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to' 01 The News and ObserverThe Raleigh Times Thursday March 10 1988 Last 7 WWII letters to get TV exposure Biotechnology ethics to be focus of NCSU seminar tF ''C the letters would get special attention Minguez turned them over to Raleigh Postmaster Ross A Garulski Garulski found a few of the senders himself Then as calls and letters flooded his office he relinquished the remainder to postal service headquarters in Washington Most of the letters were returned to the writers or families after the US Postal Service launched a publicity blitz in July 1986 The list of men was whittled down to eight in January Then an article in Reader's Digest led to five more deliveries Still elusive are Sgt CF Smith who wrote letters to Philadelphia and Darby Pa Pvt John Thomas writing to Garfield Heights Linhurst and Kent Ohio and Babson Park Mass and Cpl Morris A Johnson who wrote to San Francisco JULIE POWERS RIVES soldier That soldier for unknown reasons failed to take the mail to a post office The bag landed in the attic forgotten until Minguez came to spray for bugs in May 1986 The reenactment will be staged in Atlanta so Minguez can meet Merry 11 Page Rap ley a widow of one of the letter writers who is too frail to travel Ms Bailey said Mrs Rap ley's husband was killed in combat shortly after he wrote the letters she received 42 years later Mrs Rap ley wrote Minguez to thank him for finding the letters and to tell him how she cherished the mail from the man she loved so much she never remarried The touching letter "made everything so worthwhile" said Minguez who spent several anxious weeks fretting about what to do with the mail after he found it The meeting with Mrs Rapley "will be the highlight of my trip" he said After getting a guarantee that -----i -4 -1 yr ------7-7'0 -0'4 71 1ii vot: )1----e 'i-4' iiM- I- INI ::11:: -i- 4 I -0-'-W 4 44-i 5 a ''-'1 I 4 '-'--4 I f---- :717:4 1-: L'I 1 1 Nearly two years after a duffel bag of undelivered letters penned by 92 homesick young World War II soldiers were found in a Raleigh attic all but three of the writers or their survivors have gotten their mail This week the man who found the letters Michael Minguez will make another pitch to send the last seven letters home Minguez an exterminator for Raleigh Terminix will reenact how he stumbled over the pile of yellowed "Victory Mail" envelopes on an attic floor beside an old duffel bag and some Army socks for the NBC special "Unsolved Mysteries" The program is tentatively scheduled to air in May "What we're hoping to accomplish by doing this story by airing the names and ranks of the men who wrote the letters is to track them down or find some of their families" said Wendy Bailey of Cosgrove-Meurer Productions Inc of Los Angeles the producer of "Unsolved Mysteries" The show is a one-hour special that airs periodically The 235 letters written aboard the North Africa-bound troop ship Caleb Strong in May 1944 had apparently been stashed in the attic by relatives of another young Rev Edward A Malloy an ethicist who is president of the University of Notre Dame will be the keynote speaker at NC State University Wednesday Malloy will discuss "When tf4 Science Makes '04''1' '1 It Possible t- 41 A What Makes It P1 Right?" a semi- i Alli' '''4 nar on the ethi- -TV- cal legal and 1: 11 moral implica- tions of advanc: Malloy es in biotechnology at 8 pm at the McKimmon Center Western Boulevard and Gorman Street Malloy's talk will be followed by a panel discussion conducted by experts offering legal academic scientific medical and government perspectives on the implications of biotechnology Panelists will be bacteriologist and patent attorney Lynn Barber of Durham John Fulkerson of Washington principal scientist with the Cooperative State Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture Charles Hamner president of the NC Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park Earl Mac Cormac science adviser to Gov James Martin molecular geneticist Dennis O'Connor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Charles Putman James Duke Professor of Radiology at Duke University The seminar is sponsored by the NCSU Biotechnology Program Collaborating sponsors are the NC Biotechnology Center and NC Leadership Forum Stop Smoking Appetite Control (id rti Michael Minguez holds WWII letters in 1986 photo Most have been sent on to the addressees or their descendants CONTEMPORARY-QUALITY AFFORDABLE Choose from our large selection of: TEAK WALL SYSTEMS FUTONS FRAMES POTTERY DESKS DINING TABLES CHAIRS LAMPS AND MUCH MORE! flotkit Itl 121iLIWN' E-Z piginommtt A 1 Atkiluiftl Ail 4 FURNITURE ACCESSORIES Kusumi MD 1004 Ct Suite 106 Raleigh MC 27609 876-5530 AMA Crusade for a Smokeorree Society by year 2000 The and I trb' 1 nmoosonommoomook RAMS PLAZA CHAPEL HILL 967-7060 I FARGO HANNA ORIENTAL RUG GALLERY SINCE 1919 Fine Handmade Oriental Rugs from the world over at very Reasonable Prices! 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