Apache Company M Of 351th To Hold Annual Reunion
Local ex servicemen of Co. M, 357th Infantry, 20th Division from World War I plan the annual reunion at Medicine Park fish hatchery this Saturday and Sunday after a long postwar run. Notables include Frank Dumont “old top” from Maywood, Calif., plus Kizer, McMahan, Myers, Stone, Schneberger, Driggers, Hayes and others from Apache and nearby areas.
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Co. M
357Th Infantry
Medicine Park
American Legion
Frank FE. Dumont
Maywood
Calif
Marlow
Apache
Cyril Merchants
Apache Fire Department
Apache Lodge No. 223
Jess Blair
Tulsa
C. E. White
Tom Manor
C. M. Warner
Colorado
Canada
John Smith
Lexington
William Metzger
Louise Smith
Loyd Clark
Charles Moran
Chickashe
Floyd Martin
Baby
Carter
Harold Woodward
Seventeenth Field Artillery Picnic Celebrates Reorganization Day
The 17th Field Artillery Battalion Fort Silk plans an August 2 picnic for its reorganization day. The unit began in 1918 at Sparta, Wis., fought in Meuse-Argonne, North African, Salerno, Rome Arno, and Central Europe campaigns, earned the Fourragere, reactivated in 1946 under Lt. Col. William R. Frederick Jr., with a long wartime history.
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Seventeenth Field Artillery
Fort Silk
17Th Field
Sparta
Wis
Camp Travis
Texas
Fort Bragg
N. C
1Vth
Salerno
Sth
Naples-Foggia
Rome Arno
France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
17Th Field Artillery
William R. Frederick Jr
More Firms Set Up In Singapore
Singapore registrar reports tripling of new company registrations since before the war with firms active in manufacturing building contracting fishing shipping and trade. The average capitals range from 100000 to 500000 dollars while under 100000 capital firms have become rare signaling dollar depreciation and the persistence of million dollar firms.
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Singapore
Life expectancy gains cited at Amherst meeting
Dr Ira V Hiscock of Yale University reported at a health meeting in Amherst Mass that life expectancy has risen by fourteen years since 1900. He noted that despite medical advances, around seven million people are kept from their jobs daily by temporary illness.
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Amherst
Mass
Iip
Ira V. Hiscock
Yale University
Col Gordon To Meet Son In Oklahoma City Today
Col Richard A Gordon plans and training officer at The Artillery Center Fort Sill was to meet his son Lt Richard A Jr in Oklahoma City today after separation from service. He will reside at Fort Sill with his parents until fall when he enters the University of Oklahoma. The meeting marks a return after more than five years.
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Frank S. Bowen
38Th Infantry Regiment
Fort Sill
Richard E. E. Shrey
Bowen
John W. Keating
Carl M. Abel
U. S. Army
Col. Gordon
Son
Oklahoma City
Ath Army
Yokohama
Japan
University of Oklahoma
Richard A. Gordon
Artillery Center
Richard A, Jr
Gordon
Program Series Slated By Social Agencies Council
Lawton's Council of Social Agencies plans a 10 week radio series funded by the Community Chest. The initial July broadcast will feature agency chairmen with subsequent programs profiling one agency weekly. Agencies present include Travelers Aid, Lawton Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, YMCA clubs, Fort Sill Girl Scout, Salvation Army, City Mission, Lawton Negro Mission, and Comanche County cancer control chapter.
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Lawton
Council of Social Agencies
Community Chest
Viola Perkins
Red Feather
Edna Williams
City Mission
New Mission
12Th
13Th
Lee Boulevard
Mission
Williams
Nellie Jones
Women's Home Mission League
Mission Chapel
Harry Knight
KSWO
Douglass Armed Services Ymca Club
Travelers Aid
Lawton Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Douglass
YMCA
Fort Sill Girl Scout
Salvation Army
Lawton Negro Mission
Comanche County Cancer Control Chapter
Buddies Rally To Aid Sill Soldier Wife And Baby
At Fort Sill Sgt James O Neill summoned comrades to donate blood for his wife’s transfusion after a difficult delivery. Captain M N Giezentanner, First Sgt Max Odell, and soldiers including Sgt Carl Barlow and Cpl Paul Moulton joined MP volunteers and even inmates, delivering type O blood to save mother and child. The hospital report said both were doing fine after the transfusions.
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James O'Neill
Fort Sill
M. N. Giezentanner
Max Odell
O'Neill
O's
Carl Barlow
Paul Moulton
J. R. Thompson
Capt
Giezentanner
Set. Barlow
Cpl. Moulton
Brooklyn Naval Hospital Closes After 110 Years
The Brooklyn Naval Hospital, serving the Navy's sick and wounded for 110 years, has ceased functioning. Patients have been relocated to other naval facilities in the metropolitan area.
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New York
Brooklyn Naval Hospital
Chest Program Slated Saturday
A 3:30 pm Saturday broadcast on KSWO presents On Trial the third of a 13 week series for the Lawton Community Chest. John Gibson stars as narrator with Anne Jeffreys and Richard Widmark co-starring alongside Jackson Beck Elspeth Eric Lon Clark Barry Hopkins and Eda Heinemans in the transcribed drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KSWO
Lawton Community Chest
John Gibson
Anne Jeffreys
Ecreem
Richard Widmark
Recto
Jackson Beck
Elspeth Eric
Lon Clark
Barry Hopkins
Eda Heinemans
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Company M
Peet
Arthur Young
Era Ee
Koehler Bidg
Oeiwi
Phoenix Hose
Social Agencies Council
Kephart Plumbing
Sill
Erecta
Bendix
W. G. Price
Third Street
Lorentzen
Good Housekeeping
Shay
FE Avenue
Buick
Henry J. Taylor
Mutual Network
ODA
SIDAN
Norton-Kitchens
Buick Co
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