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VOL. CVIII—No. 161 Phone HI 2-1711EUREKA. CALIFORNIA. SATURDAY. JULY 7. 1962Z'l-DAILY 10 CENTS16 PAGESNavyPlaneCrash-LandsatShelterCovesISHELTER COVE—An AD6 Skyraider lies placidly in a field here following its crash-landing yesterday morning. The plane's pilot,from the landing, just short of the runway at Shelter Cove air-29-year-old Lt. Leroy Bish of Mountain View, escaped unharmed j Keith Etter ranch.port. The plane skidded 600 feet across the sheep pasture at theMightyBomb ^vernnient Hall PreparesBoomsmNevada inoosMdPilolIIhurtAs ( raftS,w . 11nitsIIIoSHELTER COVEA NavvwSopilot walked away uninjured after crash-landing his crippled fight- r er-bomber in a sheep field here yesterday morning.Lt. Leroy L. Bish, 29. of Moffett Field near San Jose, flopped the propeller-driven AD6 Skyraider into a pasture on the Keith Etter a ranch, 300 feet short of the Shel- -tvitter Cove airport runway.He had jettisoned his fuel tanksover the ocean to avoid fire intlthe belly landing and didn’t have quite enough gas left to make thetlrunway. |Dave Zebo, countv aviation di- 5rector, said Bish ‘‘did a real pro- j fessional job of flying, with nosubstan-injury to himself but tial damage to the undercarriage and top of the plane.” 11The forced landing was neces-; sary after an oil line on the lt;aircraft ruptured while Bish wasj. on routine patrol at 6,500 feet with another Skyraider. When the I line broke over Punta Gorda, 25 1 miles north of here, Bish made a IPinice(See Telephoto on Page 1)With cleavers still poised, the Eureka City Council is due to have REGINA, Sask. (AP—Saskatch- another whack at the postponed 1962-63 budget Tuesday.turn out to sea to dump the tanks jand headed for the airport. I, The landing was made at 100 A miles per hour and the aircraft p skidded 600 feet through the grass before coming to a stop.Bish’s companion pilot flew on to Moffett after seeing that he had weathered the landing safely.Zebo flew from the McKinley-ville airport down to Shelter Covei i:dFor Hot Showdowner AD6 from Moffett picked him up at McKinleyville yesterday aft-CAMP MERCURA, Nev. (AIM—An H-bomb type device, in the ewan*s Socialist government held The budget study session is scheduled for 9 o’clock in the morning llt;M n homt. Bishmightiest blast yet fired in the I nited States, sent a shower of rocks ^ ^ Friday nieht for anv anc* run trough the day, if eouncilnien so desire. A majority of 1 ^ 11 °Un lt;im ltVV’and sand soaring spectacularly thousands of feet over the desert ' three—Councilmen A. M. Bistrin, Burr W. Cannam and Orvil Wil-new efforts toward bringing the . ., , .. ,h * son—have said that thev do.Friday.Fired in a chamber 650 feet under Yucca Flat, it awed veteran province’s striking doctors backThe session, likely to lie a lively prelude to the evening's regularZebo said the Navy probably c will salvage the wrecked plane for parts. !
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Eureka Humboldt Times
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