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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1959)
Cries of Victims Haunt Sole Survivor Of Airplane Crash WUliamsport, Pa. - (LTD -Louis Matarazzo had looked at his 21 fellow passengers with the usual mild curiosity when the plane took off from Philadelphia. Most of them were business men like himself. A couple of women passengers also were aboard the twin-engined I '''' W Qf 1 fr, -i SfeJp A-XI -111 r li v. - Mi MM wh W J fen- , - .: . . Allegheny Airlines plane that was flying to points in Penn sylvania and Ohio. Matarazzo is the only one alive today. He lives in Divine Providence Hospital, the ban dage over his injured eye un able to shut out the sight of the flaming crash against a mountainside. The cries of the trapped and injured, and the dying, haunt the quiet hospital room. Why just me, is his thought. Why was I so lucky? Plane Cracks Open He remembers the plane swinging away from the WU liamsport - Montoursville Air port after an improper instru ment approach. It rammed into a 2,500 -foot mountain killing the 25 others aboard. "There was a crash . . . the plane burst and exploded," Matarazzo said. It was only an act of God, Matarazzo believes, that caus ed the plane to crack open by his side and allow him to stagger out on a wing. He walked along the wing through the flames and drop ped to the ground. "I could hear the other pas sengers screaming, but it was too hot to reach them," he said. Stumbles Down Mounlain He stumbled down the snow-covered, rugged moun tainside, s 1 ip p e d exhausted against a tree and began say ing his prayers. Rescuers found him there. Two other passengers also were alive, but died on the way to the hospital in the long trip by stretcher out of the rugged woods. "Thank God,' you're here," Kingsley Field Is Now Combat Ready Klamath Falls -The 408th Fighter Group, Kingsley Field, became combat opera tional ready at 1 p.m. Mon day, according to Col. Jack W. Williams, base comman der. Pilots and crews of the 322nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, the newest link in the Air Defense Command's chain of bases, are now ready to protect this area of the west coast from air attack 24 hours a day. The ' Air Force took over the field here in 1954, and starting in May this year, the F-101B Voodoo interceptor starting replacing the F86L Sabre Jet. The base was established here as an all-weather fight er interceptor squadron and aircraft control and warning squadron to fill the gap in the air defense system between Portland and San Francisco. MURPHY STEPS DOWN Washington (UPD The State Department's ace trouble shooter, Robert D. Murphy, steps down . today as under secretary of state for political affairs. He will be succeeded by Livingston T. Merchant. President Eisenhower named Merchant to the post Tuesday. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Dee. 2, 1959 Matarazzo said to Father Francis P. Corcoran, a Roman Catholic priest who was one of the first to reach the scene to give last rites of the church to the victims. "I feel sorry for those other people," Matarazzo said. Rescue crews worked through the night to recover the charred bodies of the pas sengers who had sat beside him only hours before. Immediate Delivery 5 mULTi-BARK Natural Organic Sell Conditioner & Mulch for Flowers Shrubs Lawns Gardens Also for Erosion Control KOGAP LUMBER IND. SP 3-6601 Ext. 46 4' i SOLE SURVIVOR Louis Matarazzo, Springfield, Pa., the sole survivor of the Allegheny Airlines disaster near WU liamsport, Pa., Tuesday,' rests in Divine Providence hospital at WUliamsport, attended by nurse Phyllis Colacino. Mataraz zo is listed as in. serious condition. (UPI Telephoto) Think what this gift could mean to your family A LIFETIME OF PLEASURE AND RELAXATION No other- masicsi instrument can bring as much beautiful music into your home. 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