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Evening star., 1955-11-30
1000 spartans
Set for Bowl Trip

EAST LANSING, Mich. Nov.
80 R.-Nearly 1000 Michigan
State University students have
already registered for special
Rose Bowl train trips to watch
the Spartans meet UCLA in
Pasadena. Calf. on January 2.
University officials said the
total Of 1858 smashed all known
records for such mass trips by
students to bowl games. They
said the previous high for a Big
Ten school was l,l34 from Ohio
State last year.
Travel agency officials said
they were bewildered at the
huge turnout.
A package" deal offered the
students cost $l67 and includes
round trip transportation, chap
erones and lodging on the West
Coast.
PITTSBURGH. Nov. 80 R.--
Flood lights will be installed at
Pitt Stadium next week so the
Panthers may practice after
dark II necessary for their
Sugar Bowl football engage
ment with Georgia Tech in New
Orleans, January 2.
Coach Johnny Nicholson re-
ported the entire squad is in
good physical condition and Pitt
should be in peak condition for
the game. Definite arrangements
were made yesterday to fly to
New Orleans December 26 with
a practice session scheduled
there that afternoon.
Evening star., 1955-11-30

can't afford TO make mistakes
against Duke, They have a strong
running and passing attack. This
Sonny JurgenSen makes them go. =
The Tar Heels will bank on q
rugged line led by End viii Frye
and Tackle Jack MaultSby tc
stop carrot-topped Jurgensen. the
Blue Devils star quarterback,
Haltback Bob Pascual, and Full
back Bryant Aldridge.
Pascual Bids for Titles
The game gives Pascul q
chance to make the Atlantic
Coast Conference titles for rush.
ing and for total offenSe, but he
has his work cut out for him.
While idle last week he lost his
rushing lead He needs IO9 yards
to pass Clemson's joel Wells. who
has 1872. Jim Bakhtiar of Vir-
ginia has 3. Pascual needs SIS
yards rushing or passing to take
the total ofiense crown He now
has 725 yards to 7a2 for Wells,
761 for N. c. States Eddie West,
Bakhtiar's 733 and 729 for Ed
Vereb Of Maryland.
In two Of their six losses, the
Tar Heels turned IN, fine per
forfnanceS. Oklahoma trailed
North Carolina. 60, at the half
and had to rally to gain a 1896
edge. The Tar Heels held Notre
Dame to . TT halftime draw be-
fore bowling. 27-7.
Duke has 6-2-l record. The
Blue Devils lost to Pittsburgh and
Georgia Tech and tied Navy,
TT.
During halftime ceremonies
Saturday, Ace Parker, former
Duke backfield great. will be Of
ficially ushered into Footballs
Hall Of Fame.
Evening star., 1955-11-30
FoIIs Church Coach
Futher of Fifth Son

The Falls Church High foot
ball team finished It's season
with a 5-4-l record. as It turned
out q victory for each of the
five children Of Coach Paul
Weber.
The NTH addition to the Weber
family. all boys, was born to
Mrs. Weber yesterday at George
Washington University Hospital.
Weighing s pounds. S ounces,
he was named Joseph Chris
topher.
The other boys are Paul. jr.,
IS: GREG. 4; Dick, 3, and Mike, /.
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Smiths Wrestling
AT Turner's Tonioht

The Smith Brothers. boards
and all and four small men will
be the major attractions on the
wrestling show tonight at
Turner'S Arena.
John Smith and Frank Hurley
iof Australia viii square of in the
l60-minute or one fall feature
battle. while Al. the other half
lof the wrestling Smiths. will face
Jim Siskay, 220-pound import
from Detroit. for one fall or 80
minutes.
-Four midget stars viii battle
in a team affair for two-out-of-
three falls or go minutes. It win
be Little Beaver and Tito In
fante against Fuzzy Cupid and
Lord Lester Beaverbrook.
Evening star., 1955-11-30
AAU to Nap Olympic. Plans
AT Convention in Louisville

sports under the AAU's jurisdic-
ton. and many Of them win be
final tryouts for the Olympic
team while others will be elimi-
nations for the final selection Of
teams.
Delegates. Of the Al district
associations will come from as
far as Hawaii.
A president TO succeed Louis
G. Wilke of Bartlesville. Okla.
and four vice presidents will be
elected.
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Rec Fives Open Season

Stonewall, A. G., tournament
winner last year in the District
Recreation Department Basket
ball League. opens the season
against Snug Harbor at 8 o'clock
tonight at Anacostia High.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
Train Ship Service
Alaska and Seattle
Assured bY. 1857

fF FiN%VIa sA tFSFf
SEATTLE, R-Train ship ser
vice between Alaska and Seattle
by mid-1S57 was believed virtual
ly assured Friday after. the us.
Maritime Administration gave its
approval for federal mortgage in
surance on two $4,000, 900 ships
for the Alaska Steamship Co.
Approval was granted in the
name of Alaska Steam's subsid-
larry, Alaska Trainships, Inc, on
condition that financing and other
conditions Ibe met.
Alaska Steam president D. E.
Skinner labeled the federal an
nouncement a major step toward
establishment of the new service.
Skinner would not predict how
soon construction might start, but
it seems likely that the company
will call for bids by years end on
the two 110-railcar, 40-trailer
ships.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
Man Leaps Into Niagara
And Is Swept Over Falls
I'm View OF Dozen Tourists

