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Porter Tells Views on Nuclear
Editor' note: Rep. Charles O. Porter
fI-Ore.) said at a news conference
Monday there was grave danger an
accidental atomic blast might touch
off World War III. In the following
article, written for the United Press,
Rep. Porter explains his views.
8y REP. CHARLES O. PORTER
Written for United Press
Washington W Many of my
friends in Oregon are deeply
concerned about the dangers of
nucler war. They believe, as I
3o, that such a war may mean
8nd of human life on this
$lnt. They know that the ten
igjpn in the world today are
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Relief To Ceylon
&bcgrd Carrier Princeton OP)
& y9. Navy task force raced
tittup tb Indian Ocean today
0,000 pounds of food and
m3icl Supplies for the 30,000
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in Cfyion.
Japan and other Asian nations
also were rushing supplies to the
hard pressed island republic.
The American naval task force
was dispatched by order of Presi
dent Eisenhower in response to
a plea for help from the. govern
ment of Ceylon. The task force
is expected to arrive off Colombo
Wednesday evening and com
mence relief operations at dawn
Jan. 1.
The destroyers Henderson and :
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Southerland are part of the
Navy and Marine air and surface
units which Vice Adm. W. M.
Beakley, commander of the U.S.
h fleet, designated as the Cey
lonese relief force.
fteports from Ceylon said the
C$th toll in the floods have
t&r$cl a"bove the 300 mark, that
830,000 are homeless and that
,000,000 other persons are af
fected to lesser degree. Damage
was estimated at at least 88 mil
lion dollars.
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Multnomah Kennel
Club Ails Stock Sale
Washington HP! Multno-
8tS Kennel club Monday ap-j
cfflit to the Securities and Ex
commission for permis
(Sion to sell common stock qpd
unsecured debentures to raise
mds to pay its short-term in
debtedness. The club, operators of the
greyhound racing track at Fair
view near Portland, seeks to
sell 400,000 shares of Sl-par
non-voting common stock and
$250,000 of 10 per cent unsecur
ed debentures for a total price
of $910,000.
A loan of $700,000 to MKC
is guaranteed by the Mile High
Kennel club of Denver which
holds a mortgage on the Port
land race track. The mortgage
has been extended to July 27.
ITEfcTHER BULLOONS SOAR
London (IP) Radio Moscow
said Sunday a weather balloon
unchelJ in Kazhakstan soared
$ height of 41 kilometers (25.4
iilor 134,112 feet). The broad
est (Spi! the balloon was one of
(1,0 the Russians are launch
ing) Storing the International
Geophysical Year. Most of them
reached heights of 10 to 12 miles
it said.
ELIBYAN GUSHER REPORTED
Tripoli, Libya W) The
Libyan Petroleum Commission
said today the Esso Co. of the
United States had struck oil
while drilling in the Sahara
Desert near the Algerian border.
The strike was in Fezzan Prov
ince, 500 miles south of Tripoli.
It was made at a depth of 2,100
feet and the petroleum layer
was 40 feet thick.
SLIPPERY BRISOtfR
New York (IF) John Ristau
proved to be a slippery prisoner.
He coated his body with ma
chine grease Monday, squeezed
through a tiny window of the
Riker's island workhouse, and
swam a mile in the frigid East
ri-er to reach shore. Police
were waiting for Ristau and
took him back to the workhouse
immediately.
United States and the Soviet
Union are much like those be
tween the United States' and
Spain at the end of the last cen
tury. Remember the Maine? There
was an explosion, the origin of
which was never really deter
mined, that precipitated war.
What will happen if a nuclear
weapon explodes today? Assum
ing that it was not a planned
test, how do you determine re
liably whether it represents the
beginning of an attack or not?
Age of 'Nuclear Plenty'
WANTS ONE
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FOR THE
Woman Sentenced
For Welfare Fraud
Portland ilPt Mrs. Maude
Brown, 36, who was found
guilty of defrauding the State
Welfare Commission, Monday
was sentenced to seven months
in the county jail. The indict
ment had accused her of getting
more than $2,000 in welfare
payients from July 1, 1955 to
AuS- 10. 19d6, while being em-
ployed during the time.
