George D. Lehmann, 16, dropped from the Palmyra High School football team in midseason for missing practice, was held without bail today after telling police he set Monday’s fire that destroyed 15 classrooms and the school library.

Police reported that Lehmann said he and a companion entered the school with a key before midnight Sunday to search for future tests in order to improve their grades.

The two heard a noise, became frightened and fled after dropping paper torches, the boy was quoted.

The fire went undiscovered until after 3:30 a.m. and burned out of control until 5 a.m. Damage was so extensive that classes have been suspended for the 850 pupils.

Reserve guard George Lehmann has played his last basketball game for the Atlanta Hawks, general manager Marty Blake reported Monday.

“George called in Friday afternoon that he was sick,” Blake said, “and we haven’t heard from him since. We’ve tried unsuccessfully to reach him at his Atlanta apartment, and we can’t locate him in Riverside, N.J. where his family lives.

“So I presume he has left town, and I am suspending him indefinitely. This means he’ll never play for the Hawks again. And it means he’s through in professional basketball unless we can make a trade for him.”

“Millie,” the world’s largest chicken, perched at the intersection of Sixth and Landis ave. this morning, dispensing some 3,600 eggs in one dozen cartons for mortorists as a prelude to the big second annual South Jersey and Vineland Poultry and Egg Festival opening in Landis Park this afternoon.

An estimated 1,000 persons, many of them children enthralled by the 16-foot high bird, lined the curbs as the mechanical hen dispensed the eggs conveniently packaged in one-dozen and half-dozen cartons.

The divers amazed a capacity crowd as they sprung into the air, then twisted and rolled in fantastic feats of body control, before dropping smoothly into the water.

In his final dive, Clotworthy spun into a one and a half forward somersault with double twist to clinch his Gold Medal and gain the highest score for a single dive during the competition—20.80.

The former national three-meter champ and five time AAU king was a surprise Olympic winner because he finished third in the Olympic tryouts in Detroit. “I wound up third because I did a pike instead of a tuck in one of my dives,” intimated Bob. “It was a case of losing my power of concentration for a split second.”

What Bobby didn’t tell us was that officials at the tryouts thought that he didn’t clearly hear the dive announced because of the noise made by fans and offered him another chance to do it. But Bobby admitted that it was his mistake. Despite losing valuable points he put forth a tremendous performance the rest of the way to wind up third.

His honesty and ability to come through in the clutch are the stuff champions are made of and Bob’s teammates were just as jubilant as he was when his Olympic winning point score of 159.56 was posted.

Ten thousand people saw through their tears a baby with a doll tucked under her arm unveil the monument to the unidentified dead of the Slocum disaster yesterday afternoon in the Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, L.I.

As the flag unfolded, disclosing the monument, with its four symbolic figures of Despair, Grief, Courage, and Belief in the Hereafter, a marble figure with finger pointed heavenward, the baby dropped her doll, and, pointing her finger toward the monument above her, cried so that all heard her:

“See—pretty.”

The 300 members of the United Singing Societies of New York and Brooklyn bravely tried to sing and succeeded after a few bars in hushing the sobbing of many.

With costs of the Louisiana Superdome soaring over the $160 million mark and the end not yet in sight, it is nice to report this story of low finance in Payette, Idaho. A community of 4,700 just across the Snake River from Ontario, Ore., Payette is this very week moving into a dome of its own. The building, 150 feet in diameter and 86 feet tall, has been turned into a new gymnasium for the high school. There is room enough for three basketball courts, one full-sized, the others not very much smaller, and 2,500 spectators. Badminton anybody? Eight games can be played simultaneously. On a large balcony running around the courts there is space for, among many activities, wrestling, gymnastics and band practice. The cost: $300,000.

If that seems unbelievable, it is not. The project took shape 14 years ago in the mind of John Campbell, then a young teacher, who shepherded his physics classes to Dooley Mountain in Oregon to observe work being done on an Air Force radar dome. Campbell eventually became superintendent of the Payette school system, and last year, when the Dooley dome was declared surplus, he struck. After much ado the town got the dome for the cost of carrying it away. It gives the little high school one of the finest gyms in the state and is the biggest hit in town since Harmon Killebrew was clouting thunderous flies into the surrounding desert.

“When you first started on that thing I thought it was the craziest thing in the world,” Campbell’s barber told him last week. “Now my hat’s off to you, John. I have to admit it’s really something.”

Miss Marion Elsie Blackman, a teacher in the Norwich free academy, died last week from the lodging of an orange seed in the projection from the intestine called the appendix veriformis. A similar case at Brooklyn resulted fatally not long ago. A year or two ago Dr. Paddock of Norwich was affected in the same way, but his life was saved by an operation.

En omtalig flicka Froken Marion Blackman i Norwich, Conn, afled forliden vecka for det hon rakat svalja ner en apelsinkarna.

Marion Elizabeth Blackman, M.D., daughter of the late Monroe E. Blackman, M.D., died on Friday at a private hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., where she had gone the week before for expert examination, having been an invalid for some months in the sanitarium at Castile, N.Y. Her case had baffled the skill of many physicians and not until an autopsy was performed was her condition understood. Chronic interstitial nephritis was the cause of death.

SAC Bannister of the Butte Office called at noon today and stated that a REDACTED Twin Falls, Idaho, at 2:45 a.m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of her home. She thought a collision had occurred and investigated and found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows:

A disc 30 1/2” in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of cymbals. On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about 14” in diameter and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather rough manner. The bolts can best be described as similar to stove bolts. On the other surface is another dome of metal which is gold in color on one side and on the inside is silver in color, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be observed three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring. The disc generally is 10” thick and at the point where the domes are located about 14” in thickness. There is an object on it similar to electric coil which has some type of an arm on it and bears the words “Inspected T5.” Some of the wiring has been burned off and it looks as thought something might be missing.

REDACTED stated that if this were the work of some prankster he went to quite a bit of trouble. He stated the press is aware of this incident. He stated that the disc had been picked up and was now at the Police Department, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local Army authorities of the existence of this disc.

There is only one conclusion. Either the army doesn’t know what these “saucers” are all about and is pretty much in a dither, or it made a grandstand play of the Twin Falls incident to keep the public ignorant or confused—or both.

Back in Salt Lake City several days later the “brass,” in true army fashion, released a picture of the “disc” which had been brought there from Twin Falls. In the arms of a captain, the “hoax” disc was made to appear as another triumph of the army.