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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1943)
Be Sure to Cast Your Vote For •VICTORY TUNES" Entry Blank Appears A t Bottom of This Page Get the ABBOT Habit! DANCE and ROMANCE h ABBOT ti miJtfWn Essayons ENGINEER ABBOT G.l. PROM Tuesday Nights All-Purpose Rec. Hall— 2000— 2300 Music by S/Sgt. Jack Hayes' Grand ERTC Band PUBLISHED W EEKLY FOR ALL UNITS AT C A M P ABBOT Voi. 1 C A M P ABBOT, O R E G O N No. 5 Abbot Units Reorganized; Chiefs Named Reorganization of both Engin- gineer Replacement Training Center and Post Headquarters at Camp Abbot into eight staff di visions under executive author ity has l>een effected in accor dance with instructions from the Commanding General Ninth Service Command. The reorganization, which will combine the activities of both headquarters, was made in the interest of efficiency and to avoid duplication of elforts, Maj .Paul V. Diediker, director of ad ministration, said. Divisions, directors and bran ches under Col. Frank S. Bes son, post commander, and Col L. H. Hall, executive officer, in elude: AD M IN ISTRATIVE D IV IS ION, Maj. Paul V. Diediker. di rector—Adjutant Branch, Post Exchange Branch, Judge Advo cate Branch and Finance Branch PERSONNEL DIVISION,Maj D. Turrill, director—Military „Personnel Branch, Special Ser vices Branch, Civilian Personnel Branch and Chaplain Branch. T R A IN IN G DIVISION, Lt. Col. C. J. Douglas, director—M i litary Branch, Weapons Branch, Engineer B r a n c h , P io n e e r Branch, Aids Branch and Schools Branch. S U PPLY A N D SERVICE DI- ( Continued on Page 3) On Land or Sea, Engineers Take It ! These two graphic photographs illustrate important phases of training during the past week at Camp Abbot. Hardy trainees are shown above elimhing down Jaeob’s ladder on the “ tough as hell” obstacle course, preparing for the day when they will have to disembark from a ship to make a beach landing. His trusty M l rifle poised in mid-air, C'pl. Rex E. Mwrphee, 051, swims the icy Deschutes during graduation exercises of the functional swimming course. (ENGINEER photos by Pfc. Bob Hahn.) FACE! * * * G. I. CINDERELLA Galoshes were being issued to Abbot trainees recently and a tall, lanky soldier brought back a pair of size eights saying they were too large. He was given a size smaller and again returned with the same story. The clerk, realizing something was a little haywire by then, looked at the queue of rookies lined up trying on their G. I. over shoes, and saw the entire group had taken off their own shoes and were fitting the gal oshes to their stockinged feet. * • • DON'T EGG HIM ON! There’s an ERTC mess sarge who spent all morning cracking eggs for a super-duper vanilla cake, then wrote his No. 1 sweetie the following: “ Went into action early this morning with shells bursting all around me.” Fred Waring's Band Dedicates "Victory Tunes” Program to Camp Abbotmen on July 29 Approxim ately ten million U . S. radio listeners will learn about Camp Abbot on Thursday evening, July 29, when Fred W a rin g ’s aggregation of entertainers devote their quarter-hour coast-to-coast “Victory Tunes” program to the nation’s newest Engineer Replacement Training Center, under command of Col. Frank S. Besson. Arranged by the camp Special Services Branch, the radio dedi cation will originate in a Nation It was inevitable that among al Broadcasting Company studio the personnel at Camp Abbot in the oast where the Waring there would have to be an AB caravan of stars will appear*that night. BOT— "It's on honor to have Fred Well, there is. He is Pvt. Glenn C. Abbot of Co. C. 52nd Waring dedicate a program to Bn., who arrived recently from tam p Abbot," said Lt. I\ H. O’ Brien, director o f the Special j Merkle, Texas. Services Branch. “ Millions of people throughout I lie country will learn ail about Camp Ab- Imt.” The program will consist of musical and vocal selections and Abbotmen are urged to partici pate in the contest to determine songs to be aired. Here's how you can cooperate with the Special Services Branch: The entry blank, apiiearing at the bottom of this page, is your LOST: G. I. motion picture vote. Fill it out with three songs projector bases, mechanism; you'd like to hear Fred Waring sound head and amplifier; be play. Mail it via the Message lieved to be in railroad car en- Center or deliver 1n person to route from New York. Sorely Bldg. 202. The entire camp per needed at Camp Abbot. If locat sonnel is invited to submit their ed, phone collect, Special Service favorite tunes . . . whether they’ re the latest jivin' ditty or old- branch. That’s the text of an advertise time favorites. A feature of the Waring show ment T Sgt. Thurman S. Justus, theater manager, would love to will be an interesting narrative insert in every paper in the episode on the history of Camp country in hopes of locating the j Abbot, its aims and sidelights to railroad car containing vital he prepared by the Public Rela equipment to complete Theater tions Office, and an original march that S. Sgt. Jack Hayes No. 1 at Camp Abbot. “ We’ve