Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1958 Page: 4 of 10
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Weary Arms
Get Reprieve
From Needle
Letter Writers
May Earn Some
Money Prizes
Safety Treasure Hunt
Winners Announced
Winners in the Fourth U.S.
Army Safety Treasure Hunt
which drew 132 suggestions and
resulted in 34 adoptions were an
nounced today by Lt. General J.H
Collier Fourth U.JS. Army com
mander.
Bartholomew Kelton Jr.
Fort Hood Texas was award
ed $200 first prize for having
the largest number of adopted
suggestions.
Mrs. Emma R. Ford Fort Sill
won the $50 third prize. Recipients
of $12.50 each are Mrs. Nell E
Morningstar and Helmer R. Jor-
Washington (AFPS) IF you
area serviceman who turns a pale
green at the mere mention of a
hypodermic needle then the
story is for you.
The services have announced
plans to reduce the size and fre
quency of some immunization
booster shots in new regulations
which put into effect a revised im
munization program for the Arm
ed Forces.
Under the old system typhoid-
paratyphoid practices called for a
booster shot every three years
Now only two booster shots given
..at four-year intervals will be
given to those who remain in the
US Canada Alaska and Hawaii.
Cholera and typhus vaccines will
be given only if a person is trans
ferred to certain areas of the
world. Once a serviceman has re
ceived this basic series of shots
he need never get the series again.
If a serviceman Is residing
in an area designated for
cholera-typhus immunization
booster shots will not be re«
quired unless there an act-
ual risk of infection.
Another change in the immuni
sation policy concerns polio. For
•Jjthe first time it will be manda
tory for all personnel under age
340 to have their polio shots before
•^traveling outside the continental
5jjs.
2 Under the new regulations
Separate immunization is not need
ed for diphtheria but is included
in a new tetanus-diphtheria vac
cine.
The regulations also permit
waiving of military immunization
requirements for personnel travel
ing under Armed Forces auspices
to overseas areas on short trips.
What is the soldier's part in
winning friends for freedom?
This is the $1000 question.
Freedoms Foundation Val
ley Forge Pa. is awarding
a total of $8000 in the form
of 102 prizes in this year's let
ter writing contest for mem
bers of the U.S. Armed Forces
on active duty.
In addition to the $1000 first
prize the foundation will give a
second prize of $500 50 third
prizes of $100 and 50 fourth prizes
•-©?. 550.
The rules are simple:
Letters on the subject "My
Part in Winning Friends for
Freedom" must be no less
than 100 words and no more
than 500 words in length.
Contestants must type or print
^legibly on plain paper using one
Sside only. Name rank military
and home address should be print-
ed or typed at the top or bottom
•"of the letter.
The contest closes Nov. 1
.*•: 1958. Letters should be mailed
to Freedoms Foundations Val
ley Forge Pa.
The contest has the full support
«f the Deparment of the Army.
YOUR
genson Fort Sam Houston Texas
and Mrs. B. Jean Walker1 and
Franklin L. Garten Fort Sill.
The hunt which was con
ducted during the last quarter
of fiscal year 1958 was open
to all Fourth U.S. Army mili
tary and civilian personnel.
Money won in the Fourth U.S.
Army contest was in addition
to awards given at installa
tion level to contestants whose
safety suggestions were adopt-
Hqs III Corps
Returns Home
More than 500 members of
Headquarters III Corps and sup
porting units returned yesterday
from a three-day command post
exercise in the field.
The men and equipment left
the post Tuesday. Corps Head
quarters for the exercise was
near the junction of Nolan-
ville Rd. and Route 2 with
artillery and other supporting
units dispersed.
Headquarters and Headquarters
Company III Corps and Head
quarters and Headquarters Bat
tery III Corps Artillery were sup
ported by CPX headquarters from
other units.
Included were the 418th Medi
cal Company (Ambulance) Com
pany of the 73d Ordnance Bat
talion 2d U. S. Army Missile Com
mand the 203d Military Intelli-
The following events were won
by the following boys:
Event I. Breath Holding Ken
neth Jolly of Troop 9 of Waco
Methodist Home Event II. Towel
Race Don Lawrence of Troop
60 of St. Thomas' Church Rock
dale Event III. Foot Race Bill
Barge of Troop 117 of First Me
thodist Church Belton Event IV.
