Show THE OGDEN OA STANDARD-EXAMINE- Panther Fights 5 Lions Save Mate Is Killed R OGDEN UTAH THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 1955 (UP) — A gallant black panther aging but still full of jungle courage fought to the death with five lions to save his mate at the Brookfield zoo' Visitors watched in horror yesterday as Snowball a panther from' the Island of Sumatra sprang at five lions who had been let into his cage by CHICAGO ld mistake Snowball never had a chance A single blow from a huge lion’s paw broke his back and he was But his dead within moments mate spitting fury from a ledge In the cage was unharmed The lions were in the panthers’ cage for only eight minutes before zoo attendants using bars poles and streams of water forced them from Snowball’s mangled body Zoo Director Robert Bean said Snowball apparently sprang into battle to save the life of his mate and himself A fluke of chance led to Snowball’s death He and his mate had been moved from their regular cage while it was being cleaned Ten minutes before feeding time keeper Cecil Aldridge 37 let the five hungry lions into the cage “JUST DIDN’T LOOK” “I just didn’t look firjt to make sure the cage was empty” the sorrowful keeper said Snowball and his mate were lying on a ledge when the big cats stalked in i n f sf r &Lt 'fays - 'v ''-'- ' "V (A frl'tW!- Af roviiv STILL HONEYMOONING Airman Daniel Schmidt and his wife Una continue their second honeymoon as they keep cool in- a Hollywood pool as temperature soars into the 100s Schmidt returned after almost three years as a prisoner of the Chinese Communists to find Una had remarried Their reconciliation followed Schmidt’s filing for divorce SCHMIDTS - COUNCILMEN BLUSH RedsHeld Gun at Head GET (AP) — Calif rwas detained near Moscow for jnearly an hcW by a Russian soldier who held a cocked pistol against (R-Cali- f) his head it was disclosed today The congressman’s family here said Holt who has returned to New York following a visit to Russia with other congressmen reported the incident to them in a telephone call from the East ' ' ' " yesterday "made AERIAL DETROIT (UP) — A bid to have a television aerial in- Of Rep Holt VAN NUVS Rep Joe Holt NO TV stalled on top of Detroit’s new city - county building failed yesterday because redfaced councilmen refused to admit they had time for the split-secon- d fight robbery peared and disap-- ’ 3 Dead in Ohio Train Wreck ’ ! The more agilp panther could easily have rolled over on his back lashing away with all four paws and 20 claws Any big cat which gets into this fighting position first regardless of size can rip his opponent to ribbons Bean said WAS PAST HIS PRIME But Snowball was past his prime Raised in the Sumatra jungle he was brought to the suburban Brookfield zoo with his mate in 1946 at the age of 3 Now at the moment of his last battle he was 12 years old — 1 d the equivalent ‘ of a man The Lions were young and husky Each one weighed about 300 pounds to Snowball’s 175 Their average age was 4 or 5 years — equivalent to a man in the prime of life Snowball was a beautiful beast despite his age His species is known as a black leopard although it is commonly referred His to as a black panther body was practically coal black and it was sleek and lithe 60-year-- trial 'CHILLICOTHE Ohio (API-T- hree men are dead and five injured after the second Ohio train derailment in three days A w estbound Baltimore & Ohio express piled into a pickup truck at a crossing just east of here last night killing three men in the truck and derailing 13 of the 15 train coaches Three postal clerks and two crew members from the train were hospitalized after the crash The state highway patrol identified the dead as David Raynor of Wellston Lowell Speakman and Pete Baker both of Ray near Wellston Conductor Frederick Davis 59 of Newark was the most seriously hurt with a broken back and other injuries Chillicothe Hospital listed him in “fair” condition The train carried no passengers and was on its way from W Va to Cincin- o 30-year-o- ld Pa-kersb- urg nati Keith said the WCC has about SELMA Ala (AP) — Several Hurley added members in Dallas County 1300 Councils signers of a petition demanding The white Citizens racially mixed classrooms havejare devoted mainly to maintain- - who joined for “educational pur-los- t their jobs here m the Jirst jng segregation in Alabama poses” The county has a popu- schools A source here who declined to be identified said “pressure” is also being brought against the signers IJe said half the 29 signers have beenjtvvo Negro barbers whose names Craig Air Force Base and that fired since the petition was filed were on the petition have been “ecpnoraic pressure” was also last week with the Dallas County told to find new locations for’ brought to bear then Keith did School Board Most of those who their shops not elaborate did not lose their jobs are ! TURNED DOWN OFFERS Xv or unemployed said turned Three Fireman Veteran Negroes Alston Keith chairman of the they Dallas County White Citizens -- ouph7n-t'' Council estimated 16 of the 29 s would remove they have in been fired 1 signers “spon2 in5£ J arsrJlti 2 taneous reaction” of white em- from the petition il? £d dJPa?mKent heKre vChm W E Snuggs superintendent ployers to the filing of the petischool of Selma said fireflftter four City tion under seen other Negroes who signed the PETITION FILED petition have withdrawn their The petitions demanding im- names and a fifth has announced mediate classroom integration the intention of doing so have been filed with school The Rev J D Hunter presiboards in several Alabama coun- dent of the Selma NAACP chapties by local chapters of the Na- ter said there were five “clear-cut- ” tional Association for the Adcases of Negroes