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when it become* detonatable is to eight teet thick —also con-classified information., I I *V • ill A V/4 V V UiIf is used as the booster to theArk.: C. L.crete and steel. There is. the Air Gemini manned orbital flightslins. Ward.!6ft0 WelshThisIrishmanMovefL M P»uJohn F Fwav. ArkSEARCY. Ark. tAPtAyoung man an dan older man languished in hospital beds here today, thankful that they escaped from a fiery Tital II missile launch tube and sobered bv thefact that fellow workmen didn’t.The Air Force said 48 civilian workers were trapped when an explosion and fire flashed into the launch tube ofAmerica's mightiest intercon-continental ballistic missile * If it hadn't been for God. I’d never have got out of there, murmured 18 - year - old GarvWavne Lav of Clinton His face was red ad swollen *rom heat,but he was nr’* badlv burnedLa\, a summer lal-orer on the projec* suffered burns on his head, arms and legs m fleer ethrough the fire to a ladder on\A1 1t _A:Tirn}* cc1 M, V?cd to safetyHubert A blunders, 59, of Conway, a paint foreman, said the fire flashed below him HeClover. ShrThe fire flashed Into the gun God. help me When the fire barrel tlaunch tubeSaunders came the power went off, the said. I was in there. The bird lights went out. 1 couldn't see imissile) was in there. I moved him. I tried to climb down, but 1 got out of there. This old they were all jammed up so I Irishman can move when he has went up the ladder to. And I had to Saunders said he heard criesFdcar PernW 1.1th. NoiDelnhardFreddie ConOkmulgee. Stuckey. 41Citv. Tex.: \Saunders was hospitalized be-of help me. help me but could cause of smoke inhalation.see nothing but fire and billow-Both men said they could hear ing smoke in the close, dark the cries of others in the silo, launch tube332 N Sixi 111 ; William Ark.: Aubre General Del“1heard men crying and It was horrible. Lay said, screaming, Lay said Some-I thank the good Lord tor sav-body was yelling 'Help me ling me.412 Alcorn.iArmorel SchoolPlan ApprovedDies in Crash.Armorel'* desegregation planfits schools has been approved. it was announced yesNORTH LITTLE ROCK. Ark(AP)—A Georgia man was killed when his single-engine plane crashed in a field near hereM^ndav night.t*rdav•j -c r*partment of Edu-Stafe Folire identified him as Robert C. Turner, 35, of Au-Charles H Ark ; Lucia Route 4. Bi Ark.: M. H Tenth. Littl liam R. KeSprings. ArlLi, Route 4Donald A gusfa. Little W PemberiRnad. Littlecation in Little Rock said theArmorel plan was one of sevengusta, Ga. He was alone m theHamilton. 3fplane.Ark : Charllt;w as (V) t ’0 fir * 01 Him defend- *iven aPProva! over week-Route 1, Oziing levels.second.Lay was on tneMt. Kennedy !s a 13.900-footend by the I S Office of Ldu- pr k jirt east of Alaska bordercation in Little Rock. jin the Yukon Territory.William C!. Beebe. AInn 46. 4808{tie Rock, A
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