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IT WAS JUST about . sycamore changed its role. X, of a series of night-time tragedies shattered its peaceful life and eight have died. But had the stalwart not stood guard, By car after car by now would have plunged
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THERE! s A T REE that guards a house on a gentle curve of U. S. 31 at Taylorsville. Through the years the giant scyamore has sheltered playing youngsters and older’ It was stately and unmarred. -
By some twist of fate it
n s » a year ago the . Then the first
on to crash into the home of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Homer Smith. Theirs is a nightmarish life of late,
Screaming tires tense them and they wait for the thunder of metal on wood. They-—have seen what happens on the
highway posted for 40 mph. Here have died
since last January:
Tomahawk,
Pvt. John R. Williamson, 22, Ky. + Pvt. Samuel B. Cran 24, North Nash- .’ ville, Tenn.
Ret. “1 Mich.
Pfc.
Cpl. Pete Gentile, Cpl. David Casserly, 24, Fairbanks, Pa. Edward D. Tracy and his wife Katherine, both 23, Louisville.
Pvt. Norman Ronmesmo, 23, Fargo, N. D. Robert C. Bedson,
23, Farmington,
28, "Alliquippa, Pa.
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FOLLOWING THE latest of these tragedies a week ago today, the state ordered a 200-foot guard rail on the curve. Highway Chairman Samuel Hadden said this dangerous curve will be eliminated by re-routing of U. S. 31 later this year.
GOP Fixes
| A Member of Love Co., Too—
'52 Goal of City Super-Sniper Picks Off Reds
$4.8 Million
By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. tee ended a three-day meeting to-
- fund goal of $4.8 million to be i split among presidential, scna-
} National committeemen voted
down in their closing business ses- 3 } sion a resolution aimed at pre- . venting the party's presidential | nominee from selecting the na-
tional GOP chairman. The resolution was offered by)
who said the traditional selection
deeply” the fact that Carroll Reece, Tennessee committeeman and former GOP chairnran, was “tossed out like an old shoe” im-
the resolution until the first meeting of the national committe after the presidential nominating convention in Chicago July 7. _ In another development during the closing day of the meeting, Harold E. Stassen, one of four presidential candidates who ad-| . dressed the national committee or| sent their representative to speak, announced he had decided to en-| ter the Nebraska primary Apr. 1.!
mittee voted to defer action on) | |
19% The Republican National Commitday after setting a campaign- .
torial and congressional contests.
Clarence Budington Kelland., Ari-!-zona committeeman and author,”
mediately after the last conven-
Times photo by Ed Kennedy,
EXPERT AMONG EXPERTS—Charles B. Sade ot Indianapolis.
By ED KENNEDY
Times Staff Correspondent WITH THE 17TH INF. REGT. KOREA, (Delayed) — An Indianapolis lad has been peppering death on Chinese snipers as a countersniper recently with this regiment. He is Pvt, Charles B. Jackson, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B, Jackson, RR7, Box 422J, Lynhurst Dr. He is a member of Love Co. He worked for the Williamson Candy Co., before being drafted
Pvt. they've ever seen. His records show that he fired possible 220 while taking basic training at Camp Carson. He is an expert among experts with such a score. He was the bunk mate of the previous platoon sniper and when his buddy got hit, Pvt. Jackson asked for, and got, the job. “The Chinks don't come out daytime,” .he says. “You just
212 out of a
much in the have to watch
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To California After Floods
By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19—The sun shone today on a muddy, debris-strewn Southern California |digging out of the aftermath of the heaviest series of storms in more than half a century.
The weatherman promised a week-end respite in the wake of (torrential downpours and roadblocking snowfalls that gripped fine southern half of the state vir-| tually without letup for an entire |week, taking a toll of 20 lives!
{and millions in property damage.
But for California, it also had the Jekyll-Hyde aspect of being
of national chairmen by presi- a multi-million dollar bumper dential candidates ‘has heen rainfall that replenished reserdetrimental to the last three presi- yours sapped by seven years of dential campaigns.” drought, boosted the underground water tables, and stocked up the Resents Ouster mountain winter-storage slopes Mr. Kelland said he “resented with abundant snow for the
(spring runoffs,
Storm ‘Blows Up’
The U.S, weather bureau reported at noon that the last .of
med the recent series out of the : Alaskan Gulf “weather factory” heated debate, the com- § " After a had “blown up” off the coast of
California and no longer posed its
{threat of further rains,
Jackson's buddies say he's the best shot |
The forecast was for scattered clouds and plenty of sunshine over the stricken area—which authorities agreed narrowly
‘missed becoming a disaster area.
A slight. possibility of light rains or snowfalls remained for the mountain areas, Some 2000 persons in southeast Los Angeles—the Downey - Ar-
Can Split $9 Million early last year. for the ones which are trying to pick off our |tesia-Hawaiian Gardens area— That put Mr. Stassen. in six Pvt. Jackson's weapon is a special M-1 with guys. Usually you see them move in the after- imoved back into homes they states — Minnesota, Wisconsin,| a telescopic sight and flash hider. In his job he nopn. They sit in the open all day and start |evacuated yesterday and began Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and| works around the hills in a snow suit and picks = showing movement late in the day.” the task of shoveling away the Nebraska. off Chinese snipers who are trying to nail our In the last operation, which lasted 46 days, mud left in their dwellings by
Sinclair Weeks, chairman of the national committee's finance section, announced the goal of $4.8 million which he said would be split between the National Committee, the Senatorial Committee] and the Congressional Committee. Under the Hatch Act, each of the committees is restricted to a total of $3 million so theoretically the Republicans could raise $9 “ million.
