New Pastor Appointed for Cork Street Church
The Rev. L. Coleman Games accepted a call to Cork Street Christian Church arriving the week of July 15 from the First Christian Church of Jackson Ky where he served while finishing work at the College of the Bible Lexington Ky. He is a Frankfort Ky native and a 1949 Transylvania College graduate who also attended seminary and led churches in Guthrie Ky and Dover Tenn. He married Katherine Veech in 1943 and they have daughter Brenda Kay. He served three years in the U.S. Army during World War II, including time at Newport News.
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Cork Street
First Christian Church
Jackson
College of the Bible
Lexington
Frankfort
Mr. Games
Transylvania College
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Brenda Kay
U.S. Army
Newport News
Europeans View Nuclear Reactor Tour Ends in Knoxville Visit
A 60 member European delegation visits Oak Ridge after viewing a pressurized water reactor by Babcock and Wilcox Co. They seek reactors for European power plants and will tour government and private nuclear projects. Countries represented include Belgium France West Germany Italy Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Their governments signed the Rome treaty March 25 to form Euratom.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
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Babcock and Wilcox Co
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France
West Germany
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Rome
European Community For Atomic Energy
Euratom
Ferryboat Princess Anne Hit Submerged Object
The ferry Princess Anne struck a submerged object, breaking a rudder stock, and was to be repaired at Newport News Shipbuilding. The Accomac standby boat began service as hundreds of northbound vehicles queued for crossing the 2 mile Chesapeake Bay route.
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Bay
Accomac
Look into America's Future and You Can See Your Own
Public service notice invites readers to obtain a free copy of The Future of America by writing to BOX 1776 Grand Central Station New York. It promotes optimistic vision of American capitalism and broad opportunities for all citizens.
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America
Grand Central Station
N. Y
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Advertising Council
Watch to be sent to wife of plane crash victim
Mrs Audry Loskamp of Avalon California will receive the watch worn by her husband Alvin Loskamp who was killed in the Cal Mountain crash near Waynesboro Virginia on November 20 1954 Plymouth Oil geologist Loskamp was among five killed when a company plane crashed James T Phillips of Waynesboro found initial watch band initials APL at the scene and later recovered more pieces He rebuilt the watch and sent it to Mrs Loskamp who expressed belief the watch was mutilated beyond repair and asked for it back
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Audry Loskamp
Avalon
Calif
Alvin P. Loskamp
Here
James T. Phillips
Calf Mountain
Phillips
APL
Loskamp
Weather Cool In Mid-Atlantic Coastal States
A pleasant cool spell spread across the lower Great Lakes, upper Ohio Valley, New England, and mid-Atlantic coasts while warm, humid conditions persisted in the Gulf and Plains. Showers and thunderstorms were common. no severe storms reported. Flood threats rose in eastern Kansas with heavy runoff, and Richland residents fled amid drenching rains. Marfa saw knee deep water in a dry river bed from runoff.
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Ohio Valley
New England
mid-Atlantic
Gulf States
Plains States
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Gulf Coast
Rockies
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Kansas
Davis Mountains
Marfa
Texas
Board Assigns 25 000 Pupils
The State Pupil Placement Board announced it hopes to act on all placement applications before September. Yesterday the board assigned about 25,000 students from 65 localities to public schools for the term starting in September. Executive secretary Joseph W. Bland said some parents signed under protest, but there were no outright refusals.
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Richmond
Joseph W. Bland
Bland
Boy 17 Drowns in Appomattox River
In Petersburg Virginia a 17 year old black boy named Charles Jackson drowned in the Appomattox River after reportedly cramping while swimming with other youths. Police Capt. G H Slate said Jackson disappeared in about 15 feet of water and was recovered within five minutes but could not be revived.
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Petersburg
Appomattox
Charles Jackson
G. H. Slate
Petersburg Police Department
Jackson
Slate
Dorie Miller Honored for Pearl Harbor Heroism
The Negro mess attendant on a Pearl Harbor ship was Dorie Miller of Waco Texas. Miller, the first Black Navy recipient of the Navy Cross in World War II, dragged a wounded captain to safety and manned a machine gun until ordered to leave the bridge.
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Pearl Harbor
Dorie Miller
Waco
Texas
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