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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1947
Page
10
HAL BOYLE recounts a tall Army transport tale from the Far East about a single parachute and a sergeant who used a comical ruse to coax Chinese soldiers to jump. The legend reflects wartime morale and the hazards of ferrying Chiang Kai-shek’s troops.
A sergeant amid a near crash shouted for order and leaped from a sinking aircraft, pulling his parachute as passengers followed. They jumped clingingly to his knotted pants, escaping the Chinese army’s danger without a single complaint.
The nationwide Quiz Kids contest invites letters from students through high school naming "The Teacher Who Has Helped Me the Most." First prize is 2500 dollars for graduate study plus Chicago show appearance and paid trip. Second to fourth prizes offer 500 dollars, with smaller awards for other top letters and many entries receive smaller prizes.
San Antonio police report that Michael Katherina, 26, of Tewksbury Massachusetts, confessed to taking part in the $31 000 Abbott-Wister Woolen Mills robbery in Forge Village Massachusetts on January 24. He was arrested here on information from Massachusetts state police.
Dr Harold G Cooke president of McMurry College was injured in a car crash on Highway 36 southeast of Abilene He suffered a broken neck rib and collar bone and facial cuts He rests comfortably at Hendrick Memorial Hospital with an eight week hospital stay and eight month brace required after the accident while en route to a United Texas Days meeting in Austin.
C P Cabell, chemical engineer at Hanford, says three industrial atomic energy plants are functioning there near Richland Washington. He notes atomic heat control was solved before the first atom bombs and that atomic power will not replace water or fossil fuels immediately. He spoke at the Edison Centennial event in Portland Oregon.
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