I Two $8 Million B52s Collide and Crash
SPOKANE, Iff) — One giant
B52 "bomber sliced into the side
of another at sundown Monday
night and both planes fell-to pieces
in flames near a busy cross-state
highway. Thirteen of the 15 men
aboard were killed.
A 200-pound chunk of landing
gear sailed through the air,
smashed through a service sta
tion sign and skidded to rest on
the shoulder of Highway 2, a
main link between here and
Seattle.
The roar of the crash, the fly
ing debris and the explosion as
the planes hit the ground terror
ized two fleeing service station
attendants and two customers,
along with patrons of a nearby
tavern, ut no one on the ground
waS hurt.
The 8 million dollar B52s, prime
atom bomb carriers of the Stra
tegic Air Command, were mak
ing routine landings at Fairchild
when they crashed together about
1,500 feet over the highway.
Joe Martella, a service station
attendant, said both planes were
turning at the time, one right into
the path of the other, with neither
pilot apparently aware of the
impending disaster.
A big hunk of fuselage fell
within 40 feet of the highway and
burned. The other plane crashed1
about a mile away. There was a
third pile of burning wreckage in
a farmer’s' field, 10 miles west
of here.
The planes were less than two
miles from the Fairchild runway
when they collided. The tremen
dous noise of the exposion shook
buildings on the base.
It whs the second fatal B52
crash at Fairchild in nine months.
Eight of nine men aboard one of
the eight-engine bombers died in
a crash on takeoff last December.
HOT RODS FOR GOLF CARTS
BRENHAM, Tex., UP) — Tom
Whitehead, spokesman for a
group of golfers, protested yes
terday that management had al
lowed some players to turn a
local course into a race track.
“Full sized automobiles stripped
down to look like hotrods, are
used on the course as golf carts,”
he said. “If you don’t move along
fast enough they start honking
at you.
Kidnaper Violates,
Murders Young
Colo. Secretary
By DAN TEDRICK
FORT COLLINS, Colo., UP —
The body of a pretty blonde sten
ographer, who was kidnaped,
raped, and later died of three bul
let wounds in her head, was found
Monday in a shallow grave atop
a mountain.
Sheriff Ray Scheerer said Floyd
J. Robertson, a husky 25-year-old
cement worker, orally admitted
the crime.
“My God, why did I do it?”
Robertson sobbed to officers.
No charges have been filed.
Marjorie Schneider, 18, was un
covered late yesterday — about
36 hours after a gunman had sur
prised her and three other young
people as they sat in a parked
car at a lonely lovers’ lane four
miles southwest of Fort Collins.
He shot up the car, robbed the
couples and kidnaped the Schnei
der girl.
Robertson, the father of three
children, was quoted by the sher
iff as saying he forced the girl to
drive for some distance and that
he himself drove a while until a
tire blew out.
When Robertson tried to repair
the tire on a county road about
30 miles from the kidnap scene,
the girl broke and ran.
“I shouted to her, ‘I’m sorry I’m
I such a crash shot but I’m gonna
have to do this’,” Robertson was
quoted as saying. “Then I
shot her.”
OAKLAND, Calif., UP — Wil
liam W. Hoffman had the best
excuse possible for getting out of
jury duty. He returned the mailed
summons to the court clerk calling
attention to a fact which had been
overlooked. He is William W.
Hoffman, the presiding judge.
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