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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1965
Page
3
AP reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson plans a transatlantic flight to New York in late September or early October to speak before the United Nations General Assembly. The item appears among a string of brief international notes from AP dispatches.
Sixteen year old sailor Lee Graham completed a 2400 mile voyage from San Pedro California to Honolulu aboard the Dove with two kittens as companions. He described the trip as pretty easy and arrived 24 hours early under a Coast Guard tow rope for safety. The Hawaii bound voyage is the first leg of a planned two year solo circumnavigation.
R G Wilson, a devoted flyer between Louisville and New York, retires after 16 years of weekly commutes. He began the routine when transferred to New York and his wife was ill, prompting the back and forth flights. The airline honored him with a farewell party on his last flight.
Tokyo's leftist assembly adopted a resolution demanding the United States pull out of Viet Nam. Only the pro-Western Liberal Democrats opposed. The measure also called for denying bases in Japan and Okinawa for U.S. air operations.
Kenneth Jess Porter jailed on complaint by Lee Harvey Oswald's widow Marina Porter 27 accused of slapping and threatening her with a gun. He told reporters he did not own a gun and would decide about returning to his wife depending on her wishes. Marina Oswald, formerly Marina Oswald, was the widow of President Kennedy’s assassin.
Two traffic crashes yesterday produced about $1100 in damage. On E Cork Street near Mt. Hebron Cemetery a wrecker driven by Charles E Dunn struck Robert E Mowery’s car while Mowery tried to enter the cemetery. Cemetery fence damage was about $1000. The second crash on National Avenue involved John Harding Bennett of White Marsh Maryland whose car hit a parked vehicle owned by Harry Rippeon after being blinded by headlights. Bennett was charged with reckless driving.
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