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Saturday, Sept. 18, 1943
ABBOT ENGINEER
New Dayroom
Furnishings Set
September 18, 1543
Official camp newspaper, published weekly in the interests o f the personnel
of Camp Abbot, Oregon, under supervision of the Special Service Officer. News
matter pertaining to ( amp Abbot is furnished by the Public Relations Branch and
is available for general release.
Written contributions, art work and photographs are solicited and should be
directed to the Public Relations Branch, Poet Hclqs. Annex, Bldg. 202. Telephone
Ext-B.
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Service, War Dep t., 206 E. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Credited material may not
be republished without permisión o f Camp Newspaper Service.
Distributed free to camp personnel. Subscription rate to public, by mail: 50
cents for three months; six months, $1.00; one year, $1.50.
FUN SCHEDULE
Entertainment On and Off the Post for Week
September 18 to September 23
S A TU R D A Y
Open House—U. S. O. Club, Bend.
Informal Dance—Officers Club, Camp Abbot._________________
SUNDAY
Open House— U. S. O. Club, Bend.
M ONDAY
Bible Class— Post Chapel, 7:30 p. m.
TUESDAY
Informal Activities— U. S. O. Club, Bend.
W EDNESDAY
“ Camp Abbot on Parade”—Weekly Radio Show, KBND, 7:43 to
8 p. m.
THURSDAY
Soldiers with an outdoor back
ground and an interest in moun
taineering are offered unusual
Furnishings and draperies pro opportunities these days by the
vided by the Masonic Lodge and Army Ground Forces. This Com
the Order of the Eastern Star mand is seeking volunteers for
for a dayroom here are ready to the 10th Division, n o w being
be placed in the room as soon as formed at the Mountain Train
floors are sanded and painted, ing Center, Camp Hale, Colo.,
the Camp and Hospital Commit according to the current Army
tee has announced. The council & Navy Journal.
Types of previous experience
has assumed the responsibility
for sanding and painting floors i that can be turned to good ac
in all day rooms.
count in the mountain troops are
The new room will be the mountaineering, forestry, rock-
third to be furnished by a Bend climbing, hunting, guide work
organization, the Knights of Co and skiing. Soldiers who feel
lumbus and the Elks Lodge hav they ijossess the proper qualifi
ing already sponsored complete cations should write to the Na
day rooms.
tional Ski Patrol System, 415
Ben Hamilton, chairman of Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.
the council, announced that S10 This organization is co-operat
has been received from the Bend ing closely with the Army
Study Club and that the Bend Ground Forces in finding the
Civic League has agreed to equip right soldiers for important jobs
a kitchen at the Station Hospital. offered in the mountain troops.
League members received a list After the soldier writes the Sys
of materials needed and are col tem, that organization sends him
lecting them, he said.
a form to fill out and return. On
The committee decided to or the basis of information furnish
der 200 yards of monk’s cloth to ed, a board of experts then de
provide draperies for day rooms cides if he is qualified for the
and hospital sun rooms from mountain troops.
committee treasury funds.
Open House—U. S. O. Club, Bend.
FR ID AY
Informal Activities — U. S. O. Club, Bend.
THEATER SCHEDULE
SATUR D AY— "TH E K A N S A N .’ Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt. Short.
subjects.
S U N D A Y and M ONDAY— “Let’s Face It,’ with Bob Hope, Betty
Jewish Holidays
To Be Observed
Camp Abbot will be the cen
ter of Jewish religious activities
Hutton. Pathe News.
for Abbotmen and maneuvermen
TU ESD AY— "Victory Through Air Power,” Special Feature.
of the faith with the observance
W E D N E SD A Y — "Above Suspicion,” Joan Crawford, Fred Mc-
of the Jewish High Holy Days,
Murray, Basil Rathbone. Cartoon.
TH UR SD AY and F R ID A Y — ”1 Dood It.” Red Skelton, Eleanor Rosh ha Shonah (Jewish New j
Year) and Yom Kipper (The'
Powell, Jimmy Dorsey’s Band. RKO News.
