Are going to be chambermaids or soldiers, some of these boys at the Jefferson Barracks CMTC might ask, but they al seem interested as they received their lesson yesterday in the technique of putting the blanket and sheets on a cot.
Ready to register and enter the "processing" series of bath examination and uniformsmeasurements before being sent to company tents, a group of the first arrivals for the C.M.T.C. Camp at Jefferson Barracks is shown with bag and baggage behind the registration tent.
Cadets at the Citizens' Military Training at Jefferson Barracks yesterday, passed in review before Maj. Gen. Frank B. Parker, Commander of the Sixth Corps Area with headquarters in Chicago.
St. Louisans at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks where with boys from other parts of Missouri, Illinios and Arkansas, they will undergo a perios of army life.
Rolling their own (Richard Osborne, 23), and everette Kennett, 21, both of Hornersville, MO., arrived at Jefferson Barracks' C.M.T. camp yesterday and soon mastered the art of puttee rolling.
Music C.M.T.C. dances is provided by the camp's own orchestra, there being available 40 instruments, of which eight or 10 are used for each engagement.
The midtown site for a proposed $6 million state office building is bordered by Grand Boulevard, foreground, Lindell Boulevard, right Olive Street, left and Theresa Street.
Major General Henry Mohr addressing the Memorialization and Dedication service held at the now $3.9 million Army Reserve training center in St. Louis Sunday afternoon
Sherwood Court Apartments, 4501-31 McPherson Ave., which were closed after a tenant-landlord fight in the late 1960s, are being converted from the original 48 units to 66 units.
"Time out is taken by these soldiers from the Air Corps at Jefferson Barracks who were entertained last night by members of the Young People's Club of the Lafayette Park Methodist Church at a garden party at 3509 Lafayette avenue. Sitting on the top step are Private Clifford Niewendorp, Great Falls, Mont., and Julia Beile, 19, 5375 Reber place. On the lower steps (from the left) are Gay Arnoldi, 18, 2228A South Eighteenth street. Private Victor Shafer, Greenton, Neb., and Private Kenneth Whittler, Virden, Ill. On the rail are Katherine Dillon, 20, 4132 Lafayette avenue, and Private Ralph Scheel, Scheffield, Iowa."
"Here is Jefferson Barracks' Christmas tree. The 35-foot evergreen, which contains 125 lights, came from the front yard of Frank Pfeil, a farmer living near Kimmswick, Mo., who presented it to the soldiers as a "national defense contribution." It will be returned to Pfeil, who plans to cut it up and use it for fence posts. The 357th School Squadron is in charge of the tree."