Guido Receives Wings at Scott Air Base
Anthony A. Guido, son of Carmine Guido of New Castle Pennsylvania, earned his Air Force officer wings after commissioning at Vance AFB Oklahoma on June 23 1950. Major General Robert W. Harper announced the ceremony at Scott AFB Illinois. He trained at Connally AFB Texas and Vance AFB Oklahoma flying a range of aircraft including the B 25 Mitchell.
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Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Anthony A. Guido
Carmine Guido
South Mill Street
New Castle
Air Force
Vance Air Force Base
Enid
Okla
Robert W. Harper
Air Training Command
Til
Guido
Connally Air Force Base
Waco
Tex
USAF
West Point
Annapolis
New Castle High School
Amarillo
Bomb Group airman earns multiple service ribbons
MacDill Field in Florida lists a serviceman who will serve with the 497th Bomb Group and the 73rd Bomb Wing on Saipan. He has been awarded the American Theater Ribbon, Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with two bronze stars, the Air Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Victory Medal, World War II, and the Air Crew Members Badge.
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MacDill Field
Fla
497Th
73Rd
Saipan
Bond Per Week Solomon's Plan
A citizen story highlights Sam Solomon of 102 East Long Avenue who saves part of his pay for government bonds. Solomon, a Johnson Bronze employee who arrived from Syria in 1913, argues bonds defend democracy and fund national defense, urging others to loan money to the government.
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United States
Sam Solomon
East Long Avena
Solomon
Johnson Bronze Company
Sam
Syria
America
Wonder Drug Lets Dufy Resume Painting Career
Raoul Dufy, the famed French painter, begins his American period in Boston after relief from crippling arthritis due to a drug and cortisone. Once walking on crutches, he now moves with a cane and plans new works including a Charles River boat scene, a baseball picture, and a football game scene for the fall.
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Boston
INS
Raoul Dufy
United
Jewish Memorial Hospital
Snowcatchers aim to hold irrigation water in mountains
The U S Department of Agriculture tests snowcatchers using planted trees or fences to trap water for irrigation until midsummer. In Venezuela during the rainy season, wading birds such as egret heron ibis stork and others nest above areas protected from floods.
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The
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Venezuela
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