NIGHT ON TOWN

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 11

NIGHT ON TOWN

Shrimp Boat

Man Gaoled

(NZ. Press Aasn.— Copi/rtgM) MIAMI (Florida), Feb. 24. The shrimp fisherman, Benjamin Washington, survived an attack by Cuban MiO fighters and a debut on national television, but not a sailor’s night •on the town. Washington ended up in gaol and missed his boat. United Press International reported. The 27-year-old sailor and the skipper of the boat, Ala. Paris Jackson, both negroes, were each given 50 dollars to appear on a television news programme to tell how they were attacked by four Cuban jets last Wednesday. The pair checked into a hotel in Miami after the show on Thursday night, planning to return to Key West the next day to wait tor the Coast Guard the tow their disabled 67-foot boat to port. But Washington told his skipper he wanted to have a few beers. He was arrested at 3 am. and charged with public drunkenness. He told police he had met a girl in a bar and that was all he could • emember. His money was gone and he could not raise baiL A photographer bailed Washington out and put him on a bus for Key West to Join Jackson. who met the boat alone.

Fishermen Kesesed. Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued in the Arafura Sea. off Australia’s northern coast after blasts they bldw on a conch shell were heard by the crew of a pacing lugger yesterday The fishermen had been six days without food or water.—Darwin. .February 24.