fads. Feds and Fancies
nil rain 7^Z 7f
FACT — When rain was needed in
ancient times, Celtic druids led long
processions to sacred wells or magi
cal springs where they'd toss water
into the air or beat the water's sur
face to bring rain! ,
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FAD — A fad among some ^ ,
groups in the U.S. South
involved breaking the egg
of a raincrow — the cuckoo
bird who's cry is supposed
to bring rain —and washing
one s face in it to conjure
up ghosts!
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FACT — When Spring
^ showers spoil outing
I plans, Four Roses fans
bring their fun indoors—
^ _picnic in the recreation
room while relaxing with
hi-fi and their favorite
V7 drink refreshment.
FANCY—The rainbow that's said
to end in a pot of gold was fan
cied, by early Europeans, to
have the power to change the
sex of anyone walking under it.
Dr. Lee De Forest
‘‘Father of Radio” Passes
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. UP) — Dr.
Lee De Forest, 87, the so-called
“Father of Radio,” died at his
home Friday.
De Forest was inventor of the
three-element vacuum tube.
DeForest had been bedridden
for almost two years with bladder
and heart trouble.
His invention of the tube in
1906, paved the way for the age
of electronics.
It made possible the develop
ment of radio broadcasting, tele
vision and radar. Transcontinental
and transoceanic telephoning,
sound movies and other electron
ic devices came into being. He
made contributions to each, as
well as to aircraft-guiding beams,
wire transmission of pictures,
cosmic ray measurements and
many other developments.
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Former Nome Resident
Aboard Survey Vessel
KETCHIKAN — A former
Nome resident is a crewman
aboard a U. S. Coast Geodetic sur
vey vessel that was honored last
week for its work in saving the
lives of six lost hunters near
Whittier, Alaska.
Phillip Webb, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Webb, is a surveyman
3/c aboard the Bowie which was
presented a certificate of merit
by Secretary of Commerce Lu
ther Hodges Saturday. Accepting
the award for the vessel was
Cmdr. Philip Popper.
The Bowie saved the hunters
May 17 in Pigot Bay, near WTiit
tier.
The &5-foot vessel, whioh stop
ped in Ketchikan in April, is now
working in Prince William Sound.
TRACTOR BLOCKADE . . .
PARIS UPi — Thousands of trac
tor-riding farmers protesting the
government’s price-fixing policy
blocked main roads in a wide area
of Southern France Saturday as
the mid-summer tourist rush be
gan.
Tractor blockades were report
ed in the regions of Marseille,
Nimes, Arles, Montpellier and
Tarascon and in Central France,
near Bourges.
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NEA Stands Firm
On Supreme Court's
Desegregation Order
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. GW —
For the first time in six stormy
years, the National Education
Association today stands on a firm
platform of support for the
Supreme Court’s desegregation
order of May 1954.
In the last hectic day of a
hectic week, the NEA Friday
adopted its strongest-ever policy
statement on the issue which since
1955 has split northern and south
ern affiliaies into bitterly war
ring camps.
It took two hours and nine min
utes of debate before the NEA’s
representatives assembly could
agree on a resolution which
pledged “continued support of the
U. S. Supreme Court’s decision on
school desegregation.”
In comparison to previous con
ventions, however, harmony was
supreme. In the end, the resolu
tion was passed by a large ma
jority, although the white affili
ates in the southern states were
almost solidly against it.
In other sections winding up its
99th convention, the NEA also:
Approved a resolution urging a
broad program of federal support
for education. Although President
Kennedy’s three-year, $2.5 billion
program to build classrooms and
raise teachers’ salaries was not
specifically mentioned in the reso
lution, this is the legislation the
NEA wants.
Passed a resolution which in ef
fect bars the use of a strike by
teachers to enforce salary demand.
Elected Mrs. Hazel Blanchard,
elementary principal of Fresno,
Calif., vice president and presi
dent-elect. Mrs. Blanchard will
take over the top NEA post at
the Denver convention next sum
mer. She defeated Miss Lucille
Carroll, high school teacher from
Wooster, Ohio, by a vote of 2,860
to 2,054.
Wreckage of Plane
Missing Since 1959
Sighted Near Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN UP) — The wreck
age of a Stanford University re
search plane missing with is three
crewmen since Dec. 18, 1959 was
sighted Friday on Gravina Island
about 12 miles west of here.
The plane, a PBY, disappeared
on a flight from Juneau to An
nette Island. It was returning with
a load of electronics equipment
used in an Arctic research pro
gram.
The Federal Aviation Agency
said Phillip Gray, Mill Valley,
Calif., was the pilot. Carl Scott,
San Francisco, was listed as co
pilot and the third crewman was
Burris Smith of Hayward, Calif.
Ed Zaugg, Ellis Airline pilot,
spotted the wreckage which he
said was scattered through the
trees.
At the time the plane disap
peared, the pilot messaged that
one engine had gone out. There
was no further word. Snowstorms
hampered immediate search ef
forts.
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14-Year-Old Hoy Watches Two Men
Die Drifting on Flimsy Raft on Pacific
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (M — A
husky 14-year-old boy, who
watched two men die as they
drifted on a flimsy raft, was re
covering in a hospital Saturday
after three days of tragedy and
terror at sea.
Terry McClelland, a blond high
school athlete from Huntington
Beach, Calif., was rescued Fri
day by a fishing boat 90 miles
southwest of San Diego.
Transferred to a submarine, he
arrived Friday night in San Diego.
He was pronounced in fairly good
condition at a hospital.
He told newsmen a rambling
tale about three terrible days of
shipwreck, thirst, delirium, death, {
hunger, heat and blinding glare
of sun, sea and sky.
He and his companions — Rus
sell Bradford, 48, of Huntington
Beach, his mother’s stepfather,
and Alvin Hartman, 57, of nearby
Santa Ana, Bradford’s friend —
set out for a month’s fishing
cruise off Mexico last Tuesday.
After setting out from Newport
Beach in their 36-foot boat, they
tried riding at anchor that night.
“The sea anchor was pulling on
the boat.” “Two big swells pick
the boat.” ,“Two big swells pick
ed up the boat and pulled the bot
tom out. . . .
“Grandpa Bradford said to cut
the raft loose. . . .”
The three fishermen got aboard
a six-by-three-foot raft of balse
wood and cork. Its bottom con
sisted only of rope netting through
which a few timbers were looped,
and water sloshed through the
bottom continually.
They tried to attract several
passing vessels Wednesday, their
first day on the raft. Although
they waved rags and poles, no
one stopped.
They had no food or water,
only a few packs of cigarettes that
Hartman grabbed before leaving
the boat.
After waiting in vain for res
cuers under a blinding hot sun,
Hartman “went crazy on the sec
ond day,” Terry said.
“He started falling in the water
and the raft turned over,” the boy
added. “Grandad got him back on
the raft and gave him mouth-to
mouth respiration. But it didn’t
work.”
After Hartman died, Bradford
lashed the body to the raft.
Then, the boy continued, “my
grandfather went crazy from see
ing A1 go crazy. He kept scream
ing and yelling and falling into
the water.
“I kept telling him: ‘Grandad,
don’t die, don’t leave me here
alone.’ ”
He fell asleep, Terry said, and
when he awoke, Bradford was
dead. He lashed him to the raft
with Hartman — and drifted on.
Early Friday morning, while
fog hung low over the Pacific,
the raft was spotted by seamen
aboard the Ruth Marie, an ocean
fishing boat.
Terry was taken aboard. The
rescuers recovered Hartman’s
I body but Bradford’s body slipped
jfrom the raft and disappeared.
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