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SPRING I 1986 Once again • • • . old 70th buddies to gather in Oregon A winter vacation in Hawaii is wonderful, but it comes to an end. We visited and played golf (got beat) with Paul and Margaret 4. Bring along items Durbin. They will be at the Reunion. On the way back we had a fine for the big raffle visit with Floyd and Sharlene Freeman, Paul and Faye Thirion, and Rex and Audrey Jeffrey. Floyd hosted a get-together for those Remember. we arc having a Raffle again to help finance the who traveled to Germany. We had telephone calls from Ed Cloo Hospitality Room. Bring something from your community, or any gift. to raffle. We will have a special committee for the Raffle. nan. and Norm and Millie Johnson among others. to join the party. Airline savings are big Reserve your hotel 5 • 1• for Reunion travellers at bargain rates I have made arrangements with United Air Lines for group rates My desk was crammed with 70th Division business: More letters to the Reunion. If you Oy United. you can call the following toll free from former 70th Division soldier~ asking to join the Association , number: 1-800-521-4041, work through your own travel agent, or a and for information on the Reunion. and many registrations for the local United ticket office. tours. There is a lot of interest in the return to Portland. However, to You must identify yourself as a member of the 70th lnf. Div. get on with the business of this column. Assn. Give Code #60498. Give this tax ID: #43-1171249, and make your arrangements for Oight to Portland. United will give you Send in reservation a 5% discount from any applicable/available United fare (First 2 • Class included). They will also set up other fares , such as the for Oregon tours unrestricted fare priced 30% below their standard coach fares , as Send in your registration for the tours. If both you and your wife well as Ultra Savers, which are commonly lower. do not want to go on the same tour. indicate that on the registration There arc many options and savings. You should call the above form under the single column for two separate tours. If you do not want to go on any tour. we are having the Hospitality Room open for your convenience and comradeship. The tours can The President's Report be paid for at the time of registration in Port land. Delyle Omholt number, or have your agent check through this number for the 3. Hawaii called off; correct information. If there is any question, call me. As I receive Alaska still on further information , I will publish it. Don ' t forget : Call Because of the lack of response by the dead- # 1-800-521-404 1, Code #60498, identify your organizati on and line for registration , the Hawaii trip had to be cancelled. If you are Tax #43-1171249. still interested. contact Floyd Freeman. who will try to set up some tour. but it will have to be a different arrangement. Floyd indicated Overall fee is low that he had set up a trip to Alaska for some of the members. and it 6. for all Reunion events would be possible to join that tour if you wanted. However. Floyd must be contacted on this immediately at 68956 California Ave. , For your planning information: We have established a regis South Gate. California 90280. tration cost of $80.00 per person. This will not change unless there is published lour times a year by the 70th Infantry Division Association. lor its members and friends. Subscription: $7, annually. Asst. Sec.-Treos . Volume 44, Number 2, Spring, 1986 Norman Johnson 3344 Bryant Ave. Anoka, Minnesota 55303 Editor President Vice President-West Edmund C. Arnold Delyle Omholt Gregory Hosford Chaplains 3208 Hawthorne Ave. Box 335 1780 Princeton Ave. Alex C. Johnson Richmond, Virginia 23222 lola, Wisconsin 54945 Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 833 N. Carlyle Associate Editor Vice President-East Secretory-Treosurer Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 Chester F. Garstki Edward Cloonan Alvin Thomas Rev. Don Docken 2946 No. Harding 100 Harland Rood 203 So. Major St. 920 Third St. Chicago, Illinois 60618 Waltham, Mossochussetts 02154 Eureka, Illinois 61530 Hudson, Wisconsin 54016 2 70th Division Assn. TRAILBLAZER "Gosh! .. gasped a 276th doughboy who wouldn't identify himself. " I never knew these grenades were so powerful' " He had fired a rocket grenade into a culvert after a fleeing German soldier and watched a tremendous explosion lift the pipe, dirt and German in a reverberating puff. Only later did he learn that the culvert had CLIP, been charged with 500 pounds of azi TNT FILL which the enemy had planned to blow up as the OUT Americans crossed the area. and Three times T/5 Maurice Baker, HQ Co., SEND IN 275th, drove his jeep over a partly exposed mine. Engineers thought. logically. that it was SOON a dud. But just to make sure. they tied a rope to to Red Lion the mine and tugged gently. Boom! It was no Inn, 1000 dud, just Baker's luck . N.E. Multnomah, * Portland, Someone please clue us. How come we have Ore. 97232 so many medics in our latest bunch of new members! Someone has done some good re cruiting. Lloyd Seales who was with the Surgeon's Office in Division HQ, has just joined the Association. He served in two periods, March '17 tn M~rr h 'Ll() th.,. .... .