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Ohio Vacationers Say They Saw Collision of Planes at Grand Canon WASHINGTON HV-A vacationing Ohio couple testified Wednesday they saw the aerial collision June 30 of two big airliners, which crashed into the Grand Canyon with a loss of 128 lives. Eugene J. Sister, 24, and his brown-haired Lois, were, surprise witnesses as i fact-finding panel of the Civil Aeronautics Board opened public hearings into the disaster. they appeared on the witness stand there had been no hint of any eyewitnesses to the colis- Every body aboard the planes, a TWA Constellation and a United DC7, was killed. Siefer, a maintenance mechanic in in plant at Ottawa, said he knew al once that the airliners, had collided.

But he testified that when he last saw them before they from view behind a mountain they were flying side-by-side as iX stuck together. He did not re-. allze they had- been disabled and that they had crashed. Lois said it seemed to her the planes "camo together through a clearing between the clouds," but that she did not realize they had collided until learning of the disaster, in California the next day. CAfi Chairman James R.

i of the fact-finding panel, stressed to Siefer that his testimony and that of his wife was "very, very important," because they are the only known eyewitnesses. Durfee said the panel wanted only facts on what the couple saw. "I saw the two planes collide," Siefer commented. "I'm not guessing at anything." The Sisters, related they driving west and a little north on Highway 66, roughly 15 miles cast of Flagstaff, between 12:30 and'l p.m., "our (Central Standard) on June 30. Lois was at the wheel of their station wagon, 'Eugene Jhe rear seat.

(This tinie'-'cortesponds the estimated time of the crash). Siefer said Lois exclaimed "Look at those planes." Lois said she did this because "he likes to watch planes." Siefer said the "sky was covered with clouds," and he saw to the northwest the two planes-emerge from them. One plane, which he said was a DC7, was "a little higher" than the other, which he testified was a Constellation. you see them hit?" he was asked! "Yes," Siefer replied. And prolonged questioning never changed this.

As the hearing got under, way, Durfee said the panel proposes'to sift through all the avaUable facts, including highly technical testi mony, to determine the "probable cause" of- the tragedy. Until the facU have been evaluated and i report issued, he said it would be "premature for anyone to attempt to assign a probable cause for the accident." Just before the big "airliners collided, Siefer testified, the Constellation "came up." After that, he said, tie planes flew on in a gen- criy easterly direction am "seemed to stay together" side by tide. They were still together when they disappeared from sight behind a mountain, he said. Siefer testified he saw no wreckage, no smoke and no Siefer said he and his wife hat no idea the planes were down un til they heard about the disaster from filling station operator in Needles, the next day. They said they did not repor what they had seen to authoritie; until their return from California 10 days later.

They were afraid he' said, they might be detainee for 'questioning beyond the sched uled time for their return ant and their "finances couldn't slant that." CAB investigators got in touch with them after they re'laled Iheir experience lo Iheir local newspaper editor. GRAND CANYON, Ariz. -Private memorial services will be conducted at Grand Canyon National Park Cemetery Thursday for 29 United Air Lines passengers whose remains could not be identified following the double airliner crash June 30. In 128 persons died when the UAL DC7 and a Trans World Airlines Constellation smashed to jagged canyon buttes after an apparent collision in history's worst commercial air disaster. Remains of half the.58 UAL victims were identified and sent to their homes for funerals.

The services Thursday will be for the others, represented by four caskets buried in the cemetery July 12. A memorial stone bearing their names will be placed over the ntvesite Thursday. The stone will be draped, in a multi-color wreath of 2,500 carnations arranged in patterns depicting the 23rd Pslam. One hundred and 24 relatives and friends of the dead were fjown .0 Winslow, by UAI Wednesday. From Winslow, they were brought to Grand Canyon by DUS.

United Air Lines announced that addition these relatives and friends, only 1 newsmen will be permitted to attend the services, with he general p'ublic excluded. Plenty, oj Saik Vaccine ior All, Govi. Slates WASHINGTON tfi Federal allotment of Salk p-lio vaccine io the stales was ended Wednesday with word a the supply was more plentiful. This means that the vaccine goes on the open mark: 1 in sense that manufacturers can sell it in normal channels of distribution, without earmarking any specific quantity for individual states. The goverr.raent will continue its financial assistance program to the states and territories for purchase of vaccine and for public vaccination programs for children under 20 and expectant mothers.

