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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1943)
Did Your Company Make the What's Your f.Q.? HEADLINES? Correspondence Instruction Enroll Today for UNIT REPORTERS ARE W ANTED from all O R G A N IZA TIO N S— from ARMY FO R CES INSTITUTE.' CAMP ABBOT, OREGON S. S. O. Chief Toasts Camp Hostesses Pyj}|jç AdOTCSS Learn in Army System Will Amplify News Program Starts Special Service Office Project May Soon Air Reveille, Rretreat Calls WELCOME TO ABBOT—Photographed at a recent G. I. dance in the All-Purpose Rec Hall, Lt. P. H. O’Brien, post Special Ser vice O fficer is shown engaged in an anim ated conversation w ith these three charm ing voung women who have been selected as hostesses. Miss Helen M. Souhrada, left, in charge of th e cafe teria; Mrs. Helen S trong Sm ith, Service Club director, and Miss Caroline Paddock, chief librarian. ABBOT FACE! Hostesses Are G lad as Units Near Finish ST R IP TEASE—A story is told of a draftee who needed a m in o r nose treatm ent. “As long a s you’re the one who discovered This,” he told his d raft board doctor, “how about you doing the tre a tm e n t” T he doctor told him to rep o rt a t his office th e next m orning . . . W hen he arrived, th e doctor said: “Go into the next room , and rem ove all your clothes” . . . "Ju st for a nose tre a tm e n t? ” th e patient p ro test ed. The doctor repeated: “Re m ove all your clothes.” The m an w ent into th e adjoining room, and removed his clothes. There khe saw a stranger, nude, holding ci package. "All I need is a m inor nose treatm en t,” the draftee told him , "and the doc m akes m e take off all m y clothes” . . . “T hat’s nothing,” sighed the n u d e stran g er. “I ju s t came to deliver a bundle.” T hree happiest women in Camp Abbot today—aside from the W aes—were civilian hostes ses whose jobs it will be to supervise recreational, s o c i a l and educational facilities estab lished fo r enlisted m en by the Special Service office. Mrs. Helen Strong Sm ith, di rector of the Service Club was jubilant because w orkm en reach ed th e interior phases of the beautiful and large G. I. rendez vous on Group Ave. C ontractors hope to have the building ready in mid-August. Miss H elen M. Sourhada was flashing h er p rettiest sm ile as draym en unloaded van a fte r van of furnishings and fu rn itu re for the cafeteria in Bldg. 205, ad ja cent to the All Purpose Rec hall. The cafeteria, which she will m anage, accom m odates 120 per sons and 40 m ay be served in the fountain located in a wing. Civil ians will sta ff the cafeteria, ser ving a variety of m eals, snacks or dessert a t economical prices. Miss Caroline Paddock, chief librarian, has completed catalog ing th e thousands of books eventually to be placed for dis tribution to all cam p personnel in the m ain library in th e S er vice Club and sub-libraries in each of the two G roups here. At present, books, m agazines and (Continued on P age 4) • • * RED LINE ITEM—Personally w e don’t cherish the idea of be in g a tattle-tale but to prevent a sartorially-m inded M.P. from being “gigged” we pass th is in form ation along to the guilty m em ber of th e cam p M otor P a tro l squad. Several days ago you w ere seen (yes, w e saw you!) astrid e your powered scooter, License No. 61333, on highw ay 97 w earing red socks, which, definitely isn’t G.I. Up to the m inute news flashes, im portant announcem ents from post headquarters, popular phonograph records and bugle calls will be “broadcast” to per sonnel of Camp Abbot through the medium of a new public ad dress system installed this week in th e All-Purpose Recreation hall at Center St. and Group Ave. In addition to public announce m ents and news flashes, a daily w ar sum m ary will be read prob ably around 0800 daily except Sunday. Lt. P. H. O'Brien, direc to r of Special Services, will be announcer, and new scasts will em anate from a soundproof “penthouse” studio in the recrea tion hall. As soon as a turntable, ordered recently arrives, calls fo r form ations and popular records will be included in the program . The am plifying unit can be heard distinctly in the 51st and 57th Bn. areas on either end of Group Ave., at the Station H os pital and on ta rg e t ranges, Sig nal Corps officers who su p er vised installation and testing of equipm ent reported. Reception is expected to be improved con siderably w ith the installation of (Continued on Page 3) B-51 Builds First Ponton Bridge Using a short crew of 92 men, instead of 106, B-51 became the first Abbot unit to construct a heavy ponton bridge over the sw irling D eschutes riv er in th e vicinity of the ponton w arehouse last Tuesday. Utilizing 13 two-ton ponton boats, th e trainees built a 205- foot bridge in 3 hours and 50 m inutes. Capt. C. E. Spahr, com pany com mander, w as en th u s iastic over the m an n er in which his rookies m astered the rugged job. The bridge, having a load ing capacity of 25 tons, w as dis m antled in 1 hour and 45 m in utes. Retreat Parade Is Slafed Today for Gen. Sturdevanf H onoring Brig. Gen. C lar ence J. S turdevant, assistan t to the Chief of Engineers, a