OPECCS «ÏTATE UCEA—/ V? 1 ,s 1944* It's Your Life, Soldier, Insure It! Remember! It's Also Your Duty to Vote Voi. 1 No. 52 Abbot to Get Coveted Bond Flag May 24 CAMP ABBOT, OREGON GIVE 'EM THE O N CE OVER The coveted “ T ” flag, awarded by the Treasury Department to arm y instal lations in which civilian per sonnel payroll deductions for w a r bonds total 90 per cent participation, with 10 per cent deduction, will be fo r mally presented to Col Frank S. Besson, Post Commander, by M ajor W alter L. Roche, War Bond Officer for the Ninth Service Command, at a retreat ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 24. Lt. Col. R. D. Turrill will act as master of ceremonies. The 362nd Army Services Forces band, under the direction of Warrant Officer C h a r l e s S. Spalding, will present a musical program. Special arrangements are be ing made for bus transpor tation for civilian personnel in view of the large number ex pected to attend the ceremony. Each civilian employee will be presented with a handsome pro gram, a memento of the oc casion. The flag, a beautiful blue and white banner, will fly from a new flagpole which is being F uh I S i g n a l i ' li ot o L.au. erected for that purpose at the southeast corner of headquar Photograph shows United States Senator Rufus C. Holman, member of the .Military Affairs Committee reviewing with Col. ters building. Frank S. Besson, Post Commander, a retreat parade, staged by Since winning the Treasury eight battalions in the Senator's honor recently. Other state and award, civilian employees of this local officials were present at the ceremony. station have increased war bond purchases through payroll de duction to one hundred per cent and 11.1 per cent deduction of pay. A Mother’s Day breakfast, to be served at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the parish hall of Saint Francis Next time an officer gives you of Assissi in Bend, will be the the proverbial bad time about first of a series of a f f a i r s that snag in your pants or the planned for Camp Abbot sol button o ff your shirt, don't diers by the National Catholic bother, brother, to offer an ex Community Service USO Club Forecast of frozen - h u ma n - and Knights of Columbus, W il cuse — because there isn't any. spare-part banks and of new liam Frey, director of the Bend The C & E Repair Shop, building miracles wrought by the drug, USO, has announced. An enter 325, will make all the necessary penicillin, was made in a recent tainment program is scheduled minor repairs on GI duds—and issue of the Department of Com following the serving of break for free. The alterations include shortening and le n g th e n in g merce publication, “ Domestic fast. trousers, shirt sleeves; sewing Commerce.” Tickets for the breakfast may Medical banks will become be obtained from Mr. Frey or buttons and chevrons; reducing commonplace, supplying hospi Catholic Chaplain Camille J. B. or enlarging waist sizes and re pairing small rips and snags. tals with frozen human parts Chasse of Camp Abbot. There is one way and only one fo r surgical emergencies, Eve way for the soldier to avail him lyn Schwartztrauber of the de self of this service. First, he partment’s drug and pharma First Military Personnel ceutical unit, and author of the Arrived Year Ago Monday should gather up everything he wants repaired in one batch— article, predicts. A year ago next Monday, a not in dribbles—and turn it in Penicillin holds the key to “a nucleus of 243 officers and 1,253 to his supply sergeant. Then all new world of mold therapy," she enlisted men arrived at Camp he has to do is wait a couple of writes. Such new strains as pat- Abbot to begin establishment of days. The stuff should be clean, Ulin, clavacin, actinomycin and administrative and tactical units naturally. Unnecessary altera fumagtin have been laboratory- in what is now one of the most tions, such as streamlining OD proved as great killing agents, important Army Service Forces shirts, will not be made. The and it is not too great a stretch training centers in the nation. service is available to enlisted Of imagination to envision “ a Two troop trains traveling a men only. whole new series of mold deriva day apart brought the pioneer tives specific for a great num contingents from Fort Leonard ber of disease causing infec BKIDGE, TEA HELD Wood, Mo., where Camp Abbot tions.” Hostesses this week for the Headquarters had been activated She also noted the possibility several weeks earlier. A couple regular tea-bridge of wives of of substitutes for blood dona of inches of snow covered the officers stationed at Camp Ab tions after the war, mentioning ground, and the camp was less bot were Mrs. D. H. Griswold, that beef blood now is being than 75 per cent complete. A chairman, and Mrs. J. R. Meeks, considered as a possibility. skeleton force of Ninth-Service Mrs. Phillip B. Ribbeck and Mrs. Command Army personnel had R. J. Sammarco. Playing begins Camp Abbot is now officially been “ running" the camp until at one o'clock, and tea is served Known