Service News From Home and Far East Assignments
United States service members, including Eugene V Combs on leave from Lowry AFB Colorado and Seaman Carroll Shiley aboard USS Midway, are featured with home addresses. Corporal David S Brown serving Fort Lewis Washington and Franklin Racey promoted to private first class at Fort Bragg are noted alongside Marines Fincham and Gant in Japan with the 9th Marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Combs
Lonnie Combs
White Post
Lowry Air Force Base
Colorado
Air Force
Sampson Air Force Base
Geneva, N
Carroll Shiley
Midway
Strother Shiley
Amherst St
Navy
Seaman Shiley
Teleman
Naval Training Station
Bainbridge
Post Office
Far East
Seaman Carroll Shiley
Tesa
Uss Midway
Fpo
San Francisco
Calif
Cpl. Brown
Washington
David S. Brown
Mabel Brown
Greenwood
Fort Lewis
Wash
Cpl
David 8. Brown
Hats
Franklin Racey
O. M. Raymond Racey
Mountain Falls
82Nd Airborne Infantry Regiment
Fort Bragg
N. C
Racey
J. W. High School
Army
A&p
Winchester
John R. Fincham
Robert Fincham
Berryville
Charles M. Gant
Evelyn N. Richard
Boyce
Japan
9Th Marines
3Rd Marine Division
Camp Sakai
Honshu
Fujiyama
Military Family News From Far Afield Reports
Family notices detail Alcena Beverly Braithwaite in North Africa with good condition aided by the Red Cross. Other items include Godfrey P. Nichols returning to Bainbridge Maryland after Christmas leave and Walter Alger arriving in Japan with the 1st Cavalry Division now in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Braithwaite
Albin
le Beverly Braithwaite
North Africa
Red Cross
Godfrey P. Nichols
Wheeler Nichols
Woodstock Lane
Naval Training Station
Bainbridge, Md
U. 8S
T. C. Bainbridge, Md
Opposition to World Calendar at UN cited
Many resist change and prefer current habits. Objections include the calendar’s irregularity causing holidays and anniversaries to fall on the same weekday. Religious concerns focus on longer gaps between Sabbaths in leap years. Months lacking 31 days would force birthday changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Winchester Evening Star
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Hell on Wheels Tales of a WWII Tank Crew Man
Private Madagan a radio operator in the 16th Armored Field Artillery Battalion A Battery entered the Army in April 1954 and arrived overseas the following October. The piece notes his service and the nickname Hell on Wheels reflecting his unit's reputation. A Q&A on Taft Hartley Law identifies the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board as the official who handles violations, with the office currently vacant awaiting a new appointee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madagan
16Th Armored Fied Artillery Battalion
National Labor Relations Board
Get the Best for Less Sale Ad Tease
A promotional notice offers items at 49 cents each with the tag line Get the Best for Less and the claim 100 items priced to attract shoppers. The brief highlights a bargain event likely from a local retailer.
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Eugene Vcombs
Clarke
Sakai
Osaka
Pfc. Gant
Evelyn Sowers
Charleston
W. Va
le Braithwaite
Beverly Braithwaite
New York, N. Y
Godfrey Nichols
Walter Alger
Walter A. Alger
Charles
Alger
1St Cavalry Division
99Th Field Artillery Battalion
ADC
Servie
James Saxe
Metuchen
N. J
Raymond D. Saxe
Courtfield Ave
Fort Dix
880Th Field Artillery Batttalion
69Th Infantry Division
Marguery Johnson
Pvt, Saxe
Handley School
University of Virginia
American Cyanimid Company
Woodbridge
C. E. Ryan
Pfc. Mazer
Korea
Robert A. Mazer
First Marine Division
I Co
Mar
1St Marine Division
FMF
c/o FPO
Cal
Russell Partlow
Mediterranean
Russell T Partlow
S. Cameron St
Boston
Sixth Fleet
Brandt
London
George E. Brandt, Jr
W. Boscawen St
John H. Cassady
USN
U. S. Naval Forces
Atlantic
England
U.S A
Charles Madagan
Germany
Charles R. Madagan
Hadie F Madagan
Stephens City
2Rd Armored
English Construction Co
Middletown
Shea
Winchester Star
Oah River
U .S. Rt
Leggett’s
Leggett
Winchester’s Shopping Center
Joseph
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Winchester’s Old Strong Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kool-Vent Aluminum Awning Corp
Virginia
Leslie C. Jones
George Washington Hotel
Department Stores
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