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With the closing o( Congress 0Te
Oregon delegation will soon be
home for a brief vacation before
resuming the political wars. Of
the six congressmen and senators,
only Richard Neuberger, senator,
is a holdover. Representatives are
all running for re - election as
is Sen. Wayne Morse. The last
named was given a send-off by
his present party colleagues in
Washington a $50 a - plate
luncheon whose proceeds will go
into the Morse campaign fund.
The news report said that Major
ity Leader Lyndon Johnson offered
to come to Oregon to speak for or
against Morse "whichever he
thinks will do the most good." The
reporter included the word "jok
ingly" with reference to Johnson's
offer, but one wonders if his re
mark wasn't two-edged. After all,
in view of Morse's history how
certain can Johnson be that he
and Morse will stay lined up to
gether very long.
Some 400 Democrats are said to
have attended the luncheon. At
$.50 per (these political luncheons
never pay out 100 per cent), that
would provide $20,000, less -the
luncheon expenses i bound to be
high in Washington i quite a
sizable sum for the senator's war
chest.
Presumably, Morse will accept
this contribution without suspicion
that it is tainted money. Recently
in the Senate he was discussing
his campaign finances and
told the Senate he didn't know
where he would get sufficient
funds for his campaign.
But, ha declared "I shall con
tinue as I h a v e In the past to
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Car, Train
Crash Hurls
Salem Pair
A Salem couple were injured
Sunday morning when a train
struck their stalled car about
11:50 a.m. at 12th and Court
streets, city police reported.
Mr: and Mrs. Nathaniel G. Is
ak, 2215 Broadway St., were tak
en to Salem General Hospital by
Willamette Ambulance Service.
Ambulance attendants said Is
aak received possible chest in
juries and a laceration over one
eye. Mrs. Isaak was treated for
shock, they said. Hospital person
nel reported both were in good
condition Sunday evening.
Isaak told police that he did not
aee the train until it was about fif
ty feet away. He tried to put the
car into reverse but the engine
died, he said.
Stayton Bean
Festival to
Start Tuesday
SUtriman Nwi Srrvlre
STAYTON This city is bustling
with activity and excitement as it
prepares for Its 17th annual five
day Santiam Bean Festival. Selec
tion of the queen and her corona
tion will kick off the event at I
p.m. Tuesday
The colorful festival will continue
through Saturday. Among high
lights will be a talent show at I
p.m. Wednesday; pet parade at
:30 p.m. Thursday and a Friday
grand parade starting at 7 p.m.
Conclusion on Saturday will include
a 1:30 p.m. horse parade: horse
show at 2 p.m.; "hean-hnle bean
feed at 5 p.m. and climatic bean-
h,at!!LtL'? '- .!
vaiiiivm iiura anu turn vnsiuiis
will operate throughout the week
WILBERT
PREHISTORIC 1
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Tanks Burst,
Injure 32 in
Texas Town
DUMAS Tex., I Seven huge
petroleum tanks exploded Sunday
bathing 19 men in a super -hot wall
of flame and killing them in their
tracks. There may be four more
bodies in the devastated area,
making a total of 22.
Thirty-two ethers were hospital
ized with burns. Some of them
were horribly seared.
The' towering orange explosion
fireball was sighted in Amarillo,
40 miles away.
Spectators Terrified
A hundred or more spectators
watched, terrified, as. lifetime
friends and kin stumbled moaning
and crying from the smoke and
flame on a tank farm of the Sham
rock Oil and Gas Corp.
"The fiery blast snuffed out
their lives and they crumpled in
their tracks," said Bill Lask, news
editor of the Moore County News,
in describing how the 18 or more
died. He was at the site to cover
the fire.
The fire-blast was. hot beyond
belief, survivors said.
A workman protected in a shack
300 yards from the first explosion
was scorched. A railroad bridge
quarter of a mile away was
burned completely.
Victims mainly were oil workers
and volunteer firemen.
Bodies Fire Blankets
Some of the bodies were so hot
long after the explosion that they
set fire to blankets used to wrap
them.
