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Families
of soldiers
visit troops
By Dave Kolpack
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FARGO, N.D. — When a
recently activated North Dakoia
National Guard unit got three
days off from its training in
Colorado, family members bad
home knew what to do: About
60 of them boarded two buses
for a 15-hour trip to visit the
troops.
“I’ve been double-fisting
with the cell phone and my
home phone trying to make
arrangements,” said Tammy
King, who runs the volunteer
family support group for the
North Dakota guard’s 142ml
Engineer Battalion and helped
organize the trip to Fort Carson,
Colo.
It was a fitting scene for fam
ilies in North Dakota. The stale
has had a higher percentage of
military-age residents, ages 18
to 64, called from the reserves to
active duty or placed on alert
than any other state, according
to an Associated Press analysis
of Pentagon figures.
Of North Dakota’s 386,873
military-age residents, 1,495
National Guard and Reserve sol
diers have been told to report,
the Pentagon said. That’s a rate
of 38.6 soldiers per 10,000,
I’m anxious to see
[Colorado], but I’m
wore anxious to see
my dad.
— Tyler Matthys
son of soldier
North Dakota is followed by
the District of Columfe
Mississippi, Utah, Alabp,
South Dakota, West Virginia,
Delaware, Nebraska and South
Carolina.
About 645 of the 700 soldiers
in the Fargo-based 142nd
Engineer Battalion were placed
on active duty last month, the
biggest call-up in North Dakota.
The 142nd handles general con
struction — everything from
carpentry to building roads and
air strips.
Among those making the bus
trip to Fort Carson over the
weekend was the Matthys fami
ly — 8-year-old Austin, 12-year-
old Tyler and mom Vicky -
going to see Lowell Matthys,
who is in the 142nd’s personnel
department.
The Matthys family had
never been to Colorado.
‘Tin anxious to see it,”Tyler
said. “But I’m more anxious to
see my dad.”
Vicky Matthys said a friend
surprised her by picking up the
cost of her tickets, about $98
apiece.
“We’ve had so much support,
from the neighbors and others,'
Matthys said, fighting bad
tears. “My husband and I have
never been apart like this, ever."
Terry and Robin Christians
drove about 100 miles from
Herman, Minn., to get on the
bus.
“This bus trip is something
we felt we had to do. They are
going off to war.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Gas prices up again
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP)-Gas
prices rose 7 cents per gallon
over the past two weeks push
ing pump prices to near record
levels, but the upward pressure
on prices may be easing, an
industry analyst said Sunday.
The average weighted pricefoi
gas nationwide, including all
grades and taxes, was approxi
mately $1.70 per gallon Friday,
according to the Lundberg
Survey of 8,000 stations nation
wide. That price is within 7 certs
of $1.77, the all-time high
recorded by the survey on May
18, 2001.
Gasoline cost about $1.63 a
gallon on Feb. 7, the date of the
last Lundberg Survey, an
increase of 11 cents over the
previous two-week survey.
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