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i-THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1991
Members of the 48th Brigade work hard in Desert Storm training
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Captain Bruce Berger leads the members of Delta Company of
the 48th Brigade in desert training at Ft. Irwin, CA.
Putting Morningside School on the map
Houser takes top honors in school geography bee
By CAROL WOOLEY
Staff writer
Kurtis Houser, a student at
Morningside, won the school’s ge
ography bee, winning a book and a
chance at a $25,000 college schol
arship. Second place winner was
Matt Davis, winning a blow up j
world globe and third was Samantha
Dunn, winner of a world map. The
school-level bee, at which students
answered oral questions on geogra
phy, was the first round in the third
annual National Geography Bee,
which is being sponsored by Na
tional Geographic WORLD, the
Society's magazine for children,
Amtrack and KUDO’s Snack.
The bee was kicked off the week
of January 28 in thousands of
schools around the United States,
District of Columbia, and five U.S.
territories. The school winners, in
cluding Kurtis Houser will now
take a written test; up to 100 of the I
top scorers in each state will be 1
eligible to compete in their state a
bee April 5.
The National Geographic Soci
ety with its co-sponsors will pro
vide an all-expenses-paid trip to
Washington. D.C., for state cham
pions and their teacher escorts to
participate in the National Geogra
phy Bee finals on May 22 and 23.
The first place national winner will
receive a $25,000 college scholar
ship; the second-place winner, a
$15,000 scholarship; and the third -
place winner, a SIO,OOO scholar
ship;
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contract station is a problem."
Another possibility was raised by
both Robert Peek Manager of sup
port services for the Birmingham
Division and Worrall. To alleviate
some of the traffic congestion,
Meeting Street could be transformed
to provide parking spaces.
Councilman Charles Lewis ad
dressed the subject from a different
standpoint. "If you back it up in
side, you back it up outside," said
Lewis noting that increased counter
service would help alleviate traffic
congestion.
Adamson noted that Perry is in
line with postal service goals that
customers do not wait more than
three to five minutes.
"There is a little backlog,” said
Allen Pritchett of Perry, who holds
the lease on the current station.
This once young Birdie
Just turned thirty!
Happy Birthday!
National Geographic Geography Bee winners are first place Kurtis Houser, second place Matt
Davis, and third place Samantha Dunn.
Alex Trebek, host of
"Jeopardy!,” will moderate the na
tional finals.
The National Geographic Soci
ety developed the National Geogra
phy Bee lin response to a growing
concern about the lack of geo
graphic knowledge among young
people lin the United States. A 10-
Part of that problem, Worrall
said, was people requesting money
orders, but it was pointed out that
is generally only a serious problem
in towns with one or no banks.
Adamson pointed out that you need
not go to the Post Office to get
stamps, saying, "we will deliver
them.
John Sundquist of Northrop ex
pressed concern of the Post Office's
ability to handle its soon to be in
creasing volume of mail. "For
space inside, were in as good a
shape as anyone," said McKelroy.
The Perry station handles between
25,000 and 30,000 pieces of mail a
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By STAFF SGT. ELLIOT MINOR
Special to the HHJ
Capt Bruce Berger crouched low
in an Iraqi-style trench, his face
blackened and his uniform covered
with desert sand.
Clutching a microphone in one
hand and a .45 caliber pistol in the
other, Berger inched along the
trench, occasionally stopping to
give commands to his troops.
Berger's soldiers, members of
Delta Company, Ist Battalion,
121st Infantry from Perry and
Hawkinsville are learning the art of
clearing trenches at the army's na
tional training center.
They are members of the Georgia
Army National Guard's 48th In
fantry Brigade (mechanized) which
could be sent to the Middle East to
battle Iraqi troops who have created
elaborate trench systems in Kuwait.
"You can have all the modem
weapons in the world,” said Berger.
"But when you get in the trenches,
it's soldier against soldier and
bayonet against bayonet.”
"You see the whites of his eyes.
You have to deal with the situa
tion," added Berger, a Lithonia,
Georgia resident.
Berger's troops were assisted by
tankers from the South Carolina
Army National Guard’s Ist Battal
country Gallup Survey conducted
for the Society in 1988 and 1989
found that people in the U.S. ages
18 to 24, the youngest group sur
veyed knew less about geography
than young people in any of the
other countries.
The National Geographic Soci
ety, with more than 10 million
members, has as its mission the
day.
In the final analysis, a new Post
Office is at least four years away.
The land requirement is at least
two-and-a-half acres of net usable
space. The building would cost
about two to three million dollars.
Os course, that money would have
to come out of a budget for facili
ties which is only 2.1 per cent of
the Post Office's budget and has to
service over 35.000 stations.
While Ray's help is valuable, he
pointed out "the Post Office is sep
arate and is no longer under our
[congress'] control." That also
ion, 263 rd Armor, which has been
attached to the 48th Brigade.
The South Carolina Guardsmen
cleared minefields with heavy
rollers attached to the front of a
tank, then another tank equipped
with a blade sliced through three
barbed-wire barriers. The attackers
used a portable bridge to get their
vehicles over a deep trench.
When Berger's soldiers reached a
series of smaller trenches occupied
by opposing force soldiers firing
machine guns and M-16 rifles, they
dashed from their Bradley fighting
vehicles and rolled into the trench
in three man teams.
Then they began the process of
clearing the trenches with rifle and
machine gun fire and mock
grenades.
"It's very rough, it's very slow,
it’s very hard," said Berger after the
exercise.
Capt. Sean Finan, an observer
controller during the exercise, said
the guardsmen are getting more
trench training because "that's the
threat."
"We have to bring all the assets
the army has and orchestrate them
through the obstacles," he said.
"Once we've opened that hole, the
follow on force can come through."
'increase and diffusion geographic
knowledge.:" Besides the National
Geography Bee, the initiatives in
cluding the Summer Geography In
stitute for teachers, the National
Geographic Society Education
Foundation, and the Geographic
Alliance Network, which currently
encompasses 40 states and Puerto
Rico.
means, however, that the money
does not come from taxes.
Peek pointed out that a new sta
tion would be "built by stamps."
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Members of the 48th Brigade train for war in the desert
trenches as they prepare for their pending role in Desert
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