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PAGE FOURTEEN New Field House Is Set At Fort Unit Named For Airmen’s F irst Guide* T CRT BRAGG The new Wil litim C Lee Field House completed ret' ntly was officially dedicated whh appropriate ceremonies on Monday' uigbi May i 4. Located on Lent Street Road, the beautiful UHoern structure is the pride of Fort Bragg. Trie order of the program for dedication ceremonies was as fol io >\ s: 6'45 Music by the 82nci Airborne Division Band. 7:00 Invocation by Chaplain tCaptf Henry L Durand, 82lid Air borne Division. 7:05 Welcome by Lt. General John W. Leonard. Commanding General of Fort Bragg and V Corps. 7.1 C Address ‘General Lee. The Scldier,* by Major General W. M. Miiey Commanding General of the Army Airborne Center. 7:20 Address '‘Father of the Air* hr me.” by Brigadier General R.dgb-y Gaither. Operations Branch t-- ■ The Pentagon, Washington, r, c 7:30 Recognition of Mr?. William C Lee. 7:35 Closing prayer by Chaplain (Lt Colonel) Sidney R Crumpton Tost Chaplain 740 National Anthem by the Bind Airborne Division Band. 7:45 Presentation of Athletic Trophies by Lt. General John W. Leonard. Commanding General of Fort Bragg and V Corps. 8.00 Open House lnspection of :hd now field house and aquatic show directed by Corpora] Warren Haley. 8:18 Pre-broadcast show by I:, !ph Flannagan and his Orches tra, ■ 9:00 ‘‘Lets Go With Ralph Flan*- fjsn” vShow broadcast Coast-to et-ast over ABC. 9-30 End of Broadcast. ' The huge structure houses a gymnasium large enough foi any ix.door athletic event which Fort Bragg authorities might arrange. The naming of the structure for tr- General William C, Lee is a fitting tribute to the man who is considered the father of the mod- i frn day paratrooper, as It? loca- ‘ Bou is at the home of the famed < 82m) Division, “America's Guard ' of Honor.'' Tilt huge modern Lee Field House is outstanding in every v av. And though it is designed .with service and practicability as the chief aim. the beauty of the build in? is striking. Mrs. Lev, was a guest »f honor at the dedication cere monies. visited the building ra f-rnUy and acclaimed it as one of the most beautiful of its Bioil to he found anywhere, i no, structure is of red brick trimmed with ■ limestone and aluminum fixtures and blend verious shades of glazed tile throu ghout with a ceiling of antique it includes a gymnasium which measures 300 feet by ibo feet com l lext with three basketball, courts. w:tii a roll-away bench-waling ca pacity »f approximately 3,000. The Looi is illuminated by’ forty flood bhhts. The ron-away type seating ar rangements make it possible for maintenance crew’s to convert the iioor from basketball to another activity in less than one hour's time. A beautiful indoor -a ith six l acing lx ties measures 102x61 feet, and the outdoor pool, 100x30 feet! complete with underwater lighting. W;th the plan of water circulation, fresh water and utmost sanitary conditions arc almost a auarenteed fact. A public lobby forms the. en hance of the gym with ticket win- - Sows and a public telephone booth. Issue rooms, storage space, arid a management office have also been provided. Also included arc four tile dressing rooms, complete xvith kteeL foekerv, showers, and toi let facilities. The ladies even have a powder room complete ‘ wttiS electric hair dryers. Factory-new athletic equip- i ffiicnt has been iitsistllcd inelod iojf trampnHnes. paratteK bars, -tV . T ££■' ~ if ■*[ .A- : -V- ' A® -:■ s-m£ L ;• tBL iff MBrfiitlinl DOING Dirry Lt. Magnolia A. Worslcy, Army Nurse Corps, of fit.’! F- Grand Avenue, Rocky Mount, daughter of Mrs. Esther A. Warren, Route 2, Battlcboro, was at fVrooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex as. completing basic military training in the Women Officers' Basic Course a! Medical Field - Service School. She has reported for duty to Valley Forge Army j Hospital, phoenixvillc, Pennsyl- 1 tunmbliNg ami wrestling mats, bicycles, and also many other pt/ccs of gymnastic equipment. Tile entire stiucture was paid for by Army Exchange profits. Ail in ail, the- Fort Bragg structure is one of the most beautiful and most complete •. ymnasitums in the entire United Slates. Physical fitness of the men under hi? command was always a must for the famed G« rural, and a building such as ibis, designed mainly fur that purpose w k! have met with this heartiest ap proval At North Carolina State Col lege, he won letters in both foot ball and baseball Bill Lee's interest was always with his men. Once he told a re porter. “write about tht men and for goodness sake leave tin name ol Bib out of it." He always gave full erf A* for the | vets? of hi ideas of vertical envelopment tac tics to the men he train) a A seven foot high stone monu ment at L<?.