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THURSDAY
Vol. 1
CAMP ABBOT, OREGON
No. 19
Name Council
To Assist in
SSO Activities
Bride W aits as
Trainee Thumbs
To Portland
The organ played, the can
dles burned, the coffee brew
ed and the bride “ stewed”—
but the bridegroom kept right
on thumbing to Portland, and
sent an occasional bulletin of
his progress.
The bridegroom was Pvt.
William K. Lewis of the ERTC
here, and the wedding was set
for eight o’clock in Portland on
Saturday night.
First news from the bride
groom came at 7:50. The min
ister mounted to the pupilt.
“ The bridegroom has tele
phoned that he is liitch- hik-
ing, is now at Government
Camp and will lie at the church
as soon as possible,” he an
nounced.
The bridegroom’s father set
out to look for his son.
Sometime later
"The bridegroom now is in
Gresham,” the minister an
nounced from the pulpit.
At 10:15 in ran Private Lew
is, liKtking as though he’d trav
eled the distance on foot.
“ The sergeant gave me my
pass too late for me to catch
the bus, so I had to hitch-hike,”
he explained.
The bride. Miss Geraldine
Morris of Portland, forgave
him and the ceremony pro
ceeded.
Appointment of a Post Special
Service council and a Post
Special Service staff, both of
which will assist in making
plans for recreation programs
for enlisted personnel, was an
nounced by Col. Frank S.
Besson, ERTC commander, this
week.
Principal duties of the council
will be to assist the commanding
officer in formulating Special
service policies and programs, to
operate
facilities,
administer
funds, effect civilian coordina
tion and plan athletic programs
and recreational activities. The
council will meet between the
10th and 15th of each month.
Members of the council are
Lt. V. G. Henderson, Special Ser-
. uyice officer;
Capt. Thomas
iJHuber, assistant executive o ffi
cer; Maj. M. J. Cuadra, Head
q u a r t e r s commandant; Maj.
Ernest W. McNeil, Jr., 11th E. T.
Group S-l; Maj. Lilburn P. Sta-
man, 11th Gp. S-l; Capt. Charles
H. Moore, assistant director of
Personnel Division; Maj. F. J.
Landenberger, assistant director
of Supply and Service Division;
Maj. William H. Andrew, Post
Chaplain, and Frank Dunning,
Soldier Offers His Blood
Red Cross field director.
To
Help Out Young Buddy
The Special Service staff will
A Camp Abbot soldier volu-
meet each week to assist in
solving functional problems of teered to give blood to the Red
the Special Service Branch and Cross blood bank this week to
to discuss and adopt an effective make certain his buddy, a 12-
program for the ensuing week, year-old patient at St. Anne's
j, ' Staff members are Lt. Hen- hospital in Chicago, received the
U derson, Mrs. Helen Smith, Ser transfusions he needed to save
vice club director; Miss Helen his life.
Souhrada,
cafeteria
hostess; | The soldier, a member of Com
Miss Caroline Paddock, librari pany C, 56th Battalion, said he'd
an; Lt. Henry Hansen, theater heard blood could not be drawn
officer; Lt. Stephen D. Hopkins, from the blood bank unless
athletic and recreation officer, someone agreed to contribute a
and Warrant Officer Charles S. certain amount in return. The
Spalding, director of the Camp youngster already had been
given several transfusions.
Abbot band.
Red Cross workers told the
soldier there were no facilities
for collecting blood here and
w’rote a letter to the hospital
requesting the boy be given all
the transfusions he needed.
Bond Rally Nets
S775 in 54th Bn.
NewTraining
Cycle Begins
For 51st Bn.
The new 17-week training pro
gram recently authorized by the
War Department went into ef
fect here Monday when the se
cond increment of the 51st En
gineer TVaining Battalion, Camp
Abbot”s newest training group,
began its training.
In store for the battalion, com
manded by Capt. W. C. Rogers,
are six weeks of basic training,
eight weeks of advanced and
three W'eeks 'of unit training in
volving problems s i m i l a r to
those undertaken in specialized
maneuvers. In undergoing the
course, the 51st will be playing
the role of "guinea pig” for the
second time, the first increment
of the unit having been the first
to “ test” the 13-week training
plan which went into effect soon
after the camp was activated in
May.
