BTC 10-Shun [July 30, 1943]

              Keep Turning The Pages
Pajama-clad soldiers doing the air corps hop; as Austrian who
iled Hitter's armies to join ours; a cautionary note by Maj. Waters,
S-2 officer, on loose talking; a veteran of the First .World War
'who just had to come back to recite poetry and fight in this one—
they're among the stories on the inside pages if you only look.
There's much more too. The Post Movies; the Chapel Services;
and, of course, the many featured cartoons and columns by your
fellow soldiers of BTC 10.
VOL. 1, No. 11. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 FREE DISTRIBUTION
^Suggestion
Plan Wins
High Praise
The Suggestion Box Plan which
was inaugurated at this post three
weeks ago has been an outstanding
success, the commanding officer re­ported
to First District Headquar­ters
this week. Officers, enlisted
men and civilians have submitted
191 suggestions, 117. of which have
been found to have merit.
Many of the proposals have al­ready
been put into effect at BTC
10 and several are being sent to
higher headquarters for use by the
Army generally. Numerous details
still have to be worked out on
most of them with the result that
only a comparative few can be pub­licized.
Six soldiers and two civilian post
personnel have already been cited
for. noteworthy contributions. The
Honor Roll follows:
T/Sgt. Garland L. Harrell—Hq.
and Hq.
S/Sgt. Milton M. Painter—Hq.
and Hq.
Sgt. Robert L. Walter—Hq. and
Hq.
Sgt. Murray Feibert—1185 th
Cpl. Edward Biller—Hq. and Hq.
Pvt. Frank G. Calvello—1187th
Civilian Robert E. Dahlfues—
Draftsman—Post Engineers
Civilian Graham Todd—Post En­gineers
T/Sgt. Harrel submitted plans for
a device that would increase gaso­line
mileage1 in airplane engines.
The device was found so valuable
potentially that it was immediately
forwarded to the Adjutant General's
office in Washington.
Another soldier suggested the re­inforcement
of a day room floor
that was about to cave in. The Post
Engineer was notified and the beam
was repaired immediately.
Two of the soldiers on the honor
roll have been rewarded with three-day
passes. The others will receive
letters of commendation from the
Suggestion Board on behalf of the
commanding officer and soldiers of
the post.
Deep River
N e g r o S p i r i t u a l s Fill
Night Air At 3 0 3 r d Wing
In the stillness of the dark
there come strains of lovely,
haunting melodies front a certain
corner of the 303rd Drill Field.
Each night, without fail, Negro
spirituals, deep throated, rich
American classics and Swing at
Spitfire tempo stir all who hear.
Puzzling to many is the reason
for these singing sessions. Could
it be the admirers usually found
listening attentively on the other
side of the fence each starlit
evening?
A Wedding At* Chapel On The Post
Wives Of EM
Gather AtUSO
A group of wives of enlisted men
at BTC 10 held a gathering at the
USO Club in Greensboro on
Wednesday afternoon.
Some of _ those attending went
next door to bowl while others
played bridge at tables set up in
the club rooms.
Plans were made at this gather­ing
for a picnic for the enlisted
men and their wives to be held
early in August. The afternoon was
such a success that the wives at­tending
are also planning to make
this a permanent group and to
work out a regular schedule of
meetings.
Another open house meeting for
the wives of enlisted men at BTC
10 will be held at the USO next
Wednesday from 2 until 5 p. m.
USO French
Club Active
The Conversational French Club
will meet on two evenings, Tuesday
and Thursday, at the USO next
week. Rene Hardre, associate pro
fessor of romance languages at
Woman's College, a veteran of the
first World War, will be a guest
of the club next Thursday.
Movies on Sunday and Tuesday
evenings are another new feature
at the USO. As usual, there will be
informal dancing, with GSO girls
for partners, every night except
Sunday. Tonight is bridge night at
the club. Play will start at 8 p, m
and Mrs. E. E. White and Mrs. Mar­garet
Langston' will be in charge
of the tables.
Week's Program.
Here is the program for the rest
of the week.
SATURDAY: Informal dance, 8
to 10:30 p. m. Refreshments served
on the back lawn.
SUNDAY: There will be a quiz
program at 3 p. m., classical music
hour in the music room from 4 to
5, community sing from 5 to 6. The
evening program will feature Re­becca
Pickard at the piano and
Anna Applewhite, vocalist, accom­panied
by Celeste Stafford. A talent
hour and movie will follow. Voice
.recordings will be made during the
evening.
Hour Of Music.
MONDAY: Hour of music, 8 to 9
p. m., with Dora Lewis, vocalist,
and Mrs. Leon Ham, accompanist,
followed by impromptu music and
dancing.
TUESDAY: C o n v e r s a t i o n al
French Club, 7:30 p. m. Movie at
8 p. m., followed by informal danc­ing.
Voice recordings will be made
on the second floor from 8 to 10
p. m.
WEDNESDAY: Informal dancing,
8 to 10:30 p. m.
