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Vol. CXIX, No. 302,
Athens' 1951 Weather
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Charles F. Elder, sr., member of
2 nrominent Athens family and
widely known business man, died
tr's morning at 5 o’clock in a hos
pital in Orlando, Fla., from in
iurics sustained in an automobile
ac-ident last night about 9:30
o ck.
runeral arrangements have not
b completed and will be an
nounced later by Bridges Funeral
“Ir. Elder, hig first cousin, Tom
s .. also of Athens, and Melvin
7ilson, former Athenian, whom
she two Elders had been visiting
in Orlando since December 15,
were enroute to the Orange Bowl
foniball game in Miami today
when the accident took place.
They had left the Wilson home
at 0115 with Mr. Wilson driving
vr. Elder’s car. At a street in
tersection inside the Orlando city
limits, the Elder car was hit by
another car.
Mr. Wilson and Tom Elder were
uniniured and at first it was
thought that the third eccupant of
the car was also uninjured. He got
out of the car and walked around,
saying there was no need for the
ambulance which had been called.
However, he was taken to the hos
pital where an examination dis
ciosed a small cut on the head and
a minor knee injury but failed to
show any internal injuries.
Physicians at the hospital said
they wished him to remain over
night for observation but felt sure
he could leave the hospital this
morning. He died at 5 a. m. Mr.
Elder was 67 years old.
He is survived by his wife.
Mabel Elder, with. whom he re
sided at 14€ Green% Court;
one son, Dr. Charles ¥. Elder, jr.,
Athens; daughter, Mrs. Kingsley
Weatherly, Stone Mountain; two
sisters, Miss Laura Elder, Athens,
and Mrs. A. D. Cheney, Winter
Haven, Fla. He was a first cousin
to Tom Elder and Rarry Elder.
Mr. Elder was a native of At
hens and a lifelong resident here.
He attended local schools and for
many years was connected with
Talmadge Bros. Wholesale Com
pany, and later became connected
with Tennessee Grain Company,
by whom he had been employed
for a number of years.
Mr, Elder was a member of
First Christian Church.
Chafin's Place
By TOM BROWN ;
Chafin’s Place, 1090 Madison
avenue, caught fire last night at
11:55 p. m. and again this morning
at 5:45 o’clock. Firemen said the
building, which is outside the city
limits, was completely demolished.
The first time the firemen were
called to the scene, they battled
the blaze for two-and-one-half
hours before getting it under con
trol,
At 5:45 o’clock this morning, a
ruck driver pulled in Headquar
ters Fire Stattion on Thomas street
and told firemen that Chatfin’s
Place was blazing again.
After two hours of firefighting,
the smoke-eaters again brought
the blazing building under con
trol. Many electrie motors, refrig
erators, electric stoves, toasters,
irons, fan equipment, and all the
furniture in the house on the back
;.! the shop were lost, according to
iremen,
Earlier Fire
At $10:35 p, m. last night, fire-
Men answered a call to 846 Sirong
sireet where a bundle of eclothes
''a sofa chair blazed up. Not too
much damage resulted.
Firemen answered a call yes
terday afternoon at 1:30 o‘clock to
134 State street where a house was
blazing, Assistant Chief Peeler
“alt the furniture in the house was
adly damaged,
Or the accident scene, State Pa
ol officers reported a wreck on
the High Shoalg road last night.
Ronald Morris, Loudenville, Ohio,
‘mitted to the hospital after
Bernstein Ambulance carried him
so the General Hospital.- James
David Evans, Ronold Morris, and
'Ot Parrot, all sailors, were
Nding in one automobile, while
Jack R. McCart, Bogart, was
bitied on the side of the road.
Slate Patrol charged McCart
Wit illegal parking and Evans
iriving too fast for condi
.o and not having his automo
blie under control,
__Highway 78 Mishap
.1 U. S. Highway 78, State Pa
whio Vestigated enother accident
J 1 occurred late yesterday.
‘Mes Ormang Stocks, jr., 1107
hl,"*'?*"*"@ road, Norfolk, Va. was
driving his automobile too fast
When he went around a eurve and
'mafl:ed. into a pank, State Pa
trol officers said he was only
lh?ken up.
o the qity & wreck occu last
Dight at 9 p. . at West R’m ’ffl
Magnoliy Streets, Acco: g to the
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E. S. SELL
Emeritous Professor of Geography
at the Universy and U. S.
