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ASTP Graduates Already Returning to
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GI Schoolroom
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High School Work
Camp Howze Christmas Programs
Set in Chapels, Rec Halls, Messes
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and Protestant services at 11 a. m.
In the Special Troops chapel mass
384th F. A. surgeon, with "Pisher," for whom he paid $1 at the
Alexandria, La., dog pound; Lt. R S. Lukenbill, Special Service offi-
cer, 928th F. A, with “Lady Gwylyilier," registered wire-haired ter-
rier only two weeks old when she went on her first maneuvers with
Cactus men in August; S-Sgt. D. W. Tucker, mess sergeant, 103d
Division Artillery Headquarters Battery, with “Tiny,” and Pfc. Sam
Braeman, Medical Detachment, 383rd F. A., with “Rosie Mobly."
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popped up with a super de luxe
turkey dinner at the best hotel
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FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE—Lt. Thomas Stark, camp ad-
jutant, pins the Army Service Forces Civilian Service Ribbon, for
six months’ work, on Miss Billy Ruth Edgington, secretary in the
Camp Intelligence office. Ceremony took place last Wednesday,
designated as Civilian Employe Awards Day by the War Depart-
ment. Col. John P. Wheeler, camp commander, and Lt. Col. Carl
Sapper, camp executive, participated in the awards, made at Thea-
ter One—(Signal Corps photo.)
411th Infantry chapel, there will
be a Protestant service at 10 a. m.
and mass at 11 a. m.
The 409th Infantry will present
a Christmas pageant at the regi-
mental chapel Christmas Eve. In
the 411th, Christmas carols will
be broadcast over loudspeakers
throughout the week at noon and
evenings.
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chapels:
410th Infantry chapel, 409th
Infantry chapel, 411th Infantry
chapel, 103rd Division Artillery
cshapel, and the Station Hospi-
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RANKING DOGS OF CACTUS ARTILLERY—And maneuver
veterans, too, are these lively canines. While there are numerous
other pup pets in the 103rd Division Artillery, the ones shown above
with their masters represent a good cross-section. From left io
right, Lt. Col. W. Y. Frentzel, commanding officer, 383rd Field Ale-
tillery Battalion, with “Chappo”; Maj. Thomas A. Gonder, division
artillery surgeon, with “Duke of Claiborne”; Capt. N. A. Masor,
Turkey—a pound of it for ev-
ery man in camp—holds the spot-
light again on the Christmas
menu, according to the Quarter-
master field ration menu booklet.
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The commendation indicated
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mas with more turkey, cranberry
sauce, mince pie, and the rest of
the trimmings.
. Here’s the menu for next Fri-
day’s dinner:
Roast Young Turkey .
Sage Dressing Giblet Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Snowflake Potatoes
Candied Yams
Stuffed Celery Sweet Pickles
Plum Pudding with Sauce
St. Louis Train
Turkey Special
Morale was at its lowest ebb
in St. Louis, when Pvts. Allen
Blackman and Ralph Shears, De-
troit - bound, found themselves
stuck in the Missouri town for
six hours. Not only had they
missed their train, but they had
missed Thanksgiving dinner at
home.
Just as that morale was on the
ASSISTANT JUDGE SPEAKS
—S-Sgt. William Brevick, of the
Camp Judge Advocate’s office,
last Friday night presented the
work of the ASF JA to the audi-
ence of Here’s Howze, weekly
feature carried over Station
KRRV in Sherman, 7:30 p. m.—
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GIs can get Christmas shopping
done by proxy, according to local
USO directors.
Mrs. Regina Ewait, Lindsay
Street USO director, announced
last night that soldiers who have
last minute Christmas presents to
purchase may bring their prob-
lems to any of the senior host-
esses or USO staff members.
“We’ll try to buy what the boys
want ... if we can find it,” Mrs.
Ewalt said. “Many of them have
been unable to come to town dur-
ing business hours for local
stores.”
At the Fair Park USO, staff
members are ready to lend a
helping hand in the same type of
emergencies.
Both clubs are operating free
gift-wrapping counters, with Fair
Park volunteers handling a day-
long rush of business,’ and Lind-
say Street people furnishing pa-
per and ribbon for the Yule par-
cels.
The clubs will provide the pa-
per and decorations, and soldiers
can try their hands at wrapping,
or Gainesville volunteers will
Col. John P. Wheeler, camp
commander, Tuesday appealed to
all Camp Howze officers and men
to aid in the Army’s WAC re-
cruitment drive. He spoke at a
Station Complement orientation
lecture in Theater Two.
Col Wheeler said that Congress
had authorized a total strength of
250,000 WACs, but to date less
than 62,000 have been enrolled.
