The Apache sentinel. [volume], April 27, 1945, Page Page Four, Image 4

About The Apache sentinel. [volume] (Fort Huachuca, Arizona) 1943-1945

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Tucson Church Has
"Huachuca Day"
The A.M.E. Church of Tucson, Ari
zona, celebrated Huachuca Day on
Sunday, April 22, with a band con
cert and musicale at both the after
noon and evening services. Over 100
enlisted men and WACs journeyed
from the Fort to Tucson to take
part in the program. The affair was
sponsored by Mrs. Cora Carter,
mother of Chaplain Julius Carter of
Fort Huachuca, who was formerly
pastor of the church.
Members of the church prepared a
delicious chicken dinner which was
served to the visitors from Huachuca
In the vestry of the church between
services.
The Post Military Band, under the
direction of T/Sgt. Claude A. An
drews, supplied the music for the
concert and provided excellent ac
companiment for the various artists
on the program. The afternoon mu
sicale offered, in addition to the
band, Post Chaplain Lester Cochran,
who delivered the invocation, Lt.
Lawrence L. Whisonant, who sang
“The Lost Choi-d” and “Danny Boy,”’
and Cpl. Clelie Pecot, WAC, who
gave an excellent, original reading
about the late Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the Negro. Mr. L. J. Washington
of Fort Huachuca, introduced Col.
Edwin N. Hardy, the Post Com
mander, who addressed the meeting.
The evening services, filled with
music by the choir and Post Band,
also featured the appearance of
Huachuca’s favorite singing master
of ceremonies, Pfc. Emmett (Babe)
•Wallace. He presented one of his
own compositions, an inspirational
ballad, entitled, appropriately, “Bet
ter Times Are Coming,” followed by
the favorite “Precious Lord.” The
congregation, in appreciation of the
day’s musical presentations, con
tributed over $900.00 to be used in
payment of the church’s mortgage.
The visitors from Huachuca were
feted at many social gatherings after
•the day’s services and all reported a
most enjoyable day.
Rev. Jesse L. Boyd, present pastor
of the A.M.E. church, wishes to
thank all the visitors and entertain-
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War Bonds
Going Well
The sale of War Bonds is off to a
good start! Without fanfare or high
pressure selling, military and civilian
response has been gratifying to date.
In attaining the goal of SIIO,OOO
set by the Post Commander, all cash
purchases. Class “B” Allotments and
Class “A” Pay Reservations will
count. Bond purchases made off the
post by residents of the post may
have their bonds tallied in the total.
Below is a report of War Bond
standings for the period ending
April 23rd. Following that is a list
■of organizations and their quotas.
i Find your organization—and put it
jover the top!
Report of War Bond Standings
Period Ending 23 April 1945
Post Total $8,775.00
Civilians 7,625.00
Officers 1,050.00
Enlisted Men 100.00
Organizations
j Services of Supply $3,425.00
Post Engineers 2,650.00
Pest Exchange 1,575.00
Hospitals 500.00
Fiscal Division 500.00
Headquarters Detachment.. 70.00
Special Services 25.00
1 Miscellaneous 30.00
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Quotas
Services of Supply $ 22,000.00
Post Engineers 22,000.00
Hospitals 13,000.00
Post Exchange 11,000.00
Special Services 15,000.00
Fiscal Division 1,500.00
j Military Security 500.00
Civilian Personnel 2,000.00
■ Post Headquarters Det.... 2,000.00
WAC Detachment 1,500.00
M.P. Detachment 1,000.00
Post Headquarters 1,500.00
Red Cross 1,000.00
u.s.o ; 1,000.00
Miscellaneous 15,000.00
$110,000.00
ers from F'ort Huachuca for their
contributions to the success of the
day’s programs.
THE APACHE SENTINEL, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1943
Mother And Son
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—Culver Studio Photo
Above, the 11-year-old Franklin
Delano Roosevelt is shown with
his mother. Born to wealth and an
aristocratic lineage, as such things
are reckoned in America, his child
hood was happy and uneventful.
An adult, his interest was with the
underprivileged and oppressed. As
a young man, in the prime of life,
he was stricken with infantile
paralysis, from which he never
fully recovered. He assumed the
Presidency of the United States in
our greatest crisis and he died in
harness.
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Ice Cream And
Cake Feature
Third Birthday
On Monday last Master Reginald
Moore, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Henry
L. Moore, celebrated his third birth
day with a party for his small
friends. Ice cream and cake were
the principal items on the menu, as
they should be, and were enjoyed by
all.
Reggie, who is a familiar figure
around the Old Post, moved one
year closer to his life’s ambition, that
cf being able to attend college. For a
youngster, he is tops when it comes
to conducting conversations and
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Master Reginald Moore—Staff Photo
asking questions. Most of the per
sonnel of the Old Post Reggie is
able to call by name and is fre
quently seen engaged in conversa
tions with them. At the close of
every conversation, when something
meets his approval, as he leaves, he
always remarks, “That’s a good
deal.”
