The Apache sentinel., 1943-12-17

lobby by Miss DeVerne Lee, a
member of the staff. AS spe-
cial services, the staff is provid-
ing a gift-wrapping bar, shopping
accommodations, mailing, and hos
pital visitations. Each night Christ
mas recordings are played over the
Clubs public address system, and at
many times the USO Glee Club
furnishes carols.
The initial highlight on the USO
program. calendar is the Pre-ChriSt-
mas dance tonight by members of
the Bert Williams Lodge No. 1886
I. B. P. o. E. w. This dance will
celebrate this groups 21st annivers-
ary and will be formal affair.
A floor show, refreshments, and
favors will add to the merriment
of the occasion.
On Sunday, December 10, Java
Hour, which is regularly held at two
o'clock, will feature Christmas car
OILS and talk by member of the
staff on the Christmas legend. Real
izing that the best gift a service
man can give his family or loved
ones is letter from himself, the
entire USO staff will make voice
recordings of talking letters home
for Christmas at four o'clock A
twenty-five by twenty-eight poster,
drawn by a surprise name artist
and depicting a serviceman's family
receiving a letter from him, serves
to stimulate the ''send-a-t talking
letterhome" program. The last
event on Sundays calendar will be
a movie, Whats Cookin'?', starring
Leo Garlic and Woody Herman.
Long Distance Call, A Prize
On Monday evening at six o'clock
the Club will sponsor a write-a-
Christmas-Letter- Home Night. A
prize of long distance call home
will be awarded to the writer of the
letter drawn from the mail box at
the close of the evening. After the
letter. writing hour a dance will be
given in honor of the 758th Tank
Battalion.
AT seven o'clock Tuesday night
the USO Glee Club will conduct it's
first mass singing of secular and re-
ligious Yuletide compositions. After
the carrolling there will be Snow
ball Dance in honor of the 150th,
373rd, 390th, 393rd, and 394th Quar-
termaster Truck Companies.
The program for Wednesday, Dec.
%, will begin with Christmas con-
cert of recordings. At this time, the
USO will present over it's loud
speaker system a special album of
Christmas records including excerpts
from THE Messiah" At eight
O'Clock the auditorium will be or
ganized for Bingo contest in which
Christmas gifts will be presented as
prizes.
Thursday night, the first activity
will be Christmas Quiz Contest
with long distance call home again
offered to the winer and with other
individual prizes to each partici-
pant. Immediately following the
quiz contest the soldiers and WACs
will participate in Christmas party
games. A movie, "Who. Done It?"
with Abbott and Costello will end
the evening.
On Christmas Eve a Grab Bag
Christmas Party is promised to
men and women in uniform who
visit the Club. Attention will CEN
ter around the Christmas tree,
which has been stacked for several
days with gifts which will be pre-
sented by old st. Nick himself from
a huge, old-fashioned grab-bag.
Several service men who frequent
the Club have volunteered to act as
Santa Clauses in taking gifts to the
Post Hospital. To liven up the
grab-bag party, as if such would be
necessary, the USO Variety Show
entertainers, under the able super
vision of the talented Chauncey
'Jody' Lee. will runreel a floor show
that will make all the cats and
chicks think they are once more on
7th Avenue in Harlem.
The initial feature on Christmas
Day will be a Yule party given by
the WACs at ten o'clock in the
morning. This will be followed by
an Open House Reception during
which the USO staff will greet the
officers, enlisted personnel, and ci-
villains of Fort Huachuca. After the
group singing of Christmas carols at
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