Roaring Wind Rips Off Roofs and Topples Trees in Gallia
Residents along Shoestring Ridge and Lower River Road assessed extensive damage from near tornadic winds and hail Tuesday night. Red Cross official Mrs. Fairlie Moore led a survey noting roofs ripped, barns damaged, windows shattered, and orchards flattened. Eyewitness accounts described 10 minutes to half an hour of violent wind with rain and hail, leaving scenes of widespread destruction across farms, barns, and roads. Rain continued Wednesday with 2 inches of precipitation measured at Fairfield.
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Gallipolis
Lower River Road
Fairlie Moore
Gallia
Mra
Arista Boga
John F. Berridge
Berridge
A. G. Wallace
Spring Valley
Clipper Mill
Robert
Bill Cunningham
Ohio River
Wallis
Frank Plgmales
Wallace Place
Wallace
Denver Wallace
Moore
Huntington
Vernon Rose
Charles Hamilton
Evans
W. Z. Coffey
Wilbur Mathias
China Byars
Jallia County
U. S
Edwin R
Pete) McCormick
Fairfield
Tuberculosis unit offers free mini x rays at fair
At the Gallia County Fair in Gallipolis on August 12 to 14 the Gallia County Tuberculosis and Health Association will sponsor a mobile x ray unit for adults 18 and over with professional technician assistance and no charge. A maple tree toppled onto the Buster Cromlish residence in Clipper Mill and a tree fell on Rev. Kenneth Betz’s track near Route 218 the same day.
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Gallia County
Gallipolis
Gallia County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Buster Cromlish
Clipper Mill
Kenneth Betz
Poet Climbs Maine Peak Oldest Woman at Sixty Six
Mrs. Emma Gatewood of Gallipolis, age 66, said to be the oldest woman to reach Maine’s highest summit Mt. Katahdin. She traveled from Millinocket by taxi to Baxter Park, climbed five miles to the peak, signed the registry, then trekked through the Pine via Rainbow Lake Camp and returned by monoplane to Millinocket.
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Gallipolis
Maine
Emma Gatewood
E. Monroe Gatewood
Second Ave
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Gatewood
Millinocket
Baxter State Park
Mt. Katahdin
Galia County
Rainbow Lake
Off-Duty Policeman Fires Six Shots in Springfield Chase
Police said an off duty patrolman Ralph Jordan fired six shots at Kenneth Hix 25 of Springfield who had escaped from a Monaca, Pennsylvania jail while being held for investigation burglaries in Beaver County. Hix escaped from the Pennsylvania jail July 7.
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Springfield
Ralph Jordan
Monaca
Beaver County
iKenneth Hix
Pennsylvania
Hix
Wanted Man Patrolman Jordan Tango in Nightclub Incident
Patrolman Jordan spotted a wanted man in a nightclub and when the man fled Jordan fired. Jordan says he believes he wounded the suspect.
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Jordan
Byrne charged with speeding in Gallipolis
Daniel J. Byrne of Loretto Pennsylvania was charged Wednesday by city police with speeding and his case was docketed in Gallipolis Municipal Court on Thursday.
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Gallipolis
Daniel J. Byrne
Loretto
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