ERTC Musical
Unit Seeks
More Players
Camp Abbot's Musical Organization Purple Heart
Awarded to
Abbot Vet
Solid Senders Needed to
Bo'ster Organization,
Says Maestro Spalding
If you know the manual of
arms for a piccolo, if you can
pi[H‘ one hot or sweet, oppor
tunity awaits—you may lie able
to get into the ERTC military
band, Warrant Officer Charles
S. Spalding, bandleader, an
nounced Friday.
Besides a piccolo player, clari
netists, trumpeters and a good
dance piano player are needed to
bring the band up to its author
ized strength. Experienced musi
cians are requested to contact
Mr. Spalding at the Band bar
racks (building 919) at Center
St. and Group Ave.
The hand is making every ef
fort to provide the type of music
soldiers most enjoy when it’s
most needed, the director point
ed out. Every morning at the
crack of dawn, bandsmen are
out blowing into frosty mouth
pieces to start o ff the soldier’s
day with music.
Special tunes have been ar
ranged by Mr. Spalding as an
accompaniment to individual
battalion marching songs. Even
swing is included in the scores
to give soldiers an added lift.
This “singing battalion” pro
gram was originated by Col.
Frank S. Besson, Post com
mander, on the theory that a
singing soldier is a fighting
soldier.
“ In addition to playing for
military formations, the hand is
preparing programs for con
certs,"
Mr. Spalding s a i d.
“ We’re throwing out the old-
time hand music unless it is still
proving a favorite, and substitut
ing spine - tingling marches,
plenty of isipular music, a
sprinkling of novelties and a
reasonable amount of the fine
music the great masters have
written. This is our recipe for
th* soldier's musical palhte.”
Mr. Spaulding, a graduate of
Harvard, Columbia and the
Army Music School, has two as
sistants. They are T/Sgt. Glen
Roberts, the band’s top sergeant,
drum major and veteran of 21
years of service as a bandsman,
and S Sgt. Jack Hayes, leader
of the Camp Abbot dance band
and former arranger for radio
and motion pictures. In July,
1941, Sergeant Roberts and
M Sgt. Harry L. Dalton organ
ized the first ERTC hand at Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo. Sergeant
Hayos, former leader of the
ERTC orchestra at the Missouri
station, organized the Camp Ab
bot dance unit and has develop
ed it into one of the most popu
lar musical organizations in this
section of the state. The dance
band is featured over radio sta
tion KBND in Bend from 1945 to
2000 each Thursday night.
Is Your W ife an Ex-School
Teacher? Bend Jobs Open
Wives of military personnel
stationed at Camp Abbot who
have had experience as school
teachers, are requested to report
their qualifications to the camp
Director of Personnel Division
w ith a view of obtaining employ
ment as instructors in Bend pub
lic schools.
There is an acute shortage of
qualified teachers in Bend, and
appointments will be made to
fill vacancies.
M ale Call
THEY DOUBLE IN BRASS BETW EEN ROLES AS SOLDIERS—
— Here you see, amid the stately pine trees, the 24-piece ERTC
Military hand under the baton of Warrant Officer Charles S.
Spalding. They have been instrumental in supplying rhythmic
creations to spur trainees in singing battalion songs, and their
smooth brand of melodies greet every new increment arriving
here. Besides, the band provides a fitting musical tribute as
Old Glory is lowered nightly from Headquarters flag pole.
Without a doubt, it is one of the finest GI musical groups in the
cou n t r> .
(ENGINEER Photo by T/4 Ed Pitra)
A bbotizers
Think It O ver!
PIN-UPS FOR CHIN-UPS
Five minutes tardiness is not
very much! No? If one man is
five minutes late to work it
seems negligible. If training of
one thousand soldiers starts
five minutes late It means that
5000 minutes or 84 man hours
have been wasted. It means
further that 10 men have been
unnecessarily drafted.lt means
also that 10 men should have
en released for combat. Lost
time cannot lie regained!
WAACs Billeted
!n New Home
Well, Camp Abbot's WAACs
are now “ at home” in their ow n
su I slued-green, GI double-decker
barracks at Hospital road and
56th St.
