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BASTROP ADVERTISER, JULY 20, 1944
MOUNTAIN TRAINED SOLDIERS OF
10TH DIVISION DESCEND ON TEXAS
CAMP SWIFT, TEXAS, July 10
—Those shoulder patches with a pair
of red bayonets crossed on a field of
blue that are appearing: these days
in the cities and towns around Camp
Swift identify the members of the
10th Infantry Division, who recent-
ly moved into Camp Swift and about
whom you'll be hearing plenty before
this was is over.
The crossed bayonets on their
shoulders are not the only distingu-
ishing features of the*e newcomers.
They are inclined to stare in amaze-
ment at the vast flat Texas land-
scape and distant horizons, and they
have a tendency to remove their hats
and mop their brows more frequent-
ly than is normal even for visitors
from the north. For the 10th Divis-
ion come to Camp Swift directly
from Camp Hale, Uncle Sam's two-
mile-high mountain training camp in
the Colorado Rockies, where the
breezes are not so balmy and the ter-
rain is so steep that the soldiers count
off from bottom to top instead of
from right to left.
Under their Division commander,
Maj. Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, the men
of the 10th. most of them skiers and
climbers who volunteered to receive
their training in the mountains, have
trained for many months in the gruel-
ing and specialized taslcs of moun-
tain and winter warfare. Even with-
out a pack, it's no cinch to hike and
climb in the rarefied air of the Rock-
ies' timberline regions, but the moun-
tain fighter has to do it the hard
way—carrying a rucksack that's just
about twice as heavy as the standard
flat-land infantry pack.
The rucksack—and the amazing
quantities of paraphernalia that are
carried in it—sum up the rigors of
mountain training better fhan a de-
tailed listing of the activities on the
training schedule. Most important
single piece of equipment is the ruck-
sack—and the last thing a mountain-
trained G. I. would part with outside
of his rifle—is his sleeping bag. Un-
like the flatland soldier of moderate
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VOTE FOR
W. T. McDONALD
OF BRYAN, BRAZOS COUNTY, FOR
STATE SENATOR
1. He's well trained - - -graduate of Texas A. & M. Col-
lege.
2. One of Bryan's leading attorr *ys - - - actively engaged
in the practice of law for a living.
3. Experienced - - - been a member of the House of Re-
presentatives from Brazos and Grimes counties for seven
years.
4. His Legislative Record speaks the Will of the People
of His District. He has never let them down.
COMPARE McDONALD'S RECORD WITH YORK'S
FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS
1. The Road Bond Act—W. T. FvicDonald voted to con-
tinue giving the counties the money that they had been re-
ceiving. see his votes on p. 1698 and 1699, House Journal
of the 47th Leg. 1941. Senator J. Alton York voted
against continuing aid to the six counties in this Senatorial
District after the commissioners courts in every county in. his
district petitioned him not to do so. He took the money
away from the counties and gave it to the State Highway
Department. See his votes on pp. 1 164, I I 66 of the Senate
Journa 1 of the 47th Leg., 1941.
2. The Loan Shark Injunction Bill—This law keeps the
poor borrower from having to pay illegal interest. W. 1 .
McDonald voted for the bill. See his vote in the House
Journal, p. 1670. 48th Leg. 1943. Only four members of
the Texas State Senate voted against this bill. SENA I OR
YORK WAS ONE OF THEM. See his vote on p. 546 of
the Senate Journal, 48th Leg. 1943.
A SELF-MADE MAN WHO DESERVES THE PROMOTION
HE WILL SERVE US WELL
(NOTE: Any interested person may see the above records now on
file at the State Library, Capitol Hldg., Austin. Texas, at th<- Library,
A. and M. College of Texas, College Station. Texas.)
(POLITICAL ADVERTISING )
climes, the mountain soldier cannot
just roll up in a raincoat and go to
£leep. Summer or winter, it's cold
in the hills, and above timber l:ne
it's likely to be below zero. For
winter operations there's another
sleeping bag that's designed to en-
velope the first one. Those two bags
take up a lot of room, and they
weigh a bit, too. but they're essential.
Then there's the mountain tent—a
little two-man job of weather-proof
nylon, with a built-in floor. Like
most of the soldier's mountain cloth-
ing and equipment, it is reversible
—white and forest green—for cam-
ouflage above and below timber line.
To prevent frostbite, changes of wool
underwear, gloves, and socks must be
carried.
Since transport is difficult in
mountainous terrain, and since the
men usually operate in small, inde-
pendent groups, they carry their own
rations and prepare them on small
gasoline- or kerosene-burning moun-
tain stoves.
Despite the widespread misconcep-
tion spread by the "ski-trooper"
label hung on them by the public,
soldiers in the mountains don't al-
ways operate in snow, but when they
do they have the additional burden
of snowshoes or skis and poles. These,
like all the aforementioned pieces of
equipment, are toted in addition to
the standard G. I. items: mess gear,
bayonet, intrenching tool, canteen,
first aid pouch, toilet articles, wea-
pon, and ammunition. And all this
at altitudes where Air Force regula-
tions call for pilots to turn on their
oxygen!
During a three-week 10th Division
mountain operation last winter a
story appeared in Colorado papers
about a pilot who was bringing his i
bomber into the field at Pueblo Air
Base after dark. Turning on his
transmitter, he intoned, "Number 15
to Pueblo. Number 15 to Pueblo.
Coming in at 8,000 feet. Coming in
at 8,000 feet. Gliding. Gliding.
Over."
He flipped the switch to receive,
but instead of the dispatcher he pick-
ed up a tired and slightly bored voice
with a New England twang imitating
: his intonations as follows:
"Sugarloaf Mountain patrol to
| 10th Division headquarters. Sugar-
loaf Mountain patrol to 10th Divis-
) ion headquarters. Coming in at 12,-
000 feet. Coming in at 12,000 feet.
