Bridegroom Swept Out Into Fatal Fall as
Airliner Door Rips Off; Probe Launched
ASHEVILLE. N. C. ( Three ' iately. C. A. Murray, a Civil Aero-1 tragedy. Coroner Ollie Harris. of
'Education' for Natural Gasl"ejlam,Avia'7
Bill Cost 'Near $2 Million'it0
investigations were under way
Thursday in the death of a bride
groom of one day who plunged
vMn feet from the open door of a
Piedmont Airliner Wednesday
night.
The badly mangled body of Oren
Ase Pruitt. 38. of Charlotte, N.C..
was found by police in the grave
yard of a church six miles north
of Shelby, N.c. The impact tore
part ot nis clothing and his shoes
from his body.
The couple, married Tuesday in
York, S C., were on their honey
moon to Asheville to meet Mrs.
Pruit's parents.
Mrs. Pruit, under djpsior't
care at her parents' home, said
her husband got up to go to the
men's room. She added:
'I heard ... it was a little while
after that ... a big whosh. The
wind was screaming in. Somebody
said the door had blown off.
Afraid U Look
'I thought Oren was In the
men's room still. Nobody got up,
I was afraid to look back there.
'And then a stewardess rame to
my seat and sat down beside me.
I knew then. Nobody ever told
me anything. I don't know what
happened. 1 just know he was
gone."
Capt. B. B. Slaughter of Winston
Salem, the pilot, said the flight'
was about 20 minutes out of Char
lote en route to Asheville when
the mishap occured at S:0t p.m.
Slaughter, flying since 1939, said be
had never heard of a plane door
of this type coming open accident
ally. Inquiring Team
Piedmont Airlines sent an In
quiry team to the scene immed-
nautics Administration Inspector, Shelby impanelled a Jury to inves-
came to Asheville to check into the tigate the mishap.
Dogs Actions
Save Family
From Blaze
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By J. W. DAVIS I McCollum is also president of
WASHINGTON l - The head the Continental Oil Co. He testi
of an oil and gae Industry eom- tied hit firm contributed $57,00e
. G. McGee, a Piedmont official ,-.-j i ... n ,:, i ,,i ... .ii
WOO nisnca tO ASDeVtlte, SaW ;Tu.-j- ,u., ;, .1 K. Ml I rniita unit rharcuul il nil son.
Tmf HIM V sa ! w llliovv, mmmrm
public education and infor-ieral business expense.
Sen. Anderson iu NM com-
ASHEVILLE. N.C.. Orel Asa Pruitt, M, of Charlotte, N.C., a bride
groom of tie day, fen C.OOt feet from an airltarr to hli death Wed
nesday, landing ia a Shelby. N.C., cemetery. Officials are Inveatt
(atlas; how the plane's aW cave open. (AP Wlrephoto)
Oregon Salesman
Found Guilty of
FI I A - Charges
TI I.SA. Okla. I Their dog's
scratching at a door aroused the
Howard Peterson Jr. family
Thursday to find their home afire.
And, in the canfusion, Peterson
had to knock his 14-year-old son ,
unconscious to save him from the . . i m
burning dwelling. M B'LLIN,S' 1
The boy. Howard Peterson HI, LM .uU.0
suffered head and hand burns Zl,! n SS 2
,..k- u. i.,i.;.ii.. i. . . i statements in applications for
when he tried hysterically to put F(dm, Housing Administration
out names in a grand piano and , convicted on four
save hu concert sheet music. His Lounts Thursday by , rederiI
sister. Jan, 15, received similar rourt jllrv Another count was
r.ns' . , i dismissed by the government.
Mrs. Peterson and a four-year-' jllrtKe cnarlrs N. Prav, Creat
old son got to safety through a pan,,, pice Martin on probation
ln(l"tt for five years. He said Martin
Tctrrson said he had to knock could return to Oregon, but must
his son out when the boy became j report regularly to a probation
frantic at seeing the piano burn . officer.
and tried to save his music even! The charges against Martin
though his clothing was afire. grew out of his work as a sales-
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man of roofing and siding jobs
while employed by a Billings
firm.
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There ia not a way in the worlds . Tifhi-. i..iLL .J i'r,. hL.ine..
the door could have been forced . rnation campaign
opea oy pressure ano ine ooor is u was lobbying, Leonard mented. with reference to the fed
not something you can just bump w McCollum of Houston. Tex.. 1 era! tax of 51 Dot cent on corDora-
agaisst and open. jtow weciai Senate lobby in- tioa income, this meant in effect
The Airline said the door it fas- vestigation committee. He said that the federal treasury "paid
tened bv three bayonet-type latches i none oi the money was aiven to ' 52 nor cent of the cost of this
and that aa attendant checks them j lawmakers ia the form of cam-campaign."
through- small glass windows be- paiga contributions or otherwise, I Anderson said the internal reve-
lore flight take-offs. He also said , and roost of it went for advertise- nue code says a company, in fig
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. l-A 300-
bird aviary twned by financier
Sam Kay migrated under court
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Judge Albert Saperstein heeded
neighbors' pleaa that too many as
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Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., June IS, '58 (Sec. II)-17
300 Attending Veterans Meeting
:'c
BAKER The second an
nual convention of Oregon veter
ans of the first Work) War was In
progress here Thursday, with 300
attending.
The state commander, John
Dillage of Eugene, presided. Del
egates from 33 units attended.
Friday, the organisation t h e
Veterans of World War l-wil
nam district officers. State offW
cm will be elected Saturday, tha
convention's-final day. The veter
ans will consider resolutions FrV
day. - I
Tbt women's auxiliary also ia
meeting.
a red light comes on in the pilot's
cabin if the latches are not fast
ened.
McGee said none of the 24 pas
sengers saw the mishap "except
one man, who said he saw Pruitts ZTZL Z" Ju ,Tf.
heek, gain, out the door.
Fire Lights Up
Town Like Yule
HAWESVIIXE. Ky. I This
little town lit up like Christmas
when Charles Butler's house caught
fire just after dark. Half the resi
dents turned out excitedly aa&
during the uproar, someone turned
oa the Christmas lights that had
been hanging over the streets since
December.
ments and printing luring its income tax, may not
McCollum said that one hoped- deduct from gross income any
for result of the program was ' amounts spent on such activities
legislation freeing natural gas pro- as lobbying on legislation or "ex
ducers of federal controls, but its ploitation of propaganda" In other
purpose was "far broader than! than trade advertising of its pro-
ce of legislation. ducts.
explained the basic objective McCollum said tax lawyers had
was to acquaint the public with advised that contributions to the
problems of the oil and gas in- industry committee could be
dustry- charged to business expense.
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