Marine student survives 37 days at sea with father on raft
A 20 year old marine biology student and his father drifted 1400 miles from Guam in a 23 foot raft after storms separated them from their anchor. They navigated by sun Polaris and the Southern Cross surviving on fish beans and meat until landing near Calayan Island Philippines.
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Pacific
Frank Cushing
Guam
Frank Jr
University of Guam
Puto Point
Calayan Island
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Jamar
Clark Air Base Hospital
Cushing
Navie Gate
U.S. Navy
Agertive
Luzon
Calayan
Morison Publishes Oxford History of the American People
Samuel Eliot Morison announces The Oxford History of the American People a 1176 page legacy aimed at the people not as a textbook. He wrote the volume in longhand and revised each page after reading to his wife Priscilla Barton Morison in their Beacon Hill home.
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Boston
Samuel Ell Fot Morison
America
Oxford
Morison
Jonathan Trumbull
Harevard
United States
Priscilla Barton Morison
Beacon
Episcopal Bishop Dies and Other Obituaries Across U S
The Rt. Rev. Howard R. Brinker, 71, Episcopal bishop of Nebraska from 1940 to 1962, died Wednesday. Andrew T Weaver, retired Wisconsin speech professor, and his wife Cornelia died in a car crash on an Ohio highway en route to Columbus. Dr Otto M Kurschner, 50, leading osteopathic pediatrician, died Wednesday after holding major offices in the American College of Osteopathic Pediatrics. William Reddick, 74, conductor and director of the Ford Sunday Evening Hour radio program in the 1930s, died Tuesday of a heart attack.
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Omaha
Howard R. Brinker
Nebraska
Toledo
Ohio
Andrew Tt. Weaver
University of Wisconsin
Cornelia
Weaver
Wisconsin
Weavers
Columbus
John C. Weaver
Ohio State University
Philadelphia
Otto M. Kurschner
Kurschner
American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians
Grosse ‘ Point
Mich
William Reddick
Father Chooses Jail Over Public Whipping
In Taylorsville North Carolina Judge Sam Poole offered George Stout a public whipping or jail for his 18 year old son Steve. Stout chose jail and Steve began two consecutive 12 month terms for breaking and entering.
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Taylorsville
N.C
Sam Poole
George Stout
Steve
Stout
McDonald to Step Down From United Steelworkers Post
Pittsburgh AP David McDonald will resign as president of the United Steelworkers next month to avoid a prolonged legal fight over protests to the union’s election results. He cites the risk to contract talks and a possible September strike as reasons for stepping away June 1.
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Pittsburgh
David McDonal
United Steelorkers Union
McDonald
Wednes+y
Fed
I. W. Abel
Basic Steel
Abel McDonald
Aluminum
Can and Steel Industries
Abel
Joint
Union-Industry
International Executive Board
Pro- Abel
U.S. Labor Department
Paign Abel
Uneion
Nevins Endows History Chair at Columbia for 500000
Historian Allan Nevins, two time Pulitzer winner, endows a Columbia University history chair with 500000 in gifts disclosed publicly. The donation was anonymous last December and Nevins turns 75 this Friday.
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New York
Allan Nevins
Columbia University
Columbia
Nevins
Nevevins
NC General Assembly Abolishes Death Penalty for Duels
Raleigh AP reports the North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday abolished the death penalty for killing someone in a duel. No duels have been reported in the state since 1868.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina General Assembly
Skin Itch Remedy Ad At Boyd Drug Co
Advertisement touts itch reliever Itch Me Not Ruavend claiming rapid relief and antiseptic action for eczema insect bites foot itch and surface rashes. Reads If not pleased your 48c back at any drug store. Today at Boyd Drug Co.
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