Side Stroke Bill Allison of
Troop 91 Rotary Club Teague
Event V. Beginners free style
Franklin Campbell of Troop 21 of
Waco State Home Event VI. Back
Stroke John Rinn of Troop 89
of First Christian Church Rock
dale Event VII. The Big Blow
Bill Wilson of Troop 117 of
First Methodist Church Belton.
Event VII. Breast Stroke Ted
Wald of Troop 125 of Yourth Acti
vities Ft. Hood Event IX. Diving
Franlin Davenport of Troop 89
of First Christian Church Rock
dale Event X. Medley Relay
Troop 117 of First Methodist
Church Belton Event XI. Under1-
qqwater Swim-Jerry Mullins of
Troop 9 of Methodist Home Waco
Event IEE. Free Style Mike
Herrington of Troop 117 of First
Methodist Church Belton.
Council Judge was George Sauer
of Baylor University. Committee
judges were John Poteet Ted
Powers Bill Fowler Jack Patter
son Carl Price Bill Menefee
Jim Mowry Norman Frederick
and Herb Lanier all of Waco.
Approximately 550 Scouts and
Scouters participated in the meet.
•My Part in Winning
Friends for Freedom
service travels may mean that you'll be rub*
bing shoulders with people whose religious rites or
intense expressions of nationalism strike you as theatri
cal.
How you conduct yourself faced with such un
familiar scenes means a lot in winning friends for
freedom. Think about the customs of your own faith.
You expect others to show them a decent respect.
Tact courtesy and discreet interest in faiths
that are new to you—these pay handsome divi
dends in breaking down 'misconceptions of Ameri
ca abroad.
Haven't you had first-hand experience of this? And
couldn't you draw on it for a letter of not more than
500 words on the subject of "My Part in Winning
Friends for Freedom?"
That letter might bring you as much as $1000 if
yon submit it to the Freedoms Foundation Letter Writ
ing Awards Program before Nov. 1. Address: Freedoms
Foundation Valley Forge Pa. (AFPS)
Write Right Now-
ed under the Army Suggestion
Program.
Participants in the hunt looked
for unsafe conditions and methods
and practices that were incident
to an Army operation or activity
or on property owned by or under
control of the Army.
The hunt focused attention on
accident prevention and awards
for safety achievements. First of
its kind the hunt is seen by safety
officials as having greatly con
tributed to the 14 per cent in
crease over the third quarter in
Fourth U.S. Army's participation
in the Army Suggestion Program
Another outstanding achieve
ment during the fourth quarter
was that the Fourth U.S. Army
had its lowest number of fatalities
ever recorded for a three month
period.
Capt. Osbourn Assigned Here
Captain Warren E. Osbourn has
assumed command of Company
B 1st Armored Rifle Battalion
51st Infantry replacing Captain
James Graham who is the new
Battalion Intelligence Officer.
Captain Osborn Veteran of
18 years service in the Army
came to Fort Hood from duty
at the recruiting station in Abi
lene Texas. He is the
holder of 12 awards and dec
orations served in both World
War II and Korea.
The former Philadelphian lives
gence Detachment and other Fort with his wife Charlotte at 407
Hood units. iWaskow Drive in Walker Village.
New Central Antennas
Down Wtth The Old
Up With The New
Fort Hood's forest of TV anten
nas is expected to begin disap
pearing about Dec. 1.
Initially serving the new hous
ing areas of Patton Park Wain-
Boy Scouts
News
Boy Scout Troop 117 of First
Methodist Church of Belton won
first place in the Heart O' Texas
Boy Scout Council Swim Meet
Thursday at the Sun Pool.
Troop 60 of St. Thomas' Church
in Rockdale won Third Place
Troop 9 of Waco Methodist Home
won Fourth Place and Troop 125
of Fort Hood won fifth place.
A
wright Heights and Chaffee Vil
lage a central television distri
bution system consisting of three
antennas atop the water tower at
the east end of the post will bring
improved reception of Channels 6
7 and 10 to Fort Hood TV viewers.
Funds for the new system
were included in the original
construction costs of the three
housing areas. Construction
designs provide access into
each building.
The new system will permit al
most unlimited future expansion.
Eventually signals received on
Channels 6 7 and 10 will be re
transmitted on closed circuit ca
bles to each TV set on the post
and in the adjacent housing areas.
In addition to improving picture
reception the new central an
tennas will also eliminate the need
for costly and eleborate individual
antennas.
The central antennas which
will reach a few feet higher
than the 185-foot water tower
off 25th St. are scheduled for
completion by Dec. 1.
