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12 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., June 8, 1949 School Boating Accident Takes 2 Persons' Lives BALBOA, Calif., June 7. JP) Two persons were feared drowned and 14 others, mostly children, were rescued from chop py seas in the tragic end of a grammar school boatine trip to Catalina Island. Survivors arrived early today at this yachting harbor to tell a horror-filled tale of an accident that swept the 16 off the decks of the fishing boat Otay yesterday as it was headed here from Cata lina. Some 23 children and their escorts were aboard the craft. Ages of the children ranged from four to 16. The Coast Guard gave this ac count: The 50-foot power cruiser start ed to list when its gas tanks drained unevenly. As it listed, a southeast ground swell in the choppy channel smacked it and loosened a live bait tank. The tank fell off and in doing so jolt ed the ship so suddenly that it al most capsized. The jolt swept ov- RHEUMATISM COSTLY NEW, YORK UP) Lord Horder, physician to King George VI of England, estimates that in Britain last year the money loss caused by rheumatism alone to taled 17,000,000 pounds sterling. Lord Horder came her to attend an international congress on rheumatism. erboard the 16 on decks. ' ' Some of them were able to climb back on as the helmsman righted the ship with a sudden turn of the wheel. The others clung to life rafts. Another fishing boat, the Skipa lou, was nearby and attracted by flashlight signals, sped to the res cue. Some of the survivors were In the water more than an hour. However, the Coast Guard said Dr. Victor Mann, an optometrist, of Fullerton and Geraldine Clark, 12, Houston, Texas, a student at Valencia Junior Academy, Fuller ton, were missing. The cruise was In honor of the eighth grade graduates of the Seventh Day Ad ventist Academy. The others were uninjured ex ecpt for fright. The Otay was able to make port under her own power. Elks Assn. Gives $22,000 To Aid Blind Children ' PORTLAND, June 8 IIP) A $22,000 check to aid Oregon's blind .-hlldren was given to the universny 01 uregon Medical School by the Oregon State Elks Association Tuesday, The money first payment in a continuing program will be used to establish and equip a children's eye clinic in connec tion with the medical school. The program will be carried out in cooperation with the Oregon Slate School for the Blind at Salem. George I. Hall, New York, grand exalted ruler of the Elks, was present for the presentation ceremony In the office of Dr. David W. E. Balrd, dean of the Medical School. This was reported to be the fii'st such extensive welfare pro gram undertaken by an entire state organization of Elks. Dr. Baird said the clinic will be established under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Carl Swan, head of the department of ophtha mology, and will follow three Newest Twin-Jet Fighter Proves OK In Test LOS ANGELES, June 8. UP) The U, S. Air Force's newest twin, jet fighter, the Lockheed F-90, has tried her swept-back wings and they work "beautifully." The adjective is that of chief engineering test pilot Tony Le Vier, used in describing the way the big 13-ton fighter handled: during her first sky tests. ; The Air Force disclosed 'that' Le Vier had the needle-nosed air craft aloft for 37' minutes, climb-' ing from a desert runway at Mur oc test base to an altitude of 15,000 In 10 minutes. Le Vier emphasized that no at tempt was made to "open her up." "You always feel out a - new ship cautiously," he explained. "But I had more inner confidence in the '90' than any new job I have ever flown." purposes outlined by the Elks: Service and care of patients, edu cation and research. The clinic will be the first of its type in the Western United States, Dr. Baird said, and will be designed primarily to meet needs of large areas of the state which lack physicians trained in diseases of the eye. The F-90, one of the biggest fighters ever built, will undergo 25 more hours of test flying by Lockheed pilots and then will be turned over to the Air Force for further testing. The craft la ex pected to go into production In 1950. Packing a vicious wallop, she is designed to range behind enemy lines ana attack sizanie targets. SAND PAYS TOWN'S BILLS SEDGEFORD, England UP) This Norfolk village runs on sand. The 700 or so villagers haven't paid a penny in local taxes In 15 years. The tax rate Is fixed at eight- pence on a pound's worth of real estate rougniy dollars j.ou a hundred. But it hasn't been col lected. Sedgeford has paid all Its ex penses and made enough extra to refurbish the war memorial and start a new athletic field by sell ing natural resources sand from a village-owned sanapit. Asia extends from 13 degrees north of the Arctic circle to with in a short distance of the equator. BOTH DAD AND THE JUNE BRIDE SAY Buy My Gift From JUNE BRIDE SAY , , rvl k B u y My m& ," . 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