Day of Atonement). Under the
direction of Norman H. Gold
bage is allowed per day for each berg, Jewish chaplain on the
100 men. This garbage is only post, a series of services has
plate scraping, or “ humanly been arranged to celebrate the
edible waste," and figures pre ! church holidays.
sented to date, with few excep
The New Year observation
tions, show a close adherence to will begin at sundown Wednes
the established waste allowance,
The food conservation pro thus effecting a marked decrease day, September 28, and will con
gram, after two weeks opera in wastage in the past two tinue until sundown Friday, Oct-
i ober 1, with services at 7:30 p m.
tion, has shown satisfactory re weeks.
on Wednesday and 10.00 a. m. on
sults, according to Lt. Thomas
Assisting Lt. Kruzic in the con
P. Kruzic, of the food inspection servation program is Lt. Ralph Thursday and Friday. The Day
of Atonement will be observed
division.
Loewy, formerly assigned to the
by fasting and prayer with ser-
Designed to eliminate waste of salvage division.
I vices scheduled for 7:30 p. b. on
food in Army mess halls, the
October 8 and 10:00 a. m. on
idea behind the program does
I October 9.
not mean curtailment of rations,
Special dispensation has been
but reduction of food wastage
made by Col. Besson, post com
caused by soldiers who judge
D O N ’T IJ£T D O W N
mander, for Jewish men who
their eating capacity with their
The
news from abroad has are here on maneuvers to attend
eyes, rather than their stomachs,
been encouraging in the ex the services in view of the fact
the officer indicated.
"The Army isn’t trying to cut treme. It is likely, if it continues, j that Chaplain Goldberg is the
down on food," said the food in that many men now in training only chaplain of the faith in this
spection officer; "it’s just that will not see service abroad. Nev area. Attendance at any and all
waste is tieing eliminated. We ertheless, there must be no let services will be granted if it does
serve half slices of bread in our down. no lessening of individual not interfere with training
messes ¡already broad scraps or group effort. We cannot af schedules or maneuver prob
are rare in garbage cans be ford. at this stage of the strug lems.
Sgt. Morris Stavsky and T 5
cause those who only want a gle. to relax in our war effort.
The Israelites who fled front Ellis Berger are assisting Chap
half a slice, don't have the un
used portion to throw away,” Lt. Egypt under the capable leader lain Goldberg in arrangemt'nts
ship of Moses believed that the for the services which will be
Kruzic said.
The conservation includes the moment they crossed the Red held in the Post Chapel.
use of posters, silent reminders Sea they would be saved. There
that uneaten food on a plate is was great rejoicing when the
C A rT . JOLLY TO N E W POST
wasted food, and the daily tabu waters parted and they crossed
Capt. Ab Jolly, assistant com
lation of wastage in each mess over to dry land; but that was
hall. Computed on similar pro only the beginning, that was one mandant, Headquarters Group,
grams conducted by the War phase along the road to libera SCU 1973, ERTC, has been trans
Department. 20 pounds of gar- tion. Many bitter and disillusion ferred to Berkeley, Cal., for duty
ing experiences awaited them be with the ASTP Unit at the Uni
fore they attain«*«! the status of versity of California. Capt. Jolly
Service Company Will Vie free
was one of the first officers to
men.
For Marksmanship Awards Today, the allied nations are arrive at Camp Abbot. He was
Members of Sendee Company in the position of the Israelites the first provost marshal and
will have an added incentive to of old. There remains a formid later commanded Supply com
score "bulls” when they fir«' for able enemy beyond the frontiers pany of headquarters group. He
record on the rifle range tomor of Italy, a desperate and re has a long period of service and
row. Capt. Fred Hohenhorst, sourceful foe fighting now to de for 17 years was a member o l
company commander, has an- lay the day of reckoning. This the 45th Infantry Division, the
notinced he will award a prize of is surely not the time to cele unit which won high honors in
$10 for the highest score. S3 for brate or to waver in our deter Sicily.
