Sul Ross Band Prepares For Marching Year
Sul Ross Lobo Band unveils plans for marching season with many freshmen, training started Sept. 7, organizational meeting Sept. 15. Officers: President Carroll Schoenewolf, VP Kenneth Kreps, secretary Mary Jo Watkins, treasurer Gene Adams, reporter, Delmer Hiller. Major Delmer Hiller from Lakeview High School leads as drum major. Carroll Schoenewelt, Kerrville, assistant drum major. New and returning majorettes include Mary Jo Watkins, Alpine. Marie Swifford, Uvalde. Janice Parker. Monette Schneer. Bill Stephens.
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Gene Adams
Sul Ross Lobo Band
Lobo
Carroll Schoenewolf
Kenneth Kreps
Mary Jo Watkins
Delmer Hiller
Kerrville
Carroll
Shane
Alpine
Marie Swifford
Uvalde
Janice Parker
Rum
Monette Schneer
Bill Stephens
Wake Island Ferryed by War and Sights of Bomb Craters
Captain Marion Hopson, stationed in Honolulu, writes of five days at Wake Island during a stopover en route to Tokyo. He details bunkers, torpedoes, armored walls, and underground rooms holding remains of Japanese troops, noting water-filled craters, bomb damage, and a grim underground complex with twenty one skeletons.
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Marion
Monk) Hopson
M. L. Hopson
Alpine
Honolulu
Tokyo
Kicham Field
Wake Island
Air Force
Wake
Pacific
Atoll
Col. Devereaux
Nowher
Private Valadez Completes Training in Pacific Tour
Veteran memoir notes days on Wake Island and nearby atoll fortifications. Describes a twenty foot sea wall, reinforced concrete emplacements, and machine gun nests built to resist invasion. Recounts digging near an abandoned Suva Maru wreck, finding a burned ammunition dump, and collecting shell cases. Enduring mines and cautions on limited movement before a nine day voyage toward Tokyo.
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Wake
Tattoo
Wren
Tokyo
Army Reservists Train Across 18 Camps in 1955
About 5,000 U S Army reservists from Texas take part in annual unit training at 18 camps across the five-state 4th Army area in 1955. More than 90 percent of bulbs for U S electric lights are produced by 14 blow-bulb machines at 1,800 per minute. Eyes used for sight saving operations must be removed within three hours after death, and the operation usually must occur within 24 hours.
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United States Army
Texas
4Th
U. S
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