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Navy Ship Cuts RoadLONGVIEW, Wash. CAP) -Traffic ground to a halt on U.S. Highway 8:i0 about JO miles west of Longview Monday when the submarine tender USS Sperry plowed into the highway, breaking pavement and knocking down power and telephone lines.The 530-foot Sperry was making Us way down the Columbia River onrouto from the Portland Rose Festival to San Diego when its pilot lost steerage, the 13th Naval District headquarters .said.Witnesses said sirens were screeching and the ship’s public address system was blaring an alert to the ercw as I h e vessel sliced through the muddy bank near the little town af Stella and carnc to rest after chopping out half the pavement.
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Centralia Daily Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, US
Tue, Jun 13, 1967
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