Burma surgeon Dr Gordon Seagrave dies at 68 in Namkham hospital
NAMKHAM Burma UPI Dr Gordon Seagrave the famed Burma surgeon died Sunday at 68 from a heart ailment in the jungle hospital he built for tribesmen over 44 years. He trained nurses until illness, to be buried in the hospital cemetery among his patients. Seagrave, called Dadd by nurses and patients, earned a Johns Hopkins MD and chose missionary service abroad. His sons Sterling and John, both grown, were at his bedside as the hospital he built expanded to 250 beds serving more than 400000 tribesmen. Police question Stanley Cropper about a body found in a car trunk in Worsley England during a routine check.
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Boston Clerk Integrates Selma Church
A Boston Methodist minister Rev Gilbert Caldwell joined three other Negroes and ten whites at St Pauls Episcopal Church in Selma Alabama marking the first time a white Protestant church here opened to Negro worshippers. Caldwell said a local Methodist minister refused prior access and he then attended the Episcopal service with civil rights workers.
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Boston Helicopter Ride Ends in Tragedy
A nine year old on the first helicopter ride watched as the Massachusetts Helicopter Service craft crashed near Logan Airport. Father Richard Thomas 38 died. mother Marilyn 35 and Linda, the child, and pilot Albert DeLuca 27 were critically or severely injured. Passersby and the pilot heroically pulled victims from the burning wreckage as FAA and state investigators opened a formal inquiry.
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