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Service personnel facing training and postings at bases
News notes several servicemen and cadets from Ohio and surrounding areas. Robert Lee Baker, a Navarre resident and Ohio University agriculture candidate, is cadet commanding officer at Langley Air Base VA. Pfe Howard Kinsley, son of Mr and Mrs Arnold P Kinsley of Aultman, begins a 28 week aircraft servicing course at Sheppard Air Base TX. Lt Col Robert W Dickerson, son of Mr and Mrs William Dickerson, attends the special staff school at Gunter Air University AL after prior courses at Maxwell. Canton area seamen recruits train at Great Lakes IL, including Robert S Good, Lawrence N Evans, Harold D Wynne, Donald E Iden, Richard A Moore, Rober E Smith, and Donald E Zimmerman. Zimmerman, an airman, leaves U.S. in July for Alaska, to support Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4. Fireman John B Beegle returns to Norfolk aboard the Papaga after Panama Canal Zone operations. Glen R Logan visits Athens, Greece aboard Leyte following Sixth Fleet maneuvers. Mount Olympus crew Earl Pepp and Lester J George participate in amphibious training ashore at Little Creek VA. Loren W Goertzen serves on destroyer Shelton in the Pacific. his enlistment remains frozen. Midshipman Everett L Vernon of Miami University completes NROTC cruise to Hawaii and San Diego aboard St. Paul. John D Farrell, from Canton, becomes second squad leader at NR0TC Co One at Kent State, majoring in sales and advertising. previously in ORD 9-41. Sgt Robert A Slonaker returns from Lackland AFB for a 25 day furlough with his Canton family. Slonaker, Lincoln High School graduate, serves in human resources research.