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TOP AWARD WINNERS at Tuesday night's annual Central Douglas County United Fund
meeting included the employes of Roseburg's School District 4 and the J. C. Penney
Co.'s local store. Rose School Principal Eli Hall, left, received the award for the school
district while Jim Dougherty, right, assistant manager of Penney's, received the award
for the store's fourth straight year of outstanding participation in the UF program. The
awards were presented by United Fund Chairman Eino Hemmila, center. (News-Review
Photo)
Centra! Douglas United Fund Shown
To Be In Best Fiscal Shape Ever
By BILL SPARKS
Ntwt-Review Staff Writer
The Central Douglas United Fund
committee wound up a successful
year with the annual meeting Tues
day night, which featured the cur
rent financial report showing the
organization in the best fiscal shape
ever and the presentation of
awards to outstanding contributors.
Final reports show pledges for
the past fund drive to have reach
ed a total of $52,773.32, the largest
amount ever pledged in such a
drive in this area.
Outgoing fund drive chairman
Lvle Kenner, in his final act as
head of the fund-raising group this
year, said he was well pleased with
the work of some of the individu
als in the drive, but added he felt
others fell short. Fenner said he
was pleased to see the highest to
tal ever collected, but added this
was still onlv 62 per cent of the
better than $80,000 goal. He said
he hated to see Roseburg be a 62
per center.
Roseburg Lumber Honored
Highlight of the awards portion
of the program came when CDUF
General Chairman Eino Hemmila
announced a special award was be
ing made to the management and
employes of Roseburg Lumber Co.,
who have contributed a whopping
f36.608.75 to the CDUF during the
last five years.
Crooch To Request
Funds For College
Wavne Crooch. chairman of the
Roseburg Chamber of Commerce
Committee for Higher Education,
is expected to make a formal re
quest for funds to establish a pro
gram of higher education in Rose
burg this fall at tonight's District
4 School Board meeting.
Crooch heads the committee
which is seeking to establish a type
of night school to offer fully-accredited
college courses to stu
dents in this area.
Funds For Start
Reports are that more than 250
potential students have signed up
to take the courses, while only
about 75 were needed to make the
program pay for itself. With this
many students there is little doubt
but what the program will be self
sustaining. The school board, however, must
grant the funds to start the pro
gram. This item and the canvassing of
the votes of today's school board
election will highlight tonight's
meeting, which starts at 7:30 p.m.
. in the administration office on W.
; Harvard Ave.
Kung-ho Shin
A Happy New
'NEW YORK (AP) "Kung-ho
Shiti-nien."
Or Happy New Year to you.
Have a cup of "Dragon's eye"
tea.
But is it the Year of the Ox or
the Year of the Cow?
The Chinese can't agree. Any
way, it's a great day today in
Chinatown the start of the year
4659 by the Chinese lunar calen
dar. The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Fair tonight and Thursday with
cooler temperatures.
Highest temp, last 74 hours (2
Lowest temp, last 24 hours ... 45
x Highest temp, any Feb. CSI) 70
" Lowest temp, any Feb. ('56) 13,
Precip. last 24 hours 41
Precip. from Feb. 1 7.32.
Precip. from Sept. 1 22.75
E setts from Sept. 1 2.10
Suni9t tonight, 5:44 p.m. I
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:10 a.m. '
Role In United Fund
jt flff pHp
Six persons received unanimous
acceptance for three-year terms on
the CDUF board of directors.
Elected to serve on the board for
the next three years were Mrs.
Mabel Lewis. Lee Wimberly. John
Kort, Lewis Fullerton, Cliff Hukari
and Iris Helliwell.
An award for their fourth
straight year of outstanding citi
zenship in supporting the United
Fund was given to the Roseburg
J. C. Penney Co. store.
Third-year awards went to the
Douglas County State Bank, Pa
cific Telephone Northwest, J. C.
