The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 20

I ir 2Q THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION MORNING RISS Sunday Jan 21 IM 8000 Men Assigned To Artillery Unit if I Sill are several form the nucleus of a "pure" ar and his expected an awful lot of he garrjson complement at the lor any Co Revies Background As Diversified As His Brigade brigade he Penneys fashions from Dallas ONLY! BUY SPECIAL Good Health iaPriodess 1350 1250 850 750 650 SKIRTS BLOUSES SALON CHAASC DOWNTOWN WE 9t3li YOU KEEP A Poll Shows City Residents avor Sill 34th Artillery Brigade Unique Outfit In US Army 3 BEIGE ORANGE ICE TURQUOISE LEA GREEN BLACK OR MAPLE SUGAR! 4w Jil'e of win of two iSr Battle for 28 years Rhythm Step and iancees Were 1695 Casual lats Values to 1295 BLACK NAVY TURQUOISE ORANGE SHERBET MAPLE SUGAR OR BEIGE! College After a stint as chief of staff at ort George Meade Md he became executive officer of the 24th Division Artillery in Korea rom Korea he went to the Eighth Army as information of ficer in Japan and later to the Office of the Secretary of De fense Washington Here he served on the Laos desk in the Department of International Security Col decorations in clude the Silveri Star the Legion of Merit the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart BIGGER THAN EVER SAVINGS ON ALL AND WINTER SHOES! Martinique and Avoriette Were 2695 Martinique and Avonette Were 2495 of Staff Gen Lyman Lemnitzer In World War II it was redes ignated as the 34th Antiaircraft Brigade Later it served as part of the NATO forces from 1951 to 1958 and was then de activated The present brigade was re ac tivated at ort Sill in April of 1960 It was the outgrowth the 2nd Artillery Brigade (Provisional) which had been set up in mid 1959 to perform the job now assigned to the 34th WHITE BLACK MAGENTA PEACOCK GOLDSPICE PARROT OR PERSIMMON! ASSORTED 5 PRINTS! happen! It takes years of train ing to acquire the experience and skill for dispensing the medicine your doctor orders The reword is our license and our ability to help you Select your pharmacist as carefully as you would your dejc tor Mi THE cannons (approxi mately 140 of them! range from the 280mm atomic cannon to the small manueverable 75mm pack gun Its arsenal of weapons includes the reliable lltomm ana laonun self propelled and towed howit zers the 8 inch cannon with the capability of firing atomic war heads and the 75mm howitzer which can be disassembled for easy transportation The mission of the 34th is to with cannon artillery the requirements of the Artillery and Missile Col Revie said AU of the units in the brigade are also combat ready Though primarily an artillery command the activities of the 34th are not confined to cannon units alone Its responsibilities are diver sified Ten howitzer battalions under the 41st and 169th Artillery Groups form the bulwark of the brigade but it also includes the only infan try group and transportation bat talion stationed at the Artillery and Missile Center iancee Joyce Mr Chic Rhythm Step Were 1495 BLACK NAVY TURQUOISE BEIGE CHERRY ORANGE SHERBET MAPLE SUGAR OR GREEN! CLUB TO DANCE Signal Mountaineers Square Dance club will dance at 8 pm Tuesday in the Artillery room of the ort Sill Officers Club Rnrinjr and fabrics at a price you afford to mine in someone's lap This was Gen McLain Col Revie was wounded in ebruary 1944 during the Ital ian campaign After the war he served Under Maj Gnffing now commanding general of ort Sill who was chief of staff of the Army Caribbean com mand in Panama Col Revie pulled his first duty at ort Sill in 1949 in the tactics and combined arms section of the Center headquarters staff and two years later went to the Department of the Army War THESE are the 2nd Battle Group 30th Infantry' commanded by Col Moorman and the 4 5th Transportation Battalion commanded by LX Col ran cis The 45th battalion is composed of the 57th Aviation Company and the 159th Evacuation Hospital unit Also under Col jurisdic tion is the Non commissioned Of ficers academy the 30th inance Disbursing Section the 97th Army Band the 2nd Base post office and several chapels Activities of all of the units are coordinated by Col 156 man staff The ort Sill artillery brigade differs from other Army artillery units both in size and mission Most artillery units are assigned to divisions or are individual uruts Only Three Cases Processed Lawton Women In Municipal Court Session pnjsh School Only three cases were process ed in' municipal court Saturday Uy Judge Merle Oaks Earl Wayne Davis 18 