MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE NINE
11 Killed
In Midwest
Air Crash
MASON CITY, Iowa, Wl -
Braniff International Airways DC3
warned not to land bere alter a
wild storm had temporarily
knocked out power at the airport,
crashed into a pasture yesterday,
killing 11 of the 19 persons aboard.
Eight persons were injured, two
critically.
The plane, northbound from
Memphis, Term., to Minneapolis,
was only about 10 minutes out
from the field, Braniff officials
said, when they radioed it to hold
off landing bedause of the storm.
The field never received an an
swer, airline officials reported.
The plane crashed on a farm 4'2
miles south of Swaledale.
Highway patrolmen reported a
wire of a new high-voltage power
line between Fort Dodge and Ma
son City had been snapped and
they said they believed the plane
had hit it.
Debris from the crash was
spread along a line of more than
600 feet. Police said the plane ap
parently struck the ground, then
bounced for some distance. The
plane was demolished, only the
tail section remaining relatively
Intact.
The plane's pilot, 'Capt. W. A.
Pickering, 40, of Parkville, Mo.,
died at the scene of the crash.
The co-pilot, W. B. Wilde. 31. of
Minneapolis died a short time
later at the Hampton, Iowa, hos
pital. The hostess. Miss Betty Ann
Truly, 23, of Kansas City and
Shreveport, La., was reported in
"fair" condition at Mercy Hospi
tal in Mason City.
Among the other Injured in the
Mason City hospital was Mrs.
Milton Schoenberg, 54, of Denver,
one of two crash victims reported
In critical condition. The other,
hospitalized at Hampton, was Mrs.
Lee Nichols of Minneapolis. Mrs.
Schoenberg's husband died In the
crash.
Rescue workers had to cut
through the tangled wreckage with
torches to free some of the groan
ing passengers. The workers said
there were repeated cries of "(Jet
Us out! Get us out!"
After the dead and Injured were
removed, Iowa National Guards
: men moved in to keep spectators
irom the scene pending arrival of
federal officials expected here to
day to Investigate the crash.
In Dallas, Braniff officials said
It was the first fatal crash of one
of the line's planes since 1939.
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Ronald Lowell Wins ATO
'54 Undergraduate Award
Ronald J. Lowell. Klamath
Falls, will go to Atlanta, Georgia
in September to accept the Thom
as Arkle Clark Honor Award for
1934, marking him the Alpha Tau
Omega undergraduate of the year.
Selection of Lowell, graduate of
the University of Oregon as the
fraternity's No. 1 senior of 1954,
was based on his brilliant acad-
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A 3c DONALD
son of Mr. an
Welch, Rt. I, Box 67, Bonan
za, has been assigned to Am
arillo Air Fore Base, Texas,
as jet (light mechanic stu
dent. Donald attended Bonan
za High School.
A. WELCH,
I Mrs. Ivan
Showers Cover
Central States
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The high plains states had cool
er weather Monday but the Rock
ies and most of the rest of the
country was warming up again..
Widespread and locally heavy
thundershowers stretched north
ward from Texas and Louisiana
across the central states to the
western Great Lakes region.
Sunday night Mason City, Iowa,
scene of 'the plane crash which
took 11 lives,' had 3.77 inches of
rain within less than six hours.
Except for the central belt and
a few light showers in the Pacific
Northwest, Louisiana and Florida,
the rest of the nation had mostly
fair weather.
Temperatures in the desert
southwest moved up to 103 while
Red Bluff in Northern California
reached 100. St. Louis, Mo. 97,
and Chicago 90.
of different kinds of awards. Id
the difficult pre-med curriculum,
Lowell maintained an almost
atraight-A average, marred only
by a couple of Bs during his four
years.
He wears the keys of Pht Beta
Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma.
As a freshman he won the Phi
Eta Kappa Book prhx. In his
Junior year ht was awarded the
Koyle cup as tht outstanding
scholar-activities man on the cam
pus. During the past school year
he was a member of the "Senior
Six" of Pht Beta Kappa, one ef
the half dosen top senior schol
ars. For four years Ron held Stan
dard Oil scholarships. In his Jun
ior year he was chosen as the out
standing student la the state of
Oregon, and represented his state
at the 57th Congress of American
Industry in New York. He also
won 'he Van de Velde prise given
each year to the outstanding stu-
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The $1,000 MacKenzle scholar
ship was given him for his last
year of pre-med work. He holds a
scholarship to the University of
Oregon Medical School in Port
land, where he will begin work
for an M.D. this fall.
Ronald played tennis for three
years and captained the team In
his senior year. He won member
ship Inthe Order of the "O". Ore
gon's lettermen's society; Druids,
Junior, honorary; Friars, senior
honorary; and Askleplads, pre
med society, which he .served as"
vice president.
He was active in United Sud
dents Association, Interfraternity
Council and Religious Evaluation
Week.
Alpha Tau Omega (Oregon chap
ter) elected him as worthy master
of 195344. Earlier he had been
scholastic chairman and on var
ious chapter committees.
A suitable climax to his well-
rounded career came to him at
the end of the spring term at
Oregon when he was awared the
Emerald trophy as outstanding
athlete. This award was based on
his achievements in athletics,
scholarship, leadership and citi
zenship on the Oregon campus.
He will receive the Clark award
from Educational Adviser F. N.
(Tingl Abbot, Maine, '25. He will
also receive a Jeweled key, sym
bolio of his selection as ATO's
outstanding senior.
Lowell, graduate of Klamath
Union High School Is 21 years old.
RONALD J. LOWELL
einic record, outstanding athletic
ability and excellent leadership on
the Oregon campus as well as
within Gamma. Phi Chapter.
He will be the guest of the fra
ternity at the Dixie Jubilee Con
gress. . Lowell, son of Frank Lowell and
Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin, Klam
ath Falls, has stepped up on a
lot of platforms to receive a lot
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