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Wednesday and Thursday
260 Coeds Flee
As College Burns
PAINESVILLE, Ohio UPL-Some
250 girl students fled in their
night clothing early Saturday as
fire destroyed a centrury-old
building housing a chapel and
dormitories at Lake Erie College.
An insurance adjuster at the
scene set the loss to the complete
ly gutted brick chapel building at
from $700,000 to $1,000,000. He
did not estimate damage to an ad
joining wing of the five-story
building housing administration
offices, classrooms and more dor
mitories.
Fire fighters from nine commu
nities kept the flames from
spreading through the wing to the
main building, but there was ex
tensive water and smoke damage
to the wing.
The 27 girls who fled their
rooms above the chapel lost vir
tually all the possessions they had
with them at the college for girls.
Goodrich Leaves to Attend
Meeting of Terr. Highway
Commissioners At Juneau
Dewey Goodrich of the N.C. Co.
has been called to Juneau for the
first meeting of the Board of
Highway Commissioners and he
| plans to gone about a week.
Also leaving from the N. C. is
| “Jeff” Jeffries, who, accompanied
j by his wife, left on a combined
| business buying and vacation trip
] to the States. They plan to be
I gone about a month.
BIBLE READINGS
for use during
Lent and Easter, 1957
Monday 15 . Mark 14:1-9
Tuesday 16 . John 11:40:46
1 Wednesday 17 _ Matthew 26:20-30
Railroad Crossing
Accident Kills Woman
100 Feet Away
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., liP)
—When their car stalled at a
railroad crossing, Jess Biggs and
his wife, Edith, first tried to push
the car off the track.
Then—as a San Diego-bound
streamliner bore down on them— j
they started to run.
The train slammed into the car, >
sending debris flying. Sheriff’s
deputies said Mrs. Biggs, 53, was
apparently hit by the car’s en
gine, which was hurtled 100 feet.
She was killed instantly.
Her husband was unhurt.
—
Art Jessup recently returned
from Ft. Benning, Ga., where he
attended the Army automotive
school for three months.
Fisherman’s Habit of
Always Wearing Lifebelt
Saves His Life
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C., UB—
The habit of a one-legged fisher
man to always wear a lifebelt
when on his boat paid off in life
giving dividents Friday.
Aler Thompson, 50, was head
ing across Seymour Narrows,
when his gill-netter, the Viemei'a
II, exploded and began to burn
fiercely a few miles from this
Vancouver Island coastal village.
Thompson jumped overboard to
escape the flames which had also
drawn the attention of the RCMP.
The police boate raced to the
scene and plucked Thomson from
the water, then turned a fire ex
tinguisher on the burning boat.
“The water was awful cold,”
said Thomson later, “but thanks
to my life preserver and the po
lice, I’m fine. He suffered only
slight bums to his hands.
4 Tax Measur es
Approved by
Acting Governor
(By The Associated Press>
Salary increases for Alaska
teachers and some territorial offi
cials have been signed into law,
along with four tax measures to
help pay for the increased costs
of running the nation’s largest
territory.
School teachers in every judi
cial division will get pay increas
es, amounting to nearly a million
and a half dollars. The highest
pay will go to teachers and prin
cipals in schools in the far west
ern and northern sections of the
territory.
About a dozen territorial offi
cials were qualified for boosts in
pay, ranging from $250 a year Jo
$1,000 a year. The highest salary
within the various agencies will
be the $16,000 annual pay to the
commissioner of education, who
will administer an $18 million ap
propriation for the .next two
years.
Territorial income taxes are
boosted immediately, effective
retroactively to Jan. 1 of this
year. The old levy was 12V& per
cent of federal income tax returns.
Under the new schedule the taxes
for an individual are increased to
14 percent of the federal tax paid,
and corporations will pay 18 per
cent of their federal return.
Taxes for license plates on all
types of vehicles will be doubled,
with the single exception of pick
up trucks, which got a smaller
boost.
Motorcycle plates go from $5 to
$10; autos from $10 to $20; taxi
cabs from $20 to $40; pickup
trucks from $15 to $20; trucks
above the pickup class tout under
12,000 pounds from $25 to $50;
trucks over 12,000 pounds but un
der 18,000 pounds from $50 to
$100; trucks 18,000 pounds and
over from $75 to $150.
The head tax for schools was
raised from $7.50 to $10, due from
! all workers between the ages of
21 and 60.
I The tax on insurance premiums
collected in the territory goes
from two percent to three percent.
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