45 Persons Die In Plane Crash
By George Brown United Press International
CENTERVILLE, Iowa — A Continental Airlines jet airliner crashed and disintegrated during a violent electrical storm last night. All 45 persons aboard were killed.
One of the 37 passengers aboard the Chicago-to-Los Angeles jet was found alive in the wreckage today nearly eight hours after the crash. But he died an hour later in a hospital.
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It was the first fatal crackup in Continental's 28-year history, marring commercial aviation's most perfect safety record. It was the third crash of a 707 since they went into service in 1958.
The first clue to the plane's fate was two pieces of metal found on a highway by a passing motorist.
Seven hundred searchers followed a 10-mile trail of debris stretching across the Missouri border to the biggest piece of wreckage—the rear section of the fuselage.
THE BIG BOEING 707 plummeted from the stormy skies and its wreckage was scattered over a 25-mile area in southern Iowa and northern Missouri.
THE "GOLDEN JET" was cruising at 39,000 feet and was 25 minutes from a step at Kansas City when it crashed.
The ground party heard a moan inside the fuselage and found Takehiko Nakano, a passenger, still alive.
INSIDE WERE THE bodies of 41 of the victims. The three other bodies were found from 1 to $ _{1/2} $ mules away.
Nakano, 27. a service engineer for electronic microscopes, had been in the United States about a year and a half. He worked out of Evanson. Ill. installing and servicing microscopes in a 19-state area.
NAKANO WAS RUSHED from the tiny valley where the fuselage crashed to a hospital at Unionville, Mo., where he died.
Najeeb Halaby, director of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) flew from San Francisco to the crash scene to investigate the cause of the nation's latest air disaster.
The FBI sent its special "disaster squad" from Washington to examine the crash wreckage. Thomas J. Gearty, FBI agent in charge at Omaha, Neb., said "disaster squads" are not usually assigned to airline crashes unless the airline requests it.
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3,600 Reserve Football Seats
About 3,600 students have registered for reserved student seating for next year's football season.
This figure does not include medical students, who will register in Kansas City. After the medical students register, the net increase in student reserved seats (not including new students) next fall will be merely 500.
TICKETS FOR THE first game will be distributed through enrollment unless the administration decides such a distribution plan will cause too much confusion or hinder a smooth flow at enrollment. If the tickets are not distributed at enrollment, they will be available at the Field House next fall.
SEATING BLOCKS will be arranged with priority given to class seniority within the University. Blocks within a class section will be placed randomly, giving each block the same chance for the best seats in its class section.
Tickets for the rest of the season will be available at the Field House before the second game.
Monte Johnson, athletics public relations director, said this morning that registration for blocks has been smoother than last year because the big rush at the beginning caused by the first-come-first-served system has been eliminated.
Lawrence Art Guild to Meet
The first general meeting of the newly formed Lawrence Arts Guild will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lawrence High School theater. This community guild is open to KU faculty and students.
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