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Tuesday December 13 1S55
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNEFIVE
Car poor Shoots Hunter in Nebraska: Other Odd Accidents Listed for Year
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ChicagoSo evrythin$ hap
pens to you?
O Maybe you just thinfc it floes.
OFor instance:
Have you been shot by your
car door? By your do"? By a
fish?
Have you swallowed your
toothbrush? Has your dog driven
your automobile? Ditto your
two-year-old son or daughter?
Have you proudly named your
place lQw Drop Inn, only to
have it do just that into the
lake?
A1J, these odd little happenings
and many othere were uncover
ed by the National Safety Coun
Ocil in its annual roundup of
freak accidents. Here's the run
down on the dizzy doings in
1955:
Shot By Car Door
Gene Scott, Rushville, Neb.
had hoped his hunting trip would
turn up something special. It
did. He got shot by his car
defer. Gene was getting out of
the car when a gust of wind blew
the door shut on his coat pocket.
In the pocket was a rifle shell.
Bang! You can bet the next
hunt will find Gene astride
good old-fashioned doorless'
horse.
In New Liberty, la , 12-year-
old David Dahl placed his rifle
against a ladder in the barn and
started to climb to the loft. His
dog Terry jumped on the ladder
strOck the rifle trigger with his
paw, and shot his ascending
master just below the hayloft.
Some fish stories are greeted
by raised eyebrows. But when
Bobby Bright, Gonzales, Tex.,
reported that he had been shot
by a fish, no one could doubt
him. He had the fish, the gun
snd the wound to prove it. A
freshly caught catfish flopped
around in the bottom of Bobby's
boat, struck the trigger of his
rifle and shot him in the arm
Swallowed Toothbrush
And in Detroit Mrs. Dorothy
Gazzeny brushed her teeth so
vigorously she swallowed the
toothbrush. Fortunately, she had
another.
At least two dogs tried their
paw at dm'ing an automobile in
1955 a Doberman pinscher in
Fort Wayne, Ind., ind a boxer
in Black River Falls, Wis. Both
ended by crashing into some
thing. .They also ended up in
the dcghouseP
O Timothy Davis0 made head
lines in JLjong Beach, Calif., by
taking hKrandfather for a little
spin in the family car. The trip
,was newsworthy for three reas
sons. One was that the car tore
off the porch of a nearby house
and came so near running down
a neighbor that she fainted. The
second was that Timothy pro
pelled the car by sitting on the
accelerator. The third was that
Timmy was only two years old.
Timmy's mother had left him
in the car with his grandfather.
Timmy turned on the ignition,
sat on the gas pedal, and
swoosh!
Girl Does It Better
Now, if a two-year-old boy
can drive a car by sitting on the
accelerator, a two-year-old girl
can do it too and do it better.
So Margaret Ann Kilby, Indian
apolis, did it. Margaret Ann
wasn't content to crash into a
mere house. She rammed into
a fireplug, knocked out the
neighborhood water supply for
three hours, turned the street
into a sheet of ice, and, of course,
wrecked the car. Another woman
driver, eh, fellas?
The Dew Drop Inn at Port
Huron, Mich., lived up to its
name during a wild wind and
rain storm, and dropped into
Anchor Bay. One drink too
many!
Traffic experts say it's safe to
go on the green light. Try to
tell that to Motorist E. T. Drake ,
Jr., of Atlanta. As Drake duti
fully obeyed an overhead traf
fic light that flashed him a
green go-ahead signal, the light
fell on top of his car and sent
him to the hospital. Drake saw
red.
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NEW SUB A SUCCESS The radical hull design of the USS
Albacore, shown in test run off the Florida Keys with Navy
blimp overhead, has proven so successful that similar
designs will be used on a new atomic sub. The experimental
sub has a fish-shaped body, blimplike tail, a single five
bladed propeller, a small two-man bridge and airplane
type controls. This new design offers greater range under
water speed and improved maneuverability. (Department
of Defense photo)
A Nichol's Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Pre" "aatur "wWter
Washington (U.R) All you
have to do is look at ''Santa's
mail and you know that the
Herman Nichols
kids not only
have faith, but
they are read
ing the Christ
mas ads in the
newspapers.