Penney Co., Sun Studs, Inc., Todd
Building Co., Umpqua Dairy, U.S.
National Bank of Portland, Rose
burg Branch, Lockwood Motors,
Standard Oil Co., Ujnpqua Hotel,
Umpqua Insurance Co., KPIC,
Umpqua Savings and Loan Associa
tion and the U.S. Bureau, of Land
Management. ,
Second year awards were given
to the Umpqua Hotel, Umpqua In
surance Co., KPIC, V. C. Lomax
and Lee and Zenger. Some firms
received two year awards Tues
day night because none were given
out last year.
The top groups of employe con
tributors who won plaques were
the employes of Roseburg's School
District 4, Douglas County employ
es, Douglas High School employes
and the employes of the Wilbur
School.
Representatives Named
Plaques for management and em
ploye contributions and support of
the program were given to The
News-Review, U.S. Plywood Corp.,
U.S. Veterans Administration,
KQEN, Umpqua Hotel, Umpqua In
surance Co., First National Bank
of Roseburg. KYES, Douglas
Community Hospital, Young Log
ging Co., Mabel Lewis', Roseburg
Book Store, Roseburg School of
Dancing. .1 & J Trailer Sales, Chap
man's Pharmacy, V. C. Lomax
Mobil Oil Distributor, Keystone
Machine Shop, National Cash Reg
ister Co., Saw Service and Supply,
Five Districts Schedule
Vote On Consolidation
Five northern Douglas County
school districts will hold special
school elections Thursday, the
county school superintendent's
office announced today.
The question of formation of
an administration school district
uniting Drain and Yoncalla Ele
mentary, Gunter, Scotts Valley
and Curtin Elementary, will go
before the voters.
Polls will be open between I
and 8 . p.m. in the school build
ing of the five districts.
- nien Means
Year To You
Ox or Cow the celebration
started Tuesday night with danc
ing lions and costumed paraders
jamming the narrow streets to the
accompaniment of firecrackers.
Dragons and unicorns will join
the festivities today.
Chinese tradition has 12 animals
taking turns ruling the lives of
the believing the rat, tiger, rab
bit, dragon, snake, horse, goat,
monkey, cock, dog, pig and cow
or ox.
One celebrating group says it
is "going all out for the cow."
But a spokesman for the Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Associa
tion declares it is the year of
the Ox.
It doesn't make much differ
ence, savs Chinese Consul Gener
al K. W. Yu. He says the Chi
nese have the same character for
both sexes. The year of the Horse
might a l,-o he the year of the
Mare, and so on. The general
practice, he added, is to use (he
male of the species to designate
the new year
So Happy Ox to you.
m
Lee and Zcnger, Union Oil Co.,
Umpqua Valley Hardware and
Roseburg Motor Co.
Representatives of the various
United .Fund agencies who will
serve on the CDUF board during
the next year will be Mrs. Philip
Johnson for the Red Cross, John
Carlisle for the Association for Re
tarded Children, Howard Peterson
for the Camp Fire Girls and Virgil
Lomax for the Salvation Army.
The Boy Scouts and Y.MCA have
not as yet named their represen
tatives to the board.
Egyptian Mobs
Hit Embassies
CAIRO. Egypt (AP) Mobs set
fire to the Belgian Embassy to
day stoned the U.S. and British
embassies and set fire to two
American Embassy automobiles.
The demonstrators, protesting
the death of deposed Congo Pre
mier Patrice Lumumba, broke
through police lines in wild dis
order. Neither U.S. nor British
embassies were damaged seriously-
The mobs forced their way into
the Belgian Embassy, smashed
effects, ripped up and scattered
papers, and set the building afire.
As firemen and police reinforce
ments arrived, the demonstrators
turned and stoned the U.S. and
British embassies.
The mob set fire to two auto
mobiles parked just outside the
embassy compound, near the U.S.
Information Agency office.