If the Wife's Handy Never Slug a ‘Cop -} ELLICOTT CITY, Md. Jan. 19 (UP)—Tavern owner Lindon Brengle learned in court today it's * . cheaper to beat a wife than a police officer. Circuit. Court Judge James, Clark fined Brengle twice—$10!| for striking Mrs. Brengle ahd $250 for attacking Policeman)
Harry Harrison who Investigated the brawl,
He Can Make His 2 Bed and Lie in It :
By Science Service . "WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—The overly tall man can now ‘bed of comfortable
length
“bed-lengthe to install
have a/to those with chronic afflictions
: wherever he may be. All he Rees case . © to do,is carry with him an, 8 ; rave) ted pair ofiis a plan’ which will be accepted betengtheners Tto install as |by everyone when they understand,
boys. . “The range ig usually two to three hundred yards,” he axpld ned.” “But I've knocked them off as close as 50 yards.”
Ewing Offers — ~~
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Plan Yor 1!
WASHINGTON, Jan, 19 (UP) | —Federal Security Administrator [Oscar R. Ewing sald today he hopes to send to Congress soon| his plan for free hospitalization § for 7 million persons. | The program would cost $230 million annually,” Beneficiaries j& would, be those“ participants in social security who are aged 65 or over, their widows or widowers, | (and . dependents of deceased participants. Since Mr. Ewing first proposed the plan, which would be financed | o by social security funds, he has made one major change. He would provide for administration 8 in some cases through non-profit | #8 voluntary health insurance programs such as the Blue Coss. Those eligible for the free hospitalization would be. entitled to 60. days’ hospital care a year. But! the care would not be ‘available
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nor to the mental and tubercular
S. “I can't help believing that this
Pvt. Jackson got seven confirmed kills. is a lot of Chink snipers for this country, “I like the job,” says he, shoot.”
That too. “I just like to
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receding flood waters which covered 15 square miles t6 depths up to 12 feet, Nine Drowned Nine of the 15 who perished in
ithe Thursday-Friday downpours
“{in their cars
were victims of drowning, trapped in surging floodwaters or falling into swift currents and being carried down storm drains. Two Marine airmen were pre-
sumed dead in a missing plane,
another man was a, freezing vic: tim, one was a traffic. casualty,
{one woman died in the collapse of
her home and a Marine Pfc. was killed in the collapse of an observation post at ‘Camp Pendleton, Cal.
la storm earlier in the week. Drink-
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|ing water”in the San Fernando valley, home of many movie ce-
| lebrities north of Hollywood, was | declared safe despite inundation. | But Los Angeles City Health Officer George Uhl closed 25 mar-
“Kets and grocery stores’ pénding
examination of their fruits and | vegetables,
Spellman Heads Home
PARIS, Jan. 19 (UP)—Francis
" Cardinal Spellman of - New York!
"HOOSIER NURSE KNOWS—Mai, ‘Deloria Garrard, sister of Night on the last leg of a month:
took off .by plane for home to-,
long trip around the world. He fs
Five were accounted victims of
Mrs. George Kish, Indianapolis, and head nurse of ‘a front line hg Keo fo bey aw woud She sod Sr
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; rails ot it,” Ms: Ewing wa) in-an ter. ¢ side view, $ od
‘due in New York-at 10:05 a. m. iagiaagpolts Tie, tomorrow,
Find Babs Gili in Tomato Basket
By’ United Press
basket, was found by Burgess. 31, Marjorie Barker, one — and his wife, Alice, 31. as they of hig field workers, to take the drov® home, in the darkness from child home for the night after
asked Mrs. Dean Acheson third vear as
tomorrow,
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a country school bask etballdoctor examined it and found it
THORNTOW) N, Ind, Jan, 18+ ogo in good physical ¢ondition. A baby'sgirl abandoned in a = Ayhorities considered the pos- Dr: Margaret Bassett said the t rivewayv a} . = omato basket in the driveway of sibility a young woman who knew Paby was born no more than 15 a. childless farm couple kicked the Burgesses were childless may OF 20° minutes before the Bure and cried in a hospital today have. left the baby where she 8¢55€s found it. : while authorities sought her knew they would find it moments This morning, the infant, de-' {mother,. later, hoping they would keep it. scribed by Mr. Burgess as “cute Sheriff Rush Robinson checked “We saw the basket when we with dark hair,” was: taken to doctors to see if’ ‘4 new. mother drove up,” said Mr. Burgess. Witham. Hospital in nearby Lebhad sought medical attention, ‘Something told me to get out anon. Maternity ward nurses said and Mr, and Mrs. Lowell ‘Burgess of the car and look in it.” it was thriving talked excitedly of their ‘dis- The Burgesses took the baby yt ————————— covery, inside and called a neighbor The baby, wrapped in towels Frank L8ng, Boone County pub- 3 Years on the Job and lying neatly in a 10-pound lic welfare director.. Mr. Long WASHINGTON, Jan.-19 (UP)
completes his Secretary of State
Downstairs Sore_
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