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PERILOUS MIXTURE Explosion that rattled1 this Btnd base-
ment occurred when gas was used at cleanin j substance in
electric washer. Incident clearly illustrates dangers involved
I Bend firemen
from misuse o
By Gerald Drapeau
Bulletin Staff Wrlttr
Several years ago, In the
tasement of an eastside dwell
ing, a woman filled her electric
washer with gasoline and dump
ed a joad of clothes in.
She flicked the switch on, and
. chatted with her daughter while
the clothes swirled around. In a
few minutes the rank gas fumes
prompted the couple to step out
side. At the basement doorway
the woman stopped and asked
her daughter:
"You don't suppose it might
. blow up?"
Just then the washer blew up
s with a prodigious bang.
Quick work by firemen saved
the house from destruction, and
ilie doorway luckily shielded the
couple from catastrophic harm.
But the consequences might
have been drastically different.
This example is an extreme
. one among the misuses of gaso
1 line recorded in the Bend Fire
.- Department log. But some of
?! the other incidents have proved
more disastrous.
Intended at Fuel
: Says Vera Carlon, Bend Fire
Department chief:
"Gasoline is intended as fuel
for internal combustion en
gines and that's all the com
panies sell it for. It's not for
cleaning paint brushes or cloth
es, or starting fires, or any
thing else. There are a lot less
,' volatile substances on the mar
ket to use for these things."
Tragedy often occurs when
; gas fumes and fire mingle. Not
too many years ago a Bend
. : man crawled beneath his car to
; drain the fuel tank. The drop-
light he was using to see with
had no wire guard. While shuf
fling around he kicked the bulb,
' or struck it against something,
; . and the pavement about him
? suddenly became a raging top
rent of flame. A few days later
he died of painful third-degree
bums.
In this particular episode a
wire guard around the bulb
i would have spelled the differ-
ence. dixi even a tew uiups ut
cold water can break a burning
bulb.
Can Create Havoc
Carrying gas in glass jugs
sometimes creates havoc, too.
It happened in the office of a
westside service station where
a customer was purchasing a
gallon of gas. In reaching for
his billfold he knocked his jug
against the counter and broke
It. Fumes quickly crept across
the room to an oil stove, which
promptly exploded. Fortunately
the occupants had enough fore
warning to remove themselves
from the premises in lime, but
there wasn't much left of the
station.; It never re-opened for
business.
Widener weds
stewardess
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI1
Millionaire sportsman Peter
A.B. Widener III married a
pretty airline stewardess
Wednesday night in a private
ceremony kept secret until the
last minute.
Widener. 39, widowed by a
private plane crash more than
13 monuis ago, ana r ranees
Miriam (Mlml) Crenshaw, 22,
wera married in the First Bap
tist Church at Palm Beach
Gardens.
Widener Is heir to the $100
million estate of the Widener
family which won fame for its
thoroughbred race horses and
for whom the flOO.000 Widener
Handicap at Hlalfah Park
track Is named.
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nofe dangers
f gasoline
"Something else to remember
about a glass jug," cautions
Carlon, "is that it makes an
ideal magnifying glass if the
sun strikes it just so. With gas
inside you're just inviting dan
ger." Fumes Ignite
The most recent episode In
volving gas and fire occurred a
couple of weeks ago in a Bend
driveway. A resident was drain
ing the fuel tank of his auto, us
ing a gasoline lantern for light
ing. He had set the lantern on
the pavement a good 20 feet
away, but the gas fumes even
tually reached it anyway. The
result was a nasti tire wrucn
ignited some debris and class
blades but. luckily, not the man.
The lantern's position close
to tne eartn made it an easy
target.
"Understand this about gas,"
the chief warns. Its fumta are
heavier than air and therefore
always seek the lowest level.
Fire or electricity near the
ground are most susceptible to
gas. - v
"But the best thing," he adds,
"is to keep these elements
miles apart.
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when gasoline is misused. Bend Fire Department has extensive
records of accidents caused by mingling of ges fumes with
electricity or fire. (Old Bend Fire Department photo).
Firm proposals for inter-tie
asked by Interior Department
WASHINGTON (UPD- Firm
proposals for nonfederal con
struction of nign-voitage trans
mission lines to connect the Pa
cific Northwest and the Pacific
Southwest have been asked by
April 17, the Interior Depart
ment reported Wednesday.
Assistant Interior Secretary
Kenneth Holum said the pro
posals would be measured
against a "yardstick" consisting
of a federal plan for construc
tion of the interconnection.
Criteria to be met have been
furnished to 11 utilities and
other agencies interested i n
building part or ail of the inter
tie, Holum said.
The plan, as prepared by the
Interior Department, calls for
two high-voltage interties be
tween the Pacific Northwest,
Northern California and the
Colorado River systems.
"Wa are asking the utilities
and companies to demonstrate
that they can build these lines
and move the power better than
the federal government, and at
comparable costs," Holum said.
Under the federal yardstick
plan, Holum said, one 750,000-
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VISITS PARLIAMENT
LONDON (UPD - Sir Win
ston Churchill, who will be 90
in November, Wednesday visit
ed his "favorite club," the
House of Commons, where he
took his usual seat.
He has been showing tin reg
ularly at Parliament since he
announced last year that this
session would be his last. Gen
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