Police formed a shouldcrro
shoulder cordon around the Amer
ican Embassy and formed tight
cordons at the entrances to all
streets loading to the embassy
area.
An embassy spokesman said one
American Marine guard. Richard
Rapier, was slightly injured by a
skin cut just above his eye when
the mob smashed a window of the
embassy library.
Ballot-Being Cast
For School Board
Residents of Roseburg's School
District 4 will be able to cast bal
lots for seven members of the re
organized school board at 10 poll
ing places until a o clocK tonight.
There are 12 persons, 10 men and
2 women, seeking election to the
board. Included in the list of can
didates are four incumbents, in
eluding Dr. V. J. Anderson, Ar
thur Lamka, Dr. Nels Lindcll and
Don Reed.
Other candidates are Theodore
Barnes, Sirs. Ellen Campbell, Mrs.
Fernnc Cox, Joe Dent, Ivan P.
Edwards, Bob Kischcl, Arthur Wil
son and Bert Young.
The list of polling places and
statements of planned policv bv
I the candidates appeared in Tues
days issue of The News-Review.
District Four Gets
Federal School Grant
WASHINGTON (AP) A
$27,7H3 Riant to Douglas Coun
ty School District No. 4 at
Ro.seours. Ore., has been ap
proved hv the Office of Edu
cation, Kep. Edwin R. Durno,
R Orc, said today.
The money is hein? granted s
nrnvKinn nf Plihllp I.nw A71
j whirh is to help school districts
! which have laree populations of
' federal employes whose children
j attend schools.
In the Kosehur? district, t h
federal employe impact is fell he
i cause of the Veterans Adminis
tration Hospital. Bureau of Land
I .Management and Forest Service.
The money has previously been
, earmarked for hmlriinf? rnnktrur-
fP"" f Wf
'Uon in lha lloseburg district.
12 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON
Kennedy May
Reveal Plan
For Spending
WASHINGTON (AP) Tresi
dent Kennedy is reported planning
to announce tonight a speedup in
spending of some federal funds in
a fresh effort to spur the lagging
economy and reduce unemploy
ment.
Informed officials said they un
derstood the President intends to
make such an announcement at
his news conference scheduled for
7 p.m. EST. The conference will
be broadcast live on nationwide
television and radio.
Congo Queries Due
On the international front, Ken
nedy faces questioning about his
views on the crises in the Congo
and in the United Nations result
ing from the assassination of de
posed Congo Premier Patrice Lu
mumba. Heightening the tension
are Soviet demands that the mat
ter be dealt with on Soviet terms.
The domestic antirecession
measures Kennedy is said to have
decided upon would not require
action by Congress.
There was no immediate word
regarding details, but the Kenne
dy plans are reported to call for
issuing new administrative orders
to a few federal agencies for
spending money faster than
planned on some government pro
grams. No Massive Scale
Indications are that such speed
ier spending would not be on any
massive scale. The idea is to
pump some additional money into
the economy, pending congression
al consideration of the Kennedy
legislative program, aimed at
business recovery, easing of un
employment hardship and reduc
tion of joblessness.
Administration officials and
Democratic congressional leaders
clearly are becoming increasingly
concerned about the recession.
Hnth Knrvntxrv at T.ahnr Arthur
.1. Goldberg and House Speaker
Sam Rayburn have indicated that
mounting concern starts at the
top, with Kennedy. The Cabinet
ofticer and the"spcaker have told
reporters that the President will
have something to say anout me
situation at his meeting with
newsmen.
Bids For Building
Called At Winston
Bids on the four-room addition to
the Winston School will be called
for March 9, it was decided by
the Winston School Board at their
meeting Tuesday evening.
Construction of the new structure,
designed by architect Van Svar
verud, is scheduled to begin June
1 and should he completed by the
heeinnine of the fall school term.
Included in the addition will be a
music and audio-visual aids room,
reports Phehe McC.uire, News-Review
correspondent.
