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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1954
Page
7
Thor Heyerdahl details preparations for the Kon-Tiki voyage from Puna to Callao. He describes raft construction with a forward bowsprit mast, a balanced rig, steering enhancements, and the risk of prior ship collisions. The journey toward Australia begins with last preparations, warnings, and a hopeful push into the sea.
William Willis born in Hamburg in 1893 forged a life on waves and roads. He sailed from Peru to Samoa on a primitive raft and later penned poetry and studied seas, seeking outdoor life and writing while bouncing between New York San Francisco and Alaska. He married Tess Philipson in 1937 and continues to plan more writing as he contemplates a return to the sea.
In New Orleans a 54 year old, ill and jobless man who found $84 on a street spent hours seeking its owner before returning it to a church. Bryan Diggs, a former bank watchman, refused any reward, saying the money plus his own hardship was enough. Angelo Calabresi had gathered the funds for St. Mary’s church repair.
U S army reinforcements were called out in Augsburg when Bosco a four ton bull elephant from a circus bolted injuring his keeper. The animal crashed through a wall demolished a bicycle uprooted trees crushed a handcart and headed toward a forest before circus men lured him back with apples.
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