Those Days Gone Forever - Ex-Sgt. Gerald Fridenmaker is an ex-cook who has nixed cooking. The Middletonian, a 22-year-old Korean veteran who was discharged from the Army Sept. 23 worked himself up from a cook’s helper to top man in the front line kitchen. But he now is leaving his pots, pans and pantry behind him. "Not unless I have to" is Fridenmaker’s unsmiling, quiet reply to queries about whether he intends satisfying the curiosity of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fridenmaker, 918 Catalpa Dr. “We’ve tried to get him to cook” Mrs. Fridenmaker says, “but he won’t do it." The veteran confides that while the family teasing campaign is still on, no one is forcing him to cook, and so the non-cooking situation is going to remain just where it is. Fridenmaker, with the 12th Field Artillery, makes no claims to being an extraordinary cook. He had no specialties and received the normal number of gripes...

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