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Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem...
...last week Reginald Turner, 49, a tired, timid, Veterans Administration employee of Winston-Salem, N.C., arrived in Manhattan with his wife. They were whisked from the train into a dizzy whirlwind of broadcasts, playgoing, wining & dining. Soon, the Turners and their four sons would embark on a South American cruise. By selling the television sets and diamond rings that had been dumped in their laps, they would pay off a lot of old bills...
...pilot's seat, Capt. H. M. Haskew was getting reports of dirty weather ahead at Winston-Salem. At 1:10 a.m. he reported that he was over Greensboro at 7,000 feet; over Winston-Salem (17 miles west of Greensboro) at 1:15 a.m. Directed by air traffic control, he let down to 4,000 feet. At 1:33 a.m. he was cleared to the Winston-Salem tower for landing...
...knows what happened next, or why. Haskew never called the tower. The CAA noticed later that the signal from the Winston-Salem radio range was weak and erratic. At 1:43 a.m. the plane smashed into the 2,200-ft. Blue Ridge foothills near Galax, Va., northwest of Winston-Salem and more than 50 miles from the field...
...Buenos Aires, Harold Mickey, a bandleader from Winston-Salem, N.C., fathered twin sons. Next day he called at the local bureau of vital statistics to register the boys. He had named one Glen (for an old friend), the other Franklin (for Franklin Roosevelt...