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...spirit of Easter Week," as he put it at his press conference last week, President Kennedy delivered holiday goodies to two of the most publicized PFCs in Army uniform. Announced the Commander in Chief: "I have asked the Army to cancel the trial of PFC Larry D. Chidester of Fort Lewis, Wash., and I've directed the Army to remit the balance of the sentence of PFC Bernis G. Owen at Fort Polk...
When he heard the news of his release last week, PFC Owen, his nose sunburned from 23 days of hard labor under guard, said contritely: "I want to go back to my unit and be a good soldier." The first thing Letter Writer Chidester did was to sit down and dash off a thank-you note to President Kennedy...
learned that complaint can become insubordination: at Fort Polk, La., Pfc...
...commander, recognized the problem. Said he: "Fort Polk, La., is a hell of a long way from Berlin or Viet Nam or Laos. If there was a shooting war, shots being fired, there'd be no problem." Plucked from his pre-law studies at the University of Texas, Pfc. Owen soon proved himself an outspoken guardhouse lawyer. Early last month. Owen and some equally unhappy cohorts passed the word that there would be an indignation meeting. About 200 soldiers turned up for the wailing session. At a second rally, attendance jumped to 300, and at a third there were...
Died. First Lieut. Robert Allen (Bob) Gutowski, 25, fluid-formed Marine pole-vaulting champion who held the world's outdoor record (15 ft. 8¼ in.) from 1957 until last month's Olympic tryout, which saw Army Pfc. Don Bragg vault one inch higher; in an auto accident; near Oceanside, Calif...