100 Years Ago
CEDARTOWN – Spec. 4 Don Larry Atkins, 20, of 729 S. College St., died May 12 from injuries sustained in a rocket mortar attack in Vietnam. He was killed on an aircraft landing strip.
Spec. 4 Atkins was born Nov. 26, 1948, in Polk County, and had lived most of his life in Rockmart. Prior to entering the service he was employed by Lockheed Aircraft Company in Marietta. He entered the Army in June 1968 and served with Battery C, 77th Artillery, First Air Calvary Division. He had been in Vietnam since last December.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Williams, of Cedartown; one sister, Miss Susie Atkins, of Cedartown; grandfather, Edmond Dyer, of Rockmart.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of the body.
Olin L. Gammage Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
100 years ago as presented in the May 1919 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald
In Lindale news, Clifford Lanham, son of Mrs. L.A. Lanham, who has been in France for some time, has just arrived in the United States, and has written his mother of the fact. He is expected home for a visit soon. … Amos Cash, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Cash, of 315 Avenue D, writes from France that he is in fine health and having a fine time, and that his organization is to be moved into Germany soon, forming a part of the army of occupation, to which he is looking forward with much interest.
--Captain and Mrs. Mills announce the engagement of Captain John N. Steele to Miss Beulah Bale, Rome, Georgia. Betrothal is the result of a long and intimate acquaintance began in childhood and their far away home across the Pacific in Georgia in the United States.
Miss Bale has been in hospital service during the war and was sent to Siberia. She stopped over in Manila on her return home. Captain Steele is stationed in Manila. Cupid ever on the alert brought these childhood sweethearts faceto-face in the charming old capital of the Philippine islands, old love sprang to life and the marriage will be consummated in Manila.
Miss Bale and Captain John Newton Steele are both native Romans, but grew to womanhood and manhood in the quaint little village of LaFayette, Georgia, went their separate ways, met again by chance and misspelled decided to exchange one spear of army life for another. These young people were will reside in Manila until Uncle Sam orders otherwise.
--Approval of the reorganization of the National Guard along the same lines as existed before the war, was expressed informally by secretary Baker. The War Department, he said, would favor the rebuilding of the guard, to permit the various states to supply the same units as were used in making up the 16 divisions organized for overseas service.
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