as an A r m y Service the Engineer officers and cadre at four, each Wednesday after noon. Forces Training Center. arrived. USO Program for Mother's Day Set Spare Parts for Humans Foreseen Shop Fixes Gl Clothing Free May 13, 1944 GI Instructor Course Set Up Assigned Personnel to Undergo One Week’s Class in ‘Quidance’ A rm y camp training will pass from the little red school- house stage at Camp Abbot Monday, when the new In structors Guide Course set up by the W a r Department for all Arm y Service Forces posts is inaugurated by the Spe cialist Branch of the Training Division. Instruction will be started with approximately 20 enlisted men from the Training Division, and eventually every assigned officer and enlisted man on the post j--------------------------------------------- will complete the one-week course covering 48 hours of instruction. On the theory that every mili tary person is liable to some teaching assignment during his Army s e r v i c e , Capt. Smiley Raborn, Chief, Specialist Branch, stated Friday that the purpose of the course is to inculcate in as many as possible the proper Camp Abbot entertainers will principles and methods of Army make their second appearance at instruction. Building 861, now partially oc Portland's Victory Center Mon cupied by the demolition and day when members of the 362nd clerk schools, will house classes. Army Service Forces Band and Such almost unheard-of-features several well-known soloists par in post schools as sound-proof ticipate in a program devoted ing, fluorescent lighting, scien to the Fifth War Loan Drive and tific heating through circulation the second anniversary of the of air, and student chairs with I Women's Army Corps. The program, sponsored by desk arms, have been provided. “ No stone has been left un the War Finance Committee, turned to make conditions ideal will be presented from 12 noon for learning,” Captain Raborn to 1 p.m. at the center and will said Friday. "The Commanding i be broadcast in part by tran* Officer of the post, the Director scription over Station K A LE in of Training, the Post Engineer, Portland i 1320 kilocycles) at 3 and many other officers have i or 8:15 p.m. Monday night. Featured in the W AC portion contributed to b r i n g i n g this of the program will he Lt. Har about.” The plan is to house members riett M. Whiteman, assistant Public Relations officer for of future classes under one roof, Camp Abbot, and members of as it is thought this would fa cilitate study. “ We want to give the corps from Fort Stevens and them the most perfect set-up the Portland area. possible," Captain Raborn said, i The music portion, in charge The class s c h e d u l e w a s, of Warrant Officer Charles 3. worked out by Lt. Elwyn J. Spalding, band director, will in Fonk of the Specialist Branch, clude “ El Capitan,” march; a who has had many years of Glenn Miller arrangement of teaching experience and w h o ! "The Anvil Chorus;” "Sam You (Continued On Page 3)_____ will be the sole instructor. Basi Post Talent Has Leading Role in Portland Show cally a breakdown of the five training methods: preparation, presentation, application, exam ination, and discussion and cri tique, the course will include such subjects as selection of ma terials for instruction; how t o ; study; psychological and physi ological aspects of learning: public speaking, and use of visual training aids. At the con clusion of the instruction stage, ten hours will be devoted to practice teaching of the class by students. Nationally known commercial artists from the training aid shop are producing an elaborate training aid in the form of 29 colored charts six feet by 42 inches, which if produced com mercially would be valued at about a thousand dollars. The artists are Sgt. George D. Ter rel, Cpl. Raeburn W. Rohrbach; Pfc. Harold F. Marks, and Pic. Bruce D. Baumberger. Help! Well Need It For Our Huge Birthday Edition News e d ito r s are usually meek, timid little souls who seldom call for help, but mere ly sit and suffer tile whole thing out. The time lias come, however, to emit a few loud and lusty .veils. We're getting out a hirthdav issue May ¡7 whirl! will he the b i g g e s t ENGINEER ever published, and as we have only two hands, maybe some kind per son with journalistic inclina tion* will lend theirs. Human I n t e r e s t stories, news items of general camp interest, and p e r s o n a l i t y sketches are needed. Also, de partment heads are invited to submit brief summaries of any interesting aspect of their department's function. ( 11» F L A K KING TRIED The editors can't guárante« Perhaps the first actual ring ; to p u b l i s h v our piece, hut ever used in boxing will be tried they'll try. And please don't out May 18 in Civic Auditorium, fret if your story is edihsl San Francisco. The circle, rigged somewhat. All stories should up within the regular canvas, he an brief as possible, and square by the use of rope and i . . . please . . . PLEASE . . . guy wires, w as tested by w rest- j let's don't polish any apples. lers last month. i 1