UP SHE GOES
News, Music
Slated With
Repair of 'PA'
News flashes hot from the
wires of the nation’s news serv-
ives, music and transcriptions of
local musical productions and
stage shows will become a regu
lar feature for Camp Abbot sol
diers soon, through the medium
of the camp's public address sys-
tme, the Special Service Office
announced' this week. Amplify
ing equipment, made useless
when a high wind blew speakers
from their perch atop the All-
Purpose building a couple of
months ago, was restored to ser
vice this week w h e n Station
KWJJ in Portland loaned the
camp a set of speakers to use
until the original set has been
repaired. Equipment was install
ed atop the Service Club.
Installation of the new speak
ers makes possible new use of
recording equipment acquired
last week from the Internation
al Woodworkers Union in Port
land. The latter machine, loan
ed by the CIO organization un
til the arrival of a set being
built f o r presentation to the
camp by the Portland station,
will be used to make transcrip
tions of local programs as well
as to make individual midget
records which soldiers and mem
bers of ^he W A C may send
home.
Some 400 of the small records
have been received by the Spe
cial Service Office and will be
distributed to various camp units
on a pro rata basis.
The new speakers, as well as
the recording apparatus, was
brought here by Les Marcus,
staff announcer of KWJJ.
Furnishings for
Dayrooms Set
As soon as the necessary pri
orities a r e
obtained, $6,000
worth of furniture for Camp
Abbot dayrooms will be purchas
ed through the c o u n t y Red
Cross camp and hospital com
mittee, Ben Hamilton, chairman,
has announced. The $6,000 rep
resents the amount of the coun
ty war chest earmarked for fur
nishing dayrooms and has been
available since the county's $27,-
500 quota was reached late in
November.
Bend Knights of Columbus,
Elks, Veterans’ groups, and the
Civic league each equipped
rooms at the camp previous to
the war chest drive. Furniture
purchased from the chest funds
will be divided among the re
maining "living rooms" for the
boys, Hamilton said. At present,
members of the committee are
working with Abbot special serv
ice representatives on the spe
cific needs.
Bill Veeck, president of the
Milwaukee Brewers in the Amer
ican Baseball Association, has
joined the Marines and is taking
his boot training at San Diego,
Cal.
'Rush Raising'
Rites Held
For New Mess
And old Texas custom was re
vived in Oregon recently when
officers and enlisted men of
Camp Abbot staged a “ bush rais
ing” ceremony to celebrate the
near-completion of the roof of
the new addition to the officers’
moss.
Participants in the program,
which is modeled after the
“ roof raising” ceremony of Eng
lish tradition, were the men who
had a h a n d in planning and
erecting Ihc structure. Like the
English ceremony, Friday’s pro
gram marked the virtual com
pletion of the roof without the
loss of life or limb.
It was the custom of English
workmen to celebrate the occa
sion by getting drunk; however,
service men confined their de
bauch to consuming 3.2 per cent
beer and staging an impromptu
entertainment
program which
poet Signal Photo Lab.
included group singing led hy
Up goes the bush at the “ bush raising" ceremony held at the new addition to the Officers’ Mess last Lt. Robert Herring and selec
week to celebrate the near-completion of the roof without the loss of life and limb. The custom was
imported from Texas and originally sprung from the “ roof raising" celebration of English tradition. tions by the Camp Abbot band,
directed by Warrant Officer
(See story).
Charles S. Spalding.
Included in the more formal
aspects of the program were
brief talks by Col. Frank S. Bes*
son, ERTC commander; Maj. Le-
Compte Joslin, director of train
ing, and Capt. Howard F. Me-,
Keown, wiio was in charge of
Camp Abbot will go on the air at 7 p. m. Friday to construction. The invocation was
begin a weekly series of 45-minute radio broadcasts over read by Chaplain Norman M.
a northwest network.
Sponsored by the Barde Steel Goldhurg.
\
The bush was hauled from the
Congestion of telephone facili Company of Portland and entitled “ Pacific Parade,” the
program will be devoted to the promotion of government floor of the building by rope and
ties at Camp Abbot was relieved
activities and will feature music by the Camp Abbot band nailed in place atop one of the
considerably this week with the and dance orchestra.
huge, rustic roof beams by T/-
opening of an eight-booth attend
Stations in the northwest
Sgt. William M. Corts, non-com
by
S
Sgt.
