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Cam p Abbot, Ore., Feb. 26, 1944 ABBOT ENGINEER Page Three bring a bottle of spirits info : camp they bring it back inside | them. A bushel of corn shelled still fills a bushel, but redice it to liquid and it fills a guatd house. And speaking of the guard house, there is one in there for impersonating an of ficer which is a serious offense. When he gets out he will preba- Another check was awarded bly find hisself in Djibuti. The n this week for a submission to when we get up in the morning Co. A of the 54th Bn., was to the “Ideas for Victory” program, the second thing we do is exer day awarded a plaque tor tacti this time to a fotrner civilian cise, the first being of course cal proficiency and Co. C re guard, Leonard P. Bailey. Ho breakfast. As you know Oregon ceived a plaque for administra suggested enclosing the maga is famous for its mountain aits, tion and another for technical zine and igloo areas and estab which reminds me a pair jus1 progress. With these awards the lishing a telephonic communica got married last Sunday in the program of making commenda tion system in order to safe chapel here in camp. In Chi >~- tions at periodic intervals during guard ammunition and ex tianity, a man can have only the training program got into plosives. one wife, and this is called mee swing within the 11th Gp. While this is the first cash otony. If he chooses to m an y award made since Lewis E. twice, this is called bigotry. Last week the 12th Group bat- Rainey, clerk in the sales office We have a dance every W- <T- tallions were given plaques to of the Supply and Service Divis nesday night too which all *he acknowledge proficiency in the ion, received $200 from Col. soldiers and also lady soldiers, three phases. As with the Frank S. Besson for a food ra mess awards, each battalion has is to say, Wacs, turn cut tion issue plan ,a number of sug 1 that three plaques, which will be and cover the dance floor .nd gestions are currently being con those that have given out at the end of the sixth, them bring their sidered, Major Frederick J. tenth, fourteenth, and final wives and sweethearts, b< ib Landenberger, chairman of the naturally, unless they are nor newly week of training. Committee on Awards, stated. weds. A soldier is a friend 1« Companies within the battal "Ideas for Victory,” was ini all and a brother to every otl.t r ions will be judged on adminis tiated by the W ar Department trative, technical, and tactical Me and the sergeant last June and calls for the pay soldier. proficiency. Explaining the basis get along good together. The ment of cash awards for sugges for deciding winners, Major day the sergeant and me tions by civilian employees otho-' A rthur Davidson, Post Inspec and Corporal Shepherd were ut which result in economy or im tor, said administrative profic in the woods when we »lavs of ship and sail are recalled in this photograph of an provement of manufacturing , walking iency is based on mess prepara The came upon two pole cats which Engineer trainee undergoing one phase of training in rigging at processes or in the administra tion, food conservation, medical Camp Abbot. The trainee’s current problem is that of correctly tion of the W ar Department. .some people call skunks. T hty and sanitary conditions. applying his knowledge of the "square knot.” Awards are authorized up to both had their guns with them. Technical training progress $250 with the approval of the Two shots rung nut. One skunk will be judged by the training commanding officer, and ideas ¡fell dead and the other went- officers on the basis of perfor may be submitted by depositing I through his tail. The serge, t mances in construction assign them in suggestion boxes, from | carried the live one back to camp ments, bridge building, and the which they are collected and ! as he said he knew the sard- like. Tactical plaques will be ' tary way of carrying a skunk. ! anonymously considered. given to the company which The whole way back Corpcial most satisfactorily meets field Shepherd kept tickling the ser If you think you’ve had your ups and downs in the problems and training exercises. geant and the sergeant said he Plaques will be displayed in army and have been the victim of capricious pranks as the | would leave go and the skunk the mess halls by the winning mills of a mammonth organization ground out its neces would bite Cpl. Shepherd ii ho companies, and there is no limit sary but sometimes mysterious assignments, compare your kept right on tickling him - d to the number of awards a military career with that of Pvt. Robert Rankin, a Camp Camp Abbot, Oregon. Corporal Shepherd did and the Abbot soldier. single company may win. One Dear folks: did and the skunk > :i A day before the Dieppe raid, T Sgt. Robert Rankin I wrote you last time about sergeant company may win awards for all The pole cat is only one of mr-my three phases, Major Davidson of the