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Arlington Heights Herald from Arlington Heights, Illinois • Page 52

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Tivo Area Cadets Will March in Washington, D.C. United States Coast Guaid academy cadets. Kurt G. Zimmerman, Arlington Heights and Frank J. Peck, Barrington were among the 575 cadets who marched in the inaugural parade Friday.

Jan. 20. The a traveled to Washington on two special trains, arriving Friday morning. While there the members of the corjis of eadets were entertained at a reception the evcjting of the parade honoring all cadets and midshipmen of the nation's four armed forces academies, as well as cadets from Merchant Marine academy. Kings Point.

N. Y. Cadet Zimmerman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester G.

Zimmerman, 105 S. ave. Cadet parents Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peck.

731 Lill St. tWUS On Vine Islainl In Germany Army Pfc. Thomas P. Cupan, 132 S. Ash Palatine, has received a high school equivalency certificate while serving with the 521st engineer group in Germany.

Cupan, a clerk in the headquarters company in Kaiserslautern, completed his secondary education through the development program at the U. S. Armed P'orces institute which offers correspondence courses at both high school and college levels. He entered the Army in October 1959. completed basic training at Fort Riley, and arrived overseas last 51arch.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kunze. ROBERT G. WELLS Robert G.

Wells, son of Mrs. G. F. Wells. 9.32 N.

Fernandez. Arlington Heights plet'd 6 weeks of boot camp training at Great Lakes in November and is now stationed on a sea-plane tender on the U. S. S. Pine Island.

In less than 2 months time he has been in Japan. Guam. Okinawa. Philippines, Hawaii, Indo China, and will be back in the states in February for schooling at San Diego. He attended Arlington Hi school and is receiving his diploma in the service.

WUS Itasca Man Is Awarded Certificate Army Specialist Five Ver- non C. Sporleder 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Spor- leder.

502 N. Catalpa Itasca, recently received a White Hou.se certificate cf service for performance of duties with the staff at Fort Belvoir. Va. The certificate is awarded in the name of the President by the Secretary of the Army as public evidence of de- served honor and distinction for at least one year of duty I on the White House staff. SFECl.AIJST Sporleder is assigned to the Executive 1 Flight Detachment, is i attached to the White House staff.

The unit is stationed at Fort Belvoir. He entered the Army in 19.56 and was last stationed at Fort Sill. Okla. Sporleder is a 1955 graduate of Palatine High school. Ill California Army Pvt.

Walter C. Myers. Ill, whose parents live at 139 Wayne, Wheeling, was assigned to the 57th artillery, a Nike-Hercules missile unit at Fort MacArthur. January 3. Myers, a rnis.sile crewman in the artillery battery C.

entered the Army in September 1960 and received basic combat training at Fort Leonard 5Io. A 1959 graduate of Arlington High School, Arlington Heights, the 19-year-old soldier attended the University of Illinois. 'New Marine Reserve Class Starts Feb. 2 The Naval Reserve Officers school. U.

S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training center, Roosevelt and Han- At Great Lakes 111 Pacific Marine Pfc. Donald J. Po- plawsky. son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Poplawsky of 4N-151 John Bensenville. is serving with the first battalion, seventh Marine regiment, on assignment to the Third provisional battalion landing team. The landing team operates from ships of the seventh fleet in the Western Pacific. An amphibious infantry unit of the Third Marine Division at Okinawa, the battalion will be at for approximately two months.

Camp Pendleton 4 Detrick III Memphis Raymond G. McCandless, i airman apprentice, USN, of Mrs. Leona F. McCandless of 284 Cindy lane. Wheeling, graduated December 23 from the aviation familiarization course at the Naval Air Technical Training center, Memphis, Tenn.

The two- week course included instruc- i tion in naval aviation history, flight theory, nomenclature, aircraft designations and handling, fuels, power plants, accessory equipment, tactics, first aid, swimming. parachute jump techniques and fire control. Graduates are advanced to one of the many technical schools at the center. (WUS In Mediterranean Daniel J. Riley, aviation electronics technician third class.