A boy about 11, wearing no
shirt, stumbled from the heat with
his naked back burning fiercely,
Bob Hamilton, Moore County
News reporter, was a quarter
mile from the explosion and the
heat set his hair blazing.
From everywhere out of the pall
of smoke and flames staggered
men, their clothing blazing or
smoking.
Most of the dead were taken to
the Hometown National Guard
Armory, where townspeople at
tempted to identify bodies that
were reduced to charcoal.
Humphrey in
Demo Race
For VP Job
WASHINGTON (41 Sen.
Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) has
told a group of friends that he is
now "willing for my friends to
work actively in my behalf" for
the Democratic vice presidential
nomination.
Humphrey, a frequent critic of
Eisenhower administration for
eign policies and farm programs,
has endorsed Adlai Stevenson for
the party's presidential nomina
tion.
The senator's office here said
a letter expressing Humphrey s
willingness to be a candidate for
vice . president was wriuen in ,DAHo FALLS. Idaho i-an 11
Rrp. McCarthy (R Minn.), and I nlhs.old tov lay jn ni, cnb jn
copies were sent to a group of ,noura over the weekend, unfed and
friends "both in and out of Con
gress."
Breakfast Cools
While Dog Owner
Seeks Egg Owner
POOL-IN-WHARFEDALE, T.ng-
ian(j S. Lawson's dog is
a 'retriever but Lawson didnt
realize until Sunday just how great
a retriever he is.
Lawson swears the dog showed
up at the backdoor holding a frying
pan between his teeth and the
frying pan had a warm egg in it.
Lawson was on the lookout for
a neighbor who might be trying
to retrieve his breakfast.
EMERGENCY LANDING
BUTTE, Mont. i-W.O. Itoach,
23, of Spokane, Wash., made an
emergency landing at Butte Air
port Sunday night after his four
passenger Cessna developed en
gine trouble.
NORTHWEST t.RARIH
At Salam S-i, Lrwulnn 9-11
At Trl-Clty I. Yakima
At Wcnalchaa Spokana 4-11
PACiriC COAST l.FARt'R
At l.oa Angi-ln S-. Portland S-l
At Rattla 7-S. Hollywood -
At Sacramento 13-5. Vancouver S-1
At San D.no J-O. San Franci.ro 1-3
NATIftNM. I.KAC.rit
At Philadelphia S, Milwaukee 1
At BrfHiklvn 1-2. Chlran 0-4
At New York J. Sit I.mil 1
At Plttibursh t-l, Cincinnati f-1
AMFRlrAS t.r.AKt'K
At Kana Cltv 1. -New Vorll I
At Detroit S-l. Whtnton 0-4
At Chlrain 11-S, Bnalnn 1-1
At ClavtUnd 1-4, Baltimore 0-0
POUNDS D 1651
The Oregon Statesman,
Kills
Exploding Tanks Bring Death, Destruction
Dl'MAS, Tex. Black flames pour
Gas Corp., 1$ miles southeast at here. Tbe first of the tanks te explode Is saown at eeater right. Twe am
bulances sre shown la operation and five bodies are being handled by rescue workers. (AP Wlrephote)
Dump Nixon
Aim Renewed
By Stassen
WASHINGTON - Harold E.
Stassen resumed his "dump Nix
on"" campaign Sunday and. said
he believes the name of Gov.
Christian Herter of Massachusetts
will be placed in nomination for
the second spot on the Republican
ticket at the San Francisco con
vention. Stassen said he had no plans
to arrange the nomination of Her
ter, but he was certain it would
come about because "regardless
of everything said about me in
the past week, the convention is
now open.
He said he didn't believe that
President Eisenhower had yet
"reached a final conclusion" on
whom his running mate will be.
Stassen who is Eisenhower's
disarmament assistant, tossed a
bomb into the political picture last
Monday when he suggested that
an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would
attract six per cent more voters
than an Eisenhower-.Nixon slate.
Republican leaders in and out
of Congress have been coming out
since with statements supporting
Nixon for rcnomination and Stas
sen has been getting everything
from mild rebukes to invitations
to leave the Republican ranks.
