Saturday, Sept. 25, 1943
ABBOT ENGINEER
Special School
For MP's Here
A special training schedule for
23 newly assigned members of
the M ilitary
Police company
here will start next week, ac
cording to Capt. M. P. Coover,
Provost Marshal.
The men, all form er members
of engineer training battalions
who volunteered fo r military po
lice duty, w ill be given a course
of instruction similar to that in
vogue at the M P training school,
Boise Barracks, Ida. The train
ing program w ill be under the
direction o f Lt. Theodore E. Pen
nington, assistant provost mar
shal.
The course o f instruction in
cludes training in Judo, hand to
hand combat, regulation, person
al appearance, how to handle
emergency situations and other
duties common to military po
lice detachment. The course op
erates on a period plan and will
extend approximately six weeks.
A N A T O M Y LESSON
Page Three
Abbot "Quiz Kids"
Vie for Honors
W’hich one came first— the
first or second battle of the
This week’s anatomical specimen is Diane Pendleton who, when
she isn’t endowing springboards with a new meaning, sings on
NBC’s “ College of Musical Knowledge” program. The Pendleton
larynx has earned the admiration of students from coast to coast—
not to mention the more exposed features.
Woodworking Shop Supplies
Post's Construction Needs
M aine? So help me, that’s the
way the m.c. asked the question
and the contestant made a per
fect score on it in the Quizz pro
gram held Tuesday evening at
the Service Club.
But the questions weren’t all
that simple and more than one
good soldier took the count dur
ing the evening. Ophelia's lover
proved the nemesis of o f T 5
Thomas M. Navity, Service Co.,
and Corporal Virginia Belcher,
Wac Co., gave a Pacific Coast
native’s version when she iocated
the Drake Hotel in San Fran
cisco instead o f Chicago.
It was a battle of the sexes,
four Wacs pitting their knowl
edge against four top men of
the Service Co. Cpl. Martha
Wheeler, T 5 Virginia Belcher,
1 Sgt. M ary Muscatello, and T 5
Sunny Graham composed the
Wac team while S Sgt. Pinkus
Davis, T, 5 A lfred Dixon, T 5
Thomas Mavity, and T S Ed
Pitra defended the reputation of
the stronger (? ) sex. Pvt. Sey
mour Goldston, Service Co., was
master of ceremonies and help
ed the sometimes befuddled
guessers out with subtle hints
such as “ O f what country is
Santiago the capital? Gee, it’s
C H ILE in here.”
When totaled it was found
that the men’s group had won
the hand-knitted antimacassar
with individual honors to Soldier
Davis and Soldierette Graham.
Workers have adhered so re
When Camp Abbot units want
anything constructed from wood, ligiously to this policy they have
be it a clip block for a rifle or a had little time to expand shop
“ Nazi” village for use in combat facilities. Few additions have
training, they leave their prob been made to the shop since it
lem on the front stoop o f the was established.
At present the woodworking
ERTC woodworking shop.
Established here in May, the unit has several irons in the fire.
I f you should happen to be shop began the gigantic task of Construction o f a new officers’
taken ill while on a furlough, supplying furnishings for var club is on tap, and a Nazi vil
what should you do? Do you lose ious companies as soon as cadre lage has been ordered. In addi
your furlough time if confined arrived
from
Fort Leonard tion, routine shop work must
to a hospital? These are ques Wood, Mo. Orders for construc continue.
tions which have faced many a tion work began to pour in as
Much material lor construc
soldier.
soon as the shop opened its tion is provided by the E RTC
ny member o f a m ilitary or- doors, and soon the shop with sawmill.
