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Vol. 8 No. 38
—8•
TO. &
SUB ROSA
Now and then we hear it said
that no one can trust a newspaper
man. How untrue! For one week
the writer of these lines has been
sitting on the most gorgeous news
story that has come his way in
^pny a year. It is the finest story
have ever encountered since
joining the SENTINEL staff and
by very great" odds' The stox^y does
not have to do with murder or theft
or any other form of wrong do
ing. It is a very clean story every
reader of the SENTINEL would
devoure with satisfaction. It would
require more than 2000 words to
tell it in its entirety and it is a
human interest story of the first
chop that other editors would re
print. Yet we cannot print it. Why?
Simply because we were asked
not to and no newspaper man of
any sense ever violates a confi
dence. And we have not revealed
it to other members of the staff.
Why? Because we are writhing
in agony and know they too would
writhe in agony if they knew
about it.
WATER WASTE
No one we think will argue the
point about the American people
being the most wasteful on earth.
In driving through Walker Vil
lage the other day (we have quit
peripateting) we noticed water
running in many of the streets.
This can only mean that many
people are watering their lawns to
excess. When water is seen run
ning in the streets it is more than
obvious that the lawns are receiv
ing more water than they can
absorb. The water has to find a
^rtalace to go and the only place to
is the streets.
While 1he water pi^oblem is no
longer acute at Fort Hood it could
easily become acute as the drouth
continues on for many weeks and
the people continue to waste water.
With the exception of one the
seven wells which supply half of
the water are holding up well
but they are going down at the
rate of one foot per day which
may mean that if the drouth is
not broken it may again be neces
sary to ration water.
But if the people would just
exercise a little common sense in
using water rationing would not
be necessary even if the drouth
goes on for several weeks.
One expert in water conserva
tion tells us that car washing is
one great source of waste that
many thousands of gallons daily
would be saved if people used a
bucket instead of the garden hose.
Shower bathing is also another
source of waste. One Fort Hood
housewife tells us that her hus
band who bathed only on Satur
day nights when water was being
rationed is now taking a bath
ever night and often remains under
the shower for an hour. This amaze
ed us as we thought only batchelors
took a bath every day.
We have no great hopes that
much will come of our plea for
\vater conservation we know
^•fcnericans well enough to under-
^PFand that it generally turns out
to be a labor of supererogation
when one asks people to exercise
ordinary common sense in mat
ters pertaining to economy.
MA J. GEN. HOBART R. GAY former III Corps commanding general (second from right) salutes as
massed colors of Fort Hood units pass the reviewing stand during a review ceremony Tuesday. On
the reviewing stand left to right front row are Brig. Gen. John P. Daley commander of troops and
III Corps Artillery commander Maj. Gen. Thomas J. H. Trapnell 4th Armored Division commander
and Maj. Gen. William S. Biddle 1st Armored Division commander. In the rear partially obscured
[are Brig. Gen. John K. Waters assistant 4th Armored commander Brig. Gen. Vonna F. Burger 1st
Armored Artillery commander and Brig'. Gen. Ernest V. Holmes 4th Armored Artillery commander.
(U. S. Army Photo by Von Ludwick)
MASSED COLORS OF ALL Fort Hood units pass the reviewing stand at ceremonies honoring^ Maj.
Gen. Hobart R. Gay former HI Corps commanding general. More than 5000 troops took part in the
review Tuesday at the main parade ground. General Gay left Wednesday to take command of Fifth
Army headquarters Chicago. (U. S. Army Photo by Treadway)
Our Peripatetic ReporterWrites
(NOTE:' In pursuance of our tangent when they remain anony-
long established policy of being
fair probably we should say that
all people in Walker Village do
not waste water. Old Doc Devall
the dentist who lives across the
street from us seldom waters his
lawn. His missus tells us he hates
to mow it.)
ON NEWSP APE RING
The other day The SENTINEL
was greatly pleased to receive a
letter from one of its customers
who did not growl about the con
tests of the paper. He wanted to
know the names of the people who
write the news and feature articles
and suggested that we include the
names of staff members in the
masthead.
We furnished the information by
letter but we doubt the wisdom of
advertising the SENTINEL's gen
ius (or a lack of it) in the mast
head. It might easily turn out to
be an embarrassment more often
than a tribute to our journalistic
competence. The SENTINEL likes
to think it is well written and
well edited but a few thumping
misstatements of fact continue to
work their way into the paper de
spite a lot of checking and re-
checking. About the worst one was
contributed by the editor himself
only a week or so ago.
