Freak Power Fade-Out Leaves
San Francisco Motors Burned Out
SAN FRANCISCO, liPC-Hun-:
dreds of washing machine, dryer,
and refrigerator motors lay dead
in San Francisco peninsula homes
Saturday, burned out in Friday’s
freak power fade-out.
A Navy attack bomber, hedge
hopping thru a canyon in the East
Bay near Niles, cut two 220,000
volt power lines strung 500 feet
above the canyon floor. Immedi
ately, power sagged or failed in
San Francisco and south 50 miles
to San Jose thru an area of 1,
100,000 people. The dim-out last
ed from 20 minutes to more than
an hour.
Navy Lt. (J.G.) Harry M. Ny
berg, 26, of Berkely, Calif., on a
routine low-level practic mission,
said there was an explosion when
his place cut the lines. It affected
the trim of his plane but he flew
it to nearby Alameda air station.
Nyberg was not injured.
The collision bent the right
Three Young Sons
Of Air Force Major
Suffocate in Fire
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Uf)—Three
sons of an Air Force major were
asphyxiated in a fire that swept
their two-story apartment at
nearby Lockbourne AFB early
Saturday. The officer’s wife was
in serious condition with burns.
Maj. A. I. Rappoport, base in
formation services officer, iden
tified the dead, sons of Maj. and
Mrs. Nelson B. O’Beirne, as Don- !
aid, 9; Barry, 4; and Bruce, 6. '
The victims were all sleeping
in upstairs bedrooms.
Damage was estimated at $10,
000. Preliminary investigation in
dicated the fire may have started
with a cigaret smoldering on a
sofa, the fire chief said.
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V
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I propeller out of line and knifed
a few inches into the right wing.
Across the bay the effects were
confusion compounded.
Motors stopped or slowed. Ra
dio stations broadcast slow-mo
tion gibberish as turntables
slowed. TV stations went off the
air after their picture transmis
sions faded.
Elevators stopped between the
floors, but enough power came
thru to get them to floor levels.
Dentists’ drills slowed, then the
motors started smoking. So did
motors in hundreds of home elec
trical appliances.
Traffic signals blinked off and
police rushed to strategic inter
sections to handle jams.
Streetcars and trolley buses
were immobilized. Teletypes
stopped clacking. At International
Airport the radio tower was out
and planes were landed by hand
operated light signals.
Telephone circuits were jammed
with calls. A telephone company
superintendent, Frededick Brand,
50, collapsed and died.
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Tommy Manville Says
Latest Marriage Will
Last the Longest
NEW YORK, (jP>—White-haired |
Tommy Manville, 63, said “I do” I
again yesterday and married a I
towering Texas showgirl.
Blonde Patricia Gaston, 27, be
came the newest Mrs. Manville in
a 60-second ceremony at the fash
ionable Hotel Pierre. It was the,
first marriage for the San Anton- j
io girl.
Manville, a sag in his shoulders 1
but a champagne sparkle in his j
eyes, said of his latest marital j
adventure:
“It was the fastest ceremony i
and it will last the longest. I j
know I wanted to marry her the j
minute we met. She says it’s a j
chemical reaction.
The asbestos heir met Miss j
Gaston about three weeks ago.
A four-engine R5D, called the
“Flying Laboratory,” is attached
j to the Electronics Test Division of
the Naval Air Test Center, Patux
ent River, Md. Electronics Test
installs aircraft instruments in
the plane, and tests them at alti
tudes.
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Three Pilots From
Three Wars Compare
Notes on Flying
VAN NUYS, Calif., UP)—Three
pilots, who between them span
the wartime history of the Air
Force, were comparing notes at
a banquet celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the Air Force Fri
day night.
“I had 10 hours of flying before
going into combat,” said Fred
Libby, a World War I pilot. “I
had 700 hours,” said Maj. Charles
London, who flew in the second
world war. “And I had 1,500
hours,” said Capt. Iven Kinche
loe, Korean war ace.
“It took me an hour to climb to
10,000 feet,” Libby recalled. “My
old 'P-47 got up there in four
minutes,” said London. “The new
jets,” said Kimcheloe, smiling,
hit it in 30 seconds.”
Parachute Test
Ends in Failure by
Scientific Snafu
MINNEAPOLIS, UPt—A strato
sphere balloon flight, designed to
test high altitude parachuting
equipment but frustrated by a
scientific snafu, ended in a tree
in northeast Iowa today.
A spokesman for General Mills,
Inc., builder of the balloon and
gondola which carried dummy
parachutist “Sad Sam” to 90,000
feet, said either the gondola or
balloon or both had come to earth.
“Sad Sam,” attached to the
gondola, was to have been used as
a guinea pig in a test preview of j
actual manned Air Force experi
ments from about 90,000 feet later
this year.
But failure of release devices
prevented him from bailing out.
Alaska Mining
News Notes
'From the Territorial Dept,
of Mines TDM Bulletin)
OIL NEWS
Officials of the Humble Oil &
Refining Co. have announced a
joint agreement with Shell Oil
Co. to drill in the Wide Bay area
this summer. Wide Bay is on the
Alaska Peninsula.
Drilling is to start upon the ar
rival of equipment, which in
cludes one of the largest rigs ever
built. The first hole is planned
for 12,000 feet.
The first well of the Colorado
Oil and Gas Corp. at Yakutat is
at the 6,000-foot horizon, accord
ing to reports. ,
INDUSTRIAL INCENTIVES
The companies from British
Columbia are increasingly inter
ested in our Industrial Incentives
Act, passed by the last Legisla
ture and reported on in our spe
cial Apr. 15 issue of the TDM
Bulletin.
The Alaska Legislature could
not have picked a more advanta
geous time to pass this encourag
ing act. If we could only persuade
the federal government to grant
similar incentives to new indus
try in Alaska, we would be sitting
on top of the mining world.
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Admitted: Elizabeth Walsh, Ray
Ahmasuk, A. Kiyulook, Gabriel
Gologergan, John Alurak, Earl
Utter.
Discharged: Paul Pine, Mary
Ellen Walsh, Mary Ningealook,
three Griego children, Barbara
Samuels and child, and William
Besley.
KIDS UNDER 16 GET
EXCLUSIVE FISHING RIGHTS
GRAYLING Mich., (tf>—Mothers
in this small town in the woods
of lower Michigan don’t need to
worry about junior’s whereabouts
during trout season.
The state conservation depart
ment has set up a young anglers’
paradise on an Au Sable tributary
below the fish hatchery here at
this own of 2,000.
The stretch of river, well
stocked by the state with trout,
is open only to fishermen (and
fisherwomen) under 16.
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