~-~-~ 9T FORT LEONARD WOOD Second Year of Service To The Nation's Largest Army Training Center Volume 2, Number 48 Friday May 31, 1968 -12 pages -I ILI, "Let noravages of time testify to coming Rabies Cause, Cure ProveMecJical Enigma Rabies is an enigma to mode irn ported rabies deaths per year. medical men. They know what it Considering unreported fatalities, does to man and beast. They kncow the figure may climb as high as 500. the protective measures to ta ke In the United States no deaths against it. But they do not kncow due to rabies have been reported how to eradicate it. They only kncow in the past year, yet thousands of that it is one of the most deadfly bites occur here annually. Accord- of diseases. ing to Lieutenant Colonel John D. What is known is that rabies is Galbreaith, post veterinarian, this a virus. It attacks the nervous sy s- absence of rabies deaths can be tem. From its entrance into the attributed to four factors: body (usually from the bite of an 1. In the U.S. there is a univer- animal), the virus moves up the sal system of immunization pro- nerve trunk to the brain where it grams in the domestic animal acts as an encephalitis (bra in population. Inflammation). 2. Conscientious efforts are The disease is communicab le made in almost all communities to and is carried through the saliv a. eliminate the stray domestic Its course runs lightning quick and animal population. death occurs within five to 10 da ys 3. Advanced laboratory and diag- after the first symptoms appea r. nostic techniques have enabled In Southeast Asia, particular ly doctors to quickly detect rabies Thailand and the Philippine s, in the biting animal and begin pre- rabies is a common disease (U,.S Army Photo by M/SGT Gary Beylickjian amoing ventive steps. the animal and human populatio n. 4. Preventive vaccines and anti-. Over a 20-year period, the Tha is serum therapy on persons with At Nutter Field House have suffered an average 265 ree- rabies have been highly developed and are increasingly successful. The astounding fact about rabies, Expo '68 Called U.S. death statistics aside, is that medical science has not been able to find a way to eliminate the disease, Thus rabies is incurable. 'Scouting Showcase' "Medical doctors direct their "Expo '68," the annual "Show- showing the program and skills of treatment not at curing the case of Scouting," will be Saturday, scouting. Colonel Denmark C. Jen- disease," LTC Galbreaith points June 8, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. in sen, "Expo '68" program chair- out, "but at the prevention and Nutter Field House at Ft. Leonard i~;an, described it as, "The hand- building up of an individual's im- Wood, book of scouting laid open for all munity to it." More than 400 Cub Scouts, Boy to see the contents." Consequently, an anti-serum Scouts and Explorers between the "The show gives the boys an from two sources has been devised, ages 6f 8 and 18 from the Big opportunity to show their families, One is from hyper-immunized Piney District, Ozark Council of friends and the public at large horses, and the other is a vaccine the Boy Scouts of America, will what Scouts can do. Participating is obtained from a duck embryo. be participating in the booth-type certainly one of the highlights of a The hyper-immunity serum is show that displays what Scouting Scout's career," given to a patient to create an im- teaches. The Big Piney District, Some of the display themes for mediate anti-body protection which includes scout units from the Cub Scouts are: requirements whereas the duck embryo vaccine Pulaski, Phelps and Texas coun- for Wolf, Bear and Webelos ranks; is given each day for 14 days. ties, is one of four districts in the Boy Scout games, homemade Duck embryo boosters are then Ozark Council. games, arts, crafts and awards, given 20 days after a bite, and 40 Scouts will set up 30 booths fgg~ 4age~i~ days after a bite. The duck embryo MRS. JACELAINE MACY and Second Lieutenant Wayne Clen- is induced to produce an active denin demonstrate swimming technique to the 50 aides train- immunity to the rabies, but it is ing for the Special Troops, Youth Activities summer swim- slower working than the hyper- ming program. (U.S. Army Photo) immunity serum. Each anti-serum is given in the form of a shot, and they total 17 Swim Program Plans Set, in number. Whether the rabies shots are Lessons Begin June 10 More page 2 The Ft. Leonard Wood Youth to noon; June 4, F, G and H, 8 to 9 Activities, formerly Dads' Club, a.m.; I and J, 9 to 10 a.m.; K, 10 and Special Troops will sponsor, to 11 a.m.; L, 11 a.m. to noon: June For The Record in connection with the American 5, 