Herter himself has agreed to
place Nixon's name in nomina
tion at San Francisco.
Baby Found Willi
Dead Parents
untended, the bodies of his young
mother and father in the next
room. A friend discover J t h e
tragedy.
Dead are Lawrence Spaulding,
21, and his 18-year-old wite, Dolly.
Lawrence was a painter in Pali
sades near here, where the re
clamation bureau is constructing a
dam.
Deputy Sheriff Gus Jacobson
said he found the body of Lawr
ence on the floor next to the bed,
a 30-caliber rifle nearby. Acting
Sheriff Fred Keefer said it was
apparently a murder-suicid! cafe.
Home Owners Mourn
Lake's Disappearanee
MONTPELIKR, Vt. (PI Cot
tage owners along Lake Sadawga
and Houghton N. Sawyer were
at odds Sunday because the lake
;no longer exists.
Sawver drainer! the ZJ()-acre
lake he has owned for 3(1 years. ; Roberts of Jacksonville, Sawyer's
He caused quite a stir among thejeousin, says Sawyer is "just being
owners nf cottages. ornery."
Sawyer Mid he opened the The lake was created about 75
gates of the dam because he no years ago to provide irtter pow
longer felt up to paying the tax er for a sawmill. Sawyer nperat
bills. He wants support from the ed it until recent years. He sue
15 or more land-owners around reeded in getting the taxes cut
the lake.
A thin -trickle of brook
water
winrJ, through a mud flat today.
Only a mnnlh ago the water car
ried happy swimmers and boaters
on its surface.
Mud prohibits recovery nf
hnats now snrhored on the lake
bottom. And the insects. arc noth
inig to write Home about.
Sawyer there ii to easy 10-
Salem, Oregon, Monday, July
19 Men in Tracks
from the second tank which exploded Sunday at Shamrock Oil at
English Channel Swallows
Boats in Giant Whirlpool
LONDON I A 90-mile-an-hour wind whipped the English channel
into a giant whirlpool Sunday swallowing up scores of small boats. It
roared inland toppling trees and unleashed floods and landslides.
At least 11 deaths were reported.
Six persons were known drowned after their boats capsized in
churning seas that forced suspension of ferries operating between
Daniel Faces
Texas Runoff
For Governor
DALLAS, Tex. G U.S. Sena
tor Price Daniel, determined
champion of states rights and a
1952 supporter of Dwight D. Eisen
hower, headed into an apparent
Democratic runoff Sunday with
Ralph Ya'rborough for Texas gov
ernor. The last tabulation Sunday,
showed Daniel with 578,946 votes
from 254 of the state's 2M counties
with 177 complete. Yarborough, a
former state district judge., had
428.948.
W. Lee O Daniel, former U.S.
senator and Texas governor,
slipped deeper into third place
with 324,145 votes.
Three other candidates in the
race cowboy-historian J. F.vetts
ik. '
lliC
Haley, former speaker of
State House Reuben Senterfitt and
Austin businessman J. J. Holmes
lagged far behind in the vote.
Yarborough was defeated for
the nomination by Gov. Allan
Shivers in 19S2 and 1954. Shivers,
who also supported Kisenhower in
1952, did not seek reelection this
year. Yarborough supported Stev
enson in 1952 and stressed party
loyalty this. year.
Youth Killed Wresting
Gun From 4-Year-Ohl
LYNN, N C. ( Sixteen-year-old
Carl Lee Blackwell died Sunday
after being shot through the heart
while trying to wrest a pistol from
his 4-year-old nephew, who was
using it in a game of "cops and
robbers."
Sheriff Llovd Westbrook said he
was told the nephew and other
children had been playing with cap
pistols, when the youngster went
into the house and got a .:s
caliber pistol belonging to his
grandfather.
lution. He'll close the gates, re
filling the lake, if the cottage
owners want to help him foot the
$150 annual tax bill.
Some of the townspeople don't
see it that way. Selectman E. J.
by the town assessors last spring
but he still fell he was paying
for something from which he was
getting nothing.
