Funds-Handling Change Not To Cut Services
A far-reaching organizational shift at Sheppard Field moves all revenue activities to the exchange officer and most welfare funds to a central post fund effective Friday midnight. The change keeps field services intact while altering fund handling. Lt. Col. Hashagen becomes custodian of the central post fund and several funds are redirected to the new agency. A council of senior officers guides the central fund, including Maj. Gen. J. E. Chaney and Capt. Robert M. Jones Jr.
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Sheppard Field Service Clubs
Exchange Officer
Central Post Fund
Sheppard Field
Albert J. Hashagen
Athletic and Recreation Fund
Post Chaplain’s Fund
Army
Central Post Fund Council
J. E. Chaney
Frederick D. Kelly
Jerome Major
William L. F. Pooley
John E. Davis
Robert M. Jackson
Robert M. Jones Jr
Glenn F
SF trained Mechs Make Names for Themselves
SF trained mechanics from Sheppard Field have earned top efficiency ratings as engineers on the A-20 Havoc in the Southwest Pacific. Despite no prior A-20 experience, they transferred from Marauder and Mitchell training to the new outfit and performed their duties well, according to Western Technical Training Command reports.
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Sheppard Field
Southwest Pacific
Western Technical Training Command
Denver
Strange identities cause headaches for Section A
Section A notes two soldiers named Charles J. Davis sharing corporal rank and ASNs starting 180. Both are married, 5 feet 8.5 inches tall, and joined the Army. One Davis from Colorado serves in Unit Personnel while the Texan Davis has duty with classification.
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Charles J. Davis
Davis
Colorado
Aherne’s Personality Captures Sheppard Field Admiration
Hollywood star Brian Aherne wowed over 10 000 GIs at Sheppard Field on the Victory Stage. The six foot four inch actor charmed Maj. J E Chaney Col Frederick C Kelly and others as he visited wards at Fal contrive hospital before sharing a hospital visit with Pvt James L Nelson whose infant son was nine days old.
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Hollywood
Brian Aherne
Sheppard Field
Sheppard Field Loan
Aherne
J. E. Chaney
Nelson
Falcon Field
Ariz
Pvt
James L. Nelson
Col
Frederick C. Kelly
Veterans Discuss V Mail Display at Downtown Store
Four overseas veterans stationed at Sheppard Field led a V mail display opening ceremony at a downtown department store. T Sgts Bert Ketchum John Francis Edwin Breslin and Harold Bittinger explained the overseas V mail setup. Maj George Haley and Maj William L F Pooley spoke and a Sheppard Field band provided music.
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Sheppard Field
Bert Ketchum
John Francis
Edwin Breslin
Harold Bittinger
George Haley
William L. F. Pooley
Basic Trainee Receives West Point Appointment
Pvt. Charles C. Stewart, a basic trainee in Section A at Sheppard Field, left for West Point to enter the United States Military Academy. He is the son of Col. M. N. Stewart, air inspector at Mitchell Field, and will be greeted there by his brother Malcolm, a West Point student. His brother-in-law Col. George C. White, also a West Point graduate, is an Air Forces officer. Stewart, 18, was inducted at Fort Meade and had been a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute for two years.
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Pvt
Charles C. Stewart
Sheppard Field
United States Military Academy
West Point
M. N. Stewart
Mitchell Field
N. Y
Malcolm
Stewart
Col
George C. White
Air Forces
Fort Meade
Virginia Polytechnical Institute
Ballot this week selects insignia for Sheppard Field
Sheppard Field personnel will vote next week on a distinctive station insignia for field jackets. Four designs were chosen from about 30 submitted in a Special Service contest. Ballots and reproductions of the four selected designs are printed in this week’s Texacts with ballot boxes in the three Service Clubs.
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Sheppard Field
Sheppard
Texacts
Voshel to Become WITC Adjutant General
Lt Col Nelson C Voshel, post adjutant at Sheppard Field, will assume the Adjutant General role at Western Technical Training Command Denver. He previously served as assistant post adjutant from Dec 3 1941 to Apr 24 1942 and reported to Lowry Field May 1 1941. No successor named yet.
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Nelson C. Voshel
Sheppard Field
Western Technical Training Command
Denver
Voshel
Army Air Corps
Lowry Field
Colo
Adjutant General’s
Texacts Adopts Three Cent Stamp For Home Mailing
Postage will be three cents on all Texacts copies mailed home this week because of its larger size. Free soldier mailing privileges no longer apply. The issue expands to 16 pages from the usual 12.
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Texacts
Taft Assigned to Army Medical School for Tropical Medicine
Captain William C Taft of Section E is sent to the Army Medical School at the Medical Center Washington for an eight week course in tropical medicines.
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William C. Taft
Army Medical School, Medical Center
Washington, D. C
Civilian Help Dearth Delays Post Laundry Deliveries
Capt. Robert L. Calhoun, the post laundry officer, said laundry has run off schedule for two weeks due to a shortage of civilian help. He noted a 15 percent drop in individual production because of hot weather and said reorganization of his personnel should improve future schedules. He cited a new policy limiting soldiers to 25 pieces weekly, in line with a directive from Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan, and observed other posts restrict to 20 to 22 pieces.
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Robert L. Calhoun
Richard Donavan
Eighth Service Command
Gigs Introduced At Sheppard Field To Enforce Discipline
Post headquarters announces a new gig system empowering officers to stop soldiers for misconduct and dress code checks both on and off the line. Similar programs, including jeep loudspeakers, are in use at other fields to curb laxity. Maj. Alfred B. Morganstern says proper execution could reduce unsatisfactory reports from inspectors and civilians. The measure follows a call from Maj. Gen. J. E. Sheppard Field amid broader traffic regulation memoranda.
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Sheppard Field
Texacts
Alfred B. Morganstern
J. E. Chaney
Bond Sales Total Jumps In Fifth War Loan Drive
Captain Murray B Samuels reports strong early response to the Fifth War Loan Drive at Sheppard Field with civilian and military buyers showing solid participation. A mid drive recap will be issued July 5 detailing purchases by Sections K and I and civilian totals as the drive aims to end July 8 for civilians and July 31 for military.
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Murray B. Samuels
Sheppard Field
Samuell
Samuelll
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Pacific
Col. N. C. Voshel
Col. Voshel
WITC
Edward A. Peterson
Calhoun
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