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WASHBiGTOt,—An eastern Airlines-plane carrying 66. persons • crash-landed.without
casualities at National Airport night before last after sheering off its, right
landing gear in an approach colision with an instrument shack.
Capt. C.J* Smith landed the'four-engine. ...DC-7B on two wheels* holding up the
right wing..as long as possible. The plane was about third way down the runway
when the wing dipped* throwing the plane off the landing strip into .a gras$r area
Hie plane* flight no.600* was enrouto from Newark* N.J.* t9 Jacksonville.
*>11 of the. passengers were rerouted dn other flights.
ABILENE*-: TEX.* A wind-whipped fire'wiped out the largest department store in
Abilene:causing damage expected to top two million dollars, „..L .
It took less than five hours for flames to reduce Thorton1s department store*
known as the. *»city within a city,” to a pile of rubble.
No injuries were reported although one explosion knocked out a part of the
front of the.building. Several firemen narrowlytescaped being- crushed underneath
the collapsing mezzanine. " * '.
LAURELTON,®. J., Two boys were sentenced last night to one year in jail'-for pos
sessing beer but today their terms were reduced to'30 days after.a magistrate
learned he had exceeded the maximum penalty# _ /,? _■
Magistrate Stanley J. Blair reduced the original sentences on Harry.tSommer—
ling, 18, of Toms. River, , and'Herbert K ;woll, 18, point .Pleasant .Beach,N.J.
Blair said he had sentenced them'to a year in jail and a £25. fine on . vcharges
of the possession of alchholic beverages, under the disorderly persons law.
But he discovered today-that the alcoholic' possession statute limits jail
sentence to 30 days, Blair said. • ‘
MACKSVILLE, KAN., SantaaFe -and local officers pressed an investigation today in
to the death of AlbertMurray',- 62/ Wichita, who was believed to have been push
ed or to have fallen from a streamliner yesterday.
Murray's body was found along the Santa Fe tracks, about a half mile east of
Macksville 26 minutes after a Colifornia-to-Chicago train had passed the scene*
Stafford County sheriff Frank Gere said Murray either was pushed from the
train or fell. , .... • . ■.
His body was found by a section crow from St. Hohn, Kan,
DUNCAN, OKLA., Policeman John Dudley braved the wrath of angry parents.yesterday
and moved' a household sc a couple of women can visit <dver thedr backyard fence*:
Dudley said the women, who were too embarrassed to. give their names, called •
him when a pair of blue jays dived-bcmbed “ them as they walked between their**
houses. One cf the women was scratched on the forehead* - .>
Dudley found a nest between the two houses and moved it*—eggs and all—to a
backyard tree while the jays protested loudly. ,
”They fought me all the way,” Dudly said. t '
EDISON, N«J* A three year-old girl was killed when she stepped in.the path of a
bus. A second youngster escaped injury. ’ ' ' .
Police said the child> Laurie Jean Bufkirk, was trying to cross the busy high
way hand.in hand with a'little boy when the'bus struck her. ; The.unidentified
little buy stepped back arid escaped injury, .police said. ■’
Bus driver Joseph Mayou, 34* was charged with causing vehicular homicide.
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