"Pull" Gives Out - M. Sgt. Al Walters suddenly has found too much slack in his "pull." The local recruiting officer will give up his duties here Feb. 23 to take over a similar post at Ft. Knox, Ky. A native of Middletown, Sgt. Walters jokingly points out that "you have to have pull to be stationed in your own home town." The sergeant confides that the main reason he was assigned for more than two years in Middletown was because "President Eisenhower and I served in the same army.” But with Mr. Eisenhower still occupying a post of some importance in the nation, Sgt. Walters has to pack his bags for Ft. Knox. The sergeant can not explain the slack. Taking over for Sgt. Walters is T.Sgt. Marvin R. Hedrick. Sgt. Hedrick is a member of the Air Force. Since the President was not a World War II pilot or even a tail-gunner, Sgt. Walter's "Eisenhower theory of assignment" may have to be thrown out the second story window of American Legion Home, where the local Army and Air Force recruiting station is located...

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