Plans are being made to have the manager of Armco Steel Corporation's west coast offices represent the city and Mrs. Altha Hamilton Saturday when the city's first released prisoner, Pvt. Roland A. Hamilton. arrives in San Francisco at 11 a.m. on the transport General W. F. Hase. The local Red Cross is requesting Army officials in San Francisco to allow the Armco official, Wally Kuenzel, a former resident of Middletown, to meet the ship. Present regulations, the Red Cross says permit only relatives to greet the returning POWs. By this morning the Red Cross had received no answer to its request. A program to drive Private Hamilton, who was released August 10, from the Ohio airport on which he lands to his home at 1303 Woodlawn Ave. is also being formulated, but as yet nothing definite has been announced...

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