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mil''! ....................Plane Crashes in East Berkshire; Rescue Party Locates PassengersBy LISA LANSING grove of pine trees. Snow andu/AcuixrrTr\ivT rn. melting ice had made the areaWASHINGTON - Two young „ wa o( „ mud and langlodU.S. Armv men lay seriously in- brushjured in the wreckage ol a light The tw0 vjcti Alc][ Mazlka o( plane late this morning when Jotastown R, and G Mc. searchers found them in the N of providence, r.i .fio ° » ,h n°? k. u'V ™ lt;■ 'Of maneuvers atslope of the October Mountain Camp Drum |n Walerlown N Y.gt k re- They are stationed at Fort De-The wrecked airplane wasvens, Mass.Coal Miners Strike Jobs In 5 Statesstanding on its nose in a thickRescue HelicopterAn Air-Sea Rescue helicopter dispatched at midmoming from Salem made two trips to the scene carrying medical supplies and bringing in Dr. Hans Rascb of Hinsdale to give emergency care. The men are expected to be hospitalized in Pittsfield.The search began at 7:15 a.m . when the pilot of the plane,I nauthorized Robert Breen, 25. of Provi-Walkout Protests *• „ R V, cMrs:Charlotte Morgan of Beach Lack of Contract Road, Hinsdale. He told her he bad walked from the wreck out MASONTOWN, Pa. (UPI) — the rugged back country to ( oal miners went on strike in fjn(j belp. He was wrapped in a five states today to demon- blanket he had taken from a castrate their dissatisfaction with bin owned by Daniel J. Delorey.Whh rr‘L?'j°n,ralr! lalk!: Dazed and bleeding from head*as »ak«n lo St.• i j » a t Luke’s Hospital by the HinsdaleThe w,ideal walkout first ambulancc 'a(ter Mrs Momass strike in the industry whose hom„ has leleph‘ne.p . : do*od, railed state police from thePennsylvania, West Virginia „ o( Thomas Arm#dic at theOhio, Illinois and Kentucky It (oot f B,,ac,h Road „ was expected to spread today „ ( , , condition. He had with the movement of roving lku„ fracture and severe hcad bands of pickets. and (ace |accra(10nsNearly 20,000 miners joined _. the strike at its onset, refusing Pinn‘‘d in Debris to report for work on today’s The two young men were midnight to 8 a.m. shift. The pinned in the debris of the sin-soft coal industry employs gle-engine Piper Cherokee when 100,000 men. a group of searchers led by Mrs.Boyle Tacitiv Appro.es ?'°rKan found ,hem al a!?ul9:31 this morning. With Mrs. Officially, the strike was Morgan were Allen Anthony and unsanctioned by the United Ralph Cormier, both of Hinsdale. Mine Workers (UMW) but the „ |ook 1V4 hours t0 (jght strikers were certain they had |hcjr „ „u, ot |he brush, ,a,«w uoothuilapproval rcach thc home of Danie, D(.lo_rr i n President W. A. rey on Washington Mountain (Tony) Boyle. RoadBoyle was resuming negotia- „ .. . a, ..tions today in Washington with , z‘ cNamee werethe Bituminous Coal Operators descnbed by Mrs. Morgan as Association (BCOA). Impetus “seriously hurt.” One she said, for the walkout was the Pr°bably bp a broken back. BCOA’s refusal to match terms e c0lddn * move at all, she of a contract the UMW signed said’last Friday with the Peabody Pilot Breen told police this Coal Co. of St. Louis, the morning that the plane had industry’s largest. crashed at about 8 p.m. A pilotThe BCOA declared the strike for North Central Airways in , illegal because the UMW had Pawtucket R.I . Breen had left . not filed 60 days notice of the airport in North Smithfield,. contract termination. R.I., heading for Watertown,t A prolonged strike would cut N.Y. He was reported overdue I off coal supply for the steel in the northern New York city mills in the nation’s industrial at 9:45 p.m. heartland. Industry spokesmen Heavilv Overcast declined to say today when they y °'ertdstmight have to begin curtailing He told officials the sky was operations. heavily overcast and it wasThe association, which em- raining when the accident oc-ploys 40.000 UMW members, curred. The beacon on top of complained that a comparison October Mountain has been out was unrealistic since Peabody of commission for several was basically a strip operation months.with operating costs considera- About 25 searchers beat bly lower than those of through the woods during the association immbcis, who are morning to find the plane and deep, underground operators. the remaining survivors. Since 1 they were not in radio contact! Air Guard Balks wilh *•“ *“* p01/0,! a,,ans'ring of watchers at the foot ofj On t lying a Mule Beach Road had to wait untilLANDER. Wyo. (UPI) -The almost “ to bear themilitary has turned down “Sage- news- The firs* man t0 come . brush Sally” for duty in Viet Nam. of th^ woods was Anthony, w ho v Sally, a Wyoming mule was telephoned the state police from to replace Maggie,” another tbe Delorey home, mule shot by an Army sentry The men were looking through when she did not answer his tangled underbrush and overchallenge. grown woods in about a seven-But the Wyoming Air Nation- square mile area ringed by al Guard said it could airlift Beach Road, Route 8, Frost only priority cargo to Viet Nam, Road and Washington Mountain and a mule wouldn’t qualify. Road. Several men drove theirBiilleiinThe two air crash victims, Alex Mazika and George Mc-Namee, both 20 years old. were carried on stretchers out of the October Mountain woods at noon by volunteers. They were taken to Pittsfield General Hospital by a Civil Air Patrol ambulance from Westover Air Force Base. There was no report on their condition at an early hour this afternoon.four-wheel drive pick-up trucks up Beach Road clogged with melting ice and snow.Volunteers in the search were from Washington, Beeket, Dalton and Hinsdale. From the Dalton Avenue State Police barracks were troopers George Kane and Bruce Sedgewick. The Hinsdale ambulance and the Dalton Fire Department’s ambulance were waiting at the De-lorey’s home for the rescue group.Relatives of the victims were flying to Pittsfield late this morning.Breen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Breen of Providence. The pilot’s father is a special assistant to the attorney general of Rhode Island.ililllllllllllltllllltliiliilllillliinilllllllllllllilllllllllllllFaWhen Howard W. Smith and hu who does it. Air. Smith sewed a and the boys. L .to r: Mr. Smitl
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The Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Apr 11, 1966
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