Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1954 Page: 1 of 10
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Casey Memorial Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Vol. 8 No. 29
PVT MARK STEIB (on pole) and PFC Ralph Olsen (left) both
assigned to the 207th Signal Company aided in the important task
of providing telephone communication for Fourth Armored Divis
ion units which completed the move to a North Fort Hood bivouac
area last week. A portion of the "tent-city" which was established
as a means of alleviating the water shortage at the main Post
can be seen. (U. S. Army Photo by Treadway)
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
We have just heard about a most
unfortunate man who was shop
ping in Killeen the other day. He
lost his brief case in the bus sta
tion leaving the bus station he
went to the post office where he
lost a valuable fountain pen a few
minutes later in a grocery store he
lost the pencil companion to the
valuable fountain pen and awhile
later in another store he lost his
wallet containing $34. On arriving
home after dark he entered the
wrong house and the owner called
Mhe police. The police took him
Pro me and when he entered his own
house he stepped on the family dog
who bit him severely on the leg.
Later on in the evening his wife
went to«the kitchen for a drink
and caught him pinching the hired
girl. She hit him over the he .d
with a plate. Here we believe is
a man who is -adly in need of the
ministrations of a nurse a police
man and a pastor.
VISIT TO THE LIBRARY
It is a well established fact that
the American people have given
over rather wholeheartdly to
what Huxley called the dolce far
niente which is to say that we
devote many of our waking hour§
to fun-making. The recreational
facilities right here at isolated
Fort Hood - are certainly not in
short supply. In riding through the
Post the other day we made the
pleasant discovery that we have
five swimn.ing pools two golf
courses four theaters four service
clubs three libraries a bowling
alley a skating rink a skeet range
two open messes a field house
numerous queen bees three guest
houses for visiting kin hobby shops
and many other facilities to amuse
and divert the idle.
Since nearly everyone owns a
TV set or a radio we often won
der in view of so many other
available amusements if any one
kver takes time to read a book
ffhese days. On a recent visit to the
Fort Hood Library we learned that
many people do.
Miss Betty Gregory the chief
librarian told us upon her sacred
Oklahoma honor that during the
month of June 1954 more than 19-
000 books were checked out of the
three Fort Hood libraries. This
was pretty hard for us to believe
for we have been thinking for
many months that we were the
only person in Fort Hood who ever
reads a book. Being the official
SENTINEL book reviewer we have
to read a couple of books every
week whether we like to or not but
we find we are not alone in this
avocation.
Miss Gregory mentioned one
reading family that often checks
oul 15 books every week. That was
also hard to believe but knowing
that no one from the Chi istian
state of Oklahoma ever tells a lie
we believed it. The library has
other customers who regularly take
out as many as three books each
week and the 153 magazines and
the 39 daily newspapers available
at the libraries are also read.
Miss Gregory was born of Re
publican pare ts in Tonkawa Ok
lahoma but we never did learn
WHEN. We supose she is about
35 years old but she doesn look
a day over 23. And she's cute too.
She went in for higher education
a big way and graduated with
honors from the University of Ok-
homa but we never did learn
WHEN. For a few years after her
graduation she did newspaper and
secretarial work later she re
Our Peripatetic ReporterWrites
turned to the same cave of learn
ing where she received an AB in
library service but we never did
learn WHEN. Since then she has
been dispensing knowledge to all
who seek it.
The manager of any business
that has more than 19000 custo
mers each month must naturally
have some assistants especially
since the libraries are open to the
public seven days each week until
10 p.m. each evening. Miss Greg
ory's able staff consists of seven
full-time employees and about six
soldiers who work part time.
Mrs. Mary Swicegood age un
known of Kutztown Pennsylvania
is the Library Cataloguer. We used
to think that any one who could
read and spell his own name could
work in a library but we learned
that we were mistaken. Librarian-
ology if there is such a word is
an exact science and a library is
a poor place for a dummy to seek
employment. There are almost 34-
000 books in the Fort Hood Library
and indexing and cross indexing
them in such a manner that each
can be located without any fuss is
quite a task. That's what the cata
loguer does. Some times a library
client will appear who wants to
read a book about the first chim
panzee to wear underwear or the
first ape ever to go on a lecture
tour. If such a book is on file
everyone in the library must know
how to find it. The story of how
to get a book on the right shelf and
to keep it on the right shelf is too
long to relate here. Moreover it
is too complicated for us to under-
COL. HARRY FISCHER
Col. Fischer
To Serve As
Area Engineer
Newly assigned Fort Worth Dis
trict engineer of the Corps of En
gineers is Col. Harry O. Fischer
a native of Cotulla Tex.
