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Fraser fir.A bumper crop of Scotch pines in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest threatens to drive down prices for that par-a reunion.“There will be around 30 of the guys from all over the country coming,” Horton said A number of the vets will bring their wives and around 55 people in all will participate in the reunion activities.This is our 35th reunion. We’ve held them everywhere — in Chicago, in Florida, out West, all over the United States. Last year we held it in Nashville, Tenn.,” Horton said. This is the first time the 91st vets have hadnately there is a glut of that particular tree.But the increase in the output of Scotch pines, which cost about $4 per foot, won't de-a reunion in Burlington.Horton said the Battle of the Bulge, which occurred when the Nazis surrounded an American-held city in Belgium, provided the toughest action his outfit saw during the war. The Battle of Central Europe was hard-fought, too, he said, but there was little fighting in the outfit’s last major war campaign, called the Battle of the Rhineland.“By then, the German Army was through but they hadn’t sur-Reunion Continued from Cl.Turv Continued from Clv • mm • • • • • 0 - - ' — --------dan,” Massey said.The state ranks fourth in Christmas tree production behind Oregon, Washington andmas tree crop.Fraser firs dominate the market in a 500-mile radius around North Carolina.rendered. They were retreating back toward Berlin,” he recalled. “Mostly we kept moving, keeping after the Germans while they were on the run.”The 91st, which had around 700 men, according to Horton, was very fortunate — only 15 in our outfit were killed in the war.”Since the end of World War II, though, about 100 of the outfit’s members have died. They and the GIs who died in actionwill be remembered in a memorial service at 2:15 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church’s chapel, Horton said.He said the visitors on Friday will be given a tour of the county and will be taken to points of interest, such as Stadler’s Country Ham Co. and the J.P. Stevens Center; and on Saturday, the group will be shown a private clock collection in Graham and other sights in the Burlington-Graham vicinity.
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Burlington Times News
Burlington, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1990
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