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ENGLEWOODTODAYNEWSBRADENTONPUNTA GORDATODAYStockspagelas*t«, Flo* id-Sarasota, Florida, Monday, November 24, 1958★★Five CentsLillian Leitzel, whose dazzling acts as an aeriaiist thrilled audiences the world over, has been selected to receive the first national Circus Hall of Fame award.Announcement of her selection, 27 years after she plunged to her death during a performance inCopenhagen, Denmark, will be made to a nationwide televisionaudience tomorrow morning over Dave Garroway’s Today” show.The bronze plaque, comparable to the Academy Award in the motion picture industry, will be placed in the Circus Hall of Fame on the North Trail.Best wire walking act, The Wal-lendas; outstanding bandmaster. Merle Evans; most versatile circus family. The Cristianis; best wire walker (male), Harold Al* gana; best wire w*a!ker (female), Josephine Berosini; best performing clown, Otto Griebling; best producing clown, Paul Jung; best flying return act, The Malkos; best horse act, Charles Mroczkowski; and authors of the best circus book, John and Alice Durant for their Pictorial History of the American Circus.Receiving honorary awards anda framed scroll will be George Chlndahl, circus historian, and A. Morton Smith, publisher of the Gainesville, Tex., Register.Lloyd Nader, Hall of Fame director who returned from New York last week where he completed arrangements for the announcement on the Garroway program, said he did not know* what portion of the show' would be given over to the announcement.The show, which can be seen locally over Channel 8, starts at7:15 a.m.Member of the awards committee which made the selection is Dr. William Northen of Sarasota.Other members include L. M White of Mexico, Mo.; H. B, Chapman of Alhambra. Calif.; H. L. De Golyer of Dallas, Tex ; E C. Wilson of Iowa City, Iowa; Dr. H. H. Conley of Park Ridge, ED.; Her-I bert Georg of Springfield, 111; F. D. Phening Jr. of Columbus, Ohio; John Yancey of Newport News, Va ; Col. B. J. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa; Herman Linden of Aurora, 111.; and Henry T. Hutchinson of Miami.Sarasota RtinnersupRunnersup for the award included Charles Seigrist; Antoinette Concelio of Sarasota; the late Fred Bradna, also of Sarasota; and Alfredo Codona.Eleven other “best aw'ards will be made, in addition to honorary aw'ards presented to two others.Miss Leitzel has become a legend in the circus world as ft result of her unsurpassed Plange Act (a body spin on the shoulder socket in mid-air.) She was killed in a fall during her act in 1931.I/ng Ballot StudyHer selection to occupy the first niche in the local Hall of Fame came after months of study by a 12-man committee of hundreds of ballots mailed in by circus fans from throughout the country.Among the other award winners are circus animal trainer Clyde Beatty, top star of the Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. Combined Shows, honored for having the best wildanimal setOther “Achievement Awrard“ winners in their specific fields include;Li0LaborTro ubleSweepsU.S.IndustryMIAMI (UPI) — Eastern Air Lines mechanics and flight engineers unions walked off the/job today and company officials Said the strike would force a shutdown of the nation’s largest d o m e s t ic air carrier “within a few hours.”Even before the 10 a.m. here. Workers leftstrike deadline, pickets had benches in trickles.mo 11%begun lining the entrances in front of the sprawling Eastern maintenance shopsI★★★their! ft™* walkout of stewardesses inairline history.A spokesman for the stewArd-The strike involved some §,000 j union said she expected theline's pilots to refuse to cross themembers of the International Association of Machinists and 800 flight engineers who walked out in separate contract disputes.The strike came as Eastern was0rp*.rinr fnr th* heavv winter tour*stewardesses’ picket lines. It was not expected to be known until later today what action the pilots would take as th* Midwest-Lillian Leitzel—
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