Trucker sacrifices truck to save fellow driver on mountain road
Louis Joseph Gallant, a Nova Scotia trucker, said he allowed a braking-troubled colleague to ram into his trailer on Kelly Mountain on Jan 14 1984 to give the other driver a chance to survive. Gallant and 21 others were honored by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for bravery. six of the awardees died in the act.
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Pittsburgh
Louis Joseph Gallant
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Ate Es
Wellington
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Kelly Mountain
John W. W. Waite
Midland Transport Ltd
Moncton
Waite
Gallant
Heroes Receive Medal For Courage Across Canada and U S
The commission named multiple awardees including Jean Louis H Bertrand a British Columbia store owner who perished saving a man from a burning pickup in Kamloops on Aug 26 1984. Others include David Freeman Daines a Nova Scotia fisherman who saved a drowning man on May 10 1963 and James E Calvarese an Alameda insurance salesman who rescued a deputy sheriff in a courtroom incident in Oakland.
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Jean Louis H. Bertrand
Louis Creek
British Columbia
Kamploops
David Freeman Daines
Glace Bay
Nova Scotia
James E. Calvarese
Alameda
Calif
Oakland
James William Murray
Norwood
Ontario
Shirley Ann Norman
Suffolk
Jose Eduardo Silva
Leamington
Kevin P. la Barr
Gary J. Wistie
Springdale
Arnold
Jordan Aims for Senate Run After Cancer Battle
ATLANTA AP Hamilton, who masterminded Carter’s White House rise, says he is cured of lymph cancer and ready to run for the U S Senate. In a letter to friends he states his decision followed treatment and remission. he previously served as special assistant to Carter until 1979 and then White House chief of staff.
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Hamilton
Jimmy Carter
White House
Friends
U.S. Senate
Jordan
Carter
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North Vancouver
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Inuvik
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Chicago
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Woodside
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