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:*£5V ■■■tiipüiag Rattlesnake Army Air Field, Pyote, Texas Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving spells just one thing: Turkey' with a capital T. And Pyote mess personnel are ready to top last year’s unctious table with an even more succulent repast. 21 Mos. Service But let’s look over the big menu<->------------------- ;------------------------------- War. Depi. to Ease for the big meal. There’ll be roast tom turkey, tender and tan; sage New Commander Bars EM from dressing, tangy . and seasoned; Discharges Dec. 1; snowflake potatoes, creamy and light; cranberry sauce tart and Overseas Service spicy; giblet gravy, green peas, let Service to Count (Military Personnel Office Stat tuce nd mayonaisse salad, Celery, The Associated Press quoted the es that no such information has pickles, hot rolls, butter, olives, War Dept. Friday as easing dis reached them from higher head fruit cake, creamed cake, ice charges for enlisted personnel and quarters at presstime.) cream, oranges, candy, nuts, cof giving pecial attention to overage fee, milk, tea, and two kinds of pie: and family men. Changes in the A War Dept, release dated Wed mince and pumpkin. demobilization program as quoted nesday, November Yth, stated that Serving will start at noon and by Associated Press were uncon effective immediately, no enlisted last tilRtwo at Mess Halls 1 and 3. firmed by the Military Personnel man with 21 or more months ser There’ll be an evening meal served Office on this field, who stated that vice since Sept. 16, 1940 will be (if you can stagger your way back no changes were as yet received signment, unless he is a graduate to the mess hall) from 5 to 6. -from higher headquarters. sent overseas for permanent as- There’ll be 2100 lbs of turkey AP stated that the War Dept, of the Military intelligence Service .and 300 delicious pies to serve the Language School at Ft. Smelling, provided for “length,, of service Thanksgiving crowds. Rattler ad discharges and effective Decem Minnesota, or a volunteer to re vises: get in line early. main in the Army, or a Regular ber 1, aU enlisted men with four Army enlistee. Enlisted graduates years service would be eligible for of the MISLSchool wiU not be sent discharge. Others eligible for dis overseas if they are eligible for Victory Loan Hits charge the first of next month, Col. Robert C. Orth, Station said AP, were: men with 65 points separation or have more than 27 Commandant, poses for his first months service since-Sept. 16, 1940. on the Sept. 2 computation; men Officers Excluded $22,584; Fiçld official picture as the seventh with 3 or more children under 18 Officers who have had 33 or CO at Pyote Army Air Field. years. more months of honorable service Quota Altered For Wacs, the War Dept, (ac (or in the case of Medical Officers: cording to AP) will, release all With the Victory Loan about 30), including .enlisted service, if W D Speeds Discharge those who are married and who one-quarter finished, Pyote AAF any, since Sept. 16, 1940 will not enlisted prior to last May 12, and was lagging slightly, having reach Of 50-Pointers Upon be sent overseas for permanent as will drop the Wac point score to ed 21.3% of its quota. signment unless they remain on 32 effective December 1. The drive, last of the 8 big war Return from Furlough active duty or are Regular Army time loans, got underway the end The War Dept., in a flurry of Male officers will need but 73 officers, or are of the following points instead of 75 for discharge of October and concludes Decem week-end »releases, announced that (See 21 MONTHS, on Page 3.) as of December 1, or four years ber 31st. any EM: with 50 to 59 point who and three months of military ser The .Field quota, originally peg reports to a reception station on vice. No Moré Matinee ged at $200,000 haS been scaled completion of a furlough or TD down to $106,000 due to the drop assignment during November will Movies Except 1 in personnel on the field. be considered surplus and sent to Totals from the start of the drive a separation center for discharge. Chapel To Hold Over Week-ends through November 15th show the Through this action, says the Service Tomorrow Effective Tuesday, all matinee enlisted personnel way out in WD, a high discharge rate will be showings at the Theatre were can front on bond purchases, more assured, and expense and burden Morning at 10 celled with the exception of Satur than doubling the purchses of involved in moving soldiers who day and Sunday afternoon bills. either'offciers or civilian person- would be eligible for a release A special Thanksgiving