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A suggestion that the proposed new high school football stadium be named Memorial Stadium inhonor of all Galvestonians who. lost their lives in the last war' was renewed Wednesday hy the Galveston Chapter of the Paugh- i ters of the American Revolution.iMr*. Sally.-Trueheart Williams, chairman of the PAR committee, pointed out that such a proposal was made several .months ago but has not been acted upon by the school board.‘Regarding the current movement to have the stadium named for that fine and courageous boy Billy Hempel, who so unfortunate* Iv lost his life on the football field. Mrs Williams said, “we feel iheie will be plenty of space for additional plaques and certainly Billy Hempel should be memorialized But had it not been for the war lieioes there may not have been a planned stadium to com-memoiHte their deeds, as well asthe deed* ,of .othersThe 1 AI\ proposed that it would be lesponsih’e for the placing of bronze panels 01 plaques at the stadmm, with the names of the servicemen who lost their lives tn the war being inscribed on these plaques. Mrs. Williams said.Mrs Williams said that the proposal to make the new stadium a ••memorial to world war II dead was followed up hy contacting organizations, composed of thousands of citizens, who almost unanimously indorsed this idea.
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Galveston Tribune
Galveston, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 06, 1947
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