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Alerted by a lookout tower, Forest Ranger Ronald Brickhouse rushed to a rural logging road five miles south of Columbia, N.C., to investigate a brushfire. Brickhouse arrived at the scene and discovered what looked like a small blaze, burning away with no apparent cause. Near by he soon found the cause-a freshly dug ditch with five smoldering bodies, two women and three young boys. Off to the side were a 5-gal. gasoline can, a shovel and garden fork, and some tire tracks...
Jack soon began pouring out his problems to friends. Says one acquaintance: "He's miserable at the White House. He hates living surrounded by the Secret Service. He can't get a job as a park ranger for fear that there would be cries of nepotism. There are natural tensions between him and his father, who is very stern." Jack does not want him to run next year for fear of the campaign's effect on his mother...
...only old television shows but a number of antique radio serials, such as The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet, also command fervent fad followings. In the new discotheques springing up round the country, hit tunes from the '40s and '50s are the dominant sound, and there's a whole new Tarzan vogue (see following story...
Died. James Jewell, 69, early radio producerdirector; of a heart attack; in Chicago. While working for WXYZ in Detroit during the 1930s, Jewell produced, wrote and directed both the early Lone Ranger series and The Green Hornet. Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee, Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law. Jewell's later credits include The Black Ace and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a long-running saga that exhorted teen-agers to eat Wheaties...
...Dodger fan in Boston, unlike the Yankee or Ranger or Oriole fan, can't even see his team play in Fenway Park from time to time. The Dodgers only pass over New England, occasionally, as they fly between New York and Montreal. You see them on NBC's "Game of the Week" every so often, but never without Joe Garagiola or someone saying. "Well, the Dodgers won't win it this year, but they sure are an exciting team." Small consolation...