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THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 8 rJrWS FROM FT. JACKSON 1 hPriv,te Bobby Sloan -f chivalry are not f JS Elsie Dinsmore situ wiHent from real 1 i lost week here rThecastofchar- rj little vingnette are a f stress, General, and a rJStTti 120th Infantry. &ln the office of the f STceneril of the Thir- &. The telephone rings Wal himself answers it f voice filled with flut rZta comes over the wire. '5 dignity, but sudden incomes to both eyes--a 'jwn projected into his Uthough his demeanor re- W knowledge of playwrit iKfttgiblc'to say nothing of gO, I am afraid I will have ioor play right there with jfcjuup on the urst scene ji ng the rest of the story ' j li. .hat ij dm woras. u y private, whose name I will tad, ii i bit of a romeo. While it Columbia, ne piayiuiiy i ring irom nis gm id refused to give it back, instead keeping it for auld lane j syne, or what you may have. This so far would have been an innocent romantic affair except that there, were certain complications which soon presented themselves. Unlike the heroine of Shakespeare, our Romeo was dealing with a two-man girl, and the ring had been present ed to her by Romeo's rival. So you, see the predicament our fair Juliet found herself in. Our 20th Century Juliet didn't possess magic potents to get her self out of the situation into which she was thrust, so she called the General to see if he could help her. So it was that the General called the Adjutant, and the Adjutant called on the Company Commander, and the Company Commander went to the rear ranks to single out poor Romeo. For your information, Juliet now has her ring back, to make a long story short, and Romeo is a poorer, if wiser, buck private. -:- -:- -:- With a five-day maneuver in the offing, and two two-day affairs immediately behind us, to say noth ing of Borne Very warm weather, the soldiers at Fort Jackson are going in a big way for sun-bathing. It really is too hot to do anything else, when you are off duty, and everywhere you look now soldiers are grouped around with shirts off, enjoying this hot April sun. -:- -:- -:- Here is another funny incident which took place last week on the maneuver. One of the boys from my Company, which is the Service Company of Raleigh, was at Regi mental Headquarters. He is one of the 'Drif tees' as the draftees, or selective service men are called, and works in the supply warehouse, so. he was not 'in the know' about the running of headquarters. While we are out on maneuvers, one of the jobs the clerks at Regimental have is to keep a journal, minute by minute, of whatever action takes place. An umpire walked up, and mis taking Joe for one of the clerks, asked where the 'Journal' was. "I haven't seen the General, Sir, he hasn't been by!" was Joe's reply. PoW , Joe shall we call him DoaltesJ has been taking a rib bing ever since. His name now is General Joe, pronounced 'Journal' Joe. I, know there are some things which you are particularly inter ested in, folks, but if you don't let me know about what they are j I will just have to fill up this column as best I can. If there are any things you would particularly be interested in, I wish you would write me. My address is Service Company, 120th Infantry, Fort Jackson, S. C. Just what does a Selective Ser vice man do with his $21 a month pay? An extensive survey was recent ly conducted here revealing that a majority of the 6,000 Selectees in training with the 30th Division here carefully budget their month- Deanna Durbin Weds w:v to..,.faM.,..g.j..A.ijiir-vtikkiitt iiiiiii i m ; '.' . . ' i ' 1 . Deanna Durbin, 19, tinging star of ths films, and Vaoghn PauL It, a director, leave Wilshira Methodist Episcopal Church in Hollywood after their wedding. The wedding was on of fllmdom's biggest, with approximately 900 movie start and stags hands crowding the church and another 2,000 persons outside. ly pay. The first thing a new soldier does when his company commander has handed him his $21 Is to hand $2 of it right back. This pays for his laundry for the month which is picked up weekly and done on a contract basis. The soldier now has $19 left, a spending allowance of sixty-three cents a day. The usual soldier's budget of this sum goes something like this: For nights in Columbia where he will have a fifty cent dinner follow ed by a movie at forty-five cents and an after movie snack at twenty-five cents. Fare to the city and return runs about twenty-five cents unless the soldier goes in a taxi with three other buddies, then his fare will go up to fifty cents. Total cost of the evening runs about $1.50. If he does this four nights a month, he spends $6, With his remaining $13, a sol dier averages twenty cents a night at the post exchange where he buys soft drinks, cake and candy and whatever else will fill stomachs that refuse to be filled. This runs him about six dollars for the month and leaves him seven. Out of his last $7, a soldier must purchase toilet articles, stamps, magazines and newspapers. The job of stretching his pay over a month is a seemingly impossible one, but most of the men do it and a good many of them -go so far as to send part of their pay home. This fact is evidenced by the re ceipts for money orders issued at the Fort Jackson post office which leads all other post offices in the state in the issuance of postal money orders. Many of these orders, of course, come from soldiers who receive more than the basic $21 paid to soldiers their first three months in service. As a man advances in the army his salary' increases. After three months a private receives $30 monthly and a first class private $36. Uncle Sam's soldiers are the highest paid in the world and ac cording to the survey at Fort Jack son, they have learned how to get the most out of their hard earned wages. -:- -:- -:- If mothers of the soldiers in training here are concerned about the meals their boys will be eat ing in the field on maneuvers this summer, they need not be, for the Army did not neglect its field kitchens when it went modern. After a hard day in the field, the soldiers of 1941 will .have as hot and appetizing food awaiting them as they have when training on the Post For the various units of the 30th and 8th Division here have been issued a number of new aluminum, gasoline and wood burning field ranges which may be set on trucks that follow the troops in the field. The ranges may be used while be ing hauled to or from the "front" so that hot meals are always wait ing whenever the troops are ready to eat. Thus, the Army has ended the era of hard tack and pork and beans. . Not only can these newest of field ranges turn out a routin meal of meat and three vegetables, but they have facilities for baking so apple pies and hot biscuits are not only possible but probable. The greatest advantage, officials point out, is that the kitchens when rolling will be fii-ed by gasoline wing off no smoke and therefor, not be visible from the sky. There fore they may travel with th troops without giving away their positions. In the-Iast war, the old rolling kitchens used wood for f rel and smoked like steam engines, making it necessary to cook meals far be hind the lines and bring the food up in trucks. Old timers recall that ver rarely was a meal at a degree of larehenheit that could be called hot- '., ;v. -.. rtf Not only do the ranges make It possible to cook meals right on the scene of action, but the boys will even be able to wash their mess kits with water that can be heated on the stoves while the soldiers are eating. The new ranges are being used in the field at the present time and have proved highly satisfactory. FOR COUGHS FROM COLDS THAT WONT TURN LOOSE TAKC ONE SIP OF MENTHO-MULSION DMT FM NIHTC 1 'riIi! 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