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SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 20 (AP)—Two men stationed at the Marine Corps recruit depot were killed today [March 20, 1952] when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a Santa Fe Railway switch engine. Dead are Corp. Dean R. Myrick, 29, and Pfc. Ernest A. Sherf, 24. Patrolman Paul Hayes Jr. said Myrick […]

A Sandia Base soldier was killed in a two-car collision at 8:40 Friday night [March 1, 1952] 16 miles west of Vaughn. The victim was Lt. Harold Emree, 28. Emree was a passenger in a car driven by Cpl. Robert G. Ballard, who is in Sandia Base Hospital along with two other passengers, Sgt William […]

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. from Mueller Funeral Home, Kennewick, for Ralph Milton Wilson, 27, of 100 Craighill, Richland. Burial will be at Grandview. Mr. Wilson, a railroad brakeman employed at Hanford, died Saturday night [January 26, 1952] of a gunshot wound which police said was self-inflicted. He was a World […]

In this city, Dec. 7, 1951, Albert B. Cornish, Jr. of 406 Willis Avenue. Survived by his wife, Winifred Cornish; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Cornish, Sr.; one brother, Robert L. Cornish. Funeral Monday at 2 P.M. from the De Witt Funeral Home, 749 West Onondaga Street, with the L. Ernest Otter of […]

Brig. Gen. Harry B. Liversedge, famed fighting Marine and former Olympic Games and University of California star athlete, died yesterday [November 25, 1951]. General Liversedge, 57, succumbed at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., after a major surgical operation. He had been a patient there since September. One of the highlights of his illustrious […]

Concordia, Kas., Nov. 26—(UP)—Ice on Highway 81 caused a fatal car accident 15 miles south of Concordia yesterday [November 25, 1951]. The victim was Orlando Fred Gallegos, 27-year-old soldier at Fort Riley. His car skidded and overturned.

Michael S. Vulcano, 39, of 308 Howard St., a bartender at Henny Andrews’ Supper Club, died yesterday [November 6, 1951] at his home. A native of Pennsylvania, he was a resident of Syracuse for 23 years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Connie Battaglino Vulcano; three daughters, Linda, Mary and Elaine Vulcano; eight brothers, Samuel, James, […]

Staff Sgt. James Robert Williams, Bend, died as a result of combat wounds in Korea Sept. 30, 1951. Born Feb. 3, 1927, at Dexter, he was educated at Trent and Pleasant Hill. Williams was a Trent Christian Church member. He was a World War II veteran and was serving with the First Marine Division at […]

VENTURA, Sept. 19—Sgt. Gillis B. Naylor, 27, a resident of Fullerton, was killed [September 18, 1951] when the motorcycle he was riding en route to Camp Cooke crashed into the concrete siding of a railroad overpass here. Injured was a passenger on the motorcycle, Seaman Homer Crabtree, 22, stationed aboard the USS Curtis in San […]

Services for Cpl. Lloyd R. Lusher, 30, a Marine who was killed September 11 [1951] in Korea, will be held at 1:30 o’clock Saturday at the Mt. Washington Baptist Church. Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery. The body will be at the Carson Chapel, Independence, until the services. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Altalea […]