[meteorite-list] NP Article, 12-1954 Meteorite Will Be Returned To Its Victim (Sylacauga)
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:45 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV140vYMeGnA100013282_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C32302.67383730 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Chronicle Telegram =20 City: Elyria, Ohio =20 Date: Thursday, December 02, 1954 Page: Second Section, Page 1 Meteorite Will Be Returned To Its Victim SYLACAUGA, Ala. (UP) - The Air Force agreed today to return a meteorite t= o a 31-year-old housewife who was badly bruised when the 10-pound object = crashed through the roof of her home. A spokesman at Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, where the meteorit= e was taken immediately after it came to earth Tuesday, said the fragment= will be returned to Mrs. Hewlett Hodges just as soon as the Air Defense = Command completes tests on it. He said the Air Force had no intention of = entering into a controversy over it. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C32302.67383730 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 2> <P>Paper: Chronicle Telegram </P> <P>City: Elyria, Ohio </P> <P>Date: = Thursday, December 02, 1954</P> <P>Page: Second Section, Page 1</P></B> <= P> </P> <P>Meteorite Will Be Returned To Its Victim</P> <P> </P= > <P>SYLACAUGA, Ala. (UP) - The Air Force agreed today to return a meteor= ite to a 31-year-old housewife who was badly bruised when the 10-pound ob= ject crashed through the roof of her home.</P> <P>A spokesman at Maxwell = Air Force Base near Montgomery, where the meteorite was taken immediately= after it came to earth Tuesday, said the fragment will be returned to Mr= s. Hewlett Hodges just as soon as the Air Defense Command completes tests= on it. He said the Air Force had no intention of entering into a controv= ersy over it.</P></FONT><BR><BR>Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, = a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</DIV></BODY></HT= ML> ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C32302.67383730-- Received on Sun 25 May 2003 10:12:52 PM PDT |
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