Budget Hearing
The board heard a report that
the boiler at the Tenmile School
has been completely rewired and
is now back in operation. The
group decided to look further into
a vonnoet- fnr rnnl innat inn of the
'extended school bus run up Willis
Creek Koad.
March 7 has been set by the
board as the date for a public hear
ing on the district's school budget
for the coming year. The board
will discuss the budget at their next
regular meeting set for Feb. 21.
Students Rank High
Douglas High School Principal
Ray Talbert reported to the board
the findings of the Iowa Educa
tional Development tests recently
f..L-nn hv noiicta Hieh students. He
I said he was very pleased by the
results.
The hoard postponed until a later
date discussion on teachers salar
ies in the district.
Glide School Board
Names Administrators
The Glide School Board re-appointed
the present administrators
of Glide School for the coming
year lfltil-62 at its recent meeting
according to .Mrs. Arthur Sclby,
correspondent. Donald Fluke, sup
erintendent: John Thompson, high
school principal; Calvin Christen
sen, principal nf the Glide Klemen
tary and I pper Klemenlary: Jack
Shelquist, principal of the Deer
Creek School and Dale Buck,
principal of Tokelce Elementary,
were appointed.
The budget committee elected
Svd Comfort chairman and Don
aid Brown, secretary of the com
mittee at its last meeting. Other
members of the committee are
Forest Iyisee. Quinton Hughes.
Mrs. Arnold Hansen, Fred Buyer
and Boh Franks.
The seven members of the school
board. Hairy Young, chairman,
are also part of the budget com
mittee. The next meeting will be
held Feb. 20.
X-Ray Unit Hero Friday
The TB Chest X-ray Mobile Unit
will be in back of the Douglas
County courthouse from 2 to 5
p m., Friday according to county
officials.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1961 38-61 PRICE 5c
Crash Claims Skaters
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KILLED IN CRASH of Boeing 707 airliner today at Brus
sels, Belgium, were 18 members of the United States figure
skating team including Laurence Owen and Bradley Lord
who recently won the U.S. singles figure skating titles.
The team was on its way to compete in the world figure)
skating championships at Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Stevenson Denounces
Soviet Congo Move
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Ste
venson today denounced lha Sovi
et Union's latest Congo move as a
"declaration of. war" against the
United Iations.
The United States, he said, does
not intend to stand by idly while
others cause trouble in the Congo.
Stevenson addressed a tense
meeting of the U.N. Security
Council which was disrupted By
the worst public demonstration in
the history of the world organiza
tion. It took IS minutes to clear
the public galleries and restore
order.
The demonstrators, about 10 Ne
gro supporters of slain Congolese
leader Patrice Lumumba, forced
their way into the galleries
through a back door and inter
rupted Stevenson's speech with
shouts of "vive (long live) Lu
mumba." Fighting broke out
when the guards tried to expel
the demonstrators.
Stevenson called the manifesta
tion "obviously organized."
He spoke out firmly against a
Soviet resolution calling lor the
withdrawal of U.N. forces from
the Congo within one month. The
Security Council, he said, must
rally its strength behind Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold to
prevent any weakening of the
U.N. role.
"Docs this council favor aban
doning security for insecurity and
anarchy?" he asked. "Does the
Soviet government really want
Africans to kill Africans? The
United States does not and it de
voutly hopes the Soviet Union
does not."
He said of the Soviet resolution:
"This resolution is a declara
tion of war on the United Nations
and on the principle of interna-j
tional action in behalf of peace."
Turning to the Soviet attack on
Hammarskjold, the U.S. ambas
sador said:
"To attempt to discredit the
secretary-general would not only
Riddle School Board
Eyes Consolidation
At this week's session of t h e
Riddle school board. Superinten
dent Kenneth A. Stuart gave a
brief report on the consolidation
study and announced the arrival
of the preliminary draft, accord
ing to F.rma Best, News ltevicw
correspondent. Superintendents of
Days Creek, Canyonville, and Rid
dle are to meet Friday of this
week in County Supt. Kenneth
Barneburg's office, to present cor
rect data on enrollment and fi
nancial figures. These reports are
to be hack in the hands of the
school hoards around March 1.
