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School-Bus Driver Yook Fatal Chance It was the kind of dazzling winter day that is Colorado at its best -- the sky pale blue and feathered with cirrus; the tem- rature a dry and invigorating 0 degrees. in the fertile farm- district of Auburn, some 50 . miles northeast of Denver, the = sun glittered on a fresh snowfall A that covered the sugar-beet fields; but the road from the prosper- - ous Auburn farms ta the schools of Greeley, seven miles distant, - was plowed clear, In such stimulating weather, 'and with only three classroom days left before Christmas vaca- tion, the 37 children in the school bus from Auburn to Greeley were at their most exuberant -- _ Joking, laughing, shouting, carol- ing. The cheerful din was enough to cut off sounds from outside the bus, just as the mois- ture of the children's breaths fogged the side windows. When 23-year-old Duane Harms, the school-bus driver (since last September) approached the Un- lon Pacific grade crossing just southwest of Auburn, unmarked by warning flashes, he was en- ww. Joving the children's merriment. "And he knew no scheduled train passed there between 6:15 a.m. 5 and 10:30 a.m. It was then 7:59 th am, HY = Cruelly, what Harms did not Ae ~ w was that from Chicago all fvay west the train that ould have passed at 6:15 a.m. -- Union Pacific's streamlined 'City of Denver -- had been 'thrown further and further be- (hind schedule because of the yolume of Christmas mail it was Te oo J ~ picking up. By the time the train ~ approached the Auburn grade crossing that morning, Herbert F, Sommers, an engineer for 22 of his 64 years, had his giant diesel moaning across the prairie at 79 miles per hour. -Sommers and his fireman, elvin C., Swanson, 48, saw the" us clearly as they bore down on e intersection. "I. sure hope he stops," Swan- n said, "There are children in hat busi Sommers blew three warning blasts on his air -horn and slammed on the train's em- "ergency brakes. "The bus slow- 4 ed down like it was going to ~ ptop," he said afterward. "I guess t slowed to about 5 miles an hour, Then he stepped on the nn . gas hs I re ""Pis 'almost in half, shunting Xi front off to its leis ir the rear ig A i% prIstas presents jy. panned to exchange, their oolbags and lunch boxes, their | Lovable Dolls una Just a pair of man's socks -- E a few scraps of fabric, make these cutest 'jama dolls! Boys and girls--all children love them. Pattern 736: pattern for 12- - » dnch dolls, pajamas, nig \tgown; Pattern of faces, Dolls m Man's Size 12 $0cks, scraps, Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS "in (stamps cannot be accepted, | use postal note for safety) for this pattern 2 Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 128. Dial PATE (RN, T | . Pr 'plainky ¥ ' Toronto p pik NUMBER, your N. AD- din" ] 7 books -- one entitled "Roads to Everywhere." In the nightmarish aftermath of the tragedy, grizzled state cops wept as they picked up the silent dead and the wailing Injured, and mothers and fathers grew hysterical as they studied the small, shattered features and recognized the faces of their children. When the toll of the worst vehicular disaster in Colorado's history (and one of the worst in the nation's) finally was counted, it was: Twenty children dead; thirteen seriously injured. Five escaped with minor injuries, four children -- and driver Duane Harms. : After two days of hearings and investigation, Harms was charg- ed at the weekend with invol- untary manslaughter, a misde- meanor that is punishable by & year in jail. Under intensive questioning, he finally had ad- mitted that: (1) He might not have brought the bus to a full stop at the crossing; (2) he might os not have opened his door to : look out; (3) the visibility was poor because of fogged windows. Harms, in palpable misery, said: "I should have gotten glear out, because it's at such an angle there . . . because in order to see A, defense signal. NEW CIVIL DEFENSE WRINKLE -- Leslie Palmer, County, Wis, scurries out of the way after setting off a small aerial bomb as a civi Palmer suggests using fireworks bombs to warn parents their children are being sent home from school because of an emergency. Bombs can be their smoke seen farther. Palmer considers his plan instant mass communication. civil defense director of 'Waukeshg heard three miles, ee. anything at all, a fellow really should get out of the bus ..."" Joe Brantner, whose sugar- beet farm is half a mile from the crossing, was one of the first to arrive at the scene, searching for the two of his eight children who had boarded the bus min- utes before Kathy, 9, and Mark, 6. "I found Kathy right away," he said numbly, "I knew she was dead. 1 couldn't find Mark . . . I looked and looked, but I couldn't find him. Then 1 went for my wife and when we got back I found him right away. He was tore up so bad I hadn't recognized him at first." Brantner's neighbors, Ruben Alles, just kept repeating of his 10-year-old daughter, Linda: "She was going to decorate the Christmas tree tonight . .."" --From NEWSWEEK U.S. Hoodlums Fleeing To Canada Queer, how the sound of a voice can take you back years and years. I turned on the radio Saturday morning in time to hear Dr.