8 to 9 am,, M; 9 to 10 a.m., N 0; Red Cross, a summer program in and 10 to 11 a.m., P; 11 a.m. It's the little things which de- to swimming. All school age children noon, Q and R; June 6, 8 to 9 feat you; the big ones are easy a.m., between the ages of 6 and 18 S; 9 to 10 a.m., T; 10 to 11 to spot. We skipped GUIDON a.m., whose fathers are members of U, V and W; 11 a.m. tonoon, Volume 2, Number 45 and made X, Y and Z. the Youth Activities are eligible it number 46 instead. You'd think The program for free lessons. Daily lessons will be staffed by no one would notice, but you'd be dependent begin June 10 at Colyer and Wal- wife volunteers as surprised how many people care swimmer lace swimming pools and will con- aides and by 10 qualified about such things. So, to preserve Red Cross tinue until the middle of August. Water Safety In- our numerophilic readers' sense structors Registration and testing of (WSI). The officer in of order, this issue is Vol. 2, charge DAVID D. McGRAW, civilian personnel officer at Ft. Leonard children has been set from June 3 of the program is Second Number 48. Honest, Lieutenant Wood for the last 17 years, receives the Meritorious Civilian through June 6 at Colyer swimming Wayne Clendenin who Last week's (May 24, 1968) is a qualified Service Award, second highest award available to Army em- pool and will be accomplished WSI and who has edition was number 47, not 48. taught swimming ployees. Presenting the award is Major General George H. aphabetically. Children whose last for two years at May 17 should be renumbered the University Walker, Ft. Wood commanding general. Mr. McGraw, a names begin with A should register of Montana. His 46 and May 10 should be re- veteran of 28 years in federal service, lives in Lebanon. June 3, 8 to 9 a.m,; B, 9 to 10 a.m.; numbered 45. (U.S. Army Photo) C, 10 to 11 am.; D and E, 11 a.m. More page 2 2 Ft. Leonard Wood GUIDON May 31, 1968 Reserve Units Intensify Training To eet aes of Future Assignments With a holiday falling in the first presentations, according to Major Holmes explained that to accele- week of an already intensified Alvina Ivey, training officer and rate the transition, sections of training program, members of Ft. chief nurse. the 259th are working directly Leonard Wood's two newly Next week, says MAJ Ivey, the with comparable sections of an mobilized Reserve units are having 311th will concentrate more on established unit, in this case the to "really pour it on." field activity-bivouac, erecting 158th Quartermaster Company Troops of the 311th Medical tent facilities "and all the other (Petroleum Depot), a unit of the Hospital (Field) will have an extra jobs that go with simulating actual 5th Combat Engineer Battalion, training session on Saturday in combat conditions." post sponsor for the mobilized lieu of classes missed this week The 259th Quartermaster Bat- 259th. on Thursday, Memorial Day. talion, prior to February of this "We're having to go all out," year, has been an infantry outfit Holmes. "Five of our top In the 259th Quartermaster Bat- says CPT PRIOR TO THEIR fly-up and bridging ceremony, Girl Scouts for more than 10 years. "So you Lieutenant Col- talion (Petroleum) additional time officers including and Brownies from all the troops on post participate in a flag can see," says Captain Brent onel Charles Bitter, commander, is being allotted at the end of the ceremony, May 24 at Gammon Field. (U.S. Army Photo) official training period to make up Holmes, battalion adjutant, "we're are attending quartermaster re- for holidays. going to really have to double up fresher courses at Ft. Lee, Va." Formal training for both units This week in the 311th, training Citing examples of the training began Monday, following a week has been confined to basic in- process, the adjutant explained that the lab section of the 259th Dads' Club Becomes of orientation. The organizations doctrination, troop orientation, arrived here May 20. maintenance and care of weapons is working with the lab section of The 311th Hospital has set up and equipment, unpacking, and the 158th; the operations section operations and the Reservists are listening to lectures and film is learning from the operations New Organization now paced to "work hard to meet on our training program." people of the 158th, and so on with time these form- other sections until members of the dates of future assignments," Within a limited Special Services has assumed "Dependent Youth Activities" and must be qualified the 259th are qualified in their says Major Homer Bailey, com- er infantrymen direction of all dependent youth it will be the eighth division of are im- people.