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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1943)
___ Friday, July 30, 1943 a b b o t e n g in e e r Page Four Nautical But Nice—Abbot Wacs Keep 'Em Roll- ¡ng Is Theme O f Motor Unit W eary Camp Abbot soldier« spending the week-end in u,.nd searched In vain for hotel ao- conin iodations l a s t Saturday when housing conditions, taxed by even the normal week-end in- flux o f soldiers, reached t h e critical stage with the arrival of “ maneuver” soldiers and their families. “ N o vacancy” signs were dis- S ' played by hotels early Saturday, forcing many families to search for accommodations in nearby A PPO IN TM EN T IN A PONTON Wearing their sports ap communities or sleep in automo parel (strictly GI, too) ail of the Wacs in camp were guests of biles. Hotel lobbies were crowd the 51st Engr. Tng. Bn. recently at a picnic, highlighted by rid ing a ponton, Shown above with a load of soldierettes. ed with sleeping soldiers early Sunday morning. The arm y housing desk in Bend reported early this week that more than 100 applications fo r rooms had been filed and no rooms w ere available. All There is not a laugh in a , Training film worth has been , , persons having spare rooms to million feet of the training film proved many times over and o f rent even fo r a sin ,e nj hf ‘B U T T S " ABOUT IT ! "But sir But s ir!” the captain mocked, "Y o u ’ve excuses, I don t doubt . .. T . .... "But the next time I inspect this strepf r "L e t there be no ‘butts’ about it.” -------- N O E A R I'O R MUSIC "H ow come you didn’t turn o u t? ’ demanded the sergeant. "Didn’t you hear the bugle blow reveille?” "Honest, sarge, I ’m afraid I'm going to be a flop as a soldier. I don’t know one darn tune from another! __ Approxim ately 5 0 0 vehicles, with chauffeurs, operations, maintenance and supply, keeps Capt. J. M. Haile, chief of the M otor Transport Branch on the ball j-olling all the time. The vehicles represent every . , . , type used in engineering and range from jeeps, C&R, weap- ons ca m el’s, pick ups, ton and a half cargo, ton and a half dump, two and a half cargo truck f and six ton trucks> . . , .. . . loaJ graders, bull dozers, trac- tors, shovels, cranes, cement mixer, road rollers, tanks, witch ing machines, rock crushers, half tracks, scout cars, motor- cycles, well drillers, gasoline “ T F \SF” FOR TW O A lady from Chicago, who was visiting Camp Abbot, remarked to a soldier from Fort Bliss, “ There must great . many _ be . a .. „„ men from Texas in the A rm y? saws, barco hammers and eom- pressers, to one to 20 ton trail- ers. Three branches comprise Mo- tor being — Transport: -------r ---- Operations ----------------- „ responsible foi. (he more than rookie8’ “ vou’ir fin d taem every* where ” The woman replied, “ Oh yes, everywhere I go I see soldiers with a “ T ” on their arm.” iivt‘ hundred army vehicles, with the army is showing the trainees j fleers here say introduction o f chauffers and operators, serving at this new engineer replace- the films is estimated to have the first echelon. Under opera- men» hut there’s nerve, cut training periods 40 per cent. tions comes three sections with skill and step by step develop-| The army has found that men I learn fast In in a room where s si- clerks, responsible for all per- ment o f the individual. Hearn i-; There is no Hollywood touch lence prevails, the only noise be- jsonnel; record section, which re- co,-<Js every mile covered, and | these training pictures, for ! ing from the film sound track. gasoline records fo r each c a r . 