Colonel Fischer will succeed Col.
H. R. Hallock who headed the dis
trict for the past two years. Col
onel Hallock will attend the Army
War College at Carlisle Barracks
Pa. from which Colonel Fischer
has just graduated. The new dis
trict engineer is expected to as
sume his command shortly.
In 1929 Colonel Fischer grad
uated from Texas A&M College
with a bachelor of science degree
in civil engineering. He was com
missioned in the Air Service Re
serve in 1930 and three years later
transferred to the Corps of Engi
neers.
Arnowl
Divisions Move
To Save Water
In order to ease the drain on
Fort Hood's water supply during
the drouth period elements of the
1st and 4th Armored Divisions
moved into the field this week.
Three thousand men of the 1st
Armored Division Artillery have
moved from the garrison to a
bivouac site on the reservation.
Seven battalions and two head
quarters units of the Fourth Ar
mored Division are occupying
"greener pastures" near the north
end of the fort.
The five 1st Armored battalions
scheduled to remain in the field
for at least two weeks have moved
to the Sparta area at the east end
of the reservation where the water
supply is adequate.
stand and when we can't under
stand something we don't print it.
It is interesting to know that the
system of cataloguing is uniform
throughout the United States. If a
man can find his way about in one
library he will be able to find his
way about in all of them.
We wanted to know what people
are reading these days and were
surprised to learn that more non-
fiction books are read than fiction.
This wasn't true 10 years ago and
the only reason we can give to
account for it is the fact that every
one reading today is 10 years older
than he was 10 year-s ago and
knows more. (That last sentence
reminds i'.s of the fellow who said
he was 55 but would be 56 except
he was sick a year.)
Other members of Miss Greg
ory's staff all ages unknown in
clude Miss Helen Warren of New
Orleans who is on duty at the Hos
pital Library Miss Lita Eppstein
circulation Librarian Miss Artie
Brunkhorst of Sedalia Missouri
who is chief panjamdrum of the
main library. The others are Sara
Jane Thompson Sgt. Ellen Fisher
Sgt. Alice .^ozell and Sgt. Gordon
Ferchow who drives the Bookmo
bile. Astute readers may be able
to deduce that two of the last four
named are members in good stand
ing of the local WAC Detachment.
That the military establishment
is fully cognizant of-the fact that
many of its members still enjoy
reading books is attested by the
expenditure of $300 each month
for new books. The Post Library
is currently in the process of ex
pending more than $6000 a spec
ial Army grant for non-fiction
books. A large part of this latter
sum will go for technical books on
nearly every subject under the sun
to accomodate all anthropoids who
insist on knowing a great deal
more than the rest of us. Each
month the library receives free
from the Department of the Army
six kits containing 25 books each
which are evenly divided between
fiction and non-fiction. Only re
cently 3000 books were received
from the library at Camp Polk
after that post ceased to exist as
a going concern.
During the summer months the
Post Library sponsors a reading
program for children. It is called
New Worlds to Conquer and the
winners who reach Pluto first are
the youngsters who get through 12
books of their own choosing. (In
addition to one useful purpose it
serves Pluto is also a planet in
visible to the eye which is located
precisely 3680124412 miles from
the sun. Just how far that puts it
from this globe of sin we cannot
say because the dictionary doesn't
tell us.)
In order to keep everyone on her
staff busy Miss Gregory holds a
story hour each Saturday for chil
dren of all ages. From what we
have heard about this story hour
it occurs to us that many adults
we know would enjoy it.
When we talk about books we
are always reminded of a fellow
we lived with in the Far East for
about two years who wao a very
slow reader. In the early Spring of
1949 he began reading a novel. Al
though he read about three hours
every night he was only half
through it late in August. Late in
December on getting two-thirds
through the book he quit it in dis
gust. "It's been so long since I
started this book" he told us
"that I can't remember what hap
pened in the first half of it."
