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EXPLOSION AND FIRE WRECK REFINERY--Flames a cracking plant at the Gulf Refining Co. plant in Southern section of Philadelphia after explosions ripped through the structure. Here firemen battle the blaze for more than four hours as the fire gives the plant the appearance of a rocket launching Wireprroto. Ahead in TV By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP TV-Radio Writer NEW YORK (AP)--The television networks have scheduled a busy week for viewers who don't want to miss the special Taking the listings day-by-day, there is another Jackie Gleason show on CBS tonight, and until that comedian decides just what he's going to do with his weekly half-hour, it's a show 10 keep an eye on EST). And then there's Polly Bergen.

Carol Lawrence and Paul Whiteman in NBC's bi-weekly Telephone Hour (9-10). Sunday brings a repeat of the NBC Opera Company production of Beethoven's "Fidelio" (3-5 p.m.), followed immediately on the same network with an "Omnibus" dramatic treatment of the formative years of Abraham Lincoln (5-6). ABC's "Close-up" a p.m.) is a filmed report on the final testing of the first space rocket ship. NBC's Hall of Fame will do a 90-minute adaptation of Jean An- They Celebrate With Bit o' Tea Men Who Died on'Old Shakey'Possibly Had Some Warninn OTIS. AIR FORCE BASE, Mass.

Since there were double doors. wn TM TM trapicd aboard the Texas Tower when it crashed in a raging storm off the New Jersey coast Jan. 15 may have had a. few seconds warning that the giant radar platform was about to collapse. Divers have found only one body inside the huge steel triangular structure now resting on the bottom in 180 feet of water.

Another was discovered water. in the A total of 28 Air Force and Civilian personnel died in the plunge of the tower, nicknamed "Old Shakey" by men who served aboard. Since there were double doors than the one lost off New between i i quarters and No fears have been felt the; outside decks the absence of for the safety of the 110 men bodies inside structure a indicate the men made a frantic effort to save themselves just before the tower fell. One body clad in a life jacket was found in the sea afterwards. A second body was sighted and lost in the stormy waves.

No trace of the other 25 persons has been found. This Cape Cod air base was in charge of the tower, one of three linked to the Air Defense Command. The other two towers are off Cape Cod and Nantucket, both in much shallower aboard these towers. Divers working over the site of the wrecked tower have been hampered by stormy weather for the past two weeks, Air Force officials said. High waves have made it difficult for surface vessels to stay on station while the divers were operating, A nine-member military board of inquiry closed hearings here Thursday and has gone to Air Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo.

There was no indication when its report would be released. Most of the Air Force personnel numbering about 00 men had been taken off the radar station last November when divers re- Ported that the tower leg braces had been damaged again by Hurricane Donna in September. The men lost Jan. 15 were a minimum Air Force crew a had been leit aboard plus civilian workers attempting to repair the tower. Air Force sources indicated no efforts to salvage the tower i be attempted until the winter storms abate.

Bismarck, in a speech in 3850, said: "Better pointed buleJts than pointed speeches." BIDS INVITED WASHINGTON (AP)-- The crnment Thursday called fa by April 3 on contracts search and development of clear powered rocket engi be used in interplanetary 1 sions. The proposals were by the Joint Nuclear Office of (he Atomic Energy mission and the National nautics iind Space TV NEED REPAIR? Coll AAA TV SERVICE 1 614 N. Turner, Ph. Anytime -COMPLETE SET OFFER BBHHH' BK EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP)-Three lighthouse keepers toasted the health of their lighthouse--in tea Thursday. The lighthouse is on Bell Rock, off the east coast of Scotland.

It and since then not a single north sea mariner has died on the rock. The lighthouse was designed byl'j Robert Stevenson, engineer grand-i father of writer Robert started 150 years ago today Stevenson. ouilh's i Remembered" Tuesday p.m.) and later (10-11) there will be a dramatic special, "String of Beads," based on a W. Somerset Maugham story, with Chester Morris and Jane Fonda. Arlene Francis and Jack Carson star in Wednesday night's Steel Hour on CBS (10-11) and in spite of the stars, it's not a comedy.

On Thursdaj---regretably overlapping--there is NBC's "musical special, "Remember How Great." starring song hits of the past 30 years, Jack Benny, Andy Williams, Connie Francis and Harrv! James, and the debut of CBS' 60-minute Western, "Gunslinger" (9-20. Oil Magnate Dies In Lisbon Home LISBON, Portugal (AP) Martin Sain, oil magnate, died in EstOril Thursday at age 76. He was born in Romania of a wealthy Jewish family. He introduced the oil refinery industry in Portugal in 1940 and founded the Socieclade Portuguesa de Refineria de Petroleos. In 1918 Sain founded in Romania the Redeventza Company which pioneered oil production in that country.

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