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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1944
Page
7
A dense list of Lamar USO events for weekdays and weekends detailing times for movies, dances, bridge and card games, music hours, hymn sings, coffee hours, travel hour, band concerts, singalongs, and club meetings. Activities run daily with multiple sessions including Ladies in Waiting Club, Amateur Hour, Java Hour, and various German, singing, and art classes.
Pvt. Bert Gore, on detached service to the 8th Service Command, will guest MC a tonal station hospital show under Rex Ruddick. Co MCs include Pvt. Verne Batchelor and Pvt. Fer Mano Sosa with acts by Sgt. Joe Donnell and Hobbs Sisters Lillian and Bernice.
The Type A Letter department of the Lamar USO offers a six night a week stenography service for soldiers needing help writing letters. Miss Myra Bowersox chairs the program with volunteers Irene Ruth Savage Lucile Fenton Dorothy Donaldson Betty Brown and Nora Stewart. A new group from the Post-Deb Club will volunteer next week.
Six GIs chosen as blind dates for Wichita Falls ladies enjoyed a humorous evening at Service Club No 2. Sgts Ed Neibling and Billy B Sams led the event with a jam band providing music. The date included a steak dinner and lighthearted flirting as six service members paired with sponsoring Misses Shirley Biggs Rene Winninger Mary Ann Lee Betty Lou Weeks Maxine Weaver and Billie Sue Burt.
Pvt. Richard B. Kocher of Sec tion X received an honorable discharge last Thursday to accept an ensign's commission in the Navy. Kocher's home is in Chicago and he was inducted into the Army April 21 at Fort Sheridan, Ill. He is the son of Bruce P. Kocher of Belmont, New York.
Negro PX workers at Sheppard Field PX will hold a Sunday picnic from 6 to 8 pm at Lincoln Park. Tom Hill, a former machine gun company sergeant wounded in France, serves as publicity chairman. All Negro PX employees will be released at 5 pm to attend, impacting PX restaurant No. 2’s 5 pm closing.
Section I presents a musical revue titled Tonight at 7:30 for patients at the station hospital. Sgt. Danny Bosnick directed a cast including Pots, Johnny Davis, Chuck Wittels, George Sullivan, Rocky Wakefield, The Dancing Fords, Miss Bobby Hud nall, Miss Lillian Hobbs and Miss Ethel Roark. The highlight was The Harem featuring several young ladies and Pvt. Johnny Davis with multiple curtain calls for Davis.
A men’s conference for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and others is set for Sunday June 21 in Chapel No. 3 T-344. Pres. William L. Warner and Secretary L Brent Goates of the Texas Mission will attend along with other church authorities. All LDS men at Sheppard Field are urged to attend. a special musical program is planned.
The Cleveland Indians face a drop in pennant chances after Allie Reynolds Jeff Heath and Ken Keltner are all classified 1-A with induction expected within a month. Meanwhile big leaguers Jawn Mize Peewee Reese Barney McCosky Hugh Casey Johnny Lucadello Long Tom Winslett and Al Brancato are playing on a service team in Hawaii.
The Amarillo Army Airfield plans a series with the Sheppard Field Eagles baseball team. Likely games are set for the last weekend of June, with other Texas and Oklahoma posts expected to request contests. The arrangement is not yet finalized.
The Cobras slugged 15 hits against Lt. John Gill and Lt. Robert Buzzard to beat the Officers 15 to 2 in four innings at Scotland Park. Pete Hughes and Dwyer each had three hits, while Don Disler pitched most of the game for the Cobras.
S.Sgt. Charles N. Douglass, former aviation mechanics instructor at Sheppard, died April 26 on his 30th combat mission over Germany. The Liberator waist gunner based from a British Isles base earned the Air Medal in March. he trained at Kingman Gunnery School and Davis-Monthan Field. His widow, Dell England Douglas, resides in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Six members of the post WAC section depart Sunday for a three week teletype operator course in Dallas announced by Lt. Edythe White. Pfc Ennis Cook Pfc Marion Cooper Cpl Mildred Mazurkie wicz Cpl Eva Meier Sgt Helen Noesges and Pfc Pauline King will attend and return to Sheppard Field to operate TWX and teleprinter machines.
In London a caller asked Joe Louis who was the hardest man he fought. Louis replied with a $64 answer naming Max Baer as the toughest opponent in his career.
Shop Foreman Arthur Urban of the base maintenance machine shop earns the Army Air Forces meritorious service award for inventing a rivet cutting machine that saves about 80 percent of rivet cutting time. The 45-pound device fits any rivet up to ¼ inch, has five parts, no gauge, and is easily carried on planes. Urban, ex M W Tank Co Wichita Falls employee, also created a firing pin jig and shell holder for carbines. He is Milwaukee Engineering School graduate and Wisconsin draughtsmanship student.
S Sgt Larry Piepmeier repeated as victor last Tuesday night in the weekly ping pong tournament at the Eighth Street USC defeating Everette L Long of Section P in the finals. Piepmeier beat Lawrence Kovaleski to reach the finals while Long beat Henry Feiler in the semifinals. M Johnson of Section H won the consolation honors. Fifteen players started the event.
WAC staff director from Denver tours Sheppard Field for a routine inspection. Captain Elizabeth E. Hardesty will interview enlisted personnel and visit departments where they are assigned.
A wartime lost and found list items variously located at Service Club No 1 and Service Office Bldg 844 includes shoes wallets pay books autographs and a New Testament. Owners named Cpl David Holtzman Pvt Richard V Arnold Pvt Robert B Loy Ralph B Kuykendall Hervin Bergerson Ronald M Blanding Roger O Connor and Stanley M Alberts are noted with contact lines and locations. KODACHROME prints found and flight caps also listed.
Articles lost or found may be reported to the Special Service Office, Bldg. 844, Rm. 12.
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