January 19, 1933
Only Set Of Blue Prints Blown Away
“It’s an ill wind” – but Dr. Brown W. Randel, president of the El Paso Game Protective Association, would stop the familiar old quotation there. Last night he was inclined to doubt the part about “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.”
Dr. Randel, engineers and other members of the game protective association have been working for several weeks on plans for the proposed state fish hatchery at Washington park.
Yesterday morning, the only set of blue prints of the hatchery were suddenly lifted from Dr. Randel’s desk, in his office on the fifth floor of the Mills building, by a gust of wind and gently wafted out the window.
Dr. Randel made a lunge for the sheets. By the time he got to the window, however, the blue prints were floating over San Jacinto plaza, headed eastward at an altitude of about 200 feet.
When the game protective association president reached the street, the fish hatchery blue prints were a mere speck on the eastern horizon, traveling with Akron-like gracefulness to parts unknown.
Dr. Randel last night composed a classified advertisement something like this:
“Lost – One set of blue prints. Reward offered for return of same.”
Comments