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r Saturday, Nov. 6, 1943 ABBOT ENGINEER Page Two N O N C O M S PLAY PA Unit to Air Popular Records O fficial cam p new spaper, published weekly in the interests of the personnel of Camp Abbot, O regon, under supervision of the Special Service O fficer. News m atter pertaining to Cam p Abbot ia furnish ed by the Public Relations B ranch and is available for general release. W ritten contributions, a rt w ork an d photographs are solicited and should be directed to the Public R elations B ranch. Boat Hdqs. A nnex, Bldg. 202. Telephone Ext-8. T he ABBOT E N G IN E E R receives m aterial supplied by Cam p N ew spaper Service. W ar D ep't.. 206 E. 42nd S t.. N ew York. N. Y. Credited m aterial m ay not be republished w ithout perm is ion of Cam p N ew spaper Service. D istributed free to cam p personnel. Subscription ra te to public, by m a il: 50 cents for three m onths; six m onths, $1.00; one year, $1.50. FUN SCHEDULE Entertainment On and Off the Post for Week November 6 to November 13 SATURDAY Dingo Party, Red Cross Recreation Room, 7:00. Open House, Service Club. Open House, USO, Bend. SUNDAY Open House for friends and relatives, Red Cross Recreation Hall. Station Hospital. 1:00-8:30 p. m. Music Hour, USO, Bend, 10:00-4:30-5:30 p. m. MONDAY Song Fest, Red Crass Recreation Hall, Station Hospital, 7:00. (lame Night, USO, Bend. Music Graduation Small Instruments, 52nd and 53rd Bns., Service Club, 7:30 p. m. TUESDAY Card Party, USO, Bend, 8:00 p. m. Bingo Night, Service Club, 8:00 p. m. WEDNESDAY Homies Movies, Red Cross Recreation Hall, Station Hospital, 7:00 p. m. “Camp Abbot on Parade” (weekly radio broadcast) KBND, 7:45 o’clock. Stamp Club, USO, Bend, 7:30 p. m. Dance, Service Club, 8:30 p. m. THURSDAY Open House, Red Cross Recreation Hall, Station Hospital. Bingo, USO, Bend. Talent Show, Service Club, Medical Detachment, 8:00 p. m. FRIDAY Movie, Redcross Recreation Hall, Station Hospital. Dance, USO, Bend. GI Movies, Service Club, 8:00 p. m. SATURDAY Jigsaw Puzzle Night (with prizes), USO, Bend. Open House, Service club. Engineers Devise New Smoke Laying Machines The Army’s putting finishing touches on the newest thing in generators big smoke machines that can lay down protective screens over troops in the field or war plants in a few minutes. Several hundred men and wom en can blot out huge areas in a short time. Details of the new generator M-l are still a military secret, hut it looks like a big box full of mechanical gadgets. It's rigged with throe tanks that carry smoke making materials and its power comes from its own small motor. Jels at the front of the hig boiler project the smoke, which is harmless to inhale. The whole outfit is mobile, having its own special four - wheeled trailer which can lx1 hauled by almost any motor vehicle. Camp Abbot soldiers will hear popular recording by a number of the nation’s leading singers and orchestras as soon as the post’s public address system is repaired and re-installed, the Special Service Office announc ed this week. The unit was dam aged two weeks ago when a windstorm blew it from its mountings atop the All Purpose Recreation Hall. Included in sets of records re cently obtained by the Special Service Office are selections fea turing Bea Wain, Bing Crosby, Dianh Shore, Andre Costelanetz, Alan Jones, Frank Sinatra, Tom my Dorsey, Eddie Cantor, Mar ian Hutton and the Modernaires, Alvino Rey, and the Fort Slocum Military band. Martial selections include Russian and Chinese marching songs. C H U R C H RITES LOCATION OF CHAPELS Post C h a p e l , Bids. 208; 11th Gp. Bide. 754 ; H ospital Chapel In Red Cross Chapel. Bid«. 1235 ; 12th Gp. Chapel, R ecreation hall. — Photo By ERTC Publications. Here are the Noncoms in their new club Red Cross Party Her Husband Attended Led to W ife's Job A Red Cross New Years Party he seamed so sincerely pleased in England indirectly led to a with the Red Cross efforts, I JEWISH SERVICES him and asked wha‘ he Friday, 7:30 p. m. Post Chapel Camp Abbot Red Cross recrea wrote thought me entering the (Blgd. 208). tion aide’s decision to join the work,” said of Mrs. Charlton. “He CATHOLIC SERVICES Red Cross staff. w rite back immediately he Confessions Saturday, Post A letter from her husband, a thought it was grand. It that didn’t Chapel. Masses at 9 a. m. and in the Corps of En take me long to change my mind 6:30 p. m. Sunday at Post Chapel. lieutenant gineers, and now stationed in from being a stay-at-home wife, Masses daily, except Thursday, North Africa, in which he waxed to doing something to help en at 5:10 p. m. at Post Chapel. so enthusiastic of the Red Cross men in the service, too.” Choir rehearsal 7 p. m. Tuesday. entertainment on New Years tertain Mrs. Charlton arrived at Camp PROTESTANT SERVICES Eve led Mrs. Ruth Charlton of Abbot, Oct. 1. She had previously Services at 10 a. m. and 7:30 the Station Hospital staff here, attended a Red Cross recreation p. m. Sunday at Post Chapel. to investigate the possibilities oi school in San Francisco. Her 11:15 a. m. Protestant Commun being a worker in the war effort, home is in Riverside, Cal., and ion