The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1979 Page: 4 of 12
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FORT SILL - A department director
at the U.S. Army Field Artillery School
here, who is soon to be promoted to the
rank of brigadier general, has been
selected to command Fort Sill’s III
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of the Army's largest field artillery
organization and the largest troop unit
at Fort Sill on April 6
Earlier this year he was nominated
by President Carter for promotion to
one-star rank, and his nomination was
confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A date
has not yet been set for his promotion.
Drummond will succeed Brig. Gen
Dwight L. Wilson, who left Fort Sill last
November for an assignment in
Washington, D C., as commander of III
Corps Artillery. Col. Myron J
longmore, Fort Sill chief of staff, is
comaradene with rodeo cowboys, i His
brother Mike is ranked third in the
world in bull riding I.
After high school. Bandy became a
sheet-metal worker by day, and a
Music. He received honorary awards
from the State of Texas, the City of San
Antonio, and the State of Oklahoma at
made his debut at the Wembley
Festival in England where he was
He is at home at The Palomino Club m
North Hollywood, and at The lone Star
In Oct. 1978, Bandy consolidated his
business interests under one roof in San
Antonio when he opened Encore
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Shortly after settling his family on a
farm outside San Antonio, Moe’s father
organized a local band called the
‘Pop! Goes Country!" and 'That
Nashville Music." He was featured on
Music Hall
America" show, and has appeared on
Canadian tv as well.
Bandy’s career continues to build
steadily. In 1977 he won "Most
Promising Artist of the Year" as voted
When not on the road, Bandy spends
time "tending to the cows and
chickens” on his San Antonio farm, or
enjoying the company of his wife,
Margaret, daughters I aura and lasa,
and son Ronnie
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More than 7,000 soldiers serve in the
giant artillery unit, and its ar-
tillerymen are assigned to three field
artillery missle battalions and 10
THE LAWTON OKLAHOMA EAGLE THURSDAY. APRIL 5. 1979
Gates will open at 10:30 a.m. and
activities will continue until 5 p m.
Next week's Sheppard Senator will
be published in 10,000 extra copies and presently serving acting commander
distributed to incoming visitors. Ar-
ticles about individual attractions and
a map of the display layout will be
included
that empties beer glasses, touches
hearts and sells records Bandy has the
formula down to a science Even the
critics love hun. One new York censor
went so far as to call him the "Jesus
killed him, but he had to put food on the
table and was not about to stop playing
his music.
In the meantime, he became a
regular performer on a San Antonio
TV show called "Country Comer" and
enhanced his reputation as he and his
band, The Mavericks, served as
backup band for the Texas ap-
pearances of artists like Bob Wills,
Stonewall Jackson and l<oretta Lynn.
Moe met Ray Baker in 1972 while on
a hunting trip and persuaded Baker to
listen to some of the tapes he had done.
Baker agreed to produce a session for
the aspirant to stardom, but the first
effort was short of memorable. In 1973,
however, all the elements came
together around "1 Just Started Hatin'
Cheatin' Songs Today.” Within five
weeks of its release on the new GRC
label, the record was in the top five on
the national charts, and Moe Bandy
was a star.
In '75, enlisting the talents of long-
tune production associate, Ray Baker
began his chart topping streak with
debut Columbia release, "Hank
Williams You Wrote My life.” Since
that time, the Bandy-Baker com-
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Infantryman’s Badge, Parachutist
Badge and several Vietnamese
decorations.
Drummond, his wife, Helen, and son
and daughter live at Fort Sill
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RSVP volunteers Thelma Hopkins (1.1 and Helen Wade (r.) prepare
to record documents on cassette tapes for blind lawyers at the Wash- Corps Artillery, post officials
ington, D.C. offices of the American Council of the Blind (ACB).
Both residents of Washington , the two women have found volun-
teering a rewarding way of life. They are among a quarter of million
RSVP volunteers serving their own communities throughout the developments, will assume command
country. RSVP is a program of ACTION, the federal volunteer
service agency.
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This Friday, April 6, beginning* at
9:30 the NCO club will present the
Moe Bandy Show.
Moe Bandy sings pure, undiluted,
hard-core honky-tonk - the kind that
blew out of West Texas in the 40’s and country singer by night often working
50's before razor-cuts and double-knit seventy-hour weeks. He says it nearly
weather fighter It has an inherent suits changed the face of country music
surface-to-air attack capability. Eight in the early 60’s. It's a kind of music
world time-to-clunb records were set
by art F-15 in early 1975, of which six
reman unbeaten
A host of military and civilian air-
craft will be on static display There
will be planes from the world's largest
aircraft, C-5 Galaxy, to a tiny 1946
Piper Cub
Coining from the Tiger Air Museum
in Paris, Texas, will be a flying For-
tress, B-25 Mitchell bomber, and an F-
9F Marine Crops fighter.
This F-9F is unique in two ways. It is
the only one of its kind still flyable and
it is the very same one that marine
pilot Ted Williams flew in Korea to
become an ace. For those who may not
recognize the name, Ted Williams is
the baseball great Hall of Famer.
Also from World War II an F-51
Mustang and T-34 propeller driven
trainer will be supplied by I^andon
Cullum of Wichita Falls.
Lee Smith of Wichita Falls will bring
in his T-6 trainer and a PT-17 St earman
biplane trainer is coming from San
Antpqio.
The 1946 Piper Cub is being furnished
by First Lieutenant Mike McGinnis of
the 80th Flying Training Wing.
An aerial demonstration will be
given by the U.S Air Force Academy
Jump Team They will exhibit
precision sky-diving techniques.
Bands from Fort Sill, Okla., and Iowa
Park High School will provide music
during the open house
The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard,
Bolling Air Force Base, DC., Drill
Team will go through their split-second
routines.
