European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 6, 1969 ten aboard air taxi die in fiery crash port Angeles Wash a a twin engine air taxi crashed and burned on Takeoff Here just before Dawn wednesday killing the eight passengers an two pilots reported aboard. A witness said the Angele flying service Beechraft went into an exceptionally Steep climb Angle then appeared to stall banked to the left partly recovered then crashed about 1,000 feet North of the main run Way at the Callam county air port the flying service which oper ated the plane on regular shuttle service Between port Angel Sand the Seattle Tacoma International Airport said the passenger Manifest contained eight names. An unconfirmed report Saipan infant also May have been aboard. Daredevil Landing names of victims were with held pending notification of next of Kin. One of the pilots who died inthe flaming crash however was Bill Fairchild owner operator of the flying service. He was known for his daredevil Glacier land Ings to Supply research teams on it. Olympus in the olympic Range. Best Sellers of the week new York special the following were the Best Sellers last week according to publish ers weekly fiction 1. The Salzburg connection Helen Macinnes. 2. A Small town in Ger Many John be Carre. 3. Preserve and protect Allen Drury. 4. Airport a thur Halley. 5. The first Circle Alek Sander Solzhenitsyn. 6. Force 10 from Yavarone Alistair Maclean. 7. A world of profit Louis Jauchl Niclosi. 8. The Hurricane years Cameron Hawley. 9."and other stories John o Hara. 10. The beastly beatitudes of Balthazar j. P. Donleavy. Nonfiction 1, memoirs sixty years on the firing line Arthur Krock. 2. Instant reply Jerry Kramer. 3. The arms of Krupp William Manchester. 4. The Money game darn Smith. A anti memoirs Andre Malraux. 6. On reflection Helen Hayes with Sandford Dody. 7. The Day Kennedy was shot Jim Bishop. 8. The Joys of yiddish Leo Rosten. 9. The Rich and the super Rich Ferdinan Lundberg. To. The bogey Man George Plimpton. Bill Myers a port Angele policeman and part time employee of the flying service gave this account of the tragedy i was at the East end of the runway watching the Takeoff. The plane had its Landing Light son which is Normal. Then it accelerated and it struck me i came off the ground premature thought to myself either the Load was extremely Light or something was wrong. It continued in a real Steep Angle of climb away beyond the Normal Angle of flying until it got about abreast of the main hangars. At that Point it appeared the air-1plane stalled. The plane then made a Sharp Bank to the left and recovered in an almost nor Mal attitude but the Pilot maintain Altitude and the plane crashed about 1,000 fee North of the main runway in a Little Blacktop revetment area. It burst into flames immediately and no one was Able to get out. A ditch prevented firetrucks from driving directly to the scene. I just Don t know what could have happened the plane was taking off on the Day s first regularly scheduled flight to Seattle at 6 45 it crashed. Berkeley violence a student fails to avoid a kick at the University of California s Berkeley Campus As striking students Battle no strikers and police. Twenty persons were arrested and10 policemen were among two dozen injured tuesday. Up belly dancer wife pays9r _ by student gets shaky Start Bangor Maine a like Many another Young wife Jennifer Albright is putting he husband through College. The difference is that Jenny works part time As a belly dancer and her husband is a divinity Stu Dent. Belly dancing is really Hobby with me the dark haired housewife explained after a recent performance. It just happens i can make a Little extra Money with Jenny 19, is the wife of Ste phen Albright a student at ban Gor theological Seminary. Methinks it s great she enthused. He looks at it As being artistic like designing took up belly dancing after trying Ballet and other dance forms. Ballet seemed so limited to me she said. Belly dancing is much More Jenny who makes her own diaphanous gowns dances professionally Only at private parties and Stephen is always there. Even so she said som of the Albright acquaintances Are not As approving As her Hus band. A lot of my friends think of my belly dancing As a big joke she admitted but added i m there to express myself in dancing As my Mother would in her painting both the Albright come from suburban new York she from Yonkers and he from Hastings on Hudson. Jenny s Mother teaches Oil painting and her father is a publishing addition to her dancing Jenny also Waits on tables at Bangor restaurant is training As a Telephone company opera Tor and takes night courses at the University of she makes sure to find time to sew her costumes an prepare for performances. Said Jenny it takes me a least an hour to put my makeup 2 gunmen get $70,000 banker s wife is held hostage Jacksonville Fla. Up two gunmen forced a Bank president to give them $70,000wednesday while holding his wife hostage after a night of terror in their Home. Henry Lewis president of the