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NEWS from: THE AMERICAN LEGION 179 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46206 P. O. BOX 1055 ME 5-8411 National Headquarters AMERICAN LEGION NEWS SERVICE (ALNS) LEGION NEWS BRIEFS FOR WEEK ENDING 6-5-64 Representing The American Legion, National Commander Daniel F. Foley will participate in commemorative ceremonies for the 20th anniversary of the D-Day landing of the United States and Allied Forces at Omaha Beach, France. Commander Foley will represent the Legion in the D-Day-plus-20 program as part of a lU-day tour of Europe and Israel to receive U.S. State and Defense Department briefings. Warren Spahn, veteran Milwaukee Braves southpaw, has been named the 1963 American Legion Baseball Graduate of the Year, Daniel J. O'Connor, National Americanism chairman, has announced. Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, USA, director of selective service, will address the graduation exercises for The American Legion's 19th annual Boys Nation on July 2k at College Park, Md. Judge Levi M. Hall, chairman of the Life Insurance and Trust Commit- tee, reports that the most outstanding feature of The American Legion Life Insurance Plan is found in the payment of claims. The chairman of The American Legion's National Aeronautics and Space Committee, Roscoe Turner, recently participated in the roll-out of the XB-70 in California. Baseball fans around the country will find high interest in a series of articles on American Legion Baseball scheduled for publication in The Sporting News. The first article will appear in the June 13 issue. National Commander Daniel F. Foley of The American Legion has an- nounced that the Departments of Hawaii and Rhode Island are the winners of the National Commander's Blood Donor Awards for 1963-64. With the Department of New York setting a record pace, The American Legion, with the capable assistance of its Auxiliary, is now nearing the $100,000 mark in its Alaskan earthquake relief effort. NEWS from: THE AMERICAN LEGION I 180 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46206 P. 0. BOX 1055 ME 5-8411 National Headquarters AMERICAN LEGION NEWS SERVICE (ALNS) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6-5-64 OMAHA BEACH, France (ALNS)—- Representing The American Legion, National Commander Daniel F. Foley will participate in commemorative ceremonies for the 20th anniversary of the D-Day landing of the United States and Allied Forces here. Commander Foley will represent the Legion in the D-Day-plus-20 program on June 6, as part of a 14-day tour of Europe and Israel to receive U.S. State and Defense Department briefings and to inspect U.S. military installations. The National Commander will call on foreign government leaders and confer with leaders of Legion departments and posts in Europe during his tour. Scheduled for a major address at Killarney, Ireland, on June 3, he made a two day visit to the land of his forebears. He spoke there at a dinner in his honor at the Inter- national Hotel, greeted distant kin and visited his ancestral home in the Killarney area. While in Berlin on June 6-8, the Legion Commander will call on the U. S. Commandant there, inspect the U. S. Berlin Command and tour the German city. He also will visit the Berlin Wall. His itinerary will also take him to Rome, Italy, and then on to Greece where he will lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. Commander Foley will join in the day-long observance marking the historic invasion of France on the Normandy Coast. This will include a gathering at the monument of the liberation at Bayeux, homage to the French underground for its part in making the invasion successful, religious ceremony at the Cemetery of American soldiers (Colleville, St. Laurent and Vierville) at Omaha Beach, and a ceremony at the Signal Monument at Omaha and Utah Beach. From Tel Aviv, Israel, he will depart for New York City on June 15. 6 181 NEWS from: THE AMERICAN LEGION INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46206 P. O. BOX 1055 ME 5-8411 National Headquarters AMERICAN LEGION NEWS SERVICE (ALNS) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6-5-64 INDIANAPOLIS (ALNS) Warren Spahn, veteran Milwaukee Braves southpaw, has been named the 1963 American Legion Baseball Graduate of the Year, Daniel J. O'Connor, National Americanism Chairman for the Legion, has announced. The award will be presented to Spahn by National Commander Daniel F. Foley at Milwaukee County Stadium the evening of July 15 prior to the Braves' game with the San Francisco Giants. Previous winners include Sherm Lollar, Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Bobby Richardson, O'Connor stated that Spahn was chosen to receive the annual award because of his general conduct on and off the field, his cooperation with others, his community service efforts, his contribution to baseball and youth, and his playing ability. "Warren Spahn certainly exemplifies the aims and principles of our American Legion Baseball program, now in its 