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BIG SOUTHLAND JUMPAirborne troops pour from flight of Long Beach-based Cl IB traiaport planes high above the desert near El Centro Saturday. The jump, made at 1.350 feet by fully combat-cquippedfroops of Ihe S2nd Airborne Division, was raughf in a sudden desert wind. Many of the jumpers wore hurt—lt;Slaf( Pboio bv Lou Jobsl.)■X-MENTAL CASEItalian Lunges at Ike, SeizedROME (PI)—A former miTilil patient lunged at President .Elwnhowcr’s limousine as it war leaving the reCdcncc of U.S. Ambassador Jamt* D. Zeller-bach Saturday night but war selred immediately by police.Italian press report* said the man got so cFate to the limousine the driver was forced to dam on ha brakes but piK- spoke*-mm could iuy confirm this.The non was identified as Eufi«i* Botti, 36. described ns an unemployed icrnr who had been tn a menial inslitution in 1957. lie was released after a few bourn.Winds Catch Paratroopers, Score Hurt in Desert JumpfiekJ and h-hed the soldiers collapse their chutes.MOST OF THF. INJURED soldier* suffered only cuts and bruiBy LOU /OBSTEL CENTRO—Wore than . orore of Army paratroops were hurt during a spectacular wind-blown air drop here Saturday.sodden wind gusts caught 100 lit Kips or the 82nd Airborne DivMion as they landed n a mesquite studded dCMTtLoi suffered Won head biea nor the Naval Air Sts-juries and broken limbs lino. j The joint Army-AuUnable to collapse their-ud Navy nuiicuver. know billowing parachutes. dorens »s Sunburst 1. was theunderskies.be-Jlianf. Mur dcwrtTHE FT. BRAGG-BASED soldiers, a port cA 1b- Army's. MW bniBi fire war sinkingwwe force, were ferried to mefiFive Killed in 2-Pian* CollisionPALM DESERT tfh-Two planes collided during an air show Saturday. Five porwd were killed, one critically inured and another escapedcl the troopers wen) dra-ged for dlstarces up to one half .mile. Spectators, ringing the jtirggt area, rushed onto theby Army medics. but It MUt flWT Lonp Botch .Air ~h~ ' tour were evacuated by airj,-0(re |,.,0 b/ , night of 15' !!“ i March Air heave Bate. An ci 19 (Flying Bo«carl rian—, larger or the twoAir Force officer said these .... _Jptani* a twin engine Beech-craft Bonann, had u tall section sheared off. It hminred , /°ff a pnwer linn and crashed^ *n' A ,eurM med by the Long Beach-d;cd n,mlnR lvrecka„bated 152nd T.OOp Carter U*. lt;r„h *** „ nr„ lh. L.I The aerial assault, a mike' 1 I believe attack and deanrcticn ( Of a nuclear missile base -Force.i... .Long, Running Mate Trailturotioop dic-p in West Const Wing.history. i ^ M!{al aimuja hit .tsMoic than 200 speaatoesW,., ,hl. no,c al i0:30 saw the spectacular ejwcwji-n-i llte[ fl lwoluxllflic’ll sioond the Snllon Sea. The paratrooper jump msFJtradn Country Club's (Kilo grounds.NEW ORLEANS (PI) —THE OTHER aircraft fleer haltingly to l hr outskirts of town. Then the single-onglne followed by * drop of h*avy BeedKraft crash-landed, kill equipnMM Including howlu- mg corot Its three occupants. jfCemtlnued Page A S. Col. 2| n,c ‘,“J-ThinBay Potion
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Independent Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, Dec 06, 1959
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