Essex Scottish Regi- this wonderful country out here animals belonging to the oat said. m ent, the o rig in al com m ando in Oregon where our camp is family. Others are the t;*h< i situated. This time I am going cat. the mother eat and t.vo o u tfit, received o rd ers to re to tell you about life in camp kittens. When we got Ipack 1p turn to Canada. He had been MORE ABOUT as you know our soldiers are camp we decided we wanted Jo overseas for a year and a half about the best taken care of of keep the skunk but the liento n- fighting the Germans in France any army in the world. They ! ant said to get rid of him and and Belgium, and didn’t like to leave. He was only 15, but he Patients at the Station Hospi «urn the lights out at 10 o’clock ' we knew it was no use arguing himself a veteran—he'd been tal will turn fashion experts each night. This is done to shut ’vith a lieutenant so we took k,m (Continued • from • • Page One) felt at Dunkirk and in South Afri (probably in their grave ', design off the crap games so the guys out in back and shot him nd best acts of the miniature revue. ca, and England. will get enough sleep. We have while Corporal Shepherd hold Margie Brewer does a lively * 1 So back he w e n t, and was and wear their own newsprint a very nice, strong corporal him down with a forked stick costumes and “cop” prizes in the routine of toe, novelty, comedy, handed an honorable discharge who worked hard day and night the sergeant skinned him. You and special dances. Janie Hodges i from the Canadian army. He re bargain at a “newspaper party” just so he could get to be a surely must be surprised to see sings ballads and hit tunes; and I turned to the United States, mis to be held at the Red Cross Re sergeant so he could get the , me typing. I have had 12 Hall Monday night. x\lso W alter Fulkerson rounds out the ; represented his age and enlist creation raise so he could afford to , sons and am learning to type the program will be the cur $12 evening with novel accordion ar ed in the Army. In eleven months on lose more money and he is per slowly. This letter too): exactly rent events contests, relays rangements. he was a staff sergeant, training which somehow involve news fectly satisfide now because he 40 minutes. In my next 1< s<,on special service troops. A short papers and a “funny paper sez since he is a sergeant now we aré learning ho\y [<j -.yyjj . n time later he was discharged charade” which should be well he still has the same amount , it. These things sure are won with “minority” given as the worth seeing just to find out of mony left each payday and derful if you can only control MORE ABOUT he don't have to worry about in the ^oshflainthings damit !.: k reason. what in hell it is. Rankin tried the merchant Just in case anyone has any come tax because soldiers are I will end my letter with a pc *• marine next, and was commis funny ideas, supervisors will exinct from income tax for the this time. a lieutenant junior grade keep a sharp lookout for a man duration. Then an officer comes Here’s to the happy, bound g (Continued From Page One) sioned around to make a bed check. flea, by the Maritime commission. As with a match. totaling S77.413 a n d 307 out a staff officer, he sailed the seas Thursday night, patients will This consists mainly of looking You cannot tell a he from it she. right grants totaling $15,129 to the Solomons and made the fire questions at four members at each bed to see if any heads * from June 1, 1934, through Jan. perilous northern route to Arch of the Kiwanis Club of Bend in are missing. If they are then angel. He shipped around the a combination community sing the guilty party is AWOL and plainly see, 31, 1944, he said. Goal for the national cam world until his eighteenth birth and open forum program. that means a woman on the But he can tell, and so r rt loose. Mostly when one of them paign is 200 million dollars. No day, and then decided to go back t lovins quota has been set for Camp to the army, now that he was old Miuwaukee <CNS) — A om- is absent it is sometimes trace enough. fort-loving local resident has able to a weak soul trying to Abbott. That's where he is now tak trained his pet cat to scratch his smuggle a pint back into camp I t ’s >«iur C íe , so ld ie r— IN - back. and as the rules say they cannot SI RE IT! Buy National W ar Bonds Now! ing basic training in C-57. Plaques Show Proficiency of Training Units KNOTTY PROBLEM Former Guard Wins Check for Victory Idea Veteran of Dunkirk in Abbot Training Unit USO Show Patients to Hold Newspaper Party Red Cross Drive Male Call by Milton Camff creator of Terry and the Pirates R. H. I. P. (Rank Hinders Impromptu Proposition^ TSUXS-y VA 4M - I VE BEE N -i TANPIN' JP m A TEAlN FOE PAVE.1.. YOOBE S CT DEL Y N I C E - B I T VOUEE 6 E A JT IP U lJjl WEU-- 1 raoooWT for VÄWÜILE X rvASEECUNfD ) f o e ■¿ a l v a o e .'... rue ' NAME H LACE... 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