re tre a t parade is scheduled F riday between 1* *00 to 1800 on th e parade grounds by the l l t l i E ngr. Tng. Gp. Gen. Sturdevant, accom panied by m em bers of his sta ff will m ake an inspec tion of ERTC training facili ties and confer w ith cam p authorities, headed by Col. F ra n k S. Besson, post com m ander. have been held in Bend are: Mr. C. J. Lindh, chairm an of the Cham ber of Commerce housing com mitee; Mr. S. D eitrick and Mr. John Cusick, com m ittee m em bers; Mr. D. H. Peoples, secretary of the C ham ber of Commerce; Mr. W. C. Coyner, chairm an, fair ren ts com m ittee and Mr. P. B. Johnson, Mr. J. F. Arnold, Mr. R. H. Prentice, and Mr. W. A. W irtz, com m ittee members. Of 356 housing questionnaires completed by civilian personnel w orking at Cam p Abbot, 285 have indicated th a t they a re sat isfied w ith th eir accommoda (Continued on P age 4) Ninth Service Unit Chief Reveals Varied Plans for Camp Abbot By l pi. M orrie C. Guss (E d it o r, Abbot E N G I N E E R ) A six-point educational pro gram . designed to increase mil itary efficiency and assist am bitions Abhotm en who w ish to get ahead in lift*, has been in sti tu ted by the Special Service Branch Hqs., N i n t h Service Coma lid, Ft. Douglas, l tab. These off-duty educational op portunities, available to all m en and W acs in camp, consists of (1) correspondence instruction, <21 self-taught foreign languages, Over ninety-five p er cent of (3) self-taught basic subjects, the Wac contingent at Cam p Ab i4) a rt and hobby groups, (5) to u rs of places of historic inter bot have indicated th e ir inten est, and (6) group discussions. tion to “take it” as an an sw er to , A rm ed w ith colorful posters, th e A rm y’s offer to “take it or I ext books, catalogs and praise leave it” when the oath of se r w orthy le tte rs from other A rm y vice is adm inistered to the wom posts in the NSC, Capt. George H. Ivins, education oificer, out ens’ corps in the n ear fu tu re. lined the program to cam p a u th A 60-day period of grace has orities who im m ediately approv been granted to presently-enroll ed its w orthiness and began to form ulate classes ed Wacs to decide w hether or plans am ong all units stationed on the not they will rem ain in the ser post. vice to release a man fo r active The program will lx? directed fighting duty. T here is to be no by the post Special Service Of coercion used to persuade the fice. Lt. P. H. O'Brien, director, women in khaki to “stand by said full inform ation about any th eir gu n s” and A rm y and Wac phase of the educational plan is officials are of the opinion th at available, and assistance will be th e num ber who leave the corps given to organizing the neces will be “very sm all.” sary classes, supplying self teaching tex ts and m aterials, aid soldiers in selection of S Sgt. John L. Overman to and correspondence courses through Attend Finance School th e Arm ed Forces Institute. S /S g t. Jo h n L. Overman, Fin The la tte r organization, under ance branch, Hqs. Co., SCU 1973, governm ent supervision, covers today w as en route to the Army alm ost th e en tire conventional Finance school at W ake Forest (Continued on Pago 2) College, W ake Forest, N. C , for a th ree m onth’s special finance course. Large M ajority of Abbot Wacs W ill Remain in Service Date fo r W aring "You’re Turning Out Swell Soldiers" Band Camp Abbot Dedication Nears B r • • B auauon R ating C hart Cam pH ousing Board Reports Results on Questionnaire Cam p Abbot authorities today- studied results of a com prehen sive housing survey initialed several weeks ago as a project of the Personnel Relations Divis ion. M embers of th e H ousing Board, named by Col. F ra n k S. Besson, post com m ander, com prises Maj. Russell D. T urrill, D irector, Personnel Relations; Capt. Thom as B. Fulkerson, QM P ro p erty O fficer; Lt. John Q. Gelder, A ssistant Sales Officer, an d Lt. John N. Alders, A ssis ta n t Classification Officer, E n listed Men’s Personnel. M embers of civilian com m it tees w ith whom joint m eetings Education Is Offered in Off-Duty Hours CONGRATULATIONS—Col. F ra n k S. Besson, po-r m ander, left, w as p r o u d of Capt. W i n s t o n W. Eh; C-51 a fte r records revealed th at his com pany was adjud, • in the Bn. ratin g chart, shown in th e background. Tabu w ere based on com pany m arksm anship, tactical, technic adm inistration achievem ents. Thirteen days before tlie na tion learns about Camp Abbot when Fred Waring’s “Victory Tunes” radio program is dedi cated Co the Army’s newest ERTC, names of songs to bo played by the famed band were stilf undisclosed due to the num erous requests yet (touring in the Special Service Office. On Ju ly 29, from 2000 to 2015, over 129 stations of th e NBC red netw ork, the W aring organization will tell in sto ry and song the aim s and present achievem ents of th e cam p th a t is destined to become the la rg e st ERTC in the country. Tile Ju ly 23 issue of the E N G IN EER will c a rry full details of the W aring program , includ ing the three most popular songs w ith Abhotmen. P lans a re un derw ay to c a rry th e quarter- hour p rogram over th e public
