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VOL. 26 NO. 44
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SENTINEL SHORTS
Happenings
A RECRUITING TEAM from the Washing
ton D.C. Police Dept. will be at Ft. Hood Monday
through Thursday to interview and test interested
applicants for police force duty in the nations
capital. a
Applicants must be between the ages of 21 ana
29 and must have less than 180 days left in the
Army. Interested individuals should contact their
personnel officers for further details.
THE SABRE SERVICE Club is sponsoring a
short story writing contest. Stories may be sub
mitted through November 29 and should consist
of no less than 1000 words and no more than
1500 words.
Winning stories will be determined and plac
ed on display November 29 at the club.
THE ARMY COMMUNITY Service (ACS)
reminds all units that Christmas is only 39 days
away. ACS wants to help 50 families have a mer
ry Christmas this year and all units are urged to
contribute gifts of food cloths or toys to the
Christmas basket project. Those interested in help
ing ACS should call 685-4732 or 685-3726.
THE FT. HOOD Little Theatre will hold its
general monthly meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
in Bldg. 3402.
CONVENIENCE CORNER ADS for the
ARMORED SENTINEL must be either hand car
ried or mailed to the Information Office Bldg.
60. The ads must be typewritten and double spac
ed or printed. They must also state name service
number and unit and must be signed. Ads CAN
NOT be taken over the phone.
illE DEADLINE FOR copy submitted for
publication in the ARMORED SENTINEL is noon
Tuesday prior to Friday publication.
THE LENGTH OF the Vietnam war the high
manpower turnover stemming from the regular
one-year duty tour and the tight supply of season
ed officers and NCOs have resulted in
men
ing for involuntary second tours of duty hi Viet
nam.
The bulk of the returnees are in the Army
and Marine Corps. The Army will return about
18000 in 1968 and about 6000 Marines will go
back to Vietnam for the second time.
The Air Force is expecting to send baek only
about 150 personnel in specialized career fields.
SERVICEMEN EXPECTING TO go over
seas have been cautioned to make certain that
U.S. Government Customs reglations are not vio
lated when mailing or transporting souvenirs pur
chased there.
U.S. Treasury Department regulations speci
fically prohibit American citizens—civilian tour
ists as well as servicemen—from purchasing or
importing goods of any type made in Communist
China North Korea or North Vietnam.
A NEWS MAP of the week is available for
40 weeks at a cost of $19.75. A 3-foot by 4-foot full
color current events publication is sent each Friday
to subscribers. It serves as a world map with news
events shown with background details to those
events and places.
This is a service offered to high schools and
military units. Write for the "Regular Edition"
subscription to "World News of the Week" 7300
N. Linder Ave. Skokie 111. 60078. For dayroom
purposes this is an authorized unit fund expendi
ture.
Did You Know?
DID YOU KNOW that common courtesy in
cludes the use of the telephone. Always inform
the person on the other end when you have
reached a wrong number. No one likes to answer
a telephone only to hear a click at the other end.
DID YOU KNOW that included in Ft. Hood's
family quarters is one (ea.) farm house.
Inside Story
The Ft. Hood Youth & Community Activities
Association (YCAA) has provided varied sports
and recreational activites for more than 700 boys
and girls on post during the past year. Read about
their successful program on Page 11.
Society
Editorial
Movie Billings
return
Sports
Eyecatcher
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Darnall Sets
Clinic Hours
By 1ST LT. JACK ALLDAY
Information Officer
Recognizing that Ft. Hood
is anything but an "eight to
five five days a week" post
the outpatient clinic at
Darnall Army Hospital has
adopted new operating hours
that will allow military and
dependent personnel to "see
the doctor" almost at their
own convenience.
The new hours which
became effective Tuesday are
the result of a rn a 11'
philosophy of gearing itself to
the community it serves.
"We're a part of this earn-
Two Receive
Stiff Terms
Two Ft. Hood soldiers have
been given sentences totaling
11 years at hard labor aftre
being convicted by general
courts martial for wrongful
possession of marijuana. The
men were convicted last week.
Pvt. E-2 Bruce L. Petersen
Hqs. Hqs. Co. 57th Sig. Bn.
dishonorable discharge total
forfeitures and confinement at
hard labor for eight years.
Peterson was convicted of
two specifications of wrongful
possession of marijuana.
