Vol. 1
No. 20
Overseas Song
Program Gets
Added Boost
CAMP ABBOT, OREGON
Saturday, Oct. 2, 1943
FOR CANNING THE AXIS
Camp Abbot's pocket instru
ment and song programs showed
promise of leaving the neophyte
stage and reaching musical
adulthood this week when the
Training Division announced
that each newly-activated unit
will arrange courses of instruc
tion in both subjects and that
trainees will march to songs and
the flute-like music of the small
horns.
Classes in small instrument
playing will be arranged by bat
talion commanders, and each
platoon will be represented by at
least two trainees. Members of
the battalion cadre will act as
instructors.
On the march, small instru
ment players will form in col-
ums and play in march cadence.
pin the field they will present
musical pro ims during rest
periods.
Song programs, already in
Photo By Vincent, Post Photographer
vogue here, received a strong Thousands of cans collected from Camp Abbot mess halls during the past few months are loaded
into
a
truck
for
eventual
shipment
to
concerns
which
will
convert
them
into war materials and had
boost this week with the intro
every' scrap of salvage metal is saved by camps and stations as part of
duction of a 15-minute songfest news for the Axis. Virtually the
army’s thorough conservation program
at the Post theatre. First pro
gram in the series was present,
ed Thursday night with Sgt.
Claire L. Coburn of the Camp
Abbot band leading the singing
and Lt. Helen Martin, theatre of
ficer, playing piano accompani
ment.
Classes in song leading will be
The United States already has Wacs. The approximate strength decrease in ship losses improves
organized by battalion command
made
its plans for attacking the of the Arm y o f Sept. 1, 1943, was conditions somewhat, it will be
ers within two weeks after acti
impossible to increase that fig
vation of a training unit. Periods Axis, possibly on all fronts at 7,300,000. Inductions for the rest
ure to 5,000,000 until the end of
will be scheduled outside regular once, and to carry out its pro of the year will probably vary
1944.
from
145,000
to
175,000
a
month.
gram
must
have
a
strength
of
training hours and will continue
“ Where those men come from
Many congressmen, just back
until proficiency is attained. 7,700,000 officers and men, mem
is immaterial to me as long as
Songs will be used to achieve ; bers of the army high command from vacation, pointed out that
“ the people back home" are dead we get them,” eneral McNarney
proper cadence on the march told Congress last week in an
swer to the growing demand set against drafting of fathers said. Undersecretary of W ar Pat
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that pre-Pearl Harbor fathers be and want the services to take terson pointed out that 800,000
those single men now working fathers are in active service and
exempted from the draft.
that no other nation at war ex
Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, in deferable jobs.
The Army countered: About cuses fathers as such.
deputy chief of staff, told the
To an observation by Senator
Senate Military Affairs Commit half the fathers are working in
jobs not essential to the war ef Wheeler that fathers of draft
tee flatly and simply:
“To carry out the strategical i fort and if excused will make no age "are worried about their
families,” McNarney snapped:
missions which were determined switch to war production.
upon at the Quebec conference, | And it will be necessary to "Every soldier is worrying about
the Army must reach by Dec. 31 | draft some 75,000 men a month his family. That might make him
of this year a strength of ap merely to replace discharges, fight a hell of a lot harder.
“ I think it is a lot better not
proximately 7,700,000 officers casualties and similar losses,
to be defeated by the Axis than
The Oregon liquor control and men. The collapse of Italy General McNarney said.
commission sounded another does not affect these figures. | At present nearly 2,000,000 to please the people back home,”
cheerful note this week with This includes 190,000 nurses and j men are abroad, but unless the he added.
the announcement that ration
regulations published recently
have been modified and cus
tomers are permitted to pur
chase a full month's quota of
Miss Naomi Riggs, a repre
Under the direction of War
whiskey and what have you on
sentative of Red Cross head
one visit to the store—providing rant Officer Charles S. Spalding
the agency has the stock on a choir of Wacs, enlisted person
quarters in San Francisco, has
nel, and civilians is being or
hand.