THURSDAY: Frances Tucker at
the piano, 7:30 to 8:30 p. m. Con­versational
French Club at 7:30.
Informal dancing and voice record­ings.
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Theater 4 Opens
For 303rd Wing
Post Theater No. 4 was opened
this week for members of the 303rd
Training Wing. The program at
No. 4 will be the same as at Theater
No. 3, with complete showings be­ginning
at 6 p. m. and 8 p. m.
DEARLY BELOVED—Miss Helen Stafford and S/Sgt. Sterling
C. Bower of Hq and Hq come down the aisle from the altar a few
moments after they became Mr. and Mrs. Bower.
It's Still The Same Story
A Boy, A Girl And a Ring
Nearly every evening in the
week there is a wedding in one of
the post chapels.
The cast of characters is the
same each time—a boy and a girl
enough in love and with enough
faith, in the future to start a new
life, together even in time of war—
a Chaplain to hear the vows, and
a few close relatives and friends
Service Club Recreation Hall
To Open After Improvements
Capt, Diggs
Leaves Post
Maj. Harrison A. Brann arrived
at BTC 10 this week to assume
the duties of Post Chaplain. Captain
Harrold C. Diggs, who has been
Post Chaplain since March 5, has
been transferred to the New York
Area where we will be Area Chap­lain.
Entering the Armed Forces on
Jan. 31, 1941, Maj. Brann served
at Maxwell Field, Ala., until August
20, 1942, when he became Post
Chaplain at Atlantic City. His home
is in Lovingston, Va., and he is of
Episcopal faith.
Capt. Diggs is a "pioneering" Air
Forces Chaplain. He came to BTC,
10 with a successful career of estab­lishing
Chapels at Goldsboro, N. C,
and at the School Detachments at
Cttrtiss-Wright in Buffalo, N. Y..
and Bell Aircraft in Niagara, N. Y.
When he arrived in Greensboro,
this Post was still in a' state of
construction and much of the credit
for today's smoothly operating
Chapel program must go to him.
The creative manner in which be
handled Chapel administration dur­ing
the early growth and comple­tion
of the Post won the thanks
of the men of BTC 10.
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The recreation hall of the Serv­ice
Club, which has been closed
for repairs since Wednesday morn-tog,
will be opened again on Sun­day
at one o'clock. The cafeteria
and the soda bar remained open
during the week while repairs were
being made.
With the Sunday reopening, the
Service Club will swing into its
regular full program. The usual
open house will be held Sunday
afternoon and evening, with sol­diers
invited to bring relatives and
iends to visit and to dine at the
cafeteria if they desire.
Variety Show.
The Monday night dance is
Scheduled for the 1183rd and the
1186th training groups. The "Special
Services Office will present an­other
variety show on Tuesday eve­ning
and at the Wednesday night
game session the checker tourna­ment
will start in full swing again.
Feature of this past week was the
SautrSay night quiz program, which
attracted a crowd of over 500. The
soldiers competed by training
groups to answer the questions,
spurred on by a cheering section
in the center of the hall. A team
from the 1189th emerged as the
winner. Those on the victorious
combination were Pvt. Theodore R
Loutzenhiser, Pvt. Joseph T. Gimes-ky,
Pvt. Harold L. Russo, Pvt. Jer­ry
Almo and Pvt. Arthur Young.
Huge Crowd.
One of the largest crowds since
the opening of fee club was at­tracted
to the Sunday open house
Many of the visitoVs came from as
far as Washington, New York and
Pennsylvania to spend the day
visiting with their men in uniform
at the Service Club. The dance on
Monday night, only one of the
week, was for the various detach-ments.
The Tuesday night variety show,
presented by Special Services, was
led off by Pvt. Frankie Calvello,
the clever tap dancer who has been
giving so much of his time to these
entertainments. A number of new
artists were presented on this pro
gram, including Pvt. Eddie Rash
kovski, crooner, Pvt. Art Brohzi,
pianist, Pvt. Seymour Solomon
magician, and Pvt. Harry Sikow,
singer who appeared in "Bohemian
GirL"
Farewell
to witness the ceremony.
This week 10-Shun went to a
post wedding, one that was typical
of them all, although the ceremony
was a bit more elaborate than is
usually attempted here. The bride
in this case was Miss Helen Staf­ford,
of Summerfield, N. C. The
groom was S/Sgt. Sterling C.
Bower, of Hq. & Hq., • attached to
S-l here at BTC 10.
The Romance Starts.
The couple first met while
S/Sgt. Bower was stationed at
First District at Sedgefield. Miss
Stafford came to work at the mo­tor
pool here and S/Sgt. Bower
looks back to a ride out to the
Rifle Range together, with his
bride-to-be driving, as one of the
early high points of their romance.
The couple have known each other
about nine months, and so were
able to give the ceremony more
careful planning than is usually
possible for the post weddings.
Chaplain Wilson W. Harvey per­formed
the ceremony at 8 o'clock
on Tuesday evening in Chapel No.
