of Camp ^ Veteran Pastor Blisters Wept As Arrives for Duty Choppers Slashed holding down the same jobs, for they had to be good enough i uated from the Chaplains’ j Colonel and private alike, both llce' The 225-pound, eagle-eyed shot to break down the barrier that erroneously labeled so many School at Harvard University 1 rolled up their sleeves, and took is reticent in talking about his occupations a “ man’s jo b .” ............................. : and' Abbot is“ ¡en«. in the African cam is his first assign- up pioneer tools in the society’s Just as that b a rrier crum bles in civilia n life under the ment. For the past three years campaign to salvage big timber „ J ™ d irect fir e o f superior a b ility, so it is collapsing in our he occupied a pastorate in the from behind the rifle ranges be- ...... n ,. j there Armed Forces. Wherever the W A A C ’s have gone on duty Union Congregational Church at . £re will be «m e to shot* the »h e y have done such a top-notch jo b that th ere a re n ot A ^ f e ’i r t i ^ l y delighted with was sounded many tones during “ f ^ R>rht now, enough available to m eet the dem and fo r th e ir services. the a ^ i a r a ™ e o f the camtl” the course of the afternoon, as s P'fnty of work to do And in the fin a l analysis, that reaction is the p ro o f o f th e ir chaplain Segerstrom said. “This »tees from 14 inch to 42 inch in Hl“ iL s,iiC I is. indeed. God’s country.” ? diameter crashed down. “ There B u t t » U «.tid ed to wear the success. t He is a graduate from Boston , *s much unfinished work yet to ^ rP,e Heart 1 University; receiving a B. S. and be done,” said Lt. Col. C. G. ■ o : the fortit“ de he dis- M. A. His theological studies [ Kustner, the society’s ‘ ‘ B u l l P j ? ^ ^ be was hurfed into a were pursued in North Park Dozer, today after scrutinizing grimy ocean at midnight and, de- Seminary, Chicago, and grad- the weeping blisters on his sPlte burns and wounds, swam 300 yards before being rescued. - | uate studies at the — University of ■ hands. Hitler’s rats can't beat Yanks Three WAACs stationed at ; Chicago and Harvard Divinity Camp Abbot were invited to at like Sgt. Batters and the thous i School, Cambridge, Mass. tend the initial meeting, but they ands of American soldiers who Distinguished Army Engineer Visited Present bashfully declined the invitation are daubing the ex-third rate ERTC Site in 1855 While Making R. R. Survey to show up the basic member house-painter with brilliant Red, ship. White and Blue victories. This condensed biography of Brig. Gen. Henry Larcom Abbot, . . , _ , . . fo r whom America's newest Engineer Replacement Training M a d g F r o m A d D O T Center is named, is published for the enlightenment of all Camp 1 Camp Abbot men wondering Abbot personnel. We are indebted to the publishers of the Diction ary of American Biography for this authentic review, marking how they might transmit tele the first of two articles to appear in the Abbot ENGINEER. It phone messages to their fami Was on Sept. 2, 1855, while leading a detached party of Army En- lies, were offered these aids this ineers on one project o f the ------------------------------------------ week. ’aeific Railroad Survey, Gen. * n , , , r ^ » t Here’s the procedure for plac Abbot camped on the hank o f the K g n H U S C j T O f c f G T ing that long distance telephone >' By Chaplain Vernon C. Cooley tVschutes river which flows call: It it not an unknown fact that through the heart of the camp. ^ From 0800 to 1800 all person By CPL. H A R LA N W EEKS Miriiire once ___ al calls must be placed over the when people find themselves fa©-, ^ Someone said ___ that it b is H EN RY LARCOM ABBOT | There was much rejoicing in pay station in the PX, Building ?d ^ n *l1 KraV‘T^ U' f ‘‘r' ,h“v .'urn hard'to j X ^ ' a n o f ttiTpeopto *Aug. 13, 1831—Oct. 1, 1927), i Bend’s USO—haven of all Ab- 755 . ment » “ .hi T £ * the time but that t o j£ s * A rm y Engineer, was a descend-' hotmen — when news arrived From 1800 to 2000 officers what T/S f o x h o l . i ^ S : und^iabie p ^ f “ b° Ut " hat T -'S " ilU» m V‘ •n t of George Abbot, who emi-1 that the Federal Works Admin- may place calls over o ffic ia l,,... _ __ - Hanson, post message center ftrated from England in 1640 and istration had recommended an phones providing they are col- ' V***. w hen «*e possibility of sergeant major. Is trying to do in ©f Mordecai Larcom, who came | expenditure of $20,000 for the lect. but enlisted men and of ■ . .M .h*™?ned men his vital position as chief of the from France twelve years later.' renovation and furnishing of ficers placing prepaid calls must fo .r D,vin<’ ’vld- l nri<‘r circumstances, the preservation “ nerve center” o f Camp Abbot. tw o of his great grandfathers ( the servicemen’s center. Final j use the pay station in the PX. Bill, as he is known to many of life becomes paramount and Served in the Revolutionary action on the suggestion will be j rash promises are made in the of the enlisted men at Abbot, is W ar: Major Ablel Abbot and , taken in Washington, D. C. hope that life might be pre an old timer at the job because Lieut. Joseph Hale. Henry L . . "That’s the best news I ’ve e v -! he held a similar job at the served. Abbot was born at Beverly, pr heard,” said smiling, hard- Our government has seen fit ERTC headquarters at Fort Mass., the son of Joseph Hale working "Colonel” Bob Titus, to spend millions of dollars to Leonard Wood, Mo., for a year. and Fanny Eliingwood (Larcom) • d irect«’. make religious facilities avail He took over that message Abbot, and brother of Francis; ° ne of thp largest crowds in | Sunday, May 30. 