H urrying to catch a bus on
been on the post this week work
Although the purchaser may ganized at Camp Abbot. First re an emergency furlough, a ing with Miss Lorraine Ander
obtain his quota or any portion hearsal was held Monday in the
son, director of the Station Hos
thereof in quarts, fifths or pints, W AC dayroom with over 30 in (a m p Abbot private arrived
pital unit of the Red Cross, on
at
the
depot
to
find,
in
his
the latter size container may be attendance and, it is hoped, the
difficult to obtain owing to a number will be doubled before I haste, he'd forgotten his tie. plans for a recreational program
Stores were closed and he
bottle shortage facing the whole final arrangements are complet
for patients confined to wards
hadn't a spare in his luggage.
sale trade, Administrator Ray ed for the chorus.
and proposed activities for the
Activities of the group, as Appeals to M P s brought sym hospital Recreation Room.
Conway said. According to Mr.
Conway, the modification in ra* planned by Mr. Spalding, include pathetic expressions, but they
Handicraft, such as wood-carv
tioning plans was made as the a program to be presented dur couldn't be worn around his ing and clay-modeling, is being
planned for bed ridden patients,
result of an inventory survey. ing the Christmas season as well neck.
To the rescue came an un and a series of talent programs,
To purchase liquor of any des as the rendition of numbers at
W arrant
Officer
participants in which will tie
cription, a soldier now must have future Service Club and theatre identified
who, oxerhearing the tale of
solicited from among patient
a validated purchaser's permit programs.
Lt. Helen M. Martin, Wac woe, stripped o ff his craxat
ranks, is being outlined.
and ration card stamped "mili
Plans also are being consid
tary" and must show his iden Company, is accompanist for the and insisted the private accept
it. He declined all offers of
ered for more effective distribu
tification tag on making each chorus.
payment.
N o r would he di
tion of library books through
purchase. The new rationing
system went into effect yester When You’ve Read it—Please vulge his addresi» so the neck use of a cart which can be taken
piece might be returned.
from ward to ward.
day.
Pass The ENGINEER AROUND.
Enlarged SSO
To Plan Post
Entertainment
Reorganization of the Special
Service Office and assignment of
additional personnel was an
nounced by Lt. V. G. Henderson,
Special Service Officer, this
week. The move was made with
a view toward providing a more
expansive and better balanced
recreational program for enlist
ed men, Lieutenant Henderson
said.
Newly-assigned members o f
the staff are Lt. Helen Martin,
theatre officer and dramatics di
rector, and Lt. Carl Volz, music
supervisor for the Training Di
vision.
In the process of reorganizing
the Special Service setup, Lt.
Stephen D. Hopkins, former ath
letic and recreation director, was
named Service Club officer, Lt.
Henry Hansen, former theatre
officer, became successor to
Lieutenant Hopkins, and Miss
Helen Souhrada, cafeteria hos
tess, was appointed assistant re
creation supervisor for the Ser
vice Club. Miss Souhrada will as
sist Mrs. Helen Smith, principal
hostess in planning recreational
programs for the club.
Army Will Need 7 ,7 0 0 ,0 0 0 Men by
Some 200 Hear .
Dec. 31 to Execute Attack Plans
Month's Liquor
Quota Available
In Single Lump
Chorus of Mixed
Voices Organized
Officer Saves
Day by Giving
Tie to Soldier
Recreation for
Shutins Planned
First Concert by
Camp Abbot Band
The Camp Abbot band, widely-
acclaimed in Central Oregon for
its participation in radio pro
grams and concerts in Bond, pre
sented its first Post concert at.
the Service Club Thursday
night. Bandsmen were applauded
vigorously by some 200 soldiers
and guests.
Arranged by Warrant Officer
Charles S. Spalding, director, the
program consisted of marches,
currently popular music and
light classical selections, chosen
for their soldier-appeal. One of
the selections, Saint-Saëns’ "Lo-
Cygne” iThe Swan), was ar
ranged especially for the band
by S Sgt. Jack Hayes.
As an encore, the band played
a Hayes arrangement of the
“ Turkish March" by Mozart. The
selection adapted for presenta
tion by a small instrumental
group, was broadcast
over
KBND in Iknd and KWJJ in
Portland last week. Featured in
strumentalists were Sergeant
Hayes, piano; Sgt. Dante Di-
Thomas, flute; Cpl. Robert Rigle-
man, drums; Sgt. Jack E. Smith,
trumpet; Sgt. James Gilbert,
clarinet, and Sergeant Owen,
bass.
Bond Sales in 11th, 12th
Groups at $15,000 Mark
War bond purchases resulting
from the Third War Loan Drive
total approximately S10.000 in
the 11th Engineer Training
Group and $5,000 in the 12th
Group, officials in charge of the
drive said yesterday. Figures,
which are Incomplete and unof
ficial, include both cash pur
chases and Class B allotments.