The field trip called "Operation
Sparta" will in- addition to its
aim of water conservation pro
vide valuable field training for the
men of Division Artillery in prepa
ration for their forthcoming bat
tery and battalion firing tests
scheduled this fall.
While in the field the artillery
men will be supplied with water
from Cowhouse Creek and a spring
south of Nolan Creek where show
er and laundry units will be set
up for the troops. Swimming
points will also be made available
if possible.
Entertainment fqr the troops of
"Divarty" will include post ex
change facilities movies shown by
division special services and ath
letic programs of all types.
"Operation Sparta" is part of a
two-way attack by Maj. Gen. Ho-
bart R. Gay III Corps command
er to alleviate the critical water
shortage.
Pipeline To Be Laid
The plan also calls for the lay
ing of four six-inch pipelines from
the vicinity of Belton Dam to Fort
Hood.
The movement of troops and
equipment got underway a week
ago when the first elements of
division artillery units of the 4th
Armored erected their tent-city at
North Fort Hood. By mid-week the
22d 66th 94th and 197th Armored
Field Artillery Battalions were
operational at the new site and
other units of the division started
their movement.
By last Saturday the 508th ^ank
Bn and the 510th and 512th Ar
mored Infantry Battalions had
completed their moves as had
headquarters of Combat Command
"B" and Division Artillery head
quarters. Assisting in the move
ment of all units were the Post En
gineers and personnel of the 336th
Quartermaster Battalion.
The division units will remain in
their new location indefinitely but
will make another move in early
August so that incoming reserve
units may utilize facilities at North
Fort for a two-week period of
training.
Brig. Geen. Ernest V. Holmes
commaander of the Fourth Ar
mored division artillery is troop
commaander at the North Hood
tent-city and will supervise train
ing of all units in their new loca
tion.
Demonstration
Planned For
Radar Meter
A new device to aid in the ap
prehension of speeders will be in
troduced here at 10:30 a.m. next
Thursday.
The machine the radar speed-
meter will be demonstrated be
tween'Hood Road and 162nd Street
on South Avenue. The avenue will
be closed to all traffic during the
demonstration. Capt. Sam Gorder
superintendent of the Waco dis
trict of the Texas Highway Patrol
will be in charge of the demonstra
tion.
Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay com
manding general of III Corps and
officials from 1st and 4th Armored
Divisions and corps will be on hand
for the display. All unit command
ers are invited to attend.
The radar speed meter used
successfully in 31 states and said
to be 98 per cent accurate was
used on highways in the Fort Hood
area this week.
Top Class Man
Receives Watch
At Food School
Top graduate of Cooking Class
45 of the Food Service School here
Pvt. Billie B. Hammer of Waco
received a wrist watch during cer
emonies held in the 268th Street
Chapel.
Maj. Gen. William S. Biddle
commander of the 1st Armored
Division presented a wrist watch
to the honor man. Certificates were
presented to the 28 men in the
class.
The importance of cooking as a
unit morale builder was cited by
General Biddle in an address to
the group.
FORT HOOD THURSDAY JULY 22 1954
Pipelines Near Completion
Crews Work 24 Hours A Day
Nearly 15000 troops of the bat
tle-ready 1st Armored Division
passed in review last Thursday as
"Old Ironsides" marked its four
teenth birthday. A post-wide cele
bration for division military per
sonnel" and their gues.ts was a high-
light of the anniversary.
The 1st Armored Division born
at Fort Knox Ky. in July 1940
paraded before more than 1500
citizens of Fort Hood and neigh
boring communities invited to at
tend the day-long celebration. High-
ranking officials of the division—
present and past—joined distin
guished civilian guests on the re
viewing stand.
Maj. Gen. William S. Biddle
"Old Ironsides" commander re
viewed the troops with Lt. Gen.
I. D. White Fourth Army com
mander Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay
commander of HI Corps and Maj.
Gen. Thomas J. H. Trapnell 4th
Armored Division commander.
The colors and guidons of the
division were assembled at 10 a.m.
under bright skies at the Fort Hood
parade ground with Brig. Gen.
George A. Rehm assistant 1st
Armored commander serving as
commander of troops.
