Man Killed and
Wife Injured In
Idaho Avalanche
WARDNER, Idaho, UR — An
avalanche of snow roared down
a hillside early today, killing one
man and throwing his wife 200
feet through the roof and into the
kitchen of an adjoining house at
this north Idaho mining com
munity.
Clarence Weaver, 48, a Bunker
Hill Co. miner, was found dead
in snew near his smashed house
about two hours after the slide
came down the Sierra Nevada
hill near the main street.
His wife, Emily, wtas knocked
out of bed. Snow and debris had
knocked a hole in the kitchen
of the W. M. Triplett home and
Mrs. Weaver, thrown through the
air, landed on a pile of snow near
the stove.
She was taken to a hospital in
critical condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Triplet escaped
injury but their 10-year-old son
was knocked out of bed.
Three other homes were slight
ly damaged.
Lee Black, manager of Radio
Station KWAL at nearby Wal
lace, said the Weaver house “just
exploded” under the weight of
the sudden avalanche.
69,296 ACRES RETURNED
TO JAPAN BY THE U.S.
CAMP ZAMA, Japan, U!)—The
U.S. armed forces today reported
they returned 69,296 acres of
land and building area to Japan
in 1956. The services still hold
268,737 acres.
Transpoler Flights Start
STOCKHOLM tf)—Scandina
vian Airlines said yesterday its
first Copenhagen-Tokyo flight
over the North Pole will take
place Sunday, Feb. 24. The
flight will travel the 8,000 miles
in 32 hours with one stop at
Anchorage, Alaska.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Tenn. TV Tower
Crashes, Hurling 4
To Their Deaths
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Iff)—Four
construction workers were
hurled to their deaths yesterday
afternoon when a nearly com
pleted, giant television tower
buckled and cruntbled to the
ground.
The tower broke in the middle
and both sections collapsed in a
heavily- populated residential
<area but miraculously did not
strike any houses.
The new 1,262-foot broadcast
ing tower, which was to have
been 1,379 feet when topped with
the antenna, was being built for
station WSM-TV by the John F.
Beasley Construction Co. of Mus
kogee, Okla.
The four dead workers for the
construction company were iden
tified as:
George Pressler, 33, Union
City, Tenn.; Donald Ward Kin
nan, 25, Tucson, Ariz.; Ray H.
Maxwell, 33, Jacksonville. Fla.,
and Robert Lee Kirschner, 30,
California, Mo.
Harold O’Neal, 29, Booneville,
N. Y., a fifth steelworker, was
treated for shock. O’Neal had
just climbed down from the tow
er and was inside the transmiter
station when the crash occurred.
Officials of the construction
firm were at a loss to explain the
collapse. A new type steel alloy
known as T-l, which officials
said was supposed to be three
times as strong as regular steel,
was being used in the tower.
Theories that the vibrations
from a jet plane passing overhead
ar high winds had collapsed the
tower were discounted by the
officials.
The four workers were about
700 feet up the tov/er when it
collapsed, hurling two of them
onto the roof of the transmitter
station below and the others op
posite the direction in which most
of the tower fell.
A construction engineer, who
declined to identify himself, said
it was possible unequal tensions
built up on some of the 12 guy
wires supporting the tower caus
ing it to topple.
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Mystery Patient Is
Soviet Minister of
Machine Production
By the Associate o'. Press
Moscow’s mystery patient is
Vyacheslav A. Malyshev, Soviet
Minister of Machine Building and
former Deputy .Premier.
This was established in private
advices from the Soviet capital
today. Moscow news dispatches
identifying him are held up by
Soviet censors.
The mystery developed last
weekend when Dr. Hans Schul
ten, a West German blood spe
cialist, was summoned to Moscow
to help Russian doctors treat the
patient. His name was concealed
even from Dr. Schulten.
Malyshev, 54, -was awarded the
Order of Lenin an his 50th birth
day, Dec. 16, 1952.
A lieutenant general in World
War II, Malyshev has been ac
tive in Russia’s industrial devel
opment. He is believed to have
been chief of the Soviet Atomic
Energy Commission for a time
after Stalin’s death in 1953.
Introduce Public Land Bill
WASHINGTON, UR—A bill to
create a 50-member commission
on multiple uses of public lands
was introduced yesterday by Sen.
Magnuson (D-Wash.) for himslf
and Sen. Jackson (D-Wash.)
The commission, will one mem
ber from each state, Alaska and
Hawaii, would draft a long-range
program for the most effective
use of the nation’s public lands.
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