been ready to operate has been commissioned to com for two weeks," the short, smil pose. "Victory Tunes” is broadcast ing einemagieian tidd the EN GINEER. “ But we must have over 129 stations, M o n d a y the projectors and sound (‘qiiip- through Friday, from 200 to 2015 inent before movies can be over the NBC Red network. screened.” Numerous “ tracers” have been dispatched by the Special Ser vice office to the net of rail roads serving this region. To date, reports from the lines in Appointment of an experienc dicate that several clues have ed civilian librarian provided been picked up and that the impetus for the future opening cargo-laden car would bo given of Camp Abbot’s main library the green light to proceed, in and two substations where sold double time, to Camp Abbot. iers’ reading fare will be on par “ Two days after arrival of the with facilities available in a necessary equipment,” Justus large community. added,” we ran faithfully prom Miss Caroline Paddock, for ise movies for the camp person many years an assistant in the nel.” Portland Central library, will “ Why, we’ve even got the supervise the camp's three read tickets ready to be placed on ing rendezvous. She is currently sale. Everything is in readiness attending a two weeks’ special to accommodate a record pre training course at the Ninth Ser miere night crowd,” he said. vice Command library, Fort “ Camp Abbot will have one of Douglas, Utah. the most modern Army theaters in the country," according to Mr. Noel Monfort of Washington, D. CLEAN, PRESS DEP’T NEWS C., staff engineer o f the U. S. A cleaning and pressing “ pick Army .Motion Picture Service, who inspected facilities recently. up” service for officers and en Plans are under consideration listed men has been established to construct enlarged lounge in Building 1152, Group avenue rooms near the entrance and north of Center street. Clothing may be turned in on Mondays, several drinking fountains. Popular prices will prevail Wednesdays and Fridays front ) and frequent changes of attrac 1500 to 2200. tions will create the theater into one of the most popularly pat ronized spots in camp. Indeed, it will become an Abbot "Yank For rat h sick soldier Haven.” in this country three |>eo- ple are required to ad minister his cast-. ORCHIDS TO MR*. ELDER One sick soldier, there Camp Abbot's WAACs, strict fore, removes four peo ly domestic gals at heart, can't ple from the war effort think up enough nice things to for the duration of his say about Mrs Martha Elder of si) k l i e s s . the Elder ranch, near Bend, for STAY H EALTH Y! donating them a sewing ma (ontriHat#<f hy chine. The Red Cross was instru T / f t ft . W illiam V. H *n »fn mental in obtaining the vital h « Co r n rr machine. It W as Inevitable, ABBOT at ABBOT ABBOT HEE-HAW DEP’T ^ “That’s a horse of another ■ Aalor,” said Provost Sgt. Andrew ■^m ery after he had reported to the Provost Marshal that an or der had been carried out. The sergeant had just report ed to the guard house after tak ing a detail of men to an isolated spot on the Camp Abbot reserva tion to bury a horse. Nearing the area where the dead horse was supposed to be, one member of the detail had stepped on a freshly dug square Of earth and yelled: “The Horse.” “ Guess he was buried too shal low,” the sergeant said. “ Do it over.” As the sergeant made his re port back at the guard house, the Provost Marshal interrupt ed. “ That doesn't sound right. What color was that horse?” “ White,” said the sergeant. “ Take the boys back,” the mar shall directed. “The horse you were supposed to have buried was brown.” Friday, June 1 8, 1943 BO Ready for SRO When RR Car Comes Miss Paddock Is Camp Librarian When It's Midnight in Bend-Scram Back toCam p Night life in Bend hit a new low this week following the is suance recently of a Camp Abbot edict requiring soldiers and members of the W AAC sec tion to leave town by midnight and return to the post by 0100. Midnight curfew is lifted on Sat urdays and days preceding holi days. The new ruling also made void temporary Class A pass forms and stipulated that W D AGO Form No. 7 be used and returned to the company orderly room on the soldier’s return to camp.___________________________ Post Chapel To Be Dedicated Unless otherwise announced in the Daily Information Bulle tin, dedication seryices of the newly-built Post Chapel will be conducted Sunday w h en a Father’s Day program will high light activities, it was announc ed today by Maj. William A. An drew, prist chaplain. Chaplain Andrew will deliver the sermon. A choir under direc tion of Lt. John H. Stenmark, with organ accompaniment by Sgt. Frank A. Mader will pro vide the musical portion of the observance program._________ Request for "Victory Tunes" Program Fred W aring's Radio Show Honors C A M P ABBOT In order to obtain a representative mu*iral program with •election« that are fa vo rite« o f everyone at Camp Abbot. Y O l 'R vote for tne “ Hit S on r*” ia nere*«ary. P)e**e l»«t three song« that you'd like to hear on the July 2$ program. (M ail or Bring Votes to Special Service Office) Think It Over!