Like a letter
I saw in the
dead letter of
fice in the post
office here. It
was from an
eight - year-old
girl named Juanita
She addressed her request to
Mr. S. Clause, North Pole,
World," and said:
"I would like a bride doll and
a man doll and some of those
'his and her's pajamas for my
dolls. I love you Mr. Claus and
also Mrs. Claus."
Reading Santa's mail is sneaky
business. But there you will find
the milk of human kindness an,d
just plain old "please send me."
One woman wrote a note,
which she knew would wind up
in the dead letter office, for her
two sons, Bill, 5Vz, and Jim 21.
They wanted the usual. But she
put a p.s. to the postmaster: "We
are sending you a lot of toys we
never play with. See that some
other kids can have some fun."
Ulysses Demands Answer
The post office is not in the
business of playing Santa, but
it was a nice thought, anyhow.
Thing to do, according to the
p.o. is to send usable toys to
children's hospitals or to the
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reliable charity.
A little boy named Ulysses
printed a little note addressed
to "Santa, wherever you are."
He said that he had all he
wanted, "except a carriage and
a two-for-the-money thing and
a nurse kit and a baby my daddy
can't afford to buy. Please an
swer right away."
Susan, age 7, wrote in that
she would like a "big doll and
a house for her to go into, and
some doll people and some other
people and my little brother
who can't write would like a
burp gun."
Some of the spelling from the
youngsters is funny, but under
standable. Mostly it's on the kin
dergarten level or up a notch or
two. One little miss named Betty
started her letter out: "Dear old
boy: How are you? I am find.
I want a recon player and a
double purposdoll bed with two
matreases And don't think I
don't love you."
Coonskin Hals Popular
The very young follow the
times. Davy Crockett and char
acters ' who populate the TV
screen get a call. Coonskin hats,
belts that hold 'cap pistols, boots
with heels even dolls that wear
boots.
The world of tomorrow comes
into the picture of wanted things
in Santa's mail sack. A "Johnny
J" said he wanted nothing else
for Christmas but a "comet" and
by golly, he wanted it to come
by airmail.
One tike named Billy put in
an order for a milk truck for
Christmas. This young man made
it clear in easy to read hand
print that he lived in Silver
Springs, Md., but wanted the
man with the fat belly and whis
kers to know that he would be
through the woods and over the
hills to granddaddy's - house in
Ohio come Christmas.
Another boy, name of Homer,
apparently had looked at some
"wish books." Every toy he
picked out had two brand names.
One was marked "v." "Bring
only the 'x' marks," he said,
"or you'll get the whole bunch
back collect. And I mean it."
This eight-year-old didn't sign
his name.
But Mr. Claus knows.
Subcontractors For
School Work Listed
Central Point Subcontractors
for 12 phases of work on two
new elementary schools here and
in Gold Hill have been announc
ed by Contractor Frank Fair
weather, Medford.
The schools are to be built
with funds from a bond issue
recently approved by voters of
School District 6C.
The subcontracts are to Mod
ern Plumbing and Sheet Metal
company; Graham and Ruhl
Electric company; Frank Runtz,
painting; Bill Werner, brick;
Tru-Mix Concrete company, con
crete ' and excavation; Dutch
Farfan, plastering; Moore Steel
Service company, reinforcing
steel; Ace Roofing company,
roofing; Rogue River Hardware
company, sheet metal; Padgham
Glass and Millwork company,
millwork and glass.
Out - of - town subcontractors
are Portland Wire and Iron
Works, structural steel, and Wil
lard Art Tile company, Salem,
tile work. - -
The sign over the door of a
used car salesroom in Los Ang
eles said, "We need your car
drive in!" Lewis Jackson Jr.,
did with his throttle stuck The
car crashed through a heavy
wooden door, sideswiped two
glistening cars on the showroom
floor, ran head-on into a costly
convertible, and bounced the
convertible into another car.
