Local service personnel named for Vietnam assignments and PRIDE award
Army Private First Class Rene Carde of Lorain assigned as a rifleman with the 11th Infantry Brigade near Due Pho Vietnam on November 4. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon G Fisher of Elyria assigned November 17 to the 71st Transportation Battalion's 11th Transportation Company near Long Binh Vietnam as a cargo checker supervisor. Sergeant Anders D Fjeldstad of Avon Lake named PRIDE Man of the Quarter at Columbus AFB for reducing costs and boosting unit readiness. he is a weather equipment repairman and Concordia High School 1961 graduate. His wife Joyce is daughter of Roy and Lars Lundberg of Avon Lake.
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Rene Carde
Rose Carde
Central
Dr. Lorain
11Th
Due Pho
Vietnam
Gordon G Fisher
Roy W Fisher
Wren Carcle
71St Transportation Battalion
1Th Transportation Company
Long Binh
Anders D Fijeldstad
Karl N Fyjeldstad
Beck Rd
Avon Lake
Columbus Afb
Fjeldstad
Concordia High School
Milwaukee
Wis
Ohio State University
Joyce
Roy Lundberg
Jaycox
Avon
Suburban Community Notices Bring Local Fundraising And Installations
Avon WSCS meets Thursday at 8 pm at Avpon the Grace Methodist Church for a bake sale and box sale. Proceeds support the WSCS treasury. North Ridgeville auxiliary sells Kennedy Foundation candles in patras with delivery by Christmas. Lagrange Mason Lodge 399 installs Robert Jackson and officers. Hollywood: Luke Halpin stars in If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium with Suzanne Pleshette.
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AVON
Woman's Society For Christian Service
Avpocnthe
Hollywood
UPI
Luke Halpin
Flipper
Belgium
Suzanne Pleshette
Right place at right time aids Elyria's Mike Adams
Elyria performer Mike Adams credits being in the right place at the right time for his Decca recording break. The country style singer, born Michael Andrachik, cut Green Grows The Valley with the Nashville Symphony Band after meeting Chet Atkins in Nashville. Adams also works as a radio announcer for WJW Cleveland and hosts country on WCJW FM. He is a 1954 graduate of Elyria Catholic High and later held a Purdue football scholarship before stints at WWIZ Lorain and Elyria home life with wife Phyllis.
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Mike Adams
Adams
Decca
Mike
Michael Andrachik
Green
Eddy Arnold
Nashville Symphony
Rick Powell
Nashville
Powell
WJW
Cleveland
WCJW
Elyria District Catholic High School
Chow
Purdue University
Purdue
WWIZ
Lorain
Phyllis
Elyria
First telegraph line in Texas linked Galveston and Houston
A historical note recalls the inaugural telegraph connection in Texas opened January 4 1860 between Galveston and Houston. The snippet also mentions local names Tracey Lynn and Anthony Vichmas from Elyria Ohio with favorable reviews in Bill Gavins Record Report and the Cash Box.
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Texas
Galveston
Houston
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Lora
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Spruce
North Ridgeville
Jaycee Wives
John F Kennedy
Joseph P Kennedy Foundation
Patra
Carolynn Yates
Nancie Bilardo
Warren Byars
Robert Burdick
George Edwards
Robert Holtkamp
Charles Smith
Bruce Campbell
Ted Robson
F John Brown
Andrew Papp
George Gessner
Alber Wilcox
Tyler
Charles Mlazovsky
Walter Brock
Showtime
Sta Midway
Panavision
Technicolor
Bera
Arata
Palace Theatre
Love OF
Ivy Im
Caler
Sidney Potter
Han
Ena iDsney Aators
Walt Dishey
The
Absent
C-T
Chet Atkins
ABC
Lorain Business College
Sixth St. Lorain
MR. Larry
Ridge St Elyria
Broad St. Elyria
Ivan Frederic
Saba
California
Gary Ryan
Provincial
Garfield Blvd
Lawson’s
DRY Cleaners
Grafton
Chronicle-Telegram
Tracey Lynn
Oble
Men
Anthony Vichmas
Texas Telegraph Line
Ame
EAGLE
Colby Miller
Weo
THURS
Ries
LK Restaurant
Lorain County
Cole Slaw
Det
Erie Ave
East Bridgs
Henderson Drive
Oberlin Ave
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