European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Memphis ordeal eased by Memphis Tenn. A Sorrie 60 shaky and fatigued persons mostly school children were brought Down Satur Day night and Early sunday from open Tramway cars Ona Memphis amusement Park sky ride which had jammed had been stranded for nine hours after torn adic winds blew the Cable off a Tower Pulley and automatic the giving reassurance Deputy sheriff Phil Cottam talks with children stranded aboard Asky ride car at a Memphis Tenn., amusement Park torn adic winds tangled a Cable leaving an estimated 60 persons trapped. They were later rescued. Associated press photo safety devices brought sky ride to a halt. Firemen working from Aeria ladder trucks brought Down All but 20, who were stalled 60 feet Over a Lake. They remained in their tiny gondolas until the machine was repaired. The firemen were impeded by Brnadic winds which roared through the Lakeland fun an recreation club located in East Ern Shelby county. The 60 per sons were in 25 gondolas of the ride which was brought therefrom the Brussels world fair. Many persons had been Takeoff the ride before the wind whistled in bringing heavy stranded riders resorted to varied efforts to keep up their spirits. Songs were Sung prayers were said and school football teams were cheered for even though the sport was out of season. Attending picnic David Mullins 14, of ripleymiss., who was attending a Pic Nic for Falkner school was among the first rescued. We got Down with a ladder they put up to us he said. Another Falkner Pupil Jerry Mills 14, said nobody was scared in his Cable car As the waited for help. It just stopped on us an there we sat he said. I did t get scared at All until it started raining said Julie Mitchell 14. Then i Deputy climbed a Tower inched out onto an Arm support employers in France offer raise from a and up dispatches Paris French Industry Lead ers prodded by the government agreed sunday to give workers sweeping wage increases and so Cial benefits improving greatly the Prospect of settlement of the nation s strike which has lasted10 Days. Officials said the representatives of the National employers association and the leading Trade unions were near Accord on a new Deal for the 19 million wage earners. Trade Union sources said their representatives were holding out related Story Page 4 for More advantages for their members 10 million of whom walked off their jobs plunging France into its worst turmoil since the 1930s.officials said the businessmen were offering the workers a 10per cent increase. Seven per cent would be paid june 1, and the remainder oct. 1. Increases granted individually since Jan. 1 unofficial newspaper of . Force. In Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 40 if 21855 a monday May 27, 1968 5 daily 10 sunday d hearts transplanted in Brazil and Virginia reds staging big buildup North Viet Sam Sites bombed from a and up dispatches Saigon . Air Force fighter bombers attacked 11 enemy surface to air missile am Sites in the extreme South Ern half of North Vietnam the i mud announced appearance of the concentrated Sam Sites strengthened reports of a massive buildup and movement of the 25-foot Long russian made Sams near t h e o them Border of South Viet haul. I would say it was a record number of strikes flown against surface to air missile Sites in on Day a . Military command spokesman Are legitimate targets the spokesman said and North Vietnam certainly has been employing Sams against on missed b52 bombers saturday. In the attacks on the 11 site saturday air Force pilots re ported destroying or damaging six Sams two launchers two radar vans and numerous sup port buildings. Their bombs reportedly touched off five fire Sand four secondary explosions at the Sam Sites attacked were Between the Doz and the North vietnamese City of Dong hoi 45 Miles above the Buffer strip air Force f4 phantoms and f105 thunderchief fighter bomb ers made the concentrated at forces have killed More than 500 North vietnamese troops in a series of Sharp clashes along the demilitarized one and in the northernmost provinces of South Vietnam Mil itary spokesmen reported. While North vietnamese an american negotiators prepared to resume peace talks in Paris monday the communist com Mand also kept the pressure on South Vietnam s Central plateau cont. On Page 23, col. $ same donor gives kidney at Sao Paulo from a and up dispatches heart and a kidney were transplanted from the same do nor into two recipients sunday in Sao Paulo Brazil. Saturday night in Richmond va., a heart was transplanted into the Chest of a Man who was immediately placed under armed America s first heart transplant was performed in exactly three hours at Sao Paulo s Hospital Das clinical by a team cant on Page 2$, col. U
