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Amelia Earhart commemoration

... Amelia Earhart commemoration The Northern Ireland Tourist Board is prepared to share the cost _qf proyiding a commemorarive plaque at the site near the .any where Miss Amelia Earhart, landed her plane after com pleting her solo fli?hf across thle Atlantic ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1967
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Earhart Plaque Proposal Derry Corporation’s Finance Committee was told that the Tourist Board was prepared to ..

... Corporation on a 50- 50 basis in the provision of a memorial plaque at the spot at Culmore where the lone woman aviator, Amelia Earhart landed following her historic trans-Atlantic flight. The arrangement is subject 10 the Rural Council being responsible ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1967
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... Memorial commemorative plaque may be erected at the spot at Culmore, not far from Londonderry, where the famous woman aviator Amelia Earhart landed after her lone flight across the Atlantic in 1932. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1967
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BY ~ “ONLOOKER”

... the plane landed. In these days of trans-; atlantic jets it is interesting to recall the hazards which early fliers like Amelia Earhart over-l came. Four hours out over the! Atlantic from Harbour Grace, | Newfoundland, the starting point of her epic flight ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1967
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BALLYARNETT PUPILS’ PROJECTS

... Magee University College and Brooke Park Libraries. Mormon and St. Peter’s churches. Others are seeking information about Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, who landed near the school, and also about the two new housing estate jn the area ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1967
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

3,873 cattle shipped, an increase of over 400. The overall increase in the first seven months of 1967 is 3,628

... _ekéons through the port were: Fat cattle, 228 (322), store cattle 3,873 The question of erecting a suitable memorial to Amelia Earhart, who landed in a field at Springfield, Culmore Road in 1932 after being the first woman to fly the Atlantic, mfl be considered ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1967
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

THE TOUGHEST DAYS AHEAD?

... essentially land-minded. Alcock and Whitten Brown, Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Mollison, the illfated Charles Kingsford-Smith, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post are among the names that come to mind linking the present with exploits already enveloped in the mists ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1967
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PAPERBACKS

... poems and a play —a book to treasure. The Vanguard Book of Adventure (Collins. 30s) mixes fiction with reminiscences of Amelia Earhart. climbing Everest and the Eiger and polar exploration. Finally, some books full of inventive drawings and just enough ...

Published: Tuesday 14 November 1967
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 484 | Page: 6 | Tags: none