oPAL PINESBY OPAL LOUCKSLots of nice things about peo- aircraft to enemy ground fire, pie have been subjects of con- he directed artillery and tacti-versation during holiday gather- cal air strikes in close support ings. of a U.S. Army fire supportOne of the nice things that ^*UghUh?s actions,Vhe kept the happened in the family of Mrs. f being overrun while Lillian Thomas concerns her 13- ™se Ir™ Americanyear-old granddaughter, Nora JByrd. Nora studies ballet danc- lUV«*- Colonel was als0 award-torimis°n service ^ while servingIc B^uSt Nora’s parents are *“hJri“dl=[nfSurf Sion,' Mr. and Mrs. Donald Byrd of faf?d *». «'^-LiSf„m’irtiAn^T^rmTs0ther iS^ ^ “^e in Southed Asia fromMr^ Alice^Procise was pleas- O'1- 2- 1968 to Marcl?17• 196? ;h ed to know thrtte grandson,Chip Anderson has joined the Ar- if odin and Mrs Donnold Palmer Bay Hills Country 5rm?! yrt? novt^ nhi«Club as a golf pro. He is the BnTe nlWn«w tM'that lo son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. » Jj' «*£•JJ too that loAnderson of Sarasota, Fla. and fn imnnrtant medical dihis mother was the former Dor- madJ onnthv Prncice agnosis such as the one made onMrs. Etta McCartan is rightly Mik£ storvln Theproud of her grandson, Lt. Col. |“Stfnei Sundav As much as he Ronald W. McCartan. He wasrecently awarded the Distin- reohtlfrfer who made itItar^Medau'n aforma? eeremonv ““referred the two-year old It Elrin Air Base ^la child 10 a St Louis h0SPital- HeA gunship monitor with the sei^atfv^measures with radium SOF Directorate of Operations ■“““”**„,r“hiehin Southeast Asia, Col. McCar- ad vI°bL Tv a eolle^eue tan earned the first Oak Leaf had been used by a colleague,Cluster to his DFC by his extra- , ctnrv the oth-ordinary achievement while par- .. innfirmed Dr Hir-ticipating in aerial flight as a diaenosis as re'ino-forward air controller near Quan s '*Loi, Republic of Vietnam, Oct. ,b'ast°™ SSKv!1Q«R Fvrwsimr hie unarmed the chlld Was sent t0 NeW Y°rk31, 1968. Exposing his unarmed where thg procedures Dr Hirsch-feider recommended were takenQiv frnm Aroo TqkO by Dr. Robert Elsworth, a stu-01A II UN I r\l Co IdixC dent of Dr. Reese, at the Colum-n bia Presbyterian Medical Cen-W ntpr Rird tonsils ‘«r