Sp4 Gerald H. R. Wilkinson
Co. C 5th Bn. 6th Inf. 1st
Armd. Div. was sentenced to
three years at hard labor
after being convicted of
possession of and conspiracy
to transfer marijuana.
Wilkinson was also sen
tenced to a dishonorable
is a a to a
forfeitures.
However Pfc Joseph P.
LaPierre a member of the
2nd Armd. Div.'s DivArty
tossed away his sandals shav
ed his beard grabbed his
us he an pa at a
enlisted in the Army. He's
not even suffering now he's
starving even less and pover
ty well he's even licked
that problem.
LaPierre is an artist and
as such has the artist's view
of the world around him and
tries to tell his views on can
vas. But he is not incurably
romance about artists or art
nor is he devoted to
chauvinism. He is painting
and painting well without
benefit of an empty stomach
or an earless "noggin." He's
telling it like it is.
What then is it like for
LaPierre? He maintains that
research thought and lots of
hard work are an integral
200 New Housing Units
To Be Constructed Here
WASHINGTON Two hun
dred family housing units that
will cost an estimated $3.9
million dollars will be built at
Fort Hood the Defense Depart
ment announced Wednesday.
The units at Fort Hood are
among 2000 units to be built
at various military posts across
the country at a cost of $40
million.
The housing to be completed
by June 30 will provide 500
units for the Army 750 for the
Navy and 750 for the Air Force.
The 2000 units represent a
reduction from the 6750 units
costing $137 million built during
the fiscal year that ended July
1.
Already approved for Fort
Hood but not yet funded for
the current fiscal year is con
struction of 120 four-bedroom
duplex units for enlisted men
at an estimated cost of
$2160000.
The two projects involve a
total of 320 family housing units
munity an intergal part"
a in a A
Champlin the hospital's com
mander "so we have to be
available to the people we
serve when they can get to
us." This means nights and
weekends as well as normal
duty hours.
The clinic is now open near
ly 80 hours each week in
cluding weekends. The hours
have been tacked on in spite
of an acute personnel shortage
at the hospital and a con
tinuing heavy workload due
to the large number of Viet
nam returnees. Some 100 of
the Vietnam veterans are
being treated by DAH at any
given time about half of them
bed patients.
The hospital is the hub of
Ft. Hood medical care ac
tivities including preventive
medicine veterinary mental
an is a
services.
The additional outpatient
service will involve not only
75 or so hospital and division
doctors but nurses recep
tionists pharmacists and X-
a an a a to
technicians.
The new schedule should
also relieve some of the
pressure off of the emergency
as
handling a staggering 6000 pa
tients a month.
"The emergency room"
says Col. Champlin who in
addition to commanding DAH
is also the III Corps surgeon
and post director of medical
services "should be used as
its name implies-to treat
emergency cases. Now that
the outpatient clinic is so
(See CLINIC Page 2)
'I'm Basically
By SP4 MARTIN CHAPMAN
That's where it's at baby.
'You've got to be considered
slightly mad grow a beard
cut off your ear wear sandles
and dirty clothes suffer
starve endure poverty and
possibly gain acclaim only
after you die in order to be
come an artist.
He commented "I'm
usually dissatisfied with what
I do so I push myself to
become the best painter I can.
believe in sincerity but
The first of the two pain
tings which he completed for
the recently selected post best
mess shows a city scene of
possibly European extraction.
The small two-story buildings
are situated by a river span
ned by an ancient narrow
stone bridge. Obviously the
artist grasped not only the
feeling of quaintness about the
village but for a feeling of
permanence and stability.
"I didn't model this subject
at a total cost of $6060000.
The 120 units approved for 1968
are to be built just south and
east of the Fort Hood main
gate on the south side of High
way 190.
Another passible site for new
family housing at Fort Hood
is just south of Chaffee Village.
FT. HOOD
Traffic Toll
To Date This Year
Injuries 159
Fatalities 30
This Time Last Year
Injuries 177
Fatalities 34
ARMORED SENTINEL
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Army of the products or services advertised.
A
part of an artist's talent. He
feels that artistry is not com
pletely talent it is learned
and the larning process re
quires years and years of
arduous work. A fifteen hour
day working on one painting
is not unusual for the Pfc.
FORT HOOD FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 1968
The second painting is a
western scene which captures
the Fredrick Remington feel
ing of the Old West. However
the painting is strictly and
personally modern LaPierre.
