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Flat-Hatter. In Lincoln, Neb., Louis Kramer, suing for $25,000, charged that Emil Aksamit was trying to alienate his wife's affections by buzzing their house in an airplane...
Stop & Look. Near Lisco, Neb., Benny Ovido stopped his car on a railroad crossing to make certain the tracks were clear, jumped free just before the car was demolished by a train...
...storm; hard drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne...
...planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
...submission to the storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...