NIAGARA FALLS, NY, R -
Robert H. Persons, SO, last night
leaped into the Niagara River and
was swept over the American
Falls as dozens OF tourists
watched. Five hours later he was
spotted crawling on a ledge IS
feet below the falls. He was res
cued bat died later in a hospital.
Police said Persons jumped a
guard rail just above Prospect
Point as tourists, too far away
to stop him, watched in horror.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
Airplane Lands on Speeding Truck,
ii, Driver and Pilot Both Surprised

OROFINO, Idaho, TIA pilot,
letting down for a1outine Landing
here Friday, instead found him
self > piggy back passenger On. .
speeding truck. I'M H 7t1 MIN N
Y thought he was going to take
us all the way to Kaniah," town
20 miles down the road, said the
startled pilot, Merel Bowler, AS,
after his high-wing. light plane
had used the 50-foot truck-trailer
top as mobile landing field.
An equally amazed truck driv-
er, Lloyd Coons, 81, wasn't aware
anything unusual had happened
and continued down the highway
for 200 yards after the novel land
ing.
Il couldn't see anything in my
rear view mirror" Coons said.
"Then wing tipped and / saw a
shadow. stopped.
The drivers only indication Of
the incident had been slight Jar
and a noise.
''The speeds of the truck and
the plane were SO close to identi-
cal that I hardly felt anything"
he said. II thought at first I had
hit chuck hole or a bump"
Bowler, with the planes owner
Rex Yates as passenger, was let
ting down for a landing at the
runway which runs parallel to the
highway. Trees obscured his VII
sion of the road.
"Just three seconds or so before
we hit l saw the truck" Bowler
said. eve got together just as per-
feet as you please. The truck
drove under us and we flew on
top Of him."
When the truck finally came to
halt, the planes wing tipped to
the highway and was damaged
But it took logging crane to
hoist the unexpected passenger
from atop the trailer.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
Party Phone Prattler
Causes Delay I'm
Report of $500 Fire

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. R-Be-
cause q woman refused to get of
her party line Friday, Fire Chief
John w Gallagher reported, a
fire caused $4,000: damage before
it was brought under control.
Chief Gallagher said neighbor
tried for five minutes to get the
woman off the telephone line, but
the woman refused. Finally the
neighbor sent youngster to the
corner to pull the fire alarm box.
One home in Huntington's west
end was destroyed and two others
were heavily damaged. The fire
chief reported that the blaze left
10 persons homeless.
"If the department had been
called five minutes earlier" he
said, much more could have been
saved"
Subscribe 70 fha Nome Mt0eraf
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
TRUJILLO DONATES 100000
TO FLOOD RELIEF FUND

WASHINGTON, R-F m +
President Rafael Trujillo Of the
Dominican Republic has donated
100000 to the American Nation
al Red Cross flood relief fund for
use in the stricken northeastern
states. Trujillo's check was pre-
sented to the Red Cross Friday by
Dominican Ambassador Joaquin
Salazar.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29
Child Killed In
Farm Grinder

BQONSRORO, Md, Eft was
supper time and there was no sign
Of young Jonathan Carney Harrell
on the farm.
Then it was remembered the
4-year-old had been playing at
noon near the barn where his
father was grinding corn stocks
into silage.
They looked in the silo. There
they found the remains of Jona-
than.
1t wasn't until later that State
Trooper Clyde Tucker said the
boys 7-year-old sister told how it
happened. She and the boy were
sitting on the end of a wagon
used to haul the stalks to con-
veyor belt which carries them to
grinding machine. The pieces
then are fed through a four-inch
pipe into the silo and stored for
cattle fodder.
Tucker said the girl said iona
than fell off the wagon onto the
belt. His father and another man
meanwhile fed two more loads OF
corn into the machine.
Pennsylvania is not named
after William pnrn hut bic
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29

The symbol of the barber shop
"a pole with spiral bands of
white and red - was originally
designed to designate the old
function of the barber, blood
letting.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29

