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FEDERAL
SERVICE
CAMPAIGN
FOR
NATIONAL
HEALTH
VOL. 17 NO. 40
NO SCORE HERE—Tom Marshall of White Sands goes way up
and blocks an attempted lay-up by Jerry Norberg of Pine Bluff
Arsenal in first round action of the Fourth Army basketball
tourney which ends today at Sports Arena 1. White Sands met
Camp Wolters yesterday in a battle for the finalist berth
opposite Fort Sam Houston in the Class AA division.
Fourth Army
Cager Tourney
Enters Finals
Finals today in the AA and
women's divisions and possibly
the A division will complete the
1960 Fourth Army Basketball
Tournament which has been go-
*ng on all week at Sports Arena
The AA championship game is
scheduled for 4 p.m. The wom
en's championship will be de
cided at 2 p.m. The A division
"if" game in the double elimin
ation tournament is set for 8 p.m.
if necessary.
The AA and women's "if"
games will also be played today
if the losers' bracket team wins
the first game.
Fort Hood stands a good chanc
of taking two titles as both the
Tankers and Tankerettes went un
defeated in opening rounds to gain
the winners bracket finalist berth
in the Class A and women's divi
sions.
The Tankers met Brooke
Army Medical Center last
night for the championship
but results were not available
in time for this week's AR
MORED SENTINEL. If BAMC
won the Tankers will play
the "if" game tonight.
The Tankerettes will meet either
BAMC or William Beaumont in
the women's title game. BAMC
and Beaumont played last night
for the berth in the finals op
posite the Tankerettes.
Fort Sam Houston is in the
driver's seat in the AA division
going three straight games with
out defeat to cinch a spot in the
finals and no worse than a sec
ond place finish.
Ft. Sam will meet either
Ithe
Paxnp Wolters or White Sands in
AA finals.
The Tankers earned their
spot in the finals by edging
the Fort Sill Cannoneers 71*
67 Monday night then up
setting the tournament fav
orite Brooke Army Medical
Center Comets 89-82. Tuesday.
The Comets made the finals
by edging Sill 82-81 Wednesday
night. Monday the Comet five
eased past the Fort Bliss Fal
cons 86-77.
In the Tanker-Sill contest John
Taylor scored 16 points to pace
Hood scoring. Homer Shepard
had 12.
Shepard was the big gun in the
Tankers win over BAMC scor-
Ticket Refund
For Operetta
Announced
Post Special Services is re
funding ticket money for the
operetta "Voyage to the Moon'"1
that was cancelled Tuesday be
cause of bad weather.
Money will be refunded during
duty hours in building 211. All re
fund requests must be made by
March 10.
The new Boston Opera produc
tion of the Jacques Offenbach
iperetta was scheduled for 8
m. Tuesday in Theater 1. The
troupe was unable to make it to
Fort Hood because of road and
weather conditions.
ing 32 points and rebounding and
blocking shots regularly.
The Comets won their Wednes
day game with Sill by outlast-
(See CAGER TOURNEY Page 2)
Fort Hood's
Top Soldiers
Are Named
For the second consecutive
month two soldiers of Company
A 319th Military Intelligence Bat
talion have been named the
Post's Soldiers of the Month.
They are Sgt. Carl L. Smith
and Sp-4 Bruce T. Barnes Jr.
Sgt. Smith an instructor in
Chinese-Mandarin language en
tered the Army in 1950 and took
training at Fort Riley Kans.
Before arriving here he was
with MAAG in Taiwan.
Sgt. Smith a native of Tex-
arkana Ark. has been awarded
the Combat Infantryman Badge.
Specialist Barnes a native of
Orangevale Calif. entered the
Army in 1957 and took training
at Fort Ord Calif.
Before arriving here where he
is a Burmese Interrogator with
the 319th he was stationed at
Fort Holabird Md.
He is a graduate of Citrus Union
High School and Citrus Junior
College both of Orangevale.
His father Mr. Bruce T.
Barnes resides in Orangevale.
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Published fr BTempi. M. to thh
Gen.
Farewell Ceremonies Set
To Honor Gen. Wheeler
A farewell review for Maj. Gen
Earle G. Wheeler Fort Hood and
2nd Armored Division Command
er will be held next Thursday
(March 10).
