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By YVONNE CAHOON,
Star Staff Correspondent.
FORT BELVOIR, Va„ July 24.—
This Army post is sold on the WACS
—so much so that it has asked for
more!
That was apparent after I spent
24 hours at the post watching the
WACS at their administrative jobs,
discussing their military efficiency
with their company officers and talk
ing with the Army officers directing
the various administrative stations
to which they have been assigned.
I arrived here just in time for
| evening mess and was met by Sec
ond Lt. Helen Shimonek, mess officer
and assistant supply officer for the
two WAC companies stationed at
the post. She offered to carry my
suitcase, but I wouldn’t let her. I
had come out to prove I could take
it, and I clung to the bag with grim
determination, answering that it
“wasn’t a bit heavy.”
“I hope you don’t mind walking,”
she said pleasantly. “We have com
mandeered a staff car for a short
time in the morning so you can see
what our girls are doing at the far
stations of the post. The rest of
the time, however, I am afraid you
will have to walk and there is much
we want you to see.”
"Oh, I love to walk,” I answered
bravely but blindly. “And I’m all
geared out for it,” I added, pointing
to my low-heeled shoes.
The WAC area, located in a cool,
wooded plot not far from post
headquarters, is surrounded by a
rail fence. Two barracks have
been constructed in the area, one
for each company, the officers’
quarters, in which is located a
beauty parlor, the supply room, the
day room and a mess hall.
I was assigned to a private room
in the officers’ quarters. The fur
nishings ase of unfinished wood,
with the exception of the regula
tion Army iron cot. There was a
table, a chair, a closet without a
door, one window and no rug
Everything was as neat as a pin.
There I met Second Lt. Dorothy
Smallwood, supply officer for the
two companies. The two officers
then took me to meet the company
commander, First Lt. Faith Conk
lin, and the executive officer for
the WAC contingent, First Lt. Rose
Shaley.
Every- girl in the two companies
gets K. P. duty one day out of about
everv nine
“This causes us great deal of dif
i Acuity,” Lt. Conklin explained, "and
we have to be careful that only one
! sirl from each office on the post is
taken for KP duty at a time. Often
I receive calls from the officers in
charge of the various sections de
[ daring that they can’t possibly
I spare the girls for KP. My only
I answer is that there is no way to
| release the girls from that duty.”
In the kitchen, two girls washing
dishes were pointed out to me as
; typical examples of the cross sec
tion of American women who have
been attracted to the soon-to-be
Women’s Army Corps. One girl was
a recent graduate of Wellesley Col
lege and the other was a grand
mother whom everyone calls “Ma.”
Service in the mess hall is cafe
teria style. We had hardly begun
our meal when a terriAc storm be
gan, lasting just long enough for
the ground to become a slushy
mire.
The WAC officer Axed me up in
an Army raincoat and Lt. Shimonek,
Lt. Smallwood and I started out
for Chapel No. 3 to watch rehearsals
for the performance of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s “Pinafore,” scheduled
for the latter part of September.
uu&cxvmg me renearsai in
! which both WACS and soldiers
! were participating, we went to one
of the service clubs where a dance
was being held. I noticed very few
WACS present and wondered why.
"Most of the WACS here are
either married or have their own
boy friends by now," Lt. Shimonek
explained. "We have been here since
the middle of March and with 26.
000 men on the post and only 300
WACS, that’s not strange. When a
company of soldiers calls and in
vites 100 WACS to attend a dance,
we have a hard time getting 25 girls
to go."
When we had retired to our quar
ters, Lt. Shimonek said, "Would you
like to get up for reveille and watch
us practice for the retreat parade
Friday night? You’ll have to get
up at 5:30 though."
I heard the alarm at 5:30 but de
cided I needed a little more rest.
When the lieutenant came into my
room, I didn’t open my eyes but lay
there wondering just how she would
try to wake me up. Suddenly the
lights went on. I opened my eyes
rather startled as she said, "This is
how we do it in the Army.”
An Army lieutenant was out on
the field to drill the girls. For 20
minutes he barked orders at them
and after they had gone to mess, he
came up to us rather proudly and
exclaimed, “They’re doing all right,
aren't they?”
Lt. Shimoney then took me
through the barracks. It was sheet
day and the bedding was rolled up
for airing and new linen. In one of
the barracks two auxiliaries sat with
the most woe-begone faces I have
ever seen.
“They made us go on sick leave,”
they crfed.
“You would really be surprised
how the girls really like the work,”
the officer explained. "They go home
on furloughs only to come back a
couple of days early. They don’t
, like to go away.”
We went with Lt. Conklin to the
motor pool which is almost entirely
handled by the girls. The only
Jeep driver not already at work was
asleep on a chair. One of the
girls shook her, saying, “Wake up;
you have a job.”
"Oh, go away,” she mumbled, and
then sat up and began to put her
shoes on. "Where is it?” she asked
sleepily and then looked up to see
her commanding officer, Lt. Conk
lin.
WACS GO TO WORK IN JEEP—Driving jeeps at Fort Belvoir is just one of the jobs that have
been taken over by the 300 WACS now stationed at the engineer post. Shown above: Pvt. Jane
Scott of the motor pool, who drives the girls to their various stations; Pfc. Lucille Thomas, in the
front seat. In the rear, left to right, Pfc. Loretta Moore, Pvt. Alice Anderson and Pvt. Helen
Harris.
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WACS stand at attention while officers check their foot
lockers during barracks inspection. Left to right: Tillie Grurich,
technician, fifth grade; Ruth Fine, technician, fifth grade;
Second Lt. Dorothy Smallwood, inspecting, and First Sergt. Jean
Kunkle, taking names. —U. S. Army Photos.
"Oh, ma’am,” she cried, jumping
up in great confusion.
The motor pool girls drive any
thing from a staff car to a l'^-ton
reconnaisance car. Not only must
they know how to handle the jeeps
and larger vehicles, but they must
be able to do small repair jobs on
them, and each morning at 7:30
before the start out on their duty
they give them a checkup.
I also saw the WACS at work in
the post office, hospitals, headquar
ters and the engineer school. In
headquarters they have completely
taken over the information service.
There are also several girls working
with the Signal Corps stationed
there.
Capt. L. M. Fath. who is in charge
of a large group at past headquar
ters, declared, “I am quite proud of
my group of girls. They learn twice
as fast as the men did. are neater
and seem more industrious."
Maj. Barclay Bloomgarden of the
engineer school said he had been
rather pessimistic about the ability
of the WACS W’hen they first came.
“But now we are sold on them,” he
declared. “They’re even more mili
tary than the men. Why, one
British colonel temporarily sta
tioned here told me the other day
that the WACS were the only ones
who saluted him. I guess the men
didn’t recognize his insignia,” he
added.
“Well,” Lt. Conklin said, “they
told us in training when in doubt,
always salute.”
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