Wallace Riggs Graduates As Ensign From Naval Academy
Wallace Riggs, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wiley of Athens, graduated with a Bachelor of Science and was commissioned Ensign at Annapolis after completing a accelerated three year program. He will join a destroyer and report for active service after a month’s leave. His family and local friends joined in celebrations despite illness keeping them from the ceremonies.
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United States
Naval Academy Academy
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Annapolis
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Meigs
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Athens Road
Is .A
Pomeroy High School
Rio Grande College
Naval
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Roy Biffle
Guy Morris
Carl Sargent
Anna Frances
Shade
Washington, DC
Son & Tour
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Harley Riggs
Medical Corps
St.Louis
Perry Riggs
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
Fort Ord
Calif
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Athens
Middleport
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Seventh Ave
Aleutians
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Minerva Childers
Pearl Reynolds
Leon
Rene Robertson
St. Francis Hospital
Charleston
N.C. Welch
Leland Welch
New Or
Leans
James Weber
Charles McNamee
Glenn
Clara Murray
Holzer Hospital
Howard Byers
Marysville
Edith Schreiner
Eddie Blake
Everett
James Titus
Butland
Ohief Association of
Reis
D. W. van Patten
Ohio Association of Garden Clubs
Dayton
Columbus
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Bedford
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Tuppers Plains
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Albany
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Rio Grande
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Edward French
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Howard Nolan
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A. W.mckay
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Hemlocks Grove
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New Marshfield
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J. B. Ewerifeld
Harry Smith
Dey Hysell
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Diverse Castor Cemetery Visit Lists Dozens of Names
A long roll of visitors and relatives from Point Rock and nearby towns traveled to Castor Cemetery for Decoration Day observances. Names include S D Webb Carol and Victoria Gillogly J A Turner Lida Hunter Albert Romine Edwin Westfall Druzilla Bratton Estella Radekin Laura Pickett and many others from Albany Dexter Pomeroy Huntington and Canal Zone. Also notes the Kenyon Victory launch at Wilmington California Shipbuilding Corp in Wilmington.
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Luther Harvey
Frank
Edwin Westfall
Bidwell
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Laura Pickett
Pomeroy
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Pickett
Reda Harder
Canal Zone
Panama
Emme Harder
Harry Peters
Emmett Harvey
W. M. Morris
Freda Ellen Montgomery
Salem Township
Carrie Ethel Harvey
Hamden
Mire
Luther
Harvey
Druzilla Bratton
Athens
Maggie Gregory
Wesley Gregory
Morris
Estella Radekin
Vanetta Radekin
Hooper Hatchery
Albany
Clarence Brown
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Columbia Chapel
Maule Holcomb
Mattie Morris
Mary Bolen
Children Contribute 100 Million for Arms
The Treasury reports schoolchildren have funded $107,741,730 in military equipment since August 1944. In over 10,000 theaters today is free movie day for War Bond buyers, tied to D Day anniversary in Normandy.
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the Treasury
Normandy
DANGEROUS RAILS ON EARLY TRAINS
Early railways used wooden rails with a thin iron strap on top. Passengers often suffered injuries when straps came loose and pierced through coach floors.
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