second. $3 for third and S2 for mination. Rather, it is the psy
fourth. One of the leading con- chological moment to press for
MISNOMER
tenders dropped out of the run ward with all our heart, and
Denver, Col. i CNS ’ Pvt. Mel
ning this week when Sgt. Claire strength and might. The good vin Forgets-Nothing, a Blackfoot
Coburn of the Camp Abbot band news of Italy's unconditional Indian, hasn't a very good mem
left on furlough. Cobum turn«'«! surrender must spur us on to ory «iespite his name. When ask
in on«' of the most lmpressiw the final victory —to victory and ed why he showed up late for
sc
- in the company in prelimi p»\ice.
his induction here, he explained
nary firing.
Chaplain Norman M. Goldburg. that he forgot.
Saving in Food
Effected Here
FROM YOUR
C H A P LA IN
Army Seeks Men
For Ski Patrol
"Smoky" Returns
Home to Wacs—
All Is Forgiven
Like the Prfxligal Son,
“Smoky,” the Wac com
pany’s «log mascot, has re
turned home— apparently to
stay. The Abbot Engineer
bad scarcely "hit” the post
two weeks ago with a story
duly recording the news that
"Smoky” had gone A W O L
from the feminine soldiers
and had attached himself to
an engineer training bat
talion for quarters and ra
tions, when he arrive«! at
the Wac mess hall door.
He appeared rather deject
ed, in fact, presented an al
most forlorn appearance,
and from the way he attack
ed a ilish of choice edibles
set in front of him by kind
hearted K.I'.’s and cooks,
was dariKHl near starved. He
cast a wary eye for a time
until he felt assured that
women tlo "forget and for
give.”
"Smoky’s” appetite, and
his outspoken friendliness
indicated a desire to set
tle down and “make a dog of
himself.”
His AW OI, mark probably
will he erase«! from the
Wac rroords and he will be
r«'s(or«'d to his rank of hon-
«>rary mess sergeant with
out further ado.
Maneuver Troops
Double Work of
Laundry Here
I f your laundry hasn't been
coming back quite as soon as
you expected it, here are the
reasons why:.
1. The v o l u m e of laundry
handled at Camp Abbot has been
more than doubled since the ar
rival of maneuver troops in this
area.
2. The laundry is operating
with only two thirds of the per
sonnel allotted it.
Despite these difficulties, P "'
plant is offering five-day to six-
day service, Lt. Howard I. Pul-
ver, post laundry officer, pointed
out. The unit is operating at
near-capacity, even though only
100 of the 153 workers alloted
it are employed there.
In addition to the enlisted per
sonnel of Camp Abbot, the laun
dry’s list of patrons includes
maneuver troops, 400 to 600 of
ficers, Redmond and Madras Air
Bases, the station hospital and
eight to 10 field hospitals.
Soldiers of the post and Red
mond and Madras A ir Bases are
given priority, Lieutenant Pul-
ver said. To prevent excessive
volume, maneuver troops are
permitted to send only 12 pieces
per week.
Red Cross Loans<
$6,568 on Post
Loans totaling S6,568.52 were
made to 121 Camp Abbot sol
diers by the Field Office of the
American Red Cross in handling
492 cases during August, Frank
Dunning, field director, reported
this week. The office also made
outright grants totaling SI,024
to 28 soldiers who, due to allot
ment commitments, are unable
to repay the organization.
The Red Cross office at the
Station Hospital handled 106
cases for soldier-patients durinn
the month. Of this number, two^
were loans totaling S75.
Cases handled by the field of
fice here for maneuver troops
of the IV Corps totaled 1,069.
Loans of S7.932 were made to
105 men and grants totaling S420
to eight.
Newest 4Fs in baseball are Joe
Schultz, St. Louis Browns catch
er, and Rufe Gentry, ace pitcher
for the Buffalo Bisons in the In
ternational League. No reason
was given for their rejection.
The Wolf
by Sansone
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