Posted on 04/04/2018 5:34:35 AM PDT by SandRat
Editor’s Note: Wednesday we run a “Blast from the Past” feature – excerpts of articles that ran in the Huachuca Herald around this date 50 years ago.
March 31, 1968
“Confiscated Guns net City $139” – The City of Sierra Vista realized $139 from a public auction Wednesday of 12 firearms confiscated by the Sierra Vista Police Department and used as evidence in the prosecution of criminal violations.
Arizona State Law requires the disposal of such firearms.
(In August 2012, Arizona passed a new law designed to prohibit police agencies from destroying weapons they confiscate. Previously, agencies would scrap weapons. In August 2017, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the statute forbidding the destruction of valuable property, particularly firearms, and ruled that the city of Tucson violated state law regarding the disposal of firearms – which they did with 4,800 legal firearms, between 2013 and 2016, that were likely valued over $500,000.)
April 3, 1968
“Sierra Vista Man Recovering From Vietnam Wound” – Sp4 Harold Winterstein of the U.S. Army, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Winterstein, is recovering from a shrapnel wound suffered in action in Vietnam, according to word received here.
Sp4 Winterstein was hit in the left arm on March 21st. It is his second wound. He has been in Vietnam since last September.
The 1966 graduate of Buena High School is stationed with the 101st Airborne.
“Kitchen Police to be Abolished” – Kitchen police work for military personnel here and throughout the Armed Services will be abolished next year to the chagrin of hardly anyone in the lower enlisted ranks.
This “blow for liberty” for enlisted men came last week in the form of a DOD Instruction 1120.8 signed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense. After June 30, 1969, the date set for the emancipation, the bulk of the KP work will be done by civilians hired only out of appropriated funds.
“Buena High Will Use Computer to Schedule Next Fall’s Classes” – Buena High School is joining the growing list of schools and colleges using computers to prepare class schedules. Starting next fall, Buena students will be assigned their individual schedules by an IBM machine from Southern Arizona Bank, and school officials say the new method of processing will be cheaper and more efficient and make for well-balanced class enrollments.
March of 68....Hmmm now just where was I then???
Isn’t today the 50th of MLK assassination?
I was on Okinawa.
Huh, they sure had KP between 1991-93. I did way too much. I finally got myself banned from the kitchen (for unauthorized cooking) and avoided the last one they tried to give me.
My company was being hopscotched on many eagle flights intercepting VC remnants withdrawing from Saigon/Long Binh sectors, trying to get over the Cambodian border in Tay Ninh province. We must have been already over 10 insertions setting up ambushes on their retreat route by April. Much fun.
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