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THURSDAY. MARCH 16. 2017 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5A
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From the Progress files
Turning Back The Pages
March 16, 1967
Tommy Coleman awarded
Bronze Star
James T. (Tommy) Cole
man, son of Mrs. Barney
Coleman and the late Mr.
Coleman, has been awarded
the Bronze Star Medal for
Heroism in the war in Viet
nam. An explanation of PFC
Coleman’s actions is ex
plained in the following an
nouncement from the 3D
Brigade Task Force, 25th In
fantry Division.
“For heroism in connec
tion with military operations
against a hostile force. Pri
vate First Class Coleman dis
tinguished himself by heroic
action on 28 July 1966, in the
Republic of Vietnam. On this
date, Private Coleman’s
squad was pinned down by
an enemy automatic weapon.
He immediately decided that
it was his personal responsi
bility to eliminate the
weapon. Private Coleman
crawled up against a tree and
stood up next to it. The
enemy gunner saw him,
opened fire, and ripped his
clothes where they extended
beyond the tree. From this
vantage point, Private Cole
man was within grenade
range. His first two grenades
did not explode. Private
Coleman then called to his
platoon to throw him a
grenade. With this grenade,
he crawled closer to his ob
jective despite the heavy fire.
At the right moment, Private
Coleman threw the grenade
and scored a direct hit. With
the automatic weapon elimi
nated his squad was able to
advance. Private Coleman’s
courage and determination
are of the highest order. His
heroic actions are in keeping
with the highest traditions of
the military service and re
flect great credit upon him
self, his unit, and the United
States Army.”
Sales up in Pickens
Sales in Pickens County
during the fourth quarter of
1966 amounted to
$4,833,344 compared to
$3,618,600 during the fourth
quarter of 1965. Total sales in
Pickens County for 1966
were $17,035,712, up from
$14,697,939 in 1965.
Obituaries
Mr. Truman Hendrix, Mrs.
J.A. Smith
Elementary Basketball Champions
Tate Girls, Winners of Pickens Co. Elementary Basketball Tournament - Front Row:
Sandra Pye, Jody Severinghaus, Janice Bozeman, Donna Fann, Janet Cagle. Second Row:
Joni Rich, Sandy White, Susan Jordan, Linda Taylor, Nancy Tatum, Janice Bryant, Tracy
Pardee.
Tate Boys, Winners of Pickens Co. Elementary Basketball Tournament - Front Row:
Douglas Hampton, Rocky DeLay, Jimmy Fann, Kenny Cochran, Vic Smith, Jimmy
Harper, and Jimmy Turner. Second Row: Douglas Wilkins, Teddy Duncan, Chris Hooks,
Tommy Boswell, Brooks Tate, Ronnie Priest, Ronnie Newbern, and Allen Bridges.
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Jasper native receives prestigious
space science award
Dr. Daniel T. Lindsey, a
research scientist at NOAA’s
Satellite and Information
Service’s (NESDIS) Center
for Satellite Applications and
Research (STAR), received
the 2016 NOAA-David
Johnson Award on March 10.
The National Space Club and
Foundation presented the
award to Lindsey for his
work with satellite imagery.
“I am honored to receive
the NOAA-David Johnson
Award,” Lindsey said. “I
love working with satellite
imagery, but I could not do
any of this exciting work
without the help from an in
credibly talented team. So, I
accept this award on behalf
of them.”
Lindsey earned the presti
gious award for his work tak
ing data from NOAA’s
satellites and turning it into
imagery and products that
help weather forecasters at
NOAA’s National Weather
Service. He has spent the
past several years taking 1-
minute imagery from the
GOES-14 satellite and figur
ing out how to best use that
information to understand
what’s happening in the at
mosphere. NOAA’s newest
geostationary satellite,
GOES-16, will regularly pro
vide 1-minute imagery, once
it is fully operational by No
vember.
Lindsey said he is partic
ularly thrilled to be a part of
the team that will take
Dr. Daniel T. Lindsey
GOES-16 data and make it
into products that others will
use to observe and forecast
weather events. GOES-16,
the first of NOAA’s highly
advanced geostationary
weather satellites, will boost
the nation’s weather observa
tion network and NOAA’s
prediction capabilities, lead
ing to more accurate and
timely forecasts, watches and
warnings.
“My team here has been
intricately involved in
preparing for the super rapid
scan imagery that GOES-16
will be capable of provid
ing,” he said. “The data this
new generation of satellites
can provide are unbelievable,
and will really ramp up
NOAA’s abilities to issue
life-saving forecasts.”
GOES-16 will scan the
skies five-times faster than
today’s GOES spacecraft,
with four-times greater spa
tial resolution and three-
times the spectral channels. It
will provide high-resolution,
rapid-refresh satellite im
agery as often as every 30
seconds, allowing meteorol
ogists to take a more detailed
look at a storm to quickly de
termine whether it is growing
or decaying.
The work Lindsey and his
teammates are doing in
cludes real-time demonstra
tions showing the capabilities
of the new generation of geo
stationary satellites. His
work paves the way for the
transition to this new state-
of-the-art satellite data, and
helps get scientists and fore
casters ready to handle data
unlike anything they have
ever seen before.
How did Lindsey wind up
doing this important work?
Lindsey says he’s always
been interested in and fasci
nated by weather, even as far
back as his childhood when
he was growing up in a small
town in Georgia called
Jasper. He ended up leaving
that small town and getting
his B.S. in Mathematics from
the University of Georgia in
1998, an M.S. in Atmos
pheric Science from Col
orado State University in
2002, and a Ph.D. in Atmos
pheric Science from Col
orado State University in
2008. Lindsey joined NO AA
in 2004. He works with the
Regional and Mesoscale Me
teorology Branch at the Co
operative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere
in Fort Collins, CO., a coop
erative institute with Col
orado State University.
NESDIS operates a fleet
of environmental satellites
that provide critical observa
tions of earth and space. The
data this agency provides
helps promote and protect the
Nation's security, environ
ment, economy, and quality
of life.
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PICKENS COUNTY
REGISTERED VOTERS
According to Georgia Law, Art. IX, subsection II,
Para. I, if we can get 20% of the registered voters
of Pickens County to sign a petition, (at least 4,040
signatures) we, as a group, can put the senior tax
exemption on the ballot ourselves, without
depending on our local politicians to do it. Go to our
website, pickensseniorsforchange.com to sign the
petition.
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