The primary contract has gone
to Bell Television of New York.
The subcontractor is the R. R.
Riley Construction Company of
Pinesville La.
The Post Signal Office is re
sponsible for the implementation
of the contract according to the
specifications of the Fourth U.S.
Army Signal Section. Fort Hood
Engineers will provide power for
amplifiers and other equipment
the distribution system.
Col Smith Speaks
At Kiwanis Meet
Colonel Franklin G. Smith
commanding officer of the 2d
United States Army Missile Com
mand spoke at a luncheon meet
ing of the Temple Kiwanis Club
Tuesday at the Kyle Hotel in
Temple.
"Missiles and the Unites States
Missile Program" was the subject
of Colonel Smith's address. He
briefly described the history of
missiles and the developments
which led to our present jet-engin-
ed high speed rockets and mis
siles.
"The missiles we have now rep
resent only a first generation of
the missiles of the future" he
added discussing advances in the
missile and rocket field.
Colonel Smith described the
missiles operational in the
United States Armed Forces
at the present time. Employ
ing color slides for illustra
tions he discussed the longer
range weapons such as the
Atlas and Snark and the rela
tively shorter range missiles
inchlding the Dart Bomarc
Sidewinder and Jupiter.
He also covered extensively two
weapons the Corporal guides mis
sile and the Honest John rocket
which are organic to the 2d United
States Army Missile Command.
Colonel Smith explained that the
Corporal is an all weather mis
sile providing the Army with an
atomic delivery system which
would extend greatly the range of
conventional field artillery. He
described the Honest John as
he a on of
force tactical atomic weapons de
livery system."
BROOKLYN N.Y. The Fort
Hamilton Commissary here has pu
in operation an "automatic con
veyor" system believed to be the
only one in use today by the mili
tary. According to its designer
CWO Gordon W. Peters the new
system will save about $9000 an
nually and will get cases of food
from stock piles to display shelves
in record time."
The whistle and roar of artillery
fire became familiar to trainees
of A Battery 78th Artillery.
For the fifrst time the 145 train
ees witnessed the 105 Howitzer in
action. Within the next two
months the same men will be
firing the versatile weapon.
Under direction and narration of
Captain J. W. Baker battery
commander the demonstration in-
Pfc Sappington
Is KB Top Man
Private First Class Tomas D.
Sappington son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. H. Sappington 4470 Howe
Street Oakland Calif. has been
selected as the outstanding Soldier
of the Month by Special Weapons
Company of Killeen Base
Texas.
PFC Sappington became a
member of the U. S. Army on
May 91957 and took his basic
Training at Fort Ord Cali
fornia.
Following Basic Training he
was selected to attend the Basic
Army Administration School also
at Fort Ord where he graduated
high in his class in Reptember
1957.
On October 16 1957 PFC Sap
pington was assigned to Killeen
Base Texas as the Company
Clerk for Special Weapons Comp
any "B".
Prior to entering the service
PFC Sappington was graduated
from San Jose State College with
Bachelor of Arts Depree in
Business Administration. After
completion of school he worked
as an Inspector for the Retail
Credit Company in San Jose
California.
2AD Men Take
Highest Scores
The 57th automotive mechanics
and the 21st supply clerks classes
were graduated from the III
Corps Academy Aug 15 in cere
monies at Theater No. 4.
Guest speaker for the gradua
tion of 62 students was Lieutenant
Colonel Gerome Stevenson III
Corps Ordnance Officer.
Top graduate of the me
chanics was Private Kenneth
Branson of Headquarters and
Company A 124th Ordnance
Battalion with a score of 90.-
00. Second in the class was
Private Paul D. Coffin of the
same unit with 87.20.
Sergeant First Class Wilbur Mil
ler Jr. Company of the 1st
Armored Rifle Battalion 50th In
fantry was highest among his
classmates in supply classes with
a score of 93.25. Next high honors
went to Private John H. Haynes
Company A of 2nd Quartermaster
Battalion with 90.69.
Church Attendance
High At Fort Hood
Fort Hood soldiers and their
families go to dfiurch Sunday
mornings.
Almost 20 percent of them at
tend services on post and clergy
men in nearby Killeen report that
about 70 percent of their congre
gations are military personnel.
This compared to Fourth
Army goal of 15 per cent and
the unofficial 11 percent goal
of the Army is in line with
what Chaplain (Major) H. B.
Lawson former assistant Di
vision Chaplain called "the
whole American emphasis on
church attendance."
