I C> FORT LEONARD WOOD F Second Year of Service To The Nation's Largest Army Training Center ui on Volume 2, Number 27 Friday, January 5, 1968 - 12 pages LJY Postage Up Too * Pay R ise i-i: :_:::::::::::::-::::; CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN For iitar ii - i~IP :i::E ON NEW BUS TERMINAL * Civilians i:';i j:::::: Construction is expected to begin 1 Bus Lines-look forward to having ~iiii-' in the very near future on the new a new modern terminal at Ft. i:-:: -_i-i:-i-iSi-:f ': : Leonard Wood and will be By Vera L. Martai i Greyhound bus terminal at Ft. able te i Leonard Wood, with Gold Con- offer improved customer service struction Company of and convenience for Ft. Wood Military personnel rec:ived a i~s Springfield, holiday bonus in the form of a pay i, Mo., as general contractor. personnel." :d The Major General George H. Walker increase as a result of legislation new station will be located signed by President Johnson on at the intersection of Replacement turned the first shovel of dirt for Dec. 16, in time for the boost to Avenue and Big Piney Road. The the new terminal Dec. 14. The date be reflected in the December pay brick structure, fully air condi- set for completion of the new depot tioned, will be 70 feet by 36 feet is April 1968. checks. :: The new military pay law pro and will face Replacement Ave. Following construction, the new :: The 200 by 300 foot plot will pro- post terminal will be managed by vided a flat across-the-board in- ---: ~6~~.ili crease of 5.6 per cent in basic vide adequate space for bus loading Greyhound's present representa- pay for members of the Uniformed THE AESTHETIC qualities of icicles is a matter of conjecture on a concrete slab surrounding tives at the fort and in Waynes- Services. This is comparable to when the cause of the effect is 17 ruptures in the building's the building. Extra parking space ville, E. O. Chastain and Bill W. the 4.5 per cent pay raise the 90th plumbing. Furnaces in unoccupied buildings should be checked for approximately 60 buses will Sikes. (see picture, page 2) Congress approved for Federal every four hours. If they are not working, call Post Engineers be utilized to fullest advantage civilian classified employees. at 8-2141. Aspiring young photographers might love it, but during heavy troop movements. certain other parties may be unappreciative. Roof overhangs on all sides will For Pay Charts provide weather protection for bus WEATHER boardings. Buses may pull up to the See Page Two Exodus in Reverse terminal on either side. Both in- Displaying a rather poor atti- terior and exterior address system tude toward good will and the new Accompanying the pay legisla- speakers will be provided for the year in general, mother nature tion were new postal rates signed Business... (er) Training convenience of passengers in hear- threatens to partly cloudify Fri- into law increasing cost of mailing ing bus departure announcements day, throw in a few snow showers first class letters from five cents and information. and send the temperatures down. to six cents; air mail letters from As Usual After Holidays Features of the new depot will Saturday looks equally grim eight cents to 10 cents; post cards include a large waiting with cloudy, cold temperatures Back to the grind! More than to have transported 194 soldiers concourse, from four cents to five cents and ticket counter, baggage in the low 20s- and intermittently 17,000 military personnel re- from post, and approximately 3,159 area, ter- air mail cards from six cents to minal office, snow filled skies. Sunday turned to Ft. Leonard Wood by men departed Ft. Wood by car. public telephones, eight cents. New rates will be ef- package express service and public promises improvement of six Jan. 2, ending the 17-day holiday Advanced and detailed planning: fective Jan. 7. restrooms. Flood lighting will to eight degrees, but the clouds leave period. between the post transportation Prior to the recent military and provide excellent exterior and snow look permanent. office and com mercial transporta- federal civilian pay raises the illumination. Monday and Tuesday are nice On Dec. 15 and 16, local trans- tion units along with personnel of' Army-Air Force Wage Board an- William Barton enough if you're a little maso- portation offices rose to the oc- the Provost Marshal resulted in Associates of nounced wage rates for Ft. Leonard Kansas City designed the terminal. chistic. They maintain the week's Wood wage board employees would casion. A total of 263 buses trans- the swift and orderly exodus of tradition of cloudy, cold and in- sol- of military