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Barrie Examiner, 17 Dec 1960, p. 1

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Ollii TELEPHONE For Examiner Want Ads Tele phone PA 52414 The telephone number to call for the Busines or Editorial Dtpl ls PA 5537 96th Yea rNo 293 FIREMEN POUR WATER 0N WRECKAG STEPIIEN BALTZ 11 of wn mette 11 who was thrown clear in crash gets assistance as he lies in snowbsnk near scene of disaster BARRIE or JETLINER IN BROOKLYN fun Only Survivor Tells 0i Crash NEW YORK APiA small redhaired boy clung to precious life today each passing hour one of victory in the struggle to overcome the burns and broken honc suffered in Fridays tragic airr collision His condition remained critical but every moment was in his favor Doctors at Brooklyn hr pital expressed hope for him They maintained constant vigilJ HELD along prayed that spared with his parents who hisIife would be mighty for this miraculous thing said the boys father William Ballz Doetors believe that the youth Stephen Baltz 11 has good chance for recovery despite seri ivfl hrnkénlci$leand lifépOoSI hty he may have been injured Internally by breathing flames The boy was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn and before he lapsed into uncon sciousness he subbed VMotherv shes waiting for me And she was At Idlewild with his nineyearold sister Randee Once when Stephen regained consciousness minister told him he was in theMethodist Hospital flood said the boy Be cause Im Methodist Rubble For More Lists Cdncidians Dead NEW YORK AP rescue armyf working in freezing cold doggedly dug through rubble on Brooklyn block early today seeking other possible victims of Fridays airliner Collision that killed at least 136 persons Two canadianswere believed among the dead At the same time federal ag enciestcam up to try to find the cause of the worst United States commercial aviation disaster when jet plane exploded and crashed into row of brown stone dwellings setting square block afiro and propeller driven craft tell in flames on sultan Island Thedoll of nonpassengers was put atninc as 125 firemen and 150 one men continued the search for victims or 128 personsmany holiday houndaboard the two planes thesole survivor was 11yearold Stephen Balls of Chicago He remained in critical condition in aBrookIyn hospital CANADIANS ABOARD The Canadians were Beverley Parks 22 of Halifax an offduty stewardesswo was on the list of passengers on United Air Lines jet and Themas Rap kin son of Toronto radio pro ducer Morris Rapk Thomas Rankin aGolumbus Ohio radio station producer was on the list of assengers aboardla Trans VDTidIAilliilES constellation the other plane involved Recording tapesbond an auto matic jet flight recorder may tell why the TWA Constellation and the United Airlines jet rammed into oneanothcr5000 feet over Staten sland The UAL DCB with U4aboard en route from Chicago continued on for 11 miles before crashing in the park slope sectionof Bron lyn The TWA aboard en and Columbus Ohio landed in flaming Army Fielu oi Port of the is wreck ge smashed into the Pillar of Fire Church Theistructure was dei stroyed and the caretaker was missing It was the first time in aviation history that pure jet with passengers aboard crashed in the US The Civil Aeronautics Board impounded the tapes and re corder Friday afternoon Airport employees also were being quesA tinned and the maintenance recA ards of theme planes involved were checked The LAB put more than 30 investigators on the case the largest forceit ever has assem bled to investigate acrash In Washington Senator Morris Cotton Rep Iva member of the Senate avI tion subcommit tee called for special board of inquiry to look into the crosh The Federal Aviation Agency headed by Elwood Quesada also entered the investigation Quesada who visited the Brook lyn disaster seenfi Friday night said the jets fl recorderhad been recovered from the wreck age and would be examined overnight AlanBoyd member oflhe CA who viewed the scene of itestaten Island Vcras said preliminarywhack showed that theTWA constellation broke up in thcfa Neither plane had reported any trouble No one actually witnessed the crash at 1034 am EST as it alternately snowed land drizzled on aimiirky morning The only certain physical ev deuce of the collision was the finding in the Staten Island eckagE of jet engine he lieved to have belonged to the UAL plane Only three of the four jet engines were found in rooklyn he grimtask of identifying thedead in Brooklyn and on Staten Island was aided by aims of finger1 nt exports from the FBI Similar FBI tli aster teams also went to after collision involving UAL and TWA planes over the Grand Canyon in 1956 when 128 died In Fridays disastEr many of the passengers were coming home for the Christmas holidays In the debris were gaily wrapped packages Rescue workers also found passengers bodies held in ithe seats by safety belts in an tion of landing that was only minutes away SCHOOL KAI 1700 Residents in Brooklyn made homeless by the