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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1979
Page
9
A 25-year-old Roanoke man William Joseph Howard Jr died of asphyxiation likely from sleeping while smoking in bed. Fire damaged his bedroom with a mattress nearly consumed while his mother and disabled father escaped amid neighbor assistance.
In a dawn crossing from East to West Germany, four adults and four children soared 12 miles on a nylon balloon crafted from bedsheets. Plane mechanic Peter Strelzek, the designer, described the 20 to 30 minute flight as his second escape attempt, citing unbearable East German conditions. The group included Strelzek, his wife and two children, and stonemason Andreas Wetzel, his wife and child.
A 17 year old Salem girl was rescued after spending two days and nights stranded after her car plunged down a 60 foot embankment near Roanoke River. She was found Sunday by a passerby and taken to Lewis Gale Hospital in satisfactory condition with a broken leg and injuries.
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