After several weeks of anx
ious waiting, the gals, assisted
by several platoons of coopera
tive dogfaces staged an orderly,
wholesale moving last Sunday.
Trucks transported heavy equip
ment, barracks bags and foot-
lockers. Trainees who helped out
lugging articles were feted at
the first chow that evening.
Reveille next morning the gals
were serenaded by the ERTC
military band, earning plaudits
of the feminine soldiers.
Lt. Stephanie A. l’odzunas,
commanding o f f i c e r of the
WAACs, commenting on the
new quarters said: "Everything
is wonderful. We have adequate
living, recreational and adminis
trative space.”
The WAACs are quartered ac
cording to their own assign
ments: motor pool auxiliaries in
one, and other unit workers, the
second. Cooks and non-coms
drew cadre rooms located on
each floor.
SIGHT FOR BAKE W ALLS— Is
this highly photogenic Camp
Abbot civilian employe who has
been selected to lead o ff the
weekly series of attractive gals
working on the Post. V IT A L
STATISTICS: Name: Alice Nel
son. Age 23. Height: 5'4>2",
Weight: 115 pounds. Color hair:
Platinum blonde. Color eyes:
Blue. Hometown: Los Angeles,
Calif. Hobbies: Poetry, litera
ture, tennis, hiking, dancing.
Formerly worked at F t Belvolr
and Fort Leonard Wood. At
present she’s an eyeful in the
office of the ERTC Training
Division Director. Ambition: To
finish the sweater she began
“ ages ago” for her favorite GI.
(ENGINEER Photo by Hahn.)
Pvt. Sheldon Flynn Coins
Punchy Anti-W aste Slogan
Pvt. Sheldon Flynn, B-52, con
tributes one of the punchiest re
marks of the week at Camp Ab
bot. Here it is:
"Tojo, Hitler 4 Co. are daily
laughing with gusto at your
stupid and needless waste of
food in the mess hall. Eat all you
OUR W AACs MEET AIRMEN
pul on your plate!”
A bevy of Abbot Waacs will be
The
ENGINEER
replies:
the cynosure of all eyes at the “ Flynn you’re in!”
Madras air base Saturday night
when they attend a varied eve
MEOW
ning of entertainment, highlight "Your neighbor dresses very sensibly and
modestly.”
ed by a dinner, tour of the base
“ Yes, she'll do anything to attract atten
and a dance at the Madras USO. tion.”
Twenty-six-year old Pfc. Alex
C. Ilallcy, dining room orderly in
QM branch, SCU 1973, was sig
nally honored at a formal re
By Cpl. Harlan L. Weeks
treat ceremony recently when lie
A pro baseball player from the
was decorated with the Order of
the Purple Heart for wounds re Blue Ridge Mountains of West
ceived on Guadalcanal, Solomon Virginia, but you would never
islands, on Nov. 21, 1942.
The medal, oldest of all U. S. know it from looking at him or
orders for military merit, was talking to him. That is M/Sgt.
pinned on the short, rugged David .1. Moreland, sergeant ma
Delta, Utah, soldier by Col. Frank jor of the 11th Engr. Tng. Gp.
S. Besson, post commander, as Hqs.
troops of the 51st Engr. Tng. Bn.
Sgt. Moreland claims Ridge-
stood at attention.
ley, W. A. as home but spent a
Dailey, who has nearly six
good many years in Cumberland,
years of service in the Army, Md. where he played profession
was escorted to the reviewing
al baseball for two and a half
stand by Lt. Col. Coke Mathews, years in the outfield patrolling
CO of the 51st, and Lt. F. B. left field. Incidentally, Dave got
Vanewall, Bn. adjutant.
his start in baseball and achiev-
Standing with Col. Besson, ! ed something of fame as a mem
flanked on both sides by the post
ber of the 1934 world champion
commander’s staff, the honored American Legion Junior base
Abbotman watched four compa
ball team from Cumberland.
nies parade in review.
And just to make some of you
Dailey was awarded the Purple potential ball players feel a bit
Heart for wounds received in ac sheepish his hatting average
tion when a Jap sniper, hidden
i while in pro hall was a “ measly”
in a cocoanut treetaointaoin% %
Dailey gives some vivid descrip .305 which is hitting in any
tions of Jap warfare and says man’s language.
