Year’s Wackiest Accidents Report From Safety Council
The National Safety Council in Chicago rounds up 1952 freak accidents with animals, falls, and surprising saves. Rabbits, pigs, bees trigger crashes and injuries while a five story fall ends with a dog saving a child. a pilot survives a midair reroute and a plane lands astride a moving car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Monroe
Baltimore
Monroe
Luenneberg
Germany
Elko
Nev
Rudolph Kosic
Kosice
Louis de Rosa
New York City
Prince
Kenneth Wright, Jr
Compton
Calif
Kenny
Lake Arrowhead
Joe Strauss
Indianapolis
Waco
Texas
Jim Meers
Joe Rodriguez
Sam Abay
Chiff Gill
KBIG
Los Angeles
Washington
L. A
National Safety Council
Army Reverses Things Baby Delivers Doctor in Korea
In Korea, Col. Waller Rumpf, Eighth Army surgeon, was delivered between divisions by a plane piloted by Lt. William F. Kummer. Rumpf had previously helped deliver his future deliverer twenty seven years earlier in Faribault Minnesota. The piece also notes a claim about the cheetah being the world’s fastest animal over short distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Fred C. Sears
Dallas
G.i.’S
Korea
Wesler
Joe Wardle
Salt Lake City
Utah
Wardle
Albert J. Cooney
Philadelphia
Cooney
Irene Collins
Johnson City
N. Y
Sco
George Thomas
Jeffersonville
Ind
Thomas
Mr. Thomas
Johnny Carmichael
Seoul
Waller Rumpf
Eighth Army
Rumpf
William F. Kummer
Boise
Idaho
Rumpi
Faribault
Minn
German Police Officers Visit in Cedar Rapids
German police chiefs Bert Ritterbecks and Albrecht Weisel visited Cedar Rapids after a six week U S police administration course at USC. They toured New York Washington the Grand Canyon and other sites then met Linn County probation officer I A Lowell, an old colleague, before returning to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat MacPartland
Gazette Beall
Cedar Rapids
Bert Ritterbecks
Albrecht Weisel
Europe
Ritterbecks
Schweinfurt
Germany
Frankfurt
Weisel
Bavarian State Police
Munich
I. A. Lowell
Linn County
Lowell
Ritterbechs
New York
University of Southern California
Washington
Tennessee Valley Dam
Newerleans
Grand Canyon
California
Iowa
Mmr
Mrs
Gazette
Bob Kenyon
J. A. Lowell
United States
State Department
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Paul Jones
Chicago
The
Auto
Milo HR. Ewing
Denver
Bumbshell
Ewing
Portland
Ore
Kenneth E. Phillips
Atlantic City
Dominick Fansecti
Johnny
Baker Rufus Franklin
Atlanta
Gus Smith
St. Louis
Gus
City Hospital
John Ayers
Memphis
Tenn
Nickolopoulos
Tom Nickolopoulos
Michael Cannon
Elwood
Mike
Portsmouth Navy Yard
New Hampshire
the Council
Robert Moses
Brockton
Mass
Meridian
Miss
G. D. Middleton
Fred
G’iwan
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Guaranty
Schwinn Bicycles
Morgan Bros
Third Ave
Army
C.R
U.S
America
Ritterbecks and
Second Street
Argus
Alse S&s
Divisimas
Hardendorf Camera Shop
Third Avenue
State Theater
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