crash were fed and sheltered at anearby public Ischool and in the auditorium of St Augustines Roman Catholic Church There were 1700 pupils at classes inside the school at the time of the crash Brother Bren dan of the school staff coma merited It appeared the pilot made deliberate effort to avoid striking the spirebf the church One nonpassenger killed by the Brooklyn crash was identiA tied as Charles Cooper 34 sanitation Worker pedestrian or ina cartwas founddead at the scene Missing were Wallace Lewis 90 caretaker of the Pillar of Fire Church Joseph Colacino 21 of Brooklyn and his uncle John Oppeiisano 35 of Massa pequa NY Colacino was open ing acliristmas tree stand on the sidewalk RUSH DISASTER UNITS Civil defence disaster units rushed to the sites of iboth crashes Although the building fires caused by the crash were de clared under control couple of hours after the plane wreckage hit the Br oklyn area debris smoldercd fat into the night Many persons ran screaming in terror from the Brooklyn area as the three storey buildings were blasted into rubble of bricks plaster and splintered Richard Rice described intersection of Sevent nd Sterling Place Brooklyn as being enveloped in huge orange ball offiame on harm IIIIVIILY sins SelaSsie Forces ONTARIO CANADA SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 1960 SmdshL Rebellion TRAGEDY IviIIIis HISTORICAL DllY KITTY HAWK NC AP Fiftyseven years ago today at 1037 om Orville Wright made mans first flight in heavier than nir machine it miter Isolated PuLpils onjpigne mnmw Winds 1525 night Ire below Kin Snndly For summary see page three LOGllI wailan am suoquuallx to Low to per Copyl4 Page YPIANE DIVES 60 KILLED Streetcar 15 Hit MUNICH Reuters it least 50 personspossibly so were Ispire were scattered over wide area ADDIS ABABA Reuters Forces loyal to Emperor Hnile Selassi of Ethiopia gained com plcte victory over rebels today after hours of fighting Thesitualion was under lhe control of Ihe emperors govern ment following bid to oust him while he was out of the country can tour of Africa and South Amcri Members of the Ethi opian imperial family were safe The Ethiopian Embossy In London said it had rcceivedfea blcs continuing that Emperor Hoilc Selassie had arrived in Addis Ababa from Asmara capi jtal of Eritrea province Ile cxonerotedhls eldest son 44yearvold Crown Prince Asfa Wassnn from blame for thc rev olutionary regime proclaimed in Ythe capital Wednesday by rebels in the palace guard The rebels tried to make the prince their decoy Selassie lsaid As PRISONERS was msccond venture into still being held prisoner in the the air just few feet above imperial palace wg the sand The London Evening Ne in That flight was to be com dispatch from Aden quoting the momoroted in ceremonies here Voice of Ethiopia Radio said the today and ironically the oh by the revolutionary command an was safe ebels headqu tors are there tin the palace the em peror said but all members of he royal family were reportedi in good health The rebels still controlled the post and telegraph office But Selassics commanders said the army had recaptured the in general including the In field andthe radio station The revolutionaries using Crown Prince Wassan as their Imouthpicce declared Wednesday they were establishing new crown prince had been released program of reforms to end 000 years of injustice eiallst and nationalist trends evi dent in Egypt and neighboring The prince the empress and other members of the royal fam gt fly and leading Ethiopians loyal Vbre grateful to the Ala iiithe emperor were reportedi Sudan they proclaimed the crown prince king and declared the cmpcrorsoristocratic cousin Ros Imeni premier Hor NEW YORK AP Brooklyn never looked more drabf The tenements the hrownstones the faded red brick fronts merged in gr white blur It was snow ing again and people grumblcd about the weather ffii In CrovvdedvjNY ther down and thought My God its goingto hit the Er ys But God guided that pilot and he wentover beyond the fiance What these people saw and heard was huge United Air government to promote sweep Apparently adopting some soA lay an extraIongweckond and thc Ne lliolldays commg 50 500 MDHdFYs Lines jet plunging down in Brook blizzard another snow seemeduyn and TWA Supercomm about the worst thing that could nun falling on Staten Island happen after colliding in tho Inggyl ftwasnt snowy air above VMcnt om° 30 Igsmmi The horror was as widespread man was haying coffee in his servance takes place just hours almost to the minute after the worst air disaster since that first powered flight It was at 1034 am Friday that two airliners collided over New York ling 127 of the lid people aboard the two planes and nine on the ground The TransWorld Airlines plane in volved in Fridays crash orig inated its flight in Dayton Ohio hometown of the Wright brothers Most To Enjoy 3DayWeekend For Christmas Christmas and New Years Day tallonSundIiythis season butmost Canadians will still an Federal civil seryunls days for both duty total of seven days