We may be entirely in error but
we do not believe the average
newspaper reader has much inter
est in who writes what. Occasional
ly a reporter is given a by-line
vyhen the editors believe an article
is especially well-done which is a
method we have of encouraging
better reporting. Book reviewers
are asked to sign their efforts not
because they are good but because
book reviewers often go off on a
General Biddle
Conducts Third
Division Check
The third in a series of com
mand inspections of 1st Armored
Division units was conducted Fri
day by "Old .Ironsides'' comman
der Maj.-Gen. William S. Biddle.
Accompanied by Lt. Col. Law
rence V. Greene chief of staff
and representatives of division
headquarters staff sections Gen
eral Biddle inspected all person
nel equipment and buildings in
the 13th Tank Bn. area including
mess halls day rooms supply
rooms and motor pools.
Every unit in the 1st Armored
Division will be inspected by Gen
eral Biddle during the current
series of inspections.
Four 1st Armored Men
Receive Promotions
The commanding general of the
1st Armored Division Maj. Gen.
William S. Biddle announced the
promotion of four "Old Ironsides"
officers last week.
Promoted from second to first
lieutenant were: William Bolden
Houston 25th Armored Infantry
Bn. Bunyan W. Johnson Mexia
634th Armored Infantry Bn. Bruce
A. Mayer Wauwatosa Wis. 68th
Armored Field Artillery Bn. and
Carl J. Morris Norfolk Va. of
the 141st Armored-Signal Co.
Thus the SENTINEL will remain
more or less anonymous for the
reason just stated. It is much
more interested in printing the
news in a brisk and accurate man
ner than it is in glorifying the
members of its staff.
While on. the 'subject of fh£
SENTINEL it may be of interest
to know that its circulation has
now reached an all-time high of
13000 and from the number of
letters received it is estimated that
it has 30000 readers.
It may be of further interest to
know that in many respects it is
like any other newspaper but in
others it is not. It does have an
editor an executive editor a
sports editor a. society editor and
the usual number of reporters.
But being an Army paper pub
lished by a commercial firm (THE
TEMPLE TELEGRAM) it has no
need for a publisher a business
manager or an advertising man
ager.
And the SENTINEL has no re
write men. Each reporter is upon
his own and if he cannot dig up
the facts about an event and put
them together in acceptable form
we get rid of him and try to find
some one who can. If a reporter
cannot write well enough for pub
lication why should he be em
ployed on a newspaper at all?
Why should it be necessary to hire
re-write men to assist him as so
many papers do?
We have learned from experi
ence that re-write often turn out
to be painful adjuncts in an edi
torial office. During the early
part of the Korean war a very
able correspondent for a national
magazine asked the author of these
lines to check an article he had
written for fact. It was just as
factual as an article could be but
after the re-write men in the
New York office worked it over
for style it appeared in the maga
zine with 31 errors.
The SENTINEL has three main
sources of news: The Public Infor
mation Staff of the 1st Armored
Division the Public Information
Staff of the 4th Armored Division
The SENTINEL staff and the Pub
lic Information staff of the III
Corps the latter two being one
and the same.
Much more news is received by
the SENTINEL than it can print.
Thus it is the job of the executive
editors and his assitant to evaluate
the copy and decide what should
go in and what should not. Occas-
sionally their editorial pudgements
are taking to task by the contribut
ing agencies but most of the dis
putes are resolved without blood
shed.
TRIVIA
We are probably unreasonable
but it always irks us to beat the
band when we enter a store and
cannot get waited on especially if
the clerks are idle. The other day
we went to a store in a nearby
town to make a purchase. Two
female clerks were idle but neith
er made a move to wait on us.
After a four-minute wait by the
clock we stalked out in anger
went to another store down the
street where we were relieved of
$15 in precisely two minutes.
553rd AIB
Selected Top
Review Unit
non-commissioned
I ORT HOOD THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1954
The 4th Armored Division's 553rd
Armored Infantry Bn. command
ed by Lt. Col. R. O. Lashley was
named the top marching unit at a
farewell review Tuesday for Maj.
Gen. Hobart R. Gay former III
Corps commander.
During World War II the 553rd
AIB received credit for participa
tion in five battle campaigns in
cluding Normandy Northern Fran
ce Rhineland Arennes and Cen
tal Europe.
"I am proud of the accomplish
ment of the 553rd. I believe their
fine spirit and attitude in training
was the attributing factor in their
being named the best marching
unit" said Col. Lashley.
Commanders of the 553rd includc
Cap. W. W. Harvell Hq. Co. Capt.
C. J. Heying A Co. Capt. R. Lind-
holm Co. and Lt. G. C. Davis
Co.
The 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Bn. 1st Armored Division won
second place followed by the 197th
Armored Field Artillery of the
4th Armored Division and the 86th
Ordance Bn.