ization who is taken ill while ! its small staff of cadre acting as
In charge o f this shop and its
on a furlough may be cared for
carpenters was deluged with training program are Capt. C. E. Silver Bars Come Higher
at the nearest A rm y hospital. I f work. Equipment was excellent Strom , assistant training officer
no Arm y hospital is in the vicin- and there was sufficient mater for the schools branch; Capt. H. Under Recent W D Dictum
The first promotion fo r shave
itl, he may apply for admittance ial, but handicapped by a short F. McKeown, in charge of out
to the nearest civilian hospital. age of manpower the shop could side projects; Capt. Banks; tails will come considerably slow
er under a new W ar Department
In such case, if the man’s illness not possibly keep pace with de- Lt. K. R. Rogers, supervisor
order requiring that second lieu
is in “ line o f duty,” or his in I mands for construction on the of the sawmill; Sgt. W. M. Corts,
asistant to Capt. McKeown; Sgt. tenants hereafter must serve at
juries were the result o f no post.
least six months before they be
carelessness or negligence on his
A measure o f relief came in E. C. Holtz, shop foreman; Sgt. come eligible fo r promotion to
part, the civilian hospital bill will July with the establishment of a D. E. Kraem er o f the building
first lieutenant. Previously, a
be paid from a special fund carpenters school for trainees. materials section; Sgt. E. L.
thre month service-in-grade re
Spencer,
sawmill
operator,
and
maintained by the Surgeon Gen Some 120 soldiers are enrolled
quirement had been in effect.
Pvt.
C.
Seitz,
draftsman.
eral.
in the school each two weeks.
To become eligible fo r promo
In case there is any question While there, they work in coop
tion to grades of major, captain
as to whether his illness was in eration with the woodworking Committee Named to Plan
or first lieutenant, officers must
line of duty, or was the result of shop and learn through practi Service Club Activities
have demonstrated their qualifi
his own negligence, the com- cal experience techniques em
Appointment o f an Enlisted cations fo r promotion by occu
nding officer at his home urn* ployed by carpenters in the Service Club Committee which
pation o f a position and perform
uests that an investigating Corps o f Engineers. A fter com will make recommendations as
ance of duties appropriate to the
umcer may be appointed at the
pleting the brief but informative to activities and improvements next higher grade fo r at least
scene o f the man's hospitaliza course they are graduated as at the Service Club was announc
three months.
tion. I f the illness is clearly specialists, carpenters and con ed this week. The committee
In the case o f second lieuten
proven to be N L D or the result struction experts.
will meet between the 5th and ants, first lieutenants and cap
of his own negligence or care
Drawing “ students” from the 10th c f each month at the call of tains who have clearly demon
lessness, the man himself is school, the shop was able to turn Mrs. Helen Smith, principal
strated their eligibility fo r ad
liable fo r the hospital bill.
out a much greater volume of hostess for the club.
vancement by outstanding per
A man’s furlough ceases auto work. Activities of the unit since
Named to the committee were formance in actual combat, the
matically upon admittance to it began operations in May in first sergeants of the W ac Com
minimum service requirement
any hospital. But he assumes clude: construction o f
pany’. Medical Detachment, Serv may be waived.
the uncompleted portion on re pieces for standard cabinets, ice and Supply Company, ser
lease from the hospital.
7,000 clip blocks for rifles, 500 geant majors o f the 11th and
target frames,
training signs, 12th Engineer Training Groups N E W RED CROSS WORKERS
Assignment of additional per
Marine sighting devices, and Post Headquarters, Service
DANCES SCHEDULED
miscellaneous pieces,
Club hostesses and the Post li sonnel to the IV Corps office of
An open dance w ill be held at
the Red Cross here was announc
the All-Purpose Recreation Hall grid posts, a vault and shelves brarian.
ed by Frank Dunning, field di
feet of
Wednesday night. Music w ill be for the post office,
rector, this week. N ew arrivals
TAKE A LESSON
provided by the E R T C dance or fence and one orchestra stand.
Meeting construction require
Kit: “ Gee, but that soldier last are Bernard Shallit, casework
chestra, directed by Cpl. A. G.
supervisor, form erly o f Fort
Tiemann Jr. Bend Junior Hos ments has been the first aim of nite was fresh.”