“We need WACs to replace men
who are needed overseas, and we
need them to replace men who
have already gone overseas,” Col.
Wheeler said. He added that the
situation is acute.
The colonel pointed out that
WACs may now be recruited for
special jobs, and that after train-
ing for several weeks they will
be stationed within the Service
Command where they were en-
listed, thus enabling them to re-
main close to home.
All women are eligible if be-
tween 20 and 49 years of age and
if physically fit.
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Wives Meeting
At the last 1943 luncheon for
Station Complement Officers
wives, 53 ladies met Thursday at
the Camp Howze Officers club,
according to Mrs. Robert C. Gra-
ham, reservations chairman.
Mmes. A. S. H. Bradley and
Bradley and Charles L. Carpenter
were the hostesses.
First luncheon for 1943 will be
on Thursday, Jan. 11, Mrs. Gra-
ham announced.
The officers wives will discon-
tinue their Red Cross meetings in
Gainesville during the Christmas
holidays, Mrs. Graham said.
Miss Six by Six
Miss Sally Kieth, whose stage
specialty consists of making
two small tassels attached to
her bodice revolve in various
and sundry directions, has
what it takes to make boys of
the 3511th Ordnance company
tingle.
At least, that’s what the Bos-
ton Herald says.
The Herald a few weeks ago
published a photograph of Miss
Kieth in a sable jacket, tassels,
and not much else, plus the en-
thusiastic endorsement of Cpl.
James Fonseco. Fonseca wrote
the Herald that he and the
Boston men in Parts Section
like Sally so well they have
named a truck for her.
The truck is lively, bouncing,
and streamlined, too.. Whether
it has any tassels dangling up
in front is not revealed.
We’ve heard of Mr. Five-by-
Five,_ Is Sally Kieth Miss Six-
by-Six?
Enoch Arden Has
Disciples Here
in the 383rd Field Artillery
battalion of the Cactus division
the “Brush-Me-Off” club, or the
“I Had a Girl Friend Once But
She Married a Sailor Corpora-
tion,” is growing rapidly as the
GI’s return from a furlough
checkup in their home territories.
T-5s Herman DeVries and Har-
old McCulley claim to be the
originators, but reports from Ft.
Worth indicate they aren’t ex-
actly marking time > since losing
the gal back home.
Pfc. Oscar Scodock is the lat-
est to get the cold shoulder that
gains admittance to the crying
circle for castoff Casanovas. Sure-
ly/it couldn’t be that certain
people don’t relish the idea of
spending GI lettuce for beads,
perfume, etc. . . . and with Christ-
mas so near!
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More than 1,200,000 civilian
employee-hours without a single
lost-time accident!
That’s the achievement which
this week brought Camp Howze a
personal letter of commendation
from Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan,
commanding' general of (he
Eighth Service Command.
General Donovan said the
Camp Howze record was the first
instance of such an accomplish-
ment within the entire Service
Command. The Eighth Service
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party in the chapel at noon Fri-
day, followed by a church serv-
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NCO Club Dance
Saturday Night
First dance in the new NCO
club will be held Saturday night
from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m., M-Sgt.
E. J. Striegel, president, announ-
ced Wednesday.
Music will be provided by the
Merry Medics of the Station Hos-
pital, and furniture will be re-
moved from the center of the
club to provide a dance floor.
Sgt. Striegel said the party
will be open to all NCOs of the
Station Complement, whether or
not they are club members. It
will be the final open function
sponsored by the club.
Charter memberships in the
NCO club may be taken out un-
til January 1, as provided by the
club constitution. M-Sgt. Wilson
Naas, club treasurer, urged all
eligible non-coms to make their
dues payments promptly to be
carried on the charter member
list. Initiation fee is $2, and
monthly dues are $1.
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CHORUS I NE—Here are ten of the twenty vivacious _ damsels who make up the cast of
“The Curtain Club Cabaret Revue,” the gay musical by the Curtain Club of the University of Texas
which will be presented here Saturday night at the Service clubs. Show is at 8 p. m in Number One
and 9:30 p. m. in Number Two. Just double the number of those legs above, and you’ll have a good
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A constant campaign of pub-
licity and inspections is carried
out under the direction of the
Camp Safety Committee, of
which Maj. W. H. Leverett is
chairman. A safety consultant is
on duty to see that dangerous
conditions do not develop in any
shops, offices, or warehouses.
General Donovan’s letter fol-
lows:
Subject: Accident prevention
program.
To: Commanding Officer, Camp
Howze, Texas.