The Riddle board members set
up a criterion for selection of an
elementary principal to replace
Alvin Barnhart, resigned. They
will seek a candidate who holds
a masters degree, an elementary
principal's certificate, and has hail
previous administrative experi
ence. The board will meet again Mnn
dav for the annual personnel re
port by the administration.
Tax Hearing Due
SAI.F.M (AP)-The House Taxa
tion Committee announced it will
hold a public hearing at 1 p.m.
Monday on t bill to repeal the
I property tax on inventories,
j The legislative Interim Com
jtniltee on Taxation recommended
that it be replaced by a tax on
i business net Incon.s.
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wreck the U.N. mission in the
Congo hut would dangerously
weaken the United Nations itself
Addressing the Soviet delegate
directly. Stevenson declared:
"We believe the only way to
take the cold war out of the Congo
is to keep the United Nations in
the Congo, and wa call on the SO'
viet Union to join us in assuring
Ihe free exercise of. (he right of
the Congo people t democracy.
Declaring that the United Na
tions was in peril, he said:
"This is a moment of grave
Heart Fund Leader
Names Chairmen
Appointment of community chair
men in nine Douglas county areas
was announced today by Harris
Ellsworth, county chairman for
the 1961 Heart Fund Campaign.
The local chairmen, he said, will
he responsible for the campaign in
their areas, will appoint Heart
Sunday captains and will main
tain headquarters for the drive.
The l!Xt Heart Fund Cainnaisn
is conducted nationally through the
month of rebruary, Ellsworth
stated today, but the "heart" of
the drive is Heart Sunday which
will be Feb. 26 this year. On that
Sunduy hundreds of volunteers in
Hoseburg and other cities in the
county will go from door to door
telling of the work of the Heart
Association and soliciting contribu
tions for the fund, he pointed out.
"On behalf of Mrs. Ellen Post,
Heart Sunday chairman for Rose
burg, . and the other campaign
heads in this county," Ellsworth
said, "I want to issue a call for
volunteers for the Heart Sunday
solicitation."
Chairman Ellsworth gave the
names of the community chair
men and their campaign head
quarters.
They included: Rcedsport-Gardl-ner,
William M. Tugman, Medical-
Dental building in Reedsport: Can
yonville, Carl M. Hill, Canyonville
Hardware; Kiddle, ttcne .Akers,
Sportsman's Cafe; llvrtle Creek,
K. H. (Ted) Cadman, Myrtle Creek
Hardware: Winston. Mrs. Alfred
Danirls, Winston Variety Store;
Sutherlin, Robert Williams, Wil
liams Hardware; Drain, Ernest
Seaton, Seaton'i Teal estate office;
Oakland, Fay Stearns. Stearns
Hardware store: Yoncalla M r s.
Carl Conaway, Red and White
Store.
Prominent Roseburg
Businessman Dies
Harold W. Sanders. SO, well
known resident of Roseburg, died
this morning at a local hospital
following a short illness.
He has long been a prominent
businessman and was the operator
of Sandy s 1 avern. in Hoseburg
Funeral arrangements will he
announced later by Wilson's Chap
el of the Roses.
Budget Meeting Set
The Riddle City Council has
set Feh. 27 at 8 p.m. for the an
nual city budget meeting, and at
I recent meeting passed a motion
to send Richard Baize, city super
intendent, to the annual sewage
school to he held at Oregon State
college, Corvallis, on Feb. 20-21-22.
Big Belgian Jet Disaster
Claims Ex-U. S. Champion,
Two Daughters; 73 Perish
BRUSSELS, Belirimn (AP) Forty-nine Americans, in
cluding the entire U.S. figure skating team perished today
in the flaming crash of a Sabena Belgian Airlines jet. In
all, the crash of the American-built Boeing 707 brought
death to 73 persons.
