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Friday, March 2, 1945
The Camp Wolters Longhorn
Page Three
Mess sergeants of Camp
Wolters attend a confer-
ence to learn the use and
preparation of Army de-.
hydrated foods. The school
(left) was conducted in
the messhall of Co. B, 60th
Bn., by M-Sgt. Olton
A. Juneau, of the School of
Bakers and Cooks, Fort
Sam Houston, Tex., super-
vised by Capt. James A.
Murray, IRTC Ration Offi-
cer. Belowr, Sgt. Juneau
puts the finishing touches
on a “banquet” made of de-
hydrated foods. The food,
if properly prepared, can
hardly be told from fresh
foods. (Signal Corps
Photo.)
Relatives Freed
From Jap Prisons
Official word has been re-
ceived by Chaplain Robert M.
Hardee that his brother, sister,
brother-in-law and nephew have
all been freed from Japanese
prisons in the Philippines. Lt.
Col. David L. Hardee was cap-
tured after the fall of Cor-
regidor, and Mr. and Mrs. Olson
and son, were captured when
the Japanese took Manila in
1942. The telegram from the
War Department described
their health as “fair.”
EX-WOLTERS WAC
GETS COMMISSION
A former member of the WAC
Detachment here, Ruth Jean
McLeod, pictured' above, was
recently commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Army of the
United States at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga.
Lt. McLeod was stationed
at Camp Wolters until the
Spring of 1944, at which time
she was sent overseas and
assigned as a chief clerk in a
headquarters operations sec-
tion in New Guinea.
While here, she carried the
rating of technician fourth
grade and was sergeant major
of the Prisoner of War Head-
quarters from its activation un-
til the time she left.
USO Schedules
Juke Box Dance
Married couples are invited
to attend a “Juke Box Dance”
tonight at the North Oak USO
under the sponsorship of the
Women’s Center USO. The
dance is slated to begin at 8:30
PM, and the floor will be ar-
ranged “cabaret style.”
Plans and Entertainment
Committee for the danfce will
include: Mrs. Paul Kelley, Day-
ton, 0., wife of Sgt. Kelley, Co.
A, 65th Bn.; Mrs. James Yar-
brough, Springfield, Mo., wife
of Pvt. Yarbrough, Co. C, 67th
Bn. and Mrs. Robert Krook,
Green Bay, Wis., wife of Sgt.
Krook, 64th Bn.
Refreshments will be served.
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Wolters Officer
Featured On Show
How Lt. Robert Craig won the
Congressional Medal of Honor,
will be the highlight of “Mike
Maneuvers,” Camp Wolters
weekly radio program, to be
broadcast tomorrow afternoon
at 3:30 PM over station KRLD,
Dallas.
The 93rd AGF Band, conduct-
ed by CWO Galen Pieuenburg;,
will g-jve the following musical
program: “French Foreign Le-
gion March,” by Dugat; “Head-
lines,” by Colby; “Intermezzo,”
by Arensky; “Richelieu March”
and “Caprice Italien,” by Tschai-
kowsky.
'Mop-Up1 Tough
Says Wolterite
The mopping up on pocketed
Japs is as tough as the main
battles, is the claim of T-5
William N. Dalton, White Sul-
phur Springs, W. Va., who left
Wolters in January, 1942, after
completing his training with Co.
C, 60th Bn.
A member of the 41st In-
fantry Division, Cph Dalton
spent 26 months overseas, and
in action at Salamaua, New
Guinea, for 72 days as a rifle-
man and as an anti-tank
gunner.
“We got credit for taking
part in the mopping up after the
Buna-Gona campaign,” he said.
“The mopping up is as bad as
the battles, because the desper-
ate Japs left in pocFets don’t
care what happens to them as
long as they can kill a Yank or
two before they die.”
Cpl. Dalton wears the Good
Conduct Medal, Pre-Pearl
Harbor Ribbon and Asiatic-
Pacific Ribbon with two cam-
paign stars, and the Combat
Infantryman’s Badge, which
was awarded to him recently
v at the Army War College,
Washington, D. C.
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COL VOEGE GETS
EAGLE PROMOTION
Flash! KPs Find Utopia ...
NCOs From Fort Sam Demonstrate
Proper Use Of Dehydrated Foods
Col. Roy Wright Voege, Com-
manding Officer of the 13th
Regiment, has been promoted
from the grade of lieutenant
colonel.
'Col. Voege, a veteran of 30
years of Army service, holds
the Purple Heart for wounds
received ’ in Hhte "first World
War.
During' his tour of duty with
the United States Army, Col.
Voege has visited: China, Phil-
ippines, Hawaii, Mexico, Pana-
ma, France, and Germany. He
was appointed Commanding Of-
ficer of the 59th Battalion in
May, 1943, and became Regi-
mental Commander of the 13th
Regiment in October of that
year. His promotion to his pres-
ent grade was accomplished
February 20, 1945.
