Dalton's Billy Cowart Has Long Road From Studentato War Prison
Dalton Georgia tale unfolds of Billy Cowart once a high school student who enlisted in January 1949 and became a prisoner of war in Korea. His letters home reveal homesickness and hope for repatriation while peers and teachers recall a moody, unsettled youth shaped by divorce and neglect.
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James Wilson
Chattanooga
Tenn
William Cowart
Dalton
Billy Cowart
Wilson
Cowart
Bill Cowart
Highway 41
TVA
Billy
Ohio
C. E. Bowen
Dalton High
Moody
Mattie Lee Huff
Army
24Th Infantry
J. F. Calloway, Jr
Chinese People’s Committee For World Peace
Rhoda
Ann Hayes
Estelle
You May Chuckle Admonishes Judge in Courtroom Laughter
In Houston District Judge Ben F Moorhead admonished spectators to keep quiet during a hearing. Flippant answers and questions drew roars of laughter, and the judge urged decorum while allowing a little chuckle.
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Houston
Ben F. Moorhead
New Navy Chief to Take Oath Aboard Carrier
Admiral Arleigh A Burke will be sworn in as the nation s top naval officer aboard the carrier Ticonderoga in Norfolk Virginia on August 17 He succeeds Admiral Robert Carney and the oath aims to highlight the close link between the Chief of Naval Operations and operating forces of the Navy.
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Navy
Norfolk
Arleigh A. Burke
Ticonderoga
Naval Center
Washington
Naval Operations
Burke
Robert Carney
Free Watermelon Draws 5000 Travelers in Minola Festival
Five thousand motorists sampled free watermelon at Minola Texas Watermelon Festival. Police and Boy Scouts directed traffic while 30 tons of icy melons were consumed, marking a hospitable roadside event in the east Texas town.
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Mineola
Tex
Minela
Boy
East Texas
Third time's charm for Navy flyer Joseph O’Connell
In Richmond Virginia an airman from Jacksonville Florida survived a Navy patrol bomber crash for the third time. Chief Metalsmith’s Mate Joseph O’Connell, 36, requested train transportation home after the incident and was granted passage by the local Navy recruiting office.
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Richmond
Joseph O’connel
Jacksonville
Fla
Navy
Here
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