C a m p A b b o t, Ore., A p ril 29, 1944
A B B O T E N G IN E E R
Materials School
Scheduled Here
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refused to give up the almost
irreplaceable rod. Then Corporal
1 Chapman started casting. Even-
j tually there was a tug on his
lino, and from the depths of the
I river he drew, not a fish, but
one fine new fishing rod and
reel.
Invasion Date
For Europe Set
A one-day materials handling
D-Day has been set. and the
school is being held during April
Allied western invasion tim e
and May throughout the Ninth
Arriving in front of Head table worked out to the minut
Service Command for the pur
quarters Annex “ A ” on his way est detail, officials in Washing
pose of showing, by actual dem
to work one morning this week, ton have announced.
onstration, the best and most
our official mileage computer
To date only a few high-rank
economical hand methods of
beheld a new set of pointers on ing officers know the date, but
handling m i l i t a r y materials,
the multiple load indicator in top flight commanders are being
Maj. General David McCoach
Headquarters Circle, announc frank in their talks with their
Jr., has announced. Classes will
ing the purported coincidence: officers and men in some ie-
be held in warehouses, using
“ Hokio 7,000 mil.” (west) and I spects. Some troops even have*
current receipts and issues of
“ Berlin 7,000 mi.” (east).
been told the assignments they
supply as physical properties.
Incredulously our m ile a g e may expect.
Date for classes at Camp Ab
computer set to work with a
Brig. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
bot is May 10-11.
piece of string and a map, and commander of the American
All Directors of Supply, Stor
just as he had anticipated, found ground forces in the Unite«!
age Officers and key civilian
the statement in error, the dis Kingdom, scoffed at predictions
personnel of all posts, camps
tance to Tokio being only, five of tremendous losses and s.«••!
and stations will a t t e n d the
inches of string as a crow flies, that, although the success of the
school on tilt- appointed day for
even if a crow wanted to fly to whole war depends on the ojm -
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PL.
DOROTHY
WENDERSKI
their station. At stations where |
Tokio, whereas Berlin was easi ation, he had no fear as to the-
the school is to be held, one-half
From cutting semi-precious such materials as moonstone,
ly seven inches distant. Describ : outcome.
of the civilian warehouse per stones to taking blood counts, turquois, and petrified wood.
ing an arc, with a seven-inch
sonnel, excluding clerical help, basal metabolism tests, and elec
Corporal Wenderski came to
string, however, our resourceful chorus of spirited h o n k i j t j T
will attend the first day of the trocardiographs is the step Cpl. Camp Abbot with the first con
brought headquarters employ
school, and the remaining one- Dorothy VVenderski made from tingent of WACs in May, 1943, m. c. found that Tokio is in fact ees to windows and out into the
7,000
miles
away—via
Fort
Yu
half of the civilian personnel the civilian to Army life. Formerly upon completion of basic train
rain. The source w as discovered
following day.
of Santa Monica, California, she ing in Des Moines, Iowa. Be- kon, Alaska, or the Gilbert Is to be several large formations
lands, two routes whose prac
is now a laboratory technician cause of her aptitude for labo-
ticability have a l r e a d y been of geese beating it south at a
at the Camp Abbot hospital. Her ratory work, the post hospital
i
proved
by United States forces. high altitude.
ambition is eventually to be sent her to Barnes General Hos-
Anyone who has wondered head of a department doing the pital in Vancouver, Washington,
For the benefit of those train Laundry Work Outlined
what the American s o l d i e r , same kind of work in one of last December for further train-' ees whose home f o l k s may On Weekly Radio Program
ing.
Uncle
Sam's
large
hospitals.
transplanted from this fair land
doubt their reports of the sylvan
Operation of the Quartermas
Before she joined the Women’s
The photographer must have aspect of the post, we publish
of vivid realism and sometimes
ter laundry at Camp Abbot ami
sordid materialism to the mystic Army Corps in February, 1943, been thinking more of his craft the following facts, in the se methods of collecting and dis
land of the Taj Mahal, fakir Corporal Wenderski was a lapi than his art when he took the rene thought that a newspaper tributing bundles in the huge,
rope climbers, and sacred ele- dary, but that doesn’t count above photograph, for a great , clipping carries an implication $500,000 plant were discuss« «1
ph’ants thinks about, is provided 1 against her; it merely means she deal of Corporal Wenderski’s of authenticity.
Wednesday night on “Camp Ab
with a clue in a recent issue of followed the rather limited occu- blonde loveliness is hidden be-
1. At about eight o'clock one bot on Parade,” weekly radio
the C-B-I (China-Burma-India) pation of carving into jewels hind the microscope.
morning early this week, a herd show, broadcast over KBND in
“ Roundup,” just received.
of eight deer, traveling due Bend. Featured on the 15-minutr
After reporting current war anese in Northern Burma this votes a goodly part of page one south, romped out of the woods program were Lt. Howard I.
news in such virile language as, week received two more solid to the following:
north of thcsobstacle course, and Pulver, laundry officer, and
Pin-up picture of an American at a point opposite the officers’ Miss Calla Johnson of Bend,
“ Already badly mauled, the Jap- body blows,” the "Roundup” de-
Indian girl, who from where we mess right - f a c e d and disap laundry employe. The intervn w
sit seems to have on even less peared into the woods behind was conducted by Lt. Ham« It
than our own “cheese • cake” the rifle ranges.
Whiteman, assistant Public Re
models, “ to show Indians in
2. Wednesday a f t e r no o n a lations Officer.
CBI-land what Indians in th e !-
United States look like;”
Two news stories carrying the
following heads, respectively,
“ Chaplin’s Plea Refused,” and
“ Dies Opens A t t a c k Upon
Winchell;”
The following tribute deliv
ered with a bunch of violets to
Paulette Goddand during her en
tertainment tour in China by an I
admiring G. I.: “These are the !
first violets of the year to lift
their faces above the antique
soil of Old Cathay, quite un
daunted by warring man. I pluck
them forthwith for the loveliest
fate a violet could wish—to bask
in the light of your bright eyes. ’
Yes, all is well with our boys.
Abbot Face!
EVERYTHSNG BUT A JUKE BOX
Complete and compart is the Coast Guard’s description of its new
JO-man "life kraft,” latest answer to the terrors of torpedoed sea-
men. This new all-metal raft is a virtual ship in itself with rooking
facilities, sails, food supplies and even a "morale kit” which in-
eludes a Bilde, playing cards, tobacco and chewing gum.
A'tingle with a healthy zest
for the out-of-doors, Cpls. Stan
ley Brown and Willis Chapman
of the Motor Pool sought their
favorite trout fishing grounds
along a certain precipitous bank
of the Deschutes river, near a
certain pine tree, Wednesday
afternoon. Corporal Brown care
fully assembled his new rod ar.d
reel and baited a hook. With
one powerful arm-and-shoulder I
movement he cast. A moment |
later he was gazing, bewildered,
at his right hand, clutching all
that remained of his fine fishing
rod -a cork handle,
. .
chartered and the
A D° at
chartered and the
river dragged, but the trout pool
by Milton Caniff, creator of Terry and the Pirates'
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