per- James L. Kerrigan, president become effective Dec. 31, 1967. ported approximately 10,750 the thousands termittent snow, diers from the post to their homes sonnel on year-end leave. of Central Greyhound Lines, Fort The wage board increase ranged Worth, Tex., stated, "Greyhound The elements went down in the over the nation; airline ticket sales And now-back to training-back from four to 17 cents per hour and the other carriers 12th 3 to 2, but managed to im- for Forney Field on post and Lam- to work. It is the beginning of a which will making an approximate average operate prove their percentage by .011 bert Field, St. Louis, were re- new year. And, let's see only ? from the new depot-Crown hourly increase for the wage board Coach Company; Missouri, to .271. As they round the bend ported at 3,324; chartered flights more days until that next leave Kansas worker of 11.93 cents or 4.18 per and Oklahoma Coach into 1968 it's Weatherman for the two days were estimated is due. Lines; Mis- 43, cent; for the wage board working souri Transit Lines and Williams Elements 16. leaders 12.3 cents or 4.1 per cent and for the wage board supervisors 17.61 cents or 4.65 per cent. 'Knucklehead' Approximately 1,200 wageboard mployees will be affected by the iew pay at Ft. Wood. There were Reacts to FLW no changes in the rates for laundry workers or laundry supervisors. The increases are the result of Basic Training rates in the a survey of wage Personnel at Ft. Leonard Wood Cc'oral Missouri area conducted and residents of the surrounding October and November. during area will have an opportunity on survey was made to deter- This Sunday to hear how experiences in adjustments needed to keep mine basic training impressed one Ft. Army rates for blue collar jobs Wood trainee. with prevailing rates paid aligned The radio documentary, titled by business and industry in the "O, You Knucklehead," was pro- local area. duced by radio station KDKA, The hourly wage board increase Pittsburgh, and will be aired by will be reflected in the civilian KJPW, 1390 kc., Waynesville and checks received the middle or St. Robert, at 1 p.m., Sunday, latter part of January. through the courtesy of the Penn- This makes the fourth consecu- sylvania station's management. tive year that wage board Private Terry McGovern, KDKA employees have received an hourly announcer, received basic train- wage increase. ing at Ft. Leonard Wood last sum- mer. Gil Haag, another member of the KDKA staff visited Ft. Wood S ,hute New JAMTO Chief and together he and PVT McGovern Harold Chute, who has been an taped many of the sounds of basic NOT AGAIN!! For the second time within a little accident, occurring about 2:15 p.m., left the build- employee of the Joint Airlines training and several interviews more than two months, the Main Post MP. Gate ing partically demolished. SSG Levette of the 158th Ticket Office (JAMTO) Fort Leon- at Ft. Wood. at Ft. Leonard Wood has been the target of a Quartermaster Co. was taken to the post hospital ard Wood, for the past two years, Private McGovern added his "direct hit." The new gatehouse, in operation for but was released. Two M. P. s were injured slightly. recently was appointed its man- commentary in Pittsburgh where two weeks, was struck two days after Christmas During the latter part of October, a 5-ton Army ager. Chute and his family reside the tape was edited and it was by a Chevrolet driven by Staff Sergeant Jerry R. dump truck crashed into the old gatehouse, com- in Waynesville. initially aired by KDKA on Nov. 27. Levette as he was entering the post area. The pletely demolishing the frame structure. Ft. Leonard Wood GUIDON Jan. 5, 1968 Pre-Christmas Army Wrestles Television * The Common Cold By Vera L. Martin Show Aired "Prelude to Christmas," a Military personnel once again ceiving well controlled trial at Ft. half-hour-long Christmas are wrestling the common cold Dix. The program was started in special program, was filmed Dec. 16, by or the "flu bug." Although the Ft. Wood November 1966. The vac- enemy is minute in size, never- cine proved to be highly effective the Ft. Leonard Wood Public In- theless, its strength is great and in preventing adenovirus type 4. formation Office and aired over the Army continues its research However, whereas in November three local television stations. On in effective weapons. and December the only detectable Dec. 22, it was shown on KRCG-TV, Investigations have shown that agent associated with Acute Jefferson City; Dec. 23, KYTV, Respiratory Disease (ARD) was Springfield; and Dec. 25, KTTS- outbreaks of Upper Respiratory MAJOR GENERAL George H.