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Friday, July 30, 1963  

Harmless Lunchtime Picnic Turns Into Wild Disaster! 

Article By: Lexie Nakamori  

WINDRIXVILLE, Oklahoma ­­     Three “superheroes” saved the lives of           five schoolchildren from a burning       church. Last Sunday, several students,         teachers, and bystanders took watch as           three “Greasers” (as they call         themselves) ­­ Johnny Cade, Ponyboy       Curtis, and Dallas Winston took action         of rescuing five kids, said to be eight             years old or younger, from an old,           abandoned, burning church on the top         of Jay Mountain. Sources say that the             church burned down merely just       because it was old. 

 

 Burning church on top Jay Mountain. 

Top tumblr posts. Digital image. Satansbarbiexoxo, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014 

  Curtis and Cade were the first one’s               

to enter the smouldering church. They         broke two windows to get in and out of               the church. As Curtis and Cade went             in, they picked up the children one by             one heaving them out of the church.  

About 15 minutes after, the church             began crumbling slowly. A scared         Winston shouted inside to warn his         friends that the building was about to           collapse. Once Curtis heard Winston’s         call, he immediately grabbed the last         kid he found in sight and rushed out of               there. As for Cade, he stated himself             that he couldn’t get out fast enough             before he heard a crack, and the sound               of timber slowly belted out. Cade was             right in the way of where the kindled             timber fell and unfortunately, it hit him           on his back.  After Curtis got out of the church, his                 

jacket was on fire, but didn’t seem to               notice. Winston came to Curtis’ side           knowing the jacket was on fire.           Winston tried to help Curtis by         whacking off the smoke and flames,           but Curtis merely collapsed on the floor           from being whacked too hard. We           found later that day, that the jacket that               was on fire saved his young life.  

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 Hospital that Curtis, Cade, and Winston 

were held at.  Beaver, Logan. St. Clara's Hospital, Corner of Sixth and Maple Streets in the 1960s. Digital 

image. Hospitals, Past and Present. N.p., 1982. Web. 16 Sept. 2014 

  

As Curtis came to later that day, he                 found himself in an ambulance. that         was taking him to the E.R. after being             badly burned. Jerry Wood, a man that           was staying with Curts the whole time           said, “That young kid is a hero!”  

A couple days later, Curtis came out               of the hospital. However, Winston and         Cade were still being treated for.           Luckily after all the kids were treated,           none of the schoolchildren were hurt or           pronounced dead. 

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image. Flickr. 

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15 Mar. 2009. 

Web.   16 Sept. 2014.