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That didn't reassure J.B. Blunk, a 69-year-old sculptor whose home was at the center of the ridge battle, with backfire flames only feet from his porch. He shouted vainly at the helicopters to dump their water buckets on his home...
...Blunk had evacuated Tuesday, then returned only to wake up Thursday about 2 a.m. to the sounds of the fire...
...contrast, J. B. Blunk's "seating sculpture" was only spottily polished for showing off redwood grains. Blunk took a huge chunk of redwood and hacked and carved it so at least four people can clamber over, sit on, put their hand through and lie down on it at once...
Last week a jury at Lima, Ohio condemned Harry Pierpont to the electric chair for shooting the town sheriff in freeing Desperado John Dillinger from Lima's jail last October. Last week in Crown Point, Ind., Deputy Sheriff Blunk and Turnkey Cahoon were arrested, charged with deliberately aiding Desperado Dillinger to bluff his way out of Crown Point's jail fortnight ago with a wooden gun. Last week in Chicago police, chasing automobiles believed to contain Desperado Dillinger, were twice halted by machine gun fire. But these alarms and excursions were less serious to many a politician than...
...home, got the news by telephone. All but hysterical she called police headquarters at nearby Gary: ''Rush all the police and guns you can get here-Dillinger's loose!" It took more than an hour to find keys to release the imprisoned jailers. Toward noon Deputy Blunk called by long distance to say that the jailbreakers had released him and the garageman near Peotone, Ill., about 25 miles away, giving them $4 for carfare and a cigaret each...