Local and Area Service Members Receive Awards and Assignments
Fort Gordon certificate honors Homer Lee Parker for meritorious service in the Military Police School library for 1962 63. Army Pvt Mathew T. Wuchevich and Kermit Stacy complete eight weeks of combat techniques with M 14 and M 60 at the Army Training Center. Sgt Robert F. Alford assigned to 58th Air Rescue Squadron in Libya. Private Luther M. Young participates in armor conference parade at Fort Hood. Airman Samuel V. Clay to Amarillo for aircraft maintenance training. Captain William A. Carter receives German assignment with the 4th Armored Division. Sgt Randall Poole reassigned to Vietnam after air traffic control training. MP Training Pvt George S. Prillaman completes eight weeks at Fort Gordon. Sgt James H. Hamer participates in Exercise Counter Blow with the 51st Signal Battalion. Pvt Rodney D. Staton to complete cannon crew training at Artillery and Missile Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Gordon
Army
Mathew T. Wuchevich
Irene Wuchevich
Buckley
Kermit Stacy
William Stacy
Hanover
U. S. Army Training Center
Wuchevich
Fort Knox
Glen Rogers High School
Stacy
Baileysville High School
George S. Prillaman
George P. Prillman
Alpoce
Prillman
Prillaman
Herndon High School
Marco Plastics
Baltimore
Korea
James H. Hamer
Monika
Joseph Hamer
Keystone
51St Signal Battalion
Hamer
Local Soldier Re-enlists After Army Service
GERMANY PFC Willis R Stone son of Mr and Mrs Ellis R Stone Mullens re enlists for three years in the Regular Army while serving as rotary wing mechanic in Company B 8th Infantry Division 8th Aviation Battalion. He entered in May 1960 stationed at Fort Belvoir Va before going overseas in July 1961. He is a 1960 Mullens High School graduate. Mediterranean Charles W Gordon hospital corpsman first class USN son of Mr and Mrs Robert H Gordon Wide mouth participated in US French exercise in the Mediterranean aboard the tanker Nespelon dubbed Fair Game with sixty ships in a mock Corsican attack. Bronstein Sam R Mayhan radioman second class USN son of Mr and Mrs John D Mayhan 613 Powell St will serve aboard the destroyer escort Bronstein first of the Navy s new class and currently under construction at Avondale Shipyards Westwego La to be commissioned in Charleston S C and assigned to the Pacific Fleet with San Diego Calif as base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Hood
Tex
Luther M. Young
Reese M. Young
Laeger
1St Armored
North Tazewell
Army
Germany
Willis R. Stone
Ellis R. Stone
Mullens
8Th Infantry Division
Stone
Fort Belvier
Mullens High School
Mediterranean
Charles W. Gordon
USN
Robert H. Gordon
Widemouth
Nespelen
Corsica
Uss Bronstein
Sam R. Mayhan
John D. Mayhan
Powell St
Bronstein
Navy
Avondale Shipyards, Inc
Westwego
Charleston
S. C
San Diego
Calif
Search For Plane Fruitless In Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol searched Meigs County and Amesville area for a missing single engine plane from Florida to Alliance Ohio. No trace found despite reports of engine sounds Monday night. The aircraft carried Ernest Pelizzari of Sebring and passenger Edward Beltrami of Alliance. search focused in West Virginia after last contact with Charleston airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens, Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol
Meigs County
Amesville
Athens County
Florida
Alliance
Ohio
Ernest Pelizzari
Sebring
Edward Beltrami
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Baccalaureate and Commencement Plans For Park Central High
Park Central High School schedules a Baccalaureate service today at 11 a.m. at Scott Street Baptist Church with Rev. J Matthew Coleman delivering the address What Shall I Do With My Life The Park Central Glee Club will provide music under director Mrs Olivia Hill Cannady Commencement follows Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium with address by C R Gilbert Bluefield State College chair of natural sciences Top honors include valedictorian Elliece Victoria Saundle and salutatorian Doris Thelma Trigg plus several honor students and a long list of graduates bearing names such as Brenda Mae Alexander Glenda Amaker Stella Anthony and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Central High School
Scott Street Baptist Church
W. V. Chappell
J. Matthew Coleman
Park Central Glee Club
Olivia Hill Cannady
C. R. Gilbert
Division of Natural Sciences
Bluefield State College
Elliece
Victoria Saundle
Joseph S. Saundle
Bluefield
Doris Thelma Trigg
Sidney Lee
Phyllis Linia Gibson
Madeline LaVerne
Giant Victoria regia Lily Sets Remarkable Size Records
The leaves of the Victoria regia water lily reach about seven feet in diameter and can support a child. Its night blooming flowers measure 6 to 18 inches, opening white then pink, and turning deep rose on the second night.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Homer Lee Parker
J. B. Parker
Giotto
Military Police School Library
Robert E. Sullivan
Military Police School
Parker
Verdun
France
Japan
North Africa
Robert F. Alford
C. W. Alford
Athens Star
Princeton
58Th
Wheelus Air Force Base
Libya
Princeton High
Air Force
Sarah Jane Baker
Alford
Kathy
Janet
Barbara
Amarillo
Lackland Afb
Samuel V. Clay
Paul A. Clay
Alderson
Amarillo Afb
United States Air Force
William A. Carter
Maine
4Th Armored Division
46Th
VPI
Weitnam
Keeler Afb
Miss
Randall Poole
Hialeah
Fla
Poole
E. Poole
Montcalm
Montcalm High School
Carole
Fred Benditt
Palm Ave
Guyan Cannoneer
Fort Sill
Rodney D. Staton
Garland Staton
Guyan
Artillery and Missile Center
Staton
Ziczec
Singer Sewing Center
Jer
Singer Sewing Machine CO
Princeton Ave
Bird
McDowell St
Welch
Singer Mfg. CO
Art Carney
Gerald Q. Wert
Whis-Tv
Dacron
Jamaicas
Elliece V. Saundle
Park Central
Nolly
Thelma Lorraine Thompson
Anna Esther Neal
Carolyne Anne Norman
William Saunders Moon
Myra Cornelia Kittrell
Gwendolyn Ann Ealy
Brenda Mae Alexander
Glenda Darnell Amaker
Stella Violet Anthony
Timothy Lawrence Anthony
Priscilla Marie Bandy
Dennis Raymond Blake
Robert Walton Blair
William Osborne Brame
Deborah Gene Brown
John Henry Brown
Lillian Virginia Cawthorne
Garfield Nathaniel Chambers
Toni Lovell Clark
Paralee
Gloria Crouthers
Andrew Lee Dodson
Trudy Lee Gatewood
Mary _ Angerline George
Robert Jacob Green Jr
Shirley Theresa Hamlin
Edward Hargro Jr
Wanda Lee Harris
Olivia Elizabeth Hicks
Darla Jean Jenkins
Oliver Devonne Johnson
Harry Justice
Ira
Diane Lanier
Sandra Lanier
Ronald James Meadows
Princess Ann Owens
Randolph Vernon Parham
Leonard Morris Richardson
Harold Christopher Carol Kay Rozzel
Carl Edward Scott
Jesse Simmons Jr
Roland Caston Sims
Thomas Thornton Street
Etta Mae Thomas
William Colvin Thomas
Charles Thomas Thompson
Marquinta Mae Wade
Brenda Annette Williams
Delores Younger
Fincastle Country Club
Sisson
Alachian Reddy Yeilowatt
Appalachian Power Company
AEP
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