"1 figured I had to do some
thing dramatic," said Sawyer.
"But you know how those stub
horn Yankees are." He rhurklrd
when It was suggested , he might
be considered an equally stub
born Yankee himself.
30, 1956
PRICE 5
cr J
Britain and J ranee.
Fatir Others Killed
Four other persons were killed
when trees toppled onto their cars
while they were driving through
the storm.
Another man was blown to his
death off a ladder at the Royal
Albert Dock in London.
Scoret suffered minor injuries.
Sixteen of 22 yachts taking part
in a cross-channel race from Le
Havre France, to Portsmouth Eng
land, were missing late Sunday
night. Naval spokesmen said no
radio calls for help had been
picked up.
There were floods in some val
leys. Twe Laadslldes '
The pass between Bethesda and
Ogwen Lake in Wales was blocked
by two landslides. Tons of houl
ders and soil rolled 1,500 feet down
a mountainside
A dozen automobiles 1 were
trapped between the landslides,
hut their occupants succeeded in
fleeing. Officials said it would
take weeks to clear the passage.
Several riven in the mountain
ous region in. Caernarvonshire,
'welled by the rains, came cas-
t, t u L ... II - n i :
i ovn iipt mivugii gum-ya liuvuillg
the valley.
Girl Attacked,
Thrown Off
Roof to Death
NEW YORK I A S year-old
girl was raped and flung from
a rooftop to her death Sunday and
a man accused of the crime was
later nearly mobbed by an angry
crowd of 2,000 people.
Five detectives with drawn guns
managed to rescue the suspect.
Diego Lugo, 24, from the milling
mob that surrounded him a few
minutes after police said they had
a confession from him.
Lugo was released from psychi
atric observation at Bellevue Hos
pital about two weeks ago, police
said.
The body of little Jeanette Ribot
was found In a tenement yard.
Police said she had been lifted
through the window of her apart
ment, carried over several roof
tops, raped, then flung from the
roof of a six-story building.
CRASH KILLS WOMAN
PORTLAND OP - Mrs. Rosalie
T. Schoolfield, 85-year-old Port
land resident injured in a traffic
collision last Thursday, died Sat
urday at a hospital.
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No. 125
Two Solders
Blown to Bits
By Dynamite
YAKIMA l-Tcn tons of dyna
mite, detonated apparently when
a shot was fired into I storage
shed, blew two Ft. Lewis soldiers
to bits here Sunday.
Sheriff Bert Guns Identified
them as:
Sp. SC. Ralph J Rice, 19, and
Pfc. Ronald R. Foster, 20, both
of Yakima. They were home on
t' w. lay passes.
The blast, at 11:12 am. six
miles east of iere. was felt widely
over Yakima and one resident
said the concussion v. as so severe
it felt as though an automobile
had hit his house.
Huatlng Rabbits
The two, with a rifle and a .12
guage shotgun between them, were
apparently hunting rabbits in the
area. The storage shed caretaker,
Charles Mc.Mann, had seen them
shooting near the storage shed a
short time previously and Rice's
auto mobile was found parked
nearby after the blast, with its
windows shattered.
The dynamite was stored in a
25-foot square shed and the blast
left a hole "5 feet across and 20
feet deep. The exposive was owned
by the Tire Sales & Equipment
Co., which sold it to farmers and
other buyers.
House Reeked
' Rice was attached to Headquart
ers Battery 5Mth Field Artillery
Battalion and Foster to Battery
A, M6th cqi Field Artillery Bat
talion, both Ft. Lewis.
McMann, the caretaker, who
lied half a mile away, said his
house was rocked violently by the
blast.
Ike, Mamie
Worship at
Ahe's Church
GETTYSBURG. Pa. VI - Pres
ident and Mrs. Eisenhower wor
shipped Sunday in the Presbyter
ian Church Lincoln attended the
day he delivered his Gettysburg
Address.
It was the first church services
for the President since his June
1 intestinal operation. Several
among the - 200 or so persons
around the church remarked that
the President looked a bit thin
and wan.
Eisenhower also took what Asst.