39th season of competition," O'Connor emphasized. A World War II veteran and a member of Plunkett-Hancock Post 180 of The American Legion at Hartshorne, Okla. , Spahn missed three seasons of competition in 1943, 1914 and 1945 after three years in the minor leagues before joining the old Boston Braves late in the 1942 season. Despite this break in his career, Spahn is recognized as the greatest lefthand pitcher in the history of the national pastime and needs only 23 wins to tie the National League record for most wins. Spahn gained schoolboy prominence at Buffalo, N.Y. and drew the attention of scouts while representing Louis J. Boland Post 258 and South Buffalo Post 721 in an American Legion Baseball league jointly sponsored by the Buffalo Evening News and The American Legion's Erie County Council. Last year was one of his best seasons. With 23 victories, he surpassed the 20-game mark for the 13th year and led all major league pitchers in complete games for the ninth time and for the seventh consecutive season. 182 NEWS from: THE AMERICAN LEGION INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46206 P. 0. BOX 1055 ME 5-8411 National Headquarters ft '£'*&• AMERICAN LEGION NEWS SERVICE (ALNS) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6-5-6^ WASHINGTON —(ALNS)--- Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, USA, director of selective service will address the graduation exercises for The American Legion's 19th annual Boys Nation on July 2k, Daniel J. O'Connor, chairman of the National Americanism Commission, has announced. In part General Hershey replied that "he was honored and flattered to receive the invitation" to address the 100 Boys Nation senators. The top honor high school students, with headquarters on the University of Maryland campus, will participate in a study of governmental operation July 17-2U. Composed of two youthful legislators each from 50 American Legion Departments sponsoring their respective Boys States, Boys Nation features a practical workshop approach to the study of the federal government. The 100 boys chosen, prior to their participating in this important civic duty, must pass a rigorous screening based upon their abilities for leadership ... as boys, as students, and as junior citizens. During the week-long activities the young senators will make visitations to the White House, the United States Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, Arlington National Cemetery, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with trips to various national and historic shrines. A mock government with two political parties will be conducted by the Boys Nation senators while in the nation's capital. Executive appointees will serve in pretended posts parallel to the actual posts held in the executive branches of the government. Conducting the symposium will be 23 experienced American Legion youth counselors headed by Harold A. Eaton, formerly of Rutgers University, who has been dean of counselors for the program the past 19 years, and James W. Rowe, assistant director of the National Americanism Division of The American Legion. 183 NEWS from: THE AMERICAN LEGION INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46206 P. 0. BOX 1055 ME 5-8411 National Headquarters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6-5-64 AMERICAN LEGION NEWS SERVICE (ALNS) CHICAGO (ALNS) "The most outstanding feature of The American Legion Life Insurance Plan is found in the payment of claims," reports Judge Levi M. Hall, chairman of the Life Insurance and Trust Committee, in his advance committee report for the National Convention in Dallas, Tex., Sept. 18-24. Judge Hall went on to state that "as the only official insurance of The American Legion, 1,738 claims have already been paid to May 1, 1964, amounting to some $1,641,761 in benefits. By the time the National Convention meets in Dallas, we expect that over two million dollars will have been paid to the loved ones of former insured Legionnaires." He also noted that all of these benefits have been paid at no cost or expense to The American Legion and said that The American Legion Life Insurance Plan is a truly, self-sustaining program. Information concerning the Legion's low cost life insurance is available by writing to: The American Legion, Insurance Department, P. 0. Box 5609, Chicago, 111. 60680. INDIANAPOLIS (ALNS) The chairman of The American Legion's National Aeronautics and Space Committee, Roscoe Turner, recently participated in the roll- out of the XB-70 in California. "This is really and truly a terrific airplane employing entirely new techniques," Chairman Turner commented and went on to say that "the knowledge gained in manufacturing this plane and that which will be gained in flight tests will undoubtedly be of inestimable value in the production of future high performance military and commercial aircraft." The American Legion during Turner's tenure as chairman has consistently supported the development and production of the B-70 as a needed follow-on to obsolescening B-52 and B-58.