1. Monthly injury Summary
Reports received at this Head-
quarters indicate the civilian em-
ployees on your post have work-
ed more than 1,200,000 employee-
hours without a lost time acci-
dent. Yours is the first instance
of such an accomplishment in
this Service Command.
2. Such a record is highly
commendable and one which oth-
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Major General, U. S. A.,
Commanding.
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“Funny Side Up,” another USO-
Camp Show, will be here January
4 and 5, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tuesday’s show will start at 7
p. in the Theater Two in Station
Complement area, and the per-
formance Wednesday will be at
the same hour in Theater Four.
Admission as usual will be free
to all military personnel and
guests.
“Funny Side Up,” is a musical
revue featuring comedy, acro-
batics, dancing, songs and femi-
nine charms. Its cast includes
several former vaudeville and
radio headliners.
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Judge Advocate’s
Army Legal Aid
How-a n d why—the Army
gets paid will be outlined to-
night on the weekly camp radio
program, “Here’s Howze,” eman-
ating from the main lounge of
Service Club Two at 7:30 p. m.
Station KRRV at Sherman (910
Kilocycles will carry the pro-
gram which will present the
story of the Army Finance de-
partment and the Army Service
Forces soldiers who work in the
camp headquarters finance o f -
fice.
M-Sgt. Connie Kritikos, chief
clerk at the finance office, will
be introduced as NCO of the
Week, and “Here’s Howze” sold-
ier actors will dramatize work
the finance department does all
.over the world.
For the musical portion of the
show, Sgt. Howard DuLany, of
the 492nd MP Co., former big-
time vocalist, will present two
numbers, accompanied by Sgt.
Lloyd Blair at the piano. T-5
Frank Scardino, special service
non-com of the 411th Infantry
Regiment, will play his ac-
cordion in another musical high-
light.
Last week’s program depicted
the Army’s legal assistance pro-
gram, first such plan ever de-
veloped for any army. S-Sgt.
William B. Brevick, of the camp
judge advocate’s office, was pre-
sented as NCO of the Week, and
he explained the functioning of
the plan. Music was provided by
the Merry Medics of the Station
Hospital.
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Amusing, amazing and astound-
mg, are just a few of the adjec-
tives that can be used to describe
the entertainment packed hour
that you’ll have when you see
and hear the “Curtain Club Cab-
aret Revue,” presented by the
Curtain Club or the University of
Texas and featuring twenty of
the most beautiful women that
the campus, noted for its beauti-
ful women, can produce.
To be presented Saturday night
at 8 o’clock in Service Club One
and 9:30 in Number Two, these
lovely girls who make up the
show come from a campus
where beauty reigns supreme.
According to all reports from, the
campus itself where the show had
a week’s run and from various
armv camps the revue has play-
ed, this revue is the best vet pro-
duced by the Curtain Club, na-
tionally acclaimed dramatic so-
ciety of the University.
The stock opinion of everybody
who saw the show in camps was.
“Man, oh, man! What women!"
It is the opinion of Martha Mor-
gan. president of the Curtain
Club, after the show the audi-
ence will leave humming new
tunes, such as “The Curtain Club
Presents.” and “Dark and Stormv
Night.” These two were written
especially for the revue by stu-
dents of the University.
But songs and music don’t make
up the entire program. There’s
a chorus line made up only of
luscious legs with curvacinus cu-
ties, to match___Probably destined „
to be the most approved of the
line’s numbers will be a militarv
routine done to the tune of “What
Do They Do in the Infantrv?"
With the voices of pretty Pat
McClarney. , lovely, red-topped
Scharleen Barker, and tempting,
tantalizing Iris Futoransky fur-
nishing the mood. The routine
combines military preciseness
with side-splitting comedy to
make just the one routine worth
your hour’s time.
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the direction of Miss Joe Ann
Whitmire, instructor in the De-
partment of Drama of the Uni-
versity. Camp Special Services is
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eration, Army Specialized Train-
ing program graduates are al-
ready moving into a wide variety
of responsible duties all over the
globe as a result of their work in
universities and colleges, accord-
ing. to an ASTP bulletin issued
this month.
“Nearly 2,000 men have been
graduated from the ASTP, and
have been assigned to a . wide
variety of responsible duties in
nearly all arms and services,” the
bulletin says.
The total of assigned graduates
constitutes more than two-thirds
of the soldiers who entered the
opening ASTP term April 12,
1943.
Immediate Needs
ASTP has operated to meet im-
mediate needs of the Army,- a sur-
vey of graduate assignments has
shown. Army Air Forces psy-
chological examining units got
200 ASTP men from the first
group of graduates. They were
given line sergeant ratings, and
are now processing aviation stu-
dents through aptitude and quali-
fication tests. . .