Service The Special Services Office an OFFICERS: $5,043.75 shortly will be eliminated. for all personnel of Protestant faith nounced that movies would be pre ENLISTED: $11,535.00 Principal group affected by’ this will be held tomorrow at 10:00 AM sented only on Saturday and Sun CIVILIANS: $6,005.32 policy are men in units that re at the Station Chapel, it was an day afternoons, and holidays. turned to the'States following the nounced today. There will be a movie tomorrow TOTAL defeat of Germany to be redeploy (Thanksgiving) afternoon at 1:30 ed to the. Pacific and that are now Chaplain Curry will conduct the PM at Theatre No. 1. KEEP THE FIELD CLEAN scheduled for demobilization. service tomorrow morning. The Rattler, Copyright' 1945. by Uonwd'SiMO««. dlihibB|»d PYOTE, TEXAS Published for the personnel of Pyote Army Air Field by the In formation and Education section, with the cooperation of Public Re lations. All material is reviewed prior to publication by the Public Relations Officer. The RATTLER receives Camp Newspaper Service material, re- :4Äfcn mmmmi- publication of which is forbidden without permission of CNS, 205,E. 42nd St., N.Y.C. Ail other materia] herein may be republished. Opin Twice selected by Camp ions expressed herein are those of Newspaper Service as one of the writers and should not be con the best GI newspapers in the strued as necessarily those of the world. 1944, 1945. Army Air Force.', .Pictures by Base Photo Lab. COL. ROBERT C. ORTH, STATION COMMANDANT RATTLER STAFF: Cpl. Ed Koops, Sgt. Marie A. Rados Public Relations Offcier:Lt. Samuel R. Tedford It is inevitable that an editorial-writer discuss Thanksgiving, 'Hmph! Who's interested in-books! 1 and fill the public prints with a personal inventory' of the blessings that we have to be grateful for. 1 Before writing this we dug through the files to see what we were IUI!i>IHIIill!lllllll!lllilill||llil|||||||||||||||||||||||||!l!lll|||||||||||||||||||||||ii!|||||||||||iii||l||iii|||ii!|||i|i||||[!li|!||!||||| thankful for last year, in the 1944 Thanksgiving editorial. with Rosalind Russell and Lee Among the list was one paragraph that reads: "We're thankful Bowman. (More psychiatry where that Thanksgiving Day, 1944, finds us closer to victory; closer to the .a woman psychiatrist , putters Thanksgiving Day we used to have". through a fellow-traveler’s mind. We can reprint that, word for word, and by merely changing the We are fed up with these sophisti year to 1945, breathe a hearty sigh that this Thanksgiving finds us vic cated comedies and think the pro torious and at peace. At The Theatres ducers, not the actors, should have, And to all of which we-can add only "Amen". their. heads examined.) Shorts: IJnless otherwise noted. The “Cured Duck”' wth Donald Duck, ater No. 1 shows at 1:30, 6:30 and Paramount News. and 8:30; Theater No. 2 shows at juest Room by Gardner Rea 7:15 and 9:15 with matinee Sun - TUESDAY day only, at 2:15. “ENCHANTED FOREST” with Edmund Lowe and-Brenda' Joyce’. TODAY AND TOMORROW [Reviews speak highly of this.. “HOLD THAT BLONDE” with Story concerns a little boy who is Eddie Bracken and Veronica‘Lake. befriended . by an old man who (A bank-clerk who’s a kleptoman lives in redwood tree and who iac falls in#love with a gun-moll finally brings, his folks along. If for a gang of jewel thieves. Full of you like whimsy, you’ll fall in love laughs and Bracken is at. his fun with this, if you don’t, don’t go.) niest.) Shorts: Army-Navy Screen Shorts: “You Drive Me Crazy” with Magazine and . Paramount. News. - Edgar Kennedy and “Strange De stiny,” an MGM Miniature. \ ' FRIDAY ‘ “SUNBONNET SUE” with Phil WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY Regan, Gale Storm. (Poor, little girl “SAN ANTONIO” with Errol from the Bowery makes New York Flynn- and Alexis Smith.' (A techn debut only to have the rich! folk icolor western of range wars in speak bad-nastily of her back Texas in the 1870s. Flynn does the ground. Everything'ends. comfy, if Alamo with his boots on.) Shorts :- you stay to1 the finish.) Shorts: Paramount neWs. “Gun In His Hand” and Sportscope. SATURDAY Around the Field “ GAME OF DEATH” with- John PX' CAFETERIA: Breakfast.. 7 Loder and Audrey Long. (This is a to 10; Lunch 11 to 2; and Dinner 5 remake of a shprt story called ‘The to 9. Hamburgers and french fries Most Dangerous Game’. The story on sale in the evening. Beer on itself is terrific, 'and if the movie sale after 5 PM. lives up to it, should be good en tertainment.). Shorts: “A. Miner A f PX TAP ROOM: Beer sold from "I'm sending them to the Websters' for dinner. Do fair” with Andy Clyde, and Com 5 to 10:45 PM, .