Disaster struck at 10:05 a.m. as the $j-miHion plane, its
engines suddenly sounding odd. sought a. landing in bright
sunohine after a flight from JCew York.
The huge plane slammed to earth beside a woods three
miles north of Brussels International Airport and went up
in flames fed by fuel oil as the tanks exploded one by
one.
All 61 passengers and the crew of 11 died. A Belgian
farmer tilling his cabbage patch was struck and killed.
Sirs. Maribcl Vinson Owen, 49, of Winchester, Mass..
nine times the U.S. figure skating champion, was killed
along with two daughters who were members of the cur
rent team. The girls were Laurence Owen, 16, and Mari
bel Owen, 20. Jlrs. Owen last weekend had seen Laurence
win the North American championships at Philadelphia.
Three Members
Of Owen Family
Die In Crash
NEW YORK (AP) The famed
Vinson-Owen mother-daughter fig
ure skating family was killed to
day in a plane crash at Brussels,
Belgium.
Killed were Laurence Owen, 16,
nf Winchester, Mass., who only
last Sunday won Uie women's sin
gles title in the North American
competition at Philadelphia; her
sister, Marihcl, 20, and their
mother, Maribel Vinson Owen who
was their coach and a nine-time
former U.S. champion.
Laurence only a lew weeks pre
viously had won the U.S. national
title at Colorado Springs, Colo
where Maribel and her partner.
Dudley Richards, 28, of Boston
had taken the national seniors
pairs title.
Mrs. Owen or Maribel as she
was known around ice rinks was
third to Sonia Henie in the worn
en's figure skating division of the
1932 Olympics,
A vivacious and talented indiv
idual, who did newspaper work
and wrote magazine articles in
addition to her interest in figure
skating, Sirs. Owen served as fi-
ure skating expert for The Asso
ciated J'rcss at (he 1918 Olympic
Games in St. Monlz, Switzerland;
the 1952 games at Oslo, Norway;
the 19.ll games at Cortina D'Am-j
pezzo in JiHiy. ana ine rjuu games
at Squaw Valley, Calif.
Fast in the mathematical com
putations of figure skating scor
ing probably the most intricate
scoring system in the world of I
sports she was able to pinpoint!
winners long ueiure me uiiiciai
announcements were made.
Her greatest pride was her fig
ure skating children, and cite
achieved one of her ambitions
when Laurence pronounced lo-
rahns, with the accent on the sec
ond syllable won the North
American title last week. The next
goal would have been the world
championship, and then the Olym
pics. Big Skating Event
May I
Be Cancelled
FRANKFURT. Germany (AP)
A spokesman for the organizing
committee of the world figure
skating championships said today
the event has not been canceled
despite the death of U.S. competi
tors in the Brussels plane crash.
The spokesman said in a tele
phone call from Prague that re
ports distributed by the East Ger
man news agency ADN that the
competitions have been called off
"are not true.
However final decision on the
competition now rests with the
International Skating Union with
headquarters in Switzerland.
The president of the ISU, Dr.
James Koch, said earlier he fa
vorcd calling off the event.
Seattle Priest On Jet
SEATTLE (AP) The Eight
Rev. Otmar Borsch, .Seattle, list
ed as one of those killed in a
Sabena Airlines plane crash in
Belgium, was a priest at St
James Cathedral here . and was
on his first vacation in five years,
friends said Wednesday.
He boarded a plane here Tues
day to fly to Brussels where he
was to have met his parents,
friends said.
Police Receive Report
Of School Burglaries
Two Douglas County schools
were targets of burglars Tuesday
night, according to shentl a dep
uties. At 11:33 p.m., the sheriff's office
received a report of an attempted
breaking and entering at the Ten
mile school. According to the re
port the burglar alarm frightened
the would-be thieves away.