Highway Commission
To Continue Policy
Salem (IF) The State, High
way commission today decided
to continue its policy of bid
openings on highway projects as
being in the best public inter
est. Statp Hiehwav Engineer W.
c Williams said the . decision
...
was made after studying the
matter as requested by the As
sociated General contractors.
The contractors' group h a d :
advised the Commission that its
contract with the Allied Heavy
Construction and Highway Craft
union expires Dec. 31 and that
any substantial increase in la
bor costs would reflect in in
creased cost of contract high
way work.
The Commission will open up
bids for $4 million of highway
construction Jan. 16 and antici
pates more jobs in February.
Ice Main Hazard
On Oregon Highways
Salem (IP Ice was the main
hazard to highway travel today,
the State Highway department
reported, with slick spots re
ported in many parts of the
state.
Ice was reported at Wilson
river summit, Sunset summit,
Cascade Locks, Astoria, Salem,
Salmon river, Detroit, Siskiyou,
Green Springs, Prospect, The
Dalles, Bend, Sisters, Meacham,
La Grande, Ontario and Seneca.
Motorists were advised to car
ry chains for travel to Govern
ment Camp.
No new snow was reported
overnight.
Coldest spot in Oregon was
Chemult where the temperature
dropped to minus 6 degrees.
MOSCOW BUILDS SCHOOL
London OP) The Moscow
City Soviet announced today
that 39 schools rnd colleges and
60 kindergartens were built in
the Soviet capital during 1957,
Moscow Radio reported. In addi
tion, seven movie theaters, 125
new shops and 59 restaurants
were constructed, it was re
ported. STAGE. FILM STAR DIES
Baltimore, Md. (tPi Hilda
Vaughn, stage and film star,
died at a hospital here Saturday
on her 60th birthday. Miss j
Vaughn began her Broadway
career in "The Flood" in 1923
and last appeared in "The Rrver
Line" in New York last Jenuary.
She also had made more than
50 motion pictures.
Central Point Daffy-Dills
The Daffy-Dills held their
meeting at the home of the lead
er, Mrs. C. W. Anhorn on Free
man rd. Dec. 21. Members made
corsages out of holly. Elaine
Young and Patty McCue served
the refreshments.
The next meeting will be Jan.
18, 1958.
Judy Frink
Reporter
This is the age of "nuclear
plenty" for the United States
and the Soviet Union and per
haps Great Britain. We have
thousands of atomic and hydro
gen bombs, all in the custody of
error-prone human beings like
you and me.
Sure, we have elaborate pre
cautions against an accidental
detonation of a nuclear weapon.
I imagine they had some pre
cautions against the Maine blow
ing up. But it blew up and the
war started.
When Gen. Herbert B. Loper,
DOES HE LEAVE IT
REST OF THE FAMILY?
( OH YOU VE GOT ONE LIKE HIM
HOME,TOO, EH ? )
Defense Rapped by
Business Group
Washington OF) The Senate
Small Business Committee
charges the Defense Department
with "lethargy, inaction and pro
crastination" in its programs to
allot contracts to small business.
In a report on government pro
curement policies, the commit
tee said small business received
19.6 per cent of the money spent
by the Defense Department in
each of the past two fiscal years
compared with 21.5 per cent in
fiscal 1955.
The report also said small
business was getting a decreas
ing percentage of the contracts
it was capable of handling. The
committee said this percentage
shrank from 69.4 two years ago
to 60.5 in the fiscal year ending
last June 30.
The report blamed "an atti
tude of indifference" on the part
! of military procurement officials
for the failure of small business
to get a larger share of the de
fense dollar.
Fort Lawton Head
For Reserve Units
Washington (IP) Fort Law
ton will become " headquarters
for Army reserve units in five
Pacific Northwest states, Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.),
said Monday.
Jackson' said the Army had
informed him that eight reserve
districts in the Sixth Army
were being consolidated into
two corps, with Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Ut
ah in the X Corps, headquarter
ed at Fort Lawton in Seattle.
