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Eleven years ago Los Angeles' enterprising KTLA mounted a mobile TV camera, began offering its viewers on-the-spot coverage of major news events. Among them: atom bomb explosions on Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
Only the news that the girls has been discovered (at the bottom of a well) saves the town from mass riot. This is an implausible touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...
Said Methodist Pastor Albert E. Day in announcing the appointment of the Rev. Walter Fiscus of Eugene, Ore. as his co-pastor: "In these days when there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation...
...David Fiscus was district superintendent of the California Water & Telephone Co., which had drilled the well in 1903. He had just returned from testifying before the state legislature for an anti-pollution measure that would require the cementing of all old wells...
...Only a Couple of Hours." All over the nation, citizens swamped newspapers with requests for the latest report on "the little girl." Midgets, jockeys and schoolboys volunteered to go down the well pipe after Kathy. David Fiscus refused. The danger of their becoming wedged or badly cut in the well casing was too great...