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SIXTTEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. August 2. I95S Last Survivor of Union Of Civil War Dies in Mi Duluth, Minn. (U.R; Albert Woolson, 109-year-old lone sur vivor of the Grand Army of the Republic, died today at St. Luke's hospital here. Death came ' at 7:45 a.m. CFST). He never -egained con sciousness after lapsing into a coma early Saturday morning. The former drummer boy. the last soldier of "Abe Lincoln's Army" in the Civil War, had ALBERT WOOLSON Death Comes at Age 109 "strong determination" to live and rallied several times before his heart quit. At his bedside were three of his six daughters, Mrs. John Kobus, with whom he lived, and Mrs. Arthur Johnson and Mrs. Robert Campbell, all of Duluth. Woolson, hospitalized since last Memorial Day, had been in an oxygen tent for several days and was given nasal oxygen and intravenous injections after his relapse Saturday. He had been hospitalized six times during the past two years for treatment of lung congestion. Doctors had to remove fluid from his lungs be cause his aging heart could riot pump the fluid out. Burial will be at Parkhill cemetery. The time and place for funeral services were not announced. Despite his hospitalization, Woolson's spirits remained chiooer. On his 109th birthday last Feb. 11. Woolson puffed on a few cigars which he enjoyed daily and spent a quiet day read ing some of the hundreds of birthday cards and greetings he received. With Woolson's death, the Un ion Army passed into history. Threo Confederate Alive Only three Confederate sol diers remained. Walter Wil Hams. 113, of Texas, William Lindy, ,103, of Florida, and John Sailing;- 1 10, of Virginia. After the Civil War, the sur viving Union soldiers formed the Grand Army of the Republic and held annual encampments to talk about old times. At the last GAR encampment in 1949, Woolson was named national senior vice commander. Then he became the GAR's senior offi cer when the commander died and in recent years was the only survivor. Woolson's father lost leg Reports on Weather Studied for Cause Of Airplane Disaster Washington (U.R) A blue ribbon investigating panel turn ed to weather reports today for clues of the double plane crash SPELLING TRAPS SUSPECT Bloomington. 111. (U.R! Poor spelling trapped an accused cat tie rustler Wednesday. Edmund Smith, 26, of Arrowsmith, 111., told to write the names of early American presidents, mispelled the first one, Washington as Watington. Smith admitted steal ing three Angus cattle from his employers when informed the same misspelling was found on a sales ticket used to sell the cattle. Court Records rOLICK COURT George Dewey Oliver, failure to too at too sign. S3. Gale Elaine Wheeler, violation ot basic rule. $10. Terry Lee Daniel, excessive noue and no registration. S20. Earnest Clayton Taylor, violation of basic rule. S10. Anthony Brenton Mikschi, violation of basic rule. lu- Robert Bruce TurnbuU. illegal left turn. SS. Berme George Helms, violation of hair rule Sin. Elvin Dean Cackine, failure to atop at red ugnt. S3. Jack Wayne Thornton, excessive aii ain Haskell Lee Stewart, excessive nniu tin Dale Alder Forncrook, violation of basic rule. siu. James Robert Schulz, violation of basic rule, 515. Douglaa Dale Paul, violation of basic ml sin Hubert William Hewitt, violation of haste rule. SIS. Herbert Raymond Phillips, violation of basic rule. sio. Charles Menel, no operators license. S3. William Donald McLeod, no opera tor's license. S5. Richard David Hayes, excessive noise. S10. Gary Lee Simmonds, excessive noise. $10. Harrv Downey, failure to stop at stop light. S3. Esther Carvena Etston, failure to stop at stoo light. S3. Lester Lee Lewis, failure to stop at stop sign. S3. Sonnev Preece. violation of basic rule. S13. William Nicholas Kime, violation of basic rule. S10. Mildred Bermce Bloesser, violation of basic rule. S15. DISTRICT COURT Fern Winnifred Crippen. no opera tor's license. $10. bail forfeited. James Curtis Donahue, no oversize permit. S7.50. Tom E. McCarvel. overwidth. $13. Sidnev George Buddcn. inadequate muffler. S13. James Franklin Conless. failure to displav license on trailer. $1(1. Peter Thomas R o w e, improper changing lanes. S7.50. CIRCl'IT COl'RT Irene L. Wheeler vs. ugene D. Wheeler, divorce complaint. in the Grand Canyon last June 30. The Civil Aeronautics Board called weather experts and pilots who flew over the canyon on the day of the crash for testi mony at its second day of hear ings on the disaster that took 128 lives. The double crash of a Trais World Airlines Constellation and a United Airlines DC7 was the worst commercial aviation accident in history. Couple Describes Sight A young, tourist couple who claimed they saw the planes col lide testified Wednesday that there were strong winds and heavy clouds in the general area on June 30. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene T. Sie fer, Ottawa, Ohio, told the six- man Investigating panel theyl saw two planes fly out of the clouds and come together" at : about 11:30 a.m. (MST). The Siefers and their three chil dren, aged one, two and a half and four and a half, were driv ing in their station wagon about 15 miles east of Flagstaff, Ariz., at the time. Both Siefer, 24, and his wife. 25, said the planes approached each other at a 30 degree angle with one slightly higher than the other. Siefer, a mechanical maintenance worker, said the planes hit and "locked togeth-1 er," then followed the same i course "as one" until they j dropped out of sight behind a j mountain. - Their testimony was the first indication of any eyewitnesses i to the accident. Leon D. Cuddeback, CAB safety investigator from Oak land, Calif., testified that a nine- man committee scoured the area near the canyon itself for wit nesses to the crash but found none. However, he said an unidenti fied visitor to a Grand Canyon forest ranger station reported seeing an "explosive fire" in the crash area shortly before noon on June 30. Cuddeback said a Navaho Indian girl, Yaz- zie Grayeyes, saw two separate columns of dark smoke rising from the canyon at approxi mately the same time. Army nnesota while fighting as a Union Army soldier at Shiloh. Young Wool son took his place by enlisting in Company C of the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery on Oct. 4, 1864, when he was 18 years old. Under the leadership of Col. William Colville, Wool son's union left for Tennessee where he served as a drummer boy in various garrisons. Woolson was mustered out Sept. 27, 1865, and returned to Minnesota. Two weeks later his father died of complications from his Civil War injuries. 450 Riddle Smelter Workers on Strike Roseburg (U.R) About 450 employees of the Hanna Nickel Smelting company at Riddle went on strike at midnight Tues day. The employees are members of local 5074 of the United Steel workers of America. Yesterday only the technical and supervisory staffs reported for work at the plant. A picket line at the only en trance to the Hanna plant was observed by 50 other men, min ing nickel ore for a subsidiary company. The workers went on strike when the contract between Han na Nickel and the union expired at midnight Tuesday, and nego tiators failed to settle on a new contract. Showers Drench Much of Nation; Mercury Drops Br UNITED PRESS Extensive showers and thun derstorms drenched much of the nation Wednesday night and early today, with up to two in ches of rain falling on parts of the Midwest. Cooler air also accompanied the storms in the Northwest, dropping temperatures about six degrees below the previous 24 hours. The cooler air covered an area from central California to western Montana, and was to move slightly eastward today. Lashed by Thunderstorms Thunderstorms lashed at sec tions of western Montana west ward to the coast, from western Texas to eastern Arizona north ward to the Dakotas and south ern Minnesota and then east ward through the Ohio Valley to noruiern Virginia. Some show ers also were reported on the Gulf Coast. Precipitation was usually be low one inch, but many cities reported rainfall over an inch. Lamoni, Iowa, reported two in ches; Kirksville, Mo.; 1.25 in ches, and Louisville. Ky., 1.05. Authorities at Council' Bluffs, Iowa, began searching Wednes day for two small boys believed drowned in a rain-swollen stream bv a "wall of water" nftpr a resi dent said she saw the unidenti fied youths carried downstream by the raging waters. 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