California, Nevada and Ari
zona will comprise XV Corps
with headquarters at the Pre
sidio in San Francisco,.
The new program is part of
a move to reorganize the 49
military district headquarters of
the Army Reserve into 14 corps
throughout the country for eco
nomic reasons.
LUXURY TAX HIKE
Paris IIP) The French gov
ernment will add another 2.5
per cent to the present 25 per
cent tax on a long list of house
hold appliances and luxury items
Jan. 1 in a further effort to cut
down consumer spending and im
ports. The government said it
would at the same time reduce
taxes on food items to slow down
the price spiral on food and
drink.
NORSTAD ARRIVES IN ITALY
Cannobbio, Italy API NATO
Commander-in-Chief Gen. Lauris
Norstad arrived here Monday
I night with his wife and daughter
to spend New Year's at the villa
of Belgium NATO representa
tive J. De Staerke. This is the
second straight year that Nor
stad has withdrawn into the ex
clusive seclusion of Villa Creda
on Lake Maggiore to greet the
New Year.
CioSlP!
January 2-3-4
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Blast Starting War
defense department secretary
for atomic energy, and I dis
cussed probability he used one
in a bililon as the chance of an
in a billion as the chance of ac
cidental explosion caused by in
advertance or mechanical f aiure.
He readily agreed that no such
comfortable margin existed for
explosions resulting from a cus
todian's mind cracking, his sell
ing out or getting drunk. He ac
cepted as true that an unauthor
ized explosion was probable and
told me that the department's
plans were being made on that
premise.
Blast Inevitable
The common sense conclusion
is that an unauthorized nuclear
explosion is not only probable,
but inevitable. Some custodian's
mind will crack under his re
sponsibilities or for other rea
sons, or he will get drunk, or
sell out, or perhaps act for pur
poses he believes idealistic.
Then what happens? Of course
it is tragic for those in the vicin
ity, but that may be the price of
deterrence and I do not propose
Schools Add Up
Grants, Gifts
Eugene 0P Oregon's nine
state-supported institutions of
higher education counted almost
$3 million in gifts and grants
during the past six months, ex
ceeding the previous record for
an entire year. .
Gifts and grants totalling $2,
924,651 were received for the
six month period ending today,
S100.000 more than was received
for the entire 1956-57 fiscal year.
The bulk of the money went for
research with $175,000 for schol
arships and fellowships.
Chancellor John R. Richards
predicted that the increased tem
po of donations to state schools
would reach $16 to $20 million
during the 1957-59 biennium.
Oregon State College received
the highest amount in gifts and
grants the past six months with
a total of $1,288,495. The Uni
versity of Oregon Medical
School received $1,063,396 and
the University of Oregon $497,
278. Other institutions received:
University of Oregon Dental
School, $36,122; Oregon College
of Education $7123; Eastern Ore
gon College, $5051; Southern
Oregon College, $9750; Portland
State College, $15,200; ' and the
General Extension Division,
$1'234.
Curry County Court
Decision Reversed
.Salem OP) The State Su
preme Court today reversed a
Curry county Circuit Court de
condemnation action and order
ed a new trial.
The judgment had been grant
ed to Kate M. Bailey, Mary El
eanor and Leslie Zumwalt, and
Alice A. and Bernard Mather.
On an appeal by the Highway
Commission the high court said
that while the defendants were
entitled to receive the fair cash
market value of the land actual
ly taken for highway use, the
Commission could reduce pay
ment of damages by showing
that special benefits would re
sult' to the defendants from high
way improvement.
Escapees From Chehalis
Training School Caught
Chehalis, Wash. (IP) All
eight youths who escaped from
the state training school for
boys, Greenhill Academy, Sun
day night have been recaptured,
officials said today.
RELIGIOUS EDITOR DIEF
New York (IPI Louis Minsky,
48, managing editor of the Reli
gious News Service, died at his
home Monday of a heart attack.
Minsky organized the interfaith
news agency in 1933 and won
the sponsorship of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews. He was a well-known .ra
dio speaker and writer for
periodicals.
