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...minutes later, two unaccountable miles offcourse, the big blue and silver Mainliner smashed into the edge of a 1,500-ft. brush-covered mesa, cartwheeled over and went careening into a canyon. Early-morning factory workers in nearby Decoto, twenty miles southeast of Oakland, saw a blinding flash and "the big tail of a plane flopping over the crest," heard the explosions crashing through the canyons...
Half an hour later, the first rescuers and firemen toiled up the rutted road to the mesa's top. A Coast Guard plane had flown over and told them what to expect. It looked, said one of them, "as if you had thrown a ripe melon against a wall." The plane had splattered its smoking pieces over five acres. All 44 passengers and six crewmen were dead...
...months later, 128 ranch folk went up to the top of Nogal Mesa, a high (7,000 ft.) tableland in Lincoln National Forest, for their first camp meeting. A violent rain storm, which came up soon after the services started, almost swept the meeting away. But the ranchers liked the camp-meeting idea. Joe Evans and his Presbyterian friends decided to hold a meeting every year at Nogal Mesa-and to spread to other states. Since then they have set up similar meetings in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. Each summer, in two trucks containing tents, hymnbooks...
Fresh Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
Every afternoon after services, groups of cowhands and ranchmen sat around whittling under the "Prayer Tree," a stately juniper that towers over Nogal Mesa's stunted pinñon and cactus. There, with no clerical coaching allowed, they talked out their ideas on practical religion...