Col. Voege entered^ service
in October, 1914, and received
his commission at Fort Sill,
Okla., in June, 1917.
Dehydrated foods—America’s
great food weapon of the pres-
ent war—are here to stay. That
is the tenor of feeling displayed
by mess sergeants of Camp
Wolters who participated in a
conference of mess personnel in
Co. B, 60th Battalion, last week.
The conference was con-
ducted by M-Sgt. Alton A.
Juneau, of the School for
Bakers and Cooks at Fort
Sam Houston, Tex., under the
supervision of Capt. James A.
Murray, Laurel, Miss., IRTC
Ration Officer. S-Sgt-. Ed-
ward Trail, Hillsdale, Mich.,
of Fort Sam Houston, assist-
ed Sgt. Juneau.
“Housewives will be feeding
their families on dehydrated
foods long after the war,” de-
clared Sgt. Juneau as he dem-
onstrated to Camp Wolters
mess sergeants the proper
methods of preparing the foods.
“They will no longer have the
bpther and fuss of peeling po-
tatoes, carrots, etc., with de-
hydrated foods.”
To which Sgt. Trail added:
“When we use dehydrated
potatoes, KPs have a snap!”
Capt. Murray indicated that
it is the plan of S-4 to serve
meals of dehydrated foods to
trainees at some part of their
training cycles if available.
“We want soldiers to know
that dehydrated foods compare
favorably with fresh foods, and
are used to supplement a de-
ficiency of fresh foods in com-
THERE'S PLENTY MORE...
Soldier, there’s one big reason why you carry that piece of
equipment you think there’s plenty more of. You carry it—
and take care of it—because it’s part of your job, and some-
body gave the order tO' do it. That’s your main reason—you’ve
got orders.
You carry it and you take care of it because it may mean
your life—or the lives of one or a dozen other guys if you
don’t.
You carry it and take care of it because there is going I
to be a battle need for it. |
If you can’t figure when or where or why you’ll need it, !
don’t worry your brains about it. Somebody has figured
out when and where and why you’ll need it. Not just one man
but about a hundred—men who have studied the battle re- i
ports of this war from every hot spot there is. And who
have tried to figure things out for every hot spot there is
going to bek . „ j
They have figured out what will be needed. And there’s j
only one guy who can outfigure them.
He’s the guy who figures there’s plenty more where that !
one came from.
He can outfigure the Army and thirty million men and
women who are making stuff for the Army. He can outfigure
General Motors and Chrysler and Ford and Allis-Chaimers
; and Curtis Wright and Westinghou.se and Gerteral Electric,
and ten thousand other companies. He can outfigure the far-
mers and the shipyards. He can outfigure them all.
Soldier, there isn’t plenty more where the stuff came from
—not if a million or two GIs got to thinking the same thing.
There is never “plenty more” to make up for careless
loss and needless wear.
There never could be enough supplies to fight a war on
any such basis as that.
If you want to get this war over—if vou want to see it
[settled, and soon—don’t get to figuring there’s plenty more.
bat areas.”
The conference enabled mess
sergeants to prepare the food
under the scrutiny of Sgt.
Juneau and Sgt. Trail. Among
the foods prepared, were:
carrots, beets, cabbage, pota-
toes (white and sweet,) cran-
berries, apples, whole milk,
eggs, onions, and soup mixes.
“If properly prepared, the
color and flavor of dehydrated
foods are similar to fresh
foods,” said Sgt. Juneau. “It
takes a soldier who really knows
foods to tell them apart by
taste. The key to it is in the
preparation. And that’s why
we’re here. To teach the proper
methods of preparation.”
Sgt. Juneau called dehy-
drated foods, the “jiffy
foods,” because of the mini-
mum of handling necessary
prior to cooking. When ship-
ped overseas, the food saves
tremendous amounts of ship-
ping and storage space, and
can be handled easily under
extreme conditions of hard-
ship.
After class sessions at the
conference, the mess sergeants
took to the kitchen to prepare
the foods, and to learn the sec-
rets of preparation by actual
experience. They will pass on
that information to mess per-
sonnel under their authority.
Highlight of the conference
was an apple pie that was
baked of dehydrated apples.
A Longhorn reporter^ \ and
Signal Corps photographer
horned in on that deal, and
are able to assure Wolterites
that thev are in for a treat
when, if, and as the new' food
is available.
Marriages This
Week In Camp
FORD-IvRSTANSKY
Miss Minnie Catherine-yFord,
Mineral Wells, and Lt. Jerky J.
Krstansky, Co. B, 62nd Bn:,
were married February 23 at
8:30 PM in Chapel 5. Chaplain
Charles W. Hughes officiated.
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Eddins, Howard B. The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1945, newspaper, March 2, 1945; Camp Wolters, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601258/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.