A weather worn cowboy
beneath a wind swept sky is
standing beside his horse and
the two of them are looking
at a grayish brown ranch
situated on a wind torn plain.
Again the artist's attention to
detail as well as his patience
is evident.
I'm
basically a capitalist and my
only real philosophy is work."
The 2nd Armd. Div's 6th
Bn. 92nd Arty houses two
of LaPierre's most recent
paintings. He put in many
hours on the two six feet by
fourteen feet acrylic paintings
which hang in the Red Devils'
mess hall.
He said "I had to do a
lot of research for the western
painting. I never realized that
the low backed saddle is a
modern invention and that
saddles in the old west were
strictly high backed."
If the two paintings in the
Red Devils mess hall are an
us at on of a
a is a he is
acceptance by the public is
just as good an illustration
of his ability to sell. Since
he began painting pro
fessionally he has become
relatively well known for a
man so young.
Mrs. Alpha Fuller wife of Pfc.
Mitchell F. Fuller Hq. Btry. 1st Bn.
73rd Arty. 1st Armd. Div. yanks a
50-foot-long cord to fire a self-pro
pelled 155mm howitzer as part of the
mmm
Over The Top
after any particular town
although it is how I picture
many European and Eastern
American villages" he said.
Artist Tells It Like It Is
Not only does he feel that
artists don't have to grow
beards and starve but that
if they're willing to work at
their profession they can sell
paintings to an eager public.
He is his own best example
of this philosophy. He has sold
approximately 3000 paintings
in the past two years ranging
in price from 50 cents to
$1100. The latter price was
paid by an industrial firm for
PFC LaPIERRE
Birthday With A Bang
By PFC TIM JOHNSON
Information Specialist
The Ft. Hood-Killeen Base
United Fund has exceeded its
dollar goal of $120000 for the
1968 campaign.
With receipts still being
tabulated more than 96 per
cent of Ft. Hood and Killeen
Base personnel have con
tributed to the drive which
netted $120055. Twenty-seven
of the 40 activities or units
on post exceeded their dollar
goal and two units raised
more than 150 per cent of
their designated goal.
Fourteen private businesses
or organizations also made
voluntary contributions to the
drive although they were not
solicited for gifts.
Private contributors from
the Ft. Hood-Killeen com
munity include the American
Federation of Government
Employees Lodge No. 1920
a Personal Service
Braumer Watch Repair Can
teen Corp. Central Music Co.
Haines Shop Hood Barber
Shop Murphy's Chicken on
Call Newcbmb School of
Ballet Post Beauty Shop T.
S. Doss Taylor Shop Temple
Coca-Cola Vogue Cleaners
and Waco Coca-Cola.
Among the charities helped
through the United Fund are
the local and national USO.
The Killeen USO will receive
$2000 from the 1968 United
Fund to help meet the $31000
annual budget. The national
W-
Capitalist My Only Real Philosophy Is Work'
LaPierre's talent skill and
reputation are growing in the
Army just as they were ex
pa in in iv an if
Besides painting for buddies
several Army personnel have
commissioned the New
Hampshire native to paint
works for their homes during
his off-duty hours.
Besides the mess hall pain
tings the Army has utilized
LaPierre's talent a number
of times. He has lettered the
of of
DivArty vehicles as well as
a number of signs in the
DivArty area.
Now you may think that
lettering a few signs and bum
pers is an easy task. Try it
sometime. It takes a great
deal of skill to get the letters
in order and in a straight
in a re
studied lettering in art school
and feels that he needed the
practice.
"The more an artist knows
the better. It's good exper
ience for me" he said.
The 23-year-old artist
activities the unit's organization day.
Mrs. Fuller cringes as the recoil of the
gun blows smoke and dust in all di
rections. (U.S. Army Photo by Sp4
Ruben Norte)
Whoopeeee!
We Made It
USO parent agency of the
local service organization
receives $1100 from United
Fund to assist in its opera
tions in 15 foreign countries
three territories and most of
the 50 states.
Other worldwide agencies
affiliated with the Ft. Hood-
Killeen Base United Fund in
clude the Salavation Army
and the International Scoial
Service.
Local community welfare
plays a big part in the United
Fund activities.
The Killeen Welfare Bureau
receives $750 to support its
activities as a clearing house
or he on on a
disbursement of clothing and
small household items for the
needy.
On post the Civilian
i._ *i—4- nf Viic larap ahstrart nain- oniictpd in thp Armv strictlv studios buv origina
one of his large abstract pain
tings. The first price is the
going rate for many of the
works requested of him by
his Army buddies.
