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action in Indochina last week, 32To inquire about prisonersDeWayne Mark Hopkins of Muscatine and eight other fo-wans who will go to Paris this month in an attempt, to gain information about American servicemen who are Prisoners of War or Missing in Action in Southeast Asia finalized their plans at a mee tin g:held Wednesday at Marshalltown.Hopkins, 23, a former Green Bret in South Vietnam, was accompanied to Marshalltown by Charles King of Muscatine. King is the father of Air Force SgL Douglas King who has been missing since Dec. 25,. 1968, when he was on a pilot rescue mission in Laos.Hopkins and King and others active here in the Iowans Care project have' raised approximately $900 through pri- . vate contributions, a dance, and a motorcycle event. It has been estimated that the week-long trip to Paris will cost each delegate about $1,000.There are some 1,600 men Who are prisoners or missing in action in Southeast. Asia, including more than. 40 Iowans.Rev. Russell Schillings of Sheldon .and Cedar Rapids mayor Don J. Canney will ba co-chairman of the Iowa delegation. Rev. Schillings speaksplansDEWAYNE M. HOPKINS—As'i Green Beret-eight languages and Canney is a former^ Marine Corps intelligence officer who has served , in Viefnarit. •Others in the group include Mrs. Muriel Kooiker, a Sheldon farmwiL; Rich Felling-ham, a radio announcer from 'Sponler; William O. Wright, Des Moines, an executive with Massey Ferguson; Charles D. Brown* Marshalltown book salesman;'; Walter J. B. Hyink, president of a bank at VilHs-ca: and Jeleen A. Bargloff, Storm Lake, a delegate-at-large who is paying her own way.Meet with governorThe Iowa group will leave from Des Moines at 12:15 noon, Jan. 16, after a 10 a.m. meeting with Gov^ Robert Ray in his office. The governor is planning to issue a proclamation designating the week of Jan. 17 through Jan. 23, as “Io-, w a ns Care for POW—MIA Week.While in Paris, the Iowa delegation will seek information from . the North Vietnamese concerning prisoners and the missing in action. They will also attempt to deliver a representative portion of more than 100,000 pieces of mail from the people of Iowa.Numerous other groups have gone to the Paris peace talks to try to gain information about the missing men, and to ask for their release, but this is believed to be the first state-wide delegation.While in Marshalltown, the Iowa delegation talked by telephone with a representative of a group who had gone from Colorado Springs. Advice was received .on what to do, and what not* to do. JHopkins is employed fulltime at Wolverine World Wide and is also a student at Muscatine Community College. He was a close friend of Doug King and visited him in Vietnam -just two months before the mission on which he was declared missing.
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Muscatine Thursday Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 07, 1971
Page 10
Full Page
Clipped by
Anne C.
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