The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
BY Sgt. Kenny Kuefler

Well, we are all back In camp
resting up after a rather siren
uous week at Huntington Beach
last week, and there is no use In
telling you about 1t as someone
beat me to 1t last week, but take
my word for 1t, we did have fun
and lots Of it. The letters from
Huntington Beach (and surround
ing territory have been Just pour
ing into our battery (not over. ten
letters a weekly and I should Judge
from the handwriting on them that
they are from-well, they didn't
meet any boys down there, so use
your own judgement. About half
Of the fellows in the battery had
planned to go back there for the
weekend Of the first and second
Of this month but strange as 1t
may seem on Sunday morning,
everyone was in camp-the reason
payday. This is the first time
we were ever been paid on a Sum
day but that's all OK too as long
as we get 1t. But right after the
money was passed out and the fell
lows got through paying their bills
and collecting some of their debts,
almost everyone pulled out for
parts unknown-some to Hunting
ton Beach-others to Long and Bal
boa Beach and still some to Los
Angeles. Very few stayed in camp,
and also on Sunday morning ap-
proximately 16 fellows pulled out
for home and at night couple
more left by train, and by the time
this is printed they will have been
there. In fact all morning was
rather a morning Of running
around and getting ready to go
somewhere and by noon everything
had settled down into the swing Of
things again with only about Is
guys left in the battery.
Well, Jim Rattle did It again
I mean he bought another car out
here. This time 1t is 1881 Model
"A" Ford and it looks to be in pref
ty fair shape although have new
er made a very close inspection Of
it. It looks fairly classy with a
brand new black top on it and a
lot Of other trimmings. He Is pret-
ty proud of it and on Sunday morn
ing he was up at 4:25 to see wheth-
er or not it would start that early
in the morning. And It did. He
has been going into Pasadena quite
frequently to see his uncle" so
he tells us, but naturally we all
believe him but personally, I sort
of have my doubts. Anyway, time
will tell.
The regiment received orders
from headquarters to send a num-
ber of vehicles to San Francisco
for shipment to parts unknown,
and these orders were received the
first part of last week and every
thing was being settled as to who
would go along to Frisco to drive
the trucks because it would be sort
Of a pleasure trip and a change Of
scenery for few days. Well it
was finally decided upon and out
of our battery five guys went and
they were Art Rosenwald, Pete
Billman, Allie Berg, Bill Brown and
Kenneth Murphy. They left early
(9:00 a. m Sunday morning for
their destination and are due back
here in Camp Haan sometime
Thursday or Friday. 1t ought to
be quite trip.
A couple of fellows Il was ad-
vised not to mention any names
here) went up to Victorville, town
between San Bernadino and Bar
stow, on Saturday night "just for
the ride" While up there they took
in "49'er" dance at the town hall
and this was quite an affair-or
rather it was supposed to be be-
cause in the olden days they just
used to pack them in at these
dances. But while these two fel-
lows were up there, who should
walk in but the famous movie act
ress, Priscilla Lane. I was told
that she looked just like she does
in the movie pictures md I would
not doubt It one bit.
While we are on the subject of
pictures, Sgt. Bill Kaufman, dy-
manic message center executive,
has been contemplating another
trip to Hollywood to see some of