The review to be held at Sa-
dowski Field the main parade
ground will begin at 3 p.m.
The farewell review will honor
General Wheeler who is leaving
Fort Hood next Friday (March
11) for duty as director of the
joint staff in the office of the
Pentagon effective April 1. He
has been nominated by the Pres
ident to receive a third star as
lieutenant general.
A banquet and dance for
General and Mrs. Wheeler
will be held Tuesday (March
8) at the Fort Hood Of
ficers' Club beginning at 6:30
p.m.
Immediately following the re
view on Thursday a farewell re
ception will be held at the Of
ficers' Club.
On Friday morning at 8:30
a.m. General and Mrs. Wheeler
will depart the post through the
Main Gate where a 2d Armored
Division honor guard will be
formed.
Mayors presidents and
managers of Chambers of
Commerce and other prom
inent civilians from Killeen
Gatesville Temple Belton
Copperas Cove Lampasas
McGregor and Waco have
been invited to attend the
farewell review and recep
tion.
The general public is also in
vited to attend the review.
Brig. Gen. Robert Q. Brown
Commander 2d Armored Division
Artillery will be reviewing of
ficer and Brig. Gen. Franklin F.
Wing Jr. Commander 1st Ar
mored Division (CCA) will be
commander of troops.
Units represented in the review
will be:
2d Armored Division Artil
lery and Trains Combat Com
mands A and of the 2d
Armored Division the 1st Ar
mored Division (CCA the
35th Engineer Group the 2d
U. S. Army Ordnance Group
a Composite Battalion from
the 319th Military Intelligence
Battalion 53d Signal Battal
Col. Holt Selected To Attend
Armed Forces Staff College
Lt. Col. Robert B. Holt chief
of staff of the 2d Armored Di
vision has been selected to at
tend the Armed Forces Staff Col
lege at Norfolk Va. He will de
part Fort Hood in July.
Mission of the Armed Forces
Staff College is to educate se
lected officers in joint and com-
biled staff organization planning
and operations and in related as
pects of national and international
security. Students represent all of
the armed services and include
a small number of federal agency
civilians and Allied officer observ
ers from the United Kingdom
France Australia Canada and
New Zealand.
Colonel Holt has been chief of
staff of "Hell on Wheels' since
March 1959. He returned with the
division from Germany in "Oper
ation Gyroscope" early in 1958
as commander of the 2d Armd
Rifle Bn. 58th Infantry.
Following a brief tour as ex
ecutive officer of Combat Com
mand C he became acting chief
of staff of the 2d Armored Di
vision in June 1958 and two
months later was named Division
G3.
With the U.S.-Canadian First
Service Force early in World War
1960
FORT HOOD
Traffic Toll
Deaths 0
Injuries 22*
As of Thursday
Morning March 3
Jm—
ion and the 720th Military
Police Battalion and Special
Troops.
Also participating will be the
WAC Company and the combined
266th Army and 2d Armored Di
vision bands.
Immediately following the re
view General Wheeler will meet
with Central Texas newsmen.
Persons wishing to attend the
Honor Guard at the Main Gate
on Friday are requested to be
seated in the bleacher to be
erected at the gate by 8 a.m.
Hood Road will be blocked off
at 8:15 a.m. to prevent auto traf
fic interference with the cere
mony. Military police will be on
duty to control traffic and park
ing. In case of inclement weather
ceremonies will be held in Sports
Arena 1.
Health Joint
Agencies Drive
Gets Underway
Funds are being received for
the Fort Hood drive of the com
bined Health Agency-Joint Cru
sade campaign now being con
ducted here.
Col. D. W. McRell Post Fi
nance Officer and chairman of
the drive announced that contri
butions to the drive will be re
ceived up till March 31.
The drive began February 15
and will end this month.
Funds received for the Federal
Service Joint Crusade will be dis
tributed among the American-Ko-
rean Foundation CARE and Cru
sade for Freedom (Radio Free
Europe).
Agencies receiving funds from
the National Health Agency Cam
paign are the United Cerebral
Palsy Association Inc the Amer
an an S I
American Heart Association of
America Inc. the Rheumatism
Foundation the Muscular Dy
strophy Association of America
Inc.
The National Association for
Mental Health Inc. the National
S os is S a
the National Society for the Pre
vention of Bliridness.
