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Pfe.Gibbons Tells of VisitPort of Athens ScoresHit With Cadiz MarineBARCELONA. Spain — “Athens Isle of Greece softball champion* wa: by far the most interesting snip. While at Crete, the youngport that I visited.*’ Private First Class scored the ini-interviewed here between inn- tial touchdown in an 18*0 Marineinss of a I'. S. Ma*ine and U S. victory over a touch Navy 11. u Na\y baseball game. Pfc. Milford Gibbons, who enlisted in the :cGibbons. *on of Mrs. I’rsina Gib- United States Marine Corps, bons of RD 1. Cadiz, wem on to through the Recruiting Office in sa that lie was impressed by the Steubenville. November. 1958, left sights o‘ the ancient city, “My trip tne United States in July of this to the Temple of Apollo, where St. year. Since then, he has visited Paul delhered his message to the liberty ports at Gibraltar. Cannes’, Corinthians, was probably the high* and Monte Carlo or the French, light of my visit to Greece.“ he Riviera; Venice. Italy, and Corfu,1! added. iPiereaus. Athens and Catena in,Gibbons, former Wayne high Greece. He has participated in am- j school athletic, is currently at- phibious landings with the Marines' tached to the 3d Battalion, 8th Ma* at Porto Scudo, Sardinia, and at rines, the amphibious striking1 Dikili. Turkey. |force of the U. S. Sixth Fleet in the Along with other Leathernecks of'the 3d Bn., 8th Marines, he eele brated the 184th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps,Mediterranean.While in school, he was an all-around athlete, pitching for the ball team, quarterbacking the foot* j ov* 10 in Rarcelona-ball team and playing forward with' --— 'the hoopsters Small Railroad Leads^ Presently working in the Logistics section of the Marine Battalion landing team, Gibbons continues toJAMAICA, N. V. - The 125* ......... year-old suburban Long Island Railexcell in sports throughout theiRoad‘s routes total only 343 milesMediterranean.A sharpshooter with the M-l rifle, he is also the standout hurler oncompared with 13.104 miles for the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, yet it carries more passengers thanthe Baseball club. In Italy he : any other line in the United States.twirled a no-hitter against the Ven ice Red-Raiders, a Semipro club, and was instrumental in helping the Leathernecks to victories in theII hauls more than 73,500.000 passengers a year, or one out of every five Americans who commute by rail.
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 12, 1959
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