European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars my stripes wednesday july 8, 1959 three escape serious injury in plane crash Elkton a. A three per Otis escaped with  minor in of wirtes when their Light plan crashed in heavy fog on the East slope of the Blue Ridge mountains near the Scenic Skyline  were taken to University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottes Ville. Attendants listed them and their injuries As Steven Arthur Mcclellan jr., 27, of Greendale ., Pilot of the plane minor face injuries Sandra Jane Logan 23, of Englewood ., and r. Kent Hanson 56, of Garden City ., bruises. Mcclellan is the son of the presi Dent of specialities inc., of Charlottesville manufacturers of air Craft precision instruments. Walked 12 Miles the three had left Charlottes Ville in a five place Light plane about 11 pm sunday. Approximately an hour and four minutes later their plane came Down in the Shenandoah National Park about 12 Miles North of Swift run Gap to the head of devils ditch. Mcclellan set out on foot for help and walked about 12 Miles to Stanardsville where he contacted the Greene county sheriff s office. Park rangers state troopers and officers from the sheriff s depart ment and the town of Elkton be Gan the trek into the rugged Moun Tain terrain. They were hampered Lay the heavy fog which Cut visibility to several Yards. Washington up the Slingshot is going great guns Tonii a metaphor.  geographic society reports there now Are More than250,000 members in a group Call ing itself the National Slingshot Assn. The weapon itself has come a Long Way since David felled Goliath with a Sling that probably consisted of a straight stick witha leather t Hong attached by a length of  forked version continues to be the most popular today with Strong rubber bands providing the propelling Force. Instead of whack ing his Fork from a nearby tree the modern David buys one of aluminium or laminated Wood at the sporting goods store. Using these engineered weapons a skillful slings Ter can out score pistol marksmen at a Range of 10 Yards. Using a Ball bearing he can Pierce a medium size Tele phone directory. The things Are so powerful that Michigan requires a License for their use in Hunt  at Yale now Are using a 30-Foo,t Slingshot that fires Alu Minum i ods to test the reaction of metals to  achieved the Force and accuracy to kill Goliath but his weapon was primitive by modern standards. The geographic society says he probably turned the Tricky placing a baseball sized Stone in the leather thong twirling it around to build up Speed and let Ting Fly 4it just the right moment. Other biblical Sling packers included 700 sharpshooters All South paws who served under Benja  and assyrians included slings in. Their armament and Hannibal s army was so  irishmen used slings when the target was out of shillelagh  today there s a Man in Ala Bama who totes a Sling bearing 61 notches one for every Pesky Rattlesnake he s knocked off with it in the past 20 years. Something new along the Boardwalk Hagerty Back at his desk. Washington a presidential press Secretary James c. Hagerty has returned to his desk still convalescing from an appendix  entered Walter Reed army medical Center june 22 with air inflamed appendix. I feel pretty Well but i Don t want to fight with any of you yet Hagerty smiled As he met news men for the usual White House morning briefing. Reed the rolling chair has a new. Look in Atlantic City  At least in this Model with a unicycle to push it. It  brainchild of the creators of the first rolling chairs which after their introduction in 1887, became a familiar sight along the Boardwalk. United press International photo no to yet but one Bathtub in town 20th Century invading onion town editor s note a dozen years ago reporter James  visited onion town ., a Community less than 100 Miles from new York City. He found town that had almost defied the inroads of civilisation. But even onion town could t holdout. Now Kilgallen has returned to find radios and automobiles and even one Bath tub by James l. Kilgallen onion town  Up modern 20th Century Type living 1� creeping up on onion town. This quaint settlement where Clannish group of families has been living by themselves oblivious r of the atomic age since the new York Central came through herein 1863, has finally come around to making use of the radio and the motor car. But As yet no one in onion town has a to set. However in one Home rebuilt after fire a year ago there is a Bathtub. Tobacco Cha win w i 1 a i a m l. Bill Vincent Gray haired Gray Goatee Ruddy faced and nearing 71, the oldest male resident of the Community attributes the trend toward modernity to the younger generation and says it s All right with  Young folks Are changing things said Bill nowadays when a couple gets married they want things like a radio and a car. Asfor myself i would t have a car if you gave it a  revisited onion town the other was lieutenant whose sister married sex suitor shoots self1 r Charleston . A a 22 yer old women s air Force tenant whose twin sister married her sex boy Friend remained in critical condition from a gunshot