II he participated in the Aleutian
campaign and then took part in
the Naples Foggia Rome Arno
and Anzio campaigns in Italy.
He was in the invasion of South
ern France in 1944 as executive
of the 2d Regt First Special
Service Force and later partici
pated in the Central Europe and
Rhineland campaigns as execu
tive officer of the 2d Bn 474th
Inf.
Colonel Holt left the service
after the war but returned to
active duty in 1948. He served
in Korea with the Korean Army
(See COL. HOLT Page 2)
Three 'Leap
Year' Babies
Born At Hood
It'll be a long time between
birthdays for three Fort Hood
children—Leap Year babies born
at the U. S. Army Hospital Feb
ruary 29.
First to arrive at 1:12 a.m.
was Russell Dale son of SFC
and Mrs. Robert H. Torgeison
Company C 35th Armor. Russell
weighed five pounds six ounces.
The Torgeisons reside at Wood-
lawn Trailer Park Killeen.
Another boy weighing six
pounds twelve ounces was born
at 2:41 p.m. to 1st sgt. and Mrs.
Clifford Watts Company A 35th
Armor. The boy's name is Jimmy
Lee. They make their home in Mc-
Nair Village.
The third Leap Year baby was
a girl Debbie Ann born to Sp-
4 and Mrs. Harold J. Helms
Company B 123d Ordnance Bat
talion. Debbie arrived at 9:02
p.m. weighing nine pounds.
The three children can observe
no actual birthday anniversary
until 1964.
FORT HOOD TEXAS FRIDAY MARCH 4 1960
In both areas there will be two
teams each from CCA CCB
CCC Division Trains and Divi
sion Artillery. In the pistol com
petition each team will have four
firers and two alternates plus a
captain and a coach. The rifle
teams will be composed of six
firers two alternates and a coach.
The pistol match conducted by
CCB is scheduled to run Mon
day through Wednesday at Pilot
Knob Pistol Range C. CCC will
conduct the rifle match at Pilot
Knob Rifle Range Monday
through Saturday.
An estimated 40000 rounds of
ammunition will be fired through
out the matches.
At least 18000 rounds will
be .22 and .45 caliber fired
by the pistolmen and the rest
nrivate firm. Opinions expressed by the publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department
doe 1 consUMe an -doKmen b the Depart .he Army the podc„
Little Camp Perry Matches
Some 140 men will begin the
2d Armored Division's finals of
the Little Camp Perry matches
here Monday.
The division's five senior com
mands will be represented by two
teams each in both the rifle match
and the pistol match.
The shooters have gained the
division level after weeks of com
petition in subordinate units.
The Fort Hood men are
among thousands competing
throughout the Army. They
have a chance ultimately of
training with the U. S. Army
Advanced Marksmanship Unit
and as members of Army
rifle and pistol teams of com
peting In the National Matches
—the world series of shoot
ing—at Camp Perry Ohio.
The two separate areas of com
petition of next week's matches
are the .30 caliber rifle and the
22 and .45 caliber pistol.
Wheeler To Be Feted Gen.
Farrand Named New Commander
CHANGE OF COMMAND IN BRIEF
0 The farewell review for Maj. Gen.~Earle G. Wheeler is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
next Thursday at Sadowski Field the main parade ground. General Wheeler will leave the post
for his new assignment the following day.
Maj. Gen. Edward G. Farrand new Fort Hood and 2d Armored Division Commander
is expected to assume command March 31. He is coming to the post from Washington D.C.
where he is Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Operations for International Affairs.
0 Brig. Gen. Robert Q. Brown Commanding General 2d Armored Division Artillery is
expected to take command of the division and the post until General Farrand's arrival.
BULLSEYE—The surprise expressed by Sgt. Pedro P. Rolon right Headquarters Company
66th Armor is for the well-placed rounds fired by M-Sgt. Gordon Barber Company C 37th Armor.
They were shooting in preparation for the division level of the Little Camp Perry pistol and
rifle matches that begin Monday at Fort Hood.
2d AD Commands Enter
.30 caliber rifle ammunition.
It will take an estimated 120
officers and enlisted men to
handle the rifle matches alone.
Personel include range and as
sistant range officers statistical
officer statistical computers sta
tistical posters statistical clerk-
typist line NCO's ammunition
NCO's ammunition bearers tar
get operators scorers pit offi
cers and NCO's and phone op
erators.
