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Twelve Die After Boat Capsizes
MARQUETTE, Mich. — (UPI) — Leonard Larson, 41, of nearby Skandia, said today he did not know where he would get money to pay funeral expenses for his wife and 10 of their children who drowned in a boating accident yesterday.
Larson, the sole survivor of the accident which also took the life of his brother, Harry, 64, was reported "resting and recovering" from the shock of the tragedy."His family would not disclose where he was
Meanwhile, the bodies of his brother, his wife, Dora, 41, and their 10 children were at the Swanson Funeral Home here pending funeral arrangements.
Larson told newsmen yesterday none of the 13 persons who were in the boat could swim. He said the boat went "nose down" into the water just as his brother started the motor.
They drowned yesterday in Lake McKeever, 15 miles south of Munising, when their 12-foot aluminum outboard motor boat capsized when the motor started.
All 13 were thrown into the water as the craft tipped over. He said when he came to the surface he could not see anyone else in the water. Larson held onto the boat and was able to climb onto it when it completed its turn.
He told police he climbed on top of the craft and paddled with an arm and leg to shore. Larson said he "kept looking back" to find the other members of his family but couldn't see anyone and knew he needed to get help.
When he reached shore, Larson had to drive three miles to the nearest telephone, at a resort owned by Mr. and Mrs. William Ryan, of Forest Glen. The lake is located in an isolated area of Schoolcraft County in the Upper Peninsula.
The bodies of all 12 victims were
recovered by state police skindivers and conservation officers within two hours of the accident.
The children were: Arthur, 15;
Shirley, 13; Harry, 10; Marlene, 9;
Freddie, 8; Carol, 7; Robert, 6; Mary
Ann, 5; Melody, 3, and Terry Lee,
five months.
Larson told police the family got into the boat, as they had on previous occasions, to travel across the lake to pick cranberries in a bog along the opposite shore. They were only about 40 feet from shore when the boat swamped in 15 feet of water.
Workers Heckle Macmillan
LONDON — (UPI) — Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already alarmed by a reported sharp drop in his Conservative Party's popularity, ran into angry campaign heckling today in Britain's depression-hit textile belt.
Macmillan took his re-election whistle stop tour into Lancashire and Cheshire towns where cotton textile manufacturing has hit a severe slump and brought heavy unemployment far above the national average.
When Macmillan addressed a crowd of about 1,000 in Middleton in Lancashire, he caught the full brunt of the heckling.
Workers leaned from windows of a nearby mill, booing him and shouting, "get off, Macmillan," "pipe down, Mac," and "send him off."
The Macemillan government promised the cotton industry an $84 million shot in the arm—but only if it shuts down uneconomic mills. The laborate opposition is attacking the government sharply for throwing cotton workers out of jobs.
Negro Youth Pays Bail In Assault Charge
LITTLE ROCK, —(UPI)— A 14-year-old Negro youth faced charges of assault and battery today in connection with a scuffle between white and Negro students on a school bus yesterday.
The girl told her mother the boy hit her when she asked him to stop shoving a white boy.
The shoving and slugging incident left 17-year-old Annette Harper with a broken nose. Her mother filed the charge against Cecil White late yesterday after consulting with prosecuting attorney J. Frank Holt.
Scuffle in Bus
White was arrested on the warrant sworn out by the girl's mother and released an $100 bond. Mrs. Harper said she will take her daughter to a bone specialist today.
The incident occurred after school yesterday. The girl and three of her friends got on the bus at Central High School and sat at the rear of the bus.
She said eight or nine Negroes boarded the bus a few blocks down the line at the junior high school. they crowded around the white students, she said.
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Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
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When one of the Negroes pushed a white boy down, Annette said she asked him. "Will you please stop it."
She said the Negro youth hit her in the face, knocking her glasses out of the window. She said she grabbed his shirt and he kicked her in the stomach.
Mrs. Harper said the bus driver did nothing to help but just stopped the bus and let the Negro students off.
The driver, Robert Murphy, reported to his headquarters that he stopped the bus, helped break up the scuffle and called police.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell said today that President Eisenhower feels collective bargaining may be "on trial" if labor and management do not start serious negotiations on the steel strike.
Quack Club tryouts will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Robinson Gymnasium pool, Sue Black, Wilmette, Ill., junior and club president, announced today.
Mitchell Prods Steel Talks
The President and his advisers believe steel labor and management should "get down to hard, intensive bargaining in order to settle the strike by voluntary methods through free collective bargaining," Mitchell said.
Quack Club Tryouts Are Saturday
Mitchell made the statement after conferring with Eisenhower on the steel deadlock, longest in the industry's history.
Any woman student is eligible to try out. Miss Black said women trying out should bring their own towels and bathing caps, but bathing suits will be provided for those who do not have their own.
Asked if his statement was a warning that the government might be forced to intervene, Mitchell told reporters to read it as they liked.
"We are endeavoring to drive home the point to labor and management—and to the steel industry in particular—that collective bargaining is part of our system and they ought to exercise it.
He conceded that similar statements had been issued by the government earlier, but added:
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Defense Department apparently has decided to halt further development of interceptor airplanes and stake America's future air defense entirely on guided missiles.
"Collective bargaining as part of our free enterprise system seems to be on trial."
Barring any last-minute change, the Air Force shortly will cancel the contract of North American Aviation Inc. to develop the long-heralded, 2,000-mile-an-hour F-108 jet interceptor.
Air Defense to Be Staked on Missiles
He said it was fair to say that "we all feel that way."
More than $150,000,000 has been invested in the project to date and another $50,000,000 may be required before the contract is finally terminated.
The experimental model of the F-108, the only new type of interceptor presently under development, was due to fly next year. Squadrons were expected to be in service in the North American Air Defense Command in about three years.
Cancellation of the F-108 will mean a "saving" of about $2,400,-000,000 over the next few years. The Air Force had planned 20 squadrons of about 500 planes.
Wednesday, Sept. 23. 1959 University Daily Kansan
7 Earn Credits Watching TV
Seven KU students will be watching an early morning television program this year and receiving college credit for doing it.
They will be watching the Continental Classroom chemistry course from 6:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. They also will attend a 2-hour discussion course each Saturday morning from 8 to 10 a.m. in Bailey Hall.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.Jean Baptiste Moliere.
Six hours credit will be given those enrolled in the course.
Franklin G. Fisk, assistant instructor of education, will lead the discussion courses at KU. The film
John Baxter, professor of chemistry and head of the General Chemical Division at the University of Florida will be the principal speaker on the 160 half-hour films which will be shown by Channel 13 (WIBW) and channel 4 (WDAF). Guest lecturers will include Nobel Prize winners in chemistry. The TV films will begin Sept. 28.
Each college or university sets its own credit and attendance rules for the course. KU is one of the few institutions in the U.S. offering full college credit for the course. Most schools offer extension credit.
series is sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the National Broadcasting Company and the American Chemical Society.
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Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education called the course the foundation for teaching high school chemistry. Graduate students must be certified teachers with 24 semester hours in science including at least two in chemistry courses. Undergraduates preparing to teach must present 15 credits in science with one course in chemistry.
Plans are now being made for offering a nation-wide mathematics course by television next year. Last year Continental Classroom sponsored a physics course on TV.
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