There will be a track meet open to
both civilian and military people on the
athletic field in back of the base gym
Anyone from age 18 and older may
enter the events.
In addition to training displays from
Technical Training Deputate, School of
Health Care Sciences, and 80th Flying
Training wing, several displays will be
offered by local industrial firms.
Wichita Fall’s Antique Car Club will
have vintage autos on display and their
owners will be dressed in garb of the
era represented by their cars.
A kite flying contest will be staged by
the 2054th Communications Squadron
in the open area north of Bridewell
Road and west of Missile Road. Local
businesses have donated prizes in such
categories as biggest kite, highest
flying kite, smallest, most original, etc.
A Titan II missile will be on display in
the south bay of Hangar 1090.
Air Force Association, Air Force
Reserve Officers' Training Crops, and
local recruiters also plan booths
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Shepard Airforce Base Slates
Community Day April 7
SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE,
TEXAS - There will be something
for everyone when Sheppard Air Force
Base opens to the public April 7 for
Community Day 1979. Military and
civilian aircraft, training displays,
sky divers, airshow, antique autos, kite
flying contest, bands and drill teams
will be here for the pleasure of more
than 20,000 expected guests.
Conceived by Major General Charles
L Donnelly Jr., Center commander,
Community Day at Sheppard was
conducted last spring for the first time
It is an open house affair to enhance the
relationship between civilian and
military communities
People from a 200-mile radius of
Wichila Falls, Texas, area are ex-
pected to attend this year
A highlight event will be an airshow
staged by two F-15 Eagle aircraft The
Eagle, designed for an air superiority
role,-is a single seat, fixed-wing all-
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Bandy attributes his success to the
fact that he sings songs about common bination has produced a highly con-
people and that he is, in essence, one of sistent and impressive string of hits,
them. A former sheet-metal worker,
Bandy says, “I have always been a
cornbread country boy. I could sing
‘Jingle Bells’ and it would become a by the Academy of Country & Western
country song while I was singing it.”
Bandy was born in Meridian,
Mississippi, on February 12 (an
Aquarian) to a piano playing mother presonal appearances. In 1978, Moe
and a guitar-picker father. One of six
children, Moe developed an ap-
preciation of music early, as Bandy warmly received. The response to his
clan gatherings were usually ac- appearance was so great that the BBC
companied by family songfests. His taped a special interview with Bandy in
grandfather worked the railroads with Nashville, Tennessee, which was aired
Jimmie Rodgers, and Moe recalls that m England as a special tribute to WSM
the phonograph records he first Radio and the Grand Old Opry
remembers hearing were from his Moe's touring schedule takes him to
grandfather’s extensive Rodgers the elite of country & western venues,
collection By the tune the Bandy
family moved to Texas when Moe was
six, he had already received a steady Cafe in New York City “Variety”
diet of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank newspaper described his show at the
Dine Star (Sept. 20, 1978 issue) as:
"The country singer of the working
class." And Bandy loves it.
Bandy also appears regularly on
Mission City Playboys as an outlet for such television shows as "Hee Haw”,
his own creative urges Young Moe "Pop! Goes Country!" and
watched, listened, and learned, and
soon began to show some interest on the pop-flavored
taking up the guitar to amuse himself.
As a high-schooler, Bandy held a
special intrigue with and talent for
rodeo performing. Having been raised
around bulls, broncs, and bronc-
busters, it seemed to him a natural
vocation until a series of broken bones
administered by "big, bad, bucking tapped Moe’s long-time friend Ronnie
steers” and "pompous ponies” turned Spillman to be president of the booking
him full-time to his gentler occupation agency which handles, in addition to
music' So, it came as a special honor Moe, entertainers Tony Booth. Buddy
recently when the International Rodeo Alan. Darrell McCall, and show and
association proclaimed Bandy dance bands.
“Entertainer of the Year.” Earlier, he
had received the 1975 “Texas En-
tertainer of the Year” award from the
Rodeo Cowboy’s Association in
recognition of his song, "Bandy the
Rodeo Clown,” a song he had
requested be written due to his
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DRUMMOND TO TAKE CHARGE -J
'nounred recently.
Col. James E. Drummond, a
Stillwater, Oklahoma, native, who is
the school’s director of combat
howitzer battilions Its arsenal includes
the Pershing Missile, with a range of
over 400 miles, the loanee Missile, the
eight-inch and 155 nun self-propelled Army Commendation Medal, Combat
howitzer, and the 105 towed howitzer
III Corps Artillery also has an in-
fantry and an aviation battalion An
armor company, equipped with M-60
tanks, is attached to the infantry
battalion. Ill Corps Artillery's aviators
fly several types of Army helicopters,
including giant CH 54 Skycranes and
CH-47 Chinooks
Maintaining combat readiness,
supporting training at the Field Ar-
tillery School and assisting in the
testing of new artillery equipment are
the primary reap isibihties of III
Corps Artillery
Drummond was raised in
.Albuquerque, N.M md is a 1950
graduate of Albuq • “|Ue H'l Sch ■ L
He attended the University of New
Mexiii in 195O-1951 before goirii n
the US. Military Academy at West
Point. N.Y H< was commissioned into
the field ar'illen after graduating
from West Point in 1955.
Heearneda mas’Tirf science degree
in aerospace engineering at the
University of Arizona and is a graduate
of the k leld Artillen (ifficer Basic and
Advanced Courses at the Field Ar-
tillery School He is also a graduate of
the U.S Army Command and General
Staff College, the Canadian land
Forces Staff College. Kingston, On-
tario, and the U.S Army War College
Drummond has command and staff
assignments at all leve’s of field ar-
tillery units and has served as a staff
officer at the Pentagon. He’s had
overseas assignments in Germany,
Korea and Vietnam.
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