Evening star., 1941-06-13
Recruit Center
AT Fort Meade
To Be Doubled
Building Contracts
For $4,000, 900
To Be Let July ]
BY the Associated Press.


FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md, !
June 13 (P). Contracts totaling
about So 900 900 for new construction
at this Army camp will be awarded
by July l, the construction quarter.
master reported today.
The work will include 80 buildings,
almost doubling facilities of the re-.
cruit reception center. The present
center has l 1,500-man capacity, and
new structures will permit handling.
of an additional 1000 or more.
The constructing quartermaster's
Office said the reception buildings
would include "a barracks, cafeteria,
induction building, post exchange,
two recreation buildings and other
structures. Cost of these items is
estimated at about S500000.
Other major operations In the
81 100000 expansion will include an
administration building for the hos
pital, theater, two barracks for the
hospital, three wards each with 80
beds, a garage, a filling station, four
ordnance order repair shops and a
service club.
Seven Units Added.
Meanwhile, it was announced that
seven new Regular Army units with
an allotted strength of 56 officers
and nearly 1500 enlisted men have
been established at Fort Meade
since June l.
Some of the units have their full
quotas while others are still being
brought up to strength. They in
clude:
The 62d Engineers Company,
officers and 10 men; 18th Evacu-
alton Hospital, officers and 152
men; 209th General Hospital. Off
GERS and 254 men: Company A. 74th
Quartermaster Battalion Qight
maintenance), officers and 176
men; 87th Quartermaster Company,
officers and 110 men; 64th Signal
Battalion, 20 officers and $50 men;
6lst Surgical Hospital, officers and
| liz men.
To Award Trophies.
The 1900 officers and men of the
29th Division will mass in the posts
| outdoor amphitheater tonight to
witness award of athletic trophies
and hear talk by Bernarr MacFad-
den, publisher.
Trophies will be awarded 10 divi-
sion boxing champions who won
titles last week and to the 176th
Field Artillery basket ball team,
champion of the 29th.
~ al
| lery expect to entertain many Vir-
ginia visitors here tomorrow and
Sunday as hosts during an at
home" week end.
The field artillery regiment. COM
manded by Col. E. Sclater Montague,
is made up of units from Hampton.
Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth,
Fredericksburg and Richmond.
Combat Team Rehearses.
Yesterday the l15th Combat Team,
commanded by Col. D. John Markey.
walked and rode through a steady
drizzle in a shuttle movement from
Fort Meade to West Annapolis and
return.
The movement. over round-trip
distance of 38 miles. was repetition
OF a maneuver held on Tuesday.
But the weather then was much
more favorable.
/ The combat team today will make
92-mile motor movement, travelling
! to the Cedarville State Forest res
ervation near Waldorf and return. 1t
will be a rehearsal for a movement
Monday to the Army's new training
area in Caroline County, Va.
The 115th team will be the first
unit from the 29th Division to use
the Virginia area for maneuvers. The
maneuvers will end on Friday and
the team will return to camp at Fort
Meade
A temporary camp will be set up
for the week, and pvramidal tents
will be left standing for use by the
l75th Infantry combat team which
will follow the 115th into training