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ABBOT ENGINEER Page Two Pubi! Friday, July 9, 1943 d Every Friday A weekly newspaper published by end for the military personnel o f Camp Abbot, Oregon, under supervision ol tne i'> t Special Serviee branch. A ll editorial matter pertaining to Camp Abbot is available for general release and reprint in other publications. All articles represent personal opinions and are not official news unl(*s specifically credited to the War Department. A ll editorial matter should be directed to the “ Abbot Engineer,” Poet Head quarters, Camp Abbot, Oregon. Copies of this official post newspaper distributed free to cam personnel. Sub scription to the public, by mail: 60 cents for three months; si' months, $1; one year, $1.50. 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. 1st. Lieut. P. H. O’Brien...................... Director oi Special Serviee 1st. Lieut. Wayne B. Leitzell... 12th Group, Special Service Officer 2nd Lt. S. D. Hopkins......... 11th Group, Special S 1 vice Officer STAFF Cpl. Morrie C. Guss............................................................ Editor T/4 George S. Fly........................................ Ass’t. Editor Cpl. Pauline Cohn............................................. Activities Editor T/5 Richard Shearin............................. Features & Photography Sgt. Roy L. Rider.................................................... Sports Editor Pfc. Bob Hahn........................................................Photographer Cpl. Harlan L. Weeks..........................Hq. ERTC Correspondent Aux. Henrietta Kirkpatrick....................................... Circulation Photography and art work by Publications, Engineer Re placement Training Center, Camp Abbot, Oregon. HERE T O D A Y — G O N E T O M O R R O W This is the Army. You get your orders and you’re on the way. That is why Uncle Sam offers Camp Abbot military personnel Government insurance — a special National Service Life Insurance policy— when you enter active service. You may have up to 810,000 worth of such insur ance for only a few dollars a month. We are at war. You need this insurance, and your family needs the protection it affords. This insurance costs than any other kind of insurance you can get. It protects you and your family against your death from any cause the risks of war. It pro vides for a income for the beneficiary you name. Your wife or child, mother or father, brother or sister, or foster parents— may be named as principal or second choice b^icficiary. The income under this policy will be paid to your bene ficiary monthly by Uncle Sam. Premium rates are — for example: at the age of 29, $7 per month will pay for 810,000 of insurance, the maxi mum amount. Every soldier at Camp Abbot having de pendents can afford to have a policy of $10,000 for loved ones. The monthly premium will be deducted from your monthly pay. No matter where you may be sent in this global war, you may be sure that your policy cannot lapse. You are certain of constant insurance protection for the folks at home while you are on the fighting front. After a year you may convert your policy to an Ordinary Life, 20 Payment Life, or 30 Payment Life insurance policy. Your Government stands behind these policies. You may continue your insurance when you return to civilian life; it is a valuable financial asset to your future! You must apply for this insurance The offer which eliminates physical examination in connection with G1 insurance, expires on Aug. 12. After that date, a physical examination will again be a requirement for soldiers apply ing for increases in their policies. ASK FOR A N IN C R E A S E IN Y O U R P O L IC Y ! DO IT N O W ! R U Y MORE GI IN S U R A N C E ! certainly less monthly including lotv now. ATTU BOY! ENGINEERS Robert Sherrod, “Time” correspondent, in a dispatch from Attu Island said, in part: “ The muddy tundra trails are being supplanted by gravel-based roads. Sometimes the Engineers’ bulldozers had to plow through eight feet of mud before a solid base could he found for the caterpillar tractors. The caterpillars entered Chicagof only a few hours behind the infantry. Soon jeeps will run from Mas sacre Ray to Chicagof Harbor, probably in 30 minutes. Four or five hours are now required to walk the six miles. . . . Tin' U. S. Army, whose finest quality is its ability to build things, did more in a week to make something out of Attu than the Japs did m a year. dents of Rend anti Deschutes county. ‘‘It’s impossible to predict when installation o f library facilities will he compieteti, but furnish ings have lieen ortlertsl anti a part-time servire is being main tained at the library even now,” (Continued From Page One) Miss Paddock salti. Books do and sent here by the Ninth Ser natisi in the Victory Book Cam vire Command Knnuli Library paign may be oheektsl out at the at Salem. Approxim ately 1,tinti llth tip. library between OH ihi volumes « e r e donateti by resi- and 1700. MORE ABOUT Branch Library ABBOT ENGINEER SUBSCRIPTION The Abbot ENGINEER can be sent to the home front for 13 weeks at <i cost of 50 cents, or 26 weeks for $1. I f you wish the ENGINEER sent home, fill out this blank, enclose money and forward via Messags Center or U. S. mails to: Abbot ENGINEER, Public Relations Office, Camp Abbot, Oregon. Stend to Address City .