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
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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
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,
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
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