1 they are not to entertain. The Trainees are shown closeups, Maintenance is the second di- modern soldier is getting his and also action scenes, and vision of Motor Transport “ know how” by going to the there are pictures of commando Branch taking care o f maintain- movies and they are as an in- raids, booby traps, strafings and , ,, various tvoes of tegral part of his training here slugfests. Actual scenes in the ONCE IN AW’OL A t Camn Union N Y a chan- lain saw a new soldier in civilian clothes, about to leave camp. He had been discharger! and was going home, he told the chap- lain. Then he unfolded the story. A f t o t > f t u a l t t a Hoxt c i n f ho A I’ m tr the lT d !e Wre,,VolddahyiS s ^ r e e s m O ie didn’t like it . . . thought he’d go home. The sarge, busy at some- thing, looked up briefly, said, “ Scram, buddy.” “ And,” explained the soldier seriously, “ where I come from ‘scram’ means ‘go home’.” I O <; \GG It happen«! in a m ilitary or ganization class. The instructor was conducting a True or False quiz. Instructor: “ A m ajor general lias one silver star on each shoul- der. True or False? Student: “ False.” Instructor: “ That’s right. (And as the student was taking his seat) W hat’s the right answer?” Student: “ One gold star.” VERSE Nine Guys From Bend Train Here One of those comparatively . . . . . . . rar,‘ “ breaks in the assignment ut soldiers to camps for basic training occurred recently when nine men from Bend were sent to Engineer Replacement Training Center at Camp Abbot, almost in their on n hack yard. 1° ike Bend contingent, assign- ed to the 56th Bn., are John C. Bunce, form er assistant to the operations chief,’‘ U. S. Engineer 0ff(ce ¡n Bend which was in . r . .. ... charge o f construction of the camP! Robert W. Powell, form er grid star for Bend High school; Marshall D. Fix, form erly o f the high school track team; Lewis N. Spencer, form er senior class president; Tom W. Ives, basket ball player, and Patrick Tierney, Herschel L. G riffith and Lee Barnett, lumber concern em ployes. Four other trainees o f the bat talion also remained near their horm,s Thl>v are Joseph F . j vk,s j James ames L. j, Lyles, Byars and Abbot Rookies From Every State « HEN AP P R O A C H IN G a prw -«sly selected observation position always stop and observe it closely for at least 15 minutes to be sure it’s not occupied t i file stKlWi were asked t0 notif the housi ’ desk at the Bend chamber Commerce. Families o f Camp Abbot sol- djers are gjven priority in the assignment o f rooms, housing desk o fficia l« said. Many sol diers here fo r the war games chose to bring their families de spite warning by unit command ers that the housing problem ® J tr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . would be acute. equipment used at A b b o t Main- as is his-appearance on the rifle orientation course acquaint them E ffects o f food rationing also tenance and supply serve the sec- ranse, the bayonet and hand gre- with the history and underlying were felt. Item s were depleted nade courses. principles of why we are at war. ond and third echelons, from menus until only a few Supply, the third division, commodities w ere available. The handles all supplies for the Mo- open-all-night r e s «K tor Transport Branch. There are . 7 - 1 ., | rant closed its doors at nudnlflt 313 Hqs. E RTC members in M o Vr Sunday when demands exceeded tor Transport, 20 Wacs and 25 n • _l supplies, and one establishment QM. OU displayed a sign early Sunday M II.I. M W A G E CAM P BANK Mrs. Eleanor Wilcoxon and Mr. Robert K. Innis have been named to manage the Camp A b bot limited banking facility of the Bend branch, First National Bank o f Portland, it w a s an nounced by Mr. John B. Cusick, assistant manager o f the Bend branch, who has been on duty Elm er Cousins of Prineville and since the camp unit opened four David A. Crawford of Redmond. weeks ago. IF YOU occupy an observation post for scieral days be careful not to make trails that can be noticed from the air hv the tnemj Abbotmen See Deadly Real Training Films During Basic FOR BETTER OR G.l. Play Contest citys only AnnOUnCeCl ith BED M AN N ER S For two weeks a certain re cruit at Camp Abbot had the most perfect bed in his company. N o OCS candidate could touch it. Day after day the C. O. and top sarge g?zed on it with awe and admiration. Finally they