- Field, at the Fort Hen ning, Georgia, jump area lor stu dent j-ai-ati oopci s commemorates : his-formation there of the first pla toon of airborne troops, which por vided the nucleus for the present organization. Ccncrxi Ice entered th<* service on August 15. 1917, \\ hen he. was commissioned a second lieutenant, reserve, of Infantry. In 191*0, he received a regular army commission. During World War i, he saw service in France as a platoon leader and a company com mander. After ihe war. he re mained in Germany with the Army of Occupation. 3r) 1922. he graduated from the Company Officers Course at the ln fantry School, at Fori Banning. Georgia, following which he serv ed four years on the mil),ary fac ulty at th< University of North Carolina. Later he served three years in Panama in 1930. he graduated from tlx- Tank School and t'oree years later from th« Advanced In fantry Officers Course. He was sent to England and France in 1932 as a Military Ob server, returning home in 1934. He returned to Europe in 1935 and while in France attended and \ania. All new members of the Nurse Corps or the Women’s Medical Specialist Corps of Sin j ! Army or the Air Force attend this orientation course which I helps them 'adapt their profCs- j siona! knowledge to military medical steeds. Graduates are j qualified fur clulv assignments at i medical units an ({hospitals : tlirougout the t nited States and I overseas, I graduated from the French Tank i School at Versatile? and then serv ed on, war with a lank regiment' in the French Army. For four years, he was an in structor in tfu Tank School and the Infantry School <t the end of which pe: iert he-was ordt led to the Command anti General Stuff School at Fori Leavenworth, Kan ras. graduating in 1938. After receiving his diploma from Hus school, he was assigned a?j Executive Offieei of the 2nd Ire sentry Division, and was later or-1 derod to duty with tfu Office- of - Chi-f of Infantry .Washington D C. It was while «r» this duty in Washington that he began to take active interest m the tactics of air troop transporta tion. which were being- so forcefully demonstrated abroad. Largely through his inb rests and effort-, parachute l 0,-ps fur our - Army beettnu- a reality in July, 1940. when a t- st platoon of picked - men from the 29th Infantry at ’ Tort Bounin - wore given Ihe task (•* torming the nucleus for such a - fore Fi. >t Lieutenant mow Licu -1 tenant Colonel > William T. Ryder v, as chosen to head this test pal- On Oetubf! ’ Ist, 1940, the- 301st Parachute Battalion was activated. comthand(-d by Major W M Miiey. Editors Note; Mib-.v is now a Ma jor Co ReraJ and is in command of ti’.e Army Airborne Center at Fort Bragg' General Lev remained in WashinctOit. directing the organi zation of the battalion. T)i, economy practiced at the I tun- provided very- little equip- j ntent but Lee along with his as-j sociates. continued with the equip- ' ment ih> y had and strived to train • b)> troops to net section. When : World War IS brokt out in 1945. generals who had been studying i hi- plan stressed the importance of ail d< livery of troops. Through his efforts, the number of uarachutisls increased rapidly ! f'{lowing the activation of the 501st, and upon formation of the “Airborne Command" at Fort Bragg in 1942. the choice of Col onel Lc-e v« as the logical one as cotmnendcr. His nomination to the r„r J k of Brigadier General wa BRAGGMEN VISIT IN ALASKA IN EXERCISE STEP FORT BR AG:.; S-i gcant An ! ore Singleton ot Headquarter;-. Coinpany Third Battalion, 505th Airborne lnf:ni'-> Regiment, and thirty-inn- oth»-r troopers of the repine at enjoyed a short visit with 1 Canadian paratroopers while re* tui niiiL f :*(,!-1 • xcrci.se “fi\- j . step" iri Alaska, On the return trip from Alaska, a lorn- C-119 racket winged away from Ihe main group of planes and landed at Calgary, (.anada where thirty foor troopers of the 505th Air borne Infantry Regiment were entertained as guests of the ’ Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry. The l'. S, Troopers stayed at the famed' Currie Barrack- and at.