Vaccine manufacturers will continue to report to the Public Health Service on geographical distribution of their sales. The slates wiU be notified the release of new vaccine. Colorado Gels Millions lor New Roads AVASHINGTO.V Hi Secretary of Commerce Weeks Wednesday illoltcd to the slates speed construction of first sec- Denver, jons of the new road counties a asked by Harold R. network. The money, the fiscal year eginning next 1, is largest amount ever provided for roads at one time in history.

This second division of funds Claims New Flying Record Between A. and Denver on Wed. DENVER Maj. Clyde E. Good of Los Angeles claimed a new flying record between here and Angeles Wednesday landing a YF 100 jet fighter plane at Lowry Air Force Base, Good said he flew at speed approaching 650 miles per hour in covering the 845 miles in 1 hour 25 minutes and 59 4-5 seconds.

The plane, which made its.firsl flight in May, lo be retired on the grounds of the U. S. Air Force Academy, now quartered at Lowry until its permanent home near Colorado Springs is ready. Good is. assistant Air plant representative at American Aviation, Inc.

Force North Alleged Slayer of ons Girl Denied Change of Venue TUCSON, Aril. Richard L. Jordan Wedntjday was denied a change of venue for his second rial for the 1954 knife slaying of a young Colorado woman. The body of Phyllis Mae Thompson, 23, of Lyons, nude and jearing 16 slab wounds, was found on the desert near Tucson May 25, 954, the day after, the state charges, she had been on dale with Jordan. The 32-year-old Jordan, an unemployed male nurse, was' con- 'icted of first degree murder and entcnced to death later.that year.

Jut the Arizona Supreme Court ordered new trial on the ground hat the prosecutor had made in- lammatory and unfair, arguments jefore the jury. Defense attorneys told Superior Zourt Judge J. Mercer Johnson Wednesday that a fair second trial could not be obtained in Pima county (Tucson). They uvgued that Pima county residents were too familiar wilh the case as a result of the first trial having been in Tucson. Judge Johnson denied the motion for venue change but said the defense could renew the request when the trial opens Tues day Superior Court Judge Lee Garrett.

in a blue suit sat in the courtroom while his at tomeys made their unsuccessfu plei. Also denied by Judge Johnson were.defense motions to quash the charge and for inclusion in bill of particulars of more specific information on the time and place of the slaying. Miss Thompson was killed after she had stopped in Tucson while en route by bus from San Diego to Lyons. aside for the states. The amounls apportioned to each slate include: Arizona, Monlana, New Colorado, Idaho, Ulah, Wyoming, $25,947, 765.

totre Dame Withdraws rom Sugar Bowl Hoop 'ourney at New Orleans SOUTH BF.ND, Ind. Noire Dame Wednesday formally withdrew from the Sugar Bowl Basketball Tournament al New Or- eans Dec. 28-29, because of Louisana's new racial law. Rev. Edmund P.

Joyce, execu- Ive vice prcsitlenl, disclosed he vrote Paul DeBlanc, president of he New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports that Notre Dame lad to quit the tourney in view of the Louisiana law prohibiting athletic contests between white and Negro participants. Notre Dame's freshman cage squad had one Negro candidate. U. P. Rehires Men Wyoming Convict, Sentenced to Die, Makes New Appeal COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa Ml -The attorney for Clay (Tricky! Higgle said Wednesday he woulc appeal lo the U.

S. Supreme Couri in an effort to halt the scheduled execution in the Wyoming gas chamber Sept. 5. Thomas 0. Tacy pointed, out thst the Wyoming Supreme Court's refusal to grant the 56- year-old former circus and rodeo trick roper a rehearing was a prerequisite for appealing to Ihe U.

S. Supreme Court Higgle was convicted of first degree murder in a dpuble shooting in a Wheatland lunchroom March 28, 1953. Killed were Frances Williamson, 53-year-old widow whom Higgle was to have married later that evening, and Walter Ackerblade, 59. Riggle's conviction was upheld by the Wyoming Supreme Court last spring 1 The court denied his petition for rehearing Tuesday. USE THE TRIBUNE ADS Aug.

1 The Union Pacific railroad has called 56 of some 500 employes laid ofi at Cheyenne as a result of the steel slrike back lo their jobs. Railroad officials said others would be called back soon as economic conditions permit." The announcement pointed out that it would probably be from three lo six weeks before' stee production is built up to take up the slack that resulted from the steel mills closing down 30 days ago. Union Pacific workers through out the state were laid off because the steel strike reduced railroac freight traffic. Here Is a Bargain FORT COUJNS wantad in The Fort Collins Coloradoan "Kighteen-year-old son am 23-year-old Pontiac must part WiU sell Pontiic, 450. Has trav eled 71,917 miles.

