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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1944)
r C a m p A b bo t, Ore., June 3, 1944 A B B O T E N G IN E E R P a ge Three Italy’s Plight Told in Poem by Wac Overseas Class B Issue (Every line written with it pair o f eight-inch scissors.) One w o lf we know is too broke to buy etchings, so ho When Maj. Vernon L. Watkins, now on special duty with the always asks his girl frienc.s to Training Division, came to Camp Abbot recently fo r reassignment come up and sec the handwrit after 26 months' service in combat areas with the engineers, he ing on the wall. brought with him a poem written by a W A C in Italy, which he says gives an accurate, if sordid, picture o f that country as our First G I: Still got insomnia? men are seeing it. The entire poem, entitled, ‘‘Panorama o f Italy,” Did you try counting sheep? contains thirty stanzas, a few o f which we print here: Second GI: " I t doesn’t do any "fr ☆ ☆ good. I counted 10,000 sheep, sheered ’em, combed the avoo I, had spun it into yarn, made suits from them, took them to Boston and lost $150 on the deal. I didn’t sleep a wink. “ I f I were an artist, with nothing to do, I'd paint a picture, a composite view O f historic Italy, in which I ’d show Visions of contrasts, the high and the low. “ There’d be towering mountains, a deep blue sea; Filthy brats yelling, “ Carmella!” at me; High-plumed horses and colorful carts; Two-toned tresses on hustling tarts. • Photo by Signal Corps Photo Lab. “ Stately cathedrals, with rich toned bells; Ricovero shelters, with horrible smells; Mouldering catacombs, a place fo r the dead; Noisy civilians, clamoring fo r bread. * » • Above is Sgt. Mary Sheila o f the War company cheeking the oil in a vehicle at the Camp Abbot Motor Pool, where she is assign ed. The sergeant is always as happy as she appears here when she is probing the “ innards” o f a t.i truck. (Continued From Page One) • • • | “ Barbers galore, Avith manners quite mild; Prolific women, all heavy Avith child; Duce's secret weapon, kids by the score, Caused by his bonus, which isn’t any more. * , MORE ABOUT Gal: “ Do you know what hap pens to GIs who feel lo w ?” G I: “ No, w hat?” Gal: “ They get slapped.” * i * “ Mud-smeared children, clustered about, Filling their jugs, at a community spout; A dutiful mother, with a look of despair, Picking lice from small daughter's hair. * * * _ “ I ’ve tried to describe the things I have seen, A panorama o f Italy, the brown and the green; I've neglected the war scare, visible yet, But those are the things we want to forget.” _ GI I.OYE STORY Sgt. W illiam Jones: Dear Sergeant Jones: Dear Bill: Bill Dear: M y own darling dearest: Bill Darling: Bill Dear: Dear Bill: Dear Private Jones: Pvt. W illiam Jones: Father No. 1: “ M y son is aw fu lly broadminded.” Father No. 2. "That's all mine thinks about, too.” Don't Be Silly; Let Us Do Your Hiking for You For those trainees who haven’t time to climb a mountain, a ,d wouldn't if they did, the E ngi neer sent a representative to the top o f Lava butte, that lava- bounded, inverted cone <n fe w miles out o f camp on the road to Bend, to observe and report what is on the other side. W e picked a member of the sti f f who has been getting a little paunchy and needed the exercise anyway, so you needn’t feel that you put us out. The ascent up the spiral road took about forty minutes, trav eling in thirty - i n c h steps at about three-quarter time. A t the top our reporter found the lookout tow er o f the Des chutes National Forest, w ith Clyde Young, ranger, in charge. From his glass house, he mal- 'S weather observations fo r U n de Sam and watches fo r forest fires. Also there, taking a lcok for themselves, w ere Lt. Tipton O'Neil, a party consisting o f Pfc. Solig Abels o f the Signal Coips Laboratory and Pvt. Leo Mil u- licz, and Pvt. Frederick Fenner o f A-54. -i A fte r passing cool drinks o f water, which he had brought . II the way from Bend, and aski g us to sign the register, Mr. Young explained how the b o vl- like center o f the crater, filled with incinerated rocks, was a sort o f boiling pot when hades brook loose about tw o thousa d years ago. He also pointed cut the network o f forest service trails, other buttes, include g McKay, Bates, Pistol and § t- kum, and the now ossified river o f lava that damned the Des chutes, which thereupon over flowed its banks and form ed the meadow land site o f Camp Abbot. ! “ I had to change my seat sev- Monday night to draft a plan of 1 eral times at the movies.” attack. Emphasis w ill be placed “ G r a c i o u s , did a man get (Ed. note: “ Carmella” is the Italian word for “ candy.” ) on Class “ A ” pay reservations fresh?” for civilians and Class “ B” allot “ Yes, finally.” tion to the government fo r all ments fo r officers and enlisted sums fraudulently accepted, but men. “ H ow was the burlesque?” the offense can carry a sentence Purchase o f bonds fo r cash “ Abdominal.” o f imprisonment up to tw o years av ill be solicited as in the Fourth and fines up to §5,000, or both. War Loan Drive. A publicity D rill S e r g e a n t : " S t a n d and educational program is plan straight! Don’t you know what ned, and solicitation w ill be by Named as president of the O C S Program Gets Axe as straight means?” personal contact o f personnel, Recruit: “ Yes— without soda.” Camp Abbot Masonic club in its Three More Schpols Close from staff divisions through the Three more O fficer Candidate smallest uhit or section, with en first meeting last Tuesday night, She laughed when he sat listed men handling solicitation ] M/Sgt. W. R. Shaffer has an Schools have been suspended, down, but when he began to the W ar Department has an of other enlisted men, officers | nounced the group will meet reg nounced, and the suspension of play . . . other officers, and civilian em ularly each Tuesday in building others is planned. This w ill leave ployes other civilian employes. . 1456. M ajor Arthur Davidson not more than 11 o f the original Decision as to teh quota f o r ' was elected vice-president of the 26 OCS courses in operation next the current campaign—it was j new prganization; Cpl. G. S. fall. unofficially set at §100,000 in J Russel, s e c r e t a r y • tr e a s u r e r ; Courses at Ft. Riley, Kan. the last drive — was deferred, i M ajor W. H. Andrew, chaplain, (C avalry), Ft. M o n r o e , Va. Mo action ws taken on the selec-1 and Capt. Russell E. McKinney, (Coast A rtillery ), and C a m p tion of minute men fo r the sergeant-at-arms. A committee Hood, Texas (Tank Destroyer) drive. was formed to draw up a con are the latest to be suspended. Special Service and Public R e stitution and by-laws. Soon to join them are the M P lations representatives o f C am p ' A ll Free and Accepted Masons OCS at Ft. Custer, Mich., t h e 1 Abbot have been invited to at stationed here are urged to join Anti-aircraft A rtillery OCS at tend a state-wide w ar bond con the new club at Tuesday’s meet Camp Davis, N. C., the Chemical ference in Portland Monday. ing, Sgt. Shaffer said. W arfare Service OCS at E d ge-1 Purpose o f the meeting is to as wood A r s e n a l , Md., and the certain what bands and equip- : A r m o r e d Force OCS at Ft. ments are available at various G l's Father Fined; Took Knox, Ky. Oregon installations fo r use in Allowance Checks Illegally A 48-year-old father o f a sol the current campaign in Ore St. Louis (C N S )— Bishop John dier has been sentenced to six gon. C. Brookfield o f St. John's M eth-' months in jail and fined §100 on odist church is looking fo r a San Francisco (C N S )— When a charge o f fraud in connection stranger w h o h a s deposited. with the acceptance o f family a local thief, who had robbed §1.000 bills in the collection plate what he thought was a butter allowance payments to which he on t w o consecutive Sundays. truck, got his booty home he dis knew he was not entitled, the “ Its and epidenmic, he said, covered that it was m erely 30,- O ffice o f Dependency Benefits “ we'd be glad to see continue.” 000 cigars. Resigned to making announced this week in warning the most o f a bad deal, he had that the lawr provides severe pen Trenton, N. J. (C N S )— The smoked his w ay through two alties for fraudulent acceptance Photo hy S ignal Pr»ri>s Photo I.ab. w ill o f Mrs. M ary Kubery left boxes when police grabbed him o f allowance checks. Sentence in §2 to her husband with the pro “Snug with a bug in a sleeping bag,” is the title that occurred to is this case was suspended and the and carted him away to the when we saw tiiis photo of Pvt. Julius E. I I rich oi the ."»1st hattalii i offender placed on probation for viso "That he uses $1 o f same emerging from a good night's rest in the hivunar area. The hole h< s gooly. to purchase a rope to hang him in is called a prone shelter, dimensions lor which, given the In.;* three years, on condition he pay when they start digging, are "2 x ‘2 x you.” the fine and make full restitu- self.” Buy National W ar Bonds N ow ! Shaffer to Head Gl Masonic Club by Milton Caniff. creator of Terry and the Pirates' BUT, LO O -T E N IN T , I BIN F IL L IN ' •* VAY C A N T E E N S ... I W AS ONLY 6 0 N E . 4 f e w M IN U T E S... ' YOU D ID NOT ASK. V \ P E R M I S S IO N — \ I T H E R E F O R E YOU ,0 W ERE ABSEN T * < • ' WITHOUT L E A V E ! 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