1975-01-26-sr-p17-mann-army-center-rededicated

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January 26, 1975 Spokesman-Review Page 17:

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ARMY CENTER REDEDICATED

The newly expanded Mann Army Reserve Center, N4415 Market was rededicated during a ceremony Saturday.

The center is named for Pie. Joe E. Mann, a congressional Medal of Honor winner from Reardan, Wash., who was killed in action in Holland during World War II.

On hand for the ceremony were Mann's sister, Mrs. Irene Bennett, Salem, Ore.; his mother, Mrs. J, H. Mann, Reardan; two brothers, Jack Mann, Reardan, and Harold Mann, Spokane, and another sister Helen Halvorson, Seattle.

Maj, Gen. A. E. Milloy, deputy commanding general of Sixth Army Reserves, San Francisco, delivered the dedicatory address.