The ORD news [July 27, 1945]

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VOL". 4. NO. 13. Greensboro, N-. C, Friday, July 27, 1945. FREE DISTRIBUTION
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Good Reason
For Shortage
Of PX Stock
Veterans Finding
Many Items Gone
Relief from shortages that
have vitally, affected the
stocks of Post Exchanges
throughout the country; can­not
be expected in the im­mediate
future.
That statement was made today
by Capt. Peter Hartholz, PX offi­cer
here at ORD, who has been in
close contact with Lt. Col. Marshall
H. Osburn, Chief, Army Exchange
branch, headquarters of the Fourth
Service Command.
Shortages that have depleted the
shelves of many Exchanges through­out
the United States have been
brought about through increased
sales due to returning overseas vet­e
r a n s and through limited manu­facture
because of material short­ages
and limitation of productior
facilities.
In order to provide a fair anq
equitable distribution of those com­modities
which are available in
very limited amounts, a system of
allocation according to the popula­tion
of the post served by the PX
has been set up within Army Ex­change
Service. Most of the items
for which the demand far exceeds
the supply have been placed on this
allocation list. Among items in
short supply are: hair brushes,
shaving brushes, shoe brushes,
cameras and film, chewing gum,
cigarette lighters, cleansing tissue,
clocks, combs, flashlights, handker­chiefs,
coat hangers, pocket knives,
metal polishing cloth, luggage, nail
files, nail clips, mechanical pencils,
fountain pens, razor blades, rain
coats, electric shavers, shaving
cream, shirts, shorts, socks, sweat
shirts, tee shirts, tooth paste, towels,
trousers, undershirts, watches, wash
clothes, and whisk brooms.
Some of these items, chiefly those
classfied as textile products or
those containing even a limited
amount of textile products are
available in very limited quantities
to civilian stores.
Tooth paste and shaving cream
in, tubes are difficult to obtain be­cause
of the shortage of tubes. The
development of a plastic tube may
relieve the situation to some eSc-tent,
but that relief cannot be ex­pected
for some time to come.
To this problem of procurement
has been added the task of supply­ing
the needs of returning soldiers
from the European Theater?, who
have accumulated a big back-log of
wants to be filled from the PX
when they reach the States.
Many of these returning veterans
are disappointed, particularly are
they disappointed when they find
that many of the items that were
always in stock in the PX before
they left the states are seldom if
ever available now.
"There is only one thing we can
be sure of, and that is that if and
when the merchandise the soldier
wants becomes available," Capt.
Hartholz explained, "the Army Ex­change
Service will get it and put
it on sale in just as large quantities
as supplies will permit."
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Wacs Will Soon
Have Branch PX;
Work Is Stairted
Captain Peter Hartholz, Post ex­change
officer, has announced that
construction of a PX for WACS in
building T-83A is under way and
will be open for business about Au­gust
15. This PX will be stocked
with all the commodities carried
by all branch PJTs such as: Ice
cream, soft drinks, baked sweets and
offee.
'-It is anticipated that in the near
uture, tables and chairs will be in­stilled
for the comfort orWACS and
their friends.
FARMS FEWER
Washington (CNS)—Farms today*
are fewer in. number than before,
the war. but are larger in size, re­ports
the Census Bureau. In 1000
counties studied, the number of
farms-fell 2.5% from 1940 to 1945—
from 1,823,016 to 1,777,446, but acre­age
was upped 7.1% during the
same period—from 315,577,091 to
337,859,536 acres.
Hospital Chapel Services
Post Observes Air Force Day Wednesday
I r Open House Planned
For Civilian Guests -
Ceremony Will Mark 38th Birthday
Of Rapidly Growing Army Air Force
Air Force Day will be observed at ORD, as well as most
Army Air Forces posts and bases throughout the world,
next Wednesday. The day will mark the 38th anniver­sary
of the founding of the Areonautical Division of the
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, from which the present
~ *AAF has grown.
FAMILIAR to patients at the station hospital are these musicians,
who provide music for .the various chapel services there. Left to
right are Cpl. Donald Trexler, vocalist, assistant to the hospital
chaplain; Cpl. Eliaha Tuttle, violinist, who has been playing for
hospital services for eighteen months, and 2nd Lt. Ruth Bastlan,
ANC, pianist.
Chaplains Corps Marks
Anniversary On Sunday
Post Joins Chaplains In Observing
170th Birthday; Boasts 8,000 Men
Personnel of ORD will join with post chaplains Sun­day,
July 29, in observing the 170th anniversary of the
,'Army Chaplain Corps.
On its. anniversary the corps Barely Twenty
But He's Real
Air Force Vet
"Youth must be served." So goes
the old adage, and Technical Ser­geant
Ted E. Dyson," just turned
twenty, now being processed at
ORD, is a living example of the
wisdom of these words.
The youthful Sergeant, who
served as an engineer and gunner
on a B-24 with the ^ighty Eighth
Air Forcej has piled a heap of ex­perience
into his young life.
Though he haf only been in the
Air Force a little more than two
years and was only overseas eight
months, during which time he flew
twenty-two hazardous missions, he
has been awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross, the Air Medal with
three oak leaf- clusters, the Purple
Heart and the ETO ribbon with
three bronze battle stars.
'When our Paratroopers and Air
Borne infantry crossed the Rhine,
we flew over at fifty feet to drop
supplies. We were the only ship in
our element to get back to base,
and we were dam lucky because
we counted over a hundred small
arms holes in our ship when we
landed," related Sgt. Dyson.
On another mission over Madge-burg,
Germany, his plane got a di­rect
hit in the wing tanks and the
gasoline pouring into the bomb-bay
looked like Niagara Falls. "One
spark from anything," said the
Sgt. "and the Jerries would have
been sweeping up„our pieces."