USN. son of Benjamin A. Riley of Pelham. and Mrs. Clare Riley of 511 Wing Arlington Heights, isiserv- ing attack squadron 34 aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, operating with the sixth fleet in the Mediterranean.

(WUS Marine Pvt. Dennis M. Cieszynski. son of Ignatus B. Cieszynski, 501 Verde lane, Elk Grove Village, completed four weeks of individual com- I bat training December 30 at' the Marine Corps base.

Camp Pendleton. Calif. The course included the latest infantry tactics, first aid. demolitions, field fortifications and advanced schooling on weapons. Trainees learn that all Marines are basically infantrymen.

whether they serve as cooks, typists, truck drivers, or with aviation units. (WUS Army Pvt. Joel R. Crabbe. son of xMr.

and Mrs. Leland E. Crabbe. 110 Garden lane. Prospect Heights, was assigned to the U.

S. army garrison at Fort Detrick. January 13. Crabbe, a medical laboratory specialist in the headquarters company, entered the army in March 1960, completed basic training at Fort Ord. Cal-, and was last stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.

TOM W. VTDRICK Tom Vidrick. 131 S. Chestnut A 1 i Heights, has completed his boot training at Great Lakes Naval Training center. He was graduated January 13.

To menlisted October 17. He will be stationed at Great Lakes for the next three months, attending engineering sohool. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vidrick.

(WUS nah Forest Park will offer a course in public relations as a new cla.ss when its second semester begins. February 2, according to the executive officer; Cdr. Clyde Deyo, 10 S. Owen Mount Prospect. 111.

The school will meet for two hours each Thursday evening during the twenty session semester. Public relations is open to reserve officers of all ranks and designators. This new course supplements four other courses currently offered in the NROS unit. INTERKSTEl) officers are to register for the course between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Thursday. January 26.

Reserve officers who have attended Naval Reserve Officers School have found that enrollment has increased their professional knowledge and to the Navy, earned promotion and retirement points and helped to secure training duty ashore and afloat, among many other benefits, according to Deyo. The NROS provides for all reserve officers, and particularly those recently relga.sed from active duty, the means to earn promotion and retirement points by participation i in a reserve program. The! NROS is the only Navy designed to provide officers with such opportunities to improve and protect their commissioned status. (WUS DONALD E. Manchilovich packs his bags for a trip to Washington, D.C.

where he participated in the military cordon for the Presidential inauguration January 20. Manchilovich, who is stationed with headquarters battery, 45th Artillery brigade (aid defensel Arlington Heights, is also a member of Arlington Heights VFW post 981. He was selected by a board of officers to participate in the inauguration. (MUS At Fort Dix At Great Lakes Jerry W. Pinkham, hospital apprentice, USN.

of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit E. Pinkham, 6 Audrey lane. Mount Prospect, completed Naval Hospital Corps school, December 8, at the Naval Training center.

Great Lakes, 111. Corpsmen perform medical assignments such as nursing, first aid. ward and operating room duties and the maintenance of medical records. Many of the corpsmen become technicians in specialized fields such as X-ray, clinical laboratory, a r- macy, epidemic control, sanitation and fever therapy. serve independently on small ships.

(WUS; At San Marine Pvt. Louis A. of 128 Aberdeen Ros 1 1 completed recruit training December 27 at the Marine Corps recruit depot, San Diego, Calif. The 11-week course included instruction in all basic military subjects and infantry weapoqs. Upon completion of training new Marines are assigned to a unit for further infantry training, or to one of the many Marine Corps schools.

(WUS Pfc. Carole A. Krueger. 425 S. Maple Palatine, returned to Fort Dix.

N. J. after a 10-dy visit with her par- gents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Krueger.

Carole was recently promoted to Pfc and is assigned to the dental examination center at Fort Dix. (WUS At Parris Island III Charleston Richard V. Speleers, com- missaryman third class. USN. of Mr, and Mrs.

Richard L. Speleers, of 17 W. 34 Grand Bensenville. is serving aboard the submarine USS Chivo, operating out of Charleston, S. C.