Trainees of the unit arrived
between Sept. 12 and 17, the ma
jority coming from Fort Doug
las, Fort Lewis, Fort MacArthur,
Fort Hayes, Fort Benjamin Har
rison, Fort Arlington and the
Presidio of Monterey. The battal
ion consists of three companies
(Cos. A, B and C) with a com
bined strength of approximately
700 men.
Since its arrival here, the 51st
has completed orientation, taken
its "shots” and practiced rifle
marksmanship. Under the ne\y
program, preliminary firing is
scheduled for tomorrow.
Move Main Entrance Gate
To Aid Maneuver Traffic
The main entrance gate to
Camp Abbot has been moved
temporarily to the junction of
the access road within the main
entrance highway, just across
the underpass on Center street.
The move was made necessary
in order to more fully check
traffic of vehicles in connection
with IV Corps m a n e u v e r s ,
headquarters of w'.ich is at
Camp Abbot.
Saturday, Sept. 25, 1943
Check Your Rifle!
If You're Lucky
It's Worth $100
Field and Stream magazine
is offering a $100 War Bond
to tile lucky soldier having a
Garand rifle number 1WMM14.
If you have his number get
in touch with the Public Rela
tions Ofifee, Extension 8.
Office Workers
Claim Bulk of
Firing Awards
Cadre of the Personnel Divis
ion proved they were equally
adept with a paper clip and a
Garand Sunday by taking three
of the four cash awards offered
for the best marksmanship
scores in Service Company.
Prizes totaling $20 were offered
by Capt. Fred Hohcnhorst, com
pany commander, for best scores
in record firing.
Sgt. Robert McClelland claim
ed the first prize of $10 by scor
ing 188. Sgt. David Delph, the
only Training Division cadre-
man to finish in the money, col
lected $5 for second place with a
score of 186. S/Sgt. Sam Dunn
took the $3 third prize with 184
and Sgt. Alan Marsau the $2
fourth prize with 183.
Lt. Elwell Named C O
O f Camp W ac Company
Lt. Patricia Elwell, acting com
mander of the Wac company
since the departure of Lt. Steph
anie Podzunas to an assignment
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., has
been assigned as company com
mander.
struments, recently organized
here by Capt. King G. Stacey,
music officer of the Ninth Ser
vice Command. Thursday, War
rant Officer Charles F. Spauld
ing, director of the band, was in
terviewed and told of his work in
music, both in civilian life when
he was employed in the musical
library, of the U. S. Library of
Congress, and as organizer of
the Camp Abbot band. All hav.*
been given praise.
The series, which may be ex
tended into a regular weekly
feature, was arranged through
the efforts of Lee Marcus, radio
program director for Station
KWJJ in handling details of IV
Corps maneuvers, and Lt. V. G.
Henderson, special service o ffi
cer.
Camp Abbot has been on the
air more frequently than the
average Army post. Besides the
regular weekly program, an in-
By Sgt. George S. Fly
A dramatic narrative of how
the Corps of Engineers pushed
through deep forests, across un
charted streams and spanned
mountain gorges to complete
famed Alcan highway in almost
unbelievable time was related
Thursday night by Coi. Russel
Lyon, commanding officer of the
12th Group, in an illustrated lec
ture before a joint meeting of
the American Legion post and
auxiliary at Bend.
A conjecture that the Japs,
fearful of completion of the
highway to Alaska would rob
Nippon of a chance to seize the
stragetic Aleutian islands, and a
base on the mainland of the
United States’s northernmost
territory, may have been the
prime reason for the battle of
Midway, was advanced by the
speaker.
It was evident that the Japs
had planned the seizure of bases
in the Aleutians, particularly one
at Dutch Harbor, before the
highway could be completed, the
prime purpose of which was to
provide supply routes for stra
tegic airfields, Col. Lyons told
his audience.
