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| Date | Source | Headline |
| 06/19/1951 | Franklin Star | More local merchants join Atterbury project. Plan second big weekend. |
| 06/20/1951 | Franklin Star | $885,000 is asked for Camp Atterbury improvements. Funds to be used for utilities and troop supplies. Request already has Defense Dept. approval. |
| 06/22/1951 | Franklin Star | MSgt Waymon Ranson to receive Distinguished Service Cross at Atterbury in big review. Wants to return to Korea. |
| 06/22/1951 | Franklin Star | Free Transportation Is Offered Servicemen at Camp Atterbury |
| 06/26/1951 | Franklin Star | 26 Reserve Units to train at Atterbury. Nine from Indiana. |
| 06/27/1951 | Franklin Star | Young soldier dies after being crushed between two tanks in motor pool while installing a new track. Eleven others injured when truck slips off muddy road. |
| 06/27/1951 | Franklin Star | Private wins $5 and citation for suggest to drop used razor blades through slit in wall. |
| 11/30/1951 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury has begun processing Korean War veterans for assignments to other units. Upon arriving at the Post, the combat veterans are automatically given 34-day furloughs. |
| 12/16/1951 | Columbus | Local chapter of the American Red Cross is collecting money to purchase candy and cigarettes for G.I.s who will be spending the Christmas holiday at the U. S. Army Hospital at Camp Atterbury. |
| 12/18/1951 | Franklin Star | Recruit Robert C. Bedson of Farmington, Mich., who was training at Camp Atterbury was killed when his car hit a tree at the south edge of Taylorsville. |
| 12/27/1951 | Columbus | Camp Atterbury's 9-hole golf course has come under fire from a Senate preparedness subcommittee. |
| 04/01/1952 | Columbus | ATTERBURY TO OBSERVE TENTH BIRTHDAY. More Than 250,000 Soldiers Have Been Trained There Since 1942. |
| 07/02/1952 | Franklin Star | 61 Million pounds of meat is inspected by the Veterinary Detachment at Camp Atterbury. |
| 07/02/1952 | Franklin Star | Honor students chosen at Camp Atterbury's Food Service Sub-School. |
| 07/09/1952 | Franklin Star | Twelve O.R.C units begin training. |
| 07/16/1952 | Franklin Star | 1,000th baby born at U. S. Army hospital since it's re-opening. |
| 07/24/1952 | Franklin Star | 31st Division's Camp Artist to exhibit cartoons at Franklin USO. |
| 07/24/1952 | Franklin Star | Plan Open House at Camp Hospital. Medical Service to mark the 177th anniversary of the Army Medical Service |
| 07/25/1952 | Franklin Star | General receives Thank you letter from Mayor of Indianapolis. Camp Atterbury Mine Detection Squad used to locate gun missing in field after a city police officer was gunned down. |
| 07/30/1952 | Franklin Star | 31st Infantrymen to sport a new look. After Sept. 1st, they will wear distinctive blue scarf's, blue shoulder cords and blue patches under their unit insignia. |
| 07/30/1952 | Franklin Star | The 55-piece band of the 200th Infantry Band from Camp Atterbury will play during the double-header at Franklin Park. |
| 08/05/1952 | Franklin Star | Local servicemen to get $2 a week raise. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - The Dixie Division Band is being directed by a Hoosier. He is WOJG Dick Bragg, a native of Indianapolis. Mr. Bragg directs the band in about half of its performances, and CWO Daniel Miller from Union, S.C., the ranking member of the band officiates at the other half. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - MG William Kean will make a second inspection of Camp Atterbury in about a month. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - "At War With the Army" will be staged by an all soldier cast in Theater #2, August 19-22. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - Congressional Medal of Honor recipient is missing. Cpl. Ronald P. Rosser is reported to be stationed at Camp Atterbury, but isn't. President Truman presented the award and the newspapers reported him as being at Camp Atterbury. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - Atterbury's 114th Engineer Battalion is rebuilding more than 20 miles of camp roads leading to the target ranges. |
| 08/06/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes - Lts Ragan and Hartenstine took the doubles crown at the Fifth Army tennis tournament last week at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. |
