Contains a list of several dozen men awarded a good conduct award; Officer Captain Myron Wotton is profiled; and an article about Corporal Earle Dowell, a cook on the base with a colorful past which included stints as a fortune teller, a preacher, a dealer in novelty shops, and as a circus barker.
Get to know Lt. Warren Smith; a profile of Bangor resident & civilian worker, Michael F. Quinn, described "as Irish as the keeper of a Dublin pub; lesser profiles of other civilian workers at the base in the page 7 section "Civilian Slants"; and an advertisement for the John Paul Co. Clothing Store at 55 Pickering Square.
"A Salute to Dow Field" will broadcast tomorrow night at Bangor Auditorium; "Dow Field's Post Personality" gives us the scoop on PVT Morris Polleck: CPL Bert Gawley provides the news and gossip of Ordnance Company, and "Know Your Officers" profiles Captain Frederic Talbot.
S/SGT John Wunderlich, the base's Chief of Police, explains his perspective on his job; "Dow Field's Post Personality" of the week is S/SGT Kenneth Van de Walker; "Know Your Officers" tells us a little about 1st LT William H. Yancey of Grapevine, Texas; and Corporal Ted Johns will be interviewed by WLBZ in Bangor about his world travels and military service.
"Know Your Officers" announce the promotion of James V. Mancuso to the rank of first lieutenant; the Dow Field Chapel hosted the wedding of WAC Auxiliary Mary J. Kyle to PVT Lawrence L. Burgess; PVT Samuel Profeta provides the news and gossip from the Signal Corps; and we see the amusing headline "Editor Goes Slightly WAACy 'Cause WACs Aren't WAACs."
SGT Roy Phillips of Troy, New York, get the special treatment in "Dow Field's Post Personality;" "Know Your Officers" profiles LT Russell D. Foster of Cardale, Pennsylvania; and PVT John Rayburn illustrates his skill at playing the ocarina, commonly know as the "sweet potato."
SGT Paul Joseph Geden, editor of the Observer, marries Miss Fay Elizabeth McDonald (pictured) at the Base Chapel; Madeline Shaw, base hostess, recounts her duties on base, including setting up dates and finding accommodations for visiting wives of soldiers; and "Know Your Officers" profiles LT Albert L. Hamel.
Page one showcases Mrs. Alyce Connor, base librarian, and Mrs. Madeline Shaw, base hostess; we read the obituary for Captain Henry Paul Trudell; Fritz Snyder writes his own profile in the week's "Dow Field's Post Personality"; "Know Your Officers" tells us of LT Richard W. Lee; and we see the promotion announcements for 1st LT Frederick Talbot and 2nd LT Russell D. Foster.
Corporal Meyer Popkin holds a crow in one hand, hangs onto a goat with the other, S/SGT Leonard Fairfield controls a dog with one, a fox with his other hand; an mural painted by CPL Ralph Woodall and PVT Herbert Combes is shown; we get confessions of a duty sergeant from SGT Joseph Meluskey; "Know Your Officers" gives us a look at Captain William C. McHard; and AUX Elsie Korn gives us an open diary of a WAAC reservist.
Colonel Francis Valentine is shown tossing the first ball of the Bombers first game, a 20-2 win over a Coast Guard team; CPL George Gregory gets the star treatment in "Dow Field's Post Personality"; "Know Your Officers" spotlights Lieutenant Allan E. Boerker; and PFC Leo "Junior" Thayer spills the news and gossip of the base's band.
PFC David Kornhauser gets a fond farewell as he leaves Dow Field; CPL Bert Gawley provides the news from the Ordnance Department; S/SGT Paul J. Geden gives us the "Dow Field Diary"; and CPL Carl P. Hessing tells us the latest about the Finance Department.
The Observer celebrates its one year anniversary; "Dow Field's Post Personality" PVT Samuel J. Profeta combines music, boxing, poetry, and pitching; and "Know Your Officers: features LT George A. Ormiston and 1st LT Albert E. Bauer.
Third WAAAC officer Iva L. Culbertson is pictured; "Dow Field's Post Personality" features PVT Adolph Hannes; and soldiers being promoted include: Stephen E. Lubich; William U. Whitney; Wallace P. Novak; Dan M. Shaw; Willian H. Maylen, Herbert I. Boo; Claud B. Speer; Doria Cardin; Edward H. Kromm.
We see a photo of a parade welcoming the WAACS, led by LT Helen E. Polanski, to the base; "Know Your Officers' presents a photo and shore biography of LT Gordon H. Arends and LT Thomas C. Griffin; and 1st SGT Ralph Schoenert starred on the baseball diamond.
CPL Sam Chimoff gets the star treatment in "Dow Field's Post Personality"; and LT Edward L. Mills is the officer we get to know in "Know Your Officers."
Contains features and photographs on base officers Samuel T. Kaskin and William H. Waldron; an article about the film projectionist, Kenneth Bishop; and a recap of the Aviation Squadron Dance.
Includes a photograph of Dow Field's Barn Dance Trio (Corporal Dorian Cardin -- on fiddle, PFC Bernard Velosky -- the singer, and Kurdyle -- guitarist), S/SGT Raymond Weeks won the costume contest at the dance, and features on officers Claude R. Willis and Isadore H. Hurowitz.
Corporal James Tedeschi shows the form with which he completed 34 push-ups in 20 seconds; "Know Your Officers" lets us know Albert L. Schonberg and LT John M. Davis; and SGT Samuel J. Ferris discusses various topics, primarily his wife Muriel.
"Dow Field's Post Personality" is CPL Jack Eaves of Chelsea, Massachusetts; and "Know Your Officers" showcase Captain Richard N. Peale and LT David J. Barnett.
"Dow Field's Post Personality" of the week is SGT Robert Kendrigan, a red-headed member of the Medical Department; "Know Your Officers' profiles LT Mason Trowbridge, Jr.; and a "Little Red Riding Hood" skit features SGT Charles D. Marston, SGT Bert Schaperow, and SGT Al Jarusevice.
In "Know Your Officers" were introduced to LT John B. Weimer and LT Walter P. Glover; In "Dow Field's Post Personality" we learn of the well-traveled military career of PVT Bill Knipe; and SGT Al Jarusevice played a few songs on trumpet at the base radio show.
"Know Your Officers" lets us know Chaplain Alfred James Carmody and LT Philip J. Gilinson; "Dow Field's Post Personality" paints us a picture of PFC Carl Hessing; and we get a photograph and article about the base's recently redecorated theatre.
University of Maine Professor H.L. Bricker and a group of drama students (Edward Falardeau, Arnold Cabbath, Richard Bloom, Robert Patten, Lawrence Hadley, Webber Mason, Lewis Chadwick, Priscilla Hopkins, and Earle Rankin) entertained the base with scenes from Richard II and Hamlet; PVT Bruce Samuels of Cincinnati, Ohio, the ace reporter of the base's Aviation Squadron is profiled; Samuels also contributes a column; and we get to know Captain Frank J. Comiskey.
SGT Bob Scott, a Dow Field radio broadcast regular, gets his five minutes of fame as the week's Dow Field Post Personality; Captain Howard E. Eades is the officer we meet in "Know Your Officers"; and we see the smiling faces of the all-star basketball team selections for the base: SGT Dick Carlson, PVT Ralph C. Toney, PVT Alex Downing, M/SGT Frank Pawloski, LT Murray Hurowitz, and PFC Joseph Komorsky.