Drawing to the fullest on his
keen powers of observation,
years of analytical study and
fresh memories of his duty as
commander of an engineer regi
ment which hacked its way
through the Alaskan wilderness.
Col. Lyons glossed over the hard-
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BLOUSES AFTE R RETREAT
Camp Abbot soldiers will be
required to wear blouses after
retreat both on and o ff the Post
beginning October 1, Col. Frank
S. Besson, ERTC commander,
has announced. Personnel living
off the post will be permitted to
wear field jackets or shirts go
ing to and from home and camp
The Camp Abhot hand, direct
providing no stops are made in
ed by Warrant Officer Charles
the down town area.
S. Spalding, will present its first
concert at Camp Abbot Thurs
day night when it presents a pro
gram of marches, popular and
light classical selections at the
Service Club.
Included in the program will
terview type show, written and
produced by Sgt. George S. Fly be a special arrangement by-
of the Public Relations Office, Jack Ifayes of Saint-Saen’s "Le-
Camp Abbot personnel has also Cygne.” Other selections will in
been on chain programs. Sgt. clude “ Semper Fidelia" (march)
Fly and Miss Vivian McMurtrey, by Sousa, "Golliwog’s Cake
script writer for a Portland ad walk” by Debussy, "Pavannr” by
vertising agency, arranged for, Gould, "Sunday, Monday or A l
by Burke-VanHeusen,
and wrote, the show* in which ways”
appeared the first Wacs ever to “Echoes from the Metropolitan
be on a radio show in the North Opera House” (from "Iolanthe” >
west, and over a hookup of sta by Sullivan, "Zigeuner” by Cow
tions in Oregon and Washington. ard, “ Dance of the Tumblers” by
They also prepared the script of Rimsky-Korsakov and "Them
Col. Frank G. Crandall, Jr., when Basses" (¿parch) by Huffine.
A concert by the band was
he revealed for the first time
that he was aboard an Army broadcast over Station KBND in
transport which sank a Jap sub Bond and KWJJ in Portland
marine in the South Pacific. The from 4:30 p. m. to 5 o'clock yes
Public Relations office was also terday. Featured on the program
instrumental in arranging re was an arrangement by Hayes
cording of the formal dedication of “Turkish March" by Mozart.
program, which was subsequent The number was scored for a
ly broadcast over KOIN, Port small instrumental group. Selcc
land, KBND, Bend and several tions were announced by Mr.
Spalding.
other west coast stations.
Second Weekly Radio Program for Camp
Indicated as Trial Shows Given Praise
A war bond rally sponsored by f
Company D of the 54th Battal- (
ion Wednesday night in connec
tion with the Third War Loan
Drive resulted in the purchase of
Possibility that Camp Abbot
$775 worth of bonds for cash and may have another regular week
70 new class B allotments, Lt. ly radio program, in addition to
William A. Barnes, company the week “ Camp Abbot on
commander, reported. All told, Parade” broadcast which has
93 per cent of the company now- been on the air each Wednesday
are signed for class B allot-1 night since the camp was acti
vated over Station KBND, was
ments.
Program for the rally, held in indicated by a series of trial.pro-
the company mess hall, included grams originating on the post
a dance with music by the Com and heard over KBND Bend, and
pany D orchestra, group singing KWJJ, of Portland.
and an entertainment program
Four broadcasts have been
by members of the company. Re given in the past week. The most
freshments were served. Ap recent was a program by the
proximately 15 Osoldiers, wives Camp Abbot band, on the
and guests attended. Admission air yesterday afternoon. The
•’fee” was purchase of a war first of the series was composed
bond for cash or an allotment. of informal interviews with
members of the Wac detach
NEW A R R IV A L
ment, a soldier on duty in post
Born: to Capt. and Mrs. T. M. publications as an artist and
Huber, Sept. 17, a sen, Thomas draftsman, and another who
Martin Huber Jr., at St. Charles works in the ERTC carpenter
hospital in Bend. Capt. Huber is shop. The second featured mem
assistant post executive officer. bers of the pocket musical in
Alcan Highway
Foiled War ,
Plans of Japs
Band to Present
First Concert
At Service Club