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Show 2 A The Salt Lake Tribune. Mondiy, December No Tube? 372 Miners Trapped 29, 1975 Minor Problem MANSON. Wash. (UPIi Just what do you do in a small town over an exciting sports weekend when you're without television? The television signal to this town of about 3,000 on the southeast shore of Lake Chelan went out Friday evening in strong winds when its mountain-to- p reflector was damaged. bad. Theyve been enjoying the outdoors during the day, spend the evenings reading or listening to the radio and have even been observed talking to each other. The local high school saw a record croud turn-ou- t for a basketball game the same night the teles was interrupted. common most was from sports fans who missod complaint LOS ANGELES Doiuia a woman drive your football Sundays and the playoffs thrilling lctory by Dallas over the Minnesota Vikings. she put the sign on the auto after a girlfriend of bers had an Parks, car," painted sits behind the wheel of her car on the dented fender and door, which has the message "Never let The Gardena, Calif., woman says I accident while driving last-minu- the car. v Magazine Picks Women for Annual Honor Reuters Nous Agency NEW YORK Time magazine, which usually names the man of the year, chose 12 women for that honor this year, Including Betty Ford, Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso. and tennis star Billie Jean King. JOHNSTON CITY. The old Venetian MIAMI UPI Hotel, a landmark of the south Florida boom in the 1920s and more recently an office building, crumbled into dust under a controlled series oi blasts by wreckers Sunday. 'The site will be lanseaped as an entrance to the Miami Heralds Herald Plaza m downtown Miami. e The masonry structure uas reduced to a pile of rubble at the Miami entrance to the Venetian causeway, linking the city With Miami Beach. Trucks immediate-ljf.begahauling aw ay the rubble. I'The Venetian Hotel was built in 1425 bji promoter G. L. Miller ot Atlanta steel-fram- 50-fo- n was a fine hotel, catering to society people," said Jolui Shuey. who operated it tor a subsequent ow ner for a decade. "The Rose Bowl dining room hod elegant dishes and silver, beautiful service." Guests m white linen suits lounged on its top tloor balconies. World War II, the Venetian Hotel Vis taken over by the Navy as housing f of an officers training unit. Russian ttamees also were housed in the structure and drilled ou its grounds. After the war. the Venetian again reverted to a hotel. It became the spring training camp headquarters for the old New York Giants baseball team and was used in winter to house college footba'l teams playing in the Orange Bowl. But the hotel went bankrupt in the early 1950s and in 1954 it was converted into medical and dental Oftices and renamed the Seaboard Medical Building d Among the other women named are Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Democratic Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas; Susan Brounmiller, author of the book 111. ilPD Energy, 111., said Miss Becker told him she would honk her horn or flash the car lights and scream each time she heard a car until the battery finally ran down. At about p.m. Friday, some 23M hours after the wreck, she struggled out of the car. made it through the Ireczmg waters and part way up the embankment, but fell back uito the water. "Theres been in to 12 accidents during the past two years at that spot," Malone said. "It's a very dangerous bridge and should be marked. lie said the approach to the bridge is downhill and the road narrows Ward said he lound a note inside the car which read, "accident happened at 11:30 a m. Christmas Day." The trooper said it appeared the note was written on the chance she would not ol Leona Becker, a librarian who spent her Christmas badly injured and trapped in her car in an icy creek bed, was m fair condition Sunday alter undergoing surgery in an Indiana hospital. Miss Becker. 17, a librarian at the Hedges Central Elementary School in Mount Vernon. Ind , was en route Thursday to visit her uncle Albert Becker at his homo in Johnston City when her car, lull ol presents, skidded into a concrete bridge abutment. It careened down a remote 20 toot embankment through trees and into a tour loot deep creek. Miss Becker was found Friday alter uoon, 27Ls hours alter the accident, exhausted, her legs in icy water, bv George Malone, a farmer who lives near the scene. "I figured the way it was turning colder she probably would not have lasted much more than ail hour," Malone said. Bridge, embankment, 1 sun ive. weather ami a snowstorm which followed the accident, combined to hide the wreckage from passing vehicles and two larmhouses 1,000 lect away. Miss Becker suffered "a terribly bad Iracture of her right shoulder" frostbitten arms, legs and loot and possibly other injuries, according to Carl England, administrator ol Doctors Hospital. Malone and another farmer, Gdbert Fletcher, found Miss Becker after hearing her weak shouts tor help. They had heard earlier cries from the area but dismissed them as coming from children Also among the 12 are Kathleen Bvcrly, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, based in San Diego, Calif. ; Addie Wyatt, womens