police were told she shot from unhappiness Over the marriage. Jolt Sandra Marsh of Valley neb., t Roper Hospital Here with a pistol wound in the Abdo Siste it Shewa Marsh Hou Ford shared an apartment with her in the City., police said that was where the shooting took place. Both women were stationed a Charleston air Force base i Marion j. Schwartz Charleston county police director quoted it Housand and her husband of three Days As saying they  the apartment Friday and told Sandra they were married. They said san dra then threatened to kill her self and that she became increasingly despondent Over the week end. Day after an absence of 12 years and found old Bill still living Alonen a one Story Frame Shack playing with his dog Frank and. A Black Kitten called Sam Sal. Bill had changed although onion town had. For years the people of onion town have lived behind a self imposed Iron curtain getting along without such modern conveniences As electric lights ice boxes or air conditioning., to some of them it might As Well be 1859. Instead of 1959./ onion town. Looked As picturesque and almost As primitive As it Didon my previous visit. Plain wooden structures Black with age and some reeking with squalor dotted the Hillside a woman was cooking in a frailer. It s a pretty place a Little less than 100 Miles from new York City. Nearest Village is.  Plains a mile up the Road. Perched up on the Hills hard by the rail Road track onion town commands a View of the Beautiful and prosperous Countryside. Former gov. Thomas e. Dewey s Well stocked farm at Pawling is  10 Miles away the natives Are hostile to re porters whom they regard As in truders upon their privacy. Mrs Daisy Murphy 79, the oldest Wom an Here whose new Bungalow has the  Bathtub in town shouted get out i have nothing to say mrs. Murphy a Fine looking worn an reared 14 children seven boys and seven girls. 8 will get you 2,000 a Riniker s wiggly wag Glies Doylestown a. Up Wanna buy a worm a Bucks county farm wife will sell you2,000 of them for $8, six years ago mrs. Mabe Brinker Hada garbage disposal problem which she decided to solve by obtaining a Colony of red Worms. She put them in a Boxin the cellar of her Home at Cross keys fed them garbage and watched them multiply three times in three months. Word that mrs. Brinker owned several thousand Worms got around to nearby youngsters who asked for some to go fishing. From there the  spread to several sporting goods stores and mrs Brinker was in business. Last year she sold More than 100,000 of the Worms to sports shops. Counting out the Worms for Sale in t Mych of a problem for mrs. Brinker. Her 11-year-old Gran Doh Robert Cosner does the Job for spending Money. And what does her husband Lester think of the whole thing Well he s the one who tacked Upa sign in front of their Home which reads Brinker s wiggly wiggly worm  space scientist Back at work 4iter 2d life los Angeles a i a space scientist who gave up his family and his career for the obscure life of a race track Groom is Back at work As a specialist in aerodynamics. -. Albert Clark Reed 52, vanished seven years ago from his office at the California Institute of technology where he was an aeronautical Engineer with knowledge of Many of this country s space age  year ago a reporter found i m currying a horse at the Sta Bles in Hollywood Park working under the name of Cole  knew it was All Over with the horses then Reed said. It was a quiet life a Good life. But it was also an  then Reed has taken University courses to Brush up on his specially and friends helped him get a Job at an engineering Labora tory paying three times his salary As a  his years As a slab hand at California race tracks Reed s wife Florence died of cancer and his son t i m m a now 13, was adopted by relatives. He saw the boy last summer then decided he s better off where he is. Iwon t try to regain  Reed who says he never went out with a woman during the years of obscurity is a changed Man. I m a More social creature now he says. When i have a free eve Ning i enjoy a dance or a  but he has no plans for marriage. What caused him to give up his old life at Cal tech i am completely mystified Reed says. But he has returned to work with renewed interest. At his desk where he designs weapons training systems for Theair Force Reed said my work is most important to me. I want to have a hand in Al this  taken at his word Dunkirk,.. Up the Day after Joseph s clothing store advertised a door Buster Sale burglars broke into the  stole clothing and $100. Zoo Camel Cecil Dies in Miami Miami a Cecil the lonesome Lovesick Camel who figured in n fancy zoo wedding in 1956, is dead. C r a n 1 o n Park zoo director Robert malt Lin said death resulted from an obstructed intes tinal tract. Mattlin and a veterinarian had dosed the ailing Cecil for 10 Days first by in o u t h and then intravenously. Three years ago the Miami Herald conducted a drive that produced funds to buy a mate for Cecil. Cecil and the mate Cecilia were joined in widely publicized full dress nuptials. They had son be Quai since traded to the Havana zoo for a Zebra an Antelope Ami a daughter Panaiia