Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Saturday, October 9, 1954

Slate Services For Lt. Guinn

Funeral services will be held Monday for the Pineville victim of Thursday's helicopter crash.

The services for First Lt. Julius C. Guinn Sr. [sic Jr.] will be held at 10 a.m. in the National cemetery in Pineville. It will be a military funeral with the chaplain from Alexandria Air Force Base in charge of services.

Hixson Bros. Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include his father, Julius C. Guinn Sr. of Gulfport, Miss.; stepmother, Mrs. Julius C. Guinn Sr. of Pineville; mother, Mrs. N. M. Gore of Ball; grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Guinn and uncle, Percy E. Guinn, both of Alexandria, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Plaunk [sic Plunk] of Ball.

Lt. Guinn was killed when the helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed five miles from the base. Four others aboard also died.

Lt. Guinn served with the Naval air corps in World War II. After the war he attended Shriner Institute, University of Oklahoma and University of Paris, France. He was recalled to the United States for Air Force duty while in London.

He was to have gone overseas next week after finishing training at Alexandria. He had been at the Alexandria base since June 1.