Area Men and Women in Nations Armed Service
A compilation of service updates lists Kenneth R. Jones stationed at Keesler AFB Mississippi after training in New York. Others include Sgt. William Gartlan returning from Korea and awaiting assignment at Ft. Knox, plus Cpl. Gartlan ill in Beckley veterans hospital. The report notes Ron Ratliff in Korea with the Seventh Infantry Division and Herbert Tucker graduating at Brooke Army Medical Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Nations Armed Service
William L. Gartlan
B. F. Gartlan
Box 44
Samar
Korea
27Th Infantry
Army
Ft. Knox
Cpl
Robert F. Gartlan
Veteran’s Hospital
Beckley
Gartlan
Pvt
Herbert Tucker
Mrs. H. Tucker
Greenbrier Street
Bluefield
Medical Replacement Training Center
Brooke Army Medical Center
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Servicemen Echoes From World War II to Korean Conflicts
Pfc Samuel R Crockett son of Mr and Mrs Sam Crockett Blackey Va attends Northwestern State College Natchitoches La as part of Air Force training Enlisted in March trained at Lackland AFB San Antonio He was a teacher in Buchanan County schools before enlistment. Also listed are Hugh A McCulloch carrier master second class USN serving aboard USS Shenandoah Preston D Hill boatswain's mate second class USN son of Mrs Leola M Hill and husband of Mrs May Belle Hill Welch W Va returned to the United States aboard USS Manchester Corporal Troy Jenkins Seventh Division Artillery in Korea helped stem the Communist spring offensive His unit recently sent its 335000th round of the Korean campaign Calvin W Woollums Lt USN Pearisburg Va returned from Caribbean cruise aboard USS Tarawa
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
William B. Cupp
USN
Luther J. Cupp
Narrows
United States
Manchester
H. Neal Troy
Ft. George G. Meade
Young Troy
John N. Troy
Welch
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
VPI
Sigma Gamma Epsilon
Keramos
Keramos Fraternities
American Ceramic Society
The
Glee Club
Black Diamond Club
University Club
Samuel R. Crockett
Sam Crockett
Blackey
Northwestern State College
Natchitoches
Pfc. Crockett
Air Force
Lackland A.F.B
San Antonio
Tex
Buchanan County
Preston D. Hill
Leola M. Hill
May Belle Hill
Bluefield
W. Va
Troy Jenkins
7Th Inf. Div
U. S. Army
Carl Jenkins
Lashmeet
West Virginia
Seventh Division
Jenkins
Charleston shoe store owner dies by self inflected hanging
Charleston coroner Goff P. Lilly announced that Melvin Howard May age 41, owner of a Charleston shoe store, killed himself by hanging. The death occurred exactly three months after his father Phil M. May, founder and co owner of the store, died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Goff P. Lilly
Melvin Howard May
Phil M. May
Charleston Radio Man Heads to Cincinnati in Major Move
Bob Provence program and sports director at KWNA Charleston resigns effective July 6 to join WLW and WLW-TV in Cincinnati. He has been with WKNA since January 1947 and served as program director for over two years and as public relations director of the Refining company in 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Bob Provence
KWNA
WLW
Wlw-Tv
Cincinnati
Provence
WKNA
Refining Company
Former Miss America Seeks Kentucky House Seat
Former Miss America Venus Ramey Murphy announces entry into politics filing for the Kentucky house of representatives from Lincoln county. The Ashland native, 26, is wife of a Stanford automobile dealer and mother of two, with farm operations near Stanford and Harrodsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford
Joseph Murphy, Jr
Venus Ramey
Ashland
Kentucky House of Representatives
Lincoln County
Harrodsburg
Here
Billy Sunday Club Schedules Week of Meetings in Virginia
The Billy Sunday club sets a full slate of prayer and evangelistic meetings across Bluefield Princeton and Falls Mill areas in Virginia and West Virginia. Activities include morning and afternoon services at Bandy Baptist church and nightly prayer meetings at Union Mission Chapel and other venues with multiple hosts. The week culminates with the annual appointment at Rockford Church near Radford on Sunday July 1. The note about El Salvador’s population being 90 percent Latino appears as a separate fact in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sunday Club
Bandy Baptist Church
Bandy
Bluefield
Union Mission Chapel
Princeton Ave
Lee St
Monroe Dodson
Gu. Peraldo
Brush Fork Road
Falls Mill
Roy Lacy
Cumberland Road
W. Va
Greever Ave
Rockford Church
Radford
Virginia
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Kenneth R. Jones
Raymond S. Jones
Tazewell
Sampson A. F. B
Geneva
N. Y
Keesler A. F. B
Biloxi
Miss
Ron K. Ratliff
7Th Inf
John H. Ratliff
Grundy
Ratliff
7Th Division
Grundy High School
Coy
R. Taylor
Portsmouth
Goodwill
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Montcalm
Algoma Coal Co
Algoma
Loretta Mildred Davis
Rock
Willard L. Fannins
Box
Bland
U. S. Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Fannins
Navy
David L. Ensley
Inf
Frankfurt
Germany
Henry Ensley
Norfolk Street
4Th Inf
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ensley
Carl W. Vawter
N. C. Vawter
Bramwell Rd
J. G. Vawter
Tokyo
Japan
Harold C. Martin
Lonnie and
Lula Martin
RFC
Martin
Edgar Russell, JR
Bramwell
Nellie Russell Lamey
56Th Supply Squadron
Selfridgefield
Mich
Charles E. Baker
Peter Donaghue
P. Donaghue
Vale Avenue
Princeton
Victor F. Mullins
Box 155
Vansant Va
U. S
Tarawa
Tom E. Grahovac
Mary Grahovac
Gary
Des Moines
Riviera
William K. Hale, JR
Giotto
New Jersey
James R. Sanderson
Sinclair Street
Pocahontas
Joseph I, Brown
Inf. Div
Joseph I. Brown
Mary Brown
Coal Dale
32Nd
Queen’s Own” Infantry
Brown
Dudley D. Compton
Okey
D. Compton
Center St
Monterey
Pensacola
Fla
Great Lakes
Ill
Young Compton
K. L. Nutting
Compton
Donald Hall
Pickett
Thorp
West Va
First Cavalry Division
Luther Hall
Emmet M. Frazier
Emmett M. Prazier
Bland Ra Ashe Leh Ae Ako
Aluffield
Sica
Emmett Blevens Co
Americas
Brook
Louisville
Cen
Cadillac
Southside Motors, Inc
DIAL
Bluefield, W, VA
Bland Street
Hugh A. McCulloch
U. S. Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Cartermaster
Elkhorn Street
Calvin W. Woollums
Pearlsburg
David Lawrence
Congress
Senate
Drew Pearson
Agriculture Department
Brannan
Iowa
Holland
Cincy
Miss America Seeks
Kentucky
Billy
el Salvadore
Trafton-Chalfonte
16Th St
Virginia Beach
Lucy F. Trafton
Oweer
New Graham Pharmacy
Virginia Ave
Bluefield, VA
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Bluefield, W. VA
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