Kat: “ W hy didn’t you slap his Lawton, Wash., and George
tesses and civilian girls of the the shop, Capt. John V. Banks,
Gray, assistant field director re
post w ill be guests. Members of assistant training officer of the face?”
Kit: “ I did. And take it from cently graduated from the Red
the Medical Detachment will schools branch and supervisor o f
sponsor a dance at the Station the shop and engineering depart me, never slap a soldier when Cross Training School at Wash
ington, D. C.
he’s chewing tobacco.”
ment, said.
Hospital Thursday night.
Army W ill Look
Out for You If
III on Furlough
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Cooks to Attend
Meat Class Here
Camp Abbot cooks will pick up
some new j>ointers on the pre
paration o f meats and me iu
planning Thursday when D. P.
T yler of the National Livestock
and Meat Board gives a two-
hour lecture-demonstration in
the All-Purpose Recreation Hall.
The program will embrace
menu planning and its relation
to the efficient use of meat, stor
age and issue o f meat at the
cold storage, breakdown and is
sue of meat by the unit supply
and cutting and preparation o f
meat.
A ll officers, civilians and en
listed personnel whose duties in
clude distribution or preparat a
of meat will attend. The pur-
gram, in charge of Lt. T. P. K u-
zic, food service supervisor, will
begin at 1:30 p. m.
C H U R C H RITES
LOCATION OF CHAPELS
Post C h a p e l , Bldp. 208; 11th Gp.
Bldvr. ¿7»4 ; Hospital Chapel in Red Cnt.s
Chapel, Blrip. 1255 ; 12th Gp. Chut* I,
Recreation hall.
JEWISH SERVICES
Ftriday, Sept, 34, 1830 (7:30 p.
m.) Post Chapel t Bldg. 208).
CATHOLIC SERVICES
Saturday, Sept. 25, Confes
sions, Post Chapel (Bldg. 208).
Sunday, Sept. 26, 0900, Mass,
Post Chapel. 1S30 ( 6:30 p. in.)
Mass, Post Chapel. 1710 (5:10 p.
m.) Mass, daily except Thursday,
Post Chapel, Tuesday, Sept. ..8,
litOO (7.00 p. m .) Choir Rein u-
sal, Post Chapel.
PROTEST A M
SER\ ICES
Sunday, Sept. 26, 1000, Post
Chapel (Bldg. 208). 191)0 t l 30
p. m.) Post Chapel. 1800 ( 6:00 p.
m.) Service lor 51st Bn. (quar
antine)
11th Group Chapel
(Bldg. 1255). Monday, Sept. a7,
1900 ( 7:00 p. in.) Bible Study
Class, Post Chapel. Wednesday,
Sept. 29, 1900 ( 7:00 p. m.) Choir
Rehearsal, Post Chapel.
HOSPITAL SERVICES
Sunday, Sept. 26, 0700, Catho
lic Confessions, Red Cross J i-c
Hall. 0730, Catholic Mass, i d
Cross Rcc Hall. 1000, Protestant
Service, Red Cross Rec Hall.
DENOMINATIONAL GROLP
SKKVU i;s
Wednesday, Sept. 29 1)00
(7:00 p. m.) L. I). S. Service 1,‘ th
Gp. Chapel. Thursday, Sept. 10
1900 ( 7:00 p. m.) Christian
Science Service, Post Chau-1.
"Dog Tags" of Aluminum
When Brass Unsatisfactory
The Arm y is once more begin
ning to make its identification
from aluminum metal instead of
brass which has boon in use io r
about a year.
Last fall it was decided that
the Arm y was using too much
aluminum and fhe metal for he
fags was diverted to other uses,
but the brass tags which w* re
substituted proved unsatis ac-
tory.
Pass The E N G IN E E R To A -
other Abbotman He'll A p p i'e l
ate It.
Draw n and Q u o ta e d