The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-02
News From
CAMP HAM

town of Sank Centre) went into
the kitchen the other day and told
them to make a cook out of him
Naturally, this isn't so easy, be-
cause to take a fellow out of the
Master Gunners Section and put
him to frying eggs or boiling wat
er isn't any easy job. But they
agreed to give him a trial so we
now have a new cook and am
certainly glad am his friend cause
if I have to eat his cooking-well,
lets hope for the best. Also one
of the japanese boys is in the kit
chen learning the arts of cooking
and a Japanese fellow took over
the place vacated by Red" in the
Master Gunner section but we are
still very very short of man power
out in the good old Headquarters
outfit. We could use about 20 to
Is more men fairly easily.
The Camp HAN gridsters, one
of the mostly highly touted army
football teams in the west, is rap
idly taking form and they have
all the promise of being very good
outfit. All week long they have
been practicing afternoons and eve
nings at the Riverside ball park
and are pointing towards the first
game with Fresno State Univer-
sity at Fresno, California, on Oc-
tober 4th. The squad of football
ers has reached the total of over
100 men and IS of them are from
the 217th. So you can bet your
bottom dollar that Minnesota will
be pretty well represented oct here
on the west coast this season. And
don't be surprised if the fellows go
to town-cause they are really
showing a lot of promise.
Yesterday afternoon plans were
made for a return trip to Hunt
ington Beach over the weekend
and this morning the rumors fair
ly flew around and the morning
and afternoon mail was increased
by quite a few letters (the major
ity of which went to Huntington
Beach,. Everyone was already
talking about it and just what he
had planned but this afternoon
they all received somewhat of a
blow when the whole deal was call
ed off because of something that
had come up. But we will &c
sometime in the very near future
as the people of Huntington Beach
want the whole regiment to come
back-we musta made a fairly
good impression-and we certainly
will oblige them if we possibly can
In reading over the Army and
Navy Journal for this MONTH
picked up a rather good joke which
I extracted for all to see and read;
March Field: A staff sergeant
mechanic at March Field, Califor
MIA, nursed a blackened eye las
week when he talked at the wrong
time. Another soldier and his fem
mime escort were passing by wher
the sergeant said:
What a beautiful nose!!! Tha'
landing gear, and look at how she
purrs for that guy. Man alive!!"
The passing soldier stopped
turned, and exploded, and before
the sergeant could say "boo" II
was the traditional prize ring zone
two" and a blackened eye.
The sergeant explained later hi
was referring to a new airplane
making a landing and not the sol
dier's girl friend.
Camp Ham, Calf Ten-mile
marches for foot troops at Camp
Ham, the Anti-aircraft Artillery
Training Center, will be inaugur
ated October 1 and will be hello
twice a month thereafter.
Beginning with the November
march, and continuing in succeed
ing months, full field equipment
will be carried.
All units of the camp personne
will participate in the marches
which will be held for the purpose
of maintaining and further devel
oping the state of physical fitnes:
of the troops.
Preliminary practice marches
will be held in order to harden thu
men for the longer hikes.
Stars Verusu Stars
Technical Sgt Maurice Mischke
pride and joy and disciple of amen
ity, and PFC Stanley Burt Of Regt
Iy Btry, 217th CA (AA) spent 6
most pleasant evening last week at
tending the football game between
Washington Redskins and the West
Coast All-Stars, held at Gilmore
Stadium in Los Angeles. The game
started out with the Washington
Redskins taking the lead with 9
final game score of 80 to 0 in theil
favor, and the high spot of this
contest was the sensational inter
ception of a pass by Minnesota's
Wilbur Moore which he ran back
sixty-three yards for a touchdown
Most of the interest was centered
upon the game at first but during
a lull in activities out on the field
our private happened to glance
about the stadium to see what
other type of people this game had