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The Chester Clap Rescue Squad ambulance took a patient from Front Royal to a nursing home in Arlington last Tuesday. On Thursday it took Major Bill Farrell from Warren Memorial Hospital to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
On Saturday Mrs. James Henry Pullen was taken from her home to the Warren Memorial Hospital by the Rappahannock Rescue squad
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