District Servicemen Navy News Briefs
District servicemen are featured with recruits finishing at Great Lakes and training cruises from Norfolk to Caribbean ports. Names include Richard Rickabaugh North Canton Sumser and Stoakes. various tours in Korea, Japan, Oslo, Cherbourg, and the Mediterranean. and multiple awards such as Air Medal Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman Badge for Canton area soldiers in the 5th and 2nd Infantry Divisions.
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Raymond Sumger
R. J. Sumser
North Canton
Norfolk
U. S
Caribbean
Navy
Sumter
University of Utah At
Salt Lake City
Carl Motz
Korea
38Th Infantry Regiment
Motz
141St General Hospital
Fukuoka
Japan
John Motz
Young Ave
Rev Kerr to Enter Air Force as Chaplain
Rev Russell N Kerr pastor of First Congregational Church for two years resigns to join the air force. He reports to Ft Slocum NY as a first lieutenant and will be assigned to an air base later. Kerr formerly worked in Diebolds inspection dept and served as civil service ordnance inspector during WWII.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Lloyd E. Bower
Air Force
1914Th Airways and Air Communications Service
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Lowry Field
Colo
Buckingham Field
Fla
12Th Air Force
Italy
Bower
Airlines
First Congregational Church
Russell N. Kerr
Ft. Slocum
N. Y
Kerr
Civil Service
Diebold, Inc
Sacred Hour
First Baptist Church
Canton Civic Opera
Olivet College
Drew
Northwestern
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Ohio
Canton Men Win Far East Radio Award For Close Shaves
Two Canton men serving abroad as barbershop singers with the Four Fifths quartet win the Gold Mike for best on the spot radio program on the Armed Forces Radio Service Far East network. Their Sapporo, Hokkaido broadcast Close Shaves and Close Harmony features Corp. Bernard Whaley and his wife Mary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Hart voters reject tax boost for new school books
Hart Mich voters by 396 to 49 defeated a proposed school tax increase aimed at buying new text books. Opponents argued that the existing books were adequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hart, Mich
Hart
Natick Landmark Estate Sale Is Historic First Since 1686
The sale of the Phares N Sawin estate in Natick Mass is believed to be the first transfer of the land since it was deeded in 1686 to Thomas Sawin by King Charles of England. Thomas Sawin was Natick's first white settler.
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Natick
Mass
Phares N. Sawin
Thomas Sawin
Charles of England
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Richard C. Rickabaugh
C. E. Rickabaugh
Wooster
Great Lakes, Ill
Jack N. Stoakes
Hawkins
Great Lakes, Qu
Seaman Stoakes Is
John N. Stoakes
Cleveland Ave
Charles F. Watkins
Martha L. Watkins
Schwalm Ave
Mediterranean
Columbus
Canton Naval Air
Akron Naval Air Station
Naval Air Station
New Orleans
J.g
Richard A. Carlson
RD 3
David Bertsch
Richard
Maurice S. Cochran
Sally
Paul EB. Fowler
Norma M. Fowler
Alvis G. Marks
Vivian Marks
Robert §. Manos
George T. Bole
George C. Bole
Arlington
Oslo
Norway
Cherbourg
Paris
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Missouri
Bole
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Clyde €. Rogers Jr
San Diego
Calif
John A. Bole
C. Rogers
New Philadelphia
Canton Area
Constantinople
Donald D. Laps
Frank Laps
Massillon
Gainard
Vincenzo Gastaldo
Lorenzo Gastaldo
Dennison
M. C. Fox
4Th St NW
B. K. Whaley
9Th St NW
John J. Mueller
Jerome R. Mueller
34Th St NW
Corp
Whaley
Mueller
160Th Field Artillery Battalion
Oklahoma National Guard
Hokkaido
Kurile Islands
Sakhalin
Pvt
Gerald R. Burris
George Burris
2210
Anderson
Medical Replacement Training Center
Ft. Meade
Far East Command
Stanley T. Blocher
Curtis Blocher
Masssillon
Camp Drake
Blocher
Stacieys Locher
Rexford Javiis
Louisville
3Rd Infantry Division
Javvis
Osaka
3Rd Signal Co
Wonsan
Ralph E. Wallace
Rosemary Wallace
Greenfield Ave
5Th Air Force
Wallace
George M. Anderson
W. M. Anderson
Victoria Or NW
Marines
Naval Hospital
Yokosuka
The
Gene C. Biery
Philip Biery
Lawrence Rd
27Th
25Th Infantry
Biery
3Rd Armored Division
Ft. Knox, Ky
Donald L. Edwards
M. W
Edwards
North Industry
Robert L. Morgan
Marshall I. Morgan
Glen St
Citizens’ Committee For the Army and Navy, Inc
New York
Canton South High School
Troup Studio
Morgan
Lincoln High School
Hanover Shoe Co
5Th Infantry
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
William Toy
John Toy
Bedford
Glenn E. Coates
Adrian Coates
Brant Ave
Thomas V. Battista Jr
Thomas V. Battista
Park Ave
Battista
Kent State University
Army Medical Center
Camp Stoneman Personnel Center
Pittsburg
Camp Stoneman
James Gilliam
James E. Gilliam
14Th St
Henry A. Palombo
Alberico H. Palombo
11Th St
American Airlines
Akron- Canton Airport
Ilth St
Harold E. McCoy
Harry A. McCoy
1609
St. Elmo Are
Williams Air Force Base
Chandler
Aziz
McCoy
Harold Mecoy
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
Perrin Air Force Base
Tex
McKinley High School
Russell Kerr
R. N. Kerr
Steinway
Noah Cy Be
Diamord
Detan
J. R. Wood & Sons
Market
Hillman
Ua Ato i
Ferhour
Space Maker
General Electric
Efreier
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