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Died. Norman ("Corky") Hill, 28, youngest in a family who made a habit of flirting with death at Niagara Falls; of head injuries suffered when a small stone fell 350 ft. down a shaft in which he worked as a mucker; in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Hill's father, William ("Red") Hill Sr., went through the Niagara rapids three times in a homemade barrel, died in 1942 of a heart attack. Corky saved a brother, Major Hill, three years ago, when he tried to imitate his father (he eventually made it). Another brother, William ("Red") Hill Jr., died when...
...continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada's big cities-Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Hamilton and Winnipeg-are growing upward with modern skyscrapers, and outward with bright...
School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians: "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never jump through the window again...
...Southern Illinois fields, New Orient No. 2, operated by the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was known as a safe mine. It had killed men in explosions before, but relatively small accidents, in the philosophy of the miner, are inevitable. It was modern, mechanized, efficient -and huge: the biggest shaft coal mine in the world. Its twelve miles of tunnels produced record yields of bituminous coal: 15,385 tons in one eight-hour shift...
...telephone and power lines were out. Worse, fire was smoldering-in the blasted entries and ventilation systems had been knocked out. At best count, 113 men had got to the surface after the explosion. Many of the 105 missing had been working at least two miles from the elevator shaft down the wrecked entries...