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D A L y >~.< ~c,':": : ~~;; ~" ~c <\ • _ • • "" ,< ~ . " . ,-~' , ~ . Vol. LXII Pullman, Wash., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1956 Num her 67 ·---Book- Situation------.. Vets and ~ngineers Civil Authorities Complete Bypass Bookstore ·Investigation of Plane Crash Approximately 95 % of all vet- I By Betty IUoir er-inarians ' books and a substan- Tbe first offer by the Veteri- i Three passengers and the co-pilot, injured in the Sunday evening airplane crash north- tial volume of the engfneers' na ry Supply company came dur- east of the Pullman-Moscow airport, were released yesterday afternoon according to auth- ing the Summer when Merl Ct· t G it M ' 1 h ·t I' M h the I d 't k books are now being' purchased Simmons, Bookie manager, made on res a n man. emona. OSPI a. III osco:'" w e~e e InJure. were a en. separately from the Bookie. the first refusal. Released were A. R. Klein, co-pilot, of BOIse; Htrschell Srntth, Walla Walla, Mrs. The Veterinary Supply comp- Mack Parkhill, chairman of Arzella Watt, Richland, and Lorraine Langdon of Twin Falls, Idaho. any, owned by two Vet students, the Bookstore board, stated. handle about 175 student book "Later a proposal went to the Klein suffered cuts an~ b~.~~ lot, and E. B. Code, vice presi-I . Ca~er~T~ken orders with a gross business ap- .Continued on page 8) proximating $10,000. Books are es on the f~ce ~nd head, S r~v-I dent of operations. Police officers present at the had bruises: MIS .. Watt agg . David Nelson, member of the I scene of the crash permitted no sold at retail value with cash k orders taken in advance. Profits •E ated an old bac: mjury, and ~VI~SSI Civil Aeronautics Administration pictures of the crash. Orman Langdon sustamed a nose mjui was also present for the investi- I Vertrees, Pullman Herald photo- will be donated to the student s . chapter of Junior American Vet- D namlte ases The crash, which occurred in Igation. Investigators interviewed l' grapher , had his camera confis- Y a snowstorm Sunday evening, the pilot, Co-pilot, and passen- cated. Other press photographers erinary Medicine Association. I 'lne engmeers have no formal -t .C' t was the first in the history of I gel'S, visited the scene of the Ialso yielded their cameras. organization, but about 30 stu- WhI rnan oun y I the West Coast airline's eight crash and reenacted it. In an Associated Press account dents have pledged to order di- iect from the publisher. With their present quantity they are receiving a 20% discount from Flood Threat I the publisher's price list.' They are also on a cash order basts By The Associated Press with payment in advance. Dynamite and colder weather Junior A.V.M.A. requested per- eased a new eastern Washing- mission from Activities board ton flood threat Monday but to handle their books as a fi- more snow fell, clostng s 0 m e nancial project. Activities board schools and making driving dan- refused the request on the gerous in the Inland Empire. grounds that one segment of the The ice- ,jammed north and student body should not be in south forks of the Palouse Riv- competition WIth the whole. The er in Whitman County, Wash., board added that the ass~ciat- were still below flood levels ed student affairs needs all the and the 3,000 residents of Colfax jrionev available. had 110 cause for immediate La;t fall the Bookie was left alarm. with veterinary books totalmg ~ Mayor Grovel' McDougall of I value of about $4,000. The Veterr- Colfax said the Army Eng'ineers nary Supply company offered moved in Sunday to work with three times to purchase t 11 1 S county and City crews. stock from the Bookie. The Book- "They have done quite a bit 'e refused although the books of dynamiting and they have two 1 ere not returnable as some bull do~ers widening' the river VI blishers will only allow a cer- channel 2% miles south of here," f~in percentage to be returned. he said. High winds and .blizzard C~lDditions Pullman-Moscow airport. was taken. The plane prevaIled as thts photo was arriving on a flight from Twin Falls, of the DC-3 West Coast Airlines plane, which Idaho when the mishap occured. (Photo by LectureArtistSeries crash landed on a hill a few miles from the Lloyd Rogers) years of operation. The plane Kester Grimes, mayor of Pull-I of the incident in the Spokane was scheduled to land at the man and chairman of the Pull- Daily Chronicle last night, Eldt- Pullman-Moscow airport at 7:40 man-Moscow airport board, stat- tor Louis Boas and photogra.ph- p. m. Originating