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STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo., April 7—William Wehner, an electric utility employee, was electrocuted Saturday [April 5, 1958] when repairing lines blown down at Brewer, 15 miles south of here, during a violent storm a short time earlier. Wehner, 35 years old, was found unconscious on a pole near a 7,200-volt line. He died several hours later […]

ATOKA—(Special) — Ralph Whalin, 29, of La Suer, Minn., died July 27 [1954] in a hospital in Heron Lake. Minn. He and his nine-year-old son, Joie, were in an automobile accident June 23; Joie is still in the hospital and not out of danger. Ralph is a former resident of Atoka and Mrs. Whalin is […]

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. from Mueller Funeral Home, Kennewick, for Ralph Milton Wilson, 27, of 100 Craighill, Richland. Burial will be at Grandview. Mr. Wilson, a railroad brakeman employed at Hanford, died Saturday night [January 26, 1952] of a gunshot wound which police said was self-inflicted. He was a World […]

Staff Sgt. James Robert Williams, Bend, died as a result of combat wounds in Korea Sept. 30, 1951. Born Feb. 3, 1927, at Dexter, he was educated at Trent and Pleasant Hill. Williams was a Trent Christian Church member. He was a World War II veteran and was serving with the First Marine Division at […]

Miami, Fla. – (AP) – A small, freakish hurricane left southeast Florida under the highest floodwater in 30 years before its center swirled out into the Atlantic yesterday, chased by Army and Navy aerial hurricane trackers. Damage from 71-mile winds was minor but hundreds of homes were isolated around Miami and Fort Lauderdale by record-breaking […]

The Navy Hospital, Santa Margarita Ranch, reported Tuesday that the five persons injured in an early Saturday morning automobile accident at Camp Pendleton are in a much improved condition. Of the five injured the only one remaining on the serious list is Mrs. Barbara Hotchkiss, wife of Chief Warrant Officer Herbert Hotchkiss, who is suffering […]

Three Marines were killed and one wounded when their four-man patrol was ambushed and cut down by Jap snipers in the Asan Point area of the island Saturday afternoon [December 8, 1945]. The patrol, which was headed by 2nd Lt. Ray W. Atchinson, USMCR, had been sent out to investigate reported gun fire and disturbances […]

Funeral arrangements for Cpl. Frank E. Wood, returned war veteran, have been set for 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Ogle & Little Home for Funerals. The body will arrive in Tipton at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Robert W. Morris, pastor of the West Street Christian Church, will be in charge of rites, with burial in […]

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Williams, 601 N Knott Street, have received word that their son, Cpl. John Harold Williams, was killed in action on June 11 [1945] while serving with the 6th Marine Division. Overseas just two months, he was on his second tour of duty in the Pacific Theater. Cpl. Williams returned from […]

Two Adams County servicemen, Army Pvt. Edwin Haase of Odessa and Marine Pfc. William Williamson of Washtucna were killed in action during the last week. They are the 15th and 16th Adams County men to make the supreme sacrifice during World War II and bring the total died in World War II up to 23 […]