New Yorker 70 Rides Raft Across Pacific from Peru
William Willis, age 70, completed a four month voyage aboard the 32 foot raft Age Unlimited, landing near Upolu in Western Samoa after weather damaged the raft. He had covered more than two thirds of the planned 12,000 miles from Peru toward Australia. Mrs Willis reported a sighting Aug 16 and said repairs may delay onward travel to Australia before December storms.
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Peru
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Knights of Columbus Officers Resign Over Blackball Incident
Chicago six top Knights of Columbus leaders resign from Loop Council 182 after member Joseph Bertrand, a Notre Dame graduate and cosmetics firm sales director, was allegedly blackballed for membership by a minority faction.
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Knights of Columbus Council
Midwest
Eugene R. Liner
Loop Council
Joseph Bertrand
Bertrand
Notres Dame University
Coast Guard Seaman Malmgren Returns From Duty
Seaman Wallace T. Malmgren, son of Mr and Mrs Wallace T Malmgren of Clinton Ave, has returned from duty aboard the Coast Guard cutter Winnnebago in Honolulu Hawaii. He was assigned to Niagara Life Boat Station Youngstown N Y after two years of weather patrol and search and rescue, with calls at Tahiti and Japan. He enlisted in June 1961 after graduating from Pittsfield High School.
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