in Idaho Falls' ed in a telephone interview that er Al Barackrnan of the Moscow fiction and Short Story the plane was destined for Spo~ lighting' at the airport was ade- DEl ilv Idahonian said they were kane. It had scheduled stops in quate. Border lights on the land- ordered to give up the camera to Lewiston and Pullman. ing strip need to be replaced of- a Pullman city policeman "on CAA Completes Check ten to keep them in repair. authority of the state patrol and Topic of American Novelist Authorities from West Coast "They were installed, he said, the civil aeronautics administra- airlines and the Civil Aeronaut- as a temporary setup during the tion." ics Board had completed their in- war. During the last year or two CAA Denies Order By JoAnn Smith two do not get amiably togeth- vestigation as of Monday even- The novel, modern fiction and they have been a constant drain Officials from the CAA and er". ing. The report will be sent to on the treasury," he stated. from the Pullman patrol office the short story will be the top- Received Three Degrees Washington, D. C. to the Civil Application has been made to said they have no such authority ics of Mark Schorer, American Born in Wisconsin in 1908, Aeronautics Administration. It tlovelist, critic, and biographer, Schorer attended the Universi- mav be several weeks before the the Department of Commerce and gave no such orders: "There when he speaks here Tuesday, ty of Wisconsin where he re- findings are released, according under a bill passed by CongTess seems to be a misunderstand- l<'eb. 28 at the Lecture Artist cived three degrees. In 1933 he to Don Dils, resident manager last August to provide federal ing," said Sergeant L. M. Giles, convocation in Todd auditorium beg'an writing short stories for for West Coast. funds to match local funds for who is in charge of the Pullman at 7:30 p.m. publication and published his West Coast officials present for general improvement of airports. patrol office. Now Teaches English novel "A House Too Old". the investigation included Tom Part of the application has been Thomas Croson, a vice presi- approved, Mayor Grimes said. A dent of West Coast airlines, said, . The author of "The Hermit .He. has stated, "From the be- Croson, vice president of sales; gmnmg, people .ha;:e been eager Bud Scull, superintendent of sta- total of $130.000 is the cost to "There was a misunderstanding . :Place", "The State of Mind", provide for new lights, new de- We had no desire to prevent pic- aod many other works Schorer to help me wIIte . A:S an un- tions and Stanley Selby superin- dergI'aduate he reoceived. the I tend~nt of maintenanc~ Others pot, taxiway and approach roads Itw·e>;. We didn't wHnt anyone to is now a professor of English Zona Gale fellowshIP and m hiS . to the airport. Border lights for touch the plane.' That's all." at the University of Califol'llia, last year as a graduate stUdent I mcluded Cap.t:. Don Burkhar~, the airport have been approved, Vertrees received his camera, where he teaches contemporary he held the Mary L. Adams fel- West Coast auhnes of chIef Pll- he said. back Monday. lowship which made possible the' ------- ~~L'::::::::~F::::;g::~f;a~Boston Pops Concert Draws In 1945, he received a Gug- ~~n~:ma~ll~'r:~~~award in 1952 enabled ~r~~fbl~~~~1 him to H ug'e Crowd .,n BohIer 6· ym spend a winter in Italy where he finished the novel "T h e Wars of Love" and started his work on the life of Sinclair In Boston, one of the surest Signs of spring is the annual first appearance of the ./ LeWis_. _ Boston Pops in staid Symphony Hall. Here in Pullman Sunday, the "Pops" came to town but failed to herald the ensuing season. None of this mattered to the packed throng's of music lovers who. derry.' Gray Band heard the famous orchestra mak- \ the encores. Bach's "Little Fu- tioned. The famous pianist play- ing its first tour through the gue" and a pan of "Let' 'er Go ed Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto west. ·1Lover," ,which ran the gamut with aplomb and many were ISeleded for Junior Concensus was that the event from DYorak to the Ozarks and disappointed that she would not was an all-time attendance mark back again in splotches of fa- take an encore. -an estimated 5300-more than miliar tunes, drew tremendous Prom' on April 13 ever before to see a Pullman applause. So did DeBussey's WSC grad Mahlon Merrick's Jerry Gray and his 18 piece Community Concert Association "Clair de Lune," and a rousing composiion, "Look Sharp - Be orchestra will provide the music offering.