They took down the sign.
Need for Slogan Proven
Santon Sapp- and his brother
Daniel happened to run into,
each other on the street in their
home town, Mount Vernon, O.
That would have been perfectly
all right, of course, if each of
the brothers hadn't been driving
a car. Neither was injured in
the head-on crash, but it did
prove the need for the safety
slogan, "Be Your Brother's
Keeper Stop Accidents!"
And in Copenhagen Mrs. Else
Sorenson and Karen Kirk Las
sen couldn't resist the dance
music coming out of a radio in
the Old Folks Home, and decided
to try the mambo. They both
landed in the hospital with
broken legs. Both dancers were
80.
Every theatrical act strives
for a knockout finish. The ballet
"Streetcar Named Desire" liter
ally achieved it. As tiny baller
ina Nora Kaye whirled in the
middle of a pirouette during a
New York performance, her
elbow caught her husky partner
Igor Youskevitch smack in the
face, and he went down for the
count.
Ordinarily, a hung jury is one
that fails to agree. But the jury
that hung midway between the
first and second floors' of the
courthouse in Reading, Pa., in
a stalled elevator for almost an
hour agreed perfectly. It want
ed down!
Important (batch
To one family, at least, the
most important catch of the
year wasn't made on a baseball
diamond, but on the sidewalk
outside an apartment in Chicago.
Mrs. Isobel Gutierrez looked up
to see her three-year-old daugh
ter teetering on the edge of a
narrow window ledge 22 feet
above the ground. Mrs. Gutier
rez raced over and caught the
falling child. Total casualties
one small cut on the girl's leg
and cold chills for the mother.
Four-year-old Walter Adams
Jr., was showing his younger
brother some of the acrobatic
stunts he had seen on TV, when
he happened to glance out the
window of his fourth-floor apart
ment in New York City. He
noticed that several small girls
on the sidewalk 40 feet below
were observing his antics. Walter
decided to show them something
really good. He opened the wind
ow, put his hands together like
a high diver, and took off. The
girls pulled him out of a big
snowbank and carried him up,
crying, to his mother. Nothing
was hurt but his pride.
Sleps Too High .
In Milwaukee Animal Train
er Robert Bierwirth had been
painstakingly teaching two baby
elephants to step safely on and
off a small platform 18 inches
high. He blithely tried it him
self, slipped fractured his "left
ankle.
On the same day in June,
1955, two planes were brought
down in the United States
not by anti-aircraft fire, but by
a steer and a jackrabbit.
The steer was being chased
through a wheat field near Bre
men, Ind., by a low-flying plane
whose pilot, Bob Unsicker, dived
again and again at the animal
in an attempt to guide it toward
a gate. Suddenly it leaped up
and was hit by the plane's wheel.
The plane went out of control
and crashed into a treetop. The
pilot escaped with minor in
juries. " The jackrabbit scored its hit
near Grand Forks, N. D. It did
it by the simple act of leaping
high into the air directly in the
path of a crop-dusting plane
flown close to the ground by
Leo Mondry. A damaged pro
peller forced the plane to land.
In Hollywood, Calif., where
even toys must be colossal or
bigger, the Burns and Allen
television show was using a 20-
pound stuffed Tfeddy bear in a
department store scene. The
king-sized bear fell off the shelf,
bopped Gracie Allen on the head
and knocked her out cold.
Faithful Aulo
.Walter Bergman, Ashton, Id.,
was aware that his jalopy had
served Mm long and well. But
he didn't realize how faithful
it was until he parked it in front
of the postoffice and hurried in
to get his mail. Somehow the
car slipped into gear and follow
ed him in, right through the
postoffice window. Move over,
old dog Tracy!
And out in Los Angeles there's
a man who just can't stay out
of accidents. He's had several
traffic escapades that made news
for the papers. And this year
he fell through the floor of the
laboratory where he works and
landed nine feet below with a
bang that knocked him out. His
name? No kidding, folks, it's
Safety First!
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