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...ALFRED VAN WHITMER, a quiet but competitive youth, most enjoyed riding his two horses, a mare and a quarter-horse colt, through the secluded countryside. His parents had just begun payments on a new house when he came home on leave. "Van said he was increasing his life insurance," his mother remembers. "He turned to his father and said: 'Dad, I'm going to pay off this place...
...Draper, 19, was killed in an ambush while leading his squad on a road sweep. King, 21, died less than a week after reaching Viet Nam. Whitmer, 21, was killed on a patrol. West, 19, was shot near Quang Nam while serving with a landing team. Moncayo, 22, was part of an entire platoon wiped out by the enemy near Quang Tri. Garcia, 22, had volunteered to lead an unscheduled patrol in Quang Nam province when he was struck down by a booby trap...
School Superintendent Dana Whitmer believes it is too early to appraise the results. "It will depend on whether there are improvements in education," he insists. But last week an early return came in. Some 250 white teachers joined 170 black colleagues in a one-day walkout to enforce their demand for the appointment of a black assistant superintendent. All of the strikers lost a day's pay and risked losing their jobs. It was the first time the whites and blacks of Pontiac's schools had made common cause over such an issue...
...committee members fifteen in number, are: J. P. Bunker, of Matthews, M. Oppenheimer, Massachusetts, D. Whitmer, and J. O'Nell, Thayer; W. N. Perry of Hollis; G. Heiden of Weld; E. Spaeth, T. Carroll, A. Northrop of Grays; W. Bodine and H. Taylor of Wigglesworth; and R. Windsor and J. E. Massengale of Holworthy; E. G. Eklund of 40 Quincy Street, and A. Lowenburg and J. K. Dane of Dudley...
...Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...