ELMER GAUGER,
ONE OF EL PASO'S LAST PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS, DIES
Mr. Gauger, 91, was on the 31,000 ton battleship USS Pennsylvania during the attack. A child of the Great Depression, he grew up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, joining the Navy in 1939 at age 19 to help his family financially.
About the attack, he said, "My station was inside the gun room of the 14-inch weapon. It was hectic. We loaded ammo all afternoon. We took a bomb hit and lost 25 men that day. After it was over, the smell of death was in the harbor for days, probably a week."
From the August 6th El Paso (Tx) Times
GENE McDANIELS (1935-2011)
Singer and sonwriter born in Kansas City and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1961, he had a #5 hit with "Tower of Power" and later a #3 with "A Hundred Pounds of Clay." In 1974, Roberta Flack took his song "Feel Like Making Love" all the way to #1.
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