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at 5:36 at the r. Hun-ught on lome inin the wntown et deep 50 feet“Complete evaluation of dum-| Anchorage stands at the headjwere age and loss of life not yetJof Cook Inlet and as the shock! Anlt; available, but information pres*!and tidal waves rolled down the.darkie city, Idings— new— n them-)rted aTwo Children Die As Plane Crasheswent in U gene; ■ fireRe| other j lishet after Da; siveJACKSONVILLE, Ark. tAP)jmissed the Grover Butler homejprUp[ —An Air Force B47 bomber! by just a few yards. Four other jfireficrashed in a cascade of flame!c^c!1 en were ’1™^' ithe ■'A barn near the home was de- vniasked* 10 Y ^ Priday,!molished. Pour Shetland ponies!]7,“L—__ !killing four crewmen and two and three dogs also were vie- mI children. tims of the crash. ^he[0 The boys were playing when This was the fifth B47 crash sta^ciathe huge plane slammed inlo'!^1’ thc' base sjnce l95B- atthe ground less than 50 yards;1 hc cl ilshes, kl1 ed 10 lucrewmen and three civilians,Five Men Lockedbe illground less man w y from the home of one of the2 |victims, Richard Butler, 9. The j second child, Gary Davenport, I 110 died this morning. ,The Buter boy was apparently killed by fire which spurted In \A/infmU/mCC ; a from the plane, and the Daven- 10 Wlll«UWie»Lime-fport boy was critically burned.j ywhere The Air Force identified the !crewmen as: ;i of the Lt. Col. R. W. Hurdis, 43,; d pro-1Providence, R.I., pilot;Box For 25 Daysandhad :A !wher finesl abovlt; crum tumb Pn ed (c son (SEATTLE, Wash. lt;AP)—For|JL^25 days, fi\e men have been perioile will! 1st Lt. L, V. Christian, 27,.locked in a windowless L-shaped:11*^yterian!Dallas, Tex., copilot; jbox, eating freeze - dried foodjuntil 6; 1st Lt. M. B. Keller, 24, At-j breathing the same air over-|countjlanta, Ga., navigator; (and-nver. and drinking water 1iota forj Lt. Col. L. M, Dykes, 43, St.jrectaimed from wastes. m'Armiwerecamstricl'h Feb. Petersburg, Fla., a passenger. The lest of life-support sys-?ople ofOne of the crew ejected from ive 319;the low-flying plane. His body leaving;fell in the back yard of a home I across the road from the Butler iota for. house, which of thetems, and the men themselves, for a future space station or moon base will end April 1.The Boeing Co. is conducting the experiment for the National Bodies of the other' crewmen Aeronautics and Space Admin-were scattered with bits of istration. It is described as the j Dints toiwreckage over an area the size first ever tried in this country!I ■ * I|of a city block. providing full support for spacevisit to; The plane was reported in j travel.le will trouble on take-off from Little! With five days to go, the men trips to Rock Air Force Base. It camejwere reported in good spirits 11 be in down about three miles from|and health. Only Roger Bar-and in fhe end of the runway. The basejnicki, 2*1. the crew commander,AllToFelGP T. A1 andal year at Jacksonville is 15 miles; has lost any weight—down six j Bankm .June northeast of Little Hock.Witnesses said the plane weighed.pounds from the 221! he haderv lmDalU dav i of ti
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Sun, Mar 29, 1964
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Arkansas S.
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