Weather Observer.
Two of the most distinctive fea
tures of the weather in this region
during the past year will short
age of rain during the late summer
months and the uncomfortable
long and hot summer. Although
the summer was quite hot the
temperatures did not approach any
record for this locality.
A temperature of 96 degrees
was recorded on the 21st of August
and again on the 3rd of Septem
ber. The highest temperature ever
to occur here was in 1925 when
the thermometer reached 108 de
grees. The mean temperature for
most of the months was fairly
close to normal but August was
degrees above normal while Oct
ober was 2.4 degrees above normal.
Low Temperature
The lowest temperature for the
past year was recorded on the 28th
of Feburary which was 9 degrees.
The thermonter registered 13 de
grees on the 16th of December. The
lowest temperature ever to be re
corded at Athens is 3 degrees be
low zero. This occurred on Feb
ruary of 1894.
The rainfall here for the past
year amounted to 42.39 inches.
This is 7.36 inches below the nor
mal rainfall for Athens. This year
1951 ended with about 10 inches
below the average for this locality.
The month of January had only
2.10 inches of rain which was a
deficiency of 2.74 inches for this
month. February had a deficency
of 2.94 inches with a rainfall of
2.15 inches. The driest month of
the year was Auguest with only
.26 on an inch, with a deficiency
of 4.36 inches of rain for this
month.
June and July had more than
normal amounts of rain. The
drought in August would have re
sulted in greater damage had it
not been for th heavy raiarfall in
the two preceeding months. June
had a rainfall of 6.07 inches which
was an excess of 1.94 inches while
July had 8.36 inches. The latter
months had an exeéess of 3.35 in
ches of rain. The rain that fell in
December amounted to 6.26 in
ches which was 1.67 inches above
normal.
The average rainfall for Athens
amounts to 49.75 inches. This is
more than 5,000 tons per acre an
nually, since one inch of rain is
equivalent to 113 tons uer acre,
With this amount of water falling
on each acre in a region where
hills are frequent, soil erosion
becomes a major prblem for the
famres. .
1929-Wet Year
The greatest amount of rain to
fall at Athens, according to all
available records is 75 inches oe
curred in 1929. The driest year was
1925 when only 32 inches fell at
Athens.
The normal temperature and the
average annual raifall mentioned
is this article result from the com
pilation of weather records for
the past sixty years. Only two
cities in Georgia have older wea
ther records than Athens and
these are Savannah and Augusta.
The rapid increase in the pro
duction of cattle in this region is
closely related to the climate of
the area. The relative mild win
ters and the usually adequate and
quite well distriguted rainfall
throughout the year is attracting
farmers from other sections where
the rainfall is less and the winters
are more severe, With the develop
ment of permanent pastures this
region seems to be destined to
become a prosperous cattle and
poultry growing section.
Youth Stabbed
ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. I—(AP)
16-year-old Freddie Moya was
stabbed to death this morning as
whistles blew to bring in the New
Year. Police said the youth died
at 12:05 a. m. (MST) in downtown
Albuquerque.
A companion, Alex Gutierrez,
15, who was treated for cuts, said
a gang of boys approached them
while they were ateending a New
Year'’s dance.
“Why did you pick on my broth
er?” Gutierrez quoted one of the
group as asking Moya. He said
the group invited them outside.
The stabbing followed in an alley.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight, Wednesday con
siderable cloudiness and coeler
with showers. Low tonight 55;
high tomorrow 62. Sun sets to
day 5:34 and rises tomorrow
7:39.
GEORGIA — Partly clquy
and continued warm this after
noon and tonight, scattered
showers in extreme north to~
night; Wednesday considerable
cloudiness with scattered show
ers, turning colder over north
portion. :
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After Explosio
ROME, Ga., Jan. I.—(AP)—A
dynamite explosion near a negro
social club early Sunday has re
sulted in the arrest of three white
men for questioning.
Police identified the suspects as
R. H. Armstrong, 40; Charles R.
Thompson, 27, and Jack Brown,
about 30. They were jailed with
out charges pending further in
vestigation.