| 08/08/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury's combined Army - Air Force Food school is scheduled to close soon. With the closing, only three will be left. Since it activation here in January 1951, the school has graduated 43 eight-week classes of cooks, 28 sixteen-week classes of meat cutters, for a grand total of more than 3,000 students. All equipment will be sent to Fort Sheridan. |
| 08/08/1952 | Franklin Star | Promotion ban lifted at Camp Atterbury. |
| 08/09/1952 | Franklin Star | The 900th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital currently supporting the 38th Division summer encampment at Camp Grayling, Michigan, will be retuning soon. Many of the members served as front line troops in Korea. |
| 08/09/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury's Education Center called "Indiana's Largest College". |
| 08/11/1952 | Franklin Star | Atterbury soldier killed in Monday crash on U. S. 252. Pfc John Dixon, 25, 45th Medical Company, died of head injuries at 7:10 p.m. in the camp hospital. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | General Paxton denies charge that the venereal disease rate for the 31st division is double the national average. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Local reservists at Camp Atterbury. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 442nd Field Artillery Group, Indianapolis area reserve Army unit, commanded by Major James O. Freese is now training in the field. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes .. The 900th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital returned from Camp Grayling where they supported the 38th Division. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes .. Two of the most unusual mascots are now at Camp Atterbury - a seven week old fawn found wandering around camp by members of the 155th Regiment Tank Co., and a goat, who is mascot of the 155th Headquarters Co. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes .. Lt Col M. J. Bartosik is the new Adjutant General of the 31st Division. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes ..M/Sgt Frank J. "P" Litterini, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a veteran of more than 33 years of active and inactive service retired last week. He was a personal friend of General Atterbury, for whom the camp was named. |
| 08/13/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes ..The missing Medal of Honor winner has been found. Instead of being posted to Camp Atterbury, he was ordered elsewhere. |
| 08/14/1952 | Franklin Star | Civilian and Army health officials meet at Camp Atterbury. Issue a joint statement that the VD rate of the 31st Division has seen a steady decline, matching that of Indianapolis and Indiana. |
| 08/14/1952 | Franklin Star | 3,600 National Guardsmen of the Dixie Division to be released this year. |
| 08/19/1952 | Franklin Star | Singer in local church has role in show at Camp Atterbury. Pfc Dan Prossely, whose fine voice is heard each Sunday in the Franklin Grace Methodist church, will play a leading role in the Army camp's production of "At War with the Army". |
| 08/19/1952 | Franklin Star | General Gay assumes command of Camp Atterbury and VI Corps. (Gen Gay was in the car with Gen Patton when it was in a crash and Patton was killed.) |
| 08/20/1952 | Franklin Star | Pfc Arthur G. Cormier of Franklin, recently graduated from the 31st Infantry's non-commissioned officer's course at Camp Atterbury. |
| 08/20/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes -- Maj Anna M. Palzkill, Chief Nurse at Camp Atterbury's U. S. Army Hospital since it was re-opened in September 1950, is being reassigned. |
| 08/20/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes -- The 102 piece DIXIE Division band leaves tomorrow morning for it's trip to New York and points east. The band will participate in the Grand Parade that kicks off the American Legion's National Convention next Tuesday. The Dixie musicians will also play at Gettysburg, Pa., scene of the Civil War battle on their way back to Indiana. |
| 08/20/1952 | Camp Atterbury Notes -- The Caduceus, a weekly newspaper published by Atterbury's Army hospital, will switch from a mimeograph to a printed publication on August 28. From then on the paper will appear every two weeks instead of every Friday as in the past. | |
| 08/20/1952 | Franklin Star | Camp Atterbury Notes --Camp Atterbury will be the scene of a 3-day Transportation Corps seminar. A demonstration on the proper shipping of ammunition will be shown. |
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