Cedar Rapids servicemen win education and schooling honors
The Cedar Rapids area announces multiple honors for servicemen including Kenneth Johnson who will pursue a four year chemistry course after Navy basic science training. Command and General Staff College graduates Major James J. Cobb and Major Hobart E. Dewey join others in this recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Command and General Staff College
Servian
Anla
Sualvaio
Kenneth Johnson
Charles K. Johnson
Nilsen
Roosevelt High School
Coe College
University of Iowa
Navy
Submarine Service
New London
Conn
Bainbridge
University of Colorado
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
James J. Cobb
Elliott A. Cobb
Country Club Parkway
Hobart E. Dewey
Hobart M. Dewey
Cave
Army
Air Force
John F. Currell
John R. Currell
Daniels St. NE
Fort Benning
Currell
Mary
Columbus
Bootlegger Plays Into Law s Hands
TAVARES Florida UPI police raided the home of Nathaniel Lee a bootlegging suspect who fled to a knothole in the floor pouring out illicit whisky. Deputy James L Yates had hidden under the house and obtained evidence including a wash tub under the knothole Lee is charged with possession of illicit whisky based on this stakeout evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tavares
Fla
UPI
Nathaniel Lee
James L. Yates
Lee
Yates
Porch Rail Collapses Kill Mother in Portland Apt
Irene House 31, a mother of four, routinely hung rugs on a sun porch railing in a 2nd floor duplex. The railing gave way as she draped a rug, and she fell 18 feet onto a metal pipe, dying shortly after at the hospital. Police took custody of her children ages 6 months to 7 years until their father returns from berry fields in western Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Irene House
Berry Fields
Oregon
Army Insignia Changes Clarify New Noncommissioned Grades
The Army introduces new pay grades for noncommissioned officers with Sergeant Major at 9th grade and First Sergeant at 8th grade. Master Sergeant remains. Sergeant First Class, Staff Sergeant, and Sergeant have updated titles or stripe sets. Specialist ranks show a reduced stripe count by grade, down to Specialist Fourth Class. Corporal and lower ranks stay unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARMY
Progressive patient care tested at Manchester hospital
A new hospital plan called progressive patient care splits care into intensive, intermediate, and self help zones. At Manchester Memorial Hospital the intensive unit charges about $22 a day, intermediate about $18, and self-help around $11, with patients moved as they improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Memorial Hospital
Manchester
Conn
U. S. Public Health Service
Edward J. Thoms
Manchester Hospital
Howard J. Lockward
Lane Giddings
Thoms
Manure
Shoplifter Requests Prison Term in Self Improvement Plea
DETROIT AP Joseph W. Bobo 22 pleaded guilty to shoplifting and asked the court to sentence him to prison. He sought 15 months to 4 years saying he wanted to pull himself together and get religion, believing prison might do him some good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Joseph W. Bobo
Bobo
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The
GI. Gazette
Bruce Fishwild
Sandra Sue Lowell
I. A. Lowell
Wildwood Dr
Naval Training Center
Miss Lowell
Blues
Pfe
Richard W. Arnold
Lucile M. Arnold
Seventeenth St. NE
Marine Corps
Leatherneck Magazine
Recruit Training Command
Arnold
Pfc. Arnold
Marvin H. Lamb
Air Proving Ground
Eglin Air Force Base
401St Fighter Wing
England Air Force Base
Lamb
Air Force Release
Robert J. Schriever
George M. Schriever
Fifth Ave. SE
Third Armored Division
Graf
Enwehr
Germany
Europe
McKinley High School
Pic
Duane W. Kopecky
Wesley J. Kopecky
Hayes St
Eighth Infantry Division
Baumholder
Dexheim
Wilson High School
Jack G. Johnson
Paul E. Johnson
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
Oak Harbor
Wash
Gilbert L. Henley
H. A. Henley
First St. NW
Princeton
Long Beach
Diana C. Dominik
John J. Dominik
Kencrest Dr
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Franklin High School
Florence van Dee
Margaret van Dee
Quantico
Ronald Church
Clark J. Church
Eave
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Calif
Aviation
Jacksonville
Corps
Pie
Carl J. Gibbs
C. A. Gibbs
Nineteenth Ave
St. Patrick’s High School
Bud Roger Beltz
James B. Beltz
Hiawatha
Washington High School
William L. Dytrt
Leone Dytrt
Second St. SW
Webb Air Force Base
Texas
Donald A. Thomas
Alma A. Thomas
A Ave
Leyti
North Atlantic
Iowa State College
Cobb
Law
Alton L. Blakeslee
AP Science Reporter
Public Health Service
Merveaux Typewriter Exchange
Third Ave
Dial EM
John Monaghan
M.N.B
Merchants Bk
Lowe
OUR
Johansen
Ars
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