NUMBER 15
HELEN KELLER, BLIND AUTHOR, VISITS HERE H elen K elle r, d eaf and blind aut hor , last Tuesday vis it ed the Santa M argarita H ospital h ere, lendin g ch eer t o a numb er of bedr <idden pa tients. By plac in g h-er fi nge r s on th e lips of patient s !-h e "h ea rd" their questi on s, greeti n gs a n d comment s. H er "readings·• a nd st atem ents are r epeat-ed orally by Miss Polly .:r'Jlomason, her companion fo r 31 ~yea rs.
"I can smell m y landscape,'' said Miss K eller, w ho asked h osA t a colorful review h eld h ere last week ex-Marine Privat e Salpital officials about th e vario u ~ vador Vargas was awarded the Navy Cross. Col J. H. Berry, Deputy sur roundings a t Sa nt a Marga rito. Chief of Staff, is p ictured abov e as he presents Vargas with t he na She recogni zes all fl owers by th~ tion's second highest hero's award. socn t a nd touc h. The snapdragon, for instan ce, "suck s my f inger .mth i ts li ttle blosso m ." 1 Blind 4 7 yea rs, Miss Keller was taught by Miss Anne Sullivan, Capt D a v i d 0. Zearbough It was Ar my Day in Washwho died in 1936. ington last Saturday, but the USN(MC) of Portland, Ind., has "I am h appy,'" sh e s t a t ed. '·I Marines, as usual, "had t he sit. relieved Capt J ohn T . O'Connell have wo nderful frie n ds, inte restUSN(MC) as Area Surgeon of nation well in hand." ing. w ork and natu re's gre at op en Cheering crowds lined Con- the command. ' book a t m y fi n ge rtips." stitution Avenue as t he Army's Beginning his Naval career in -H older of two degr ees and aufamed 82nd Airborne Division 1925, Capt Zearbough accepted "thor of a number of book s, Mi s~ paraded down t he broad street a commission at Portland, I nd., Keller t ypes all of her · own manu- in full combat garb. The long and graduated from the Naval scripts. Among h er book s arc line:> of tanks, half tracks and Medical School, at Washington, "The Story of My L ife" a nd "Out gun carriers were du ly im - D. C., in 1932. pf t he Dark." press ive. But, the climax of Before being assigned to his "I am proud that t he Nazi:> the parade was the very last new duties here Capt Zearbough 'Considered the act of bu rning my vehicle in line, a brilliant yelbook (Out of the Dark) worth- low jeep with red wheels. Rid- s erved with the Third Marine Divis ion, and was Ex-ecutive Officer while," because of t he views exing in it were four Marines in at the New Orleans Naval Hospressed, she said. full dress blues, looking rigidly pital, New Orleans, La. He also .Miss Keller writes G.=rman a nd ahead. On the front of the jeej> served a s Senior Medical Officer French , and some Spanish a n d a large placard proclaimeda t Camp Elliot. jtol!ian. She is counse lor fo r t h e Join the Marines- NOW! f3ur eau of National a nd Inte rn a tional Re lations and th e Ameri can Yankees Sign Stirn weiss At 1000 Wedn·esday 17 April, 'Foundation for th e Blind, I nc., George Stirnweiss, Yankee inof N ew York. fielder, signed his J;ontract aft€r there will go on sale at the Gift Vis iting mo re tha n 90 milib ry wrangling for $5,000 raise ove>: Shop, 14-I-5, a limited number of hospita ls du ring t he past t wo .$16,000 salary of 1945. A com- Eastman 16mm Movie Cameras year s , Miss K eller pla ns on visit- promise in salary, variously esti- and 35mm Candid Cameras. These ~~ m a n y m ore before h er current mated from $17,500 to $20,000, Cameras will be offered a t a great saving to Marines only. !tour is com pleted. was r each ed.
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On·e Navy Cross, a Gold St ar in lieu of a Second B ronze Star, four Bronze Stars a n d ten Purple H eart Medals were presented a t an impressive revi·;o v.r held at the 14-Area Parade Grounds Saturday, April 6. With the various parade bat talions of the command participating, the ceremony was one of the mos t stirring ever held at thi~ gigantic bas·e. In addition to hundreds of wives and relatives of Marines attending, the Deputy Auxiliary Police, Los Ange~es Youth Organiza tion, which was. visiting CamPen over the weekend, was also present. Col J . H . Berry, Deputy Chief of Staff, was the reviewing officer and presented the variou:> awards. The Navy Cross was presen ted to ex-Marine Private Salvador Vargas, of Cardiff, Calif., for "extraordinary heroism in action against the enemy" at Iwo Jima, during action of March 12, 1945. In a citation signed by LtGen Roy S. Geiger, Commanding General, FMF Pac, the following facts regrading Vargas' h eroic action were set forth: According to' the citation, Pvt. Vargas, while deilvering a message to the front lines on the abov-e date, " saw that his company was being raked with enemy machine gun fir e from several pillboxes, and was suffering a large number of casualties . " Disregarding his own safety, at a ll times ·exposed to heavy enemy fire, he voluntarily crawled beyond the fro::~t lines, work ing his way to the pillboxes." He silenced two of them with hand grenades, but on h is way t o the third was hit in the chest and left leg. "Painfully wounded,'' t he cita(Cont inued on pag e 8)