J Three Die In Dormitory Fire Wooden men's dormitory
i at the University of Oklahoma In Norman. Okla., lies in
k smouldering ruins after a flash fire whipped through the two- ,
story building, burning it to the ground within minutes. At
least three of the 349 residents of the building are known
i . . At - nr. tVin.r oentmoH Iho
I dead. IViore mail a auuie weic lujuivu uo -o.Mtw
) roaring inferno. (AP Wirephoto)
Eyewitness Tells of Dormitory
h - 1 i 1 1 r t i r J
rre n yy men i nree uiea
. (Editor's Note: Logan L. Rlggs, ! year-old University of
1 Oklahoma Journalism Junior, had Ills breakfast in bed Sat-
Jk urday morning for the first time since he came home from the
f war. The Monroe, Okla., youth was among the students In-
Jurcd in the dormitory fire that morning. Following is his own
account of the fire.)
By LOGAN L. RIGGS
,1 Norman, Okla., Dec. 5 (U.R) The
if fire Saturday morning was my
i Let's set the hell out."
By the time I sat up in Dea, ne
getting ready to jump. For some
out through the hallway instead--
of using the window.
My room on the second floor
of the bachelor officers' quarters
had two doors. I tried to open
one of them.
I don't know whether it was
the bathroom door or the door
into the hall. I had grabbed my
pants off the door handle, and
since I had left them hanging on
the bathroom door knob I guess
I was trying to get through the
bathroom.
Anyway, it was just like op
ening a furnace door. The heat
was terrific.
It didn't know it at the time
but I guess that's when I got
burned. I dropped my pants and
ran back to the window. There
was a ledge running alongside
the window and my idea was
that this could be used as a fire
escape.
I didn't think about it at the
time. I just jumped to the
ground. Where I hit was just a
couple of rooms out from the
central wing of the building and
the two wings extending out
from either side of it were both
on fire. '
I could see the flames coming
out of some of the windows and
I could see them brightly in all
the others. That fire was spread
ing like it was gasolined. In all
my time overseas with the sig
nal corps, I didn't see anything
like it.
I ran on down between the
wings into the open. That's
where the other guys were stan
ding around. They all seemed
pretty calm. They kept talking
about how much they'd lost in
the fire. I guess it was 15 min
utes after that before the fire
men got there.
I found my roommate, Cy
Kees og Spokane, Wash. The
boys down in tne fifth wing
that's the west end of the build
ing had more time to get out.
I found a blanket in a pile of
clothes and stuff which one of
them had laid on the ground.
When I put that raw blanket
over my neck and back I rea
lized I'd been burned, but the
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first thing I knew about the
suite mate hollering, "Fire! fire!
naa me winaow open ana was
reason I decided to try to go
doctors say it isn't too serious.
Considering how horrible it
all was, I feel pretty good.
I lost everything but one
slightly used pair of underwear
shorts. I don t believe I saw
more than two of the boys in
pajamas.
I guess we put on quite an
underwear show.
Helen Hayes Named
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New York, Dec. 5 aj.B Ac
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Basil O'Connor, foundation
president, announced today.
Miss Hayes, whose 19-year-
old daughter, Mary MacArthur,
died of polio in September, will
be in charge of women volun
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March of Dimes campaign in
January.
'This is a critical year in the
history of the fight against in
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regarding the 1950 drive.
'On the one hand, scientific
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Educators Asked
To Explain Doings
Portland. Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R)
Frank Schiro, publisher of the
La Grande Evening Observer
and chairman of the legislative1
interim committee to study the
state educational system, be
lieves it is the educators re
sponsibility to inform the public
as to what is going on in educa
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a meeting of the Oregon Educa
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In Dorm Fire
Norman. Okla.. Dec 5 (U.
Little white sticks marked the
bodies, Saturday.
Not c r o s s e s just sticks.
Death-marks to show where the
casualties lay In the ruins of
what had been the University
of Oklahoma's "BOQ No. 1."
1
It was hours after the fire
that leveled all five wings of
the dorm, but the work of look
ing for the dead was only be
ginning.
About 100 men, their faces as
grim as their job, poked through
the wreckage with cottonseed
forks. They were a silent crew,
advancing slowly behind hose
bearing firemen who cleared the
way like minesweepers. Those
embers still had to be cooled be
fore they could be searched.
Three charred bodies were
found in the first few minutes.
Each body was marked with
a stick. And besides each was
placed a small aluminum pan,
to collect jewerly and other ef-
ects that hadn t burned.
Students gathered around the
fringe of the ruins, borne were
just curious; others were attract
ed by the fascination of fear
that a friend or a roommate
might be found in the embers.
Searching wasn't easy. All
around were twisted remains of
the building bedsprings coiling
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By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Auocltttd Prtu Science Wrtun
New York, Dec. 5 W) The kind of shoes people wear may
be one cause of the increase in
Baltimore chiropodist.
He says the widespread Increase in cancer is not more than
80 years old, and that it coincides with the start of manufacture
of modern shoes.
Shoes, he says, render toes
puny and helpless. This in turn
atrophies a set of muscles con
nected with toe action down to
one-third or less their normal
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throwing the weight forward,
and this, he says, is unnatural.
Dr. Wikler says 80 percent of
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Feet twist outward. Thigh bones
do likewise. So the pelvis dips
downward a bit, chests tend to
flatten,, and lungs, hearts and
stomachs and abdominal organs
are pulled down a little.
In fact, he says, there is hard
ly a square inch of your body
grotesquely as if by some sur
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always seem to survive tragedies,
and plumbing pipes still too hot
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cancer, says Dr. S. J. Wikler,
that remains unaffected from
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The result is added stresses,
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