Service. Service for 54th Bn. too. previous to her marriage she (quarantine) at 11th Group ”1 was so thrilled at the des was studying optometry. She is Chapel at 6:00 p. m. Bible Study cription my husband wrote of assistant recreation director Class at 7 p. m. Monday at Post that party in England, in which here. Chapel. Choir rehearsal at 7 p. m. Wednesday at Post Chapel. EULOGY BAND PLAYS FRIDAY HOSPITAL SERVICES W ar Fund Contributions (By Pvt. Jo hn T. M cKay) The ERTC band will give a Will Meet All Expectations Catholic confessions at Red of On 43, a sunny A ugust m orning, in the year special concert next Friday night Cross Recreation Hall at 7 a.m. A n in fa n t cam e to being th a t was m eant at the Service Club. The band, Constributions by Camp Ab Sunday. Mass (visitors invited) for you and nu me. rtured and sometimes coddled directed by W arrant Officer bot military personnel to the Na at Red Cross Recreation Hall at by H ou e r was ceaseless C aptain Zwick sometimes used it ruthlessly, as a Charles S. Spalding will give the tional W ar Fund are meeting all 7:30 a. m. Sunday. Protestant tu to Who r would a stick. following program: expectations, according to Lt. service at Red Cross Recreation from We loved this little period plan rig h t “Poet and Peasant Overture,” the very sta rt, Col. Philip M. Bedessem, chair Hall at 10 a. m. Sunday. Even m arched along beside it, giving it by Suppe. “Jesu, Joy of Man’s the best of our soldier's heart. man of the drive. No figures on DENOMINATIONAL H e soon grew frisky, and his antics Desiring,” Bach. “Polka,” Shos plenty rough the exact amount contributed SERVICES A nd he'd gain a certain pleasure, in takovich. “Strotoswing,” Walt will be available until after con Episcopal Holly Communion m aking basic som ew hat tough. He got nasty, as he grew older, and ers. “Marching Song,” Holst. clusion of the drive, No. 12, Col. Service at 8:00 a.m. Post Chapel caused “Waltz Grotesque,” Hayes. An us plenty sighs and sorrow , m ake us travel long hikes and on dante and March,” from Pathetic Bedessem said. L.D.S. service at 7 p. m. Wed our H e’d reserve we’d have to borrow W hen he’d passed his adolescent age, w e'd Symphony, Tchaikovsky. nesday at 11th Group Chapel begun to slow him <fown, Christian Science service at 7 p we really stayed rig h t on the ball, NEW WAC STAFF DIRECTOR m. Thursday at 12th Gp. Chapel am Cause i w ere going rig h t to town. Hollywood (CNS) — Mrs. Ar- A s the weeks passed on so endlessly, he Capt. Arlee L. Kelly of El Lutheran Communion at 7:30 p becam e a little mellow. line Peak Fear, a pretty secre Paso, Tex., has been named staff m. Thursday at Post Chapel. But he was still the sam e old period plan and a really sw ell old fellow. tary, who said Ralph Gordon director of the Wac of the Ninth h,Hm.aTai"i",imt^ke!e,e h*re B“d Fear, her millionaire husband, Service Command, headquarters u, life §n_a_tim of Maj. Gen. David McCoach, Descendant of LaFayette p u B>- ttin g joining his very a* stake. day pruM«n, claimed he first married her 2,- The poor old soul caught pneum onia, 300 years ago when he was a commanding general, announced Aide Now Trainee at Cam p cause he couldn’t stand the pare. E ven the best Medics of Cam p Abbot Roman warrior in a previous in this week. Capt. Kelly will be A direct descendant of Dr. couldn’t race. chief of the Wacs in Washing Manasseh Cutler, who served as H e died help w ith him his win pals the around him. and carnation, has sued him for di our grief is very deep. ton, Oregon. California, Idaho, aide de camp to General Marquis As wo lav him down to rest now,# to vorce. Their long marriage, she claims, didn’t prevent him from Montana. Utah, Nevada and De LaFayette during the Ameri begin his endles sleep. hopping out of bed one morn Arizona. can Revolutionary War, is a Save for Security! Save with ing when his nude niece walked member of Co. A, 53rd Eng. in to display her suntan. Trng. Bn. He is Pvt. Marshal Security!—Buy BONDS! Shepherd, whose home town is by Sansone The Wolf Los Angeles. The name of Dr. Cutler recent ly figured in news headlines when the ship “Manasseh Cut ler” was launched by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corporation on the yard's second anniversary and Victory Fleet Day. Ce*,«pit I W ___ mmn .-tiff month my light biH «II only 431. Corporal! ' L BRIDGE RAGING TORRENTS Last Sunday's Army Hour pro gram revealed that at an experi mental station at Imperial Dam, near Yuma, Ariz., Army Engin eers are learning to bridge rag ing torrents. Lt. Col. B. H. Grundborg, commanding officer of the 87th Engineer Heavy Pon ton Battalion, stated: “Our test ing here is pointed toward devel oping a bridge that can be used to cross any kind of river, no matter how swift.” A cable read on the program from Brig. Gen. H. J. Casey, Southwest Pacific, sketched the heroic work done by Topographical Engineers in mapping the jungles before the At/Jes gained air superiority, making possible successes like those at Wewak and Rabaul. 1 by Lawurd Stntoag. d ntn fciM b, Cta _____ t*4 v • > * - J h a n k i aw fully for he lp m o m e I m i » there tom e w a y I ta n ra p a y y o u ? A