Though the flak was always
heavy, there weren't always Jerry
fighters to make missions just a
little tougher, but on two occa­sions,
Sgt. Dyson's ship got in run­ning
fights with them. His nerve
and good eyesight, calmed by his
youth, came 'to the fore and he
blasted two ME 109's out of the
skies. •*
Sgt. Dyson enlisted at Ft. Devens,
Mass., in May, 1943, and received
his- basic training at Keesler Field,
Miss. He attended Gunnery School
at Laredo, Texas, and received his
advanced training at Mt. Home,
Idaho.
numbers approximately 8,000, with
two-thirds of its members serving
at overseas stations.
Since this post was activated, as a
Basic Training Center, it has been
served by no less than 35 differe-t
chaplains, including six post chap­lains.
Twelve who once served here
have gone overseas, and nine "re­turnee"
chaplains have served at
ORD after tours of duty overseas.
While the Chaplain Corps, as
such, was not established until
1920, the Continental Congress on
July 29, 1775 granted the first
formal recognition of a legal status
for chaplains in the armed services.
Fifty-two chaplains have been
killed in battle or have died of
wounds during the present war,
and a like number have died of
other causes. Thirty-four chaplains
are listed as being detained by
the enemy and 180 have been
wounded in action. Three chaplains
have died of disease while de­tained
by the enemy.
Earn Decorations
A total of 754 decorations have
been awarded 602 chaplains. These
awards include 15 distinguished
service cross; one distinguished
service medal; 44 legion of merit;
104 silver stars; three oak leaf clus­ters
to the silver star; nine sol­dier's
medal; 314 bronze stars; 12
oak leaf clusters to the bronze star;
one air medal; 234 purple "heart; 10
oak leaf clusters to the purple
heart and seven foreign decora­tions.
In pre-Revolution days, chaplains
served with companies nearest
their churches. In the Continentali
army during the Revolution they
were assigned to regiments, sepa­rate
units and hospitals. In March
1791, the Rev. John Hurt, Virginia,
a veteran of the Revolution served
as chaplain for the army, deriving
his authority from a Congressional
Act. He is considered the first
chaplain of the army of the United
States. Chaplains were assigned to
regiments during the War of 1812.
After that the only chaplain in the
Army seems to have been at West
Point, who also was professor of
geography, history and ethics.
Restored In 1831
Concurrent with a new interest
in education and religion, the
Office of Chaplains was restored in
1837 and post chaplains, charged
with the responsibility for instruc-
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Extra Duty
Major Spent
Free Time At
English Mike
Some of the AAF veterans now
assigned at ORD for redistribution,
those who spent any time in Eng­land,
may have heard of Maj. Ken­neth
I. Treadwell. Or they may at
least have heard his voice.
The young AC officer, now at this
post for reassignment together with
many other AAF officers recently
returned to the States, served as an
information-education officer over
there.
On his weekly "day off," however,
the major devoted a part of his free
time to acting as master of cere­monies
for a weekly half-hour ra­dio
program entitled "American
Eagle In Britain."
The program was broadcast from
the ARC Rainbow Corner in Lon­don,
and was carried by the Mutual
network throughout the United
States.
Just 25 years old, Maj. Trqdwell
put in more than three years over­seas
before he returned to the
United States on May 23 of this
year.
FLIP COIN
Ft. Thomas, Ky. (CNS)—Cpl. P. A.
Testa and Pfc Joseph Maiuro, who
work in the typewriter repair shop)
at the AAF Convalescent Hospital
here both had 90 points, but because
of the hospital quota for discharges,
only one could go. They flipped a
coin, and Maiuro won. Testa kept
the coin; he wanted it as a souvenir.
While full details of the local ob­servance
have not yet bien an­nounced,
certain areas of the post
will be thrown open to civilian visi­tors
under an "open house" order
from 1 to 5 p. m.
The day's celebration will open
with appropriate religious services
and several special events, includ­ing
dancing parties and other forma
of entertainment, are being
planned.
Purpose of Army Air Force Day,
as outlined by Gen. H. H. Arnold,
commanding general of the AAF,
will be "to report to the Ameri­can
public the magnitude of air
power's contribution to the victory
in Europe and the task that lies
ahead of the Allied forces advanc­ing
against Japan."
Humble Beginning
The Division of Aeronautics,
created 38 years ago, was headed
by Capt. Charles deF. Chandler,
Signal Corps, with two enlisted
men assigned for duty with the
division.
Its work resulted, two years later,
in the purchase of the first military
airplane, which was accepted on
August 2, 1909, after trial flights
from the parade ground of Fort
Myer, Va. The plane weighed 740
pounds empty and 1,200 pounds
with fuel, water and two passen­gers
aboard. It was powered with
a 30-horsepower engine.
Following its acceptance, the
Army established its first flying
field at College Park, Md., which
was the world's first military air­drome.
The fourteenth student as­signed
for Army flight training wag
Gen. Arnold, and with establish­ment
of the rank of military avia­tor
he became one of the first
three officers to earn his wings.
Mighty Force Today
Today Gen. Arnold commands
an organization which boasts, at
its peak, more than 2,300,000 offi­cers
and men. It's flying routes
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Collaborate On 'Pots AndPans9
FAR CRY, this, from music and literature, bat Cpl. William F.
McDonald (left) and Cpl, Joseph F. Hanley were among the early
birds reporting for KP doty as permanent party men of Squadron A
began proving themselves capable of most any assignment. Nor­mally
Cpl. McDonald serves as organist and chaplain's assistant
while Cpl. Hanley Is a regular librarian at Library No. 2.