Judges for the event weer Col. E.
R. Powell II Corps Artillery execu
tive officer Lt. Col. J. A. Dix III
Corps G-3 and Maj. N. P. Monson
TTT Corps G-3 section.
General White
Lauds 512th
For Ceremony
Because of their outstanding per
formance at the promotion cere
mony for Gen. William H. Simpson
at Fort Sam Houston September
4 the 512th Armored Infantry Bn.
of the 4th Armored Division has
been commended by the Fourth
Army commanding general.
Lt. Gen. I. D. White in a letter
of appreciation said Of the 553d
AIB "The success of the ceremony
honoring the promotion of General
Simpson was in great measure due
to the fine performance of the 512th
Armored Infantry Bn.
"This performance was doubly
impressive considering the unit's
relatively recent date of activation.
It is indeed a tribute to the officers
and
the battalion for the long hours
which they have devoted to train
ing.
"Please extend my appreciation
to the officers and men of this bat
talion for their fine showing.
The battalion is commanded by
Lt. Col. J. W. Long. The letter was
indorsed with the personal thanks
from Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay
former HI Corps Commanding Gen
eral.
Teen-Age Club Plans
Trip To State Fair
Members of Fort Hood's Teen
age Club will journey to Dallas for
the Texas State Fair on October 9.
All teen-agers who wish to at
tend must register at the club
prior to October in order to ar
range for bus transportation. Mrs.
Clifford Gibbs club chaperone is
in charge of the registration.
The club located on Headquar
ters Avenue near Theatre No. 1
is opened from 8 to 1 p.m. Fri
day and Saturday and from 3:30
to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Fort Hood's 1954 .Chest Fund
Campaign went into high gear this
week with all post units partici
pating in the subscription benefit
contest.
On Tuesday the Finance Com
mittee reported that more than
75000 tickets have been issued to
directors and unit representatives.
Initial reports from directors on
the sale of tickets will be turned
in on September ~27.
Drive Response
In view of the enthusiastic re
sponse to the opening of the cam
paign it is expected that dona
tions will reach a high level dur
ing early weeks of the drive.
This year's goal for the fund
approved by the commanding gen
eral is $105000.
Among the activities and organi
zations to be aided by the Chest
Fund are the following: Fort Hood
Youth Activities Fund PQSt Chap
lain's Fund Family Assistance
Mid-Texas Heart Association Tex
as Scottish Rite Hospital for Crip
pled Children American-Korean
Foundation Bell County Tubercu
losis Fund Army Emergency Re
lief American Cancer Society Lo
a S O O an at on a
Moonraker Killeen Base and the
Gonzales Warm Spring Founda
tion.
Company Reward
Last week the Sales Committee
of the Fund Campaign announced
that a reward for the company
selling the largest number of tick
ets will be an all-day outing to
New Library
Op
ens Friday
At North Fort
officers of
A new library will be officially
opened at North Fort Hood Fri
day evening III Corps Special
Services announced this week.
The new library will consist of
2000 fiction non-fiction and refer
ence books and will also include
newspapers and magazines.
Miss Lita Eppstein formerly
circulation chief for the Fort Hood
Library will be in charge of the
new library.
Brig. General Earnest V. Holmes
4th Armored Division commander
will cut the ribbon opening the
library at building 8501.
Age? Doesn't Impress
DENVER Colo. (AFPS) A
pipesmoking
SOLDIERS WISHING to vote in their home state or municipal
elections should file a request for absentee ballot with their unit
I&E non-commissioner officer. Looking: on as Pvt. Richard Schmidt
of the 4005th SU signs a request for an absentee ballot is CWO
Rafael Muniz unit administrator and Pvt. Marshall Goldman unit
I&E NCO. Further information can be obtained from the unit I&E
man. (U. S. Army Photo by Von Ludwick)
great-great-grand-
mother says she isn't impressed
with being 102. "My mother lived
to be 111 and my grandmother
112" said Mrs. Louisa V. Jackson.
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Gen. Gay Leaves Fort Hood
Honored At Final Review
AN APPRECIATION
It would be an act of ingratitude indeed if upon my de
parture from this station I failed to offer my thanks and
appreciation to the officers and men of Fort Hood for their
loyalty and support during my tour of duty here. Never in
my career have I found quite as much to be grateful for on
leaving a peace-time command. Your hard work your sacri
fices for the common good of the command and your capacity
for getting things done will remain forever fresh in my mem
ory. Your conduct has exemplified the best traditions of the
Service. My gratitude is very great.
