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Area service members listed in local notices
Lt. Forrest D. Baker Jr. and Navy Ensign Jack Stockton receive commissions and graduations at Ft Belvoir and Newport. Fireman J C Farrell serves at Da Nang while Gussie Thomason crews USS Montrose at Rose Festival Portland. Robert Dolloff minesweeps aboard USS Salute in the Mediterranean. Army spec 4 Michael D Goodwin and airmen L Brown and W Brown Jr. receive training and assignments. Read earns early Army promotion. Capt Eldon Ball completes Armor Officer Career course. Airman Jimmy Don Hardy reenlists. two young men enlist and head to Lackland AFB for basic training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gussie D. Thomason
Gus M. Thomason
9Th St
Portland
Ore
Montrose
Navy
John C. Read
Floyd E. Read Jr
59Th St
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Read
Monterey High School
Lubbock Christian College
San Bernadino Valley College
San Bernadino
Lalits
Eldon K. Ball
Clyde V. Ball
Lamesa
Ft. Knox, Ky
Ball
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Armed Forces
Amarillo
Lubbock
Richard G
Rick)Chapman
Richard L. Chapman
Eagle Paso
Juanita Kidd
el Paso
Robert Wayne Tidwell
Elton R. Tidwell
45Th St