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Saturday, Nov. 6, 1943 ABBOT ENGINEER Floor Show to Be Feature of NCO Open house SHO NUF! Page T h re e Pvt. Period P!on Buried Here With Full Military Honors (B y Pvts. John M cK ay and George Goodwill, Co. A , 57th Bn.) Impressive rites marked the burial ceremony for Private Period Plan last Saturday after noon. The deceased was buried with full military honors and head ing the long list of mourners at the graveside was the entire complement of Co. A. 57th (old 56th) Engr. Ting. Bn. Among others who paid their last re spects to the deceased was Col. Russel Lyons, commanding of ficer, 12th Group, Maj. William H. Avery, and Capt. Allen Jensen. Burial services were held as the final act of Co. A's training schedule. Their training com pleted, the company, command ed by Capt. Walter II. Zwick, proceeded to the burial plot. The company felt the loss of Pri vate Period Plan keenly. lie had been their constant advisor and special efforts w e r e made to make the solemn occasion one whicVi would go down in the annals of the ERTC. The remains lay in state in the first platoon. They reposed in a casket of drab gray, inside of which were a mass of pro grams and schedule sheets that had accumulated during the 12 weeks the company had been as sociated with the deceased. As the men filed past tile bier they reformed in the company street where Capt. Zwick gave temporary command to Pvt. George Goodwill of the first pla toon who, to the strains of Men delssohn's funeral march, led the company to an improvised cemetery plot. Music for the solemn occasion was furnished by the ERTC band, led by War rant Officer Charles Spalding. Following the band came the pallbearers, Sgts. Kincaid, L u g e , Hudson and Saul, bearing the casket. As the mourners group'd themselves around the grave they heard a fitting eulogy, has tily written by Pvt. John McKay, of the fourth platoon. Orders have been issued tr at the grave tie given constant cate. Tin' newly activated battalion commander has instructed the company commander to detail the soldier "gigged” most dur ing the wqek to care for ».no giave the following Sunday. Two floor shows at 2000 and 2045 will feature the ‘‘Open House” of the NCO Club Mon- j day night. Final plans for the elaborate program which will be staged for members, prospective members, their wives and girl friends, were made Monday night at a meeting of the board of directors. A special NCO band, composed of members of the ERTC band, C H A P L A IN TO ( lU 'K l'H who are also members of the MKKT club, will furnish the music. Cpl. Chaplain William H. Andrew “ Pat” Halloran w ill act as mast will leave this weekend for Dal er of ceremonies. Additional fea las, Tex., where he will atte itl tures a£ the evening entertain the annual meeting of the Bap ment program will be bingo tist General Convention of TV y . games, table tennis, and cards. Prior to his entry in the serv .e The drab interior of the build Maj. Andrew was pastor oi :» ing has undergone a transition Baptist church at Bryan, T o in the past few days. The arrival Chaplain Andrew has sen d of gayly covered furniture, the ns a member of the Exeeut vc painting of the cement floor and Board of this convention lo r the addition of drapes gives the twelve y ears and has been - he recreation and library room a chairman of many import; »t distinct club-like atmosphere. | A N Y OLD TIME— Linda Konia.v, of whom this picture gives a committees, including budgets The directors also announced general idea, does not sing regularly on any NBC program. She and student work. He will mese the appointment of two commit only was heard in a guest spot on the Fitch Bandwagon program an appeal to ministers in »he tees. T, Sgt. W. R. Heard was recently. But (we have to think of everything), who knows but interest ot the Chaplaincy wl named as chairman of the enter what she may come back some time? So, for the record, here's her in Dallas. tainment committee. Other mem portrait. bers are T/Sgt. Max E. Millsap Sicily (CNS) When F O M. u- and 1st Sgt. Robert Schumacher. convinced myself that at least failed to clean his finger nails, rice L. Plummer of Indianapt :s one of the shoes I have on is my that all are closely shaven, and M Sgt. Bill V. Anthony heads crash landed his plane in an the House Committee and he own. Now to the latrine for a that no one needs a hair-cut. open field here two men in <.»r: will be assisted by 1st Sgt. James half-hearted effort at shaving. This inspection is not difficult man uniforms rushed lip to h • n. Sawyer and Sgt. William T.' Result: no success, due to my Plummer thought he’d been e.