-.~~..~...t..-..j;;,"'--- is a sudden change in the prices quoted to me. This will include the copies of all correspondence and be informed fully as to Friday tour for the ladies, the Friday night dinner (in the park), the all plans, membership matters and finances, so that at the Saturday night dinner. registration materials, entertainment, and time he takes over the position of President he will be able hospitality room. It docs not include the Saturday tours , since we to carry on the affairs of the Associaton without inter are letting you choose. and pay for your own. Tour fees can be paid ruption. at the registration desk. FURTHER RESOLVED, that Aticle VI be amended as follows: Two changes proposed EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The President-Elect shall 7 • be an Ex-Officio member of this Committee. for 70th Constitution FURTHER RESOLVED, that Article VIII shall be added The officers are proposing a change to the Constitution. It is to the Constitution as follows: published separately in this issue. The purpose of this change is to have a President-Elect who will receive all the information, observe ARTICLE VIII all the proceedings, acquaint himself with the business of the Upon dissolution of the Association, for any reason, Association, and then take office after this '·apprenticeship.·' We after the payment of all legal obligations, all money feel that it will make it easier for anyone to step into the office of President. I have received much comment on this. Some think it is remaining in the treasury shall be donated to an Armed not necessary, some approve. Most of the comment indicates that Forces relief or charitable fund chosen by a two-thirds they are familiar with this procedure because organizations they vote of the members attending the final meeting, or, if belong to have such an officer. and it works well. This will be such meeting cannot be effected, by the last Executive offered at the meeting of the members. Committee. Although there will be another "Trailblazer" before the Re union, postal delivery has been so very slow that it probably won't It was by a margin of only a couple of hours that "The get to you in time to make longrange plans. So this is really "the last Trail blazer" was spared from playing a cruel hoax on its read word." Don't delay in making hotel and plan reservations because ers. One of our members had sent us a printed notice allegedly promptness means real savings. from the Veterans Administration about refunds to be made to See you in Portland! every serviceman or woman who had ever carried Gl insur ance. Proposed Amendment to Constitution It seemed authentic, even to the PO Box where applications RESOLVED: That the Constitution be amended by were to be sent. Just to fill in a few more details, we wrote to the adding to Article V, Officers and Duties, the following: VA A reply came after "The Trailblazer" was all typeset and President-Elect: This office is created at the Reunion made up into pages. At the last-the very last-possible mo of 1986, and both the President and President-Elect will ment, we yanked the erroneous piece. It was a complete hoax, then be elected. The President-Elect will serve Ex-Officio says the VA A refund had been made once .... 30-some years until the Reunion of 1988 at which time he will auto ago. matically become President, a new President-Elect will be It's hard to figure out how a hoax like this begins. And who elected, and the office of President will no longer be gets their jollies from inflicting this "humor" onto thousands of veterans who would have no reason to mistrust a fellow Gl. nominated or elected. The President-Elect will receive Spring, 1986 3 rs Once again • • • to contact for . old 70th buddies to gather in Oregon n and I would A winter vacation in Hawaii is wonderful , but it comes to an end. We visited and played golf (got beat) with Paul and Margaret 4. Bring along items t decorations , Durbin.