j* . FORT-•• -— ^WB^ ^^^ ^^r <^^mt ORD^Vl^^ <^Bifc ^BFJ«BW^^ PANORAMA B DUFFEL ANUARY 7, 1944 PAGE 2 FORT ORD PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 7,1944 PVT. HERKIMER TWIPPLE BY PFC. KURT CARLSON HtY THIS DO YOU WANT TO WAST€ IT ~^S^s- FORT 0 RD FOREIGN LETTER By LT. MERRILL PANITT EDENBURGH, Scotland (Passed by Press Censor)— Vat. 69 ... Johnny Walker . Teacher's Highland Cream . White Horse . Red Hackle . King's Ransom . Cutty's Ark . Black and White . Haig and Haig . Dewar's . The Grand McNish. Sorry chums, they're made here, but you sure as hell can't buy 'em A weekly newspaper published by and for the officers and men of here. You've got to know people or something. We tried and tried and the Fort Ord-Presidio of Monterey Area, Fort Ord California. Founded Dear Editor of Panorama— couldn't get to first base. But a girl reporter from the London Daily September 20, 1940, under order of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell. After reading a Life magazine and express said "let me try" and ten minutes later she popped around with Lithographed by the Herald Printers and Publishers, Herald Build­ seeing a picture of one of your Pan­ a full fifth. Just goes to show. ing, Monterey, California. °**$&> orama pin-up girls therein I am Anyhow the -whiskey here, and there is no whiskey except scotch, convinced that you have a fine is being issued sparingly so there'll be some left come Armistice Day PANORAMA: 1. A series of large pictures representing a con­ paper. All Marines are quite curious, and post-war years. There is a re­ tinuous scene, or a series of scenes, arranged to unroll and pass before so maybe that accounts for it. I serve, we're told, of more than 100,- the spectator. 2. A complete view in every direction, hence a compre­ would like to have you mail me a 000,000 gallons stored out of bomb hensive presentation of a subject. 3. A constantly passing scene. copy of the particular issue men­ danger way below the ground. And —Webster's Dictionary. tioned, so I can see what Marie all we got in answer to an innocent (The Panorama receives material supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, McDonald, pin-up No. 100, looks question as to where it was stored War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., New York City. Credited material like full-page "size. was a mild smile. may not be republished without permission from Camp Newspaper Lots of luck to you and Pano­ Do you know it's illegal to Service.) rama in the New Year. make whiskey in England or Wales? Sgt. Edward C. Meyer Seems the act of union between U.S. Marine Intelligence England and Scotland continued Baltimore, Md. Scotland's exclusive right to make whiskey. Panorama is pleased to have a A worrrrd now about the ac­ Around the Towns Marine among its fans, even though cent. The Scottish accent is much his admiration is all for the back easier to understand than Lancashire Brockway, Pa. (CNS) — Three refused to believe Robinson's story, page Morale Booster.—Ed. or Yorkshire in England. And the people are fully as hospitable as our _,, f hunters shot a bear and—thinking found him guilty. The judge then ft ft ft own southerners. As for the yarns him dead—threw him into the back sentenced him—to the electric chair. The Editor, about how tight the Scottish people seat of their car. However, the bear ft fc ft Ft. Ord Panorama soon revived, whereupon the three are — all those jokes originate right hunters lowered the present world's Lubbock, Tex. (CNS) — Sgt. Dear Sir— here in Scotland and they're untrue. record for getting out of a car. James D. King, Army Air Forces, In your issue of Dec. 24, 1943, The idea of Scotch thrift may Once outside they shot the bear is exempt from income taxes be­ you have published a picture of the have originated in the fact that again, with the following results: cause he is a full blooded Cheyenne fireplace built in the mess hall of when they wear kilts (and their The bear was killed, the rear tire Indian. But he likes to pay taxes Co. "K," 2nd Reg. AGF Repl. De­ Army men still do), the costume in- _ Panitt and gas tank of the auto were ruined and sends his payments to the pot No. 2. You have made one mis- eludes a furry spooran. The spooran Treasury anyhow. "It's a privilege," stake in the information which ac­ is part decoration, but the back of it is a