The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-18
BY Sgt. Kenny Kuefler

Last Saturday an article appear
ed in the 217th CA (AA) Daily
Bulletin which read as follows:
Par. 2. Wanted 6 young men for
party held at the home of Mrs
Milton Krims, 146 Groverton Place
West Los Angeles, at 400 D. m
Sunday, September Z, 1941. Phone
No. 3S240. Bring bathing suits for
swimming party, ping pong games,
etc. Men must provide own trans
portation to Los Angeles. On ar
rival in L. A. can call home for
ride out to house. Beautiful home
and swimming pool. Turn names
in to Battalion 81 before 1000 a.
m, Saturday. September 6, 1941."
This little article caused an awful
lot Of excitement throughout the
regiment as every one was clamor-
ing to go as 1t sounded as though
it would be loads Of fun. After
everything was over and the lucky
six had been picked, yours truly
and "Red" Fouquette from Regi-
mental Headquarters Battery were
among the lucky ones. The rest of
the fellows were from Battery "D''
(Jim Chyba happened to be one
Of them) and from Battery a."
so that made a carload. Well, as
the six Of us were all the best of
friends we all went in the same
car with RED" Fouquette at the
wheel. Leaving here about 11:30
we arrived at the home at 4:15
p. m. after a great deal Of trouble
traffic trouble and a few miscel-
1aneous items. AS it was said, the
house was very beautiful and that
wasn't all-but we'll leave that out
Of the picture. The house was
located in the Sorority house dis
trict of UCLA so you can use your
Imagination. We all had a wonder
full time there and the hostess
really showed us a swell time. They
had swimming pool but it had
a very bad feature, and that was,
1t was sort Of shallow for certain
people, cause one Of the fellows
from Battery I'D" and myself both
skinned our noses when diving in
to the pool and the funny part Of
it was we both skinned them in
the very same place. Outside Of
that everyone had a swell time out
there and we finally arrived back
at Camp Haan at 4:30 the next
morning with only few stops en-
route. But as yet no one will be-
lieve our stories about getting
scratched up in swimming pool
Its pretty hard to convince peo-
pie out here.
Every morning bright and early,
there is a little boy about eleven
or twelve years old with big bag
Of papers on his back and I guess
he is the regimental newsboy. Any
way he has quite a line because
in the morning when he makes the
rounds you can hear him shouting:
Get your morning paper while it's
and in the evening he
says: Get your evening paper
while it's evening"" but the best is
on Saturday noon when he comes
around shouting: Extra! Extra!
Get your Sunday paper on Satur-
day." and you'd be surprised at
what good business he does.
The dances down at the service
club are becoming very popular
with the boys all through the en-
tire battery. Every Wednesday
night about so percent or more of
them get all dressed up in their
best uniforms and all that goes
with it and then go treking off
to the service club.
The second in a series of month
ly "beer parties" is being held to-
night right down in the Battery
street. They get about three or
four half barrels of beer and for
those who don't indulge, they have
several cases of pop-and during
the course of the evening, it all
seems to disappear somehow or
other.
Because our battery doesn't get
any too much exercise (the fellows
I mean quite a few of the lads
found themselves growing out of
their clothes and Lyle Ethun was
getting-to have quite problem on
his hands because he couldn't keep
the boys properly dressed. But it
has finally worked out that every
night now most Of them go over
to the nearby basketball court and
get out the old pigsskin and throw
them around for a while and you'd
be surprised at the results.
First Battalion of the 217th Regi-
ment Moves to Garnet
At 500 a. m. Friday, September
5th, 1941, the entire 1st Battalion
plus the Medical Detachment, of
the 217th Regiment, at Camp Haan,
equipped for the first time with
their pioneer equipment for field
left for an overnight
bivouac at Garnet, California. The
exercise. was for the two-fold pur-
pose Of preparing for the Battalion
test that were to come
within a few days, and the second
was to become familiar with the
pioneer equipment that had been
newly issued.
1t. Colonel Clayton d. Chrysler
commanded the Battalion during
the exercises. During their stay
at Garnet the men made full use
of swimming pool that was near
by. The convoy returned Saturday
at Hoo, stating that the tactical
had been successful.
Water Cooler Installed in 217th's