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SAN DIEGO — Senior Chief
Petty Officer Fletcher Tucker ran
his f ingertips along his clean-shaven
cheeks and said, “My wife and two
kids back East have never seen me
without it.”
Tucker’s beard of 17 years had a
close encounter with a sharp razor
recently.
Since Jan. 1, naval personnel have
been getting shipshape by shaving
their beards — although they can
keep their mustaches — to comply
with new regulations.
Tucker, a 24-year Navy man at
tached to the chaplain’s office at
North Island Naval Air Station,
spoke of his late beard like a lost
friend.
“It was well kept,” he said. “It met
all uniform regulations. It complied
with grooming standards. I miss it. I
feel like I’m being punished for
something and I don’t know what.”
Many Navy people say the new
grooming rules mark an end to the
Zumwalt era. Adm. Elmo Zumwalt,
former chief of naval operations, lib
eralized the code in the 1970s, drop
ping the bell-bottom uniform for en
isled men and letting them have
beards.
"He thought Navy people should
look like civilians,” said a young offi
cer. “But the men never really went
along with that.”
Zumwalt is now retired.
Not only are beards disappearing
but Navy personnel now eat in a
“mess hall” again — not a “dining fa
cility.” It’s all part of a return to ear
lier traditions.
Navy Adm. James Watkins, chief
of naval operations, said in an order
radioed to all Navy commands last
Dec. 14: “All Navy men are to be
cleanshaven except for neatly
trimmed, military-appearing mus
taches.”
Navy Secretary John Lehman said
the Navy was looking for “a general
sharpening of appearance.”
Earlier, Watkins restored the tra
ditional bell-bottom uniforms for
sailors below the rank of chief petty
officer. Last August officers in
“highly visible” commands were or
dered to forego their beards.
Rex Kramer, another chief petty
of f icer whose cheeks lately tire paler
than his forehead, said, “Anyone
who was surprised by the regulation
wasn’t watching things. It’s part of a
trend that started slowly gaining
strength about 1978. The feeling I
get is one of quiet acceptance. It’s as
if your ship was going to pull out to
morrow and you didn’t expect it.”
Kramer said the Navy seems more
“calm and clear” today than in the
1970s, and he considers that a fair
tradeoff for his beard. He ap
plauded a recent directive from Leh
man bringing back traditional no
menclature such as “mess hall,” for
“enlisted dining facility,” which
came into vogue in the Zumwalt
days.
Civilian barber Dick Butz at the
post exchange in Imperial Beach,
who whisked off a number of beards
in the two weeks before New Year’s,
said, “One senior chief had his beard
and his head shaved at the same time
as a sort of protest. After he left, his
wife called up to see if he had taken
his hair and whiskers with him in a
bag. She was worried. She said he
threatened to send it to the chief of
naval operations.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Sch
roeder, completing his seventh week
with his mechanical heart, enjoyed a
quiet Saturday watching college bas
ketball on television and listening to
Tanya Tucker’s latest country music
album.
Schroeder, 52, who became the
world’s second permanent artificial
heart recipient Nov. 25, continues to
improve his strength as he recovers
from a Dec. 13 stroke that briefly left
him paralyzed on the right side.
“His strength is improving,” said
Linda Broadus, a spokeswoman for
Humana Hospital Audubon, the
only facility with Food and Drug Ad
ministration approval to implant
mechanical hearts.
Broadus said Schroeder’s growing
strength was reflected in his ability
to ride a stationary exercise bicycle
without holding the handlebars.”
Schroeder, a grandfather and re
tired munitions inspector from Jas
per, Ind., managed the no-hands
ride on the exercise bicycle after
walking back and forth from his
room to the hospital’s physical the
rapy unit, Broadus said.
Before undergoing the implant,
Schroeder’s diseased heart had left
him unable to exercise even brief pe
riods without becoming fatigued.
Schroeder spent a quiet Saturday
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PITTSBURGH — Congressional
Medal of Honor winner Charles E.
“commando” Kelly, who will be hon
ored with a 21-gun salute at his fu
neral today had difficulty making
the transition to civilian life after his
World War II heroism, his brother
says.
Kelly, who single-handedly held
off a platoon of Germans, died Fri
day of heart failure in Pittsburgh at
the age of 64. Services were sched
uled for Monday at Sperling Funeral
Home.
He will then be buried in High-
wood Cemetery.
Kelly’s brother, Howard, of
nearby Shaler, said Kelly did not
handle the pressure of being a war
hero well.
“He couldn’t handle it as well as
somebody else might have been able
to,” he said.
“He moved around a lot, never
settled down. I never knew what he
was looking for.”
Kelly, who rose to the rank of ser
geant, became one of 432 World
War II participants to receive the
Medal of Honor.
He volunteered to defend an am
munition dump at Altavilla, killing
40 attacking Germans, while other
members of his unit retreated to Sa
lerno.
Kelly also was awarded two Silver
Stars, two Bronze Stars and British
and French military medals.
He will receive a military salute at
his funeral usually reserved for
and had time to listen to a new coun
try music album personally pre
sented by Tucker, who also brought
flowers to Schroeder in a surprise
visit late Friday.
Schroeder is a fan of country mu
sic and also enjoys college basketball,
especially the Indiana University
Hoosiers coached by Bobby Knight,
who sent Schroeder an autographed
basketball and a taped pep talk last
month.
Dr. William DeVries, who im
planted the world’s first permanent
artificial heart in Dr. Barney Clark
in 1982, agreed to stop by Schroed
er’s room to watch Saturday’s tele
vised game between Wisconsin and
host Indiana.
“Today is going to be a quiet day,”
said Broadus.
“He’s going to spend time with his
family.”
His wife, Margaret, has lived in
the hospital since the implant and
his children have been commuting
almost daily from Jasper 70 miles
away in southern Indiana to visit
Schroeder.
Broadus said Schroeder “has a
good appetite (and) he eats every
thing in sight.”
She said the hospital, which has
reviewed three patients for possible
mechanical heart implants, has not
admitted any of them.
someone who dies while in the serv
ice.
The services Monday will include
a 21-gun salute by a military firing
squad at the cemetery. The military
also is sending an honor guard and
six pallbearers, said Walter Sperling,
owner of the funeral home.
“That is what they usually send
for any individual that’s in the mili
tary service and died in the line of
duty,” he said Sunday.
Sperling said he grew up in the
same neighborhood as Kelly, and
said Kelly looked upon his heroism
as part of the job of defending his
country.
“He was that type of individual,”
Sperling said. “He was (loyal) to his
line of duty. I think any of those
people (in his northside Pittsburgh
neighborhood) are that type of per
son,” he said.
Sperling said he expects about
100 people to attend the service.
After the war, a bad investment
cost Kelly the $40,000 he received
from the Saturday Evening Post for
a story about his exploits. He ran a
gas station and later worked as a
house painter.
His wife died in 1951, leaving him
with two small children. He remar
ried and moved to Louisville, Ky.,
but lost his job and was soon forced
to move into a low-rent apartment
with his family.
Kelly is survived by two sons, a
stepson, three daughters, seven
grandchildren and five brothers.
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