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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath i fiB fr MoncUy. .'o. 1, 1960 PAGE 1 9 Story Behind A New Pair Of Hands Is One Of Courage, Will To Live By EILEEN LARDNKR New Bedford Standard-Timei Staff Writer NEW BEDFORD. Mass. (APl-l Lita Levine of Brooklyn, N.Y., bought a new pair of hands last week. The story of Lita and her new hands began on the night of Aug. 15, 1958. Northeast Airlines Flight 258 two hours late out of New York because of bad weather1 was coming in for a landing on tiny Nantucket Island, off the Massachusetts coast. Lita, 23, a $73-a-week cashier in a New York brokerage firm, starting a 10-day vacation, fastened her seat belt and smoothed her brown hair with slim, graceful fingers. She de ferred reaching for her gloves. It didn't really matter. Soon Lita would not need gloves. The big twirrtngine Convair came down through heavy fog and struck the ground 300 yards short of the runway. It plowed a 800-foot swath through a field of scrub growth and pine trees, then burst into flames. Twenty-four persons died in the crash. Of 10 survivors, two later died. Lita was one who lived. "It happened so suddenly," she recalls. "It was as though it were in a dream, as though it were happening to someone else. One minute everything was fine. The next minute I was pinned under something I didn't know what. That something was an 800- pound engine. "I knew I was badly hurt," ex plains Lita. My arms were crossed in front of me and I could see my fingers burning and raw. Your mind sort of turns off at a time like that." Lita lay on her back, her hair and head burned, her face and body black with oil and burns. She cried, "I can't see." A man took a handkerchief and wiped her eyes and face. "Please don't let me die," she cried and then, as pain swept her, "Kill me." Thirty men lifting with ropes and hands at last lifted the engine and freed Lita. "We were given superhuman strength," one said afterward. Lita lost consciousness. She awoke in the Massachusetts Gen ral Hospital, Boston. "When I came to, I couldn't see anything. I thought I was blind. I remember screaming." A phy Sician, understanding her panic, removed bandages momentarily Eiving Lita a brief blurred glimpse that reassured her. Hospital records show Lita had second-and third-degree burns over 40 or 50 per cent of her body. Her arms and legs were charred, her fingers black. Her right eyelid was deeply burned and there was some impairment of vision. There was almost com plete external destruction of both ears and extensive external skull injuries. Her left kneecap was fractured. She had numerous deep scoop-like cuts. There were days and weeks un der sedation. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Levine, were constantly at her bedside. There followed during the next two years 37 operations. Surgeons tried to save her fingers and failed. There came a victory when Lita stood on her good left leg And. a month later, the worst hlow when on Nov. 10, she learned her fingers were gone "At first I made myself be lieve it was a bad dream, that the fingers would grow back on acain," she says. The despairing girl, asking for death, said. I won t accept it; 1 won't live without hands." Eighteen hours a day her mother foucht a battle of the spirit. In between Lita's father took over, softly speaking hour after hour, that she would be all right. j The parents' love won and Lita at last accepted the thought, "I did have a chance; I had to get better." Doctors cut V-clefts between the stumps of her thumbs and middle fingers. With her maimed hands she could hold a cigarette, or a cup of coffee. "At last. I could do some things for myself." she says. On June 20 this year, alter 101 weeks, she was discharged. But ahead lay more surgery. She had to have a new right eyelid and lashes. Her brown hair had been I replaced with a wig and legs were scarred. External while at school portions of her skull, including she hopes to tour Europe for nr. luicncau, neeuea more sur-,six months or so. Her invested trust fund should Egg Purchasing Now Suspended Explorer I Satellite Finds Earth Is Orbited By Millions Of Species gery. Her nose had been re-made One leg is permanently stiff. A few weeks ago she was lor her injuries, Now she has plans She will shop for drapes for the WASHINGTON (API - The Ag riculture Department suspended Friday a program authorizing the nin-rh.i;i nf pens tn hnlct,,- nm. Her armsiwill paint. She was good in art ducer Drices PASADENA, Calif. il'PP The ing out several thousand miles., ellite changes altitude," Hibbs It said this action is being taken P er ' sa,clll,e has discovered; The particles come in from out-said. "This effect could he caused because of recent improvement in that the earth literally has mil- er space, are trapped by the al- only by a cloud of micromcteor prices. ;l'ons of tiny satellites in the foi m mosphere into elongated orbits itcs in closed orbits around the of cosmic dust particles, the .let and circle the earth for perhaps earth." Propulsion Laboratory of the C'al- thousands of times. Hibbs said.l T,e djscoverv was hailed by ifnt-ni ln.-tilln nl Tnl,,,..!..,., .... Tl .1 f.ll .1.- . J "- ' "M- iniii im-y i.m imu -nc .mnus- n,W)s ils M0 SCVOnd maior ac- phere and burn up. but are re-Urn,,,,,,, 0f Explorer I. Dr. Albeit Hibbs, chief of JPL'sll'laced by other incoming micro- alllK-hed .Inn. 31. 1!.8 after its division of space sciences, said meteorites. detection of the Van Allen radia !he pin-head size micrometcoritcs' "A close examination of Ex-ltion belts, appear to form a belt around thejplorer I data shows a strong 100,000 tons of earth starting about 100 miles change in the micronieteoriticj The mule is a cross between STEEL AND SUPPLY, INC. The agency had purchased 19.- care for her needs for life. But. 048.000 pounds of dried eggs this she nopes to work again in a year at a cost of $20,702,000. awarcec a settlement ot 35,000jbrokerage house. I The eggs are being donated to nounced today, And now she has bought some the school lunch program, needy new hands. She will wear ringslpersons and eligible public insti- on them. And gloves. She always tulions, Boston apartment where she and i liked gloves. 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