de- cided to take it apart and learn the rookie’s system. The bed wouldn’t budge. N o wonder. It was held to gether by two dozen safety pins. (i It’s No Picnic Weekending Now, Say G/ s Every state in the Union, and Alaska and Mexico, are listed as home addresses of trainees who have arrived at Camp Abbot. The largest number are frrfm California, with Texas as run ner-up. Next in order, with ap proximately equal number, are Minnesota, Oklahoma. Pennsyl vania and Colorado. Arkansas, Washington. Iowa. Nebraska, Oregon and N ew Jersey ate about equally represented. Three men list Washington, D. C. as their home address and two are from Delaware. South Carolina has a lone representative in com- panv with one trainee whose homo is Ketchikan, Alaska, and mother, Jalisco, Mexico. ---------------------------- When You've Read It Please Pass The E N G IN E E R ARO UND , S(\ rnzes Uttered Who knows, maybe there’s a night reading: “ Out of food, will Combat Engineers at Work G.I. Eugene O’Neil, Noel Cow- open Tuesday.” hen the army has a job to ardi qi - mu Saroyan in Camp do. Abbot? W e’re the boys who see it Sixty cash prizes are offered, through, besides a chance at fame, to sol Combat Engineers at work. dier playwrights in a contest Famed Explorer Frank Buck Be it bridge or be it road, sponsored by the National Thea- should have been in Camp Ab- Remove a mine or move a load, bot last wekend to “ bring ’em It ’s the Engineers that work. ter Conference. Three prizes, one of $100, and back alive.” W here the terrain is the tough two o f $50 each, will be awarded An assortment of animals, est, And the fighting is the rough for “ long plays” ; four prizes of headed by a mountain lion, $50 each fo r one-act plays; 50 “ about 27 deer,” and several est, prizes o f $10 each, for short skits large woodchucks were seen and It ’s the Engineers at work. and blackouts, and one prize, o f heard in various sectors of Tho’ no one sings about us. $100, to be divided among the ERTC, according to Capt. M w They cannot do without us, authors, fo r a musical comedy. Coover, Director, Internal Secur- In the snow or in the rain. Abbotmen and Wacs, longing ity and Intelligence, who was There is one thing that is for a chance at theatricals are field o ffic e r o f the day. plain. urged to enter the contest which The spindly-legged deer were It’s the Engineers that work. closes Sept. 1, 1943. Address all spotted (no, they weren’t spot- W here the jungle is the thick entries to the National Theater ted d eer!) in a meadow near the Conference, Western Reserve ponton construction area, while est. And the rivers run the quick- Lniversity, Cleveland, Ohio. the mountain lion sought refuge est, ’^ le Post Special Service Of- in the thickly-treed site of the It ’s the Engineers that work. f *ce w i” be glad t0 assist any camp w ater towers. The wood- W here the swamps are full of ernbr>'onic playwright in getting chucks— well, they w ere all over slime, their °P US in shape. . the camp. And you need to cross in time, ----- —--- - ... . It's the Engineers that work. CAMP ABBOT When you need an air field B A R B fR S H O P laid, So your planes can load to raid. It ’s the Engineers that work. W e're in on every fight. And stick thru day and night, Even if it lasts for years, And it's blood and sweat and tears, W e’re the boys who have no fears. It's the Combat.Engineers at work. \\ G-2 Chief Sees 27 Deer, Hears a Lion Bj Cpl. -lohn AhrahaniMin tR o tin g Cadre D-541 BII.I. O W E N OF B-.V2, M ARRIES M ILDRED HEATH Miss Mildred Heath became the bride o f Pfc. W illiam W. Owen. B-52, recently in the Bend '■'irst Presbyterian church, with :he Rev. R. H. Prentice officiat- ng. The bride is the daughter if Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Heath of Richmond, California, and the kbbotman’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. W illiam H. Owen o f Gold en. Colo. Ul&voox “Well, if)« «sfc«d for ono of thoso GJ. htircutt «n d I givo h«f ono!"