White House press secretary Mur
ray Snyder said was a "brisk
walk" of about 20 minutes Sun
day morning on his country estate
here.
He arranged a telephone confer
ence with Secretary nf State
Dulles on the Suez Canal trouble
spot, but otherwise, it was a quiet,
restful day tor the President.
Typhoon Nears
Okinawa Base
MANILA VI A powerful Pa
cific typhoon whipping up 170
mile w inds Monday was reported
bearing down on the big U. S.
military base of Okinawa.
The Manila Weather Bureau
said Typhoon Wanda, which orig
inated east of Guam, was about
450 miles southeast of Naha at
8 am. IB p.m. EST Sunday . It
was moving west-northwest at 14
miles an hour in the direction of
the Ryukyu Islands.
Rl'SS PLAN Rl'N POWER
MOSCOW UH The Literary
Gazette, offirial magazine of the
Soviet writers' union, says the
government is working on plans
for a power station to use the sun's
rays for mercy. It will he built
in Hutsian Armenia on a plain
near Mt. Ararat, where the Bihle
says Noah's Ark landed. Soviet
Armenian scientists arc drafting
the plans.
Maine Cons Use Gas Bombs
In Attempt to Escape. Fail
THOM AST0V, Maine UH- A
group of inmales at Maine State
Prison Sunday made a fruitless
attempt to fisiit their way to free
dom with homemade gasoline fire
bombs. A fire which officials said
was started as a diversion dc
strnyd the prison printing shop.
Warden Allen L. nubbins snid
"several unidentified inmates" as
snultrd an entrance with rocks
and homemade bombs, One hnmh
went over the all, the others fell
short of their marks and all
burned out harmlessly. The rocks
One Dead, Many Seriously
Hurt in Hostel Youth Party
TIMBERLINE LODGE, Ore., (AP)-Tragedy
party on an icy piouutain slope Sunday, leaving
bleeding at the bottom ot a Mt. Hood crevasse.
One was iead. Many were seriously hurt.
The victim! was Lynn Kaufman, a girl from Larchmont, N.Y.
Onlv two were ahle to walk after the accident. One of them. Louise L.
kiifiik, alxmt 13, of forest
Hills, U I., N. Y said. "We
landed on top of each other.
Some of the kids you couldn't
even see.
The croup, made tin of mid-
western and eastern young people '
in two separate tour parties, was
led up the mountain by , Carl
Schnoor of Portland.
Rtped Together
On the descent some at the back
of the long line clipped. All were
roped together and as they slid
down an icy chute near the 9,000
foot level they whipped the others ',
from their feet. All plunged past
Crater Rock and into a crevasse.
The first man at the scene. Tom
Pfau, 35, of Brooks. Ore., said
they were crying and moaning. He
rut some of them loose then wentj
for help. He said one of the girls
appeared dead. I
Hours later Jim Langdon, forest
ranger coordinating rescue efforts;
here at the lodge, confirmed that
th Kaufman airl wn AA f.snn. '
don said several others were re
ported in critical condition.
Radie Communication
Communication up the mountain
was by radio and it was reserved
for physicians working with the
injured and for rescue workers
and their calls for supplies.
The accident happened in late:
aftjtrnnnn tinrfap rloar ibv I
Hours later many of the injured,
still were at the lip of the cre
vasse where doctors worked over
them by the light of flares and
portable lamps.
Others were brought by. snow
tractor to Silcox warming hut 1.000
feet up the mountain from the
lodge. They told a story of horror
heightened by the sickening sul
phur fumes which rise perpetually
from near the base of Crater
Rock.
Severe Bark Injury
Bunny Rockland of New York
and Louise Ruflik were the girls
who were able to walk. The guide.
Schnoor, was brought down with
a severe back injury and a wrist
fracture. ' Ronald G. Hrinrich of
Clear Lake, Iowa, leader of one
of the hostel groups, suffered a
collarbone fracture cuts and
bruises.
Injuries of the others were not
learned at the lodge as the eve
ning wore on. It was not certain
just who made up the climb party.
Langdon said there were t w o
lists, neither of them complete.
