28 Mar 1964
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1964
Page
1
Seismic waves devastated Anchorage causing dock damage and fires after a strong quake. Reports indicate possible hundreds of deaths with aftershocks felt along the Pacific coast from Canada to California and extending to Hawaii. Continuous updates awaited from authorities and relief agencies.
A Honolulu to Los Angeles passenger DC-4 with nine aboard reported an engine fire about 1,000 miles southwest of San Francisco. Coast Guard interceptors from San Francisco were en route as the aircraft considered a ditching at sea while remaining nearer to San Francisco than Los Angeles.
An anonymous call prompted Continental Trailways to halt and search five buses leaving Salt Lake City. No bomb found. Across regions a tsunami warning led to waves and flooding from Oregon to Hawaii, causing drownings, injuries, and property damage including gas plants, hotels, and ferry areas.
The Board of Directors meeting in Winchester Frederick Red Cross Chapter has been postponed. Directors will convene April 6 at the chapter headquarters 8 Braddock Street. The Jaycees hold an Easter egg hunt tomorrow at 2 p.m. at War Memorial Park with 720 eggs and prizes.
General Douglas MacArthur spent a comfortable night and continues a satisfactory recovery from major surgery at Walter Reed Army Hospital. A morning bulletin reported he rested well and is receiving antibiotics for pneumonitis of the right lung following an internal bleeding that occurred after an earlier gall bladder operation.
Local market advertises potatoes for sale at Millers Fruit Market located on Route 7. specifies casual pricing and pickup details with no other items listed.
A massive earthquake struck Anchorage at 5 36 p m devastating downtown blocks and triggering enormous tidal waves along the Pacific coast Many small coastal towns suffered heavy damage and authorities fear hundreds dead the disaster prompted President Johnson to declare Alaska a major disaster area and mobilize federal aid with damage projected in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Local Red Cross office processes inquiries about servicemen and families tied to Alaska. Seattle Chapter serves as clearing house routing calls from Winchester to communities nationwide for casualty updates. Local volunteers forwarded nearly 20 requests by noon. replies may take hours. Calls to MO 2 5412 urged for assistance.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk disagrees with Senator Fulbright on Cuba while endorsing parts of his foreign policy critique. Rusk calls Castro a real threat to the hemisphere and supports continuing efforts to persuade non Communist nations in the economic boycott. Fulbright views Castro as a distasteful nuisance not an intolerable danger and aims to stimulate national debate.
President Johnson schedules May 18 for Berlin mayor Willy Brandt and July 7-8 for Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in Washington. Both visits are informal with no major U.S. tensions. Moro’s first U.S. trip as premier and Brandt to speak in New York May 15.
Lupton Equipment Co Inc advertises a price correction for the Toro 19inch mower with bagging and leaf mulcher attachments at 99.95 dollars. The listing appears in the Star newspaper.
British planes attacked and destroyed a fort inside the Yemen frontier near Harib, within ten minutes using rocket and cannon fire. Leaflets were dropped warning of the strike about 15 minutes earlier. officials say occupants fled. The attack followed frontier provocations and received approval from the colonial office.
A spate of minor crashes left eight people hurt last night around Winchester. Dorothy Corbin and George McCauley, both teens, and William Royston were in a Brick Kiln Road crash. A second collision on Rt 50 West involved Charles Patterson Elton Foreman Virginia Connelly and William Johnson with facial cuts and a knee injury to Connelly. Donna Werston was admitted after a Rt 11 North crash. All victims were taken to area hospitals by the Winchester Rescue Squad.
Perry Engineering Co Inc seeks air compressor operators hydraulic and mechanical backhoe operators. Apply in person at Millwood Pike Winchester Virginia.
A Soviet satellite burned up in the atmosphere between the Great Lakes and the northeastern Canadian coast Thursday night, according to calculations by a North American Air Defense Command agency in Colorado Springs.
Virginia skies were mostly sunny today with a cold front approaching. Rain is expected to move in across the state tonight, with heavier chances in the southern Appalachians.
A notice requests confidential replies for a skilled saleslady in ladies apparel, listing age and experience and addressed to Box 97 care of the Winchester Evening Star.
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