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SHE GUIDES THEM SAFELY—Mrs. Margie Paries, left, one of four traffic guards here, directs five P, F. Brown Elementary School students across !Mth SI. in the above picture. The guards are stationed at heavily-traveled streets and Insure safety lor thousands of Lubbock school children. Twen-ty-three 15-mlIe-per-hOur, no-passing zones, located over the city, also aid in safe crossing of streets by Lubbock school children. Shown, left to right, are Mrs. Parks; Beth Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morgan, 2810 30th St.; Suza'ape Jtalus, daughter1 of Mr. and Mrs. Brown itams, 3308 30thSt.: Donna Craig, daughter of Mr. anc: Mrs. Ned Craig, 2318 Slst St.; Linda Ruth West, daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Earl West, 2401 81ft; and Vicfcey Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 3. T. Woile, *40? 81st St. (Staff Photo).Released Lubbock POWTo Return With War BrideGl To Wed Japanese GirlBy T, W. BRIDGES Journal Staff Writer When recently repatriated M. Sgt. Rayburn Roach returns to his home in Lubbock next month, he willbring with him a Japanesebride who waited for himthrough his long 27 months of Imprisonment in North Korean camps.The story of their romance is reminiscent of “Madame Butterfly19 except that it has a happy ending.The bride — or perhaps the bride-to-be —%is Yasuko Susukida. a 20^year-oM bookkeeper and the daughter of an American-educated Japanese employe of the American Book Co- Her home is in Kyoto.Met At. Tea Party Roach and the girl — he calls her Linda — met at a Japanese tea party before the Korean conflict began. He was In the Orient with a .construction battalion. He visited jn her home often and decided upon proposing. But first he wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Roach, 2718 Second PL, for their advice.*T wrote him that he was a grown man and capable of making his own decisions,” Mrs. Reach said here Thursday night. 'T told him that our family used prayer to solve problems and that he knew how to pray.”Then Taken POW * .The soldier went to Korea sqon after the outbreak of trouble. He received letters and gifts from Linda and her family. Then in February, 1951, he was injured. He was sent to a hospital in Kyoto,Of course, the youn^girl wasoften at his bedside to comfort him.When Roach returned to the front lines in April* two months after his injury, he left the little Japanese girlwith a promise to return in June to marry her.But in May he was taken prisoner.Linda waited. Like the Cho- , Cho-San of “Madam^ Butterfly.” she knew that one finp day he would return.She- found it difficult to get letters through Communist lines to her fiance, and so she mailed them here to thesoldier’s mother, who, inturn, sent them to Sgt. Roach. Her parents corresponded with the Roaches, and she herself sent’ gifts for all the members of the Roach family at Christmas time — handsomely embroidered garments, tea sets, amusing toys for the children-Girl Never Gave tip She never gave up in believing that her lover would return. Her letters to Mrs. Roach here during the soldier’s imprisonment told of her wedding plans and of her Se© WAR BRIDE rage 9
Newspaper Details
Evening Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 18, 1953
Page 13
Full Page
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Wilmette P.
IL, USA 27 Apr 2023
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