D Day memories from General Collins recalls Utah Beach
General Collins recalls D-Day off Cherbourg during a Pacific career, detailing Bayfield anchor, weather, and landing craft movements. He notes paratroopers and seaborne forces overcoming scattered drops, coastal battery bombardment, and initial light resistance as tides shifted landing points south of plan.
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Guadalcanal
Pacific
Lightnin
Joe’ Collins
Normandy
Utah Beach
Cherbourg
St.Lo
Aachen
U.S. Army
J. Lawton Collins
Associated Press
France
Bayfield
Don P. Moon
English Channel
Bradley
Kean
Kirk
Moon
Wiltie
Plymouth
Don Moon
101St Airborne Division
Maxwell
D. Taylor
Ste. Mere Eglise
82Nd Airborne Division
Matthew D. Ridgway
Merderet River
9Th Air Force
Burglar Strikes Joe Molino’s Restaurant for Seventh Time
In Concord California burglars entered Joe Molino’s restaurant safe six times over 18 months, stealing $2,500 in total. The seventh burglary left the safe empty with a sign reading Please try some other place we cant stand much more of this.
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Concord
Calif
Joe Molino
Texas Gas Sells Assets in Unspecified Deal
Texas Gas Corp of Houston is acquired by a group led by Carl M. Loeb Rhoades & Co New York Godfrey L. Cabot Inc Boston and Russell M. Riggsin Texas Gas president for undisclosed terms announced by UPI.
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New York
UPI
Texas Gas Corp
Houston
Carli M. Loeb
Final Rites for Mrs. E. E. Johnson in West Monroe
Obituary notices list Mrs. E. E. Johnson 77 of West Monroe died Monday in a local hospital. Final rites were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at First Methodist Church with burial in Hasley Cemetery. Surviving family includes husband three daughters three sons and six sisters among others. Pallbearers named.
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E. E. Johnson
West Monroe
First Methodist Church
W. D. Milton
J. C. Wallace
Hasley
Kilpatrick Funeral
Fellowship
Womens Society of Christian Service
E. F. Caldwell
Aldred Jenkins
Jackson Miss
John R. Haley
London
England
T. E. Johnson
Tuscaloosa
Ala
E. E. Johnson Jr
Mopile
W. P. Johnson
J. M. Dumas
W. W. Goodwin
el Dorado
Ark
P. E. Arpet
Cavina
Calif
Cc. N. Anderson
J. T. Roye
C.E. Feazel
John Roberts
Venice
Clifford Robert
Monroe
Jack Thompson
N. R. Golson
Henry Mann
Ray Sherrard
Cecil Dopson
Raymond Potter
Roy Brooks
George Hennigan
Carswell Air Force Base
Tex
J. J. Crawford
Naethez
Caroline Davis
Wisner
H. L. Davis Sr
W. C. Bradley
Jackson
Malik Sees No Hope For Summit
Charles H. Malik of Lebanon, president of the U N General Assembly, says neither the upcoming Big Four foreign ministers conference nor a summit will ease world tensions. He warns Western powers and Russia confront each other rigidly and that continued communist aims will block wide agreements.
Skin divers beached in Shark River inlet at Avon
Avon officials beach skin divers in the Shark River inlet citing navigational danger. Commissioner Henry Brewster orders divers to stay upriver to reduce hazard to boats and hulls.
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Avon
N. J
Shark River Inlet
Henry Brewster
Kellogg's All-Bran Said To Ease Irregularity
Mrs. Oscar Potter of Morrow Ohio says Kellogg's All-Bran solved irregularity after long trouble. She tells her husband and friends about the good tasting natural remedy that adds bulk and helps digestion.
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Oscar Potter
Morrow
Ohio
No Steel Strike Hinted In Capital
Washington reports a strong chance of avoiding a July 1 steel strike as four-man teams from 12 large steel firms and the United Steelworkers of America press for a new contract before June 30. Union demands include wage hikes and a shorter 40 hour week while companies push for a one year wage and benefit freeze.
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New York
Washington
United Steelworkers of America
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Gen. Collins
Naval Air Material Center
Gerald Phillips
Middletown
Navy
B. F. Goodrich Company
Philadelphia
Texas Gas Sells
Louisiana
John W. Hargrove
Columbia
Kelly
Kelly Baptist Church
W. F. Tweety
W. A. Massey
F. L. Hearne
Hargrove Cemetery
Riser and Sons Funeral Home
Minnie Hargrove
T. W
Maurice
John A
H. H
West Lake
B. R. Hargrove
Pineville
Edna Hargrove
U. S. Army
Puerto Rico
James McGuire
Mrs
Kate Sutton
Birmingham
Ensley
Greenwood
Miss
Emmett C. Sutton
Suttons
H. L. Davis
Malik
Nallegg
Eisenhower
Walnut St
Esso Research
Atlas Bucron
Esso
Esso Inc
Bucron
U.S. Pat
Atlas Supply CO
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