- John Brown -- secretary of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association, I haven't seen or spoken to John for years but he and our son Bob were : friends when they were $aused to have a mar- 8 mostly at John's 8B up there they had fs" for camping and One thing the 87th Congress can really blow its about -- and there ax enough things -- he tion ad to eat, ~ i The City of Denver sliced the hong -| gal activities so they will be less "I murky 'Thirties_brought a new: nade of Mnover-running stream that could be dammed up in places to make a swimming hole, And for. years John's mother and ! were closely associated in W.L work--right up to the time we timed 5; 4 BIT degistation against . i¢ passed by Congress £ § year than at any time since the 'era of Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger, which means about 1934. Already the effect is being felt. The attorney general claims gamblers throughout the nation have been 'curtailing their ille- active in the same Institute I always think of the Brown's in connection with strawberries. We always got our berries there and they were the best in the district, Now to pass on to other sub- __jects.-Just.recently when the tem- perature dropped to five above I thought it was time to get my fur coat out of storage. That was easier said than done, Do you know it took me two days to get through to the department store where I had it stored! All on ac- count, of the Christmas. rush. 1 finally got through one morning at 8:30. Then Partner asked me to order him some light-weight woollen underwear which could only-be bought-in-one particular store and - it wasn't the one where my coat was in storage. So I started phoning again. This time all I got was Santa Claus. 'When he got through "Ho-ho-ing" then .1 got a busy signal. I was almost tearing my hair before I was through with those two little jobs. And I still haven't got my i LR Saturday morning I got a ride down - town with a neighbour and did a bit of last minute shop- ping. We were in Simpson's at vulnerable to federal prosecu- tion. Hoodlums are reported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be fleeing to Canada. "The new laws are well known to the hoodlums and racketeers in 'this' country, if not to the general public," Kennedy said. Nearly all the new laws touch in some way or another on inter- state aspects of racketeering -- crossing state lines to establish illegal "business. enterprises" involving gambling, liquor, nar- cotics, prostitution; interstate wire communications for gambl- ing, interstate shipment of fire- arms, and so on. _ The point the attorney general has made is that much of this big-time crime can be stopped -- if the public wants it stop- ped. "The public got "tired of Appalachin mobsters openly flouting the law, and the outcry helped bring about these new --laws, Just as. the outcry in the vigor to law enforcement thirty years ago. We -have no idea how long it will be before the $2 bet is ef- fectively outlawed, but when enough people get mad enough to raise the roof about that, too, we shall see some even more radical changes. For it is the little people, the small rackets, the "harmless" gamble that pro- vide the base on which the big rackets are built. That sort of outlawing begins than two hours, So it paid to go early. And oh! such lovely things to look at. I could have been carried away a dozen times but all.I bought in a big way was a good pair of snow-boots, By the time they were paid for there wasn't much left in my purse. . Unfortunately. I can't wear cheap winfer boots -- but I certainly wasn't prepared to pay $20 for them! Isn't that a terrific price? After lunch Partner and I got ourselves dressed and 'went to "Open House" at the home. of -the--gentleman who -got--in- for. council at 'the last Township election. He has a beautiful estate -- 65 acres -- with a lovely house that overlooks the ravine with .the Credit River running: through it. I won't be' satisfied unless I can take a look at it in "the spring. I am sure the view must be breath-taking, =~ Well, fan-mail letters and cards right here, in our own commun- {ties = not-in-Washingon, D.C, -- Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune. "/GINGERFARM Gwendoline BD Clear sold the farm. Mrs. Brown is still | them. One letter gave me quite houses you want to sell and can't, | Anyway here's hoping all's" nine. o'clock. and through in less | _-have been coming In. Some I | because as' you know everyone - is new babies right new. One "mother has just given birth to - a baby after being three months in hospital. Today her neighbour across the road also had a baby girl--and got to the hospital with only fifteen minutes to spare! Among my mail yesterday was a letter from a nephew in Eng- land whose wife is expecting her fourth in February. I am hoping it will be a boy as Desmond and his wee son Roger are the last . of the line in our branch of the Fitz-Gerald family so another boy will improve the chance of family survival. - Then of course there afte letters 'concerning the other-side of the--t ledger -- people passing away or going into hospital due to illness or accidents, Too bad when the necessity arises but on the other hand how wonder{ul that we have such good hospitals to care for a scolding. It said--"For a per- _ son who 'is supposed to take it . easy I am wondering if you know the meaning of the word!" You and my doctor too, Mrs. M.! But then you know the saying. --"It is better to wear out than rust out." Look at Grandma Moses--see what a full life she had. She started painting at the "age when a lot of elderly people spend most of their time nursing their. aches and pains -- which don't 'become less by receiving undue attention. And there 'are other kinds of worries--problem "children, uncongenial in - laws; "and other financial "problems. Even a business transfer creates a problem--moving to a district where you don't know a soul. well that ends well--in 1862. > HOME -- Ac Greta Garbo, 56, shown at Ar- "land. 'Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, made her first visit to her homeland in 13 years. » . lot is the concern of UNICEF -- United Nations ~--Q.