Band Leads Parade
The order of march led by the
sored
LAYING OF THE quadruple six-inch pipelines from the vicinity of Belton Dam to the Fort Hood filt
er plant began this week when these engineers of the Co. 61st Eng. Bn. 35th Engineer Group
(cons.) started at a point southwest of the Dam. Beginning at different points between Fort Hood and
the Dam site the crewmen of each location will meet and join together their pipe. Directing the work
in the above photo is Sgt. James Young left. (U. S. Army Photo)
1st Armored Division Observes
14th Birthday With Celebration
1st Armored Division Band began
after six L-19 monoplanes and five
helicopters of the Division Avia
tion Section executed a "fly by"
in front of the reviewing stand.
Officers of HI Corps and 4th
Armored Division who^were mem
bers ofthe- reviewing party be
sides Generals Gay and Trapnell
included Brig. Gen. John P. Daley
HI Corps Artillery commander
Brig. Gen. John K. Waters as
sistant 4th Armored commander
and Brig. Gen. Ernest V. Holmes
Gen. Bruce Retires
Here August 31
The retirement of Lt. Gen. An
drew D. Bruce former command
ant of the Armed Forces Staff Col
lege at Norfolk Va. originally set
at Fort Hood for July 31 has been
postponed until August 31 Fourth
Army headquarters announced this
week.
Following his retirement Gener
al Bruce will become president of
the University of Houston Septem
ber 1.
Retirement ceremonies will be
held here at 4 p.m. The Fort Hood
installation was started by General
Bruce in 1942.
THE FAMOUS JEEP BAND of the 1st Armored Division turns into
the court house square at Lampasas and prepares to deliver a brief
concert to the crowd gathered last Saturday for the dedication of
the new National Guard Armory in Lampasas. M-Sgt. Edald Vit-
zdnty in the lead jeep was in charge.
(U. S. Army Photo by Mercer)
WITH MAJ. VERNON L. POYNTER Corps Air Officer at the
controls this helicopter takes off with two "patients" on board.
The air evacuation was part of a demonstration put on last Satur
day by the Air Section at the Lampasas golf course following the
dedication of the new National Guard Armory in Lampasas. A bar
becue at the park completed the day's festivities which were spon
by the Lampasas Chamber of Commerce.
(U. S. Army Photo by Mercer)
C. TOWXMW
I
commander of the 4th Armored
Division Artillery.
Maurice M. Muse Hermitage
Tenn. vice-president of the 1st
Armored vis ion Association
joined in reviewing the troops of
"Old Ironsides". He served in the
13th Tank Battalion 1st Armored
Division in World War n first
joining the division New Year's
Day 1944 in Capua Italy.
Members of the Central Texas
Military Affairs Committee who
were at Fort Hood included Chair
man Frank W. Mayborn Temple
Roy Smith and Churchilll W. Dun
can Killeen Guy Draper Tem
ple Roy Potts and Roy Sander-
ford Belton Horace K. Jackson
Gatesville George England and
O. T. McGinley McGregor Ray
Hatter Moody and F. A. Morris
Oglesby.
Review Troops
On the reviewing stand were
Mayors Elmer H. Hays Belton
Roger H. Miller Gatesville J. T.
Atkin Georgetown and Marvin
Mickan Copperas Cove.
Major Hays said he considered
it "a great honor" to be present.
He added "the review was an
extremely impressive and moving
sight."
Honored guests also included
Mrs. Bruce C. Clarke wife of the
former "Old Ironsides" command
er who is expected back from the
Eighth Army in Korea this week
end and Mrs. Edward G. Garrand
wife of the former assistant 1st
Armored Division commander now
in the Far East.
In his welcoming address at the
review General Biddle cited the
"gallant and memorable role" the
1st Armored played in North Afri
ca and Italy during World War II.
The general told the men of "Old
Ironsides" to remember "the proud
heritage" left them by their pre
decessors and to face the future
"boldly and gallantly."
General Gay who commanded
the 1st Armored Division in 1946
read a Fourth Army citation con
gratulating "Old Ironsides" for
its performance recently as host
to a deligation of Mexican Army
Officers.
Cites Armor Role
Calling armor "the combat arm
of decision" General White placed
emphasis on the military require
ments of the future. "From the in
stant of the first atomic explo
sion" he said "the cards of con
ventional warfare were reshuffled
and redealt and the role of armor
assumed a new but untried com
bat significance."