1. The church was decorated with
ferns and flowers for the wedding,
and a white carpet was laid down
for the bride's walk to the altar.
The church was filled nearly to
capacity with men in uniform,
friends of the groom, and the
friends and relatives of the bride.
The Bride Wore.
The bride wore a gown of white
satin, a full-length veil trimmed
with Venetian lace and a long
s eeping train. Her flowers were
Radio Show
To Be Aired
From Post
"Parade Rest',' the all-soldier va­riety
radio show presehted over
WGBG by the men of BTC 10, gets
a new playhouse next week.
The show will be aired from Post
Theater No. 3, starting August 7,
with an all soldier audience giving
it a real GI flavpr. The change
was made possible by Captain Fos­ter
B. Blake, Post Signal Officer,
who arranged for a direct radio
transmission < line to run from the
theater to the station.
Tomorrow evening's broadcast
(Sat. 7:05-7:30 p.m.), the last to
come from the WGBG studios,
again presents the Post radio band
under the direction of Cpl. Jack
Coffey. It's a smooth musical crew,
containing representatives from
some of the nation's top flight
bands.
Cpl. Coffey, coast-to-coast band­leader
on network shows, worked
as a civilian aide to Capt. Glenn
Miller prior to his enlistment. He
helped in the music programs at va­rious
BTCs. working on the mod­ernization
and development of mili­tary
music.
The program spotlight will also
turn on Pvt. Murray Kane, featured
singer with the Fred Waring group,
who has whipped together a quar­tette
which does a version of "Out
of Nowhere." Pvt. Charles W. Ben-zinger
and Cpl. Mike E. Brady, who
contribute a dramatic sketch, "The
Avengers," a story of torpedo bomb­er
squadron which tags a Jap in­vasion
convoy somewhere* in the
South Pacific. Pvts. "Chuck" Hes-ton
and Paul Dubov. radio pros,
take the leads. Pvt: Johnny Col­ling
handles the stop watch in the
absence of Sgt. Louis Terkel. Sgt.
Jack O'Keefe, m.c.'s. The produc­tion
is under the supervision of the
Public Relations Office.
Many Interviews
"Parade Rest" during the past few
months has interviewed most of the
interesting GI Joes on Post. A
twice-torpedoed ex-merchant sea­man;
Pvt. George Senesky. all time
high scorer in the history of col­legiate
basketball: "Taffy" Wright,
Chicago White Sox slugger; Cpl.
Bill Swift. Guadalcanal veteran: Lt.
Olive i Palmer, in charge of the
WAAC recruiting drive; S/Sgt. Ed­die
Mader, N. Y. heavyweight who
twice bowled over Beer Barrel Tony
Galento, and many others are on
the list,
(Continued On Page Twelve.)
Three Dances
This Weekend
Three dances for EM have been
scheduled this weekend by the
Greensboro Planning Council. The
list follows:
TONIGHT: At the YWCA. from
8:30 to 11 p. m. „ ,
TOMORROW: At the King Cotton
Hotel, from 8:30 to 11 p. m.
Tomorrow night, a dance will
also be held for enlisted colored
men at the ^Windsor Community
Center from 8:30 to 11 p. m.
New Board Here To Handle
Flyers With CAA Training
Under a recently established Air I report to the War Training Service
Force program designed to handle 1 * - ^ * £ * • ' J ^ ^ a n d a
CAPT. HARROLD C. DIGGS
men in the Enlisted Reserve who
have been taking Civilian Pilot
Trawiing at colleges throughout the
country, a War Training Sryice
Examining Board is now function­ing
at BTC 10, interviewing and
classifying these men who come
generally from the eastern seaboard
area.
Created to determine the disposi­tion
of War Training Service re­servists
who already have had
flight training under the CAA, the
board -is under the direction of
Major J. G. May ton. It is one of
five similar boards operating in
key areas throughout the United
States examining men drawn from
the original CPT pool.
"Each week a new group arrives
from reception centers north of and
in this state," Mafor Mayton ex­plained.
"They've already unde*«
gone their regular Army tests and
innoculations and have received
their clothing issue. When they ar­rive
at this post, they go through
rigid "64" flight physical, the men
are placed in one of three cate­gories,
Maj. Mayton said. They may
be recommended for Aviation
Cadet training; returned to the
CAA program for further flight
training and then sent to the Cen­tral
Instructor's School at Randolph
Field to become- flight instructors
at primary flying schools; or
shipped to technical training
schools.
The board has final authority in
classifying a reservist and all men
take their basis training here ex­cept
those sent back for further
CAA flight training, Major Mayton
pointed out. Other members of the
board are Maj. C. Luetcke,-repre­senting
the Flying Training Com­mand,
and Capt. S. Goldsmith,
flight surgeon of the Medical De­partment.
Mr. William Mehl, as­sistant
superintendent of the WTS
program of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, has been assigned
tcr the Board as Advisor and Iiral-the
Air Corps processing and then son officer.