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GIVE TO
ENTER THE
W AR
y
FUND
Show Fittings
Will Put Post
On USO Chain
Theater equipment which will
make the Post movie house eligi
ble ior presenting the largest
USO shows on camp circuits has
been ordered and is scheduled to
arrive in Mid-October, the Spe
cial Service Office announced
this week.
Included in the equipment, or
dered f r o m the Northwestern
School Supply Company in Port
land, will be a red velvet pro
sceni um curtain and beige title
curtain and cycloramic wings.
Curtains will be electrically
operated, with controls in the
projection booth. A powerful
spotlight eq u ip p ed wi t h vari
colored filters also has been or
dered.
Heretofore the Camp Abbot
theater has been kept off the
USO list because of its inade
quate facilities. No stage presen
tations are scheduled here .
yet because the USO is modify- A light tin-- is shown ■■ s'in * a r
ing its setup somewhat, but onci "
, '
,
the theater equipment has been ,,,,, . ,, ,,, ,„
.
,
installed, the camp will be ellgi- pr<
a
ble to receive the USO's largest
S t s “! “ Attention!
POME
I wish I was a wittle egg
A way up in a twee
I wish I was a wittle egg
As wotten as could be
And when some bone head Sgt
Would start to shout at me
I’d frow my wotten wittle sell
And spatter down on he!
Eight Ca mp Abbot enlisted
men who volunteered for para
chute training left this week to
attend the Parachute School at
Fort Benning, Ga. They are Cpl.
Charles E. Shepard, of Company
B, 57th Battalion; Cpl. Ark \V.
Woo, Casual Company; Pvt. Hex
E. Murphee, Co. A, 56th Bn.; Pvt. PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED
Charles S. Gambone, Co. A, 56th ' Promotions of Capts. Dan H.
Bn.; Pvt. Charles L. McIntyre, Griswold, training officer of the
Co. A, 54th Bn.; Pvt. Thomas M. training Division, and Emil L.
Schneider, Co. A, 54th Bn.; Pvt. Mosheim, sales officer for the
Benjamin Fleis, Co. D, 51st Bn., Quarterm aster Branch, to the
and Pvt. Thomas Kratz, Co. B, rank of major was announced by
Post Headquarters this week.
51st Bn.
Abbot Hospital Commander
Acts Quickly to Halt 'Polio'
When the present epidemic of
Polio made its appearance on
the West Coast, Col. Frank G.
Crandall, commander of Station
Hospital, acted vigorously. Not
only did he arrange to dispatch
several nurses to study the
Kenny system of treatment
which have proven so successful,
but he arranged for a meeting
here of civilian doctors at which
thorough measures to avert an
epidemic was discussed.
Beginning five weeks ago and
up until the present, thirteen
cases of polimyelitis or infantile
paralysis have made their ap
pearance in Central Oregon a c
cording to Col. Crandall. “Thir
teen cases of any disease in a
total native peace time popula
tion of Central Oregon does not
constitute an epidenmic,” he
said. “This is doubly true when
we consider a w ar time military
population increase of 100,000
persons in this area. Yet thirteen
cases of proven paralysis is more
“polio” than this area has seen
in a composite period of 25
years, o the threat is here, and
residents are warned to take
U. S. O.
Oiegoa
FOOTBALL POOL
C A M P ABBOT, O REG O N
Volunteers Leave
For 'Chute School
oi
note, to possess a sane and com-
mon sense attitude towards the
situation, and maintain a healthy
respect for the disease.
“ ’Poliomyelitis’ is a term de
rived from the Greek, meaning
inflammation of the grey m ar
row, or inflammation of the grey
substance of the spinal cord. ‘In
fantile paralysis,’ a synonym, is
badly chosen for it makes the
suggestion that only infants be
come paralyzed. That this is far
from true, we shall see later,
with an analysis of our cases.
"The cause of the disease is
thought to be a virus—one of
those annoying things in medi
cine that cannot even be seen
under the most powerful micro
scope. Laboratory experimental
work is andicapped because of
the fact that only two animals,
the Eastern cotton rat and rhe
sus monkey, are susceptible to
this virus and this disease. The
virus in man is thought to be
carried in the discharges of the
nose .throat, and bowel. It is
known that healthy carriers, per
sons harboring the virus but not
the disease, exist.”
ay, Oct. 16, 1943
Post to Join
in Area War
Fund Drive
Soldiers, civilians and officers
at Camp Abbot will be given an
opportunity to participate in the
Deschutes County W ar Fund
Drive to be held the latter part
ol this month and the first of
November, according to Lt. Col.
Phillip M. Beddesem, chairman
of the drive committee for Camp
Abbot.