HOBART R. GAY
Major General U. S. Army
Charity Campaign
As Tickets Go On
Austin with a picnic boating and
a dance. There will be approxi
mately 100 girls on the welcoming
committee.
The committee also announced
that the individual selling the most
tickets will be the dinner guest of
the movie star and singer Frances
Langford while she is at Fort
Hood for a show on November 28.
Third Corps Headquarters
Returns From Field Exercise
The forward echelon of HI Corps
headquarters will return this after
noon from an overnight bivouac in
the south end of the reservation.
General and special staff sections
moved out Wednesday at 1 p.m.
in a 53-vehicle convoy from the
main post.
Holy Days
Open Monday
The Jewish Religious New Year
Rosh Hashana will be ushered in
at sunset Monday. Services will
be conducted by Chaplain (Lt.)
Joseph D. Herzog at 7:30 p.m. at
the Brigade Avenue West Chapel.
Services will be at 10 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Tuesday and at 10 a.m.
Wednesday.
Rosh Hashana opens a 10-day
period of prayer and spiritual self-
analysis climaxed by Yom Kippur
the Day of Atonement which be
gins at nightfall October 6.
On Yom Kippur services at the
chapel wall be at 7:30 p.m. On
Thursday October 7 services will
be at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The High
Holy Days will close at sunset
Thursday with a final blast of the
ram's horn (shofor).
The Department of the Army
has granted permission for Jewish
personnel to obtain passes or leaves
in order to attend particular serv-
4th AD's CC"A"
Selects Monthly
Honor Crew
"Crew of the Month" competi
tion in the 4th Armored Division's
Combat Command "A" is always
a close contest but last Saturday's
selection was the grand-daddy of
squeakers.
Col. James I. King command
ing officer inspected the tanks of
crews representing the 51st AIB
the 35th Tank Bn. and the 704th
Tank Bn. from goggles to guns.
He consulted the written tests that
crew members ha^ previously
taken and he questioned men oral
ly about their vehicle jobs and
equipment.
The 35th's tank and crew from
Hq. Co. Reconaissance Pltn. fi
nally won the close competition
with their high score in the writ
ten work tallying them to the
triumph.
M-Sgt. William E. Sloan of
Johnstown Pa. is the winning ve
hicle's tank commander while oth
er members of the conquering
crew are Pvt. Ray Canterberry
Mt. Morris 711. gunner PFC
James Ainsworth Maize Miss.
driver and Pvt. Gerhard O'Kkuy-
sen of Amsterdam Holland load
er.
Brig. Gen. John K. Waters as
sistant division commander was
on hand for the selection and he
and Colonel King praised the tanks
and displays of each crew and
congratulated winning members
individually.
Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay who
left Fort Hood Wednesday to take
command of the Fifth Army in
Chicago was honored by a HI
Corps review at four o'clock Tues
day afternoon on the main parade
ground of .is huge central Texas
military post which he has com
manded for the last five months.
Just before his departure at 8:30
Starts
Sale
And the two runners-up will be the
dinner guest of film actor Jack
Carson when he comes to Fort
Hood on December 12.
In addition to a large number of
individual gifts there will be a
total of 60 military unit gifts to
be awarded. They have been di
vided into several groups and cate
gories.
The movemeent was scheduled
to obtain practice in the develop
ment of techniques and procedures
for moving and setting up head
quarters in the field. It was not
a tactical exercise.
A total of 66 officers 361 enlist
ed men and one civilian partici
pated in this training move. They
came from the following sections:
Commanding general and aide
Chief of Staff and secretary Gen
eral Staff G-l G-2 G-3 G-4 Ad
jutant General. Headquarters Com
mandant III Corps Signal Section
Detachment G-4 section plus Trans
portation Corps Ordnance and
Quartermaster Surgeon Chemical
Public Information Office Signal
Detachment Military Police Pla
toons (307th MP Bn) Headquarters
Company III Corps Engineer Ve
hicle Drivers and the 35th Engineer
Utilities Team.
Private Supran
Named 4th AD
Honor Soldier
"Be their guest."
And that's just what a 4th Ar
mored Division soldier will be
on Oct. 3 the guest of the Heart O'
Texas Rodeo in Waco.
PFC Robert S. Supran of Hq Co
704th Tank Bn CC"A" gained the
trip by winning the division's
"Soldier of the Week" competi
tion last weekend.
Taking the title was no easy
task for Private Surpan as the
added prize of the rodeo ducat nat
urally added to the keenness of the
contest. Each contestant was as
sharp as the questions and maneu
vers asked and ordered by the
judging officers headed by Brig.
Gen. John K. Waters assistant di
vision commander.
