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Show Jimmy Wickes Will Attend Flying School Congressman Laurence J. Burton, along with 20 other representatives and families, recently toured the Naval Academy at Annapolis. An-napolis. During the tour, Rep. Burton met the only Utah 1st District midshipman at the Academy. He is James Richard Wickes, of Moab, son of former First Baptist Bap-tist Church Pastor, Homer Wickes. Midshipman Wickes Wick-es will graduate in June, and proceed to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida for pilot training. The visiting Congressman Congress-man was informed that 30 per cent of the graduats go on to pilot training; 20 per cent to advanced training at various colleges col-leges in special fields. The remainder are assigned to the line. The Congressional party lunched in Bancroft Hall, the largest dormitory in the world, with 4,000 midshipmen. mid-shipmen. The families had lunch in the officer's club. "It was a thrill to be in the presence of these outstanding, out-standing, cleancut young men," the Utah Representative Represen-tative noted. "Before each (meal the entire Brigade, stands formation in front of Bancroft Hall. That, in itself, is worth a trip to Annapolis. |