Counties Eligible For GI Loans Without WHMCP Approval
Mercer and McDowell counties join 16 West Virginia counties designated eligible for direct GI home loans without referral. Veterans may apply directly to the VA in a non referral basis, with other counties recently added. Officials warn funding for Korean Bonus Bonds may lag if bond markets stay weak.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W. VA
Mercer
McDowell
West Virginia
Kanawha County
Boone
Cabell
Fayette
Kanawa
Lincoln
Logan
Mingo
West Inia
Samae
Jackson's Mill
John Holden
Amvets National Service
Sartence Aoe
Ae. Ng Indict
MBA
John Austin
Washington
Louis Johnson
State Veterans Council
Fdito Daily Telegraph
Birefield
Armed Services
Telegraph Commercial Printing Company
Utah Guardsman Jump School Advances Training Standard
Fort Campbell Kentucky reports Major General Maxwell E. Rich the Utah Adjutant General completed basic airborne training with the 101st Airborne Division to set a model for his state National Guard. He plans to send top OCS students to the Screaming Eagle school for a three week active duty stint to build a combat ready force.
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Fort Campbell
Maxwell EB. Rich
Utah
101St Airborne Division
Rich
Utah National Guard
National Guard
servicemen updates from bluefield area service members
Capt Thomas G Honaker Jr begins a short Army active duty tour June 2 at Fort Meade Md for Adjutant General's Section training. Andrew L Songer USN returns to Norfolk aboard USS Pocono during Caribbean inspection cruise visiting Havana Guantanamo Bay and several Caribbean ports. Col L A Jackson Jr and Col Cecil Bishop participated in NATO Operation Green Pivot aboard USS Des Moines near Marseille. James T Gunnoe Jr graduates Radio Man School August 30 at Bainbridge Md. Thomas J Christian Billy A Gibson and Clarence M Fink Jr undergo precommissioning for USS Ranger CVA 41. Donald B Waldron promoted to Marine first lieutenant April 19 at Quantico.
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Thomas G. Honaker Jr
Rockbridge Street
Army
Army Reserve Adjutant General Corps
Second U.S. Army
Ft. George G. Meade
Adjutant General's
Tuna 14 Gant Hanalor
Andrew L. Songer
USN
Amanda E. Songer
Pembroke
Friddie M. Williams
Norfolk
Pocono
Atlantic Amphibious Force
L. 8. Rabin
Caribbean
Havana
Guantanamo Bay
Cuidad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Montego Bay
Jamaica
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Vieques
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Panama
Colon
Thomas J. Christian
Airman
Keyser Christian
Amonate
Billy A. Gibson
Coomnae
Lonnie Gibson
Bandy
Clarence M. Fink Jr
Clarence Fink
Jefferson St
Princeton
Marine flyer Waldron enters service and trains at VPI
1st Lt Waldron began boot in February 1956 then attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Marine MSgt Woodrow W. Niswander, son of Thomas A Niswander of Route 3 Bluefield and husband of Mildred Tater of Bramwell, serves with Marine Fighter Squadron 311 of Marine Aircraft Group 33 at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station Santa Ana.
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Fore
Lt. Waldron
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Woodrow W. Niswander
Thomas A. Niswander
Route 3
Bluefield
Mildred Tater
Bramwell
Marine Fighter Squadron 311
Marine Aircraft Group 33
el Tor Marine Corps Air Station
Santa Ana
Trooper owes life to alert railroad worker
In Augsburg Germany Specialist Richard T Boyle of the Eleventh Airborne Division survived a risky routine training jump after his parachute tangled near electric railway wires. A German railway employee Nikolaus Gall cut power to the line seconds before Boyle reached the danger zone and alerted a town to stop a fast passenger train, delaying four other trains by 48 minutes.
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Augsburg
Germany
Richard T Boyle
Nikolaus Gall
Boyle
Everett
Masa
Flying Sergeant Ends Duty Tour
MOBILE Alabama Air Force retires the last flying sergeant ending an era. M S George Holmes 59 years old with over 9000 flight hours departs Brookley AFB after a 40 year career spanning Navy Army Air Force and Air Force service. He plans to fish and reminisce in Tampa Florida with his wife.
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Mobile
Ala
Air Force
M. S
George Holmes
Brie
Laurence B. Kelley
Brookley Air Force Base
Holmes
Navy
Army Signal Corps
Eddie Rickenbacker
Kelley Field
Texas
War Department
Air Reserve
Brookley
Tampa
Fla
Odd Assignments Refall Soldiers
Soldiers at Fort Huachuca undertake unusual tasks when line duty calls. An Army plane and helicopter from the Electronic Proving Ground over a Mexican lagoon noted for gray whales conducted heartbeat experiments for Dr Paul Dudley White. Darts into the 60 foot mammals transmitted data to a shore station then to a yacht for recording.
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Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Electronic Proving Ground
Mexico
Paul Dudley White
Eisenhower
Lower
California
Pudding Proof for Army Helmet Design Wins Directors' Award
Private First Class Allen W Mills receives the Directors Award at Natick for solving a vital helmet modification for tank crewmen. His design reduces noise while preserving ballistic protection, aiding the Army’s Scientific and Professional Program during the Natick Laboratory project. Mills, born in Canada, pursued Harvard studies in Experimental Psychology and Human Hearing.
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Natick
Mass
Army
Army Quartermaster Research and Engineering Center
Allen W. Mills
Mills
Canada
Fort Dix
N. J
Harvard University
Graduate School
Taft University
Institute of Applied Experimental Psychology
Natick Laboratory
Congress seeks changes to Status of Forces pacts abroad
Congress presses to modify Status of Forces agreements after Formosa riots and crimes by U S servicemen overseas. Rep Bow leads push with support from Rep Rivers as defenders warn foreign courts imprison servicemen while Pentagon notes most host countries waive jurisdiction. Only 108 prison sentences in three years under the pacts and 88 servicemen in foreign prisons as debate continues.
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Washington
Nana
Formosa
U. S
Frank T. Bow
Ohio
Bow
L. Mendes Rivers
D-S. C
Saale
Asia
Robert R. Reynolds
Pentagon
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
William
Girard
Japan
Car Adm
Miles H. Hubbard
U.S. Operathos
Far East
Defense Department
Admiral Hubbard
Rep
Rivers
D-S.c
America
Rep. Bow
U.S
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Asco
Des Moines
Mediterranean
USS, Sixth Fleet
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France
James T. Gunnoe Jr
James T. Gunnoe
Radioman School
Naval Training Center
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Donald B. Waldron
Carl C. Waldron
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