Anything Goes Instrumental Contest Monday At Victory Stage
Instrumental soloists will compete Monday night at Sheppard Field for $50 in prizes. About 15 top performers enter the Anything Goes contest with free music choices. A pre-show dance band will perform at 7 45 p.m. May entries closed Friday. May 23 amateur contest and May 30 singing flight contest also offer $50 prizes.
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Sheppard Field
Albert L. Witmer
Witmer
Victory Stage
Special Service Office
National Theater Conference Announces Second War Service Play Contest
The National Theater Conference with War Department approval opens a second playwriting contest for armed forces members. Prizes total 1500 dollars with postwar scholarship potential. Two divisions camps and overseas with deadlines November and December. Five classes include long plays one act skits musical comedies and radio plays.
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National Theater Conference
War Department
NTC
United States
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Last BPW Cabaret Bingo Party Slated Tuesday
The final BPW Wichita Falls cabaret bingo event, planned for Tuesday at 8 PM at the Lamar USO, features a Lions quartet floor show with Bob Wolf Claude Young Van Littleton Cecil Metzger, directed stunts by Winnie Foster and a skit The Turnip Patch.
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Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Wichita Falls
Lamar Uso
Alyene Arnold
Lions Club
Bob Wolf
Claude Young
van Littleton
Cecil Metzger
Sam Morrison
Winnie Foster
Marjorie Campbell
Lola Woodward
Billie Ralph Hyer
Imogene Bailey
Maralena Vincent
B&pw Club
Spirit Of The Corps Post Song Denied Official Status
The article notes a Sheppard Field marching song by Sgt. Joe ODonnell and Cpl. Allan Willman won a contest and was called the field official song. A memorandum from the Adjutant General’s Department states no song may be designated official except the Army Air Corps song, so the piece is described as the Sheppard Field post song.
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Sheppard Field
Joe Odonnell
Allan Willman
Adjutant General's Department
Army Air Corps
Sheppard Field Post
Section 1 Wins Singing Award In Troop Review
Lt Albert Witmer announced a new singing award for the best singing flight. Section I won last week's sectional contest with 71 points, narrowly beating Section L at 70. Sgt. Dan Bosnick, Section I morale noncom, received the award at the troops review.
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Albert Witmer
Section I
Section L
Dan Bosnick
Mother's Day Breakfast at Java Club Meeting
The Java Club hosts a Mother's Day breakfast next Sunday at 9:00 a.m. on the Lamar USO mezzanine. Pvt Ed Johnsen, violinist, will perform a recital. after the meal there will be group singing of mother songs. all servicemen and women are invited free of charge.
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Coleridge
Lamar Uso
Ed Johnsen
Sheppard Field
Jive Concerts At Noon By Army Air Forces Bands
The 524th 525th and 526th Army Air Forces bands perform noon concerts by 14 players each day on the Service Club No. 2 stage. Soldiers in fatigues may attend, with UP teletype ticker news between numbers read by Sgt. Ed Neibling. Programs are relayed over the field PA system each noon.
Quartet Contest Winners Highlight Victory Stage Show
Five soldiers from Section Q won a $25 prize in the Special Service quartet contest held Tuesday night at the Victory stage. Signers were George A. Belanger Rolland R. Born Charles Wotring Clarence Grimm pianist John R. Gaddis Jr. They were featured on Sheppard Field Dayroom Jamboree on KWFT. A second $25 costume award went to a Section I quartet and accompanist Orin E. Rickey Frank Modglin Milton D. Sawyer Roland E. Cooley Jr. George H. Sullivan.
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George A. Belanger
Rolland R. Born
Charles Wotring
Clarence Grimm
John R. Gaddis Jr
Sheppard Field
KWFT
Orin E. Rickey
Frank Modglin
Milton D. Sawyer
Roland E. Cooley, Jr
George H. Sullivan
Soldier Produced Music Revue Comes to Field for Three Shows
A soldier produced revue titled Here's to the Boys opens Friday at Lamar USO and moves to Sheppard Field Monday for three performances. It will entertain patients at the post hospital Monday, Service Club No 2 Tuesday, and return to USC Monday May 22 with another show at Service Club No 2 the following Tuesday night. Co ordinators Don and Jane Ford and Sgt Joe O Donnell credited for leadership. O Donnell wrote three new songs. Featured performers include O Donnell Davis Tanner Ricci Lieberman Jordan Browning Hill Raming and the Ford duo. Concerts directed by O Donnell with a 20 piece orchestra led by James Ralston. No admission charged. sponsored by Special Service.
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Lamar Uso
Sheppard Field
Post Hospital
USC
Hardin Junior College
Sgt. Poindexter
Don and
Jane Ford
Sgt
Joe O’donnell
Sgt. O’donnell
John Davis
Russell Tanner
Olento Ricci
Ben Lieberman
Joyce Jordan
Dolores Browning
Joan Hill
Phyllis Stockton
Joan Ann Raming
Don
O’donnell
W. O. James Ralston
Special Service
USO
Military Singing Office to Run Late May Instruction Schools
The Military Singing Office will conduct small instrument and songstarters schools in Service Club No. 2 during the latter part of May. Lt. Albert L. Witmer announces sessions every Wednesday 1 to 1 30 p m in Service Club No 2 for to_nette and ocarina playing, with training uniforms permitted. Songstarters schools are set for May 18 and 25 from 1 to 1 30 p m. A song leadership parley for enlisted men will meet May 23, 2 to 3 30 p m in Service Club No. 2 to discuss encouraging voluntary singing. Section commanders should submit names of enlisted men to the Special Service office.
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Military Singing Office
Albert L. Witmer
Service Club No 2
Service Club No
Specia Service
SF Singers Featured At Woman's Forum
Two Sheppard Field singers highlighted the musical portion of the annual Wichitz Falls Woman's Forum breakfast. The program theme was Russia and the United States. Sgt. Victor Machoka, American born to Russian parents, sang the Volga Boat Song in Russian costume while Pfc. Fred McKennon performed Danny Boy Trees and Little Mother of Mine with Mrs. Hugh Dickson as accompanist.
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Sheppard Field
Wichitz Falls Woman's Forum
Russia
United States
Victor Machoka
Under Cover book review for hospital patients
John Roy Carl’s expose on prewar propaganda will be reviewed for hospital patients by Mrs. Temple Shell in the Red Cross lounge. Last week John Gould of the Wichita Daily Times conducted the prior review.
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John Roy Carlson
JB Transferred Historic Jefferson Barracks
The Jefferson Barracks was transferred 1000 to the Army Service Forces after serving as an Air Forces Training Command center since 1940. JB was activated as an AAF training center in 1940 following a century of Army service.
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Jefferson Barracks
BTC No. 1
Air Forces Training Command
Army Service Forces
Army
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