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Show 100-mile segment of the Iron Curtain Cur-tain which serves as the gateway to Berlin. Lowry, a track vehicle driver in the battalion's Company B, entered ent-ered the Army in July 1958, received re-ceived basic training at Fort Carson, Car-son, Colo., and arrived in Europe The 19-year-old soldier attended atten-ded Granite High School. Fort Ord, Calif. Army privates pri-vates Edward N. Fuller, 23, and Gary Farnsworth, 22, of Salt Lake City, completed the 8 -week general supply course May 29 at Fort Ord. The men received instruction in the fundamentals of Army supply procedures and the preparation of supply records and forms. Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel A. Fuller, 4288 Highland Dr., entered the Army in. January of this year and received basic training train-ing at Fort Ord, Calif. He is a 1954 graduate of Olympus High School and attended the University of Utah. Fuller was employed by Albertson's Food Center, Hol-laday, Hol-laday, before entering the Army. Farnsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Farnsworth, 3155 Kaibab Way, entered the Army in January 1959 and received basic training at Fort Ord, Calif. Farnsworth Farn-sworth is a 1955 graduate of Brig-ham Brig-ham High School, Provo, and attended at-tended Brigham Young University. Servicemen's News Bad Tolz, Germany Sgt. John H. Wood, 21, whose wife, Sandra, lives in Warm Springs, Mont., recently re-cently graduated from the Seventh Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy in Bad Tolz, Germany. Sergeant Wood Received four weeks of refresher training in map reading, combat tactics and leadership. lead-ership. Wood entered the Army in March 1958, arrived in Europe last January Jan-uary and is regularly assigned as a squad leader in Company C of the 24th Division's 3d Engineer Battalion in Munich. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Lile R. Wood, 1256 Gilmer Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah, he is a 1955 graduate of East High School, Salt Lake City, and attended the University Univ-ersity of Utah. Efelson Air Force base, Alaska, Army PFC Ellis D. Rishton, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Rishton, 1019 Wilson, Salt Lake City, is serving in Alaska with the 2d Missile Battalion, 56 2d Artillery, Ar-tillery, which recently was converted con-verted to a Nike -Hercules unit. The 562d is the last artillery unit in Alaska to change from 120 millimeter antiaircraft cannons to Nike-Hercules missiles. Rishton, a radar specialist in the battalion's Battery A, entered the Army in June 1958 and completed com-pleted basic training at Fort Carson, Car-son, Colorado. He is a 1953 graduate of South High School and a 1958 graduate of the University of Utah. FULDA, GERMANY (AHTNC) Army Prvt. Robert C. Lowry, jon of Mr. and MRS. Earl J. Lowry, 225 E. Gregson Ave., Salt Lake City, is performing patrol duty while assigned to the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment's 1st Battalion in Fulda, Germany. The primary mission of the regiment is the constant surveillance surveil-lance of NATO's Fulda Gap, a Bad Kreuznach, Germany Jerald M. Taylor, 19 , son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Taylor, 3203 Richards Street, Salt Lake City, recently was promoted to private first class in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, Ger-many, where he is a mechanic in the 517th Medical Company. Taylor entered the Army in August 1958 and received basic training at Fort Carson, Colo. He was last stationed at Fort Leonard Leon-ard Wood, Mo., and arrived in Europe Eur-ope in February of this year. Taylor is a 1958 graduate of Granite High School. |