The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 260, Ed. 2 Wednesday, March 7, 1951 Page: 3 of 26
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PRETTY GIRLS, SECURITY
Quadruple Amputee
Faces Sunny Future
- By PRANK TRAGLE
WASHINGTON, March 7. W —
There's a future for Pfc. Robert L.
Smith just shout as sunny as it
can be for a young man who lost
both hands and both feet in the
searing cold of North Korea.
"It's a future peopled with pret-
ty girls who have written propos-
als of marriage to him secured
financially with a 1100 000 trust
fund, and warmed by the thought
of a little business of his own with
his brother
Perhaps best of all, 20 - year - od
Bob Smith, of Middleburg, Pa., can
aret out. Ha la convinced he will be
able to do almost anything later.
“I’m sure I’ll be able to handle a
deer rifle," and shoot pool and
drive a car.
The Pennsylvania Department of
the American Legion has establish-
ed a trust fund for him expected
to total $100,000. The Legion, a silk
mill and a radio cabinet maker
have offered him jobs. His brother
Howard has been released from the
Army — to Korea — to be with
Bob and his widowed mother.
Bob is thinking of some kind of
small business with his brother aa
confidently look forward to doing
for himself almost all the things
people with their own hands and
feet can do. And, very important
for his figure is something the
hell - cold of Korea did not take
from him along with his limbs-
the good cheer with which he looks
out on life. -----------------
It was last November when Bob, ruple amputee, has turned,
downed by a wound, lay in an icy
ditch of a North Korean village un-
a partner.
His natural cheerfulness has al-
ready put the horror of what he en-
dured far behind him. It is the fu-
ture. rich with the care and reha-
bilitation his nation assures him
and brightened by his own good
spirits to which Bob Smith, quad-
til his hands and feet froze past
saving. The Army flew him here
late in December.
Since then a world of friendly
people have come to him, In per-
son or by letter, at the Army med-
ical center.
Mixed in with the thousands of
letters, poet cards and telegrams
addressed to him. Bob disclosed
Happy Is The Day
When Backache
shyly in an interview, were "quite
a few" proposals. Some of the girls
included photographs.
"Some were right pretty," said
Pfc Smith, "but you know how
girls are. They said to the letters
the pictures didn’t do them justice
... It might be fun to look them ___
up after I get out and see how nice | it’s
they are." The proposals came
"from all over."
He hasn't had his steel - hook
mechanical hands long, and his ar-
tificial legs are yet to come, but
Bob was eager to demonstrate
what he can already do for him-
self. He took a cigaret from a
pack, put it in his lips, accepted
a light, tapped the ashes off in a
tray and stumped the smoked cig-
Visits Moran Club
Alden Cathey, manager of the
public relations and membership
department of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce, was to be
the guest of the Moran Luncheon
Club Wednesday.
Oil Worker Drowns
BAYTOWN, March 7. (—Gerald
Banta, 27. Baytown seismograph
crew worker, drowned yesterday
after falling into Trinity Bay from
an oil exploration boat
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Vandenberg ‘Same’
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March
7. un—The condition of Sen. Van-
described
denberg (R-Mich) ws
as unchanged last night Vanden-
berg 66, twice operated on for
tumors, has been ill for months.
Hot in Mexico, Too
MEXICO CITY. March 7. ( —
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 260, Ed. 2 Wednesday, March 7, 1951, newspaper, March 7, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648518/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.