Post Personalities
It is with hopeful ant:cipaiton
of seeing a new star being born
on the popular music horizon
somewhere in the U. S., that the
men of Headquarters & Headquar
ters Detachment look forward to
the coming departure of Cpl.
Jimmy Shaka. Jimmy, sometimes
known as “The Benny Goodman
of APO 732,” is at present “sweat
ing out” the shipping list, being
high man on the “totem pole."
On August 6, 1943, Jim enlisted
in the ERC and attended the Uni
versity of Maine under the A-12
program. Upon attaining his
eighteenth birthday he was placed
on active duty and transferred to
Camp Belvoir, Va., for basic train
ing. At the completion of his ba
sic he proceeded to Port Edwards,
Canada, and then into the Alaskan
Department, arriving October,
1944. His first assignment was
with the 331st Engineer Construc
tion Battalion on Adak where he
remained, until the battalion was
transferred to Nome and subse
quently de-activated.
All of the Headquarters men
want to wish Jim good luck on his
return to the States and say,
“Keep up the improvising."
_
Lt. Jack Kaufman, who arrived
at Nome early in February of this
year, is a medical administrative
officer whose home is in Babylon,
N. Y. Formerly stationed at Camp
Croft, S. C., Camp Gordon, Geor
gia, and Carlisle Barracks, Pa., he
is now with the 202nd Station
Hospital where he is assigned as
adjutant, detachment commander
and medical supply officer.
Known as “Killer” Kaufman
from his pugilistic past, Jack pro
vides the post with a steady flow
of humorous ? chatter from the
wee hours of the morning to the
wee hours of the morning. An of
ficer who has gained the respect
of his men and who does his job
well, Lt. Kaufman has readily be
come a popular member of the
military personnel at Nome.
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WASHINGTON —We probably
never will get around to all of the
“now-it-can-be-told” stories of the
war. Never in any similar period
of the world’s history have inven
tive genius and industrial expan
sion combined to flood the land
with new gadgets, gimmicks, and
machines.
After the release of reports on
atomic energy, rockets, jet propul
sion, radar and electronics, the
punch is gone out of most of the
stories.
The Army’s Chemical Warfare
Service probably will never get
out now the full story of its use of
smoke in the war.
When we went into this war,
the Army didn’t have one single
smoke generator, yet when the
Anzio beachhead was established
the landing forces operated behind
a smokescreen 15 miles long and
capable of being maintained 14
hours a day.
Along the Moselle, Saar and
Rhine whole armies were moving
up behind smoke at the war’s end.
Perhaps before long similar gen
erators will be protecting millions
of acres of fruits and vegetables
from the unseasonable frosts.
Another process that came out
of the war was the cheap extrac
tion of helium. Once helium cost
around $2,000 a cubic foot. Now
it costs one cent a cubic foot and
there are new plants in Kansas,
Texas and New Mexico.
Among the many new uses late
ly turned up for helium is its use
in oversize tires.
Incidentally, if you have seen
anything of a new “ingenious Gor
man machine which may revolu
tionize the manufacture of con
densers for radio, radar and other
electronic equipment,” notify the
Army or the Department of Com
merce. They’ve lost it.
Commerce recently announced
that this new machine, which
turned up in Stuttgart, Germany,
was “enroute” and soon would be
demonstrated publicly by Com
merce and the Army Signal Corps.
Army called Commerce and said
the new machine already was
“somewhere” in this country but
could Commerce tell them where
it was? Commerce couldn’t.
Until it turns up. American con
denser manufacturers will have to
struggle along without the new
machines, which Commerce says
will cut production costs up to 20
percent.
Chemical warfare says they al
ready are making thousands of
gallons of soap with “napalm,”
one of the fillers used in the fire
bombs that rained on Japanese
cities. So far, it has been used
only in mess-hall dishpans and on
barrack-room floors and isn’t on
the market commercially yet.
BEAVER SKINS TAGGED
FIRST OPEN SEASON IN YEARS
Beaver skins from interior Al
aska poured into the office of the
Alaska Game Commission for tag
ging and sealing. Dominic Vcrnetti
trader of Koyukuk. brought a
large shipment into Fairbanks.
Wildlife Agent Ray Wolford,
who made a trip to Tanacross,
Tetlin and Northway, a few days
ago. sealing upper Tanana beaver,
reports that three villages had
about 200 beaver skins taken in the
first open season in years.
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