The Chivo returned December 21, from a 3-month cruise in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, during which she visited the Virgin Islands. Trinidad, South Africa, and Puerto Rico. One week of the cruise was spent operating with the Marine second force reconnaissance company. CBS television filmed a large portion of the operation for future presentation on the program. Marine Pvt.

Charles F. KoTPR Priester, son of Mr, and Mrs. George J. Priester, of Wheeling. completed recruit training.

January 11. at the Marine Corps Recruit depot. Parris Island. S. C.

At Fairchild AFB Airman Jerry L. Bonn, of Mr. and Mrs. F. H.

Bonn of 131 S. F'ernandez, Arlington Heights, has been assigned to a unit of the Strategic Air Command at Fairchild AFB, Washington, for training and duty as a supply specialist. He recently completed basic military training at Lackland Af'B. Texas. Airman Bonn is a graduate of Arlington high school.

The 12-week training schedule included drill, bayonet training, physical conditioning. parades and ceremonies. and other military subjects. Three weeks spent on the rifle range where the recruits the M-1 rifle and received instruction in basic Marine infantry w'eapons. This recruit training prepares young LeAthernecks for further specialized infantry training at Camp Lejeune, N.

C. (WUS Army Pvt. Li.sle J. Kauff; man, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Lisle E. Kauffman. 610 Lyn- den lane. Arlington Heights, recently arrived in Korea and is now serving with the 1st cavalry division. The 1st cavalry division is the only U.S.

division pre.sently manning a front line in Korea. A.ssigned to troop of 'the 9th cavalry. entered the army last July and completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. A member of Beta Beta Beta fraternity, the 21-year old soldier is a 1958 graduate of Arlington high school and attended Lake Forest college. Before entering the army he was employed by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company.

W'US I mm In Washington Army Pvt. William R. Overlin, 17. son of Mr. and Mrs.

James A. Overlin, 160 W. Commercial. Dale, recently was assigned to the staff of Walter Reed General hospital in Washington, D.C. Overlin entered the army last June and is a medical technician at the hospital.

Before entering the army he w'as employed bv Matt Bauman and Son. WUS MAJOR DWAIN N. NARIGON (left), an inspector general of the XI United States Army Corps, St. Louis, Mo. inspects Specialist 4th Class Theodore A.

Beranis, 908 W. Euclid Arlington Heights during the annual IG inspection of the Psychological Warfare Co. (Consolidation). Captain Donatd B. Martin, Evanston, executive of the 349th is at Major side.

The is located at the Evanston Armory, 1810 Ridge Avenue. In Mecliterraiiean Ronald L. Jurcy, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L.

Jurcy of 1424 Maude Arlington Heights, is serving aboard the attack cargo ship USS Capricornus operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. (WUS In Ireland John J. Roth, parachute rigger third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles V.

Roth of 2309 Eastman, Rolling Meadows, departed Brunswick in early January with Patrol Squadron 10 for Keflavik, Ireland. The squadron, flying the Neptune aircraft, is scheduled to operate as a NATO unit for five months. (WUS Shoe Sale Save Now! FLORSHEIM Values to $24.95 FREEMAN HUSH PUPPIES Values to $9.95 $680 FOR CHILDREN Simplex Flexies Buster Brown Jumping Jocks Lazy Bones Values to $9.95 MM SHOE SAVINGS UP TO 50 NOT ALL SIZES IN ALL STYLES DISCONTINUED STYLES ONLY! Shoe Sale Save Now! FOR WOMEN AIR STEP 90 $990 GLAMOUR DEBS Values to $10.95 $190 SMART AIRES FIANCEES FORTUNET SANDLER Town Country Vahjes to $9.95 Values to $1190 $14.95 $590 Values to 5 $790 SPECIAL GROUP CASUALS and FLITS Values to $9.95 NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS ALL SALES FINAL! ptMc 9 9 9 a l't NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS HILLSIDE SHOPPING CENTER, HILLSIDE SHOPPERS ROW, BENSENVILLE.

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