S4H1 willing and able." Eigtity-five percent of air line stewardesses resign for a single reason--to get married. "The Shrimp Boats a here there'll be feasting tonight!" JUMBO SHRIMP 4 golden Jumbo Shrimp with tar-Jar talad tries i roll. SHRBMP 1 MORE than a MEAL an EXPERIENCE! SHRIMP BURGER 2 golden-brown Jumbo Shrimp i French Tartar Sauce Roll Pickle! treat! DELUXE ORDER ft Jumbo Shrimp tra-hungry ffiks strvcd fn a Shrimp Boat" with aft the tx- 69c Harry Cameron's NODELAY In a "Ihrlmp Shrimp Headquarters TAKE HOME ORDERS: TEL. 497 Federal flood Aid. Sought for Denver IP Designation of Denver as flood disaster area was soughl by federal officials Wednesday as new rains pelted Ihe southern sections of the waterlogged city.

Although rains continued in some' sections, the Weather Bureau forecast diminishing thundershower activity. The disaster designation for Smethills, regional director for the U. S. Small. Business Administration.

If Washington officials approve his request, businessmen and homeowners will be able to apply for rehabilitation loans or the new road building plan I which carry three per cent dngs to $3,675,000,000 already setUovcst. in- Says Gb'vt. Buying of Cattle' Must Be Early To Benefit Producer ifl Hep. Thomson (R-Wyo) said Tuesday he regretted missing Cheyenne Frontier Days, but "lust week we had a few rough ones of our own cubing out of the chutes." Thomson returned to Cheyenne following Friday 1 adjournment of Damages x'rom heavy rains the past five days have been estimated by Der.rer city officials at near five million dollars. Film Distributor Sues TV Station at Colo.

Springs DENVER Ifl A New York City film distribution firm filed suit in Federal District Court Wednesday asking $52,500 damages from a Colorado Springs television sta- KRDO-TV, claiming breach of contract. The suit by Unity Television Corp. claims the station failed to pay for films furnished under contracts negotiated in 1953. Frank Potts Signs Dog Killing Charge Against CU Professor BOULDER Ifl Frank Potts, 53, University of Colorado track coach, signed a complaint Wednesday against university professor accused of shooting Polls' dog. Polls said Christopher Burns, 32, journalism instructor, shot Jeff, a collie-police dog mix, after he fought wilh Burns' Dutch, a dachshund.

Burns said the two dogs got in a fight Sunday. He said it repeated a fight a year ago in which his dog's leg was broken in four places, requiring expensive veteri- a care. Burns said after breaking up the fight and taking his bleeding dog home he went looking for Jeff and fired three or four times at him with a .22 caliber pistol. Polls' complaint charged Burns with cruelty to animals, malicious mischief and threals against prop erty. Horace Holmes, deputy district attorney, said the complaint would be filed in County Court probably Friday.

Thomson said bills of direct benefit to Wyoming which were "ridden to passage" were for consideration of Ihe Owl Creek- Project at Thermopolis and for development of bcntonite in Johnson county. "I expect the President will sign small irrigation projects bill," Thomson said. "This vital legislation contains objectionable language which can be removed when funds are The Interior Dept. has been urged to spced-'up construction of access roads and bridges at Flaming Gorge damsile to take care of Methods of Measuring River Flow Takes Time in San Francisco Hearing SAN FRANCISCO Vf Highly technical lestimony on methods of measuring flow of rivers occupied most of the morning session Wednesday at the U. S.

Supreme Court trial of (he hotly fought Colorado River water rights case before a special master here. Expert Witness R. J. Tiplon of Denver, consulting engineer and authority on western stales water developments, testified for Arizona in the controversy concerning the "virgin flow" method of river measurement. Arizona relies on this method in part in pressing her claim to 3.8 million annual acre feet of water from the Colorado and its tributaries.

To get this much waler from Ihe thirsty lower basin area of the river valleys the slale is urging that California's use be cut from its present annual 5,362,000 acre feet by aproximalely 30 per cent. California, which relies on a concept described by' ally. Norlh- cutt Ely as "measuring flow at the site of use," contends her present allocation is justified under existing compacls. Tipton described "virgin in brief, as "taking Ihe recorded flow at a point of interest (downstream) from'points of use, adding to it the sum of man made depletions at points of use, and subslraling the water salvaged by man's activities between the points of use and the points of interest." All these things can be done, he DENVER Ml The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Wednesday ordered operators of oil wells in the Adena Field, Colorado's second largest, lo 'shut in all wells producing at the rate of more than 10,000. cubic feet of natural gas to one barrel of oil." The order -also places-.

a daily )roduction limit''6f barrels The order followed a hearing-by commission on July. 2. It requires that no more than IB.8 mil- ion cubic feel' of gas can be uti- ized in producing the 14,000 barrels of oil daily. Demands Facts on U. S.

