Hero of Okinawa Finds How to Walk Again
Hal Boyle reports Sammy Bradford, an Okinawa veteran who lost both legs above the knee, is learning to walk again at the Mare Island amputee center. He rebuilt a wheelchair shop with another veteran, adapted to four inch stumps, and now uses suction bucket artificial legs, driving a car and walking with practice daily.
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Okinawa
Mare Island
Calif
Sammy Bradford
Navy Amputee Rehabilitation Hospital
Sammy
Sugar Loaf Hill
Navy
Marine Corps
Navy Doctor Outlines Eight Month Recovery For Robotic Leg User
The Navy doctor explains that the patient must withstand eight hours practical wear and prove ability to rise after a fall and navigate stairs with a prosthetic leg. Given above knee amputation, a cane will be allowed for balance. Sammy notes four to five months into rehabilitation, projected eight months total.
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Sammy
Navy
Learning to Walk and Browning’s Famous Troubadour
A boy from Okinawa says his goal is to learn to walk with confidence. The text notes Sordello, Browning’s poem hero, as the famed 13th century Italian troubadour.
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Okinawa
Sordello
Robert Browning
Slonaker Rites Held for Evan J C Slonaker at Mount Hebron
Funeral services were held at 4 p m today for Evan J C Slonaker 80 from 22 E Gerrard Street conducted by Rev S J Goode. Interment followed in the family lot at Mount Hebron cemetery.
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Evan J. C. Slonaker
E. Gerrard Street
Moody F. C. Slonaker
S. J. Goode
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Rotary to Hear Aeronautics Chief NAACP Meeting
NAACP members are expected to attend the monthly meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Cartwright's funeral home. A Sunday bus trip to the 38th annual NAACP conference in Washington will feature speakers including President Truman Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Morse.
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National
Assa For the Advancement of Colored People
Cartwright
Washington
NAACP
Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
W. Morse
Spider builder dives underwater with air bubbles
A spider builder builds a silken diving bell under water carrying an air supply as bubbles. It lives beneath the surface feeding on aquatic insects. Sorghum refers to several small grains grown mainly in tropical regions including the millet Guinea corn and Indian millet.
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Chesapeake Bay
International Soundphoto
Slonaker Funeral
Dodge
Chas. W. Webber and Sons
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