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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1935
Page
2
A fragment notes Admiral Byrd’s intimate seven month self exile buried beneath Antarctic snow. The diary fragment hints at isolation and stark survival themes.
The account recounts Admiral Byrd's seven month solitary isolation at Advance Base on the Ross Shelf in 1934. It details the plan, the perilous living conditions, equipment failures, his resolve to endure, and the diary entries describing cold, silence, and near disasters that tested his endurance.
The account describes Captain Byrd enduring fumes from a stove and generator in a tunnel. He recalls a blanking blackout after tinkering with a carburetor, then crawling back to his shack and signing off after a tense radio exchange with Little America.
The Adjutant General announces vacancies across army bands in Panama with openings for clarinets through piano and brass doubling. Other Panama positions include airplane and engine mechanics, radio operators, welders, telephone operators, carpenters, cooks, armorers, truck drivers, chauffeurs, clerks, plumbers, storekeepers and bakers. Interested personnel should contact their local postmaster or nearest recruiting station for details.
Ford Motor Company begins air conditioning across its plant marking the first time in auto manufacturing that temperature control covers machine shops. The system, starting with 200000 cubic feet and expanding by 75000 more, aims to improve cylinder lapping accuracy and worker comfort while guarding precision processes from dust and heat. Temperature control already reaches gage rooms and inspection areas, with cylinder lapping rooms recently cooled and further installations planned in the foundry and executive offices.
Dr and Mrs T A and two daughters Louise and Robyn Ann have come back from a ten day trip to Virginia Beach. Guests of Mrs Nettie Hammack include Mrs Eleanor McLaughlin Columbus Neb and Mr and Mrs C V Larrick Mason and Dixon Pa. Weekend guests were Mr and Mrs Conley of New Hampshire and Miss Isabelle Hammack Washington. E L Humston, in Winchester Memorial Hospital since Sunday, hopes to return home by Saturday after a thorough medical exam found chronic kidney disorder. he is much improved now.
Advertises buying cast and steel at attractive price plus rags bees wax and metal. Provides contact 86 R or Baker Street between Market and Main for information.
Miss Dorothy Bates near spenais and Mrs C B Hudson in Cul peper visited relatives. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Costello of Martinsburg spent Friday with Fred C Inskip. Mr Goode suffered a skull fracture after a fall from a hay load in J R Watson’s barn and was unconscious most of the time.
A patient in hospital has made considerable progress over the past week and appears to be on the road to recovery. Close family and friends report he is now better and able to be about within the ward.
A notice from Wardensville West Virginia announces the Wardensville Faith Mission has postponed its annual event due to concerns over the spread of an illness. Details on the new date were not provided in the message.
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