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Show Weston's Sons in Global Horspots Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weston, 769 So. West Temple, have two sons on duty with the United States Navy in trouble spots on opposite sides of the globe. Their oldest son, David, now is stationed with a naval aerial patrol squadron at Gauntanamo Bay, Cuba, and with his fellow fliers eats and sleeps under the muzzles of the big guns on Soviet So-viet tanks whic Castro has surrounded sur-rounded the land side of the American base on Cuba. A second son Stephen, is serving serv-ing in the engine room aboard the U.S.S. Sproston, one of the Seventh Fleet detsroyers that is escorting the ships landing the Marines in Thailand. A third member of the family, son-inlaw Ralph C. Gribbin, after having been on duty for the past three years at a Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., naval air base, is beginnig a three month period oi re-training at a Mempnis naval na-val school, in preparation for re assignment in a probable battle bat-tle station overseas. The senior Mr. Weston, Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for the United States Senate, is himself the veteran of more than five years of active duty during World War II and the national emergency that preceded it . He left the service at the end of that war as a squadron commander of the Air Force with the rank of captain. "Participation in the armed defense of this nation and of its policies has never been an aca-, aca-, with the men of the Weston ' family for more than 300 years on the North American continent" conti-nent" Mr. Weston said this week. "When the time has Come to bear arms, we have in each generation gen-eration been among those who were prepared to go out on the first call. I am proud that the entire history of our family has been that each generation has sent its full share of young men to hold the firs lines while others with less fortitude and less foresight fore-sight have been given time to ready themselves for action they believed would never come, but .which always does come." |