Military families are also tak
ing an active part in other reli
gious affairs on post.
Religious education classes of
various denominations choir re
hearsals church societies and
mid-week prayer services are
heavily attended in addition to
Sunday church services.
Chaplain Lawson who was as
sistant to Chaplain (Lieutenant
Colonel) Richard F. Wersing left
Fort Hood Aug. 16 for re-assign
ment to Fort Meyer Va.
THE ARMORED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
"FIRE FOR EFFECT" was the order given by Private David B. Escobedo of San Antonio when
he practiced forward artillery observer's duties on a Fort Hood mountain Aug. 4. His training
unit Battery A 78th Artillery observed target hits of 105mm Howitzers as part of their ad
vanced individual training.
Trainees Get Baptismal
Of Arty Howitzer Fire
eluded operaions of a reconnais
sance team followed by the lay
ing of the battery by surveyors.
The Howitzers took positions on
the Brookhaven Range and fired
on a target on Smith Mountain
more than 4000 yards away.
Advanced trainees of Bat-
78th Artillery efficiently
demonstrated the weapons for
their audience. Many trainees
in the stands winced the in-
evitible shudder of the unini
tiated when the howitzers
rocked backward and launch
ed their powerful projectile.
After witnessing the firing pro
cedures a convoy took the train
ees to an observation post atop
Sugar Loaf Mountain about 3
000 yards south of Smith Moun
tain.
There after Captain Baker ex
plained the duties of the forward
observer whom he called the
eyes of the artillery" the
trainees got a chance to get into
the big show themselves.
Volunteers were given the op
portunity to direct fire on chosen
targets without help from the in
structors without much help
that is.
After directing bursts over
a large area the trainees be
came proficient enough for
Captain Baker to prove his
point that "anyone can direct
direct fire for the artillery".
"But he added "you must
all know all the procedures to
be a well-trained efficient
forward observer."
Before the demonstration the
battery gathered at Post Theater
No. 3 and saw a film on the
operations of a firing battery in
action.
The trainees will return to their
8:30 P.M.
FREE!
(plllA
classrooms for more study before
returning to the field to fire the
weapons on their own.
Captain Baker gave them an
artillery definition to remember
while they are taking their advan
ced individual training: "An Artil
lery battery is a team whose suc
cess depends on how well each
individual carries out his task.
First Lieutenant Ralph Mobley
was fire direction officer for Bat
tery C.
ARealTouchy
RecruitStilled
Ft. Carson Colo. (AFPS) The
bristling newcomer checking in
here wouldn't take orders. He
had his own ideas about the Ar
my and training in any form
wasn't for him.
But fortunately for discipline
the Army knows how to handle
recruits of his type. Take him be
hind the orderly room and work
him over for a while. He won't
be such a sharp cookie and he'll
know better than to turn up at
2:30 am after a payday evening.
Sure he put up a fight in fact
a real dilly. It took 20 minutes
before he could be subdued by
Sp5 Dewey J. Huggins and Pvt.
Earl Bender. They finally slugged
him with a crowbar.
When last heard of the 30-
pound porcupine was writing his
congressman. Used a quill pen
natch.
A guy with a real problem is
the glassblower with hiccups.
A bachelor is a man who has
faults he doesn't know about.
OPPORTUNITY
NIGHT
THURSDAY
ROEBUCK AND CO
8:30 P.M.
Mystery Prize
Opportunity Night
Register Thursday August 21 st--6 to 8 P.
1st Prize: $35.00 In Merchandise Certificates
2nd Prize: $15.00 in Merchandise Certificates
—USE JUST LIKE CASH IN ANY DEPARTMENT—
3rd Prize is a Mystery
Drawing 8tl5 P. M. THURSDAY
OPEN 'TIL 8:30 EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT
LAST WEEK'S WINNERS:
Beth Mosby 4408 Parkdale Midland Texas $35.00
Mrs. J. L. Hyman Star Route Kemper Texas $15.00
Cecil R. Bruce 2202 South 5th Temple Mystery Prize
SEARS
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TEMPLE
Phone PRS-4534
A new night vision device en
abling troops to see military ob
jectives at night with the aid of
light obtained from the stars has
been announced by the Depart
ment of he Army.
Developed by the Army Engi
neer Research and Development
Laboratories Fort Belvoir Virgi
nia and Radio Corporation of
America Harrison New Jersey
the new device is known as the
"cascaded photosenitive image in-
tensifier."