Walking. Walking. Roger."
Mountain training does more than
make soldiers tough, Col. Robinson
E. Duff, General Jones's assistant
Division commander, will tell yoa
when you ask him about the kind of
men he has under him in the 10th.
It builds character as no other kind
of training does.
"The hardy young soldiers of the
10th are the kind who deliver in the
pinches," says Colonel Duff, "partly
because they are selected material
and partly because their tough and
hazardous training develops the char-
acteristics that will make them come
through when the chips are down—
in peace as well as in war."
BASTROP ADVERTISER
Entered as second class matter at
the Post Office at Bastrop, Texas,
under Act of March 3, 1879.
— Published Every Thursday —
«. E. STANDIFER. PUBLISHER
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VOTE FOR
BUCK TAYLOR
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
Burk Taylor i* u native born Texan, born at Savoy in Fannin County
on December 2Rth, 1885. His father and mother were born and died
there. Hii grandparents all raine o Texas more than one hundred
years ago—from South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee ami Virginia.
Two grandfathers served in the War Between the States, volunteering
from Texas. His father was in the Indian Wars.
Buck Tavlor attended grade school in Savoy, Iionham and Elwood in
Fannin County and at Whitewright in Grayson county—later taking
correspondence courses in Law, Taxation and Civil Government.
Buck Tavlor joined the army through voluntary enlistment n« ■
"buck" private on June 4th, 1917, and was discharged July 11th, 1V19.
Returning to Texas after the war he engaged in the business of han-
dling and growing broomrorn—at one time being the world's largest
grower of that crop.
lie was the owner and developer of Carri/o Park, one of the finest
and most substantial citrus and winter vegetable sections of the nation.
He was the original developer of the Maverick County irrigation
project.
He bei ved four consecutive years n* president of the Carrizo Spring!
Chamber of Commerce and was vice president of the Winter Canlcn
Chamber of Commerce. W as director f< r ninny years of the South
Texas Chamber «>f Commerce and was later assistant general mana-
ger of that institution.
Buck T inlor moved to \ustin in 1937 and has since re. ided in the
Capital • its. reporting the aetixities of tli - I'exa* Icgidutur* to many
papers in T<-.a*. He served as clerk on the committee of Brvcnue
and Taxation during the la-t scm hi and it n.1 in tlii- «e.■.:<> that
the Texas Hon e of Representative* refused fur the fir t time in
over lURTY VI \K'"i to vote am t .\ hurden* on :'i<- peoplr of T. \a«,
N. arlv five vear* a.o he foundrd I!in a i ;i\ lot 1! 111'! ' HI * i I |{,
n political pamphlet of South-wide circulation and is -till publisher
;ind editor of that paper.
During the pa-t two year- he took an a< :ivc in! re-t in the ; a--.ue
« f nnti-viob nt < bill- in several Southern Nate*.
BUCK TAYLOR S PLATFORM
FIRST ... I pledge myself to vote and wcrk for
the enactment of every measure the
ARMED FORCES ask for in order to win
this war and get our beys back home.
SECOND ... I am for legislation by Congress,
plus an amendment to the FEDERAL
CONSTITUTION to stop and prevent
the reckless spending of the taxpayers
money.
THIRD ... I will support and vote for National
legislation to cut out ail useless boards
and bureaus.
FOURTH ... I am for Congressional Legisla-
tion and a Federal Constitutional Amend-
ment to curb the power of LABOR
RACKETEERS, who, with the BU-
REAUCRATS, now control our Govern-
ment.
BUCK TAYLOR APPROVES AND ENDORSES THE RESO-
LUTIONS PASSED BY THE TEXAS STATE CONVENTION
—WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY AS FOLLOWS:
1—Declaring four square for the nation'* complete support
of the armed forces in the victorious prosecution of the
war; condemning strikes by employees or employers that
would slow down war production.
I.)-n<lon Johnson repudiated tbl« plank by bolting Mir rim-
ventlon and Joining the rump session nt Austin on Mot 23rd.
2—Disapproving the growth of bureaucracy and the en-
croachment of the Federal government upon States righti
and loeal self government.
I.yndon Johnson repudiated this plnnk by bolting the con-
tention nnd Joining the rump session nt Austin on May 23rd.
3—Opposing any change in our form of government "l'T
usurpation of power or by means of revolution, even
tliouirh it he a bloodless revolution" (this alluded to ^ 'ce
President Henrv Wallace's definition of a revolution1.
I.yndon Johnson repudiated thU plnnk l y bolting thr con-
vention nnd Joining the rump tension at Austin on Mi y 23rd.
4—Opposed the subsidizing of unemployment com|
tion benefits and anv Federal legislation seeking '<
over anv function of the State.
I.yndon Johnson repudiated this plnnk by boiling thr con-
vention nnd Joining the rump session at Austin on May '-3rd.
len^a-
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Opposed the government's undertaking to regulat'' the
ial relations of the people; condemning the Sup rem®
Court's decision permitting negroes to vote in Democratic
pri maries.
I.yndon Johnson repudiated this plnnk by bolting the r"""
ventlon and Joining the rump session nt Austin on May 2nrd.
6—Advocated restoration of the two-thirds rule in tl" n0in'
ination of presidential candidates.
I.yndon Johnson repudiated tills plnnk by bolting the
ventlon nnd Joining the rump session nt Austin on May 2;!ra.
Polif iml %<1v r ni«l for hv Priefnln
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1944, newspaper, July 20, 1944; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236967/m1/6/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.