BOURBON MAYOR DIES
New Orleans OP) Gaspar Gu
lotta, 67, unofficial mayor of
Bourbon st., died in his sleep
early Monday. Gulotta, a native
of Sicily, started as a Bourbon
st. bartender and later managed
several cabarets of his own. The
rotund little man had been a
tourist attraction in the French
Quarter for 40 years.
London HP) The Soviet Un
ion will spend about one million
rubles ($250,000) a day on its
new scientific center in Siberia
"when its construction gets into
stride in 1958" Radio Moscow
said Sunday. The broadcast said
the research center will cover
1,250 hectares, Work already is
underway on the project.
CYCLE AND
HOBBY SHOP
Phone SP 2-2472
giving up our strength to save
lives in this respect. Guns fre
quently kill their users but we
don't give up their employment.
We do make it clear that this
danger exists and this is what
we have not done for our nu
clear weapons.
A nuclear explosion is hard
to investigate. You can't probe
into twisted wreckage and re
construct circumstances by in
ference. You have a hole many
miles in diameter and all the
possible witnesses are very
dead.
Washington (IP) The De
fense department today scoffed
at a congressman's statement
that it is "more likely than not"
an atomic bomb will explode by
accident.
Herbert B. Loper, retired ma
jor general who is special assist
ant for atomic energy to De
fense Secretary Neil H. McEl
roy, agreed he told Rep. Charles
O. Porter (D.-Ore.) such an acci
dental blast was "a mathemati
cal probability."
However Loper told newsmen
he went on to estimate to Por
ter that . this probability was
about one in three billion.
- "Which means the likelihood
of such an accidental nuclear ex
plosion is practically non-existent,"
Loper added.
These were almost the same
words used by former Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson
last Feb. 20 when he announced
U.S. air defenses would use nu
clear weapons.
Wilson said tests , by the
Atomic Energy commission had
established that chances of a nu
clear explosion were "virtually
non-existent."
Thornton Rules on
TB Admissions
Salem OP) Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton today told
the State Board of Control it
had no authority to certify that
adopted Korean children suffer
ing from tuberculosis would be
treated in state institutions.
Requests for this certification
had been received from Harry
Holt, the Creswell farmer who
has been airlifting Korean waifs,
and from numerous parents who
have adopted Korean children.
"It is a statutory requirement
that a person is not eligible for
admission to a state tuberculosis
hospital unless he is an Oregon
citizen and has been a resident
of the state for one year imme
diately preceding his admission,"
Thornton told the board.
Thornton said he was render
ing the opinion "reluctantly"
but that the statutory require
ment of residence in Oregon
could not be waived.
Chicken Producers
Commission Planned
Portland (IP) Plans for offi
cial organization of an Oregon
fryer and broiler chicken pro
ducers commission will be dis
cussed at meetings in Oregon
City and Albany soon.
Portland area producers will
meet in Oregon City, junior high
school Thursday night and mid
Willamette valley producers will
meet next Monday night at the
Linn county agent's office in
Albany.
Principal item to be consid
ered will be a list of growers
for consideration as members of
the - new commission. Present
plans call for two growers each
from the Portland, Salem and
Eugene areas to form the com
mission, which was recently ap
proved by producers.
'FAMILY DOCTOR DIES
Berkeley, Calif. IPI Dr. Wil
liam Donald, 68, "family doctor"
to thousands of University of
California students for 25 years,
died Monday at his home. A
graduate of UC Medical school
in 1911, he had been director
of student health since 1923.
EVASION PLOT
Nagai, Japan (IP) The last
day of the year is the day all
Japanese customarily pay their
debts. Three movie theaters here
have scheduled 10-hour, seven
feature programs to enable their
patrons, to give bill collectors
the slip.
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Stock' Market Ends
Year on Bullish Note
New York (IPI The year in
stocks ended on a bullish note
LIVESTOCK ,
Portland (UP) Cattle 200. Choice
1113 lb. fed steers 26; choice 1016 and
1065 lb. steers 25.75; good-choice 926
lb. 25.25; canner-cutter cows 12.50
14.50; Holstein cutters to 15.25; utility
cows 15.50-17; utility bulls 18-19.50.
Calves 50. Good-choice vealers 24
30; cull down to 12.