‘p- shattered nerves and plenty of if one refers to Section 3, liage Massa. 75, A. C. L. ttired but the Germans said no. The club is anxious that all ice cold water. We are cooking breakfast now, They led him to a farmhouse I reach the kitchen in time to men and Wacs of the first five and I find it necessary to inter where he found t h a t he tail help the cook build the fires. You grades who are eligible for mem rupt a K. P. who is turning a landed in an Allied camp 'or bership, and who have not join see, the cook is only a 4th grade piece of French Toast that has technician and is not considered Axis prisoners. ed, to attend the open house and started to burn. I patiently ex see for themselves the features competent to build a fire with out supervision. Besides, he re plain to him that he must not do When You’ve Read it Please of this new recreation spot. ceived his rating as a cook, not such things because he is a grad Pass The ENGINEER A R O W IX as a fireman. Well, it doesn't uate of the Bakers and Cooks take more than thirty or forty School. 0715: Breakfast is over with minutes for the two of us to de termine that all ranges have the out mishap. It is now time to proper amount of fire and that measure and weigh the edible By a Mess Sergeant waste. Our scale is not too ac- i Before I go into the details of the fire is properly spread in the curate, so we estimate that two fire box. Of course, one man is a Mess Sergeant’s daily routine, and one half slices of French ! I feel that I should w-arn the kept busy all day long going Toast weighs about three ounces. from stove to stove, shoveling reader of one thing. At times The results of the measure during this discourse, I may the coal dust from the ash draw ments are recorded on CAOIG sound slightly unbalanced, may- er back into the fire box where Form No. 983.1. it often stays till you put the lid 4ye even a little irritated. But This being the 12th of th? back on the stove. The coal we please bear with me, and remem month, I must make out my re ber than not so long ago I was a use is of the same quality now port on our Condiment Status, calm, rational person, perfectly in use by the Alaskan Road Com CAOQN, Et>rm No. 502 and get mission for sub-grading over sane and fully capable of control the Commanding Officer or Ad ling myself under the most try boggy ground. It’s 0505, time to awaken the ministrative Officer to sign it. ing conditions. How much a man Oh yes, I almost forgot that can, in a few months, revert to a charge of the Quarters so he can this is also the day for subsis hideous, growling beast, a phy awaken the K. P.'s. The first K. tance inventory. This is simple. sical and nervous wreck, is hard P. to reach the kitchen is detail It can all be done on one form, ed to help me clean the grease to believe; but here ahe the traps. This is a simple procedure CA 426-49. As soon as that is facts. signed by the Company Com A fter three or four hours of if you follow the instructions as mander I can take off for the set forth in paragraph 1124 d, restless tossing and rolling, try Warehouse to draw subsistence. ing to get an hours sleep, I am <1), (2), and (3), CAR. After the (Continued Next Week) up to start another day of Hell. traps are cleaned and the grease I fumble around in the dark try is separated from the water and Lansing, Mich. (CNS) Dates ing to dress, bumping my head other valueless waste, the sal on the upper bunk and stubbing vaged grease must be weighed are being rationed for coeds at my already bruised and aching and the results entered on Michigan State college. Each girl has received a ration hook toes on a bucket of coal. I could CAOPE Form No. 515. 0545: A ll K. P.’s and cooks are with 30 coupons each good for turn on the light, but it would be unfair to awaken everyone here now, so I inspect them to a night o ff the campus. The ' ^ (Courtesy AAFSAfl) else in the barracks, at the un see that their clothing is clean, idea, said Patricia Stone, presi •«That’s n o V c x n c fly 'w h a l w e i m a n b y lo w e rin g the flapui reasonable hour of 0400. I finally that they have all bathed within dent of women students, is to iMaurer !” get out of the barracks, having the last 24 hours, that no one has give college life "a war angle." A Mess Sergeant's Day by Milton Caniff. creator of Terry and the Pirates” SAale Call HISS LACE, t h ' l i t t l e •C0N1E 15 £0 HOMESICK C2. HIE WIPE WE C A N T JO NOTHIN' WITH HIV\... ■iE WOULDN’T THINK. OF \EKIN' YOU POE. 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