affairs director, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmens Union; Carol Sutton, managing editor of the Louisv iilc Courier Journal and Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College. These are not the first women of the year lor Time. Wallis Warfield Simpson earned the distinction in 193C when King Edward VIII abdicated to marry her. The next year. Madame Chiang Kai Shek shared the honor with her husband, Gen. Chiang Kai Shek. And Queen Elizabeth was cited in 1932 when she acceded to the throne. First Lady Betty Ford was cited for her outspoken opinious expressed throughout the year in favor of the equal rights amendmentand on premarital sex, abortions and other topics. HUD Secretary Hills was the first woman cabinet member in 23 years and Ella Grasso is the first woman governor ever elected in her own right. C LKE, Mum. Six persons, iUFD including four children, died in their sleep early Sunday in a fire that engulted the Breezy Point Tavern in this M innesota northeastern resort town. The bodies of the children and two adult babysitters were found in what was lett of their beds in the rubble of the building Illinois State Trooper Clarence Ward 372. Some of the mmers who werent in shaft number three when it caved in and flooded Saturday stand around ' the cage," the elevator that lowered them down the shaft, bored 1,260 feet into the earth. Silent and expressionless, they stared at rescue workers assembling pumps to try and remove an estimated 100 million gallons of water (rom number throe. Only Five Pumps There are only five pumps m Chasnala. More are supposed to be coming and officials estimate it might take as long as two weeks to remove the ater. "The cage" made its last journey at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. "There was a big noise from the direction of the mine, recalled ouc worker, "a big explosion. "We ran towards the pit from where high-power- people also and they were saying there was water inside the mine. There were screams around and we saw that the cage didn't go down. "We knew that was the end ol the miners, when the cage didnt move." India's minister of mines, Chandrajit Yaduv, arrived and tried to bolster spirits. Vows Rescue Try "The government is determined to rescue those chaps inside the mine." he told a group of workers. "Let us pray lor their souls. He acknowledged the chance ol survival was slim but said it "can't be ruled out. In similar circumstances in the past air pockets and other conditions have helped many miners to survive such ordeals." After a few hours here, Yadav to New Delhi en route to the annual convention of the ruling Congress party. Chasnala. 160 miles trom Calcutta in the vast coal mining region of northeastern India, also had a shortage of drinking water because of the disaster. Its main source ol water was an underground reservoir, but water from that reservoir Hooded shaft number three. And while trucks brought in equipment to pump out the shaft., other? arrived with emergency supplies of water for the tow nspeople. "A miner's luck is like that," said one worker. "He is either to die when a cage snaps or because of some happening inside the mine. And ii he lives to retirement, hes considered God's son." flow-bac- LIP A S.W msm E one Numbers 6 in Tavern ISLAND d the cage operates. We saw the manager coming up. There were some other selected." Flames Kill freezing g one-tlur- off-dut- y "Against Our Will; Men, Women and Rape"; Alison Cheek, assistant priest at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopalian Church in Washington, DC., and Susie Sharp, chief justice of the North Carolina supreme court. Time said the women were named "in recognition of the continued emergence of women in 1975 as uelJ as in recognition of the Individual accomplishments of the 12 persons who were beyond ideology to a status of general and sometimes unconscious -- r- acceptance," the magazine said. Victim Reported Fair After Crash Into Icy Creek Bed Wreckers Raze Miamis Old Venetian Hotel - ;Mt The women won over Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov (Nobel Peace Prize u inner this year) and Egypts President Anwar Sadat among other man of the year candidates. Time said "In 1975. the women's drive penet-raleevery layer of society, matured By Santosh Basak Associated Press Writer In this tiny CIIASNA1.A, India town of 4,000 persons, there is only grief w ilhout hope for at least 372 of its men trapped deep in a coal mute shaft by an explosion and tons of water. If there were a chance that some survived, the women would be at the mine, u atching rescue operations. But in Chasnala, they are at home in their clusters ol apartments, ueep-uior too numb to even cry. The disaster claimed nearly of Chasnala's 1,100 men who make $60 a month in the mines. Rumors circulate here that there may be several hundred more ictims than the official count ot two-roo- m Strangely, the residents havent found it too The Grief Sans Hope Clouds India Coal Mine Town want sports jimj nvni information, scores, have a news story or feature you want toj talk about? Is your paper missing? Do you want . to discuss a classified or display advertisement? 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