Armstrong and Thompson were
seized near the scene of the ex
plosion shortly after it went off in
the outskirts of Rome, police said.
Brown was arrested Sunday after
noon,
Last night officers said they had
not determined the motive for the
blast.
Police departments of Rome and
Floyd county have been joined by
officers of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and -the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation in the in
quiry.
They are investigating to deter
mine whether the explosion was
connected with an attempt to blow
up a Southern Railway diesel en
gine in the eastern section of
Rome last Friday night.
Two men fled from the engine
under a train shed when a passer
by approached. Investigators
found nine sticks of dynamite un
der the engine.
Inspection Set
For AHS ROTC
All ROTC cadets of Athens High
School are reminded that uni
forms are to be worn on the open~
January 2. A regular uniform in
spection will be held and no ex
cuse will be accepted for failure
to wear full uniform. ;
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SOUTHERN PAY HIKE
ATLANTA, Jan. 1, — (AP) -
The past year brought fatter pay
checks to 3,000,000 salaried em
ployes in 14 Southern states.
A report of Brunswick A. Ba%-
don, regional director of the U. 8.
E:;reau of Labor Statistics, cover=-
géneral pay hikes in 2,900 in
dustries said re#ses were about 25
percent above 1950.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
By The Associated Press
There were toasts and prayers
and cannonades for infant 1952 to
day as the New Year brought the
hope of the future to a world
troubled by its past.
Peoples of nearly all nations—
on both sides of the iron curtain—
greeted the New Year at cheery
midnight parties or quiet church
watch night services.
In Korea, where 1952 inherits
1951’s major headache, the New
Yecar was ushered in with a rock
ing Allied artillery barrage across
the entire front. Meanwhile,
truce teams dragged their nego
tiations into the New Year.
~ While the guns were booming in
‘the world’s current conflict, New
York City’s Times Square had one
of its biggest celebrations since
World War II dimmed the early
1940’5. ;
Police estimated almost one mil
lion persons were in the square
when midnight signalled the New
Year. The figure was 150,000
greater than last year. Plate glass
windows were boarded up while
1,500 police patrolled the area and
closed the square to traffic.
In Philadelphia
A bedlam of noise, augmented
by train whistles, greeted the New
Year in Philadelphia. But a big
part of the Quaker City’s celebra
tion was to come today in the an
nual parade of thousands of Mum=
mers. ;
Washington also had big erowds
as a special order permitted the
capital’s nightclubs and restaur
ants to remain open an extra two
hours. :
But in Boston, police said 1952
had a comparatively calm recep
tion with only an estimated 75,000
“kids” tooting horns in the streets.
Most Bostonians celebrated in
night clubs or at house parties.
There were two New Year's Eve
parties at West Point without any.
official announcemnt that 19
Military Academy Cadets were re
ported among those aboard a mili
tary plane missing in Arizona.
Across the United States, the
big holiday event today was the
annual football bowl games.
Moscow also had its revels. The
Russians made the holiday count
for both New Year’s and a sort of
Christmas. “Grandfather Frost”
passed out toys to children, who
were on a 10-day recess from
school, |
Berlin Celebration
Berlin celebrated all night in
both the East and West sectors,
but the champagne flowed more
abundantly in the West. The Rus
gian -sector toasted the holiday
chiefly in beer, schnapps and vod
ka.
London was treated to the no
toriously rowdy Chelsea Art Ball, |
attended by 6,000,
As the world celebrated, the
men of state prepared the politics
of the New Year. President Tru
man worked quietly in Washing
ton,
Soviet Premier Stalin took time
out to send the Japanese a New
Year’s greeting expressing his
sympathy for their “serious situa—‘
tion under foreign occupation.”
The Japanese, however, iwe cofi-,
vinced the year will see the ratifl-!
cation of the peace treaty restor-|
ing them to full sovereignty in|
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MISS CHEESECAKE
Shapely Franca Faldini
(above), 20-year-old Italian
born film stariet, has been
elected “Miss Cheesecake of
1951” by the U. S. Army news
paper Stars and Stripes in
Darmstadt, Germany. The pub
lication claims Miss Faldini’s
leg measurements are identical
with Venus de Milo. The actress
now is in Hollywood. — (AP
Wirephoto.)
