European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Earned sergeants m Germany Elvis asked for no favors As Soldier by Mike speak staff writer when Eliis Presley joined the army nearly 30 years one of the wishes he expressed most often was the desire to be a regular Bui that was not to already a millionaire several Linus with four years acclaim stemming ram movies and a series of Wick and Mil hits which Inq gun with his smash Heartbreak Elvis have been it regular Soldier if his life of cps it but if All the Powers thai be make him he at least came with that and shortly after putting an he said i reckon ill be Able to handle the army assignment i been working since i was 14 had worked in drove a Cut grass for a living end did a hitch in a defense ill do whatever they loll and i wont be asking or in away Many said Elvis in the army Itell get the easy special services but he planned he crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1958 on the troop transport with nearly other Many probably asked it1 hut that want the Way he wanted fart of being a he was suf Fering the slings and arrows of misfortune with but there was for army and old hat for him waiting in Ger Nony More than so Schreit trying teen agers at dockside in but with thai he still insisted that he wanted to be a regular Soldier during his i month duty and it look the commanding general of his outfit the 3rd army set he Doest want to said Mai Thomas Van Nallen Al the weve asked him and he said id rather he just wants to mind his own Busi do his Job and be left Mesa 1 continued on Page Tulud sized unofficial publication Fott if u i aimed Oettl 122 August 1977 if 21855 a fans mourn Presley death from press dispatch a fans of yesterday and old and teenybopper and their Middle aged gathered wednesday at Elvis Presley not to scream and cheer but to their King is i see pages Elvis Arnn the Mississippi truck Driver who launched his own record Carter and became americas greatest King of Rock v died tuesday after Nooft of a heart he was in president Carter issued a Slak Irwi on Presley saying the Singer permanently changed the face if american popular culture and became a worldwide Symbol at his country Vitali rebelliousness and Good he called the entertainer unique and Elvis Presley death deprives our country of a part of Carter his music and his fusing the styles of while country and Black rhythm and permanently changed the Ace of american popular tils allowing was immense and he was a Symbol to the people the world Over of the rebelliousness and Good f con mixed on pose 1 Tan Currun Irig Lili of Stone Wapl us Side the Gale to Elvis mourners at the Gate Memphis mansion wednes at left is dec Nuffort at they wire among the Many fans Gath ering near the mansion la a surface vessel soviet ship at North pole Moscow i a i tin soviet Mamie ice breaker Ark tire rut us Wuy to the in Atli pole Tbilisi in Luce ship Ever to reach Uii Tup if Tow Suvit tote i Sion reported Moscow Init tufted ild eve Ning broadcast to Dii ounce that inc ship had reached the Puli the eternal dream if Ocner aliens if Lailoni and pour la Pioreck Hus Beun fir i the television Annuta ilor said he called the feat an outstanding new Victory of soviet science und in a later rail of tin1 icebreaker Dudi Atid its feat to the 60th anniversary of the i Tussman which fall ii it said the led by time Ftp 11 Jui merchant Marine and the ships 1 planted a Memn Nai plaque at the Heuft graphical Fuik Hie plaque bears the soviet coat of the name of the the coordinates and thu Titu the Crew sent a message of greetings to soviet president onid the wish a 4wfiwl is Siirid to be the biggest operating icer Cukur in the in it is one of three soviet atomic powered ice break the yet in full is Trie icebreakers arc part d an Cut Emile soviet program of Arctic study Tull also includes floating ice Summ american Ilobert Peary is a redid Wilh reaching the North pole by ill since the late submarines have sailed under the ice of the North the soviets opined their first Elu Aung ice Stai Ion in the area in 1917 after 19 search for ring ends happily by de Hill Stuttgart Bureau chief Germany its the ring its the ring screamed 17yearold Patti a those words ended the search for a class ring that was lost 19 years ago in a motor Cycle John from believe affair 19 i had Given up Hope of Ever finding that lie one evening in May Paquette then a private first class stationed in Sie Germany and his Linda were out Riding the motorcycle he had just a defective part Paquette lost his balance and us machine went landed some distance rolled Down an embankment and sprained an 1 was wearing his High school ring on my she i had wrap i continued on Page it
