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...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...
...Canaanites worshiped an earth-god. Baal, and Abraham presumably joined in some of their community rites and festivals. But Abraham heard the voice of his own God in the high places. On the Amorite mountain of Ebal, between the city of Luz (later called Bethel) and the ruins of an older city called Ai, Abraham set up his first altar. "While other men," writes Author Hill, "turned to the moon's light, the shadow of rocks, the sanctity of caves, the bounty of water holes, or to the protection of river and sun, to find their manifestations...
...years later Hurbie's mother, who separated from his father when Hurbie was very small, shot her second husband to death. She got out of that one on self-defense, but when she killed her third husband, she drew a five-year jail term. Hurbie's brother Bethel is currently doing ten years for burglary, and Uncle Iwana Fairris is serving a life sentence as a habitual criminal. Peggy Ann Fry, Hurbie's girl friend, is in a West Virginia prison for transporting a stolen car across state lines. A few hours before the execution last week...
Died. Archer Milton Huntington, 85, multimillionaire founder, with his family, of 13 U.S. museums, including Newport News's Mariners' Museum, Manhattan's Hispanic Society, son of Collis P. H. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific railway; in Bethel, Conn...
Planned Parenthood. In Bethel, Conn., a burglar broke into Dr. Albert J. Trimpert's office, ignored valuable drugs and a safe, took two books: Childbirth Without Fear and Obstetrical Techniques...