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•‘LandCaponslachinq---- -- - O'---- I----I ----^ ^ Jv »nw jvwufjlems in the area today is the sters, brothers, sisters, twins,mpany, Cloth-ny A, andi — .50mes R.:r •veto the cehurst, urse in ' high he Ma-and re-aviation s Naval am.placement of Negro children. I who are in foster homes or in in-242nd Engineers Mark ‘Muster ’63’ This WeekAn open house program a* the new Connecticut National Guard armory. Armory road, off Nlchola avenue. Stratford, has been scheduled as a part of Operation Muster 1963 observance by 242nd Engineer Battalion.Lt, Col. Argo G. Fison, commanding the guard unit, has announced the week of Feb. 17-23 has been designated for theThe Cf ing agei care cf i searcheschildrenof variou charltabl The OChildren1 a state*muster program and openD. Mas of 5277 tomplet-hls past to theat theGreat ‘rumbull !red the complet-Recrulthouse will be Monday, Tuesdayand Wednesday, between fl and 10P. m.Cooperating with the engineers will be the 1st Missile Battalion (Nike-Ajax), under command of Lt. Col. Walter M. Jakubowski, also attached to the armory.Col, Pison has named Maj. William J. Dobson, executive officer of the engineers, as project officer and CWO Zoltan A. Simon as information officer.LLED,OZEN(UP!) dgeor.ed s left lo Is jmall lay, po-he chil-fafer inMarcel returned rntng to : of the ert said *ried out children, Elaine, iat their and theyUNITS AND OFFICERS responsible fur conducting appropriate program* lt;»n the nights of the open house are as follows: On Monday, First Lt. Lawrence Whipple, Company B; Tuesday, Second Lt. Robert Sapack, Head-qunrters Company; Wednesday, Capt, William Kelly, Company 4.For residents of the New Haven area Company .C, 242nd Engineer Battalion, will conduct open, house on Monday . night at the Orange Slreet Armory. 869 Orange street. New Haven The public may come in anc observe ihelr citizen soldiers In v*dous forms of. training. Youn* men who are to meet reserve obligation will be especially wel come.i go back tione, 41, I becomeCOL. PISON lafd the Nationa Guard • Bureau at- Washington D. C., In directing alt Natlona Guard to arrange for the observance, said:Muster days got their slartmore than one and one-half centuries ago when the infant Union depended wholly on Ihe militia for its defense. Neither in the actual events that take place nor the purpose it serves, however. docs today's Muster Day resemble those of the early 1800s. In those days, every able bodied man between Ihe ages of 18 and 45 was numbered, by law, umong the militia. Muster Day. also required by law, gave local commanders a periodic opportunity to count heads, inspect whatever firms ihe militiamen assessed, and conduct some rudimentary drill and marksmanship training.That kind of Muster Day be-1 came, like so much else, a victim of vastly Changed times. Effective soldiers and modern miliiary forcrs cannot be created in one or two sessions of raining per year. As war Is waged today, even once or twice \ week sometimes seems too ittle.Muster- Day, in the originalsense, now comes weekly and monthly, at armories ar.d air bases across the nation, when guardsmen gather to learn the complex techniques or 20th century warfare, to keep their arms and equipment in fight Ing condition, and to undergo inspectionand scrutiny not just annuallybut almost continuously.Muster Day as a specific event has been preserved, how ever, in the observance held each February, on cr near the birthday of America's first President and greatest citizen-soldier, George Washington. It's largely ceremonial, but If produces some eminently practical benefits. For one Ihing it offers Americans an annual opportunity to learn more about the businesslike military force which their support has helped create. For another, It encourages young men to choose the Guard as their own way of serving the nalion.'*adoptiveother fit active working sage of a 1957). th (1955) a in child llshmentCALL1 Welfare the job dren vvT the CCV For C county lished. foster j ter Pailoss pacore fO: children work al parents childrer The commit BridgcpAnna C ert Led Emmeti urer; Y vin Brlt; Frank t man, tl son, M Rose 1 Judge Earle V bard, JNEW slalmei will rt currenl paredago. i preside Inc. S will fit pared 1939-40
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Sun, Feb 17, 1963
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