of 710 I charged with vagrancy by no visi ble means of support was releas ed and two persons charged with public drunkenness were on the docket One was fined 510 the oth er forfeited a 510 bond military career in 1934 when he whs graduated from the Military Academy at West Point His first assignment was at ort Benning Ga His next job was as a lan guage instructor at his alma mater where he taught rench and Spanish In 1942 Col Reyie was as signed to the JI Corps and saw his first combat duty in the North African Campaign as a counter battery officer with the 1st Armored Division which had command of the 27th ield Ar tillery Battalion Hennessey Orlando Oil Pipeline Set PONCA CITY Continental Pipe Line Co announced Satur day plans to construct a million doilar oil pipeline from Hennes sey to Orlando Okla The firm a subsidiary of the Continental Oil Co said the 36 mile line will connect at Orlando with crude oil line ex tending from Wichita alls Tex to Ponca City location of the com largest refinery It will provide an additional out let for crude oil being produced in the Hennessey area Completion of the line is expected by March 1 Later the' battalion 'was de tached and entered Italy with the initial invasion at Salerno Its job was to support Okla 45th Division It was during this invasion that Col Revie first met Lt Gen Raymond McLain then commanding officer of the famed Thunderbirds Col Revie was driving along a country road about dusk when tracer bullets forced him to dive from his jeep info 'a large gulley along the side the road When he finally stopped roll ing he found that he had landed Count the wavs fashion first skirts and blouses too! if she thought the success she answer that question now hind the colonel can be seen impressive array of weapons used bv units of the 34th Brigade (Staff Photo By Bill Dixon) MEETING SCHEDULED The irst Methodist So ciety of Christian Service will have an executive meeting at 9:30 am Tuesday in the church TV HAROLD'S PHARMACY ln BhPRESCRIPTION SERVICE ILM PROCESSING COSMETICS nUOC CTTWIDB OEIJVEKT! PHONE EX LMS Col Charles Revie took command of the 34th Artillery Brigade in mid July of 1961 He succeeded Brig Gen HG Sparrow who now commands the 1st ield Artillery Missile Bri gade the missile shooting "sister" Col background is as diversified as the commands Wounded In An artilleryman he fought alongside the 45th Di vision was wounded in battle fell in a lap dur ing World War II Col Revie begyi his active Two Lawton women members of the Army Nurse Corps have completed the Medical ield Serv 1 ice military orientation course at Brooke Army Medical Center ort Sam Houston Tex They are 2nd Lt Dorothy i Keene 21 daughter Of Maj (Ret) and Mrs Lawrence Keene1902 Taft and 2nd Lt Christine Jen kins 20 daughter of Mr and Mrs John Jenkins 2512 They received their nursing de prees from St Anthony school of nursing Oklahoma City ble terrain surveying targets Train mg Experience and Skill Bv DON EGGERMAN Staff Writer EVERY time you hear the dis tant explosion of artillery shells and the nearoy raining dows you can be sure things: 1 The big guns at ort about their business and 2 Col Charles Revie staff have been busy Col Revie the 34th I Artillery' Brigade under this I command (the only one like it in the Army) that all of the cannon artillerv units al ort Sill are as Signed The 34th is made up oi nearly a 000 men or roughly a third of Woman's orum To Discuss Prize inals plans and details for pre seating suggestions on how to spend $10000 prize money won in a national community achievement contest will be discussed at a meet ing next week of the Lawton Wom orum The orum committee which will meet 9:30 am Jan 24 in the home of Mrs Shepard 1321 Ash will set a date for a meeting of representatives of clubs i which participated in the contest At that time the orum com mittee will present three or four project suggestions to be voted on by the participating clubs' Announcement of the project suggestions screened by the orum committee probably will be made next week after the com mittee has completed plahs for the meeting of club representatives Contest rules stipulate fhe 510 000 must be spent on a community improvement project coordinate cute and colorfully with these smart fashion blouses from avorite EARL DRUG1 AVMW 'OkaiM Kennedy Moves Bv MACK YOUNG Staff Writer President John Kennedy at the end of his first year in office apparently has moved ahead by leaps and bounds in public opinion In a poll taken in Lawton Satur day afternoon residents voiced al most