The new development dif
fering from other night vision
devices which utilize infrared
radar and other mediums
gathers the reflected starlight
or diffused light from skyglow
falling upon the objective. It
then intensifies or amplifies
the diffused light sufficiently
to present a distinguished
image. The device is free from
the complexities associated
126 R.O.T.C.
Grads Go RA
One hundred twenty-six Distin
guished Military Graduates with
in the Fourth U. S. Army area
accepted Regular Army appoint
ments as commissioned officers
during Fiscal Year 1958.
Although all Senior Division
ROTC graduates become offi
cers only a limited number—
those designated Distinguished
Military Graduates who ap
ply are considered by the De
partment of the Army for Reg
ular Army commissions.
To win the coveted honor of
Distinguished Military Graduate
a cadet must first be designated
a Distinguished Military Student
by the professor of military
science and tactics at his college
or university.
Tentative selection as a Dis
tinguished Military Student is
normally made during the sec
ond semester of a cadet's
third year in college and is
confirmed at the start of his
senior year. The student must
possess outstanding qualities
of leadership high moral
character and definite apti
tude for military service.
In addition he is required to
rank in the upper half of his class
in academic work and to have
attained a standing in the upper
third of his class in the advanced
ROTC course. If the cadet main
tains these standards until gradua
tion he is designated a Distin
guished Military Graduate and if
selected by the Department of the
Army is tendered an appointment
in the Regular Army.
Army Announces New
Night Vision Device
1958 EDSEL
Bermuda
with low level light intersifier
television systems and re
quires no source of artificial
light or radiation.
The intensity of light furnished
by the stars is so low as to be
of little or no value to the un-
2d Missile Units
To Vie For Best
Day Rm. Award
Units of the 2d U.S. Army Mis
sile Command will soon begin
competition for the honor of hav
ing the best unit day room in the
Command.
The program will serve two
main purposes: to recognize units
which take an outstanding inter
est in day rooms and to increase
the interest of commanders and
unit personnel in day rooms as
places of off-duty comfort and rec
reation.
Beginning in October a
team composed of renresenta-
tives of the Missile Command
Personnel (G-l) Operations
and Training (G-3) and Soe-
cial Services will inspect day
rooms nominated for the con
test.
Appearance condition and
maintenance of equipment will be
considered. The unit's participa
tion in the Troop Information
program will also be used as a
basis for awarding the winner's
plaque to remain in the day room
during the month following the
competition.
Poster Contest
Ends Sept. 10
The Fort Hood Poster Program
theme for this month is "The Edu
cated Soldier."
Art work "and ideas must be
delivered to the Post Information
Office building 60 by Sept. 10
In the two months since the
Poster Program was established
more than 40 poster designs and
ideas have been forwarded by the
Post Information Office to Fourth
S. Army.
The aims of the program ac
cording to the Fort Hood Circular
which established it in May are
to promote better understanding
and "to gain increased acceptance
of the Army and its vital role in
our national defense."
Posters and ideas are sent from
Fourth U.S. Army to the Depart
ment of the Army in Washington
D.C.
RUN!
don't walk
to Triangle Motors in Temple for
three of the most sensational used
car buys in history1
1957 Metropolitan
Convertible
a beautiful gas saving car practically new
with radio heater and white wall tires.
TOMECEK'S
Corner 5th and Adams
Friday August 22 1958
aided eye in seeing military ob
jectives at night. With this new
development however it will be
possible to see at tremendously
increased ranges objects which
would otherwise be obscured by
darkness.
Heart of the instrument is a
cascaded image tube actually two
tubes working in a series and
operating through an optical sys
tem which focuses the lig!*1 re
flected from objects in thj^jfeld.
The first tube acts as pre-ampli-
fier for the second which in turn
further amplifies or intensifies the
light and presents the image on
the viewing surface. The tube is
powered by a minute current at
approximately 25000 vots furn
ished by a compact six-volt bat
tery through a system of trans
formers and transistors.
Possible civilian uses for the
tube includes its installation on an
astronomical telescope to extend
its range and sensitivity in the
making of certain X-rays using
a substantially reduced level of
radiation or viewing of minute
flashes of light emitted by nu
clear particles thereby giving
scientists a better understandin
of their 'behavior."
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Ytmcan shop now even
though payday is far away
with our convenient layaway.
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1956 Metropolitan
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We also have a large sfock of guaranteed
late model used cars and some low priced
older model used cars.
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