Traiii Ship Service
Alaska and Seattle r
Assured by J957 ....
■ SEATTLE, UP—Train ship ser
vice between Alaska and Seattle
toy mid-1057 <vas believed virtual
ly assured Friday after the U.$.,
S|aritinp Administration gave its
Approval for federal mortgage in
surance on two $9,000,000 ships i
for the Alaska Steamship Co.
Approval was granted in the
name of Alaska Steam’s subsid
iary, Alaska Trainships, Inc., on
condition that financing and other
conditions be met.
Alaska Steam president D. E.
S|kinner labeled the federal an
nouncement a major step toward
establishment of the new service.
Skinner would not predict how
soon construction might start, but
it seems likely that the company j
will call for bids by year’s end on
the two 110-railcar, 40-trailer
ships.
Party Phone Prattler
Causes Delay in
I&epprt of $6,BOO Fire
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. WV—Be
cause a woman refused to get off
her p&Tty line Friday, Fire Chief
John iy. Gallagher reported, a
fire caused $6,900 damage before
it was brought under control.
Chief Gallagher said a neighbor
tried for five minutes to get the
woman off the telephone line, but
the woman refused. Finally the
neighbor sent a youngster to the
corner to pull the fire alarm box.
One home in Huntington’s west!
end was destroyed and two others
were heavily damaged. The fire
chief reported that the blaze left
19 persons homeless.
“If the department had been
called five minutes earlier,” he
said, “much more could have been
saved.”
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Child Killed in
Farm Grinder
BQONSBORO, Md., (JV-rlt was
supper time an<j there was no sign.
of young Jonathan Carney Hairrell
op the farm. .
Then it was remembered the
4^year-old ,had been playing at
noon near the barn where his
father was grinding com stocks
into silage.
They looked in the silo. There
they found the remains of Jona
than.
It wasn’t until later that State
Trooper Clyde Tucker said the
boy’s 7-year-old sister told how it
happened. She and the boy were
sitting on the end of a wagon
used to haul the stalks to a con
veyor belt which carries them to
a grinding machine. The pieces
then are fed through a four-inch
pipe into the silo and stored for
cattle fodder.
Tucker said the girl said Jona
than fell off the wagon onto the
belt. His father and another man
meanwhile fed two more loads of
corn into the machine.
Pennsylvania is not named
after William Penn, but his
father, Admiral Penn.
SCORCHY SMITH
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HALF ACRE CASTLE
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Airplane Lands on Speeding Track,
Driver and Pilot Both .Surprised
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Man Leaps Into Niagara
And Is Swept Over Falls
In View of Dozen Tourists
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., UR
Robert H. Persons, 58, last night
leaped into the Niagara River and
was swept over the American
Falls as dozens of tourists
watched. Five hours later he was
spotted crawling on a ledge 35
feet below the falls. He was res
cued but died later in a hospital.
Police said Persons jumped a
guard rail just above Prospect
Point as tourists, too far away
to stop him, watched in horror.
TRUJILLO DONATES $100,000
TO FLOOD RELIEF FUND
WASHINGTON, UR—Former
President Rafael Trujillo of the
Dominican Republic has donated
$100,000 to the American Nation
al Red Cross flood relief fund for
use in the stricken northeasten
states. Trujillo’s check was pre
sented to the Red Cross Friday by
Dominican Ambassador Joaquin
Salazar.
* QROFINO, Idaho, (£*—A pilot,
letting- down foj- a*out*ne landing
here Frid^, instead found him
self a piggy-back passenger on a
speeding thick: v
“f thought he wa$ going to take
U$ all th6 way to Kamiah,” a town
20 miles down the road, said the
startled pilot, Merel Bowler, 45,
after his high-wing light plane
had used the 50-foot truck-trailer
top as a mobile landing field.
An equally amazed truck driv
er, Lloyd Coons, 27, wasn’t aware
anything unusual had happened
and continued down the highway
for 200 yards after the novel landr
ing.
“I couldn’t see anything in my
rear view mirror,” Coons said.
“Then a wing tipped and I saw a
shadow. I stopped.”
The driver’s only indication of
the incident had been a slight jar
and a noise.
“The speeds of the truck and
the plane were so close to identi
cal that I hardly felt anything,”
he said. “I thought at first I had
hit a chuck hole or a bump.”
Bowler, with the plane’s owner
Rex Yates as passenger, was let
ting down for a landing at the
runway which runs parallel to the
j highway. Trees obscured his vi
sion of the road.
1 “Just three seconds or so before
i we hit I saw the truck,” Bowler
i said. “We got together just as per
i feet as you please. The truck
drove under us and we flew on
top of him.”
When the truck finally came to
a halt, the plane’s wing tipped to
the highway and was damaged.
But it took a logging crane to
hoist the unexpected passenger
from atop the trailer.
The symbol of the barber shop
—a pole with spiral bands of
white and red — was originally
designed to designate the old
function of the barber, blood
letting.
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