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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1952)
PAGE SIXTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORF.fi ON MONDAY, PKCKMnKR 2fl, 1M2 Suicide Plane Life of Rich SWEETWATER, Tex. Wl "I'm coming on down.'' a wealthy West Texas rancner raaioed ana piungca his WlRht yellow plane 6.800 feet Into the gravel pit he had picked to die in. Pinntlc. ' futile pleading by friends and airport omcisis in a three-hour air to ground argument lulled to atop Ollle William Cox, 23. Irom bis screaming dive Sun day. He waa the owner of the 2.500 acre Double Heart Hereford ranch 10 miles south of here, and scion of a pioneer West Texas ranching lamlly. Civil Aeronautics Administration experts Monday studied a tape re cording of Cox's lengthy radio conversation with friends on the ground in an effort to find a motive tor the suicide plunge. "I Just can't face it." he repeated over and over in the rambling dia logue. Another time ne soooea: "Nobody loves me. Nobody can Vain ma " Typhoon Hits Enlwetok HONOLULU W The Hawaiian Sea Frontier reports a typhoon hit Eniwetok Island yesterday and caused some damage but "no seri ous casualties." There are (.oout 500 XT. 8. mill- tarv personnel on the Island, a mld-Paciflo base for testing atomic and other secret weapons. A Navy spokesman said a mes sage from the island, received at 10:13 p.m., EST, last night, re ported moit of the island was un der water, A later message said, "No Immediate assistance re quired. WU1 keep you advised.' London Fountain Turns Bubbly LONDON IB Trafalgar Square's famous fountain at the foot of Nel son's Column became a frothy buly ble bath yesterday to the delight of many but to the consternation of public officials. An unknown practical joker pourea aciergew into strategic spots around the pool. Water from the founts inheads churned it Into snowy lather. Eventually, it washed away. The economical Bod ret Bundle service at Men's Hand Laundry saves you time and money! 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A tape recording was made of the long radio conversation by the CAA but when it was played back In renortprs Monrinv It onv no definite motive for the crash. Cox started out by designating the particular gravel pit in which he planned to crash and he stuck by the plan. Reporters said Cox's conversation was often rambling and indistinct. "1 11 meet you at the gravel pit," he said several times when his friends tried to get him to land at the Abilene or Sweetwater Air ports, or at a private runway at bis ranch. If I do come down now. I"U lose my wife, all my friends, I'll lose everything," he said once. Another time he sobbed and said: "I'm not any good, I'm not any good. Nobody loves me. Nobody can help me." Near the end of the recording he began to brag about his flying ability. When, a CAA man warned that his gas supply should be running short. Cox snapped back: "Don't tell me time is short, I know It." Then came the end of the re cording. "I'm at (.800 feet. Can you hear me? "I'm coming on down." There was silence in the Abilene control tower. . His friends hoped that Cox had changed his mind and landed at Sweetwater, but in a few min utes there was a telephone call from Sweetwater telling of the : crash. CAA officials refused to rerj-st the tape recording until they got 1 approval from regional officials in Fort Worth. j -He kept saying something about : 'I just can't face it'." said Dow i Patterson, acting chief of the ! Abilene, Tex., control tower, where : two friends sped to talk with Cox. "He had some sort of difficulty and was evidently tired of it all. But I wouldn't want to say on the basis of what I overheard what that trouble was." Patterson said Cox "ran the gamut of emotions from humor to UPER.:. INVENTORY SALE LIMITED TIME ONLY and HEAR IT AT B or BROWN'S ELECTRIC .... -BWaLSLs.-va.S4 REST UNDISTURBED. A lone, round mound perches beside road in West Hyattsville, Md., where the march of suburban Washington was forced to circle about 125-year-old grave. The tombstone on the mound tells the story of Ann Barber, born, in London in 1800, who came to the United States and died "near this place" in 1825. Maryland state law forbids building above graves, and so the remains of Ann Barber lie undisturbed except for youngsters Wayne Thomp son, 6, left, and Kenneth McConkey, 7, playing nearby. . ' depression"' during his radio con versation with Earl Crita Sweet water filling station operator, and L. M. Hubbard, Sweetwater barber. Crita refused to repeat any of the conversation. "We pleaded with him. . . tried to get him to come down." said Hubbard. "We talked to him about his family. He broke down cry ing. I think." While Hubbard tried to talk his WEDNESDAY LAST DAY of LUCAS FURNITURE STORE WIDE SALE Tremendous redactions on Quolity Furniture SPECIAL FOR ONLY . 834 Main Next to Currin's - for - (P)(0f t4 i row-" 'ijf i n jP&-3r in V" friend to safety, Mrs. Hubbard drove to the vast runch and got Mrs. Cox, who is expecting a child In about a month. After the fatal plunge Mrs. Cox was put to bed under a doctor's care. Relatives took the couple's 3-year-old daugh ter Karren Kay home with them. A new novel by DAPHNE du MAURI ER The great mistress of mystery creates a (ripping detective story that will bold you spell bound from the very first sen tence."Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning took bar husband's revolver loaded it-then shot herself." What turned a happy, loving wife into a suicide in just ten minutes? You'll find hours of exciting reading in No Motin in the big, exciting January Ladies' Home Journal. . . 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