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Show BALLING BRANCH CRUSHED HIS SKULL (By International News Service) DEN'VER. - Thomas Applegate thirty-five Is suffering from concussion concus-sion of the brain as a result of stopping stop-ping a tree branch weighing nearly half a ton with his chin. Applegate was trimming trees in the residential section. While lowering lower-ing a huge branch that had been sawed from a tree he became entangled entan-gled in the pulley rope, allowing the section to descend Ii knocked Ap-plegate's Ap-plegate's chin off, severed a portion of his cheek and crushed his skull. |