Dave did this bit of remark-
the fate of all the yellow devils
will be that of his attacker, i able hitting while a member of
whose camouflaged sniping days the Cumberland Colts baseball
were nipped in the bud by Dai team. He was employed as a cost
accountant and an estimator for
ley’s buddies.
1 a lumber company before his in
duction on September 5, 1941,
through Fort Knox, Ky. and
came to Fort Leonard Wood
seven days later where he took
his basic training with Company
D of the 30th Battalion.
After completing his basic he
went into the Sixth group head
Excited over their first spon quarters as a stenographer and
sored social affair, members of later became file chief and then
the USO-Army Wives’ club and assistant sergeant major. On-
their husbands will enjoy a full March, 1942 he won his thrtTyj
afternoon’s run next Sunday at stripes and in November put t ift -
a picnic in Shevlin park, on the first rocker under them. On
outskirts of Bend, according to May 1, 1943, upon his transfer
Miss Ann McLoughlin, associate to Camp Ahliot he made master
director.
sergeant.
Plans also have been complet
Dave was a four letterman in
ed for a dance on July 9, with | high school, winning athletic
the following “ girls” in charge: i awards in baseball, football,
Mrs. Gladys Mcllvenna, Mrs. F. I basketball and track.
J. O’Connor, Mrs. Cecilia Gnatek
His hobby is photography and
and Mrs. Elsie Hicks.
| reading and, oh! yes, girls, at-
The club wishes to invite w iv i tention—this good looking ser-
es of enlisted men stationed at | gent major is a bachelor and
Camp Abbot, to a meeting on | with “ no prospects” according
July 5 at 20000 o’clock in the to him.
Pilot Butte Inn.
W e apologize to him for our
camera man who had a bit of
NEW OFFICERS’ CX HOURS tough luck this week but we
Effective last Tuesday, the Of promise you, especially the girls,
ficers’ Exchange in Bldg. 215 that his picture will appear next
will open at 1200 and close at week.
(Editor’s Note: This is the sixth of a
2000. As in the past, the Ex series of interviews
acquaint the « 1 6 ^
change will be closed all day listed personnel with the “ key” serge«
majors at (a m p Abbot. Others will foUo..
Sunday.
each week.)
Movie CALENDAR
Two Shows Nightly— 1830-2030: Matinee. Sundays at 1400
BOOKINGS FOR WEEK OF JULY 2 - 8
FRID AY, July 2—“ FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO,” with Fran-
chot Tone, Anne Baxter, Eric Von Stroheim. “Popeye” cartoon,
Pathe newsreel.
SATURDAY, July 3—"M Y SISTER EILEEN,” with Rosalind
Russell and Brian Aherne. "Superman” cartoon and Grantland
Rice Sportlight.
SUNDAY and MONDAY, July 4-5— “ MISTER BIG,’’ with Don
ald O’Connor and Peggy Ryan. "The War”—a screen feature
for service men only, and Pathe News.
TUESDAY, July 6— "H A R R IG A N ’S KID,” with Bobby Read-
ick, Frank Craven and William Gargan. “Sportscope,” and color
cartoon.
WEDNESDAY, July 7 (Double Feature)—"COWBOY IN
M A N H A TTAN ,” and “ WINGS OYER THE PACIFIC,” with
Frances Langford, Robert Paige, Leon Errol; and Inez Cooper,
Edward Morris, respectively.
THURSDAY, July 8—"CONEY ISLAND,” w1th Betty Grable,
George Montgomery, Cesar Romero and Charles Winninger,
Pathe News, March of Time feature, “ Invasion.”
by Milton Caniff, Creator of “Teny and the Pirates"
THIS PASS, I UNDERSTAND
AM A SOLDIER AT ALL TIMES
TO BOTH CIVIL AND MILITARY"
CONTROL... --- -------- --------
Ace Athlete
Is 11th Group
Sarge Major
USO-Army Wives
Sponsor Picinic on
July 4; Dance Set
Contributed by
T /Sgt. William V. Hanson
Hq. Co. ERTC
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IN ACCEPTING
THAT — (T ) I
AND SUBJECT
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