Far fewer persons an es
timated 35 will be needed to
handle the pistol matches since
a pit crew is not required for
pistol shooting.
In addition there will be small
arms repair and trigger weigh
ing teams medical aid men and
public address system personnel.
Organizing the pistol match
Next TI Topic
To Be Soviet
Armed Forces
The Soviet Armed Forces will
be the topic for Troop Informa
tion lectures next week.
The topic will cover the mili
tary potential of the Soviet Union
and also the over-all strategy of
Communist imperialism.
The topic will be the last of
four discussions on Russia and
the Soviet Union.
The next block of instructions
which will follow two weeks of
interim topics will be "The
Southern Tier" which will con
centrate on the Moslem world.
TEAM MATCH TROPHY—The Team Match Aggregate Trophy
in the 2d Armored Division Artillery's Little Camp Perry Pistol
Matches is presented to Capt. Richard H. Loutzenheiser team
captain of the 78th Artillery's pistol team by Brig. Gen. Robert
Q. Brown cdmmander 2d Armored Division Artillery. The 78th
won with a score of 1399. In the center is Lt. Col. Ralph E.
Weaver commander of the 78th.
Mrvil
adverttsed.
is Capt. Dell G. Evans 37th
Armor air officer (also S-2
and S-3). Lt. Rober J. Wheeler
will be in charge of the statis
tical tent assisted by SFC
Sidney T. Rutherford. Both
are members of 37th Armor.
Capt. Robert M. O'Reilly CCC
S-2 is organizing the rifle match.
Giving over-all support will be
Lt. Charles A. Schuh commander
of Company C 58th Infantry with
assistance from M-Sgt. Paul Trusy
Company C.
Just a sample of the equip
ment needed for both matches:
Whistles stop watches trigger
weights sight blacking lamps
sandwich boards for signs water
trailers garden rakes grease pen
cils field glasses or spotting
scopes megaphones rifle racks
adding machines.
There will be mess tents equip
ment tents and statistics tents
set up at both ranges. Refresh
ments will be served to the shoot
ers.
It's a far cry from the be
ginning of competitive shoot-
(See 2d AD MATCHES Page 2)
Steve Lawrence To Perform
Sp-4 Steve Lawrence of the U.S.
Army Band Washington D. C.
will be a special guest during the
Fort Hood recorded phase of the
1960 All-Army Entertainment Con
test to be held here Tuesday and
Wednesday (March 8 and 9).
The shows will begin each eve
ning at 8 p.m.
Entries for the recorded phase
are still received at the Special
Services's Entertainment Office.
Deadline for all entries is today
(Friday).
Details on entering the contest
may be obtained by calling
3-9101.
During the program Spe
cialist Lawrence accom
panied by a combo composed
of six pieces will sing six
numbers.
They are "Lazy River" "When
You're Smiling" "Love Is Here
to Stay" "Blue Eyes" "Birth of
the Blues" and. "Making Whop-
ee."
Members of the combo will be
SFC Arthur Kunkleman first sax
ophone PFC Eddie B. Chambliss
second saxophone PFC Dennis
D. Moore fifth saxophone Sp-4
Joel Velez and Pvt. Frank Ber-
ringer trumpet Sp-4 Allan K.
Mann first trombone Sp-4 Erik
Nielsen pianist Sp-4 William J.
The new 2d Armored Di
vision and Fort Hood Com
mander is a West Pointer
Class of 1927 and spent much
of his early service in Field
Artillery with the 7th Ar
tillery at Fort Ethan Allen
Vt. with the 11th at Scho-
field Barracks Hawaii with
the 32d Field Artillery
(Horse) at Fort Bliss Texas.
During these early years of his
service he also studied French
for one year at the Sorbonne in
Paris and later was an instructor
in that language at the U.S.
Military Academy. Before going
to Paris he completed the Field
Artillery School.
General Farrand is an exper
ienced Armor commander. He
was first assigned to Armor after
he completed the Command and
General Staff College in 1941
and joined the 5th Armored Di
vision the unit with which he
served throughout World War II.
He was first Assistant G-3
(Plans Opeartions and Train
ing) of the 5th Armored Di
vision and then G-3. He joined
the division at Fort Knox
Ky. moved with it to Camp
Cook Calif. and served with
it in its European campaigns
from the early 1944 until the
end of the war.