One was a cabin list for those who
stayed at a cabin on the moun
tain. The other was the registra
tion lor tne climb.
Nmw From North wrot
The ranger said all the persons
on both lists were from Eastern
and Midwest cities, and none, was
from the Pacific Northwest.
The first rescue team up the
mountain was 'led by Ralph
Wiese .Forest Service ranger and
veteran mountaineer.
It had been a good day for
climbing with sunshine and a clear
sky. A number of parties had gone
up the 11.245 foot peak, regarded
by mountaineers as a satisfactory
mountain for amateurs to climb
when in the hands of an experi
enced guide.
Fair Skies
To Continue
More of the same weatherwise
is in store for the Salem area,
arcording to McNary Field weath
er station.
Fair skies sre expected to con
tinue today, tonight and Tues
day with a high both days of 82
and a low tonight of 45.
Moderate fire danger will prob
ably continue throughout North
west Oregon with humidity near
or slightly below 30 per cent in
the Willamette Valley and Cas
cades. Northern Oregon beaches are
scheduled to he sunny this after
noon with nicht and morning
cloudiness. Temperature range
will probably he 50 to 87.
(See add. weather story page
2, section 1).
AIR SERVICE PLEA MADE ,
WASHINGTON -Pan Amer
ican World Airways maintained
Sunday it would he ahle to speed
up service and also reduce trans
Pacilie fares by an average of
in if ii i ncrmitted to link its
West Coast gateways to the Ori-
ent by the Northern great circle
route.
smashed windows in the guard
tower, he said.
At the same time, a fire started
in the printing shop, which was
completely destroyed "at a loss
nf several thousand dollars," Rob
bins said.
Also damaged were a machine
shop, the prisoners' commisary
and an automobile license plate
shop as the prison's sprinkler sys
tem and the Thnmastnn Fire De
partment drenched the threatened
arcs.
Salem Group Sees
Disaster on Peak
TIMBfRLLNIL .LODGE jA aarty f Keanlala climber.
frm the Salem area wllieiaed: Sunday's tragic aecideat la which
a party 19 young people slipped lnt crevasse high ea the
slopes of ML Hood.
The Salem group, led by Tom Pfau, JS. e( Breaks, Included
Dennis Glasgow, high school sophomore from Salem. Glasgow
related the following account te a Portland reporter;
- "We were toe far away ta de anything about a auarter ef
a mile, I guest, but we rould are they were ia trouble then they
vanished ever the lip ef the crevasse.
"When we got to the spot where we last saw them, it looked
ai If they had Just disappeared into the mountala. If It wasn't for
the big trail they had dragged across the snow, we might not
have found them.
"When we looked Into the hole Jt was awful. Kids were
lying en top ef each ether, two girla were crying and I could
bear the guys moaning."
' Glasgow said hie party went Into the bole In an attempt te
help the ethers, and that be ased a knife to cut the climbing rope
still entangled among the Injured.
"At one place the rape Just eaoVd la a vile of anew, to we
started digging. Underneath was a girl, and somebody said 'I
think the'a dead.' She looked dead."
Then yeaag Glasgow went for kelp leaviag companies Call
Wright and Frank Franklla behind to remfert the Injured.
A I S4-l St Dl
muuuuii iuiiui in wuiw
Ends Dallas Smilcroo
Stalaiaua Nawi Service
DALLAS, Ore. Sale of the auction platform Sunday by Auction
eer Jack Eakin Jr. and awarding of a new Ford sedan brought close
to the second annual Dallas Smileroo celebration.
During three days of auction, hundreds ot items were sold. Sun
day's auction brought $450 toward
day and Saturday, nearly 11,000
Sabotage of
Doctor's Craft
Investigated
. PORTLAND VI Aa attempt
to disable a private airplane
owned by a John Day, Ore., physi
cian was under investigation Sun
day; State Police were checking
to determine how fuel aboard ine
plane of Dr. Alvln R. Kincaid, 45,
became contaminated.
Dr. Kincaid called the Incident
"attempted murder" but police
would not speculate.
