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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1957
Page
9
Design Y22AP763 by Architect Herman York presents a 1106 square foot Cape Cod home with two expansion options. A patio between living room and garage can become an enclosed family room with access from kitchen or living room. Attic finishing is optional by the owner.
Air Force Lt. David A. Sleeves, 23, from Trumbull Connecticut, recounts a 54 day survival ordeal after bailing out of a jet over the High Sierra. He crawled 12 miles, crossed an 11,000 foot pass, lived in a log shed and survived on canned food and wild fare before rescue near Cedar Grove California.
James Keith Gibbs, 31, died when a war surplus British Mosquito bomber he piloted crashed into a canyon in the San Fernando Valley, 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The escape hatch fell on Pierce Junior College grounds. Gibbs had a parachute but appeared to reload his escape hatch as the craft exploded. Gibbs lived in Van Nuys and worked for an aerial photography firm.
ALPINE Tex A 46 year old Houston woman Wilma White says she survived six days in Big Bend National Park by using the 23rd Psalm and positive thinking. Spotted from the air and aided by horsemen she kept to a cave and water hole, placing rocks to mark days while eating cactus berries. Her husband died in the search after their station wagon bogged in sand near the Rio Grande.
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