— State.... Abbotmen Realize Abbotheater First Value of Policies ; Bank Depositor Among the many casualties Honor of opening the first ac of modern war are the widows,1 count in the camp banking facil parents and orphans of men in the armed forces who were not ity went to the Special Serviee office when Lt. B. Klabanoff, protected by insurance. As a soldier in the Army of a theater officer, deposited re nation engaged in global war ceipts from the ABBOTheater. fare, Abbotmen are apt to be The facility, a unit of the Bend sent any place at any time, with branch, First National Bank of out fore-knowledge or warning. Portland, is located in Bldg. 202, “ G. I.” or National Service j under management of Mr. John L ife Insurance is designated to j Cusick. The 52nd Engr. Tng. Bn. open provide the protection your fam ily needs. It protects them ed the first battalion account, against your death from any while the first draft was sold to cause including the risks of war, Lt. Stanberry F o s t e r , Camp by providing a monthly income Judge Advocate. First company account was started by A-53. tor the beneficiary you name. The above original cartoon I Lt. G. F. Crisman, camp fin carries a wallop of a message. ance officer, who knows a good Take the hint of the "top sarge” I investment buy, purchased the and take out a maximum $10,000 first War Bond ( ‘‘the best buy in the whole world” ) sold across policy. the counter. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 1000 to in her stylish blue uni 1500, and from 1000 to noon on Garbed form, w i n s o m e H E L E N M. Saturdays. S O E H R A D A , top, is Cam p A b bot’s cafeteria hostess at Serviee An “exclusive” housewarming party was staged last Monday Lt. Col. Bessedem Named Club No. 1 now under construc tion. N o wonder PVT. R O B E R T night in the Abbot Wac dayroom L A N G , A-51, smiles as h with all soldierettes not on duty To Hospital Key Position F. counts his first pay in the Arm y. attending. Proudly w e a r i n g the Purple Lt. Col. Phillip M. Bessedem Garbed in blue-and-w hite pa Heart medal, awarded him for has assumed the duties of exe jamas and maroon bathrobes, bravery on Guadalcanal, is PFC. strictly G.I., the gals honored Lt. cutive officer at Station Hos A L E X C. H A L L E Y , QM. SC U pital. Native of Chicago, 111., he Stephanie A. Podzunas, com formerly was stationed at Fort 1973. This stripcand-rocker G I pany commander, who left on a Lewis, Wash., in a key position, is M SGT. D A V ID .1. M O RE- leave for her hometown. Brock L A N D , sergeanf m ajor in the ton, mass. A visiting Wac of and previously, attached to med llth Gp. which is fully activated ical units at Camp F o r r e s t , ficer from NSC, Ft. Douglas, Tenn., and Vancouver Barracks, in camp. Utah, Capt. Maryline Barnard Wash. (E N G IN E E R Photo by Hahn.) outlined plans concerning the re World War I veteran, he was cent bill passed by Congress on the staff of the Veterans’ Ad Bend Church Invites All making the W AACs into Wacs ministration, Hines, 111., prior to Abbotmen to Socials and transfering them to the his recall to service March 5, Confident that Abbot soldiers Army of the United States. 1941. and Wacs would like to spend a Following brief talks by o ffi pleasant evening both in listen cers and enlisted women, re ing to good music and in playing freshments were served. themselves, the First Presbyter ’ ian Church in Bend is opening its beautiful auditorium to the service men e v e r y Saturday (Post Chapel 1» Hid*. 20S on Group Ave., from 2000 to 2200’. After an near Center S treet) hour and music and fellowship, •I F W I S II SERVICES: Post Chapel. Friday at 19.30. The Christian doctrine of pray the women of the church plan to CATHOLIC SERVICES: Until er is that it is not only subjec serve refreshments. Soldiers will bo priviledged to further notice Mass will be said tive, acting upon the one who pe Sunday at 1630 at the Post titions, hut also it is objective, play the pipe organ, piano, or Chapel. moving the heart and hand of bring their own instruments dur L. O. S. SERVICE: At Chapel the Almighty. It is almost be ing the evening. No. 1225, llth Gp. Chapel Sun yond belief that through prayer day at 1500. the power of the Infinite should PROTESTANT S E R V IC E S: be entrusted to the « ’ill of the Post Chapel at 1000 and 19.30. finite. The greatest fact of hum >ITII BN. SERVICE: N e w an experience is the possibility trainees in the 54th Bn. will be of efficient audience with the allowed to attend this special ser Most High. Prayer does change vice in Chapel 1255 at 1830. things! Why then is so much of CATHOLIC ( H O I K PRAC our praying but empty words? TICE In Post Chapel Thursday at why so few mighty works 1930. wTought when the promises of W H E N SLEE PING IN the tielJ with-! PROTESTANT CHOIR PRAC God stand sure? why such prac out a cot, spread your raincoat over TICE: Post Chapel, Wednesdav, tical unbelief in prayer even your improvised bed. This will prevent the ground dampness from chilling among professing Christians? at 1930. Genuine prayer arises from a your body. clearly defined need; in its ex pectancy of answer it has an unwavering trust in the ability M *4GT T Sgt. Wtltsrd E. U rM n . Its. Co., and love of God; the object of ERTO. the request is a worthy desire. RCT. Cpl. Alti. B C«.k, Med. n*t S C f 1975. The one who prays lifts a peti T i Tim M e t 0*t. SC l‘ 1971. tion untainted by evil selfish T 4 ness. and commits the answer AVOID ALL UNNECESSARY move-, T *> Vaafhn Sc*at. Hq. fa,. FRTr T i Elmar L. Spanrar. H q . C q .. ERTC. to the wisdom of the Father who ment wh;le observing. It may di sciate CPL. P fr. W itty Shippy. Mad. Pat.. SCF 1975 has bidden him to come. your position to the enemy.' — — W ac House Party Honors Leaders C H U R C H RITES BARS and STRIPES The Chaplain’s COLUMN