___ 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.”
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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!
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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
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„
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.
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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,
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... .
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.
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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!"