He enlisted in artillery
survey because he felt it
could have some practical ap
plication to his art and
because it seemed to be in
herently interesting.
He maintains that the
survey school was the best
school he has ever attended
not only because the teaching
personnel knew their job but
be a us he a
surveyors so much in so short
time.
You might say LaPierre
lives for the experiences that
life has to offer. He traveled
cross-country by automobile
three times while he was a
iv an be or in a
decided to settle in Los
Angeles California. You could
a so a ha
minstrels of old who sang for
their supper LaPierre painted
for his.
While in Los Angeles he
painted not only for
himself but for a number of
production studios. Production
By SP4 L. BLANKENBURG
Information Specialist
KILLEEN BASE In a
corner of the Killeen Base
library stands a glass enclos
ed case filled with the relics
of an Indian tribe that once
occupied the land Killeen Base
is now on.
Items such as arrow heads
stone axes and bird effigies
carved in bone are the only
testament left of a civilization
that was.
The relics on closer
scrutiny reveal some
interesting facts as to who
the one-time occupants were.
A soldier once stationed on
the base who collected the
artifacts on display establish
ed that the Killeen Base In
dian campsite goes back some
5000 years.
Depth at which the relics
were found and radiocarbon
dating set dates on some of
the objects between 7000 B.C.
to 5000 B.C.
The relics are mostly those
—18 Pages
#Welfare
Fund grants interest
free loans for emergency
to iv
employes at Ft. Hood.
A majority of support from
the United Fund assists young
people of the Ft. Hood-Killeen
area. The Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts receive large grants
from the United Fund as does
the YCAA.
Twenty-five local national
and intehiational agencies will
receive the necessary finan
cial support because military
and civilian personnel at Ft.
Hood and Killeen Base "cared
enough to share enough."
Coupled with receipts from
the recent AER-ARS drive
Ft. Hood and Killeen Base
personnel have contributed
more than $160000 during the
past four months to charity.
Safety Warning
In the interest of safety on the Ft. Hood govern
ment reservation during the period Nov. 9-17 and
every Saturday Sunday and legal holiday between
Nov. 23 and Jan. 2 all reservation areas other than
the cantonment area primary range roads and air
fields or off limits to all personnel except from 9:30
to 3 p.m. daily.
This includes both military and civilian personnel
except those on certain training missions and hunters
who are under the supervision of the Hunt Control
Office.
The presence of pecan gathers sightseers cat
tlemen bird-watchers and hikers greatly increases
the possibility of accidents during the hunting sea
son. The Special Services cottage and recreation area
at Belton Lake is not included in the restricted area.
enlisted in the Army strictly
for the wealth of experience
that the Army has to offer.
He wanted to meet people
all kinds of people and he
most of all wanted to know
what the Army was all about.
studios buy original paintings
and reproduce them by thous
ands for stores hotels and
restaurants. A number of the
paintings seen in these locals
as well as on the walls of
many homes across the coun
try were originally painted
by La Pierre and even cop
ies bear his signature.
LaPierre claims art school
experience is not quite as
valid as just living. He has
attended two of the finest
schools in the country the
New England School of Art
and the Boston Museum
School of Fine Arts. He feels
that just going out and seeing
life is much more valuable
to the artist than intellectu
ally considering art and then
following in the footsteps of
an instructor.
He has received acclaim
from a number of other
artists. Andrew Wyeth the
am us pa in of N
E an a
praised the young painter for
his outstanding water colors
depicting New England life.
But just as LaPierre is not
particularly interested in what
other artists have to say about
his paintings he is not
(See ARTIST Page 2)
Killeen Base Library Has
Interesting Indian Relics
of stone although some animal
bones were found at the loca
tion. No human bones or
burial sites have ever been
found in conjunction with the
site.
The tribe itself is believed
to have been the Tonkawa
one of the .250 tribes that
am as in a
years. Their last known ex
istence as a tribe was about
100 years ago.
Their old campsite is
located behind the Rod and
Gun Club at the base of what
is now known as Radar Hill.
The hill was used by the In
dians as a lookout point
because of the view it
afforded of the surrounding
area.
The army once used it for
much the same purpose when
they had a radar site on the
hill. The radar site has since
been closed and the hill is
off limits to the public.
The Indians survived off
(See LIBRARY Page 2)
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