The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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The Camp Wolters Longhorn Friday, August 25, 1944
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How good1 does ice cream taste T That is the question con-
fronting Pvt. W. J. Peterson, Chicago, veterinarian here.
Being a veterinarian technician brings a fellow into all sorts
of situations, everything from testing the hind quarter of
Grade beef, to the taste-appeal of ice cream. Incidentally,
when this picture was taken, the temperature was normal,
Texas midsummer: Hot! (Signal Corps Photo.)
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Distribution of Soldier Voting Cards
Completed Today To Wolters Personnel
By 5:00 PM today, every en-
listed man and officer at Camp
Wolters will have received a
USJWBC Form No. 1, Applica-
tion for Absentee Ballot, Major
Warren M. VanderBurgh an-
nounced today.
Soldiers desiring to vote in
thp general election next No-
vember should fill out the
form, swear to it before any
officer or non-commissioned
officer not below the rank of
sergeant, and mail the card,
postage free, to the secretary
of his home state. Warrant
officers are not authorized
by law to take the oath.
The cards should be filled out
and mailed immediately by
transferred betpre the ballot is
mailed by the state, the camp
post office will forward, the bal-
lot to the soldier’s new address.
Major VanderBurgh urged
all soldiers interested in vot-
ing to study carefully War
Department Soldier Voting
Poster No. 2, “Requirments
for Soldier Voting by State
Absentee Ballot, which is on
display throughout the camp.
The following changes have
been made to this poster since
it was printed. The states of
Illinois and New Mexico have
now approved the use of the
post card application for absen-
tee ballot. New Mexico will ac-
cept the cai’d at any time, and
those soldiers desiring to receive1 the completed ballot must be
a BalM. In case a soMier is (See Voting Cards Page 6)
<S> A soldier’s appetite has lots
to do with his efficiency.
So declared Major Mafvyn B.
Starnes, Station Veterinarian
for Camp Wolters, whose chief
function at this mechanized
Army camp is to see that GIs
obtain only the highest quali-
ties of animal products, for
food.
“To keep a soldier at the
peak of his efficiency, he
must have a healthy ' appe-
tite,” he remarked. “Unless
Army food is of the highest
quality, the soldier’s appetite
will tend to decline, and with
it, his greatest effort.” ,
When the Army became
mechanized and horses and
mules were largely replaced by
rubber tires and khaki-colored
trucks, it was believed that the
Veterinary Corps, a componeiffc
of the Medical Department and
a branch of the Army Service
Forces, was on the way out.
“In this war the Veterinary
Corps is greater than the last,”
said Major Starnes. “A veter-
inary general is on the staff
cf the Surgeon General of the
United States Army.”
At Camp Wolters, he is re-
sponsible for the inspection of
food of animal origin and its
quality. inspections of food
are made by Major Starnes be-
fore purchase, at time of re-
ceipt, while in storage, and at
time of issue to the soldiers.
Inspectio ns take Major
Starnes to food centers all over
the countryside surrounding
Camp Wolters, as far as Steph-
enville, Hico and Weatherford,
where he inspects sanitary con-
ditions of establishments sup-
plying animal products to the
Army, and makes inspections
prior to purchase.
At Camp Wolters, over two
and one-half million pounds
of meat must be inspected
per year, along with millions
of eggs, thousands of gallons
of ice cream, and great quan-
tities of milk, butter, and
cheese. Where Naval officials
request it, Army veterinari-
ans inspect food products for
the Navy also.
Already thousands of pound?
of turkeys have been inspected
for overseas shipment by Major
Starnes.
Of the more pleasing aspects
of food inspections, an import
ant part is the taste test of
ice cream.
“According to Army regula-
tions, ice cream must be
pleasing to the taste,” he re-
marked. “However, under our
setup, we have a non-commis-
sioned officer who does the
tasting as a veterinary tech-
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Nice work-
-if you can get it.
Col. Earl C. Flegel, Camp Commander, is
shown above presenting awards to nine ci-
vilian employes and one soldier for their
contributions to the Victory Suggestion Pro-
gram., Front row, left to right, are: Col.