The doctor piloted bis 1954 model
Cessna 182. a single-engine craft,
on the John Day-to-Portland flight
Saturday, landing at Trout dale
airport a few miles east of here.
State Patrolman Boyd Lucich said
mechanics making a routine en
gine check discovered a white,
sweet tasting substance which
"appeared to be sugar" in the fuel
sediment bowl of the plane.
Dr. Kincaid said there was no
indication of engine trouble on the
flight, and police believed the gas
oline was contaminated sometime
before Kincaid took off from the
John Day airstrip.
A Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion spokesman said the addition
of sugar to a plane's gasoline
rould affect engine performance
eventually, depending on the
amount.
John Cebelin Jr., supervising
agent for the CAA aircraft safety
division in Portland, said CAA in
vestigators would pursue the mat
ter Monday.
Four Youths Die
In Dynamite Blast
'BLl'FF, I'tah l A dynamite
explosion killed four youths Sun
day afternoon at the Weyland
reservoir, northeast of this south
eastern Utah community.
San Juan county sheriff Seth
Wright identified them as Aaron
Simpson, about 20, of nearby
Blandtng; Hurt Simpson, lfi,
brother of Aaron; Buddy Wilson,
about 14. Bluff: and Jack Haught.
age unknown, Wilson's hrother-ln-law
from Dove Creek, Colo.
Cause nf the explosion was not
,4inowm
There were no witnes-
ses. Investigating officers Ihnught
maybe the youths were expen
Imenting" with the dynamite.
The warden said guards fired
several shots into the air during
the incident and kept the situation
under control.
He said "half a dozen persons
suspected of participating .were
mediately confined to cells, and
an investigation as started." lie
would not identity those confined.
The rest of the prison's 441 in
mates continued on their Sunday
routines and the usual Sunday
ball game was played, Itobbins
said.
youth hostel tour
score battered and
aavt CIa
the community swim pool fund. Fri
was cleared in the same manner.
The new car was won by virgu
Tomlinson of Valsetx, who was
not present to claim his priie.
Jack Eakin Sr. and Mel Miller,
Smileroo chairman, officiated at
the drawing.
'No figures were available on the
total amount raised for the pool
fund from all sources. It ap
peared, however, that the total
might exceed the (3,000 cleared
last year.
All articles sold at auction were
donated. - .'
(Add. details en pag e I, sec. L)
Four Corners
Boy Hurt in-
Air Explosion
SUUtaaaa Naws Srvtr
FOUR CORNERS A 14-year-old
Four Corner area boy suffered a
painful leg injury Sunday as the
result ot an unusual accident at his
home.
Gary Brunk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brunk, 4085 Glenwood Dr.,
was operating a compressed aie
tank when the instrument backfired
and deposited Us pin in the boy's
right leg.
Young Brunk was taken to Salem
General Hospital where the pin was
removed from his leg. Attendants
said his condition was "satisfac
tory.
The type of compressed air tank
involved in the 1 p.m. accident is
used for such purposes as Inflating
life rafts.
Sole Union Army
Survivor Still
On Critical List
Dl'LUTH, Minn, tit - Civil
War veteran Albert Woohon. 109-year-old
sole survivor of the Un
ion Army, remained in critical
condition Sunday night in St.
Lukes; Hospital.
The old soldier, suffering from
lung congestion, for nine weeks,"
lapsed into a coma early Satur
day. Mrs. John' Kobus. one of his
daughters, said her father's pulse
weakened slightly and his breath
ing became more shallow for a
brief period during the day. By
evening, his condition was bark
to the level of what it was after
he lapsed into unconsciousness.
Hospital attendants described
the veteran's condition as criti
cal. He was receiving oxygen
through a nasal tube and was be
ing fed Intravenously.
The Weather
Max. Mln. Prertp.
7 41 M
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Mrdlord S7
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Roaeburg SJ
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bureau, McNary tirid, Salam):
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t.lttla thanf In tarnparatura. Hiftl
today and Tundajr SI. Tha low to
nnht 43.
Tatrparatur at II 01 am. today
was S3.
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