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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1944
Page
6
A noon news and dance program started by Sgt. Paul Hanson now runs daily at Tinker's Tavern Service Club No 2 except Sundays. RAF bands 524th and 526th provide daily music as dusted recruits relax and mingle with hostesses and doll figures in the post.
Uproarious contests are planned for next Friday’s Dayroom Jamboree to be broadcast 9 30 to 10 p m over KWFT from Victory Stage at Sheppard Field. GIs and radio listeners will hear rookies attempt bed making, barracks floor gleaming, and fastest comforter rolling for awards. The show, produced by the Post Public Relations Radio Division with the Special Service Office, expanded from physical training feats to field stripping, weapon drawing, and blindfolded reassembly demonstrations by instructors.
The Eighth Street USO Club launches a weekly co-ed bike night at 7 30 p m on Mondays. A D Beck former PT man at Sheppard Field leads the group with Miss Martha Hoagland, program director, expecting many GIs from the Midwest and East to join. Planned excursions to pools aim to save gas and promote youth hosteling.
Orientation schedule for the week beginning Aug 7 lists sections A B C D Combat Bulletins 3 and 4 with films showing actual combat scenes. Theater 1 1215 Monday Wednesday Blog 572 Wednesday Thursday under Commandant of Students suggested discussion material the latest Army orientation fact sheet distributed to each section.
A dense listing of daily events and clubs across the YWCA and nearby venues. Activities include dances, quiz shows, bridge and rummy, sewing and handicraft clubs, hymn and coffee hours, movie showings, and soldier wives gatherings. Times span morning to late evening with multiple recurrences throughout the week.
American Red Cross Director Roger Runft at Sheppard Field is convalescing at home after an appendectomy last week. He is expected back at ARC Headquarters on Monday.
Fifteen GI entertainers were pared to six winners on the Victory Stage of Sheppard Field Auditorium. Winners shared fifty dollars and cabbage loot, with act names and quantities noted, as 1500-seat audience enjoyed the lively talent show.
Ten GIs solved the Newsense Quiz on Sunday at the Victory Stage in the Vic torium earning five dollars and fifty cents. Sgt Ed Neibling hosted the event with Miss Mary Del Anderson delivering performances from Wichita Falls and Gross Studios contributing junior talent to entertain 3,500 soldiers. Winners include Gustave Hertz Byrum Brown Charles Hill Harry De Voto Sol Sylvester James G Erwin Val Girard Charles Hamilton Bernard Unsoeld and Willie Hlanac.
A watermelon lawn party will be held for Gls tonight at 8 at Temple Israel Eleventh and Burnett Wichita Falls. Motion pictures will be shown and the event is sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Board with the Wichita Falls Jewish Community. Co chairmen are Henry Doliner JWB USO director and M J Persky acting JWB chairman.
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