1943 able to the members of the arm- center in May, 1942 and built it Eliingwood Abbot (q.v.) He at-! history of the three week old Catholic’ serviw T'irilT be held : ed io lw s Thanks to our fo m of ! UP enviable reputation it tended the Boston Latin School USO attended last Saturday center for ac- •nd then West Point Military night’s gala dance when refresh at 0900, Sunday. May 30. Con f ™ T wn* n,,. it. is ‘‘made avail- Academy, where he was gradu ments were served to more than fessions before Mass at 0830. ¡able and not forced upon us. It CV™ ^’ aJnd sPeed m handling of Protestants ls the aim of the Chaplains i official documents. ated in 1854. He was married in 1000 Abhotmen and nearly 100 Protestant Services will be C.o rPs ,0 ^ ‘ hat every member . At Camp- Abbot, Sgt. Hanson April 1858 to M a r y S u s a n W AAC’s. Committees of senior and jun held on Sunday, May 30. at 1030 oi ,he Army has the opportunity 13 installing the same principles Everett of Cambridge, Mass. For to take --------- care of ------------ his‘ 'religious and whipping ---------- his staff *---------- into the *“ - two years after his graduation ior hostesses are in the midst of and at 1930. needs. Camp Abbot is fortunate same efficient machine it was at Jewish Services from West Point, Abbot was as formulating nightly progsams Jewish Services will be held to have three Chapels with train- Fort Leonard Wood, sistant on the survey for a Pa for the entertainment of enlist ed personnel to man them The BID was inducted into the stationed here. ____ Friday, May 28, at 1845. cific railroad, in command of t h ed e personnel _____________________ All services to he hekl in Chapels are yours to use. You United States Army on July 22, party which surveyed the route are welcome at any time and 1941 from Los Angeles through through California and Oregon contribution to the science of Chapel No. 754 on Third Ave. they are never closed. The Chap- Fort MacArthur and was sent which was later adopted. In 1857, hydraulics, and remains a stan .All are urged to attend. lain is your friend. Use him as to Fort Wood for his basic train* then .i lieutenant, he was ap dard authority on the regimen such. ing in the Ehgineer Corps. A l pointed to the task of assisting of the Mississippi River” ( “The W AAC MESS H ALI. OPENS Why wait until you get into a though he was inducted from L. Capt A. A. Humphreys (q.v) of Problem of the Mississippi,” by W AA C mess hall opened foxhole* Visit your Chapel and the Corps of Engineers in an In MajorGeneral W. M. Black. Thursday on temporary “ W AAC ( ha plain now. You are always A. his home Is in Cheyenne, W’yo. He started his basic train vestigation of the questions o f North American Review. De Row” . W A A C s have been eating welcome! ing on July 31, 1941 and upon flood protection and channel im cember 1927.) In 1869 further re at Hq. Co. SCU 1973 for the past — --------- completion of 13 weeks, SgL provements along the lower Mis ports were submitted by Humph week. PARADE Hanson was transferred to H q sissippi. Their joint report upon reys and Abbot on the same Graduates of Cooks and Bak- l id you hear about the serge- Co., where he served as conv ttie Physios and Hydraulics of question. ers School at Daytona Beach, ant on maneuvers who pep-talk- pany clerk for several months tTo Be Continued) the Mississippi River (1861), Fla. arrived at Camp Abbot re- ed his men thus: “ Now remem before being promoted to per- which advocated the partial con 1 cently and have everything in her that maneuvers develop in-. sonnel sergeant.'In May of last trol of floods by means of levees, “How are you feeling?" readiness for a mess hall operat dividuality, initiative and leader- year he was called to take the “ was received by the engineers “Well. I feel much more tike I ed solely by and for W AAC per ship. Now get going and do ex -! ______ ©f the world as a most valuable do now that I did this morning." sonnel. actly as I tell you." 1 (Continued on Page 3) Biography of Abbot, Camp Founder, Begins in This Issue Phone Calls Now The Chaplain’s | Message Unit COLUMN Is Camps \ Nerve Center f $20,000 Overhaul C A M P A BBO T C H U R C H R ITE S ú
