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-A. W. NKVHX»SURGEON ON STEAMSHIP OREGON, i§ \ ' \ ,*r ’ w ,lf/t . \ *|. 9 •, • % • . ' . * - .1* -Dr Ernst H. Stark'* Adventure- r Recalled By Recent Sinking of Boat -One thing often reminds of another. Dr. . Ernst‘H; Stark, Paris physician, says:i ‘; •Reading, of;- the sinking of: the steamship Oregon:by ;a s u; b vih Cuban. - waters recalls something I shall; never ,forget. ^Tbe Oregon was a Nox-\vegian ship, operated by Norwegians, in;the:.service .of the1 United Fruit ;Company in-1906. I was. in New Orleans , that. ;year and’ made application .to. the State Board of Health for .a. position.' as ship surgeon- Receiving . the - appointment I-was assigned to the Oregon. We ; sailed to Port • Barrios, .Nicaragua,‘ with, cr.ossties int the hold; From there we went on down throughthe. Caribbean to. Port'- timon;. Costa Rica./ There I spent 15 days fishing, in the Gulf of Honduras, /' having Jamaica Negroes ‘bait ..my hook and. take off. the catfish;-' ' “We were waiting for^ a load ; of bananas and brought back 50,000 bunches'with some: passengers; As we .neared the South pass of the Mississippi ‘ River ’* we ran. into ' a dense fog. Ourcaptain, Sofus Ha-gee, a Norwegian, lost his bearings and we ran into shallow'.water and were stranded, three‘days. When, we found we could.not get off, three men were selected to-go in the lifeboat to* shore and. wire for a tugboat in New Orleans. We were there two days, eating bananas; before we got any word from our tugboats,.On the evening of the third day' a storm came up and we were ordered to go down, the hatches were closed and everything was all topsy- turvy-,I asked the captain why he was so . excited. He replied, #II. was afraid we would flounder,” by which he meant we might turn over.At last we sighted two • tugboats. They were the Bob 'Wilmot and the Underwriters, two powerful tugs they were, too. Theygot; us off the sand hi about 24 hours. AThe; .salvage company gotthe cargo, land we learned wewereabout forty miles off our course, near ; Pass Allutl,. .. ■' . ./= Our, captain had been at sea 35 years and this was ;tp be hia last voyage. He insisted that I go home with him to Christiana, Norway, but! I had . to Recline his invitation. ;. v ...That- was a real* ad venture, and I am sure readers will enjoy it as much as X have. I hope Dr.. Stark can. ;tell us some other stories .las interesting. ‘This story .reminds me of one of those written by Q. Henry, of two stowaways who had to,;eat bananas for some time and did not like them, as steady diet. That of course* was^fiction, while Dr. Stark's story is true.TuningAroundWith1490 Kc*5:00 : 5:01 6:03 5:15 5:30 5H5 5:00 6:25* 6:26 6:30 . 8:35 G;40 7:00 7 f 16 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 '8:30 8:45 8:50 0:00 .9:16 0:30 10:00 10:lfi 10:30 11:00MONDAY. MARCH 16Pray or (MBS) .AP Bulletin! (MBS)v?bnnt?lo^R,lt;)hards‘ Orche.tr* CM) 10-2-4 Ranch • ' - 'Jack Armitronf (TSXp :Captain Midnight (TSN) •Faltoo Lairii. Jr. (MBS)Reed. Bdcst.1 of talk by W. A O’CarrolI (MBS) .Musical Interlude (MBS) Spartcast (Sj Musical ■ Interlude Paris • Boosters ‘AP.NHa.uk Keene .Show (TSN)Cl. S. Chamber of Commerce (ET Fashions 4n Rhjthm (ET)‘A. :P.1 Newa (S) •An Analysis of Propaganda (M Musical Varieties (ET)News . ...Musical Interlude Raymond Gram (MBS)Joo Veuutl’s Orchestra (MBS) Lone Ranger (MBS)Henry ICinff e Orchestra (MBS) Mickey, Alpert's Orchwirn. (M) Recorded “Radio Newsreel”(MBS PIg:n; Off :
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Paris, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 16, 1942
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