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Friday, May 1, 1942
CAMP BARKELEY NEWS
PAGE THREE
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Columbia university in New York, cafeteria doors are thrown open at 7:3 0 a. m. daily and kept open until 9.00 p. m. Salads, meats (w t P
on T-bone and sirloin steaks), vegetables, deserts and soft drinks along wi tli ice cream concoctions from the fountain are offered, all at mode a ^
prices. Incidentally, the fair-haired young lady sandwiched in the midd le of the line is Mrs. Merlin Foil, Brookfield, 111., who was a visi o
the Guest House last week.
Wanted Service
With Dais Old
1917-18 Outfit
Library Magazines
Provide Diversion
As Well As Culture
Seein’ Things!
21 Chevrons On
4 Post Walkers
If you visit the camp library just
to pass a little time away or wish
to improve your army I. Q., or if
you just want to stock up with a
little culture, you will find the
library's magazine shelves will meet
your needs no matter what your in-
terests happen to be.
If your wits need whetting and
your morale is a little below nor-
mal, the New Yorker and Esquire
will prove both amusing and witty.
For the latest developments in the
army, both in its administrative
and tactical aspects, the Artillery
Journal, the Infantry Journal, the
Army and Navy Journal, and the
Army Times are undoubtedly the
most informative and authoritative
soui’ces.
Soldiers having an interest in the
arts will find the Theater Arts
Monthly,, Etude, Popular Photo-
graphy Writers Digest, and the
New York Times Book Review to
be very viseful.
For the politically minded such
journals as the Nation, the New
Republic, the Atlantic Monthly,
Harpers, Time, Newsweek, and
Business Week are reliable and
stimulating.
A limited number of professional
journals are available in the li-
brary. They are the Columbia Law
Review, the Oil and Gas Journal,
Drug Topics, and the United States
Supreme Court Decisions,
Real Steak Is
MRTC Grad Treat
Company D, 57th Bn., MRTC,
gave its trainees a banquet Satur-
day noon in celebraticn of the com-
pletion of their basic training. The
banquet was a real treat for the
men, the “piece de resistance” be-
ing real honest-to-gosh cowsteak
to you. As guests, the company en-
t- tained Lt. Col. Lincoln F. Put-
nam. and 2nd Lt. Wiltz J. Bethan-
court, battalion commander and
adjutant respectively. The men
presented a short program of their
own, singing Latin-American songs
to the accompaniment of a small
orchestra, and topping the dinner
off with a short skit.
This story of high-powered
non-coms handling details gen-
erally assigned to the lowly
buck privates has had its prede-
cessors but members of the
Casual Det. insist that four sol-
diers, with 21 stripes between
them, walking guard at the Abi-
lene airport sets a new Camp
Barkeley record.
That was the case this week
when the detachment was
called upon to supply four
guards and not a single private
was in the area to be called
upon. Result: Mr. Sgt. E. E.
Faurot, 1st Sgt. Y. Y. Bryant,
1st Sgt. W. P. Fleming and 1st
Sgt. Paul Vickers all shouldered
rifles against sabotage at the
landing field.
Vickers and Faurot are from
Tulsa.
Order Imaginary
But KP Is Real
Prematurely hot weather last
week had Sgt. Robert Murray, Cas-
ual Det., sweating under the collar
of his wool O. D.’s.
Consequently, when Tech Sgt.
George Sliaeffer, acting topkick,
informed his men that there was
a slight possibility that they would
be able to fall out in summer kha-
ki’s Monday morning, Murray took
the possibility as an order.
Came Monday morning and a
steady downpour of rain but Mur-
ray wasn’t to be daunted. Resplen-
dent in brand new khaki’s from
head to foot, Murray bounced out
for reveille while the rest of his
buddies, knowing the rain meant
no summer uniform, fell out in fa-
tigues.
Reminding Murray that an old
army rule says to never ‘’anticipate
an order.” Shaeffer stuck the be-
wildered sarge on three days of
K. P.
Shaeffer is from Edmond and
Murray is from Tulsa.
Homer Swings It
Mess Sergeant Homer William-
ston of Co. B, 315th Medics, is one
non-com who often doubles in brass
—literally.
When not busy overseeing work
in the kitchen, the sergeant often
amuses company mates by swing-
ling a wicked trumpet.
Hutments To Replace Tents Here
Roofing May Get Best Of Wind
The loyalty of a soldier to
his division instilled in his son
bore fruits recently when J. M.
Ashford Jr. applied for service
in the 90 th Division which was
recently reactivated at Camp
Barkeley.
Because his father served in
the famous Texas and Okla-
homa organization of the World
War I fame, young Ashford ap-
plied for a transfer from Fort
Sam Houston when he learned
of the formation of the 90th
Division here.
