Local And Area Armed Service News Summary
A&F James L. Miller 21 of Princeton promoted to Airman First Class on June 1 while assigned to the 3550th Pilot Training Group. Harold Peery serves as signalman first class with USN and participates in Exercise Green Light off California. Millard B. Pennington, an airman, serves aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt with the Sixth Fleet in the Med. Dannie O. Looney, fireman apprentice, serves aboard USS Saratoga undergoing repairs at Norfolk Navy Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moody Afb
James L. Miller
Boyd J. Miller
Princeton
3550Th
Miller
Princeton High School
California
Harold Peery
Ignalman
USN
Dora G. Peery
Jaeger
Coast of
Mediterranean
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sixth Fleet
Millard B. Pennington
Thomas Pennington
Anawalt
Portsmouth
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Saratoga
Dannie 0. Looney
Mary Looney
Grundy
Spiegel Grove Visits Bathurst Gambia On North West African Cruise
The dock landing ship Spiegel Grove visited Bathurst in Gambia from April 31 to May 4 as part of a people to people program to foster ties between Africa and the United States. Sailor Johnny M. Green of Pocahontas Virginia served abroad during the six month cruise. Also noted is recruitment and graduation activity at Navy training centers in Great Lakes Illinois and personnel assigned to carriers with Sixth Fleet deployments in the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Spiegel Grove
Bathurst
Gambia
U. S
Johnny M. Green Chipfitter
USN
Fred M. Green
Pocahontas
Eichmann Trial Costs Israel Over One Million Dollars
Adolf Eichmann, 55, endures nine weeks of testimony on the Nazi murder of six million Jews. The state has used 252 hours of Hebrew and translated testimony, 1,400 documents, and 109 eyewitness accounts. The trial has cost Israel about 1.4 million dollars, with sessions packed as survivors recall their dead. The defense, verdict, and possible appeals stretch into 1961.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gestapo
Israel
Eichmann
Israeli Supreme Court
Hall Appointed Bank Director Hall Appointed Bank Director
Harry H. Hall of Wythe County Virginia head of the insurance department for the Virginia Farm Bureau was named a director of the Bank of Speedwell to fill the vacancy caused by R K Poole s death Hall brings farming and advisory experience and wide community involvement to Speedwell s nine member board Hall is a Rural Retreat native WWII Navy veteran and long time Farm Bureau official with ties to Wytheville Wythe County Chamber of Commerce Rural Retreat Community Fair Association and Grace Lutheran Church He and Mrs Hall reside in Rural Retreat with their two children
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry H. Hall
Wythe County
Virginia Farm Bureau
Bank of Speedwell
Speedwell
R. K. Poole
Wytheville
Charles C. Kencashier
Hall
Virginia
Rural Retreat
Home Farm
Farm Bureau
Smyth, Wythe
Bland
Tazewell
Rural Retreat Community Fair Association
Wytheville - Wythe County
Charles C. Henley
Shirley J. Cox
Phil Harris Turns Chef at Home and Quiet Life in Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD AP Phil Harris now spends more time cooking than drinking and enjoys a paradise life with Alice Faye. He boasts a restaurant-ready kitchen and a golf course home beside Thunderbird Country Club, often hunting with Bing Crosby. Harris credits saving money during Alice’s stardom for their comfortable lifestyle. He recalls staying with NBC after leaving Benny and a long-term contract continues with two years left, reportedly earning around 100000 dollars annually, with occasional TV appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Phil Harris
Phil
Jack Benny
Harvard Medical School
Alice Faye
Alice
Thunderbird Country Club
Bing Crosby
Bing
Santa
NBC
David Sarnoff
Amos ‘N’ Andy
CBS
Gen. Sarnoff
Milton Berle
Harris
Bob Hope
Methodists Plan For Homecoming Sunday
Methodist events center on Greeneville campus with a 10 30 a m worship by Dr Walter A Smith at Asbury Church and a campus picnic area. Holston Methodist Home serves 61 children with boarding care medical dental and casework. Rev C W Dye is administrator. League For Service gathers Monday at 8 p m in the Community Center on Bland Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter A. Smith
Asbury Methodist Church
Greeneville
Holston Methodist Home
It Methodist Church
Tennessee
League For Service
Bland Street
Miss Grace Gage Graduates From Columbia Nursing School
Grace C. Gage of 216 Oakhurst Ave Bluefield graduated with 115 other women from Columbia University Department of Nursing Faculty of Medicine during outdoor ceremonies in the garden at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center New York. She previously attended Stephens College before entering Columbia's School of Nursing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace C. Gage
Oakhurst Ave
Bluefield
Department of Nursing
Faculty of Medicine
Columbia University
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
New York
Tractors for Freedom Team to Cuba Monday
Four technicians are to be sent from Miami to Havana on Monday to negotiate possible exchange of tractors for prisoners held after the April invasion. The effort seeks 3 million dollars to supply 450 general purpose tractors and 3 crawler types with guidance on their use. The team includes engineers from California Michigan State Purdue and a UAW department director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Tractors For Freedom
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Miami
Fla
Havana
Roy Rainer
University of California Agricultural Engineering Department
C. H. Hansen
Michigan State University
J. B. Lihal
Purdue University
A Duane P. Greathouse
UAW
Rev Lowder Receives Doctor of Divinity at Lynchburg College
The Rev. Virgil E. Lowder, executive director of the Council of Churches National Capital Area, was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He is a Lynchburg alum and has studied at Yale Divinity School Union Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago. He previously directed church associations in Houston and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil E. Lowder
Council of Churches National Capital Area
Washington, D. C
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg
Bluefield
Lowder
Yale Divinity School
Union Theological Seminary
University of Chicago
Association of Churches of Greater Houston
Church Federation of Greater Chicago
Health Director To Attend Washington Traffic Safety Workshop
West Virginia Health Director N H Dyer will attend a four day workshop in Washington DC on traffic safety. The program is sponsored by the US Public Health Service and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Dyer notes traffic accidents rank sixth among causes of death in West Virginia and are a major public health concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
N H. Dyer
Washington, D. C
Public Health Service
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Dyer
West Virginia
Mercer Homemakers to tour Woman’s Reformatory at Peace Springs
The Mercer County Homemakers will tour the Women’s Reformatory at Peace Springs on Monday. They will meet at the Trailways Bus Terminal at 1 a.m. Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Womans Reformatory
Peace Springs
Trailways
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