- at the .Sergeant's Mess. In Idling about his < xpcri eiiee and 1 reaih taking seen cry, Si:t, Singleton said that the scenery, which included the snow capped mountains, \i is very picturesque. While flying to Alaska tie observed Monu mental Rock near South Dako ta's Rapid < itv. Sn re,tnt Singleton op- :: x• •cl v,;11 1 .the Ist Battalion Intelligence' s- c tion whih on tht operation tint! acted in the capacity of an ob server representing tile Third Ba tallion. He participated in the para chute jump climaxing t.‘u Opera tion. Sergeant Walker Honored With Birthday Party j FORT BRAGG - A birthday also leatur. < c-: :: , cvc-i 'n:'s .n --] party w-’r -iv'-n Sergeant Edv,-ard . tertaiinnc.nt. IC. Walker b.y his wife, Mrs. Betty , Walker at their quarters, TC-421- : Bi, Spring Area, on Saturday nipi 1 1 May 5. The affair was in celebra i tion of iht Sergeant s tv. • t.!j i. i tis birthday anniversary. Midway the party the guests joined in singing Happy Birth day as Sergeant Walker, smil ing broadly, opened and ix ihbited the many gifts given him. The birthday table was centered •with a large, tiered cake topped j with twenty-eight small candles. To the left was a hug< bowl'of j punch while tire- remaining portion •of the tab).- consisted <■! refresh ments and a neat display of tile g'ifis r< ei iveci bv the honoret. Dancing and card-playing were confirmed on April 29, 1942 On Aur'ust 16, 1942. the airborne ef fort was expanded to two divisions, lire 82nd and the 191st. General l,e< was then promoted to Major G')u-- i rni and to the command of the ldlst. He trained and brought ow to combat .-tr> ngth After the activation of the lOtsl (called the Battered Bas tards of Hastogne after their Battle of the Bulge engage ment 1, General Lee went over seas to direct their famous European operation. 11l health kept him from seeing his men come through with flying colors. Ik returned iionn and was rt ' j tired from active duty on October 131, 1944. A heart attack on the ! morning of dune 23. HH», at his home in Dunn, North Carolina. ! brought death to the fumed G> nc ; ral at the age of 53 He was buried ! with full military honors at Cn.en ! wood Cemetery in his native Dunn, 1 with a detachment of the S2nd Airborne Division participating North Carolina paid tribute to her native son when the State pe ' partment of Archives and Historv ■erected a marker at Dunn to /,e • memory of the late General at the , corner of Broad and King Streets. ’ two blocks from the Lee home His widow. Mrs. Hava John son Lee, still maintains th# home on West IXvine Street in I hum. One brother, Edward Lee of lionn. arid a sister, .Mrs B. C. Jackson of Kaleigh, North Carolina, also survive, CAROLINIAN Sat». it-ay, >vgc 10, los>l niSVL-LI.1) \KTER.tNS AT WORK ON I*OPPIES -- As 3f«-- morial Day draws near disabled veteran poppy makers tliri.ugh out the country arc rushing up production .Vow an annual aS hur. Buddy Poppy Day which is held annually on Memorial Day. brings back to the ill veterans proceeds for medical care, hob bies and therapies ilia in some rases will help them to become gainfully err>-loved ag tin. Bud - dy Poppy D.-.y ( s sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. ( A \ P) 1 hunks .Mrs. Roosevelt NEW YORK A Nh ..." Cl in r- e.:,i:v t ( > m.F,ica ! : Ro<' -I ■;> . \ •■! i he: thru lie and Is: felloe. i \ i.-emori were <n coia-!:.i by Kem.-im that you nd ail >' the NAAGf* ;i • lighting tlisciar.ii: :Lor. v. *t;i ything > ossiblc DDT save ti.- ,: ■■a K. of lly 5 during V.’r-b Wa IT b-v protect ing troops hisccts- that c«r --■ v disenses such s malm ia and ty phus. Present were Mr. ,tml Mrs. Dewey Newman. Mr. . ml Mrs. Jessie Parker, Sgt Id and Mi's Oliver O. Gaines. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Lomack. M-Srt. and Mrs Douglass O. Addison, Lt. and Mrs. Dorsey Mason. Mr. and Airs. .lames T. siinmons and daughter. Sgt. and Mrs. James W. Byrd. M-Sgt. a)>d Mrs, Oney Harris, Mr and Mrs. Thelma McNeil, Sgl. and .Mrs. Robert I>. Phillips. Vlr. and Mrs. Prince A. Simmons. Pfc. and Mrs. Lamar Keith Jr.. Mrs. Delores Roberts, Sgt id Oliver Adams, yirs. B. tty Am Marrs, Cpl Norman I.uckctt, Mrs. Bcr- Rice Stewart and M« m ss j, *rs Nar vijj and Norman MePhertson. ~toll 51.95 3.15 86 Proof IH( STSAKWt ViM'lKm IN THI fCODUCf ( ¥ f**y s'-K OLD. as* STKAiCt-iT w>"*s-tr. u% Ntuisat s»i*u*. Pisnuto • JSOM Cl AIN. vfiiertm i *m>! iwnn prstis ♦« ( t*tbt« SAY YOl SAW IT IN IHF CAROLINIAN
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