December 26 andjJani notCooadion statutory holi ays crosscountry survey by Th Canadian Pres ho ver that ices or municip es have de cided to proclaim these days Banks across the country will also be closed on the Mondays following Christmas and New Year Ontario provincial will have two 31 day weekends They will be off work from noon Dec 23 and Dec 30 to the follow killed today when Christmas Police were checking nearby holiday plane carryio iIpc hospitals in an effort to get on ents of US servicemen crashed idea of how many were killed or in the centre of Munich iinjured The crash killed about so per doctor at the Munich Univer sons aboard crowded streetcar my dlmc said he and most of he 20 Persons thought about 60 persons had heardainimplosmn and blinding employees aboard the US Air Force plane few bystanders were also be lieved killed US Air Force fficiols said they had no word on any sur vivors among the planes seven crew members and iii passengersg way to Britain to spend Christ mas with their parents Eycwitncsses reported fog and no noise from the planes en gines just before the crashThe planes crew was reported to have sent radio message about mechanical trouble The twinengfne gt131 Convairl transport crashed tdur minutes after taking off from llfunlchs municipal airport on flight to Northolt England It hit church spire which crashed qnto the streetcar Some ofIthc plane wreckage fell near park where children were watching circus ce count the death toll was at ast 40 The stud is were attend the ilunich anch of the Univ military persona dependents SAW TEAM The streetcar driv vivedgthe or flash Wheni turned around saw the whole tram was atlam The twoengined plane lunge into the busy downtown section of this Bavarian capital which was crowded with Christmas shopper four minutes after takeoff In foggy weather from MunichRiem airport about Flying at low altitude and al ready buming knocked off the steeple ing Tuesday mornings Debris from the plane and the 3An unidentified womaoL either kitchen saw the snow and said to the wife better keep the kids in aga And then sawthis plane and was so ldw couldhit it with snow ball It Was so close it vibrated the coffee pol right off the table And then the plane was gone from sight andil heard this trc mendous explosion HEARS OTHER And severahniles away across the narrows of New York Har bor snow was falling among the small lows surrounding Miller Field small armyair ce base on Staben Island was washing dishes and heard terrific noiselike an explosion said Mrs Maude Pet ersen ran out and saw this plane coming down thought it iwould hit my house Then as the fragments Ed Loughlan 27 raced of nearby restaurant Grabbing fire extinguisher he sprayed mu tiIated bodies scattered over the pavement so they wouldnt catch Ire Magazine Probe Pleas For Freed TORONTO CF The royal THROWN FROM CIIA commission on publications George Burch 44 was watchwound up its Toronto sessions ing television just around tha Friday with blast from its comer chairman on the inlagduei gt his people coming ere annpca the nut of 5w 31 vlfling freedom of the press Grattao OLeary admitted he tgligbhigdgi iefiffnamflfifl was departing from the three lying in the gutterI putmy pants on and ran out in my bare feet The mailman got upLthen collapsed again then got up gain He seemed all right ran and got my shoes and socks on rantoward the scene but couldnt get closer because of the heat and the smoke llhonght it might hit the one far DIVORCE carious OllAWA CPi ll took the Commons just utcs Friday to pushihrough bill to rid itself ofvan ancient and unwanted task passagerot divorce petitions Withoutn dissenting voice the Commonsput through all stages the private billof Douglas lMpIfon no ororito Davenport to givethe Senate sole authority overdivorce actions during the current session of Parliament The action was completelyvun expected Fewer than 45of the 23 members wer the cham ber Mr Morton said passage of similar bills will be regular event at the start of each ses sion until new method of handling Quebec and Newfoundal Land divorce cases is finnlly worked out Under the British orihl Ame Act tlIE 1Com lmons not delcgate its author ity indefinitely to the Senate realize that this may not commonsense Chore Onj senate be the best wayot dealing with the situation Mr Morton said MUST BE REALISTIC It would be better lithe prob lem were handed over to spe cial divorce court However we must be alistic This cannot be done at the moment The Commons had far loo many national problems tobea rubber stamp in divorce cases on each of which the Senate hears the evidence before send ing the bills to th Comminis for final approval The Senate still has to apgt prove Mr Mortons bill before it can be given royal assent and thus become law Robert Mchcove FC flair fax chalrma of the Commons committee andling divorce predicted that the senators will nap up nd pass it in order to prevent it becoming mirage that be snatched away from themi vendetta against Time magalt cried out for one