Puget Sound Area
Jarred by Earthquake
SEATTLE, —A jarring earth
quake hit the Puget Sound area
with a one-two puch from Ed
monds to Olympia early Saturday.
The shock, which started with
a rolling motion at 5:02 and ended
with a jolt that set utility poles
wavering and buildings quivering,
was the strongest to hit this area
since the big quake of April, 1949.
Prof. Howard Coombs, director
of the geology department at the
University of Washington, said
the quake centered within a 25
mile radius of Seattle.
He said the quake was of an
intensity of 5 on a scale of 12.
Prof. Coombs said a five rating
meant the quake was just under
the intensity needed to cause
damage.
The second story of the Times
building shook and pulsated as
though the heavy presses below
were running at top speed.
Triumphal Homecoming
For Queen Elizabeth
LONDON, (jfl—A radiantly hap
py Queen Elizabeth II stepped on
England’s soil Saturday to the
tune of booming cannon and ring
ing church bells after a wearing
six-month world tour.
It was a triumphal return for
the 28-year-old queen.
Millions gave her a warm re
ception as Londoners brought out |
the flags and gay “Welcome
Home” banners.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Clear with light westerly winds
changing to part cloudy with
patches of fog and S.W. winds
15-20 mph. this evening. Low tem
perature expected tonight 24, high
tomorrow 39.
In last 24 hours as of 7:00 this
morning: high temperature 38,
low 24. Maximum wind 16 mph
from theWSW. Sunrise 2:36 a.m.,
sunset 9:23 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 63, low 46. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 57 in 1912,
low 9 in 1918.
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Boeing Finishes
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Airliner or Military
SEATTLE, UP!—A sleek, four
jet plane, with which the Boeing
Airplane Co. hopes to corral 'the
world’s jet airliner market, was
rolled from Boeing’s Renton plant
Friday, two months ahead of
schedule.
The prototype model, built as
a military tanker-transport, can
be converted easily to a plush
80-130 passenger airliner with a
cruising speed of 550 miles per
hour.
Called Boeing’s “15 million dol
lar gamble,” the Boeing 707 is
scheduled for its maiden flight
next month. It is similar in size
to the B-47 six-jet bomber and
weights 95 tons. It has a 130-foot
wing span.
Company officials said Boeing
will seek orders from the military
foT types of the plane as refueling
tankers or troop transports and
from commercial airliners as pas
senger planes.
Sitka Plan for Independent
School District Defeated
SITKA, UPi—A proposal to form
an independent school district in
Sitka and vicinity was defeated
Thursday 329 to 207, in a special
election.
The Sitka Sentinel, which op
posed the proposal editorially,
said it was the first time in Alas
kan history that voters turned
down a plan for an independent
school district.
Two outside precincts joined
Sitka in rejecting the measure.
BARTLETT STATEHOOD PLEA
HEARD BY APPLE QUEEN
WASHINGTON, G3V—Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska put in a plea
for statehood and self-rule for
the territory last week in the
presence of royalty—festival var
iety, that is.
The plea was made at Romney,
West Virgina, where he was in
vited to speak on statehood and
to crown the Hampshire County
apple festival queen.
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Charge Communists Use
Wounded As Pretext To
Move Troops from Fortress
HANOI, Indochina, UP — The
French announced today they
would resume bombing of the
Communist - led Vietminh’s 70
mile “hospital corridor” unless the
rebels agreed to repair the Dien
Bien Phu airstrip so evacuation
of French Union wounded can be
speeded up.
A French high command broad
cast to Communist Gen. Vo Ngu
yen Giap gave the rebel com
mander until tomorrow to accept
the ultimatum. Otherwise, the
French said, they would resume
all-out air attacks on the rebels
streaming eastward from the
fallen fortress toward the vital
Red River Delta.
Only 11 of the French casualties
were evacuated from Dien Bien
Phu before the French suspended
their airlift by helicopter and
single-engine planes Saturday and
pressed for repair of the airstrip.
Little hope was held here Giap
would agree to the new French
demand. Instead French sources
believed he would speed up the
flow of troops and war material
they say he is sending over the
70-mile stretch of highway to Son
La. The French had - stopped
bombing the road so Vietminh
wounded could be removed from
Dien Bien Phu. But they charge
the wounded were only a Com
munist pretext to get safe passage
for their combat legions which
overran the fortress.
The average American uses the
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his needs compared with less than
a quarter acre for a typical Japa
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Offices in the Sky
BUSINESS AS USUAL
IN FLIGHT
Executives find it good busi
ness to keep up with their
work in the safest offices
over the earth, as found in
the Lycoming-powered Aero
Commander shown here.
It looks like the sky's the limit for one of the biggest postwar
developments in American aviation—the trend to company-owned
planes for business trips.
In the first six months of this year, business-owned planes logged
2,000,000 hours, compared with 1,240,790 hours flown by the pas
senger fleets of all scheduled domestic airlines.
Engine and planemakers are meeting the trend with a full
line- of aircraft ranging from the $5,700 Lycoming-powered Piper
to the plush Douglas DC-3 costing $200,000 and more. Where
fewer than 400 firms owned planes before the last war, some 8,000
companies now own more than 10,000 planes.
The unprecedented swing to the company-owned aircraft is
attributed largely to the added measure of safety now built into
small and medium-sized planes. Avco Manufacturing Corporation,
makers of Lycoming engines, for instance, now power five twin
engined planes which are billed as the “safest offices over earth.”
They can fly and land with a full load on a single engine. One of
these offers better than 200 miles an hour and can fly 1,150 miles
non-stop.
Business-owned planes are equipped with office-like interiors,
with room for desks, radio telephones, dictating machines and
office staff. Flying in his company plane, the businessman saves a
substantial amount of time. But besides this, he does away with
the time-consuming annoyance of making reservations and checking
at airports, and the risk of missing airline connections. Among the
other useful benefits are speeding rush orders to remote areas,
making aerial surveys of farmlands and patrolling pipelines, and
getting there ahead of competition. *
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