On Aug. 25, 1961, a micro-meteoroid satellite launched from the NASA Wallop Flight Facility three days earlier fell back into the atmosphere and burned up. “What appeared to be one of NASA’s most successful orbital launchings is now being questioned by engineers and scientists,” the Peninsula Enterprise reported.
On Aug. 25, 1959, Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital President Frank B. Bell, in a letter, declined an offer from NASA officials to use the former Naval Air Station Hospital, said to be a million-dollar facility but which had been abandoned with the closure of the Navy base June 30. A spokesman for the local hospital said it could not afford the expense of preparing the Navy hospital for use and could not underwrite the operation costs.
On Aug. 25, 1955, the Peninsula Enterprise reported that William H. Brittingham, director of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, announced that construction of the buildings on the new Eastern Shore station will begin within about 30 days.
On Aug. 25, 1954, the Accomack County Board of Supervisors approved the request for a bridge from Chincoteague to Assateague and requested the U.S. government to permit the bridge to be built and a road constructed for the proposed recreation area northward to the Maryland line.
On Aug. 25, 1952, Norfolk Police Traffic Patrolman Carlton J. Byrd was killed when his motorcycle, proceeding north on Granby Street, Norfolk, crashed into the front fender of an automobile making a left turn onto Thole Street. He had been a member of the police force since 1946. Byrd was a native of Hallwood and had resided in Norfolk for seven years. He was a member of Hallwood Baptist Church and was a veteran of World War II.