freedom above have been plagued With people Icoming here and ad man commissions terms of ref erence in making the remarks prompted by submission from Richardson editor of the Toronto Telegram In his submission Mr Richard son suggested the commission it self is danger to freedom of the press He accompanied his brief with reproductions of three Telegram Editorials iiiwhich the commis sionwas accused otconducting zinc Mr OLoary as chairman was described as trewin quicksand on the path offreedom ofthe press Absolute nonsense said the commission chairman All that anewspaper man has are the freedoms guaranteedto every citizen crrns MILTON And as to personal freedom Mr OLeary said the poet Milton lto speak my mind accord ing to my consciencef If there is Iooserstatement in the Engl language have not heard commented the chairman who pruident of the Ottawa Journals Freedom40 Lspeok treason Freedom to utter public blas phemy Freedom to rise in crodecd theatreaod cry fIre am vehemcnt because we ddmof the pres He said he fai ed to see Iow any recommendation on thé plightof theCana an periodical publisher could imp go on press freedom We couldta dverlisemeiils as iiighlzs hang nuts gallows and would not affect freedom Chairman Raps om 0i Press Mr Richardson replied that his brief didnt say the press had special freedoms have been reading your edi torials replied the chairman agree with you Mr RichA ardson sa This bit afield quence has been building up you for some time and am glad to precipitated If you Lgree with us said Mr OLeary with smile then God bless you go in peaceand dont write any more ofthose editorials In his brief Mr Richardson had recommended only oneiaid to Canadas periodical pressan adjustment in postal rates which be said now favorUnited States publishers shipping into Canada Briefs from the Ontario Feden ation of Printing Trades Unionsvl and Hugh MacLean Publica tiuns Limited also suggemed changes in postal rates Main point of the MacLean brief was recommendation that any publication soliciting adlt vertising revenue in Canada and having 90 per centof Its circula tion here be required tohaveal leasti75Jper cot original Cana dinn editorial content Passs Tiiiisrinsnssf Dr Wyatt been taken to various Munich hospitals many of the critic ally injured LIKE DIVE BOMBER shopowner near the crash scene said The big plane come down like Amcricon students on lhei in wartime German dive bomber It made horrible whining noise We all dashed for shelter Then came an explosion which threw us against the all We ran outside There was homing mass of plahe and street car It was terrible intern The plane was on its way to ts hase atNortholt England Windows were smashed and doors ripped from their hinges by the planes explosion The plane bit Saint any Church steeple before crashing STRUCKéLOADED TEAM The parish priest of the church Father Karl Freehlich 54said Itwas terrible The burning plane shaved off the steeple and th plunged into streetcar jammed with vpassengers The plane Was also believed to carrying go American civdinn students Police said the plane crashed into the streetcar in on area filled with Christmas shoppers 31 was the worlds second plaha crash upon acity in two days Two planes collided and felihn NewYorkCily Friday with 1le of 1353 lives Iiioiiways Said Covered By Snow TOhONTO CPLLight snow flurries were reported falling to day in the Stratford and Owen Sound areas and highways in these districts were reported snowcovered In other parts of Southern 0nlt tario highways were mostly barn to snowcovered Some highways in Eastern 0n tario especially in the Ottawa district were rephrtedwet and slippery Others were snowcov ered to snowpacked In central and Northern Oa tario highways were silo covered to snowpacked with icy sections in the North Bayarea Highways at the Lakehead were mostly bare tocentrebare with light snowcovered sections in some areas an Cuban Envoy Asks Haven Here OTTAWA cmDetecting ofa secand Cubandiplomat from the Cuban Embassy here was dis closed Friday as Dr Joaquin Viadaro Wyatt third secretary said he is looking for job in Canada He indicated he was dissatisfied with the cum ad istration ined the Cuban foreignservice in 194v and turned in his resignation six weeks ago He said in telephone interview he lbelieyeSIhe has assurance from the Canadian gOVernment that he will hEallowd tostay nievious defection was that ofAmbsssadorLuis harnlt ap pointed alienFidcl Castroas sumed Cuban power The former envoy now lives in Toronto PARIS AP West German Defence Mi ster Franz Josef Strauss proposed today that the Western government leaders meet at summu conference It cleai policy for NATO ext spring to devise oewnu Germany Norway Sign Phi PARIS Reuters West Company and Norway toda ed an agreement on mutual purchase of defence equipine rder which NEWYOR day indications are that oneof rlds orst air disaster Ii Norway will buy 15 small submarines from estCer evaill cost about $6000000 Iiinione Oi Planes 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