.MARINE WINS '62 BEAM SqiP AWARD
Operation Bean Soup Six, the annual
contest to find the world's best recipe
for Navy bean soup, was won this year
by a Marine, 2nd Lt. Vernon J. PERZ.
The former enlisted man and one time
cook-instructor at Camp Lejeune, N. C*
is commissary officer of the amphibious
assault ship Princeton and calls his
winning entry "LPH-5 Bean Soup." LPH-5
is the numerical designation of the
Princeton.
Lt. Perz won a $600 cash prize, a
trophy and a two week all-expense paid
vacation in Tennessee's Great Smokey
Mountains.
The $50 second prize was won by CS2
William F. MACKEY of the Atlantic Fleet
destroyer DAVIS. Third prize of $25
went to CSC Fred A. SCHLICICER of the
Sangley Point Naval Station in the
Philippines.
TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER'S SCULPTOR
IS ARMY EMPLOYEE
"Hero rests in honored glory an
American soldier known but to God."
This moving inscription on the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier is Arlington
Cemetery is read by thousands of visi
tors annually who admire the handsome
rectangular marble block with its car
ven figures*
Few know that the tomb is the work
of Thomas H# Jones of the U.S. Army
Institute of Heraldry at Cameron Sta
tion, Va# A sculptor for 40 years,
Jones has spent the post 13 in the
Federal service modeling sculpture and
medals for high government agencies and
the Armed Forces#
His works include the three marble
portraits of legislators over balcony
doors in the House of Representatives
and the medal awarded by the President
for Distinguished Federal Civilian
Service#
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