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Wearing a 225-lb. suit and helmet. Diver Jack Coghlan, 25, slipped through a hole in the 14-in ice and out of sight in Port Arthur harbor last week. On bottom at 25 ft., he pushed through waist-deep silt to a wall of sheet-metal piling. In 39° water he carefully passed his rubber-gloved hands over the foundation, reporting what he felt and what little he could see into a telephone linked with the surface, and thought to himself, "Life could hardly be rosier these days...
...lakehead's only full-time professional diver, Coghlan was checking the foundation of a grain elevator, a chore at which panicky operators have kept him since the collapse of Port Arthur's United Grain Growers' elevator last September. Five days last week, he was underwater for an hour morning and afternoon on the elevator job. "To break the monotony," he passed up the sure-thing $150-a-day fee on two of those days to look for - and find - a 1,800-lb. anchor lost by the government ice breaker Alexander Henry last fall. That treasure made...
Dateline: Europe. While Ralph Coghlan headed the editorial page, the P-D won two Pulitzer Prizes: for its 1939 campaign which led to elimination of the St. Louis smoke nuisance, and its 1947 exposure of the political scandal behind the Centralia (Ill.) mine disaster. News staff reporters, whose stories furnished the material for the P-D's hard-hitting editorials, were aware nevertheless that the great prestige of the P-D's editorial page declined under Coghlan, chiefly because of unpredictable shifts in editorial position. Example: for months in 1940, the P-D damned F.D.R. as a dictator...
...caustic with his tongue as with his typewriter, impatient, bellicose Ralph Coghlan was frequently at odds with staffers as well as with Pulitzer. He had also made the news columns of the P-D (and the opposition) in a way of which Pulitzer did not approve: he got involved in a drinking brawl. Last week the expected finally happened. After 25 years of writing editorials for the PD, 53-year-old Ralph Coghlan was transferred to Europe...
...also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively as under Coghlan; staffers hoped it would be better balanced and sounder...