Page 12 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 9, 1955
5 Killed, 18 Injured In Portland, Ore., Fire
Portland, Ore.—(U.P.)-Five persons died and 18 others, including 13 firemen, were injured early today when a three-alarm fire gutted a three-story downtown hotel here.
Pipeline Explosion CausesFire,1Death
Chesterton, Ind.—(U.P.)—One man was killed, two were injured and three were missing today when a natural gas pipeline blew up and set off a big fire in a field near here.
The blast occurred while a sevenman construction crew for the Wisconsin-Michigan Pipeline company of Detroit was working on a project along Ind. 49 south of here. It sent pupils in a nearby school scurrying to safety.
Carl Manley, 25. Crown Point, a bulldozer operator, told Indiana state police he was operating a machine pushing earth into an excavation near the blast scene when the pipeline exploded. Mr. Manley said the bulldozer did not strike the pipeline. Mr. Manley suffered only from shock.
Some time after the explosion, authorities searched for three other men known to have been working in the crew at the time of the blast.
The Liberty township school, less than one-fourth mile from the pipeline, was evacuated after the blast shook the building. Police feared other explosions might occur.
Orchestra Gains Nine New Members
The University orchestra has nine new members, Russell L. Wiley director announced.
Two of them are new enrollees and the remainder are currently enrolled from the fall semester. They replace February graduates and students working off the campus on student teaching and other in-the-field assignments.
Three of the injured were reported in critical condition.
The coroner's office identified four of the dead as George Naidenoff, 69; George Nunotami, 79; William Covington, and Robert Edward Roden. A fifth body, not immediately identified, was found later as firemen probed through the rubble.
The fire was discovered about I am. by a tenant who ran into the streeting yelling as Patrolman Alfred Aaronson and Melvin Hulett were passing.
The officers turned in the alarm and helped get the seven children of the managers, Tom and Mary Saito, out of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Saito braved the thick smoke to awaken persons on the second and third floors.
Mr. Nunotami, one of the victims,
was Mrs. Saito's father.
Tenants, wearing nightclothes, scrambled to safety down the stairs and firemen's ladders.
Four firemen were hospitalized and others were treated at the scene. First aid crewmen said that at one time seven firemen were laid out on a nearby sidewalk to get oxygen.
Firemen, using 28 pieces of equipment, battled the flames for nearly three hours.
Cause of the blaze was not immediately determined.
Mr. Saito said there were about 75 persons registered in the 70-room hotel.
Geology Major Gets Fulbright Award
Norman Gary Lane, geology graduate student, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Australia for the 1955-56 academic year. He will study at the University of Tasmania.
8 Bombers Try For New Record
New York —(U.P.)— The first flight of eight Air Force jettfer bombers took off from Los Angeles International airport today in an effort to set a new transcontinental speed record.
The eight planes, four each from Alexandria Air Force base, Alexandria, La., and Langley Air Force base, Hampton, Va., are engaged in a training test of individual and unit skills in cruise control of fuel, an Air Force spokesman said.
They will be refueled in flight by a B-29 tanker of the Tactical Air command.
The present Trans-Continental speed record of 4 hours, 6 minutes, and 16 seconds was set Jan. 2, 1954, over the same course by Col. Willard W. Millikan of Washington, D.C., commander of an Air National guard unit.
The F-84-F Thunderstreams will be clocked over the 2,445-mile route from Los Angeles International to the Navy's Floyd Bennett field, Brooklyn. They will land at the Republic aircraft plant field at Farmingdale, N.Y.
Prof. Moore to Talk At Poetry Hour
Geoffrey Moore, visiting professor of English, will read selections from and explain the new Romantic poets at the poetry hour at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music room of the Student Union. Mr. Moore will read selections from George Barker, W. R. Rodgers, W. S. Graham, and Vernon Watkins.
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