Involvement in Suez Zone Squabble DENVER The Denver Post a' editorially Wednesday thai the U. S. State Dept. and the British Foreign office release documents concerning withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal. The Post said the "white papers" deal with negotiations be- the two nations and Egypt's Premier Nasser on the agreement to pull Iroops out of the canal zone.

Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of The Post, senl a cabli to Secretary of State Dulles in London suggesting the action. "It is important to American public opinion that the official account of Nasser's commitments to this country and Britain be made known," Hoyt said. Homes for Dogs McALESTER, Okla. Hi Mrs Tom Garrard operates an unofficial, one person humane society. During a recent 6-week period Mrs.

Garrard.found homes for 56 dogs. Adena Oil Field deduction Placed Under Restrictions Pago .1 (JKEELEY'TRIHUNE 2, lf56 Ike Signs Bill Allowing Women To Retire al and Providing for Disabled Workers over 50 WASHINGTON Ml. President Eisenhower Wednesday signed into law a precedent-setting social security hill permitting women to retire at 62 and disabled workers to draw benefits at 50. In signing the President said in a statement: of the new widows, 300,000 working women, and 300,000 wives of retired husbands. The measure also extends social security cuvcfagc to about 225,000 additional persons, mostly professionals.

Medical doctors wil left as the only sizeable group in the nation not covered aside from initial form," but those provisions unemployment in the Green Hivcr "were modified and improved be- Convicts' Allegations of Barbarism Compel Hearing in Georgia Ga. Ml beatings, other brutality and in; Ebburaling, Eisenhower an I dignity were described in stretch- S' nal proposal lo loivc-i the interviews by convicts who wiH, I i age womcl1 was smashed their legs with sledg. domestic wool changed lo provide that a rather than serve in th. area resulting from railroad layoffs, Thomson said. He said, "we defeated the tariff bill which would have fore their final enactment and now meet, in part, some of the administration's objections." systems.

"1 am hopeful that this new government workers, most ol on the whole, will advance i have own retirement economic security of the American people." The President said the law "contains certain major provisions "about which the administration had serious reservations in their grower. "1 a also discussed the pos- womcn and wire's may accept reduced benefits at an earlier age sible cattle buying program accept full benefits at C5. Agriculture Secretary Benson," he "I am hopeful that this provis- said. I pointed out that if such a ion will have no adverse effect program is lo be instituted to be of benefit to producers, buying must take place between Aug. 20 and Oct.

IS. "After that it would be a windfall for speculators instead of benefit to producers who need the help." Highway Depf. Facing Crisis, Wafrous Avers DENVER Colorado's High- on employment opportunities' for older Eisenhower said. He -noted the law provides full benefits at age 62 for witlows because of their special needs. The President also noted that Congress modified "somewhat" an original proposal to provide disability benefits at age 50 or older.

"A special Irust fund was established for Ihe disability program in an effort to minimize the effects of the special problems in (his field on the other parts of Ihe program--retirement and survivors protection," the President said. "We will, of course 1 endeavor to administer the disability provisions efficiently and effectively, in cooperation with the states. 1 also pledge increasing emphasis on efforts to help rehabilitate the dis- way Dept. faces "the greatest I 10 "TM "naoui.aie me cus- challenge in ils history" getting ablccl so at the ma reljrn lo a new 63 million dollar budget inlo aclual highways, Chief Engineer Mark U. Watrous said 'Wednesday.

The budget is expected to increase to more than 66 million dollars when the 'highway commission puts back into i two items vetoed by Gov. 'Johnson for revision. This probably will be useful employment." Another origiribl provision, Eisenhower said, proposed a 25 per cent increase in social security taxes on everyone covered by the system. Georgia rock quarry prison for incorrigibles. One declared.

