Pearl Harbor Survivor Recollects Attack on 1941 Sunday
Pearl Harbor veteran Captain Sidney Sherwin recalls the moment a low flying plane approached on December 7 1941. He watched the oil slick from battleship Row and described the chaos as the Oklahoma listed and the Arizona burned. He and a sailor saved a non swimmer, reaching the Maryland after leaving the Oklahoma. The attack began around 7 55 a m and the page notes the 8 15 dispensary visit aboard the Maryland.
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Pearl Harbor
Oklahoma
Batavia
N.Y
Naval Academy
Lowe
Sidney Sherwin
Arizona
Sherwin
Pearl Harbor Naval Rd
Honolulu
Jane Jewitt
Newport News
U.S. Navy
Oklaho
Curtis
Maryland
Ford Island
Battleship Row
Trains Collide on California Trestle, Rail Disaster
Two Southern Pacific freight trains collided head on on a trestle near Highway 33 in central California. The structure collapsed and engines plus cars fell into a creek. Nine trainmen were injured and cattle were killed in the crash.
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Calif
Southern Pacific
California Highway Patrol
Highway 33
California
Sinke Track
Virginians Win American Success Story Awards
New York AP report lists ten men named by Free Enterprise Association as winners of its 14th annual American Success Story Awards. Kenneth S. Kelleher, 42, of Alexandria, is president and founder of Keltec Industries, Inc., and Harry C. Gravely, 47, of Martinsville, is president of Gravely Furniture.
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New York
Free Enterprise Awards Association, Inc
Kenneth S. Kelleher
Harry C. Gravely
Kelleher
Alexandria
Keltec Indufstries, Inc
Gravely
Martinsville
Gravely Furniture
Couple Found Dead in Trailer in West Virginia
Wood County authorities investigate apparent carbon monoxide deaths of Daniel Rader 45 and wife Carol Sue 24 found Monday in their converted trailer on Winding Road. Victims were still in night clothes when discovered by a relative.
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Parkersburg
W.va
Wood County
Daniel Webb Rader
Winding Road
Rader
Carol Sue
October traffic deaths top four thousand eight hundred
The National Safety Council reports 4 820 killed in October marking the highest monthly toll this year. The figure is 5 percent above October 1964 and pushes the first ten months total to 160 2 percent above the 1964 level.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Tear gas used in shooting spree by 80-year-old man
In San Francisco AP reports an 80 year old man angered by a missing pension check fired two shots at a hotel manager and three at officers. Police returned fire and wounded him in the wrist after he barricaded himself in a third floor room as about 30 officers arrived.
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San Francisco
James Lee
Lee
Classified Rates And Deadlines For Advertisements
Rates listed for classified words: four or more days four cents per word per day, three days six cents, one or two days eight cents, with five percent discount if paid with the order. Minimum charge one dollar. Display ads 1.75 per column inch per day. In Memoriams Card of Thanks and Resolutions 25 cents per printed line per day. Deadlines five p.m. weekdays for next day and noon Saturday for Monday edition.
Precision Welding and Filing Service Ad Near Winchester
Precision saw filing and welding offers guaranteed work with electric and acetylene tools. Located four miles west of Winchester on Route 50. E L Bowen.
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Winchester
E. L. Bowen
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Zambia
R.A.F
Britain
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Pearl Harbor Attack
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Jand
Main St
U.S
South
Harrisonburg, VA
Chromalox
Loudoun St
Winchester Evening Star
Bobby
P.C.A
Memoriam
Albert Clark
Gaunt’s
South Braddock St
S. Loudoun St
Smilie
Miller St
Virginia
Middleburg
Don
Cameron ST
Ramey, Strout Realty
E. Clifford St
John Ramey
Strout. Realty
Amherst St
Gray Ave
Allen Drive
Shenandoah Hills
Fairmont Ave
Montague Ave
Bryan Stotler
Apts
Boscawen St
North
Washington St
Steve and Refrigerator
W, Germain
Stephens City
Cavalier Garden
Richards Ave
E. E. Bayliss, Jr
Berryville
Allen
Misc
Terry Land
Rt. 11
Mercersburg
Old Furn
Simmons
Wood, Jenkins Jr
Wood
Chrisman
R.C. Carter
Berryville Pike
Rt. 7
Jenginseng. Kins, Sr
Bob Geantous
Carl Heglar
Apt
Leesburg
Mr. Ivy
T. R. Smelser
Sal
Miller Hardware
Cornwell’s Grocery
Berryville Avenue
Valley Ave
H.p. C
King Motor
Barony Tree Farms
C.R. Shutte, Inc
Rouss Ave
Stewart
Burton’s
Dacron
Motorola
Delicous
Grimes Golden
Stayman
Virginia Apple Storage Inc
Pets
Beagle
A. R. Mayhew
Gore, Va
AKC
Merle
A.R. Mayhew
Gore
Martinsburg
Ford
Washington Area
MR. Eddins
Florida Ave
Northwest
Washington, D.C
Mongtomery Ward
R. Fox
Montgomery Ward
DENNY
Orndorff & Cole
Ole E. Wyckoff
Gene Wilson Tire Company, Inc
Gene Wilson Tire Company
Rock Cliff Drive
West Virginia
D.H. Rodgers, Jr
DODGE
Chrysler
Tanetsi Tha
Imperial
S. Braddock ST
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