The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-05-22
News From
CAMP HAM

built around the sides Of large
hills. Upon arriving at the top Of
the mountain the view Of the whole
Of Los Angeles and vicinity could
be seen and as It was nearing the
evening thousands Of lights could
be seen down below practically as
far as the eye could see. While
touring around and stopping at the
various places we met q lot Of our
pals as the Santa Fe had run an
excursion train into Los Angeles
and quite a few were on 1t. At the
Palladium we met a couple of the
Melrose lads in our outfit namely
Ossie Ossendorf and Tom Kennedy
and also another by the name Of
Pete White who recently transfer
red to our battery from the St.
Cloud battery. While walking
around in downtown Los Angeles
we met Richie Hoffman, Albert
Loehlein, and Art Cole. A one
time Sank Centre boy by the name
Of Willard Arvig who Is now liv-
ing out here with his wife, Verna
Iwinski, formerly Of Sank Centre,
was seen at the bus depot just be-
fore we departed for camp. The
bus depot was so full of soldiers
from Camp HAN that they ran
one special after another. Upon
arriving at Riverside at HOO a. M,
the bus depot was crowded with
soldiers waiting for the bus back
to camp and there must have been
at least four hundred and from
what I hear they were running
buses until 2:30 Monday morning
before every one was taken care
Of. On Monday morning at Rev
ellie every man was in camp as he
was supposed to be; none the worse
for the experiences or things he
may have had or seen.
Last Wednesday a boy about
fifteen or sixteen I should say
visited our camp and sold subscrip-
tions to magazines. He explained
that as representative of Boys
Town and he he was Father Elan
nigan's personal representative. He
had a pleasant stay here in camp
and he sold many subscriptions as
the proceeds were to go for the
improvement Of boys town and to
help more boys to get a chance in
life, which I thought was very
good idea.
This California weather certainly
Is wonderful. It isn't supposed to
rain after January 81 and that is
one thing that I like about it but
something or other is getting this
place awful wet. Why just last
Wednesday and Thursday it was
all muddy and wet and then it
dried off and now it is so hot that
one can hardly stand it out here.
I've never seen anything like it and
the natives (not Indians) say that
the worst is yet to come. But I
imagine the boys will all live
through it because they all look
pretty healthy.
Last Saturday and Sunday in the
beautiful Ramona Bowl, which is
about 35 miles south of Riverside
in Riverside County, there is a
natural outdoor theatre in which
for the eighteenth season they had
a play called Ramona" based on
the novel of the same name. Dur
ing that time the play has grad
ually been growing larger and lar
ger and it is now the greatest out
door play in California. Tens of
thousands were thrilled by this
awe-inspiring spectacle which was
put on by outstanding professional
actors and a tremendous cast of
the local residents. Among the
crowd were hundreds Of soldiers
from the surrounding camps and
after I had spoken to few Of them
I was indeed sorry I missed this
event.
The Regimental baseball team
lost a close one to Santa Ana Jun
ior College on Monday by the
score of Is to 9. It was just an
off day for the boys as they were
just little off form and had they
been up to par that day the game
would have been ours. This was
the first loss of the season.