14 Survive Crash Of C-46 Plane
In Which 26 Died: Probe Is Set
LITTLE VALLEY, N. Y, Jan. 1
— (AP) — Fourteen survivors of
the crash of a non-scheduled
airliner counted thelr blessings on
this New Year’s Day.
- But there was no happiness in
the families of 26 other persons
whose broken bodies were scat
tered with the wreckage along the
crest of a remote ridge in south
western New York’s wooded wild
erness.
None of the survivors was re
ported in critical condition,
The twin-engined plane crash
ed about 10:25 p. m. (EST) Sat
urday while on & fligxt’from Pitts
burgh to Buffalo. The wreckage
was found yesterday on a wooded
ridge of the Allegheny Mountain
foothills in the most remote sec
tion of southwestern New York.
In Washington, meanwhile,
Civil Areonfiutics Board Chairman
Donald W. Nyrop said he and
CAB investigators would conduct
Truce Negotiators
In Dead Stalemate
Air Fights Rage
Over Korean
Northwest Front
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, KOREA, Jan. 1 — (AP)
—American sabre jets started out
the New Year by damaging two
Red MIG-15s in a 30-minute bat
tle over northwest Korea.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force said
no sabres were hurt in the dog
fight between 31 American plans
and 60 Communist jets.
But two U. S. propeller-driven
planes were shot down by Com
munist anti-aircraft guns. They
were an F-51 mustang and a mari
ne F-4U corsair. Both were brou
ght down behind Communist lines.
The Fifth Air Force said no
body was hit in an earlier jet
battle involving 70 MIGs.
New Year’s day opened with a
United Nations artillery barrage
the length of the 145-mile front
and bombing raids by Communi
st planes on two air fields near
Seoul. The Allies said the Red
bombers escaped, but did no dam
age,
Red Claims
The Reds said in a communique
broadcast over Pyongyang radio
Tuesday night that their planes
—‘4wo formations of our night
bombers”’—destroyed 24 U. N.
aircraft at Kimpo and scored dir
ect hits on ships at Anchor and
Munitions warehouses and dumps
at Inchon. e -
~ ‘Large fires were started” at
Inchon, said the broadcast heard
in Tokyo. “Great explosions re
sulted.”
.~ On the ground the U, 8. Eighth
Army said the only action New
Year's day up to noon was a 40-
minute fight against a lone squad
of attacking Reds northwest of
Yonchon on the western front.
Despite the twilight war, the
Eighth Army said, the Commun=-
ists lost 3,866 men last week, in
cluding 2,305 killed 1,502 wounded
and 41 taken prisoner.
Air Activities
Reviewing the work of his Fifth
Air Force planes during December,
Lt. Gen. Frank F. Everest an
nounced “Communist transport
iation and supply facilities were
left badly battered at the end of
1051.”
During the monthy he said Fifth
Air Force destroyed 4,296 Red
supply trucks, 1,839 supply and
troop buildings, 36 locomotives and
318 box cars. Red rail lines were
reported cut 2,461 times, Air at
tacks were credited with killing
or wounding 1,429 Communist
troops.
The Fifth Air Force lost 35
planes to the Reds in December.
Seven were shot down in air bat
tles and 28 by Red anti-aircraft
gunners,
Allied jet pilots shot down 32
MIGs, probably destroyed five
more and damaged 36 other planes,
the summary said.
CAT'S PAY BOOSTED
ATLANTA, Jan, 1. — (AP) —
The Regional Wage Stabilization
Board came down teo the feline
level today and granted a raise in
“pay” for a cat.
With due ceremony, the Board
acted favorably on a petition from
the Georgia Power Company for
an extra quart of nrilk per week
for “Tom Kilowatt,” a mouser in
the utility firm's headquarters
building.
The petition described the cat
as a “valued employe of the com
pany. :
The Board’s opinion set forth
that the extra milk was allowed
because ‘“twill be inflationary
only to subject cat.”
an investigation on the scene.
CAB spokesman said Nyrop was
particularly concerned ' because
this was the third crash of a C-46
in the past thee weeks. One in
Elizabeth, N. J., took 56 lives.
