Islesford opportuni pleadings approving Voted Boatmen profession of the The MARLG 1958 Unreported the Legis extent th 1834-125th ANNI of the p in order ISLESFORD, March 12-A lob- dollars) ster boat with two men aboard The was reported lost in a howling I. Rollin 1959 gale and snowstorm off Baker Is- Actu land light Thursday. A Coast ted by ea for Guard search had turned up no House trace of the missing craft late 334 serv- Thursday night. Benjami hear- The 28-foot boat, operated by complie autics Ronald Sprague, about 29, and Fred Fernald, about 37, both of Sous VOL. 70, NO. 232 BANGOR, Islesford, was last seen about 9 ments o'clock in the morning by another TUN alloca- lobsterman in the v'einity of the all pro so-called Inner Ledge, some 15 salaries tes in miles southeast of the light, ac- Ab Search Fruitless cording to officials at the South- list of the west Harbor Coast Guard Station. missing ervice The 180-foot Coast Guard buoy In Maine, tender. "Laurel," was dispatched Edgar For Lobstermen Ibany to the scene from Rockland after tending the lobster boat was reported But th overdue by Elmer Spurling of H By REG BOWDEN ig the Islesford shortly after 3 o'clock in hat so ISLESFORD, March 13- state the afternoon. Edgar The residents of this small The men apparently put out to would com- island community derive tend their lobster traps early in T r air- their livelihood from the the morning before the storm subsid simply struck. sea that surrounds them- happy ng put Southwest Harbor Coast Guard consi but the sea is often cruel. ited to officials reported rough, heavy seas P Hope was fading here Friday for Pr Thursday night, visibility zero in suppo the safety of two lobstermen re- top and heavy snow, and winds from 40 Demo ported missing after their small Co W Eng to 45 miles per hour with gusts If craft was swallowed up in a gale fo at new up to 62 miles per hour. Highv and snowstorm Thursday. not be Coast Guard officials said the Last Seen Off Baker Island for it wa would "Laurel" was making a radar and The pair, Roland Sprague, 29, m visual search of the area where sion of Stu and Fred Fernald, 39, left early the craft was last seen and that ? routes. Thursday morning to tend their other boats and aircraft would me vice be Ne lobster traps. They were last seen probably be dispatched Friday m Maine, unive about 15 miles southeast of Baker re has morning if the weather permitted. fro ment Island around 9 o'clock that morn- Officials said the missing craft CO direct ing by another fisherman. carried no radio communication Ca be al- this Grave doubts were expressed equipment. a here by island residents Friday A Coast Guard official said Pr senting have night for the survival of the miss- ber of there was danger that the missing do ing men through one of the worst craft might be swamped by the ) ciation have FRED FERNALD storms of the winter to hit the heavy seas. for niner's due coast. in limited the Search Continues sa etween Worst Storm After the men were reported en 5 with- conte missing Thursday, the Coast nis eastern of Mis Guard läunched an extensive nu as in- Of Winter what search, as yet unsuccessful, which lin ions. is continuing Hamp- the The U. S. Coast Guard Station "o leaded $24 Hits East at Southwest Harbor reported Fri- see state. p) day night that the 180-foot buoy on maller R tender "Laurel' dispatched from tar that BOSTON (AP)-T worst storm who Rockland Thursday, was continu- bu st Air- of the New England winter dump- goes ing her search, concentrating on an er without ed a foot or more of snow on many area outside Mt. Desert Rock. for er. areas Thursday and nearly as unive Plane In On Search 8 ie, N. much elsewhere. Traffic was cut t-west down sharply until roads were Wa. During the daytime Friday, a on plane piloted by Lt. Commander me made cleared. Leo M. Bracken from the U. S. sa At least six deaths were attribut- Coast Guard Air Station at Salem avia- me ies T. ed to the storm. A Rhode Island Mass., searched an area from lio d. man died after shoveling. A man Grand Manan banks to Mt. Desert in Vermont was killed in a truck- of th vice to Rock to Matinicus Rock, an area les station wagon collision. And in Con- "woul roughly about 15 miles wide and eig d sus- necticut snow plugged a car's ex- Ai 70 to 80 miles long. be Williai and in haust killing the driver with pois- Two 36-foot watertight motor- fa onous monoxide fumes. calibe ial run lifeboats from Southwest Harbor 62 in re- At Gardner, Mass.; an electric ROLAND SPRAGUE (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) be company line foreman collapsed sentat an be per- and died on his way home from work. A man dropped dead shovel- ing in Uxbridge, Mass. Jet Precision Team Highlight th support ph of the gate tin A Springfield, Mass., doctor suf- should an (D- fered a fatal heart attack after by Al- shoveling snow near his home. ment Of Dow Armed Forces Davs C e New Two lobster fishermen in a small and Bridge- boat were lost in the storm off D