"Rather than go back, I rather they'd take me out and shool me." He was Robert Smallwood, convicted in four counties of'burglary, auto larceny and attempted murder charges. Several said that despite the excruciating pain they would break their oilier leg rather than go back to the "hard rock" bastile near Buford, 40 miles northeast of Atlanta and about 200 north of here. A group of 3fi shattered their legs with their 10 to 14-pound hammers during an afternoon rest pe- tied at the quarry others followed suit Tuesday. Brought here for treatment at the stale's central prison, they were interviewed by John Pennington of the Atlanta Journal in Ihe prc-senee of Warden R. P.

Balkcom, Jr. Pennington reported that several told about an incident of prison savagery of which he had heard earlier from a nonprison source. One convict, he related, said a Negro, Mickey Dennard, was "just about bealen to death" last week by a quarry "boss" or guard. James Hall, 22, in the rock quarry, prison two years, declared. "1 am pleased that the tax in-1 "They beai me and shot me and crease now has cut in everything else." W.

H. the President said. 122, there almost three years for I A I i IJLS pIUUHUjy Will US i done at a meeting about Aug. 20 added lhal the increase ap- auto said, "Ihey done Johnson signed Ihe revised f. rovcd "should be adequate to I wore lne out i.

couldn't go no fur- budget, except for the two items, Wednesday. Administrative Engineer Charles rom the field, which is operated Shumate a reporter "we're under xiniUzation' agreement sure 'going 7 lo give'it: a try" when The stale director of corrections, Eisenhower Signs Servicemen's Bill WASHINGTON President Eisenhower Wednesday signed with what he said was "great satisfaction" a bill substantially boosting benefits for many suryiv- ors of servicemen who died while on'aclive duty. The President, in a statement, said Congress "for the first time in may years, has given a measure of financial security to the families of our soldiers, sailors, and marines which will enable Ihem lo face the inherent hazards and uncertainties of military life with increased confidence." F.isenhower called the bill an "important measure" and said it would have a far reaching effect on service personnel. Scooter Hazard E'ASTON, Pa. Ht--Riding on a motor scooter has ils hazards.

Just ask 19-year-old Bruce Solllano. Bruce stopped his scooter al an intersection and a dog ran info the road and bit him on the left leg. He treated at Easton Hospital for six puncture wounds. mission and Gov. Johnson recently raised the pay of beginning engineers by S80 monthly ir an ef- forl to allow the department to recruit personnel.

The new budget is 'a revision of the one previously adopted for the year, calling for overall ex-' of about 47 million dollars including 36 milions for construction. It a i a possible by additional funds allocated the stale under the new highw'ay bill passed by Congress. The new budget stresses improvement of major highways- in the state, links in the U. S. interstate sysjem.

Particular emphasis is placed on S. 8587 between Denver and Pueblo Major improvements in and near cities--Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo--are included. finance the benefits, assuming ef-i( ficient administration." i The The new tax after Jan. 1 a Forrester, firsl declared that be per cent each iha crn- lu investigation into the pioyer. and employe on the smashing spree would be necessary but he changed his mind and a full-dress inquiry is now in prospect.

It will be a public hearing by The new disability benefits, es- the prison committees of limated to average about $75 a Senate and House beginning early month, are expected to go to about 340.000 persons in the first year. The payments do not start until July, 1957. Women electing to go on social security retirement rolls between 62 and 65 will get their first checks in December this are expected to take advantage Mttfna To Mend Wentworlh LEXINGTON, McCrea, son of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel I.

McCrea, 1329 Twentieth street, Greeley, has been accepted for admission lo Wentworth Military academy as a member of the J956 57 cadet corps, Colonel James M. Sellers, superintendent, announced Friday. McCrea will commence i studies here Sept. 10 when the academy opens ils 77th academic session. Wentworth, a Department of the Army Honor school, offers a senior ROTC course that prepares youths for commissions in the infantry reserve.

Cadets qualifying in milifary subjects and attending i summer camp are commissioned second lieutenants upon a a i i a baccalaureate degree. 2ND TERRIFIC TYRONE POWER KIM NOVAK EDDY DUCHIN STORY THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY Extra! "MAGOO BEATS THE HET" and News! 'til 6:00 75u after 6:00 Children 20c USE THE TRIBUNE WANT ADS 1 Special Attention GIVEN -WEDDING DINNERS and RECEPTIONS CAMFIELD HOTEL Thursday at the Buford prison. It was called by the joint chairmen, Sen. D. B.

Blalock of Newman and Rep. Robert L. Harrison, of Jesup, at Forrester's request. Magsaysay 'Available' MANILA iffh- President Ramon Magsaysay says he's avaiiablt for 'a second four-year term. Tht announcement, in reply- to questions Friday, was not unexpected.

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