Florida National Bank of Arlington and his wife Margue rite were released unharmed after the ordeal and the gunmen sped away with the Cash. Police ar.1 the Fri put out a statewide Alert for them. The drama began late tues Day night when the two men carrying pistols barged int Lewis Southside Home Cut the Telephone lines and held the couple captive. They made them go to their room and old them not to horse around " said Fri agent Jim o Connor. They made us go to bed dressed said Lewis. We just Laid there All night Long with one of them outside the door. They were very polite but the refused to let us have Coffee this , 58, said the bandits allowed him to shave be foregoing to the Bank but they told him their schedule was to tight to allow him to make 5 a. A one of the gunmen forced mrs. Lewis to accompany him from the Home in one of the couple s two cars and three hours later the second gunman took Lewis to his Bank in the second family car. When he walked into theban said a vice president he told us we had 10 minutes to get the Money or he would never see his wife again. We the vice president Raymond Pitts said Lewis was sure that if he did t get the Money he would never see her the Fri said Lewis instructed Bank employee to get $70,000 the amount demanded by the gunman and when the Cash was brought out he put it int Legal sized envelopes. Lewis then left with the gunman Pitts said and we did t hear anything from the until we found out they had been Fri said that while Lewis was at the Bank the second gunman was holding his wife captive at a spot about three Miles away. After leaving the Bank the Fri said Lewis was left stranded while the gunman drove to the spot where mrs. Lewis was being held handpicked up Bis partner. They left m Lewis car which was late found abandoned. All male jury seated to hear Shaw Case new Orleans up anal male panel of 12 jurors and two alternates was seated wednesday to try Clay l. Shaw on charges of conspiring to Mur Der president John f. Kennedy. Opening statements were set for thursday morning. The second alternate was sworn in at 11 29 a. M. Cost and dist. Judge Edward or. Sent them off to get a group picture taken by news photographers. He then Dis missed court for the final alternate was Robert j. Burlet president of Crane service who said he had heard the defendant lecture atan Export import school where Burlet was a student 18 year Sago. But he said this would not color his judgment of the Case. Panel urges More big City school funds Washington a presi Dent Nixon s task Force on Edu cation has recommended the Federal government spend at least another $1 Pihion a year to help the nation s big City schools. The confidential report also had some Blunt remarks on the president s image As far As Edu cation and Black americans arc concerned the Washington postpaid wednesday. Nixon is criticized by the taskforce for a Campaign statement endorsing Block Grants of Feder Al school funds to states and the report said the president had created the impression Dur ing the Campaign he would Goslow on school desegregation. The task Force said Nixon snot regarded As a particularly education minded Pifer president of the Carnegie corp., is chairman of the task Force which Drew up the report several weeks urging a billion Dollar in crease in Aid to big City Educa Tion the task Force said the cur rent title i program to help Dis advantaged children in t hav ing significant Impact on the massive problem of Urban Edu was suggested the program either be withdrawn be concentrated in big cities or the president support a new Urban education act to supple ment the failure of Edu cation in most of our larger Cit ies is now so great As to constitute one of the nation s most serious Domestic problems the report commented that Nixon did not have general support in the cities or among minority groups. To speak bluntly the new administration will be tackling the enormous problems of Urban education with few or no credentials and at a time when there is widespread disillusion ment in the ghettos caused bythe Rosy promises of subsequent failures of the past eight years the report said. Poster child visits Nixon Washington a presi Dent Nixon enjoyed a White House visit wednesday with five year old Tracy Greenwood the 1969 March of dimes National poster child. The president brought in his three dogs an smilingly talked about comic books and animals with his Young visitor. It was the first such event for Nixon. The visit was an Effort to dramatize the work of the March of dimes in helping to combat children s diseases and birth defects like the one Tracy suffers from. Space aide resignation accepted by Nixon Washington a presi Dent Nixon accepted tuesday the pro forma resignation of c. Welsh executive Secretary of the National aeronautics and space Council and a prime mover in the area of manned space flight Welsh first and Only executive Secretary of the eight year old Council expressed Surpri Sebut said he figured it s just a matter of a presidential appoint ment opening up that they want
