Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 21

June 10, 1955 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL rage Twenty-On Driven From Home Parachute Jumps Two Plead Guilty Slated Monday REGISTER DAD at THE AMERICAN MAY BE ALBUQUERQUE'S LUCKY FATHER On Dyer Charges Woman's Troubles Only Started When She Was Hit by Meteorite Routine parachute training jumps will be made about 8:30 Two men, charged with viola a.m. next Monday by two mem bers of Kirtland Air Force she could forget the night when Base'i Flight 1-D of the 4602nd tion of the Dyer pleaded guilty before U. S. Judge Waldo H. Rogers Wednesday and 'will sentenced in federal court the celestial object came crash Air Intelligence Service ing through the roof but she Parachutists will be First Lt Urban A.

Feero who also will serve as jumpmaster, and SPECIAL TSgt Ralph H. Gottachalk added: "I can still remember all about it as if it happened only yesterday. "I had just lain down on the couch because of a headache. I had been there about 10 minutes when all of a sudden, the thing crashed in." They will jump from 2000 feet from a C-47 type aircraft travel 211 Fourth Street N.W. iginally scheduled for June 13 but postponed, will probably come to trial in late August Mrs.

Hodges' attorney is keeping the meteorite now. Meanwhile, Mrs. Hodges has received some 3500 letters from people all over the world inquiring about the rock and her health. Her most recent are from Germany and Japan. One letter from California asked: "Will you accept a dollar or two for it? I'd like to have it for my boy.

It would make him very happy. Although, as far as I'm concerned it isn't worth a cent." ing about 90 miles per hour. The jumps will take place southeast of the base on pri' vately owned ranch land. Drop She said she heard the noise of hiiday and skimm zone commander will be A2C Myron S. Strasser and air craft safety man will be A.

2C SYLACAUGA, Ala. (INS) Mm. Ann Hodges' troubles only started when she was hit by 8 meteorite. Tourists have driven her from her home. She still suffers Jrom an injured hip.

And she can't even claim undisputed ownership of the nine-inch celestial rock which ripped through the roof of her home on Nov. 30, 1954, and struck her. The 32-year-old housewife ays in a rare bit of understatement: "I wish it had never happened." Mrs. Hodges, said sne was forced to move from her Syla-cauga home to evade the horde of tourists that came to gaze at the meteorite. She added: "I got so tired of explaining ever and over what had happened.

I didn't mind in the beginning but they kept coming." She now lives about 10 miles from Sylacauga in an out of the way place where even the most persistent of tourists would find It difficult to locate her. Mrs. Hodges said she hoped Jerry R. Lawson. An alternate date for the ma Monday.

Entering guilty pleas to a charge of transporting a stolen auto across state lines from Tulsa, to New Mexico were William H. Caldwell, 33, D. and Theodore L. Penamon, 32, Atlanta, Georgia. Charles Lopez, 24, charged with illegal possession of narcotics, refused to waive indictment and was bound over for action by the grand jury which reconvenes in July.

His co-defendant and wife, Rosie, 19, requested assistance of counsel from the court. Judge Rogers appointed James G. White to represent her. A 15-year-old Mexican national denied a charge that he violated the Dyer Act by transporting a stolen auto from New Mexico into Arizona. Judge Rogers deferred the setting of a date for a juvenile hearing.

neuver, in case of bad weather SAVE 20.00 ON A PAIR Girl Escapes Assailant or other delaying circumstances; is June 14. ICE PICK STOLEN the unannounced rock and felt a sharp pain in her hip and hand. She was hospitalized for five days. Her initial reaction was that it was a piece of an exploded aircraft. But later when it was learned that it was a meteorite and Hodges was the first to be hit and live, a legal squabble developed.

Mrs. Hodges' ex-landlady, Mrs. Birdie -Guy, contends the meteorite belongs to her since it was her house that it crashed through. Hodges bases her claim on the fact that it was her flesH that it tore into. A suit to settle the matter, or Pickings were mighty slim for thieves who broke into the Eugene Field School, '700 Edith A 13-year-old girl received a black eye but managed to escape after a youth dragged her under theBarelas bridge and attempted to molest her Wednesday afternoon, it was reported to police.

The girl reported the incident to her mother who called police. The girl reportedly was dragged under the bridge after she was accosted while walking nearby. MODERN, REVOLVING T-V CASUAL CHAIRS SE, early Wednesday, police were told. The only thing missing was an ice pick. Janitor Pedro Lopez said a window on the front door of the school was broken to gain entrance.

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