unanimous approval of his activities and respect for his prog ress in combating the cold war Not every answer received was a slap on the back for the presi dent but most were comphmenr tary to the young man who shoul ders such a burden A Big Job Mrs James arrell who lives east of the city admitted rne president had done better than she Lr nl Irr nl I responsibility the world situation as 4t is It is a oit jou Asked year of te rm a I couldn't say until 10 jears from now when we can look back One admitted "died in the Democrat Mrs Joe" Reed 2110 1 Dearborn said she was "well pleased with his first Husband And her husband agreed "I have certainly been impressed with hint He has established a np record He suits me just fine Another couple who admitted they were pleased with the presi past year activities was Mr and Mrs Presley US Ar lington Drive He said think he has done a very good job I think he lived up to every thing I expected of His wife said has done a rather excellent job in overcom ing the conflicts or moving along with them He has done very Hiester 1108 Dearborn was not the most impressed of the polled residents "I really don't about him It seemed he bungled several things I guess he did all right for a beginner Admires Man Admiration for President Ken nedy was noticable in several of the comments but Mrs Gayion Dunbar 1607 Arlington came right out and said "I admire the man I am registered as a Democrat but usually vote Republican" Woodall 1215 Summit and A Allison 1606 Lawton both Sppeared to approve of the presi record have been impressed yery much He has done real well I think he could have done bet ter the way everything has Woodall said Woodall admitted he sometimes splits his vote He is registered as a Democrat But he voted for Dwight Eisenhower the first time he said but not the But even President Kennedy ad mits his first year record was not perfect It was marred by the Cu ban invasion fiasco by heighten ing problems in Berlin Laos and Vietnam Peace still is in the upper posi tion and that was basis for some of the comments given by Lawton area residents Just keeping the US out of total war during the I year was a creditable accomplish ment 4 assigned to support the combat ac 1 involved in training exercises: tivities of other branches of the hauling troops its trucks lifting Army such as infantry or air guns by helicopter over non passa borne divisions ble terrain surveying targets The job of the 34th is all artil learning how to disarm a nuclear lery In case of war its battalions I bomb or preparing for a massed could be pulled out to reintorce i urepower aemonsuauun and support other units or could fz tT evs ntiY'lotic rtf a ar THE 34th £11 SO CO nt HlHS tillery command for general sup Strategic Army Corps units com port bat ready units which can be de i ployed anywhere in the work! on I COL Revie describes his com almost a notice mand this way: a flexible The present day 34lh Brigade is credit card to be used on a world new to the Army but the' name wide basis it needed as artillery I has a history which goes back to was in World War I World War I This would be the 34th in war The original brigade was known In peace it is a proving ground as the 31th Coast Artillery Brigade for new methods and a training during the first world war Its first ground for artillerymen Commanding officer was the pres Its guns are fired by reservists ent chairman of the Joint Chiefs ana oia timers Keeping in piac tice Its fire problems are figured by student officers And its facil ities arc used to support the train ing of artillerymen in every phase During the summer months ele ments of the 34th help train "citi zen Recently seven Army Reserve and National Guard i units were integrated into the bri i gade and trained as full time artil Iprvnwn Units of the brigade are daily COMMANDER AND GUNS Col Charles Revie com mander of ort 34th Brigade gives an order to gnm crew on a 280mm atomic cannon at the range Re pos one of four major com mands at' ort Sill The command is the only con the first ventiohal field artillery brigade in four ear 1 the Army and represents one of said the largest masses of artillery fire power assembled under one unu ura iWJ i i V' 7 A i 4 i as 3 a I i A "ft jojfe 3 "I11 (L "i A jb Ak i MS 3 a 'N i I Si i BB i A 1 KjgMBBhT at aA A ZatBOOBVBiB if rnriM imiji 1 1 1 a a whSb isizB 1 AAiV a 11 'H "'j 1 I I 1 i i i i 2 i I th I i si I Bin i i I i I II I Mls i i rt 5 St I I i 1 ft 1 I 1 1 fk MB oy eOM IB Hm KMBB 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