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TOUNG MOTH I R Hilda Trujillo, 8, of Lima, Peru, not
much more than a fcaby herself, is the mother of the in
fant she holdt. Hi baby, Maria Rosario, was born a
month prematurely December 2 at Lima Maternity Hos
jtitL Polift x balding a 22-year-old cousin of Hilda's
m thi father.
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STAGE MISHAP HURTS 10 ?
Churchland, Va. OP) Ten of
35 girls rehearsing a play on the
stage of a Churchland high J
scnool auditorium Monday re
ceived minor injuries when a de
fective bank of lights collapsed.
Ex-Disk Jockey Braves Ocean in Tiny
Putt-Putt To Prove It Can Be Done
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
Xew York in The age of
high adventure on the seas may
be gone with the windjammers,
and Mel West says he doesn't
give a hoot whether it is or isn't
he is no adventurer; he's just
trying to prove something.
What, then, is he doing out
there in the stormy North Atlan
tic in a 15-foot open boat with an
outboard motor? Does he ply the
raging main in a puny putt-putt
job just as the climber said of
Mt. Everest because it's there?
And if he's got to choose a boat
for open ocean-going, why does
n't he slip into something safe
and seaworthy?
That's just it, says West, the
thing is seaworthy "it can be
maneuvered safely in any body
of water, even in the ocean, pro
vided there is the proper care,
planning, and common sense."
That's what he's trying to prove.
It takes a heap of proving.
To Bermuda by Putt-Putt
Last October, he proposed to
take a 15-foot open runabout
a plywood job with a 30-horse
outboard motor, the type, of
thing used for rivers and lakes
and not for ocean going on a
613-mile jaunt from North Caro
lina to Bermuda. The proposal
left a few mouths agape in More
head City, N. C, his home town.
The mouths belonged to . the
Coast Guard and numerous old
Salts who had spent a lifetime at
sea.
"Nobody gave me a chance,"
says West. But he had put in 10
months of planning weather,
load ration with power, weight,
and fuel consumption. He start
ed out one morning on what was
supposed to be a three-day run
to Bermuda. Eleven days later
when a Coast Guard plane sight
ed him, he was 160 miles from
destination, out of gas.
He had run into stormy weath
er, high wind and waves that cut
his speed to three knots. At
times, in the wave troughs, he
was looking up at crests 20 to
22 feet above him. He did a lot
of bailing was swamped four
times but had enough tank ca
pacity to enable him to bail fast
enough to survive.
Out of Gas, But ...
On the sixth night, a five-gallon
auxiliary gasoline can broke
mooring and pounded against
his main fuel tank feed line,
breaking it. He bailed half a
tank of gasoline from the bilge
and ran the rest of the night
from auxiliary cans. Next morn-
ing. he was out of gas.
"If that had been moored
properly, I'd have been in Ber
muda," he says. "What I'm try
ing to prove is that it is not un
safe if you take the proper care
and pre-planning." .
And so, he says he's going
back out, on an endurance test.
This time in a 17-foot open run
about, unassisted in mid-winter
"just lose myself, with proper
food and equipment, for at least
10 days and as long thereafter
as I can stand it. They can't stop
me. I'm a licensed pilot."
West, a slight, crew-cut man
of 28, married, with three chil
dren, has been "on the ocean all
my life." A former radio disk
jockey, he expects eventually to
take over his father's fishing pier
at home. This small-boat ven
ture, he says, is unsponsored
"just my own money."
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Market Decline in
Early '58 Followed
By Recovery Expected
fry ELMER C. WALZEK
tjileej press fiaascial Editor
Tiew York W Standard &
.-oorvi hat just insued its 1958
rsirket outlook with about the
B m predic-
q . I -r1 tionithat
neve wen pre
valent -recently
decline
in the early
part of 1958
followed by a
recovery
in the stock
market and in
Elmer Wtuei business.
Standard sees a good year for
O industry overall with actual dol
lar volume higher on the year.
And this statistical agency
sees "no real depression."
The service sees r rise late in
the year in federal spending for
missiles, and higher spending by
state and local governments.
Investments To Decline
Corporate investment, the
company says, will decline by
around 5 per cent, same as it did
in 1954. Personal income, it
holi will rise a little but there
"will be no tax cut."
O Here is what Standard has to
say about the prircipal indus
tries: Automobile: Passenger car
output will approach the 6,197,
000 units and truck output the
1,000,000 units of J957.-
Bituminous Coal: A decline in
the first half with full year out
put under 1957.
Building: A new high foreseen
with housing picking up and
gains in utility, school, and high
way building.
Chemical: Sales expected to
rise by 5 per cent but profits
may show little change because
of higher costs.
Electric Power: Further mod
erate improvement with margins
increasing because of recent rate
increases.
Small Sales Recovery
Electrical Appliances: A small
sales recovery aided by in
creased home starts.
Petroleum: Year to year gain
may be field to around z per
cent.
Railroad Equipment: Orders
in a decline with a dip seen In
1958.
Railroads: Sag in vital areas
suggests poor year-to-year traf
fic comparisons. Class One rail
net should decline some 15 to 20
per cent.
Retail Sales: Expected to ease
somewhat in first half with a
rise later.
Shipping and Shipbuilding:
Mixed prospects. Record back
logs expected to help shipbuild
ers. Steel: Dividends of leaders ex
pected to be maintained.
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