Aid Summoned
Help for the crash survivors was
summoned yesterday afternoon by
a passenger, George Albert, 30,
of Miami, Fla., who struggled two
and a half miles through heavy
snow to the nearest road.
Th plane had been the object
of a widesgread search in which
nearly 200 planes participated.
Coast Guard boats also poined in
the hunt which extended to the
Great Lakes area.
“I had no idea where we were,”
said Albert, wheose mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Albert, 47, was killed.
“I thought it was New York state,
but you couldn’t be sure. The pilots
were “dead. They 'were- the only
ones who knew.”
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
By DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan, 1-—(AP)
The New Year opened with truce
negotiators “in a dead stalemate”
on how to supervise a Korean
armistice,
Communist negotiators did agree
to supply more information on
50,000 missing Allies, mostly South
Koreans, and agreed in principle
on repatriating civilians.
The repatriation agreement
opened a potential new dispute.
South Koreans have charged the
Reds “kidnaped” 113,000 civilians.
Today, for the first time, the Com~
munists charged the Allies *took
away” 500,000 North Korean eivil«
ians.
Simultaneously, Vice Adm. C.
Turner Joy, chief U. N. negotiator,
said in a New Year’s statement
that it will take time, and lots of
it, to negotiate “an honorable,
equitable and stable arn:istice.”
Joy said the armistice talks have
been “painfully slow” but that
progress has been made.
Main Strength
“Our main strength at the econ
ference table lies in the time that
you at home are wise enough to
give us.
“You have been very generous
in the past. We are counting on
your support in the future.
“For approximately one half of
the past year the hope of the
world has been suspended be
tween war and peace in Korea.
“We sincerely want to end the
fighting and bloodshed as soon as
possible. At the same time, and
equally important, we want to es~
tablish conditions which will dig
courage if not prevent, a resump
tion of hostflit&s. :
“We want to make certain that
the enemy does not use the period
of the armistice to prepare for new
attacks.”
It was that puint which brought
about what Maj. Gen. Howard M.
Turner called a “dead stalemate”
in Tuesday’s subcommittee meet
ing at Panmunjom on armistice
supervision.
A U. N. Command eommunique
said *“the Communists once again
flatly rejected” Saturday’s *“final
offer” by the Allies on policing the
truce. The Reds “refused to make
any concessions” on the Allied de
mand that they would not rebuild
their military air fields,
Turner Request
Turner asked for an adjourn
ment after only 37 minutes, the
communique said, “when it was
apparent the Communists were
waiting still further compromises
on the part of the U. N. Command.
The Allies have watered down
or withdrawn most of their de
mands on truce supervision, They
said Saturday th(_ey would make
no more compromises,
Turner commented the Com
munists “want us to give every
thing. This places us In a dead
stalemate.”
New sessions of both subcom
mittees were scheduled for 11 a.
m. Wednesday (9 p. m. Tuesday
EST).
Tuesday’s prisoner of war sub
committee meeting was “very
amicable, singularly enough,” said
Rear Adm, R. E. Libby. “They ap~
parently were following the old
Chinese philosophy of paying all
their debts at one time at the New
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FESTIVAL WEEK
ATLANTA, Mn, 1. — (AP) —
Georgia products will have a
“Festival Week” beginning April
20, by proclamation of Governor
Herman Talmadge.
During the week Georgia stores
will feature state products in an
attempt to build up demand.
All Georgia cities and towns
are invited to participate.
Pearl Moon, 24, of Miami, a
stewardess for Continental Char
ters Inc, ,operators of the plane,
said the right engine stuttered just
before the crash.
Baby Killed
Miss Moon said a baby died in
her arms Sunday morning as the
survivors huddled around a fire
behind a shelter they had made
from a parachufe.
The survivors were brought out
on littlers and on heavy sledges
pulled by a tractor. They were
met at the road by ambulances and
rushed to district hospital in Sala
mamanca, about eight miles away.
None was reported in critical con
dition.
At least two of the bodies were
decapitated. Limbs were torn from
some of the bodies. g
Three corpses were left %
in the wreckage. Workers h
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Search parties checked a mew
lead to the fate of a missing mili
tary plane carrying 28 persons
today after another lost aircraft
was found - yesterday with 14 of
the 40 aboard alive.