In July 1943 he had become
Chief of Staff 5th Armored Di
vision and in Germany he be
came commander of Combat
Command A of the division.
General Farrand remained in
Europe after the war and was
Deputy Chief of Staff of the
Seventh U.S. Army. He later held
the same position with Third U.S.
Army.
In early 1947 he was appointed
Deputy Chief of Staff of U.S.
Forces in Austria a position he
held until August of 1948 when
he returned to the United States
to attend the National War Col
lege.
After graduation from the
War College General Far
AII-A
rmy En
terta
inment
Contest Here Next Week
Hill string bass and Sp-4 Wil
liam Vend percussion.
During the show Specialist
Lawrence will also sing the
official Fourth Army song
which was written by Lt. Ed
ward B. Madsen formerly of
Fort Sill Okla. now station
ed in Michigan.
Lt. Madsen's song was the win-
Sp4 Steve Lawrence
FEDERAL
SERVICE
CAMPAIGN
FOR
NATIONAL
HEALTH
—12 Paget
New Hood CG Assumes
Command March 31st
Maj. Gen. Edward G. Farrand
has been named commander of
the 2d Armored Division and Fort
Hood.
General Farrand now Army
Assistant Deputy ^Chief of Staff
lor Military Operations for Inter
national Affairs in Washington
D.C. is expected to assume com
mand at Fort Hood March 31.
He succeeds Maj. Gen. Earle
G. Wheeler who will become
director of the joint staff in the
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
General Wheeler is to leave Fort
Hood March 11 enroute to his
Pentagon assignment.
In the interim Brig. Gen. Rob
ert Q. Brown Commanding Gen
eral 2d Armored Division Ar
tillery is expected to command
the division and the post.
rand was assigned to the
Operations and Training Di
vision Army General Staff
and later was Chief Mobili
zation and Service Troops
Branch Army General Staff.
In January 1952 he joined the
1st Armored Division at Fort
Hood where he commanded Com
bat Command B. in April of
the next year he became As
sistant Division Commander and
from July until October of that
year also was commander of Fort
Hood.
In June of 1954 General Far
rand was transferred to the Far
East where he was Deputy Chief
of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces
there.
He returned from the Far East
in March 1957 to command the 1st
Armored Division and Fort Polk
La. He remained at Fort Polk
until reorganization of the 1st
Armored Division in December
1957 when he assumed his pres
ent position.
General Farrand's decorations
include the Legion -of Merit
Bronze Star and Commendation
Ribbon with Metal Pendant.
Fourth Army
Commander
Visits Hood
Fourth U. S. Army commander
Lt. Gen. Edward T. Williams ar
rived at Fort Hood yesterday for
a two-day visit.
He was scheduled to observe
1st and 2d Armored Division units
during the current annual Com
mand and Training Inspection and
attend a briefing on Operation
Big Thrust.
The general is to leave at 3:30
p.m. today.
On his itinerary will be heli
copter hops to the field to ob
serve activities of the 6th Artil
lery 1st Armored Division Com
pany A 35th Armor Battery A
14th Artillery Headquarters Com
pany 41st Infantry Companies
and D 67th Armor Troop B
15th Cavalry Company B 66th
Armor and 73d Artillery.
General Williams also was to
visit Fort Hood's new gym and
new chapel the post nursery and
the Bowling Arena.
He was scheduled to see med
ical units undergo Army Train
ing Tests.
ning entry in a recent Fourth
Army contest: Lyrics for the song
are:
"O we're the Fourth U.S. Army
"We are spread thru the great
Southwest
"From ocean's shore to desert
sands
"We're ready for the test
"For what it takes we've got
enough
"To see our Country through!
"When the going's rough when
the job gets tough
"It's the Fourth Army.
"From missileman to WAC
steno
"From cook to engineer
W it an it it
stretcher too
"We bring our might to bear
"For each his part is one proud
team
"A part he's trained to fill.
"If need's for might to serve
the right
"It's the Fourth Army!
"From farm and cities teeming
crowds
"We have come to heed the
call
"From fact'ry office school
and plough
"Freedom's sons and daughters
aU.
(See CONTEST Page 2)
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