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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 26, 1960

Page

11

Local Servicemen Entered in Recent Training and Assignments

Pfc John Banco Jr completes rifleman marksmanship with the Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune N C Others stationed there include Pvt Donald R Thompson and Pfc Hubert C Leslie Both are sons of Raleigh County residents Assigned to the Third Marine Division in Okinawa is Pfc Clarence E Biggs Maynard T Fountain completes recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Station Ill Airman 1C Thomas A Flynn transfers to Saudi Arabia He is married to Betty Sue Jackson and has three children Transferred to Amarillo Air Force Base Tex is stationed as an instructor Family will reside in Crab Orchard Also noted is Pvt Walter L McManamay at Parris Island Depot Pvt Thomas Sexton completes Provost Marshal General School at Fort Gordon Ga He is a Fayetteville High School graduate and Raleigh County Vocational School alumnus

Second Marine Division Camp Lejeune N. C Pvt Donald R. Thompson H. L. Thompson Sophia Pfc Hubert C. Leslie Bonez Plumley Saudi Arabia Thomas A. Flynn George Flynn McGraws Cheyenne Wyo Amarillo Air Force Base Tex Betty Sue Jackson East Gulf Crab Orchard Provost Marshal General's School Fort Gordon Thomas Sexton Amos Sexton Route 2 Fayetteville Army Fort Knox Sexton Fayetteville High School Raleigh County Vocational School

Army Draftees Serve Far From Home in 1959 Class

Jeffry J. Lawson son of Mr and Mrs Charles A Lawson of Tams entered the Army in June 1959 after graduating Byrd Prillerman High School. He arrived overseas last November and is assigned to the 44th Artillery at Fort Bliss Texas. Pvt Charles M Sparks 18 whose wife Mona lives in Crab Orchard previously with Sev enth Training Battalion now a launcher crewman in Battery D completed Fort Benning basic training and is a Woodrow Wilson High School 1959 graduate. His parents Mr and Mrs Dewey M Sparks reside Route 2 Beckley.

Jeffry J. Lawson Charles A. Lawson Tams Fifth Cavalry Army Fort Jackson S.C Byrd - Prillerman High School 44Th Artillery Fort Bliss Tex Charles M. Sparks Mona Crab Orchard Fort Fort Benning Woodrow Wilson High School Dewey M. Sparks Route 2 Beckley

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