Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-25
10000 TURKEYSTO
FEEDU. S. SOLDIERS
$50 Tons of Them Ordered
for Thanksgiving Feasts
In Army Camps

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 23-Seventy thou
sand turkeys, $50 tons of them, will
be set before the khaki-clad nepheWs
of Uncle Samuel on Thanksgiving
Day, when both the regular army and
the CCC boys put on their best bibs
and fuckers for the holiday feasting.
But the 901 900 pounds of turkeys
which will be roasted to golden
brown, bullying with chestnut dress
ing, is only a starter on the Thanks
giving Day dinners that the Army
will put on the tables for the boys.
Here's how the 22nd Infantry at
Fort Mcpherson will tease their ap-
petites and test their capacities:
First with branch celery, stuffed
olives, head lettuce, sliced tomatoes,
sweet mixed pickles.
Then the turkey, which must be
young and prime, with giblet gravy,
chestnut dressing and cranberry
sauce.
For more hardy souls, there VIII
come then a barbecue loin of pork,
candied sweet potatoes, creamed
mashed potatoes, Parker House rolls,
asparagus tips on toast.
Having become thoroughly wound
up about this time, the soldiers will
start on mince pie, pumpkin pie, Eng
lish plum pudding with hard sauce.
In interlude with grapes, oranges,
bananas and apples will follow, after
which dessert will be served, which
will include chocolate layer cake, and
ice cream. Coffee or sweet milk &C
companies the dinner
Cigars and cigarettes will be dis
tributed to every man, after which
the soldiers will. relax for a while be-
coming back to supper.
There are 100000 CCC boys who will
dine in true Army fashion this year,
and $4,000 regulars, requiring a to-
tai of $4,000 cigars and about 10000
600 cigarettes.
This Thanksgiving feed" is an an
nual custom and a part of the Army
ration, served up by Army cooks who
are specialists in the dining room It
costs so cents a day per man to feed
soldiers like this, and that doesn't
mean that there's any skimping on
the ordinary work days. Every day,
the soldier sits down to three square
meals-the kind that cause recruits,
the new soldiers in the Army to gain
from 10 to Is pounds each within a
few weeks sG
There's an old adage about the
Army fights on its stomach. On
Thanksgiving Day, if the Army had
to fight, it would have in it's collec-
tive stomach no less than 100000 pies
and $4,000 gallons of coffee.
For the recruits from the Fourth
Corps Area who left in November for
Panama, the fare will be the equal of
that at Fort Mcpherson, with the adj
dltion of barbecued wild pig, which
seems to have become a delicacy
among Army folks in the Canal Zone.
1t requires quite a bit of figuring
when Uncle Sam goes to market for
this k:.1d of dinner, but he's got the
mathematics down to a fine science
now. For example, he estimates his
turkey needs on the basis of a pound
and three quarters of undrawn tur-
key for each man
This tempting bill of fare will seem
attractive to lots of our young men
and is one of many reasons for Join
ing the Army.
Recruiting stations are located at
the following cities: Birmingham, De-
catur, Dothan, Mobile and Montgom-
cry, Alabama; Jacksonville, Lakeland
Orlando, and st. Petersburg, Florida:
Albany, Atlanta, Columbus, Dalton.
Gainesville, Macon, Rome, Savannah
and Valdosta, Alexandria, Baton
Rouge, Lake Charles, Monroe and
New Orleans, Louisiana; Hattiesburg.
jackson, Meridian, and Tupelo, Mis-
slssippi; Anderson, Charleston. Co
lumbia, Florence, Greenville, Green
wood, Fort Moultrie, and Spartan
burg, South Carolina; Asheville, Char
lotte, Fort Bragg, N. c.; Raleigh, and
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Chat
tanooga, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis
and Nashville, Tennessee.