Two Die and Two Burn From Canadian Rockies Lightning
Four climbers in the Bugaboo range near Spillamachean, B C, faced a fatal storm strike as lightning hit their cave at 11 500 feet. Rolf Pundt of Berkeley and Bob Becker of Los Gatos died. Ann Strong of Berkeley and Ian MacKinlay of San Francisco were badly burned and treated in Cranbrook Hospital. The Oakland YMCA official John Thune led the 18 member party and described the sequence of events and rescues.
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San Francisco
California
Canadian Rockies
Associated Press
Rolf Pundt
Berkeley
Bob Becker
Los Gatos
Cranbrook
B. C
Ann Strong
Ian MacKinlay
John Thune
Oakland Y. M. C. A
MacKinlay
Pundt
Becker
Miss Strong
Climber L W Taylor Killed on Mt St Helens
The Washington state patrol reported that L. W. Taylor, 55, of Oberlin Ohio, mountain climber, was killed Sunday after a fall into a crevasse on Mt. St. Helens near Kelso. The incident occurred during a climbing attempt reported Aug 10.
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Kelso
Wash
Washington State Patrol Today
L. W. Taylor
Oberlin
Ohio
Mt. St. Helens
Five-man commission to guide American story abroad
President Truman named a five member advisory commission to assist Secretary Marshall in shaping international broadcasts educational exchanges and related efforts to improve global understanding. Mark Ethridge chairs the group joined by Mark A May Justin Miller Erwin D Canham and Philip D Reed under the State Departments information program guidance.
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Truman
Marshall
State Department
United States
Mark Ethridge
Louisville
Courier- Journal and Times
Mark A. May
New Haven
Congressional
Voice of America
Department
George V. Allen
Solon Targets Reclamation Bureau Over Payroll and Propaganda
House propaganda subcommittee chairman Forest A. Harness says the Bureau of Reclamation padded its payroll and spread pernicious propaganda to mislead the public and discredit the 80th Congress. He cites Krug statements on salary limits and cuts, claiming internal figures show growth rather than reduction in personnel.
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Krug
Harness
Congress
Bureau of Reclamation
West
Quail Get Water as San Diego County Plans Guzzlers
San Diego County supervisors ordered the public works department to install 10 portable water guzzlers at game refuges in northern and northeastern areas to save large coveys of quail dying from water shortage. The plan includes large drums with small troughs, placed at refuges. Harness noted a bureau staff increase from April 30 to July 23 with 164 added after salary limits.
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Public’ Works Department
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