pocketbook, and in order to get by bullets, the insurance company he says. refused to pay damages and the companies the photo which should money out of the spooran the wearer has to fumble around. Now that three hunters were arrested on a •ft ft ft be corrected. You state that the men MAY be the origin, we're not stating it as a fact. But it's as good an charge of killing a bear out of Kansas City (CNS)—Fats Waller, in the company (mostly the mess explanation as any. season. famed 278-pound jazz pianist and sergeant and KP's) built the fire­ One of the feature spots in Edinburgh is old Edinburgh Castle — ft ft ft composer, died of a heart attack place, but this is entirely wrong. started around 1100. It's high on a cliff near the center of the city, in­ Chattanooga, Tenn. (CNS) — aboard a railroad train en route to The fireplace was built by Cpl. Leo accessible except from one side, and that side was protected by a deep Mark Thrash, Civil War veteran and New York from California. Waller, Miller of Company "K" without moat in the old days. This inaccessible castle was stormed — up the face the oldest pensioneer on the payroll author of such song hits as "Ain't any assistance from the mess ser­ of a sheer cliff— by Bruce and his men early in Scotland's history. Don't geant or KP's. ask us how they did it, but those medieval commandos must've had some of the Federal government, died at Misbehavin," and "Honeysuckle real tricks. his home here at the age of 122. Rose" and famous from coast to Being mess officer of this organi­ The park underneath the castle is one of the city's main street, Thrash, born in slavery in 1820, coast for his bullfrog voice and vir­ zation I like to have the personnel which means all the stores are on the other side. The stores seem to fought for the' South in the Civil tuosity at the piano, wac 39. of the mess hall receive any credit have more in them than London's biggest ones. The tweed is beautiful— War, outlived five wives and 11 of ft ft ft . due them, but in this instance I if you have the coupons to buy it. And the cashmere sweaters and scarves his 29 children. He married his Los Angeles (CNS)—Mrs. Alice would like very much to see the would make an American woman's mouth water. Lovely stuff. fifth wife when he was 102. Palacios, 38, walked into a meat credit placed where it belongs. Cpl. Oh yes — about Scotch plaids. They're called tartans, not plaids here, •ft ft ft market and said to the butcher, Miller did a swell job on the fire­ and each one is the badge of a clan. We saw a shop window with a few Chicago (CNS) — Mike Micelli, "Give me a nice big T-Bone steak." place, as well as the other decora­ postcards illustrating the tartans of various clans so we went in and asked 40, was arrested on a disorderly con­ "O.K., lady," said the butcher. Mrs. tions in every building in this com­ for a "complete" set of the cards. duct charge after his wife Mary, 27, pany, and also on the Christmas Palacios dropped dead. tree outside of our orderly room. "Hoot, mon" (so help us) said the man behind the counter, "therre had testified in Domestic Relations ft ft ft arre hundrreds of them." And he dragged out three shoe boxes jammed Court that he sold her to a friend Hoping that you will make up with the tartan postcards. Needless to say, at thruppence; a throw, we for $25. She lived with the friend for New Brunswick, N. J. (CNS)— the injustice done to Cpl. Miller, I just bought a representative dozen or so. awhile, Mrs. Micelli said, and then John M. Wilkenson, who weighs remain, It's a grand place, is Scotland — a bonnie place. If only the hotel had returned to her husband, 200 pounds, fell into a pork barrel 2nd Lt. Daniel G. Carragher central heating instead of chambermaids who bring around crockery foot ft ft ft while working in his attic. An hour Mess Officer, Co. K, 2nd Reg. warmers to combat the chill, it'd be a swell place to spend a couple of later his mother -found his body, months. Deer Isle, Me. (CNS^Herman still jammed in the barrel. He had CpL Miller front and center for S. Conary, 74, and his wife, 76, died Panorama's apology.—Ed. Foot warmers! At our age!! within 10 minutes of each other here suffocated. (Not to be reprinted without special permission of Panorama — Ed.) on the even of their 56th wedding ft ft ft anniversary. New York (CNS) — Sixty-one- ft ft ft year-old Mrs.