To organize for the drive, a
repi < sentative committee of all
branches at Camp Abbot started
a series of meetings several
weeks ago. The ground work has
been efficiently laid fo ra smooth
working drive, and it is expected
that the Post w ill go beyond the
goal w hich has been set.
The actual contacting work
among the soldiers will lie done
by men in the platoons; officers
will be contacted by officers; and
the civilian employees will be
contacted by a committee to be
selected by Merle liallantyne, di
’11 ’
of employe relations. Bo-
’
.7 rector
fa-e
the
contacts are made a
.’
t-x.
. , . v > i kickolf i-Ingram
will be held
type pot
balk and eh
wherein all team members will
be given full information as to
what their procedures will be
and how the different .agencies
benefit from the drive. Na
The Abbot Engineer this week will
tional organizations such as the
presents
the
biggest
thing
in
the
V. S. O. and various national re
Strike One!
line of contests that ever hit lief societies will he aided by the
Camp Abbot’s public ad Camp Abbot a football guess drive, as will state and local
dress system which for the ing contest.
agencies.
past few' months has awak
You, too can share in the Of the 827,500 to be raised by
ened soldiers in the morn prizes.. You too can get your Deschutes County, $15,000 will
ings, told them when to go name in the paper. You too can go to national agencies, $2,00')
to bed at night and given join the ranks of Camp Abbot to Date agencies and the re
forth with interesting an great. All you have to do is pull mainder to local organizations.
nouncements ( i n c l u d i n g out the old crystal ball and tab Among the liend groups to be
broadcast of the World Se the-right winners in the football aiderl by the drive are the Boy
ries, in between, was silenc picking contest, and you’ll be Scouts the Camp Fire Girl.;,
ed Sunday by a high wind rolling in cigarettes.
Redmond Service Men’s Cent« r
which blew the speakers
There is nothing to sell. Noth and the Camp Abbot day rooms.
from their perch atop the ing to buy. And iiest of all, noth
All-Purpose Recreation Tall. ing to lose. Just check the win
The unit has been sent to ners of the football games list
San Francisco for repair and ed on the sports page of this
is expected to arrive at paper and see that they get to
Camp Abbot as good as new the "football contest" box in the
any day now.
USO building at Bend.
Hurt most by the damag
The lucky GI who picks the
ing wind were theatre pat mosl winners gets three cartons Camp Abbot was scheduled to
rons who, watching the Sun of cigarettes. The runner-up gets take another step forward in the
day night show, were left two and there is a consolation entertainment field last night
with the presentation of a va
cold when wire trouble
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riety show by members of the
plunged the theatre in dark
51st Battalion.
ness just as the newly-ac
Schedul ed on the program,
quired hero and heroine Nurses and Wacs
presented by the Service Club,
were lying on a wagon load
of hay and had established Have Beauty Shop were vocal selections by a small
to their mutual satisfaction
Members of the Wac company chorus, a d e m o n s t r a t i o n in
that neither was married. and Nurses Corps can now enjoy sleight-of-hand by Pvt. Stanley
Other s u f f e r e r s include at least one of the frills of civil Lane, Spanish songs by a quar
members of the Camp Abbot ian life-visit a beauty shop. Such tet, vocal solos by Pvt. Dick
band who since the ill wind a shop has long been promised Howard, former member of the
have been forced to arise 30 the feminine soldiers hut not un famous Don Cossack choir, a
minutes earlier to play rev til this week was the Post Ex piano solo by Pvt. Ralph Raburn,
eille.
change able to obtain equipment a guitar solo by Private Lane
with which to put it in opera and popular selections by a small
"jam" combination. Pvt. Edward
tion.
Erben, of Company B, former
The
shop
is
being
operated
by
Dances Shifted
Mrs. Jerry Chambers, wife of a pianist with Jan Savitt’s orches
Camp Abbot trainee, and a li tra. was accompanist, and Sgt.
To Service Club
censed
operator from California. Harold Friedman was in charge
Wednesday night dances for
the program. Except for Pri
enlisted men, heretofoqp held in She has equipment comparable of
vate Erben, all are members cf
the All-Purpose Recreation Hall, to any good shop for it is com Cat
a .
will be held in the Service Club plete with dryers, two perma
beginning next week, the Special nent wave machines and blow GET ADDITIONAL TRA IN IN G
Service Office has announced ers. The equipment is valued at
The recreation hall will be used approximately 51,000, according Although the 55th and 56th
Engr. Tm. Bns. finish their basic
largely for athletic programs to post exchange officials.
The shop is exclusively for training this week some of th<*
henceforth.
Wacs, nurses, wives of officers units will get additional training
reason of staggering ship
Watch for war community and women employes who live by
ments
to permanent stations.
on
the
post.
chest drive.
Camp
Quarterbacks
51 st Stages Show
At Service Club