Meanwhile, hunts were eontin
ued for three more planes which
have vanished with 11 persons,
Finding of the wreckage of a
non-scheduled C-48 transport in
southwestern New York high
lighted yesterday’'s mass land-wa
ter-air hunts for the five planes
from California to the great lakes
and Arizona to Alaska.
Sixty eight rescue planes and &
ground party renewed their search
in Arizona today for an air force
transport missing since Sunday
with 28 aboard, including 18 West
Point cadets.
A lone man on a search plane
vesterday reported sighting the
wreckage of an aircraft on €475~
foot Iron mountain but it has
been impossible to determine whe
ther it is the missing plane, a C-47.
Rescue parties reached the
crash of the C-48, near Little Val
ley, N. Y., Yesterday after am in
house,
jured pasenger struggled 1o a
farm house. The Pittsburgh-to-
Buffalo Continental Charter Inc.
Plane crashed Saturday night.
~ Another C-48 transport, beiong
ing to Trahsocean Airlings, has
been missing since Sunday night
on & point Barrow-te-F:.,M
flight in Alaska. The airline said
two crewmen were aboard, but
that it had not determined
whether there were sny passen
gers,
Flashing signal lights last might
gave hope to search parties. But
early today a helicopter pilot, who
made a hazardous night flight up
Chena River, reported that the
signals were from a trapper in
need of food.
The C-46 planes are the same
type as the craft that crashed st
Elizabeth, N. J., a few weeks #37
with a death toll of 56.
The other lcrt planes are a mili
tary F-51 mustang and an air force
transport. The mustang disappear
ed in Arizona Sunday with one
aboard.
Eight were aboard the arnsport,
a C-47, when it vanished Wednes
day on a flight from Spokane,
Wash., to Travis Air Base, Calif.
Holiday Mishaps
!Take 441 Lives
By The Associated Press
Accidents during the four day
New Vear's week-end had oest
441 lives with almost a full day to
go.
The toll on the highways and
streets was 292—we1l short of the
350 predicted by the National
Safety Council. Fires killed 43,
and a variety of accidents 106.
The miscellaneous figure in
cluded 26 who died in a plane
crash Saturady mnight in wupper
New York state.
The toll by states, traffic, fire
and miscelianeous in that order:
Alabama 4 0 0; Arizona 1 0 1;
Arkansas 2 0 5; California 33 5 11;
Colorado 0 0 1; Connnecticut 10 5;
Florida 2 2 2; Georgia 209;
Idaho 1 1 1; Illinois 12 7 2; Indi
ana 11 0 0; lowa 13 0 1; Kansas
13 0 3; Kentucky 2 0 0; Louisiana
2 0 3; Maine 1 0 1; Maryland 5 6 0;
Massachusetts 3 0 1; Michigan
12 4 1; Minnesota 8 0 0; Missis~
sippi 0 3 0; Missouri 7 5 3; Mon
tana 1 0 1; Nebraska 5 0 0; New
Hampshire 1 0 0; New Jersey
6 0 0;
New Mexico 4 0 0; New York
17 1 29; North Carolina 7 3 §;
North Dakota 2 1 0 ; Ohio 17 0 &;
Oklahoma 4 0 0; Pennsylvania
8 1 2; Rhode Island 0 0 1; South
Carolina 8 0 0; South Daketa
014; Tennessee 6 1 0; Texas
16 2 8; Vermont 0 0 1; Virgimia
12 3 3; Washington 1 0 0; West
Virginia 8 1 2; Wisconsin 2 2 3.
TEACHER KILLED :
MT. AIRY, N. C,, Jan. I—(AP)
Police probed today for a motive
behind the booby-trap explosion
that killed a young high schoel
agriculture teacher yesterday.
William Homer Cochrane, jr.,
24, died in a Mt. Alry hospital lost
night 13 hours after a mysterious
explosion wrecked his pickup'
truck.
Cochrane was blown from &&8
truck when he pressed the starter.
Police believed the. explosive
charge was e?l;ne&egtoa
charge pla U‘en?ath &m
board of the eab.