~1s it proper to mail 'birth "mews? : -- mail announcements to-those who and syrup be out with the knife, usually out with knife and fork: _ thoughtful thing to do. _ | otherwise, unless, the man is an important personage oF very | _ to your friends, x DON'T TAKE MY HOOP -- Little girl in Lima, Peru, clings to her precious possession -- rim of an old bicycle wheel she uses as a hoop -- in fear 'that the photographeris going | to take it from her. She's one of the many children the world around whose impoverished Children's Fund. Morlarn Etiquette By Anne Ashley "7 Q. Are coirespondence eards -- considered in good taste? - A. Yes; and they are very pop- ular for the short, informal type of note. It is becoming more and more customary.for men and wo-_ men to use these cards, but they are not acceptable for any strict- ly formal correspondence. announcements to all one's friends, even to those whom ene has already telephoned the good A. It would seem- foolish- to have already been told the news. But to all others -- whether in town or far away -- mailed an-' nouncements are proper. Q. Should a walle with butter or must it be cut only with the - fork? . A. Like pancakes, waffles are Q. I have been Invited to a bridal shower in honor of a good . friend, but I have a previous commitment . that . will prevent 'gift to the shower?' oily A. This 1s the proper and " Q: Does a woman ever rise when a 'man extends his hand either to greet her or to bid her .good-by? * A. As a hostess, yes -- but not Q. How does one introduce: one's children to Stier petasiag A, Yoll Introduce Y children ou i er my ughter, usan,": then ; a hy 0s ur dau : 'do you * they have witnessed. _by means of an automatic wave : recorder they have actually meas- | ~~~ -|--lifeboats, bent the heavy steel my attending, Should I send a | At Peterhead, Scotland, a wave is stated to have reached a height of 120ft. At an Alderney breakwater a height of 2001ft. is believed to The Day The Sea Rose 270 Feet Tearing, grinding, erashing, it swept along the British North coas been ved, A wave Atlantic tline leaving inde- have observ scribable scenes of devastation observed by Sir James Douglas, along every mile 'of its grim the lighthouse engineer, holds. wake the record of all properly ob J : served waves, according to a me- \ii. That was hurricane Beisy, a storm of unsurpassed fury which destroyed wherever it struck, Mountainous seas and super gale- teorologist who conducted ra- search in 1928. \ "It threw gravel from the sea bed on to the platform of the force winds heralded its on- : i | lighthouse of the Bis Rock, slaught: nothing in its direct path LE eporiad + ln could survive, : Nong who witnessed the ocean's turbulence when Betsy blasted will ever forget the gigantic seas which seemed to roar yp from the very depths, ' But just how high were those dense and craggy walls of water? Terms such as "gigantic," "mountainous" and "towering" have been loosely used by old salts and landlubbers to describe those solid masses of ocean whose spectacle and awe-inspiring pro- portions have so much appealed to the imagination but which have hitherto escaped a more down-to-earth mathematical ap- praisal. Winter is now on us, Storm clouds have already become fa- miliar. Beneath their dark shad- ow .the seas around the coasts have risen again in all their wrathful. majesty, and before spring and summer are with us once more some shall have talk- ed in wonder of the great waves form is 120ft. above normal sea level and the sea there is 150ft. deep. As the gravel must have been snatched from the sea bed in the sea's upward sweep the | total wave height from trough to crest was therefore 270ft." Gay Change-Abouts - PRINTED PATTERN But as we button our coats to winter's blast or sit by a comfort- able fire we can speculate on just how high-those waves will really be at the height of the greatest storms. Ee Oceanographers are speculat- ing too. But they are going one practical step further. They are making new attempts' to measure the height of waves and the news has just been released that, ured a wave nearly seventy feet high. This is the highest reading they have so far taken, So now you don't have to be- lieve old sailors' stories of waves which were "mountain high." But you can believe Commander Frank Worsley, D.S.0., who noted in 1932 that the 49-955-ton liner Leviathan was once struck by a wave of extraordinary size. _ "It came suddenly out of the general run of the sea, seemed to tower above the vessel like a mountain, and then burst on her with terrific force," he said. ~~ "The 'wave threw .spray over her funnels which stood 130ft. above sea level. It smashed four Dress and separate pop-top -- two outfits in one for a little girl who's wide awake to the newest _ school fashions. 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