L.etter-sixe and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-08-29

Pennsylvania is not named
after William Penn, but his
father, Admiral Penn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23

the ceiling Of the nave In 1910.
They say that the operation
should have uncovered the pres
|ent defects and prompted further
examination. The engineers en-
|phasize that although not dis
covered until now. all the major
structural weaknesses are Of long
standing.
Little evidence Of the rebuild
ing operation is visible from the
outside of the church. Inside.
100 pieces Of scaffolding criss-
cross the entire church. Some Of
the windows have bene boarded
up to prevent damage during the
work.
But services continue to be
held regularly. and the church
lis open to all visitors from am.
TO Z pm. Worshipers come In
throughout the day to mediate
and pray amid the inevitable
noise made by the workmen.
The /workmen's job Is vital.
however. They are hard at work
trying to save the life Of one
of the Capital City's oldest, most
history laden churches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23
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ordered q thorough engineering
study, which disclosed first OF al
that the four masonry arches
supporting the great dome were
fiattened out Of shape at the top
the bricks between separate
courses springing apart under
their load.
The arches themselves were
being pushed sideways as well
explaining the cracks that had
been noticed at the Joint between
the arches and the round cornice
at the base Of the dome.
Pursuing their survey, the engi-
neers found that q brick extern
sion erected in 1920 to make q
nave out Of the west transept
was splitting away from the
main building. The bricks in the
extension had not even been tied
into the bricks Of the older wall
where they joined.
The rafters carrying the high
peaked roof In this newer section
were not tied together properly
either, allowing the roof thrust
to push the side walls at least
three inches out to each side.
Curved wooden members beneath
the rafters. designed to support
the ceiling Of the nave. were
made Of too-thin planks, made
quately joined and had been con-
torted over the years into crafty
shaped forms.
The Rev. DR.. c. Leslie Glenn
rector Of the church. told The
Star that the fact the cell
ing did not fall was evidence
Gods blessing was on the place
II don't know what was hold
ing 1t UP II 1t wasn't the grace
Of God" he said.
Working their way from thu
church into the vestibule. the
engineers then discovered whole
sections Of wood framing behine
the paneling riddled with ter,
mites. From there. they tracee
the termite damage up the vesti-
bule stairs to the balcony and tt
the roof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23

lpay Si5o,ooo difference because
lit was getting Q larger piece Of
land in the trade.
The Buckingham House Is
being rebuilt to house q new
parish hall, Office, and Sunday
school rooms. That cost win help
boost the total figure the church
must raise to the half-million
dollar mark.
Where the money will come
from is not yet decided. The
tchurch vestry will meet on
October 10 to map plans for find-
ling funds.
Not wealthy
Despite many persons opin-
ion,. we are not q wealthy
CHURCH" said Mr.. Colean. I'VE
have many distinguished people
las communicates. but q large
number OF them are Government
people with churches back home
to which they owe Q first obli-
cation"
The church has had several
additions built since 1t was
Ierected, but the central portion
lis the old church Of 1916. It was
designed. without compensation.
Iby Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the
architect who rebuilt the White
House after the British burned
lit during the War OF 1912 and
who played a major role In PLAN
ming the United States Capitol.
Nevertheless. architects feel he
may be partly responsible for the
present condition Of the church.
III he supervised the actual con-
Istruction. they say, Ne should
never have allowed the building
supports to be taken out from
under the main arches as soon as
they apparently were. Removing
them too soon, the engineers say.
lis probably what caused the
arches to sag and flatten out.
Critical Of Addition
They are even more critical Of
the men who built the 1890 adj
ldition. Besides using too fimsy
ceiling members. they spaced
them too far apart. connected
the peaked rafters too high up.
failed to tie the new brick walls
Ito the old and did not make
pilates across the tops Of the
walls continuous.
The engineers third complaint
is with the replastering done on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23
St. Johns Church Found
In State Of Near Collapse

Although the church was In
q dangerous condition before
emergency measures were taken.
1t has now been made safe. Tenn
porary repairs were made at
once as soon as each faulty sec
ton was discovered.
But permanent reconstruction
will take time and money. The
arches under the dome will be
undergirded with curving steel
beams which win follow the con-
tour Of the arches.
The worst Of the wooden
ceiling members have been
strengthened and some will be
replaced.
The bilging walls Of the nave
will be held together by steel
tie rods running from side to
side under the ceiling. The
plates, wooden members laid on
top Of the side walls, win be
strengthened.
Most Of the termite-eaten
members in the vestibule already
have been replaced and repias-
tering is now In progress. The
front roof has also been re-
paired.
The church has engaged James
NJ. Gongwer as structural engi-
neer and the Charles H. Tomp-
kins Co. as builders.
The work is being supervised
by Horace w. Peaslee. church
architect. and Miles L. Colean.
chairman Of the church build
ing committee.
Mr.. Colean said today the cost
of the operation will be a stag
gering one. He pointed out that
the church has Just been forced
to borrow about $3.50, 900 from its
endowment, TO buy new land. The
church snapped the site Of It's
old parish hall next to the church
on Sixteenth street to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which
lis putting UP a new headquarters
building next to 1t. In return they
got the old Buckingham House
next to the church around the
corner on H street. but had to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23
BOX WAS BURSTING
WITH SURPRISE

PASADENA. Calf. R.--
When Mrs. Mary t. Mack.
81. received q bulky package
from the postman yesterday
she called police and ex-
planned that she had heard
about bombs being sent
through the mails.
Motor Ofiicer Claude
Shores went to the woman's
home and gingerly opened
her package.
Inside was no bomb but q
book: How to Become A
Minister"