Ventura County Star from Ventura, California • 19

Gen rederick Weyand gaKr feOWA 'g aK iBSfe IB giy JS ISiillMli ECBWs Kfe Xl MS IB IM siiyofeX cTzrn nWh mi mfr i Gen Creighton Abrams Acting chief of staff held Vietnam posts WASHINGTON (UPI) Gen rederick C' Weyand who was responsible for the de fense of Saigon at a time when Communist attacks on the city were declining officially be came acting chief of staff of the Army Wednesday when Gen Creighton Abrams died Weyand 57 had been acting chief since Abrams was hospi talized He was named vice chief of staff in August 1973 to succeed Alexander Haig who left the Army to serve as former President No 1 aide automatically assumes acting command of the a spokesman said today President ord will name a permanent successor to a new four year term and Weyand is considered a likely choice to keep the job He held an important post under Vietnam com mand from July 1967 to July 1968 when he headed the third military region consisting of the provinces surrounding Sai gon Before that Weyand led the 25th infantry division into Viet nam combat from its Hawaiian headquarters He went from Vietnam in 1968 to Washington as head of the Army Reserve and then to Paris in 1969 as military advisor to the US embassy He was named commander of Army forces in the Pacific in March of 1973 and five months later was named vice chief of staff Weyand was Sept 15 1916 in Arbuckle Calif and got a criminology degree from the University of California He joined the Army upon gradua tion from the ROTC in 1938 He served in intelligence as signments in Washington the China Burma Indian theatre and Chungking during World War II and commanded an infantry battalion Korea Weyand was commander of a battle group in Germany in the late 1950s and was chief legislative liaison for the Army from 1962 to 1964 before he was sent to Hawaii He holds the Distinguished Service Cross the Distinguish ed Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters the Legion of Merit with oak clusters and a bronze star for valor He is married to the former Arline Langhart and has a son Robert and daughters Carolyn and Nancy Wife children watch as man falls to death BIG SUR (UPI) As his wife and three children watch ed a Canoga Park man fell 300 feet to his death Tuesday at a campground just south of here Monterey County officials said Labon Dorsey 42 had stopped with his family al Kirk Creek Campgrounds He climbed through a barbed wire fence to look around the area and the ground gave way Diamond Elegance A fantastic selection and values made possible because you are buying direct from an importer and manufacturer 5 DIAMONDS INTERLOCKING SET Compare At $400' 4JXJ wB DIAMOND SET 14 KT WH or YEL GOLD Compare A at $100 THE SOLITAIRE SET 18 CARAT $84 15 CARAT 1 28 14 CARAT 148 13 CARAT $188 38 CARAT 198 34 CARAT $278 gills III 1 IE! 1 0 1 matching bands diamond trio 1 4 KT YELLOW GOLD 1 4 KT GOLD Compare SAC Sm Compare A A AtSlOOeo 03 At $275 2UU HEADQUARTERS OR: SEIKO BULOVA ACCUTRON CARA VELLE AND DIGITAL WATCHES MILLS JEWELERS 401 EAST MAIN ST DOWNTOWN VENTURA Bank American! Master Chaw a Um yoursood credit own ri nites tHlBm The Ventura County (Calif) Star ree Press Thurs Sept 5 1974 7 and WASHINGTON (UPI) Gen Creighton Abrams hero of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II and leader of American troops in the latter days of the Vietnam War will be buried riday at Arlington National Cemetery not far from the Pentagon where he rose to become Army chief of staff Abrams 59 died Wednesday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center following complications from removal of a cancerous lung 12 weeks ago President ord issued a statement calling Abrams American hero in the best tradition a colorful coura geous leader who won the admiration and respect of enemies as well as allies and subordinates ormer President Richard Nixon in a statement from San Clemente said that as com mander of US forces in Viet nam Abrams with rare skill in one of the most difficult tasks in military history" was his lot to command in an unpopular Nixon said he did so with a high distinction that will rank him forever among the greatest of Abrams commander of US forces in Vietnam from 196S until his appointment as Army chief of staff in 1972 had been at Walter Reed for the past three weeks after blood clots were discovered in his right leg and in his remaining lung Abrams was a 30 year old lieutenant colonel when he commanded the lead battalion of Gen George 3rd Army which relieved the German beseiged American forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne in 1944 A crusty hard bitten soldier in the Patton pattern Abrams was quoted as saying at one point when the Germans had him at bay got us surrounded again the poor Patton not usually given to compliments once said of him: supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army but I have one peer In addition to his wife Julia and a sister Abrams is survived by 'six children New college dean SAN RANCISCO (UPI) Harold Walt 51 recent president of the William Pereira Associates architectur al firm of Los Angeles is the 'new dean of the college of busi ness administration at the University of San rancisco' a ASHIONABLE CLOTHING fe? 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