Another 100 college trained
men are now conducting a clas-
sification survey for the Army
Service Forces.
As a result of work done by
ASTP graduates in the Sanitary
Corps, the Surgeon General’s of-
fice is increasing its requests for
ASTP men by nearly 400 per
cent
The Corps of Engineers has re-
ceived civil engineers, chemists,
chemical engineers, mechanical
engineers and architects. Several
hundred graduates in. medicine
have been appointed in ppro-
priate corps of the Medical De-
partment.
Some Overseas
Responsible overseas assign-
ments have been given many
ASTP men, some of them of such
importance they cannot be de-
scribed. Others have been select-
ed for officer candidate schools.
“Although the trainees’ chances
for advancement are enhanced by
successful completion of their
courses, with officer training a
possibility, the primary aim of
the program is to train soldiers
for the highest duties they are
capable of performing in special-
ized fields where the Army has
the greatest needs, the bulletin
pointed out.
Because the ASTP has reached
the peak of its trainee allotment,
future quotas will be determined
by the outflow of graduates and
losses due to attrition. The num-
ber of men eligible for the pro-
gram is greatly in excess of cur-
rent openings, and this situation
is expected to continue indefi-
nitely, the bulletin declared.
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by all camp units.
From the Service Clubs right
down to company dayrooms,
Yuletide decorations and parties
are under way. And to top it off,
the Army is furnishing its usual
gigantic Christmas spread for
chow Saturday noon.
Both, camp Service clubs will
lead the way with special Christ-
mas week events.
There will be Christmas Eve
parties at 8 p. m., centered
around the trees in the main
lounges. Both clubs will present
GI dances Christmas Day, at 8
p. m. And on Sunday, while
Club One holds forth with an-
other dance from 8-6 p. m., Club
Two will offer a musical variety
show from the Fort Worth Red
Cross, at 3:30 p. m.
USO Parties
In Gainesville, all three USO
clubs are planning Christmas Eve
parties, and activities for Christ-
mas Day.
Throughout the Station Com-
plement, dayrooms and mess
halls will be decorated, for
Christmas dinner and the festivi-
ties to follow. The NCO club will
wear red and green colors.
The 103rd Division’s 95 com-
panies, batteries, and Reconnais-
sance troops will all have separ-
ate parties on Christmas Day, in
addition to the festive Christmas
dinner on the Army menu.
Company parties will feature
group singing and entertainment
by soldiers within each organiza-
tion.
Division chapels are decorated
and numerous Yuletide services
will be held.
The dayrooms of the Division
—more than 90 of them—are be-
ing decorated. On Christmas Day,
judges will pick the outstanding
dayroom.
Division headquarters company
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MISS FLOREINE CASEY
(above), North Texas State
Teachers’ College beauty, so
thrilled the men of the 411th In-
fantry Regiment recently when
the Kaghlir Sorority gave its
“Fun and Frolic” show at Service
Club No. 2, that the regiment’s
enterprising reporter, Sgt. Joe
Hutnik, went to Denton and
asked Miss Casey for her picture.
In her fifth performance of the
evening, Miss Casey sang “A
Dreamer” and “You Made Me
Love You.” The songs she sang
at earlier performances were
more than all right, too.
can make it, judging from ad- - . . -
vance plans announced this week get , that Thanksgiving dinner di-
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In off-duty hour classes, instruc-
tion will be given in everything
from English to trigonometry, to
prepare soldiers for their return
to civilian life when the war is
over. /
“High school or college credit
may be received by those men
whose civilian schooling has been
interrupted,” the SSO bulletin
said. “Courses may be taken as
‘refresher’ work, or to prepare
for further advancement in the
Army.”
Classes to Start
Preparation is now under way
for classes in English, grammar,
military correspondence, short-
hand, arithmetic, algebra, plane
geometry, trigonometry, physics,
b-'o o k k e e ping, and accounting.
Short conversational courses will
be started in German, Spanish,
French, Chinese and Japanese.
To determine what subjects
Howze soldiers will be interested
in taking, the SSO is now mak-
ing an educational survey of the
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Midnight Services,
Christmas Chapel
Activities Listed
Special Christmas eve and
Christmas day services are plan-
ned throughout Camp Howze.
Camp Chaplain Raymond A. Tay-
lor announces that Christmas
mass will be said at 9 a. m.
Christmas Day. A 10 a. m. serv-
ice for soldiers of the 212th QM
battalion, and 3478th Truck bat-
talion will follow.
A general Protestant service
will be held in the Camp Chapel
at 11 a. m., with music from
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