Flegel; Mrs. Juanita S. Kearby, Senior
Clerk, Purchasing and Contracting Branch;
Mrs. Hazel S. Arnold, Ordnance Motor Pool
Driver; Mrs. Ruth W. Jenks, Clerk, Sales
Commissary; Miss Dickye B. Long, Clerk,
Head of Placement Section, Civilian Person-
nel Branch; Mrs. Dorothy W. Walley, Clerk-
Typist, and Mr. Raymond A. Waller, Jr.,
Adm. Asst., QM Office. Second Row: PFC
Robert G. Knutson, 21, Medical Detachment;
Mr. Walter W. Walker, Laundry Superin-
tendent; Mr. Thomas W. Murrell, Carpenter
Foreman; and Mr. Robert D. Garland, Fore-
man, Auto Mechanic. (Signal Corps Photo)
The Russians have ripped loose from their long period of
inactivity on the southern front to capture Iasi, gateway to
the vital Ploesti oil fields.
* * ★ ★ ★ . ★ ★ ★
Tattered, bloody, but with its colors unfurled
proudly to the breeze, Paris, the City of Light, is free,
again. After four days of internal battle violent enough
to match anything the French Revolution could put up,
the Frenchmen themselves freed their capital of the
shackles of the swastica that have held it in bondage
for the past four years. The battle ended Tuesday
night, and around the globe the stirring strains of the
“Marsellaise” announced to the world that France had
risen again.
Allied headquarters still have had nothing
official to say about the freeing of the French
capital, but Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig, com-
mander in chief of the French Forces of the In-
terior, and newly-named military governor of Paris,
announced that his patriot army of 50,000 strong
and supported by countless Parisians unarrqed or
using any weapon they could lay their hands on,
won back the heart of their nation after four days
of bloody street fighting that began last Saturday
wlhen the call for a general uprising in Paris was
sounded.
Despite headquarters’ silence on the matter, Amer-
icans were reported to have occupied Paris early Thurs-
day. Marseille has fallen to French infantry and arm-
ored forces and Toulon is doomed.
Leading what may turn into a general desertion
of the Axis by its satellites, Romania climbed on
the Allied band wagon Wednesday night and is re-
ported to be having some exchange of lead with
their former Nazi comrades-at-arms on a non-com-
mercial basis. Young Kling Miihai has ordered his
subjects to stop shooting at the Russians, having
accepted an armistice on the terms offered by the
Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States.
As the royal announcement that the state of war with
the three Allies had ceased and that Romania would
fight “at the side of the Allied army and with their
help” went out over the air, the Russians had pushed
into the. country to within 167 miles of Bucharest and
were threatening the vital Ploesti oil fields. As yet
there is no Allied confirmation of the Romanian action.
This first crack in Hitler’s Balkan structure is
given added interest and, perhaps, extra significance
by the fact that in World War I only 43 days elapsed
between the time the first German satellite gave up
and the signing of the armistice.
Despite their troubles with the Americans, British,
Russians, French, and Romanians, the Nazis didn’t have
a corner on the war headaches this week. The Japanese
were-getting their share too. American planes have
been giving the Nipponese-held islands in the Pacific a
good aerial plastering—especially Halmahera where
Gen. MacArthur’s bombardiers are pounding the guts
out of the last island stepping stone standing between
him and the Philippines.
AS WE GO TO PRESS—Allied headquarters
reported that the French announcement of the con-
quest of Paris was premature and that street fight-
ing continued Thursday inside the city . .. The Brit-
ish announced liberation of Bordeaux . . . American
motorized columns in southeastern France are re-
ported to have reached the Swiss frontier from
Grenoble . . . Despite Romanian surrender, Russian
forces are meeting resistance where the Nazis are
still in control . . . American bombers continue to
plaster Jap bases from Halmahera and the Philip-
pines to the Bonin Islands . . . The Hungarian army
is reported revolting . . . Poles with the British
Eighth in Italy have captured San Giorgio and
Piagge.
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Eddins, Howard B. The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1944, newspaper, August 25, 1944; Camp Wolters, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601197/m1/2/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.