Hogs 50. Not enough early to test
prices.
. Sheep 50. Not enough early to
test prices.
The market will be closed New
Year's Day.
produce"
Portland (UP) Eggs To retailers:
Grade AA large, 57-59c doz.; A large,
54-56c: AA medium, 50-52c; A medi
um, 50-51c; carton, l-3c additional.
Butter To retailers: AA and A
grade prints, 68-69c lb.; carton, lc
a pound higher; B prints, 65-66c.
Cheese Medium cured To retail
ers: A grade cheddar, single daisies,
45!2-o2c; 5-lb. loaves, 51 li-57c; proc
essed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf,
41'i-42c. ...
Farm Market
Most wholesalers . offered heavy
crates of small to medium Willamette
valley cabbage at 3-3.50 a crate while
California packs sold at 4.50-4.75 where
available.
Poultry, Rabbits
Live Chickens Quoted to growers
at ranch. No. 1 quality fryers 23414
lbs., 19c lb.; light hens, 10-llc lb.,
ranch; heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 15-16c
lb.: old roosters, 7-8c.
Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade
dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole
drawn, 34-37C lb., cut up, 41-43c; hens,
light type, cut up, 34-36c; heavy type,
whole drawn, 36-41C.
Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b.
killing plants): Live white, 3-5 lbs.,
f.o.b. dressing plants, Portland, 22-25C
lb., colored pelts, 4c under. Fresh
killed fryers to retailers, 59-64c lb.;
cut up, 62-65c lb.
Portland Hay.. Grain
Portland Wholesale Hay Prices:
New crop. No. .2 green alfalfa baled
f.o.b. Portland, $24-25 a ton;- some
sales to S26.
Wholesale Prices as reported by
the USDA market news service: Wheat
No. 2 soft white S77 a ton; No. 2
white oats 38-lb. West Coast delivery,
S49.50 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats,
$48 a ton; soybean meal, S76 ton,
f.o.b. Portland; barley No. 2, West
Coast delivery, $47 ton; standard mill
run, prompt delivery $35.50-36 ton
f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 yellow corn,
Eastern shipment f.o.b. Portland $54
54.50. DAILY WEATHER
FORECASTS
Medford and vicinity: Variable high
clouds tonight and Wednesday, thick
ening and lowering Wednesday after
noon. Rain likely Wednesday night.
Low tonight 30 degrees; high tomor
row 45 degrees.
Western Oregon: Fair tonight except
for patches of valley fog. Increasing
cloudiness Wednesday with occasional
rain by evening. Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight 26-36 degrees;
high Wednesday. 40-50 degrees.
Northern California: Variable cloudi
ness tonight and Wednesday. Little
change in temperature.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature: Mean yesterday 39;
below normal 2. '
Record high this date 62 in 1939.
Record low this date 12 in 1913.
Precipitation: 24 hours to midnight
0 in. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0 in.
Total this month 4.22 in., 1.18 in.
above normal.
Total s,ince Sept. 1 8.64 in., .37 in.
above normal.
Humidity. Lowest yesterday 57,
highest this a.m. 93.
High 4:00 24-
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day Low Prec.
Brookings 55 38
Crater Lake 35 8
Grants Pass 49 25 ,
Klamath Falls 33 15
MEDFORD 47 36
Portland 43 33
Seattle 42 18
Spokane 29 18
Yakima 44 38
Eureka 50 31
Red Bluff 59 38
Sacramento 53 44
San Francisco ... 56 44
Los Angeles 73 58
Phoenix 69 41
Denver 40 10
Chicago 42 33 .05
Miami 76 . 70 .07
New York 41 36
Washington, DC. 48 30
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today with volume approaching
the five million share mark for
the first time since Oct. 22, the
day the market made its 1957
lows.
. Today's gains ranged to more
than three points at best in mis
cellaneous issues. The steels rul
ed strong and active. Motors ral
lied. Chemicals, metals, oils,
aircrafts, tires, and building is
sues were prominent among the
gainers.
Buying came from investors
with dividend and interest funds
on hand. Some pension funds
were in the market also. The
offerings came from those taking
last minute tax losses.