G1 STORK BILL COST
U. S. $70,000,000
Washington (CNS) Approxi
mately 750,000 servicemen’s wives
and infants benefited from the Fed
eral emergency maternity and infant
care program in the first two years
of operation, Dr. Martha M. Eliot,
associates chief of the Children’s
Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor,
reports.
“The ‘stork bill’ for Uncle Sam
totals about $70,000,000,” Dr. Eliot
added, with the Federal Government
paying doctor and hospital bills for
approximately one baby out of every
six bom.
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Hi
Up
Adding beauty and cheer to the many homes of soldiers and their
wives who have come to the Fort has been the task cf Mrs. Amie W.
Gathings, seen above. In the four years she has been here, many
homes have been brightened by her skill in upholstering. She has more
than ten years’ experience in this work and does all types of handicraft
as as dressmaking.
She is the wife of Sgt. John A. Gathings of M&DS, SCU 1922,
who is a pharmacist at the Station Hospital. The mother of four
children, her son, Lt. Alfred S. Ward, has recently returned from a
tour of overseas duty with the 93rd Division and is stationed in the
Chicago Signal Ofice. Johnnie Mae is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute
and is employed there as an instructor; Gladys, the youngest daughter,
is a freshman at the University of Arizona, while John Jr. resides at
242-A Hillside with them.
FORMER FORT
NURSES AT BEALE
Captain Raney Heads Staff
CAMP BEALE, California —Headed
by Captain Della H. Raney, 25 Negro
nurses now compose the entire nurs
ing staff of the Station Hospital at
Camp Beale. Captain Raney’s staff
of one first lieutenant and 23 second
lieutenants from many states in the
south and east was transferred here
from Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
“I have only highest praise for
Captain Raney and this fine group
of nurses,” states Colonel C. W.
Comfort, Jr., Camp Beale post sur
geon. “They are doing excellent work
here in caring for our patients and
show results of thorough training.”
Although Negroes are stationed at
Camp Beale with the Army Service
F'orces Personnel Replacement
Depot, work at the Station Hospital
is with all races. Only a small per
centage of the hospital patients are
Negro.
Captain Raney has the distinction
of being the first Negro nurse to
report for duty in the present war.
When she joined the service, she
was serving as operating room su
pervisor in the Lincoln Hospital,
Durham, North Carolina, from
which she had graduated.
She was commissioned a second
lieutenant April 25,1941, and saw her
first duty in Fort' Bragg, North
Carolina. On March 9, 1942, she was
promoted to first lieutenant and
transferred to Tuskegee Army Air
Field, Alabama, as principal chief
nurse. Advancing to her present
rank in June, 1944, she went to Fort
Huachuca on July 7, where she
served as principal chief nurse until
transferred to Camp Beale in Janu
ary of this year to assume the same
position.
Nurses in the group are: First
Lieutenant Mary L. Williams, Fort
Worth, Texas, and Second Lieuten
ants Rosetta Austin, Savannah,
Georgia; Ada H. Bailey, New York
City; Bernice E. Britton, Clover,
Virginia; Gladys S. Brown, Camden,
New Jersey; Mary P. Burton, Kal-
Fort Huachuca, Arizona
Artisan
JAPS PUT CEILING
ON SAILORS’ SUICIDES
Pacific (CNS) An acute man
power shortage in the Japanese
navy is putting a crimp in that fine
old Jap custom of hara-kiri.
The Office of War Information,
in a report on manpower losses in
the Jap navy, based on official in
formation from the Navy Depart
ment and other U. S. Government
agencies, says:
“The willingness of Japanese to
commit hara-kiri is no longer con
sidered a virtue because so many of
the navy’s best sailors have done
away with themselves.”
The Japs have lost approximately
262,000 navy personnel, including at
least 25,000 members of the naval air
corps, OWI says.
marnock, Virginia; Vinnie L. Curry,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina;
Evelyn Dicker, Washingtonville, New
York; Carolyn E. Dillon, New York
City; Thelma A. Gallman, Winston-
Salem, North Carolina; Louise E.
Jenkins, York, Pennsylvania; Ada E,
Meek, Greenville, South' Carolina;
Laverne F. Martin, Princess Ann,
Maryland; Virginia Mobley, Haver
hill, Massachusetts; Mary J. Mon
dore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Thelma N. Reynolds, Atlantic City,
New Jersey; Mary M. Rogers, Sa
vannah, Georgia; Ethel M. Stanley,
New Bern, North Carolina; Lydia C.
Wiles, New York City; Clara E.
Bridges, Atlanta, Georgia; Patti D.
Evans, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;
Velma N. Brown, St. Louis, Missouri;
Paradine D. Alford, Jacksonville,
Florida, and Hazel P. Reid, San
Diego, California.
All nurses live in the completely
equipped nurses’ quarters at the hos
pital. a recreation hall is at their
disposal during off duty hours. Week
end trips to Sacramento and Sau
Francisco, to the south, and to near
by Grass Valley and Nevada City in
the California foothills are possible
for the nurses.
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They brought him here today—
He lived the life of Riley
While Riley was away.