| Show aji wan mm mid amsi aw by DI I t ebli public tion national safely C council BIG things happened in JU 1945 the war ended the atom bomb busted faxes taxes began to come down and mr bonner was shot by a duck mr bonner Is of course mr stanley J bonner ol of houston texas as every duck now knows on a fine october day he grabbed grabbe d his trusty automatic pistol and ventured into the back yard to shoot a couple ot of domestic ducks duck no 1 fell at the first shot but duck no 2 a more aggressive type leaped at mr bonner jarred his arm and caused the gun t to 0 go 0 off if the bullet hit mr bonner in the knee the duck still alive and sassy wacky sure but no wa wackier c kler than a lot of other freak accidents that happened in 1945 for a roundup by the national safety council reveals that come war come peace on the darn edest things happen to them to wit mrs edward comfort of brooklyn was driving through virginia her 15 month old baby riding happily beside her in a basket strapped to the seat of the car so far as mrs comfort knew there were no hard feelings between her and the baby L but the child suddenly stopped contentedly tent edly drinking milk out of a nursing cursing bottle swung the bottle lustily and conked mrs comfort neatly on the head dazed she let gothe go the w wheel heel and the car overturned in a ditch neither mother nor baby was hurt hard ilar hardheaded d headed fellow not so allergic to a thump on the head Is charles anderson a hardy resident of los angeles mr anderson in fact has reason to regard himself as practically tades truc tible he was repairing a wall one day when a concrete block fell from a fourth story scaffold and hit him smack on the head he reeled into the street just in time to be struck down by policeman jess Ha haenens Haen enels elg motorcycle he recovered satisfactorily from both accidents and mrs dorothy Jensen jensenius lus was walking to in Chi cagos loop one day when lo 10 and behold a bucket came hurtling down and hit her T it had been dropped by a dismayed window washer seven stories up A shoulder injury to mrs jensenius Jensen lus and a dent in the bucket comprised the damage in toledo mrs airs margaret cooks car blew a tire at a railroad crossing and careened down the tracks toward an approaching freight train the auto struck a signal switch and threw a red block against the tra train in automatically stopping it stick of wood goes when a pin in her washing ran machine broke off mrs axel soder of makinen Mak toen minn looked around the house for a substitute pin and finally found something she thought was just the thing she sawed off the end of it and started to hammer it into the machine she might have done it toot too it if the substitute pin exploded and blown her clear across the room she had selected a 8 tick stick of dynamite ailts nits right rost post taxi tax driver ethel fields cab kidded into a lamp post in regina saskatchewan one 16 below zero night last january she was knocked unconscious and might have frozen to death if a fire are alarm box on the lamp post been set off vy dy the crash bringing firemen to the rescue every returning GI is mighty glad to see the family again but tew few are so V vociferous ocl ferous in their greetings V as was soldier frank chlan chian of baltimore he gave his mom a hug so big it snapped several of her ribs its odd enough perhaps when a fire starts itself and then puts itself out when it happens twice the same way you begin to wonder but once to in utica N Y and again in dark harbor maine the suns rays passing through a bottle of 0 wa water ter in a truck set fire to the floor of each truck only to have the heat of the fire break the bottle and the water put out the flames fire in fire station probably the most embarras embarrassed sied firemen in the country were the members me m bers of the volunteer department of columbus manor ill the I 1 night an exploding gasoline tank in a wagon set fire to the fire station unable to get their own equipment out of the station to fight the flames the columbus manor mano laddies had to look on glumly while firemen from nearby towns did the job A lot of people stick their necks out in various ways but not so spectacularly as did virginia triplett an elevator operator in st paul miss triplett tripled was leaning her head outside the elevator on the first floor when the automatic doors closed passersby tugged at the doors by hand until they could be opened 0 by mechanics doorframes Door frames too low out in hollywood where anything can happen sunset carson six foot five cowboy movie actor went to the studio hospital tor for an aspirin to help his headache coming out he struck his head bead against the door frame keeled over unconscious and had to have four stitches taken in his bis scalp I 1 whether it was a suicide pact or just an accident no one will ever know but when miss bette boren of marinette Marl nette wis returned home one day last march she found the fam ilys two dogs on the floor overcome by got gas they had in some manner turned on tile the stove they were revived and tried it again every year someone lets a train pass over him without serious results in 1945 it was jesse of denver mr did it the hard way by first having himself an auto accident this threw him through the root roof of his car and landed him on his back in the middle of 0 the track just as the train came along mr lay quietly end and securely until the engine and long string of freight cars had roared over him then found he had broken a legin leg in the auto accident I 1 nto no year would be complete of course without someone falling sate safe ly out ot of a third story window onto a cement sidewalk the 1845 1945 fallout fall out girl was beverly kay hay schwartz 20 months old of maywood ill who escaped with a slight head injury just to be different a chicago baby t took 0 ok his mother along with him when he went tor for a two story plunge to the street the year old child slipped irom from a porch railing his mo mother ther mrs audrey hudson grabbed for him got him lost her balance and mother and son fell together neither was seriously hurt most farsighted plunger of the year was james hearn ot of seattle 1 I ex who fell three floors down an air shaft to land cozily in an easy chair I 1 ambulance throws her out As mrs clara wagner accompanied a sick friend to a chicago hospital the ambulance in which they were riding turned a corner so HO sharply that the rear door flew open and mrs wagner was catapulted into the street she was returned to the ambulance and continued the journey joumei as a patient k an 0 J just to prove that america a corner on freak accidents a wind win storm in north adelaide australia scared a horse tote into running away but also blew the de liveryman ahead ot of the horse li in time to stop bobcats dont frighten mrs don aadson of breen colo when she came suddenly upon a big one in ii her turkey yard she fearlessly tear lessl seized a club and attacked it the th bobcats bob cats hide now hangs in the th kitchen mrs donaldson did not suffer a single scratch an ordinary field mouse ran up the steering wheel of an automobile driven by hollis lee randolph of topanga Top anga calif mr randolph who have been more startled had it been an elephant lost control of his car ran it into a ditch and turned it over neither he nor the mouse was hurt A liberty ship crashed into a bridge in boston harbor knocking a 90 foot section of the bridge into the water although the structure carries elevated lines automobile traffic and loot foot ways there were no trains no autos and no pedestrians on it at the time of the accident yet it was midday when traffic is Js usually heavy no one was burg hurt jn on the ship either one of lifes hes little my mysteries sterie s to doctors and economists came wh when en 17 month old larry lingle of harrisburg H ar pa swallowed a nickel and coughed up a penny henry hale slipped on the ice in ChI chicago gago A poli cernan asked him tt if he was hurt 1 I broke my leg 11 replied henry calmly take me e home 1 the police allce did so then asked solicitously what doctor do you want doctor doctora Doc torl hale snorted what iw I 1 want ant is a carpenter yes it was a wooden leg arl P and just as a reminder ot of how tough things really were during the war michael babich walked up to a fellow worker in newark N J during the height ot of the tobacco shortage facetiously asked for a cag arette got one and fainted |