The elder Ashford served 11
months overseas with this regi-
ment as a member of Company
B, and made a creditable record
of service. One experience he
relates was his disappearance
for several days when he was
reported missing in action;
later he showed up and was
found to be neither wounded or
gassed.
J. M. Ashford enlisted in the
army in September, 1940, at the
age of 19, and was stationed at
Fort Sam Houston until his re-
quest for a transfer to the serv-
ice company of the 90th’s 358th
infantry regiment here.
Off Limit Areas
For Barkeley Men
The Lindsey Cut Rate Drug
Store, 257 Pine in Abilene, was
placed officially off limits by the
Commanding Officer, Camp Barke-
ley as of April 28.
For the information of new ar-
rivals at Camp Barkeley, specific
areas in Abilene and Sweetwater
declared off limits are:
Abilene — Mexican Area from
Plum Street to Bois D’Arc Street
and from North Second Street to
North Tenth Street,
Negro Area from Mesquite Street
to Cottonwood Street and from
North Fourth Street to North
Twelfth Street;
Negro Area from South Second
Street to South Fifth Street and
from Cherry Street to China Street.
Sweetwater—Negro Area south
of Texas Pacific Railroad tracks in
City limits.
Laiix Gets Transfer
Private Win. p. Laux, 202nd F.A.,
has been transferred in grade to
Det. Medical dept., Station Hos-
pital, and has reported for duty.
Sendak Section
Is Baffled By
Vanishing Sign
Members of the newly organized
MRTC Public Relations Office were
calling for acetylalieylic acid (as-
pirin will do) this week. The rea-
son—a sign that vanished in the
night!
The office is housed in a building
on the corner of Avenue A and
West 21st Street that was formerly
a guard house. In fact, there was a
large sign, “Guardhouse,” still on
the outside. This hurt the Public
Relations men’s prides, and, natur-
ally, caused them no end of squirm-
ing and discomfort. They decided to
do something- about it—last Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Lt. Col. Elmer B. M. Casey, Mo-
rale, Investigating, and Summary
Court Officer, who occupies an of-
fice in the building, came to their
rescue. He “loaned” them a shiny
sign, finished in maple, which bore
his name and title. The reporters
added the name of Lt. Theodore L.
Sendak. MRTC Public Relations Of-
ficer, to the sign, removed the
“Guardhouse,” with proper cere-
mony. and installed the new shingle.
So all were content—until!-
A dust storm blew up Wednesday
night, and, the following morning—
the sign was gone! Despite a wide-
spread hunt—it remained missing.
It is believed that it was blown
from its perch—and retrieved by a
trophy hunter. Four other conclus-
ions have been drawn:
1— The Public Relations Office is
still without a sign.
2— Someone other than the PRO
has a sign.
3— The five members of the office
have a headache.
4— Lt. Col. Casey has a worse
headache—and wants a new sign-
in addition to the acety—pardon
us! Aspirin, please!
Fant Gets Silver Bar
Lieutenant Euclid T. Fand,. QMC,
received a proomtion to the rank
of 1st lieutenant this week. He is
assigned to center supply in the
MRTC as assistant to Capt, G. W.
i Harlow,
Barkeley soldiers grinned a few
days back when they saw in Abilene
a March of Time movie showing
how the best-housed army in the
world no longer had to use the tent
shelters that had been originally
hastily improvised to handle the
American Army. Men who had come
in to see the pitcure from the per-
sistent flapping of the tents in the
continuous Taylor County winds
thought that was a joke. But as
Camp Barkeley News went to press
last week, too late for the April 24
edition, Coi. Henry A. Finch, the
camp commander, announced that
tents here are to be a thing of the
past except in one area. Barkeley
is being transformed into a hut-
ment camp.
Work is already under way in the
old area of the 120th Medical Regi-
ment, in order to complete the shift
to hutments in time for the new
Medical Administrative officers’
candidate school on May 11. It will
cost Uncle Sam about $1,000,000 to
make the change here. 17 other
camps are being shifted to hut-
ment type.
Hutment indicates specifically
chat the pyramid tent tops will oe
replaced by roofing, using the pres-
ent tent frames- as a basis for the
alteration. Each hutment will ac-
commodate 15 men.
One part of Barkeley will remain
cents. This is the area to which
units of hte 45th moved from the
location of the present 90th Divi-
sion.
Military Courtesy
Must Be Observed
Watch your saluting, soldiers!
The goblins’ll git you if you
don’t watch out. Noting too
frequent laxity in the observa-
tion of a War Department order
several weeks old, restoring the
salute between grades when the
personnel is down town, Camp
Command instructed Military
Police in down town areas to
enforce the full respect of the
usual military courtesies.
Salutes MUST be exchanged
between officers and soldiers.
Slept Too Long
Pvt. Arthur H. (Missouri) Roth-
man went to sleep in the barber’s
chair. When he got back, tent
mates thought he had been scalped.
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