90 YEARS AGO…
August, 1931
August 26, 1931: Had Attended Festivities In Clifton Forge
Herbert Wood, 25 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood, of Buena Vista, Va., was instantly killed early this morning in an automobile accident near the Dodson Farm east of Clifton Forge on the Sharon Church Road. The car left the road and turned over.
Mr. Wood in company with three other young men, were en route to their home in Buena Vista from Clifton Forge, where they had been attending the various social events attendent upon the American Legion Convention. The young men were not members of the legion.
Young Wood sustained a fractured skull and died instantly. The other boys were not seriously hurt.
Two sisters of the deceased reside in Clifton Forge; Mrs. G.N. Woodson, of Chestnut St. and Miss Pearl Wood, a student nurse at the C & O Hospital.
The funeral will be held from the home in Buena Vista Friday.
75 YEARS AGO…
August, 1946
August 26, 1946: Moscow Says Carrier Cruise Is ‘Pressure’
Moscow radio charged today that the United States was “attempting to put pressure on Yugoslavia” by a display of military might including the Mediterranean cruise of the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A commentator said last week’s U.S. – Yugoslavia incident had been “inflated” by “sensation-mongers and mischief markers” in Britain and the U.S.
“This incident would have gone unnoticed if it had been adjusted through the usual channels – if an apology had come from the government whose plane had violated the borders of the other government,” he added.
“Anyone who has watched attentively cannot fail to have noted a number of facts showing that the U.S. is definately attempting to put pressure on Yugoslavia by a display of her strength and might.
One of the biggest American aircraft carriers, the Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been sent on a Mediterranean cruise. The American press did not spare adjectives or space to describe the might of this warship.
50 YEARS AGO…
August, 1971
August 25, 1971: Meeting Set For 7:30 Tonight At Iron Gate
A meeting has been scheduled for 7:30 o’clock tonight at Iron Gate Town Hall at which Christopher Terrell, town attorney, will answer questions concerning the suspension of Town Sergeant Burton J. Taylor and related matters.
Citizens attending the regular town council meeting Monday had asked numerous questions about Taylor’s status and Council had advised them that a meeting would have to be set up with Terrell to answer the questions. Tonight’s meeting was arranged as a result.
25 YEARS AGO…
August, 1996
August 26, 1996: 11 Dead In High Seas Mutiny
Suspects were under Japanese custody today in a high seas mutiny that left a South Korean tuna ship adrift without fuel some 330 miles south of Tokyo, believe Capt. Choi Ki-taek and the others were killed in a dispute over working conditions.
“We have never dealt with a mutiny of these proportions,” said Maritime Safety Agency Spokesman Tomohiro Innami.
Details surrounding the mutiny on the Honduras-registered Pesca Mar No. 15 were unclear.
Innami said the ship left Pusan, South Korea, on July 14 to fish for tuna in the South Pacific with 25 crew, including seven Chinese nationals. For reasons not yet clear, one crew member was transferred to another ship on Aug. 2, Innami said.
On Aug. 3, according to South Korean maritime officials, Choi radioed another South Korean ship in the South Pacific to say his Chinese crewmen were refusing to work and he was going to Samoa to find replacements.
The ship was reported missing soon after.
By the time Japanese ships reached the 294-ton vessel early Sunday, the bodies of the Indonesians and one Chinese – had already been thrown overboard.
10 YEARS AGO…
August, 2011
August 26, 1996: Va. Colleges Shut Down To Weather Irene
Several colleges and universities in the Hampton Roads area are closing their campuses and telling students to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irene.
Old Dominion University closed residence halls at 7 p.m. Thursday. It offered to shuttle students to bus and train stations or to the airport.
The College of William and Mary and Christopher Newport University are closing residence halls at noon Friday. William and Mary officials urged students Thursday to “leave now if you can” because traffic would intensify as the storm approaches.
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