Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 35, DeMotte, Jasper County, 30 July 1948 — Guard Troops To Leave City Early Sunday [ARTICLE]

Guard Troops To Leave City Early Sunday

ING Units Preparing 1 For Annual_ 2-Weeks Summer Gamp Near Edinburg Early Sunday morning—and we mean early, 12:01 o’clock—the members of the local Indiana National Guard, will begin trucking their way to the annual summer encampment at Camp Atterbury, near Edinburg, as they carry out the orders of the high command of the Indiana National Guard. Deployed along a peacetime front, the troopers will go through two weeks of summer maneuvers. In command of the local unit will be Captain Firman Thompson, an overseas pilot in the air corps during World War II days, and Second Lieutenant Robert W. (“Cy”) Blanton. The travel schedule has been outlined to minutest detail, with the unit scheduled to arrive at Atterbury a few hours after their takeoff. The personnel follows: Capt. Firman Thompson. Second Lieut. Robert W. Blanton. First Sgt. Robert Gilmore. Staff Sgts. Henry Marlin, Don Patience, John Reed, Merle Williams. Grade Sgt. Keith Burns, Charles Marlin, Elmer Wilton, Vernon Shindler. Technical Sgts. Jack Lewis, B. J. Phegley. Privates, First Class Robert Anderson, Joe Arnett, Delevan Babcock, Donald Harmon, Gerald Kenneth R. Lear, Donald Lee, Willia'm Misch, Harvey Phillips, Jennings E. Rude, Roy C. Sanders, Russell Sommers, Robert Stearns, James Steinke, William Studer, David Warren, Wayne Williamson. Private, Grade VII Henry BlasEczyk, Donald Boesch, Frank Clark, Marvin Demps, Melvin Florence, Donald Griffin, Clifford Haring, Frank Henderlong, Norbert Hendricks, Paul E. Hershjnan, Ralph Hite, Gerald Holbrook, Herbert E. Hoover, Irvin Long, John, McCarty, Carl Pettet, Lawrence Prater, Victor Rossmanith, Charles Siebert, Frederick Stearns, Robert Tanner, Leo Tonner, Robert Tenner, Norman Vonderembse, Grover Wireman, William L. W’ood, Howard Yeoman, Thomas York.