Meeting Kennedy Top Moment For Sill Man
Sgt Harmon D Swits of the 3d Battalion 38th Artillery presented President Kennedy with a scale model Sergeant missile at White Sands. The President spoke with Swits about the model and Swits recalled meeting Gen Eisenhower before D Day and escaping from a German POW camp in 1945. Swits described wartime service including Normandy, four POW camps, and later teaching in Poland and Ceylon before returning to Boston aboard a ship the day Roosevelt died. He earned Silver Star Bronze Star three Purple Hearts and Croix de Guerre.
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Sfc
Harmon D. Swiss
38Th Artillery
Kennedy
White Sands
Fort Sill
Sgt
Swits
Gen
Fisenhower
White Sands Missile Range
Swiss
Sgt. Swits
Fort Sil
FBI
Secret Service
Eisenhower
Normandy
82Nd Airborne Division
England
St. Lo
France
Poland
Camp Miles Standish
University of Denver
Quotes From Leaders And Citizens Across The Nation
The quotes feature remarks from Richard McKenzie on job limits for Sioux people in Oakland. Danville mayor Juli an Stinson on a white and colored law standard. and Dwight D. Eisenhower reflecting on a Kennedy meeting in Hershey. The statements touch on job discrimination racial tensions and uncertainty about the future.
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Oakland
Calif
Richard McKenzie
Danville
Julian Stinson
Beaverbrook Secretly Weds Widow of Sir James Dunn
London AP reports 84 year old Lord Beaverbrook quietly married in October to the widow of Canadian industrialist Sir James Dunn. The publisher owns Daily Express Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Dunn died in 1956, Beaverbrook’s first wife died in 1927.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
James Dunn
Canada
Daily Express
The
Sunday Express
Evening Standard
Gladys Drury
Halifax
Lady Dunn
Sir James
Alabama Campus Sees Normal Day Amid Integration
On a campus returning to normalcy, two Negro students Vivan Malone and James Hood attended their second day of classes under federal court order with police and National Guardsmen present. A third Negro, David McGlathery, entered Huntsville extension center and was largely ignored by students. McGlathery, a mathematician, described his class as rough. Army Secretary Vance allowed guardsmen to return to civilian duties unless in training.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
UPI
University of Alabama
Vivan Malone
James Hood
David McGlathery
Huntsville
McGlathery
Marshall Space Flight Center
Alabama
Army
Cyrus Vance
Washington
Kennedy
Lighter Side Questions Anonymity In CIA Spending
Dick West notes CIA security aims clash with its stealth, recounting a Senate page incident and cheeky budget sleuthing. He flags Abaca fiber funds, lighthouse keeper widows annuities, Naval Academy laundry costs, brush disposal, and Nubian monuments as suspicious examples.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Senate
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Treasury
Naval Academy
Navy
Gilpatric to face Senate probe on X22 contract
Roswell L. Gilpatric deputy defense secretary is slated to testify before Senate investigators on why he rejected Navy recommendations in awarding the 17 million X22 vertical takeoff plane contract to Bell Aerosystems. The hearing also covers related civil rights and consumer protection matters in Congress.
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Washington
API
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Defense Secretary
Senate
Navy
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Gilpatric
Defense Department
Bell Aerosystems Co
Douglas Aircraft Co
Harold Brown
Bell
Douglas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Evers
Medgar Evers
Clarence Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
House Judiciary
Mississippi
Meridian
Miss
Mitchell
Kennedy
FBI
House
J. Edgar Hoover
Atty
Harlan Fiske Stone
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Full
Judiciary Committee
Magic Hobby Is Big Help For Clerics
Clergymen at a Society of American Magicians convention describe using magic in ministry. Army Chaplain Robert C. Anderson at Ft Leonard Wood shows how transforming silks into a butterfly scarf illustrates guiding fragmented lives to service. Maj Wayne Lockhart cites prison visits as using a simple silk trick to inspire personal change. Participants say magic aids hospital tents school sessions and church events, especially with children.
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Ben Laime
ST. Louis
Society of American Magicians
Robert C. Anderson
Chaplain Corps
U.S. Army
Ft. Leonard Wood
Chaplain Anderson
Maj
Wayne Lockhart
Salvation Army
Maj. Lockhart
Army marks 188th anniversary with service branches listed
The United States Army and five service branches celebrate 188 years of service founded in June 1775 by the Continental Congress. The article details the origins of Infantry Adjutant General's Department Corps of Engineers Quartermaster Corps Finance Department and notes early pay scales and duties.
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United States Army
United States
Continental Congress
Corps of Engineers
Quartermaster Corps Finance Department
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Boston
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Fort Sill
4Th Battle Group
30Th Infantry
Army
Sill
Justice
R. Neale
Quartermaster Corps
Corps
Artillery and Missile Center
William O. Lofland
Finance Department
Pay Department
Maj
J. H. Leggett
Zale Jewelry Profit Sharing Plan Boosts Securities
Zale Jewelry Company's employee Profit Sharing Plan received a record contribution of 776196 dollars for the year ending March 1 1963. Ben A Lipshy president and trustee announced the plan covers about 1600 participants in 34 states including Lawton. The cash contribution equals 10.97 percent of participating employees salaries. Last year balances earned additional plan credits. Total assets exceed millions. All contributions to the Plan are ...
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Zale Jewelry Company
Ben A. Lipshy
Zale
Lawton
Zale Jewelry Company Posts Sales and Profit Progress
Lipsky credited the company for contributions to the Plan and noted continued progress in sales and profits across 298 Zale stores. He highlighted strong customer confidence in the markets served by the chain.
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Lipsky
Zale Jewelry Company
Zale
Fire losses on farms hit record $175 million
UPI reports farm fires caused a record 175 million dollars in damage last year, up seven percent from the year before. A government survey found that the average rural fire cost six times as much as an urban blaze.
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Washington
UPI
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Oxford
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Lastex
Goves
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Auralls Shops
Erwin Acres
Park
Infantry Adjutant General's Depart
Goodness
Bill & Jerry's
Lawton Brace & Appliance
Capshaw
Merle Norman Cosmetic & Beauty Salon
Westgate Shopping Center
Trade Mart
44Th
Cache Rd
Lee
Wolverton’s
Arnel Knit
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