General Biddle at the luncheon
for distinguished guests following
the review read communications
from former members of the 1st
Armored Division unable to be
present for the festivities. Mes
sages were received from Gen.
Clarke Lt. Gen. Willis D. Critten-
berger (Ret'd) and three other
former division commanders Ma
jor Generals Ernest N. Harmon
Roderick R. Allen and Leander
L. Doan.
The "Old Ironsides" division won
fame in the fighting in North
Africa and Italy during the Sec
ond World War.
—10 Pages
Job May Be
Finished In
Seven Days
Fort Hood's supplementary wa
ter supply of two million gallons
a day was rapidly approaching
reality this week as the combined
efforts of the HI Corps Engineer
the Post Engineer and the 35th
Engineer Group (Cons.) brought
about near-completion of the lay
ing of four 6-inch pipe lines from
Belton Dam to the Fort Hood fil
ter plant.
By Tuesday afternoon hard
working crews of the 61st Engineer
FREE FOOD AND DRINKS
On-the-job refreshments were
provided yesterday to 35th
Engineer Group pipe line crews
by four commercial firms in
this area. Delivering free food
and drink to the men on the
line were the following:
The Bake Shop Killeen—
cookies and doughnuts.
A. J. Hall Co. Killeen—candy
and cookies.
Dr. Pepper Co. Temple—Dr.
Pepper and Pabst beer.
Anderson Ice Cream Co.
Temple—ice cream.
In addition to all this the
Fort Hood Queen Bees sent out
ice cream and the Post Ex
change donated lemonade and
ice tea.
It appears that men on this
all-important job will definitely
not suffer from undernourish
ment.
Bn. 35th Group had completed 90
per cent of the job of stringing the
pipe along the S^-mile route and
were ready to start the coupling
operation on the pipe immediately
after the arrival of a carload of
valves and fittings early Tuesday
night.
Laying of the quadruple lines is
under the direct supervision of
Col. Glen A. Webster in Corps
Engineer. Technical assistance
and installation of the pumps on
the line is being done by the Post
Engineer Lt. Col. 3ohn E. Bart-
lett and the operating crews have
come from the 35th Engineer
Group (Cons.) commanded by Col.
Frank J. Polich.
These engineer crews are work
ing on a round-the-clock 24-hour
schedule in order to complete the
job within a self-imposed deadline
of seven days barring any hold
ups or delays because of material
delivery. (As The Sentinel went
to press this week it appeared that
they might finish up ahead of
schedule.)
Although a few carloads of pipe
arrived last Saturday the bulk of
the material—37 carloads in all-
was not available until Monday
morning.
The first pump at the intake
point just below Belton Dam was
installed Tuesday. Another boost
er pump will be installed as soon
as it arrives at the highest point
along the route to the filter plant
Colonel Bartlett said.
The job of cleaning the pipe was
started Tuesday morning by a con
tracting firm from Houston the
Dowell Chemical Company.
All the soldier manpower for this
project is coming from the 61st
Engineer Bn. commanded by Maj.
Lester M. Kostenski. Handling the
details of planning and shipping
has been Capt. S. C. McArthur
35th Group S-3.
Working on the direction of the
project in the field with Col. Po
lich and Maj. Kostenski has been
Maj. J. P. Leese a reserve officer
on two weeks' active duty with the
35th Engineer Group. Maj. Leese
is a civilian engineer and pipe line
expert from Farmington N. M.
When the pipe line is completed
and in operation approximately
six million gallons of water will be
available daily to Fort Hood.
It was pointed out by Colonel
Webster the Corps Engineer that
this additional supply may not
make possible any immediate re
laxation of water rationing. If the
present drouth continues he said
the water brought in by the pipe
lines will be needed to maintain
the present water supply level now
being furnished by seven wells
which are capable of producing
four million gallons daily.
THE EDITOR SPEAKING
A man thinks we ought to cut
the word "obey" out of the mar
riage ceremony. It is an excellent
idea. The women have never paid
any attention to it and it would
give grumbling men less to com
plain about.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View seven places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1954, newspaper, July 22, 1954; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254390/m1/1/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.