Jack
Hayes.
The
clos
ants’ exchange in the building chain include: KWJJ in Port
missioned officer in charge of
behind the Post Signal Office on land, KORE in Eugene, KJR in ing section will consist of parts construction.
of “Over There Fantasy” by
Seattle and KBND in Bend.
Center street.
Officers and men who plan
Under the new system, pat
Broadcast of the first pro Grofe, played by the entire band. ned or aided in building the
Sgt. Dante DiThomas, arrang
rons merely fill out a slip listing gram, the theme of which is
, structure, a spacious, two-story
where and to whom the call is to bond sales, will originate in the er and former clarinetist with building of Oregon timber and
be placed, give it to the attend studios of KWJJ In Portland. Tommy Reynolds' orchestra, will natural stone, the latter pro
ant in charge and wait to be noti Camp Abbot’s portion of the pro be in charge of the dance band cessed at Camp Abbot and in
fied when the call has been put gram will be broadcast from the in the absence of Sergeant stalled in the fireplace and
through. Attendants also collect Service Club on the Post through Hayes, who left Wednesday on chimney, were Colonel Besson;
for the call, making it unneces the Portland station. Because of furlough.
LI. Col. Alvin M. Mock, execu-
Following the broadcast, the
sary to drop coins in a call box. a conflict in schedule for the
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The new addition is open from first broadcast, KBND will make band will play a Christmas Eve
concert
at
the
club.
4 to 11 p. m. week days and from a transcription of the show for
2 to 11 p. m. Sundays and holi rebroadcast at 7 p. m. Saturday.
days. As a special Christmas
Next week’s program will be
feature the booths will be open devoted to the WAC recruitment
The NCO club added sand
from 8:30 a. m. to 11 p. m. to and the following week’s to the
wiches to its menu this week
morrow. Two public booths (the “March of Dimes” campaign.
following the installation of
A New Year’s dance for mem
coin variety) are available in the
Use of other Camp Abbot tal bers of the NCO Club, their wives
a three-burner electric grill
lobby of the attendants' building ent on subsequent broadcasts and guests wil be held in the
and promptly Is-gan adver
during closed hours.
also is contemplated, Lt. V. G. club rooms Saturday, January 1,
tising I he biggest hamburg
Plans also are under way for Henderson, Special Service o ffi T/Sgt. Max Millsap, chairman
ers in Central Oregon for 15
installing new furnishings in the cer, said. In addition to being a of the entertainment committee,
rents. Hours for serving are
exchange. Magazines will be publicity medium for the post, announced this week. Music will
from 6:30 In 10:30 p. m.
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broadcasts also will provide en be provided by members of the
week nights, 6:30 p. m. In 1
tertainment for Service Club Camp Abbot band and dancing
a. m. Saturdays and 0:30 a.
audiences.
m. to 10:30 p. in. Sundays.
will be from 8:30 to 12 midnight.
The band’s part on the pro
gram will be divided into three
sections. Selections in the first,
GREETINGS FROM COL. BESSON
by the military band, will be
A good soldier is a happy soldier.
"Them Basses" by Huffine, fea
I wish you all happiness and success in whatever you
A record crowd attended Camp turing the bass section of the or
Abbot’s formal Christmas dance ganization, and “ Born is the
undertake during the new year.
at the Service Club Wednesday King,” a fantasy of Christmas
I give the Season’s greetings to all the Command,
carols, by Warrant Officer Char
night.
and thank those units, and officers and enlisted men
The hall was appropriately les S. Spalding, director. The
decorated with a Christmas tree dance band will be featured in
who have sent their greetings to me. I wish I could an
and garlands of evergreen. the second section. Numbers will
swer each personally.
Music was provided by Cpl. include "Liza” by Gershwin,
C O L O N E L F. S. B E S S O N
“New
Orleans
Jump"
by
Alexan
Agho Tiemann’s ERTC dance
der and “You’re Tops With Me"
band.
New Attendants' Camp Featured
Exchange Eases In Radio Series
'Phone Problem
NCO Club Plans
New Year's Dance
Christmas Dance
Sets New Record
NCO Grill