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Show t ' ' ' f i KC -( Dick Pryor 'DICK' PRYOR IS MANAGER OP JAMAICA PHONES F. R. "Dick" Pryor, a native of Minersville, has been named general manager of the Jamaica Telephone Company, a subsidiary subsid-iary of the Continental Tele-phpne Tele-phpne System, Mr. Pryor was president fil the Grand Bahama Telephone Company and the Andres Transmission and Telephone Company for 3 Mi years, before comnig to Jamaica three months ago. Previous to this tour of duty jn the Bahamas, he was for 17 years plant superintendent of Henderson Telephone Co., Ifen-derson, Ifen-derson, Nevada, Mr. Pryor was born in 1927 and started his career with Consolidated CRPer, Kimber ley, Nevada, immeditely after graduating from high school at Beaver, Utali. During World War II he served in the Navy (as a bosun's mate) and saw action in the South pacific. Ife sur? vived the L,os Negrps, Gvjam., Okinawa and New Guinea campaigns, Dick Pryor and his wife Betty Bet-ty have a son Richard, who lives in Miami and will be going go-ing into the armed services In July. Their 19-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, Penny, is with them In Jamaica. |