Gasoline Burns Youth At Drive In
A 17 year old Alexandria boy named Nels Thoresen suffered second and third degree burns over 85 percent of his body in an explosion and fire at the BurgerChef Restaurant on Mount Vernon Avenue. Rose Benedict, 38, received first degree burns and was treated. Firemen estimated damage at $15 000 and said the blaze began when the two were cleaning the floor with gasoline and fumes were ignited by a hot water heater.
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Alexandria
Nels Thoresen
Alexandria Hospital
Rose Benedict
Mount Vernon Ave
New Country Girl Look Embroidered Blouse Pattern 7482
Fashion notice promotes a trim blouse with Tyrolean embroidery as the new country girl look. Pattern 7482 offers sizes 12 14 16 18 with transfer printed pattern and pricing 50 cents plus 15 cents for mailing.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft
Churches Invest Funds in Slums to Aid Minority Economies
AP reports Christians and Jews investing church funds in slum banks and housing projects to expand business, employment, and housing for minorities. Episcopal and other bodies deposit millions, with aims to build economic bases and encourage nondiscriminatory hiring nationwide.
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New York
Episcopal Church Executive Council
Charles Bound
Episcopal Council
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
National Council of Churches
Disciples of Christ
The
Unitarians
Freedom National Bank
Harlem
American Jewish Committee
New York City
Harrisburg
Catholic Archdiocese of
Summer traffic safety program for kids by parents
A reader advises starting a child’s safety training before school by designating them as a temporary traffic officer during summer. Activities include explaining signals, supervising street crossings, and praising correct choices to build responsibility and readiness for school.
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Heloise
Douglas Bean
Visitor Killed at Logging Site
Floyd Rock aged 29 from Richmond died in a logging site accident near Big Island when a wheeled bulldozer slid 200 feet down a steep grade. George Hatcher Jr. 35 of Glasgow survived with a dislocated hip and abrasions. The Owens Illinois Products Division logging site is on Terrapin Mountain in Jefferson National Forest four miles south of Big Island off Virginia 122.
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Big Island
Floyd Rock
Richmond
Hatcher
Lynchburg General Hospital
Owens, Illinois Products Division
Terrapin Mountain
Jefferson National Forest
Virginia 122
Roanoke Lieutenant Dies in Vietnam Conflict
Washington AP reports Army 1st Lt. Donn L. Sweet of Roanoke Virginia was killed in the Vietnam war. He was the son of Mrs. Marion Sweet of 1948 Walman Road in Roanoke.
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Washington
Donn L. Sweet
Roanoke
Defense Department
Sweet
Marion Sweet
Walman Rd
Civilians To Sail Big Carrier At Sea Trials
Newport News Shipbuilding crew will man the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy during 50 hour Atlantic builder's trials 100 miles offshore. Capt Earl P Yates will command with Navy escort destroyers Waller and Page. Caroline Kennedy and her mother expected for commissioning September 7.
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Newport New
John F. Kennedy
Navy
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Atlantic
Earl P. Yates
Caroline Kennedy
Waller
Page
Grandmother Satisfactory After Heart Transplant
Houston area woman Beth White Brunk, 49, becomes the first woman to receive a heart from a female donor Betty O Neal of Corsicana. The operation at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, led by Dr. Denton A Cooley, lasted about two hours and Brunk was reported in satisfactory condition. The donor died after a brain hemorrhage and an autopsy was planned.
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Houston, Tex
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Beth White Brunk
Houston
Corsicana
Tex
Betty O'Neal
Denton A. ‘Cooley
Cooley
Brunk
St. Luke’s
Gladys Smith
Bryan
Betty O’neal
Robert D. Bone
O’neal
Social welfare report links rent subsidies to psychosocial issues
A Baltimore study for the Department of Social Services shows welfare recipients in a year long federal rent subsidy program averaged 2.70 major psychosocial problems needing community intervention. Dr Harris Chaiklin of the University of Maryland School of Social Work notes workers identified .87 new problems per family and eliminated .58 problems per family.
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Harris Chaiklin
University of Maryland School of Social Work
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Alice Brook
Helois
Mrs. M. McKay
Jayne Casey
Granny
Kelly Features Syndicate
M. M. Winthrop
Bean Shippers Assn
Rock
H. J. Hatcher Jr
Glasgow
Roanoke of
Douglas C. Broad
Newport News
Virginia Pilots Association
Los Angeles
Air Force One
Air Force
Los Angeles International
Continental Airlines
Baltimore
Department of Social Services
Howard Johnson
George Washington Hotel
Raymond
Finn
FDIC
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