being fired vancement of Colored People for signing the petition and three Mrs Ruby Hurley of Birming- others in which reasons for disham Southeastern NAACP secre- missal were not given Keith said the WCC would not tary said her organization will the dismissals take here “credit or censure” for the investigate “and take whatever measures are firings but added: determined to alleviate such “I don’t believe there would have been the unity of action pressures” “It would appear that the that there was without the eduta-tionWhite Citizens Councils of Alawork of the Citizens Counbama are going to follow the pat- cil They (the employers) did tern of economic pressure set by just what we have been advocatthe councils in Mississippi” Mrs ing right along” j i 1 j self-employ- self-employ- ed rn XT ! their-name- icae I'res I al HOLSTEIN Iowa (UP) — Mr and Mrs Clarence O (Jerry) Cole wanted a boy baby 18 years ago so he could develop into an athlete Instead a daughter arrived and they named her Jerri after a proposal was made for erection of the aerial none of the council-me- n would allow use of his name on the official request her father Jerri Jean Cole came “Miss Iowa” of 1955 she’s skilled at athletics be- But Enjoy the i Convenience of Our New SERVICE STATION protest PARKING LOT! FEATURING: t SOFT WATER CAR WASH — secret until now The California congressman said he and a member of the American embassy stopped their car in a Moscow suburb and asked if they could photograph a m w picturesque church and school Holt said he had scarcely made the request when a Red Army soldier rushed him and pressed a pistol against his' head despite the fact that Holt’s companion speaking Russian identified him as a visiting American ' congressman Holt’s companion talked to the tel soldier to no avail as a crowd of Soviet citizens pressed around EXPERT LUBRICATION COMPLETE CAR SERVICE Com to town loovo your car at our now sorvico and parking lot Havo it lubricatod and sorvicod at tha ama timo i the car NEWPORT Tenn (UP)— Police were looking for jailer Dave McGaha today They said he took $50 a sheriff’s pistol and Leona Wardrup 27 of Asheville N C a prisoner being held as a material witness in a Negroes Who Asic Integration In South Forced Out of Jobs 'Miss Iowa' 'luxury Although Holt told his family that U £ Ambassador Charles E Bohlen had officially protested to the Kremlin over the incident which occured last Wednesday in the outskirts of Moscow but was kept ! WITH $50 GUN WOMAN PRISONER The panther tensed his muscles standing out under his sleek black coat His long tail twitched Then in a single graceful lunge of fury Snowball leaped at the advancing lions Snowball went down under two of the lions Then the others on him with vengeful sprang claws The panther was probably dead within seconds witnesses said Bean said Snowball might wellf have been the victor in a beast-to-bea- st SHOWDOWN ON ECONOMIC REPRISALS' JAILER MISSING " When a Russian policeman'in-tervenedan- d urged the release of the Americans the Soviet soldier pointed the gun at him and waved him'off : gl colonel Only when a Red Army ‘ appeared an hour ' later were ' Holt and his companion released Holt said no apology was offered H SO CONVENIENT NO WASTED TIME! 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Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and war clouds were gathering over Europe Ogden now hod 7600 telephones 904 Completion of the Southern Pacific’s lucien cut-o- ff across the Great Salt Lake was one of the engineering marvels of its time When it was completed 1 in 1904 Ogden had a population of 16000 and there were 500 telephones in the city 1941 'When 1915 January 15 1915 at Wendover Utah the last link ig the nation’s first transcontinental telephone fine was completed This was an event of tremendous significance to the communications of the country By this time expansion of Ogden's telephone facilities had pushed total telephones to over five thousand and be Company New York City Blended Whiskey” 868 Proof A 65 t Friday Night To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of telephone service in Ogden we are holding an Open House at the telephone building 431 26th Street frorp 7:00 pm to 9:30 pnn tonight and tomorrow night In addition to the Bell Solar Battery and other interesting special displays you’ll see the flashing long distance switchboards and the intricate dial equipment which handles thousands of Ogden calls daily We sincerely hope that you will accept our invitation to help us celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Utah’s first telephone exchange of American Whiskey at its finest Seagram-Distiller-s 1933 1 a Open Home Tonight ScaRratJ — fgs Say Charles A Lindbergh and telephone service crossed the Atlantic From the 8400 telephones in the city Ogden telephone users could coll London or Paris ' -- --JUm V927 Ogden’s first telephone exchange was located in the Dooley Building at the comer of 24th Street and Washington Boulevard present site of the First Security Bank Building This is how the building looked shortly after service was established September 8 1880 Grain Neutral Spirits i r V j: the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor there were 12350 telephones in Ogden With the coming of hostilities telephone ‘expansion was slowed AH efforts ond materials were directed toward winning the war TODAY there are 38000 telephones in the Ogden local calling area As Ogden continues to grow the telephone system will grow The main objective of The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company is the same today as it has been for the pest seventy-fiv- e years — to give the people of Ogden more end better telephone service at the low est possible cost ' |