A witness gave deputies a com
plete description of the burglars'
automobile.
At 6:45 a.m. deputies received t
report that the Melrose school had
been burglarized. Burglars broke
through a window, gained entry to
the ollice, and rifled a filing cabinet.
Mrs. Owen and Coach Deane
Mc.Minn of Lomita, Calif., were
accompanying the 18-membor
U.S. team to world figure skating
championships in Prague, Czecho
slovakia. The team is the fifth major
sports group wiped out by plane
crashes in a dozen years, includ
ing soccer teams of Italy, Britain
and Denmark. Sixteen members
of the California Poly football
team were killed in the crackuo
of a chartered plane last Oct. 29
at Toledo, Ohio.
Crashtd In Pond
The Boeing crashed in a small
pond and started burning almost
at once. Fire engines previously
alerted because of its erratic be
havior screamed toward the
scene, hut arrived only in time to
check the spread of fire.
"There were no survivors," a
fire officer said.
Charred bodies were removed
to a temporary morgue at the air
port. A Belgian farm laborer lost
a leg and was hospitalized.
In addition to the two Owen
girls, the members of the U.S.
skating team were Steffi Wester
field, Gregory Kelley and Bill and
Laurie Hickox, all of Colorado
Springs, Colo.; Bradley Lord and
Dudley Richards of Boston; Don-'
na Lee Carrier, Diane Shcrbloom
and Roger Campbell of Los An- .
geles; Rhodio Michelson, Long
Beach, Cnlif.; Douglas Ramsay,
Detroit; Ray and lla Rae Hadley.
Seattle; Larry Pierce. Indianapo
lis; and Bob and Pat Dinecn, New
York ..
Dtbris Scattered 1
Debris from the terribly twisted
Boeing was scattered for several
hundred yards.
The nightmare evolved from Sa.
bena's Flight 548 from New York,
piloted by Cmdr. Louis Lam
brechts. Residents of the seacoast village
of Berg figured something might
be wrong when the airliner sped
over them for ils approach to the
airport. The engine roar changed
oddly and the flight pattern looked
errauc.
The plane circled the field a
time or two. It lowered the under
carriage, retracted it, turned
again and fell.
"Suddenly the plane fell in a
series o spins." an airooit offi
cial said. "It literally disintegrat
ed."
There was a tremendous explo
sion. On a Liege-Brussels express
train skirling the airport many
passengers saw the disaster. Said
one:
"The plane appeared to be mak
ing a normal approach to land
when, on nearing the ground, it
suddenly reared up pointing al
most vertically, nose up into the
sky. Then it fell back like a giant
stone and we heard an explosion."
From her home near the crash
scene, Mrs. M. Croon said the
plane was "making much more
noise and was much lower than
Uiey usually are."
Francois de Kleermaekcr, a
coal merchant, said it dropped
"just like in wartime when planes
fell after beiug hit."
Viscountess Pierre de Biolley
was on her doorstep.
"The plane was making an un
usual noise," she said. "It was
flying extremely low. I saw it bal
ancing in the sky then, as it flew
over a small nearby wood, it
seemed to recover power and
pointed upwards and then it sud
denly fell. It looked as if the pilot
had made a desperate effort not
to hit the houses."
An airport officer said clothes
were burned off passengers in the
forward cabin.
"it all took place at a terrifying
speed," he said. "We saw the
crash coming, it looked as if the
plane's controls hud been lost
completely."
A state policeman said he saw
pieces of aluminum melting like
butter.
Amid the , mud and mire lay
plane fragment.', an engine half
buried, twisted pieces of pipes and
cables, arms and legs protruding
from the tangled mass.
The control tower commander
said the plane had been in touch
with the tower but shortly before
the crash "we lost contact."
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
To cleanse your thoughts
after reading the wont about
juvenile delinquency, twitch
them to the right track by
noting the hundreds of names
on the periodic HONOR rolls
in the public schools.
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