European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes a Waymen Ito am the toads Stuttgart Germany special a a of Vii corps highwaymen have been Riding trails throughout Southern Germany hoping to ambush unprepared Jay hawkers and their  gang calling itself the Cummi Roadside spot Check team in t after the Strongbox that highwaymen of the wild West , the ambushes Hijack vehicles to capture mechanical and safety deficiencies and shortcomings that might otherwise go unnoticed. Like their counterparts the usar eur spot Check team these soldiers Are anything but villains. They arc actually the Good Guys. One of the three Man band. Spec. 4john e. Hawes even wears the Long time Good Guy Symbol the White Hathe s an my from the 110th my platoon and is responsible for handling traffic and halting vehicles Ai the inspection Sites. Is Vii carps vehicles with Hawes two partners spec. 5glen f. Hall and either spec 4 Joe t Ball or spec. 4 Carroll Paulson who rotates with the Roadside team and Vii corps regular Cummi team. I to group fulfils the Mission of checking vehicle maintenance and safety. They travel up to 1.000 Miles a week halting an average of 1", trucks a Day. The team May spend a morning inspect ing at a Cavern Gate and that afternoon be 0 Miles away at an autobahn res Stop. The next Day they May he a 100 Miles North South East or West. According to Cummi team chief  h. Cordy random unannounced inspections yield a Fine Cross Section of the maintenance posture within any particular unit and As a result of the actions the unit can take corrective measures to improve safety and mechanical  team Effort members of the Vii corps Roadside spot Check team swarm around a pair of vehicles in two Dif Ferent places. The team travels up to 1,000 Miles a week through Southern Germany making safety and mechanical checks of corps units. Vehicles belong to Vii army photos 8th div honors heroic sergeant renames Cavern bad Kreuz Nach. Germany special the 8th inf div s desgouttes Cavern has been officially renamed John w. Minick Cavern. The new name honors s.  w. Minick who was posthumously awarded the medal of Honor for heroism while a Mem Ber of the 121st inf. 8th inf div during world War ii near Huert Gen Germany. Minick earned his medal of Honor on november 21. 1944. His citation reads after mov ing 300 Yards through a mine Field he killed 20 of the enemy and captured 20 More whom he turned Over to his platoon. He then moved Forward to Knock out another enemy a Une gun. Shortly after he was killed while making his Way for Ward through another  captured at Battle of bulge shooters prepare disk reveals history of Wii go " _. War a a m fam 4 _ outta Attix. I. J a. To i. I. 1111 b l a. Envoy to Italy visits Usa eur he Heidelberg special  Ackley. . Ambassador to Italy has paid his first official Courtesy visit to . Army Europe and seventh Are a he Here receiving full Mill Lary honors. He was welcomed by  ii. Polk Usa eur and Wyeth army commander in Imer who served As Host at an official luncheon. By Mark Danilin Gerstoff writer j Prem Germany is while walking through a Field near Here a German came upon Small Silver Oval on the ground. Picking it up he wiped off the dirt of More than two decade Sand noted the engraving j Park Lewis . 33709581 what led him to believe that the Oval part of a Silver identification Bracelet might have belonged to an american in t known but the disk eventually found its Way into the hands of Robert d. Moran. Prem sub Post Engineer. Moran recognized the Small treasure As part of the identification bracelets often give world War 11 us by their Sweet hearts or families when they entered service to supplement the traditional army issued do tags. Thinking that there might Bea Story in linking up the disk and its former owner Moran for warded it to the stars and a Tripos. So began the process of seeing if there was indeed a Story involved in the  stars and stripes Washington news Bureau was contacted As a first step with a re quest to dig out the last know address of Park Lewis. And if there be Many a Park Lewis inthe ., there was Only one with army serial number 33709581.Bureau chief Marc Huet went to the department of the army where officials consented to dieback into history to learn what had become of Park  of the desired information was quickly  Lewis entered the army on dec. 13. 1943. And was release Don nov. 3, 1945. And then a sad fact of life death comes not Only in War Park Lewis had died on june 4. 1967.but the army promised to Check its records for the next of  a few Days that information was forthcoming  last known address dated Back to 1945. And his next of Kmat that time was his wife. Esther red 1. Ellwood City a. Another step and so another step was Nec Essary to wind up the Story of the Long buried identification disk. The stars and stripes new York Bureau was asked to Tele phone Ellwood City and try to reach mrs.  York Bureau Boss Sid Shapiro was Able to track Downers. Lewis by phone in Rock Ville. Conn., where the Lewis family had moved six years ago. Was anything else found asked mrs. Lewis who also in formed Shapiro that her husband died of a heart attack in june 1967.the reason she asked was revealed by Lewis brother. Wil Liam who with another brother. Ray. Was visiting mrs. Lewis Home at the moment. Pal. Lewis it turned out. Had been captured during the Bat Leof the bulge and buried a lot of personal stuff in the  was held in a German Pri Soner of War Camp on the czech order for about six months be fore being liberated in May 1945.he was sent Back to the states and discharged in november194-r the Silver identification Dis know is on its Way to mrs. Lewis at her request almost a Quarter Century after her husband hastily buried it in the face of capture some 3,000 Miles away. Cento meet Ankara Turkey special contesting teams from Iran tur key the United kingdom an the United states have arrived in Iran and Are now engage Din zeroing and practice firing in preparation for Cento s an Nual Small arms Competition. This year the event is Bei Sheld at the Para Dak Range near  the matches which open monday vill be cent Secretary general Turgut men , members of the Cento permanent military deputies group senior secretariat officials the chief of staff and officers of the Cento combined military planning staff. Buried during world War ii found if 196. -s4s piste