Of course the award also gave
Private Supran the opportunity to
be "Aide-for-a-Day" to Maj. Gen.
Thomas J.' H. Trapnell division
commander.
Private Supran is from West
Hollywood Calif. He is a gradu
ate of Northrop Aeronautical In
stitute and prior to entering the
service he worked as a liaison en
gineer for Douglas Aircraft.
State Department Protests
Red Attack Oil Bomber
WASHINGTON (AFPS) The
State Department has strongly
protested the shooting down by
Russian MIGs of a Navy patrol
bomber on a routine flight over
the Sea of Japan September 4.
One crewman is presumed dead
In an exchange of protests with
the Kremlin the U.S. Government
called the incident a "wanton and
unprovoked attack." A later State
Department note completely re
jected the Soviet contention that
the plane was flying over Siberia
rather than over the Sea of Japan.
THE EDITOR SPEAKING:
A scientist says that in a few
years men will be able to fly to the
moon. We are dead agin it. All
the women with the "moon com
plex" (they all have it) will want
to go along and there will be no
one left to do the dishes. Dirty
dishes have broken up more homes
than whiskey.
—12 Pages
General Trapnell
To Head Corps
Wednesday morning an honor
guard ceremony was held for Gen
eral Gay with troops from HI
Corps and both divisions partici
pating.
An eleven-gun salute was fired
for the departing commander. An
escort of tanks led the procession
to the main gate with the 1st
Armored Division Band providing
the music.
Tuesday afternoon more than
5000 troops passed in review.
They came from Combat Com
mand "A" 1st Armored Division
and Combat Command "C" 4th
Armored Division the 35th Engi
neer Group and the 86th Ordnance
Battalion. Colors and standards of
all units on the post were massed.
Honor Guests
Some 65 distinguished civilian
and military guests from many
parts of Texas attended the re
view.
General Gay will be succeeded
at Fort Hood by Maj. Gen. Thomas
L. Harrold who is expected to ar
rive from Fort Carson Colorado
on October 15. Until that time
Fort Hood and HI Corps are under
the command of Maj. Gen. T. J.
H. Trapnell.
Beginning World War II as a
lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Arm
ored Division at Fort Benning
or a a a
throughout the war with the late
General G. S. Patton Jr. partici
pating in eight campaigns and two
amphibious landings.
He successively was Chief of
Staff of the First Armored Corps
in Morocco including the initial
landing at Fedala November 8
1942 Chief of Staff of the Seventh
Army in Sicily and Chief of Staff
of the Third Army in Europe.
After World War Germany
he served at various places as
Chief of Staff of the Fifteenth
Army and later as Commanding
General of the Fifteenth Army
the 1st Armored Division the 31st
AAA Brigade and ^the 2d Con
stabulary Brigade until Novem
ber 1947 when he was returned
to the United States and placed
in command of the Military Dis
trict of Washington.
In July 1949 General Gay was
ordered to the Far East Com
mand where he served as Com
manding General of the First Ca
valry Division until February
1951 the last seven months of
which time the division was in
combat in Korea.
Reporting to Fourth Army Head
quarters March 28 1951 General
Gay became deputy commander.
For gallantry in action and dis
tinguished service General Gay
has been decorated by Great Bri
tain France Belgium Luxem
bourg Morocco Czechslovakia
and Korea. His decorations by the
United States include: Distin
guished Service Cross with Oak
Leaf Cluster Distinguished Serv
ice ?Tedal with Oakl Leaf Cluster
Distinguished Flying Cross with
Oakl Leaf Cluster Silver Star with
two Oak Leaf Clusters Legion of
Merit with Oakl Leaf Cluster
Bronze Star with Oakl Leaf Clus
ter Commendation Medal Air
Medal.
Fourth Armored
Unit Continues
Safety Campaign
The 4th Armored Division's Com
bat Command
"C"
is continuing
its active safety campaign under
the direction of Col. Robert R.
Glass commanding officer.
In cooperation with the overall
division accident prevention pro
gram TWO weeks ago the safety-
minded command had a soldier
dressed as a skeleton walking
around the division area and also
perched on top of a smashed-up
car.
The bones would wave a warn
ing to passing drivers and a sign
told his story of trying to make
Cincinnati on a three-day pass.
Needless to say he didn't make it
and is now doomed to ride the
roads as "death" always.
Last week-end a trio of signs
set up a "scary" safety sequence
that included a speedometer table
with liquor bottles and beer cans
and a coffin with a dummy skele
ton which carried out effectively
the theme "Speed Plus Alcohol
Kills."
Effectiveness of the 4th Armored
safety program is measured by the
fact that through the two week
ends only one minor accident
marred the division's safety score
board.
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