Bonneville Delivers
Grand Coulee Power
Portland (IP) Bonneville
Power administration today an
nounced it would continue
through Jan. 8 deliveries of 80,
000 to 100,000 kilowatts of re
placeable power from Grand
Coulee reservoir to, five indust
rial interruptible customers.
Initial deliveries under the
plan started Christmas day.
Power supplied by drawdown
of Grand Coulee reservoir is
replaceable on demand if need
ed to meet firm or secondary
loads. BPA is wheeling about
80,000 kilowatts of power from
steam plants and sources out
side the federal government to
the industries. . . -
Cooler and dryer air follow
ing the series of storm fronts is
again bringing a gradual down
ward trend in upper Columbia
river flows and calls for a week-
by-week appraisal of resources
available for interruptible loads,
BPA said. 4
ITALY TO BUY JETLINERS
Rome OP) Italy plans to buy
between 16 and 20 jet passen
ger transports from American
firms for its nationalized air
lines. Sen. Giuseppe Caron, un
dersecretary of state for civil
aviation, told a group of visiting
newsmen Monday the choice lies
between Douglas DC-8 and Boe
ing 707 jets and that a decision
probably will be reached by the
end of January.
BOARD CHAIRMAN DIES
East Millstone, N.J. (If)
Thomas H. Mettler, 71, chairman
of the board of the Interwoven
Stocking Co., died Monday at his
ancestral farm near here. Met
tler joined Interwoven, which
was founded by a brother, in
1917. He .was also an outstand
ing poultry breeder.
SHIPYARD DIRECTOR DIES
Ramsey, N. J. (ID James A
Mcuonaia, Bz, nonorary vice
president and former director of
the Todd Shipyards Corp., died
at his estate here Monday. He
retired in 1950.
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Cold Weather To
Add To Driving
Hazard in Oregon
Salem OP) Clear, cold wea
ther is expected to add another
hazard to New Year's eve traf
fic in many parts of Oregon, the
Motor Vehicle Department warn
ed today.
Weathermen say frost prob
ably will start forming in some
areas as early as 7 p.m. and that
fog also will be present in some
low spots.
The department said these con
ditions could result in a rash of
crashes.
Road Blocks Planned
Enforcement is expected to be
at a high level in cities through
out the state and road blocks
will be operated in Portland to
remove drivers who have been
drinking. The Oregon State Po
lice will continue to follow the
practice of issuing no warnings
for speed violations during th
holiday, according to superinten
dent H. G. Maison.
Maison said the State Police
will operate at full patrol
strength during the holiday in
an attempt to keep the accident
and death toll at a minimum.
If drivers will 'take it easy"
tonight, safety officials said, Ore
gon can end the year with a traf
fic death toll below 470.
Russia Working
On 'Graviplane'
London (IB The Soviet news
agency Tass reported today that
Russia is working on a plane
"not subject to the laws of grav
ity" for trips "into the uni
verse." The existence of plans for
what Tass calleda "Graviplane"
was disclosed in a published in
terview with a Soviet space ex
pert Prof. Cyril Stanyukovich.
Stanyukovich told an inter
viewer that "the problem of
gravitation will be clarified to
some extent in the forthcoming
year."
The Soviet government organ
Izvestia reported at the same
time that Russian astronomers
are "calculating the best trajec
tories for flights to the moon
and other planets."
The newspaper said also that
Soviet scientists are developing
a new design for a reflector tele
scope to probe the heavens. It
said "this will be superior to the
American reflector that is now
considered the biggest in the
world.'"' .
Argentine Plane
Crashes in Harbor
Buenos Aires (IP) An Ar
gentine State Airways seaplane
with 57 persons aboard crashed
in Buenos Aires Harbor shortly
after take-off today.
First reports said there were
some injuries, although all
aboard were rescued by Coast
Guard launches and helicopters.
The accident occurred when
the seaplane lost one of its pon
toons shortly after taking off
for Asucion, Paraguay, and the
pilot decided to turn back and
risk a crash landing.
The airplane sank shortly af
ter hitting the water.
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