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2 Altus Times, Thursday, April 9. 1998
POW museum pays tribute to forgotten heroes
STORMS: dozens die as storms sweep South
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hire will be responsible for removing and disposing of
their respective items.
Collection will taken in the southwest section of the city
from April 27-May 1: Northwest section. May 4-8: south
east section May 11-15 and northeast section May 18-22.
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Enrollment forms for Altus High School’s summer driver’s edu- Altus police are investigat- Approximately $600 in Chalmus Anne Harris, 58,
cation program are now available in the counselor’s office at the Al- ing several burglary and dam- cash was reported stolen from died April 4. Funeral services
tus Junior High School and AHS. To enroll, students must be 16 by age to property reports. a residence in the 400 block of were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday
Jan. 1. 1999. Classes will start a 7:30 a.m. on May 26 and will end Ju- A VCR. a camcorder, some West Commerce. at Hahn-Cook Funeral Home
ly 10 Classes will be limited to the first 44 students who pay the $90 coins and a Nike jacket were Police are investigating sev- in Oklahoma City.
enrollment fee Enrollment deadline is April 17. reported stolen from a resi- eral vandalism reports in Harris was born Nov. 29.
dence in the 200 block of which telephone lines in the 1939, in Oklahoma City, to
Altus High School Talent Show will be held at 7 p.m. today in the South Jackson. 200 block of Paseo DeVida Jimmy Gaylord and Martha
high school auditorium. The event is a student council fundraiser. Handcuffs, handcuff keys were cut. Smith Gaylord.
Cash prizes will be awarded. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for chil- and a handcuff case were re- A 16-year-old male juvenile She is preceded in death by
dren Preschoolers will be admitted free of charge. ported missing from a resi was arrested by police on a her husband Richard and a
dence in the 1200 block of complaint of assault and bat- son-in-law, Randy Chapman.
Southside Alumni banquet will be held Saturday at the Best Sandra Drive, tery. Survivors include: two
Western in Altus. Mixer will begin at 6 p.m. ________________________________________
The storm system roared into Georgia appears the torna-
Altus High School Junior/Senior Prom tickets are on sale early today, with high winds and heavy do kind of hop-
through April 16 at the high school cafeteria. Banquet tickets are rain and hail. Two people died in the scotched across
$7.50/person. parents are welcome. From tickets are $8 per person or Dunwoody area northeast of Atlanta, one the post." Olson Drake ter in Tulsa. Funeral services
$15 per couple. Mid-semester graduates are urged to attend. when a tree fell on a house. Two hundred said. "I haven’t are pending with Lowell-1 ims
miles to the southeast, one death was re- talked to anybody Funeral services are pend- Funeral Home.
Street Commissioner Robert Duval announces that until further no- ported at Fort Stewart, a soldier working that saw a funnel ing with Lowell-Tims Funeral
tice one lane of W. Cypress and N. Lee at the intersection of : EHome for Edith Drake, 93,
those two streets will be closed. This is to allow for rebuilding of the AlluS Police InvesuigaunO who died Tuesday at Jackson
intersection which was damaged when being used asabypass during P Q County Memorial Hospital.
Main Street construction. Any questions may be addressed to the . i 1 onanto
Street Department at481-2245. burglary, damage reports Harris
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By DAN SEWELL years. Includes a library for re- fears about how they would be
BXOANSDH WE-----"This memorial is a dream searchers, features a 27- accepted back home, he said.
finally come true for these for- minute documentary film nar- You didn if you
ANDERSONVILLE Ga (API gotten heroes of American rated by retired Gen. Colin would be treater as a ero or
ous ivil Nar prison ca and site of the Confederate camp ing that came over me — that I Boyles said ar
" You are not foreotten, and where Union soldiers were had something in common Centennial brought new at-
because of this National His: held in harsh, disease-ridden with all those people," said tention to Andersonville and
toric site you Sanford B^hoo conditions during the Civil Bill Fornes. 69. a Korean War led to a push to create a na
gotten. Reabout3 000 hop. War. Nearly 13.000 soldiers prisoner who lives in Valdos- tional historic site. The Viet-
D Ga., told about 3.000 peo- died at the camp Ga. He has already made nam War heightened national
ple, most of themexPOWs. at The dedication took place many trips to Andersonville interest in POWs. and the re
Sen John McCain RSArz 56 years after American sol- and plans lo be burled there. sult was an effort to turn "
who 1 doh more thin five diers began the brutal Bataan Fornes said besides physi- former POW camp in Ander
who spent mor'afterbene Death March during World cal or psychological torture by sonville into a memorial to all
years in captivity after being War II. Some 16000 Ameri- their captors. POWs often had American POWs. „ ,
shot down or ver Nordh vit can and Filipino troops died 10 deal with isolation and the "The funding was the big
nam. was the featured mixed on the 70 mile trek to a uncertainty of whether they thing. Working through Con
er in a pro gram a Marine Japanese prison camp in the would ever be freed and gress takes a long time, said
Rand a military color guard Philippines, which was then a whether their loved ones knew Wayne Hitchcock. a World
Band. a military color gm and U.S. colony. they were still alive. War II POW who heads the Ex
and a stirring singing ofuthe The 10.000-square-foot Many were forced to make POW organization.
national anthem by the audl museum combines interactive false confessions, which led to
“It means a time of remem- exhibits, videotaped inter-
brance of those who have views, narrated letters, photos
been deprived of their freedom and memorabilia preserved
all throughout our nation’s from the estimated 800.000
history." McCain said earlier Americans who have been
today on NBC. "It is also a cel- held prisoner in wars begin-
ebration of the courage and ning with the American Revo-
the dignity and the honor that lution.
has been associated with the The exhibits emphasize the
enormous sacrifices made." links between prisoners over
Today’s dedication was a the ages and trace the differ-
long time coming for those ent aspects of captivity, in-
who sometimes felt neglected cluding torture,
or underappreciated over the The museum, which also
Continued from page 1 in the administration building, and a or anything like that, but indications are
----------- ----—----------------woman and a 13-year-old girl were killed that that’s what it was."
1 ple were injured. Witnesses said church in a mobile home community just south Because of downed power lines and
--:-------------------------------—--------------members sang hymns and prayed as the of the base. ruptured gas lines. Fort Stewart officials
Jack Owen, former superintendent of Arnett will speak at the 1:30 p.m. storm pounded the structure. Rich Olson. a Fort Stewart closed the post to all but essential per
program Saturday. To make reservations, call Edith Carter at 580- In northern Mississippi, where the spokesman, couldn’t confirm an earlier sonnel. he said. Worried residents of
688-3619 or Dorothy Ayers at 580-688-2866. storms struck around 6:45 p.m., a 16- report that 17 National Guardsmen from nearby Hinesville tried frantically to fir 1 i
year-old boy died in Pontotoc County Tennessee were injured. He said five peo- out about relatives living or working on
The Altus Post Office will be open from 7 p.m. until midnight April when the mobile home he was in was ple were injured on the base. the post.
15 for late tax filers. The post office will close at 4:30 p.m. and reopen shattered. His sister and another girl had The way the re-
at 7 p.m. fled the home a short time earlier. porting sound.
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