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THE NEW YORK TIMES METRO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22,

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8^' ■BO f HB.M Pi r ban Cappdiawo (or The Ntw York Tunes The brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, where on Monday, Kirk R. Jones of Canton, Mich., climbed a barricade and let himself be swept away. J tl It Family Stunned A^er Son Takes Niagara Plunge and Lives S' b 0 mischief and performing an unlawful made the journey in a barrel or some Continued From Page Bl other container. stunt within a government-run park. C Inspector Paul Forcier of the Niag­ The only other person known to I survived ” said his father, Raymond ara Park Police said. The stunting have lived through an unprotected Jones, 77. “He’s got a lot more cour­ charge carries a fine of up to $10,000. fall was a 7-year-old, Roger Wood­ f age than I do.” Mr. Jones remained hospitalized and ward of Niagara Falls, N.Y. He was I Keith Jones said going over the under a 'O-hour psychiatric watch swept over in 1960, wearing a hfe falls was the first dangerous stunt he Tuesday, as required by the law, jacket, after a boat piloted by a fam­ recalled his brother pulling. though Inspector Forcier said his ily friend, Jim Honeycutt, capsized. “He’s got to be the worst driver on injuries were not life threatening. His 17-yearold sister, Deanne, was earth, but he didn’t have a death wish Witnesses said Mr. Jones floated rescued 20 feet from the brink. Mr. or jeopardize himself like he did this calmly on his back to the brink of the Honeycutt died after going over the time," Keith Jones said. “He just got 173-foot-hlgh Horseshoe Falls before falls, but the boy suffered only a in his mind that he was going to do disappearing, minor head wound. something drastic. He didn’t want to “We thought we were witnessing a Mr. Woodward, now a 50-year-oId die. but i think it was his way of man’s death,” Terry McMullen of business executive living in Hunts­ letting everybody know that he's Ashtabula, Ohio, told The Buffalo ville, Ala., voiced disdain for Mr. around.” News. “He glided right by us on his Jones’s actions during an Interview The plunge defied the laws of phys­ back with his arms in the air as with The Associated Press. ics and Canada. though he was taking a leisurely Kirk R. Jones told his family he “If it’s a stunt. I think it’s silly 'Die fast-moving water of the Niag­ swim. He went over the falls without was planning to go over the falls. foolishness and I don’t want to have ara River, combined with the swirl­ a sound.” anything to do with it.” Mr. Wood­ ing whirlpwls and nxrks below, Most daredevil attempts have oc­ down from Mr. Jones’s home in Can­ ward said. should have proved fatal, said a sci­ curred at the Canadian cataracts, ton. “He didn’t seem like the type to Keith Jones said hi.s brother was entist who has studied the water-flow since the American falls are 10 feet do something like this.*’ calm when he talked to him Tuesday patterns of Niagara Falls. higher, with ominous rocks jutting morning. Miss Reed said she last spoke to "After i got over the shock that he “It’s like ‘Mission Impossible,’ ” higher out of the river below. News of Mr. Jones’s stunt stunned Mr. Jones about buying a used car actually made it, I told him that he said the scientist. Christtaa Tsai, a professor of civil engineering at the neighbors in his hometown. Canton, from him Utree weeks ago. should talk Io the doctors,” Mr. Jones Stale University of New York at Buf­ 15 miles west of Detroit. “He helped us a lot," she said. said. “I told him, ‘Hey you've falo. “It's kind of a miracle. That’s a “He’s a very nice guy, a wonderful “Whenever one of us had problems got to respect life a little more,’ I really good spot If you want to com­ neig^ibor,” said Joyce Reed, who with our car, he‘d come help us out." realize now that he had more prob­ mit suicide." works at a group facility for develop­ Of the 11 previous survivors of a lems than I thought. I think he real­ Mr. Jones will be charged with mentally disabled adults two doors trip over the Horseshoe Falls, 10 izes that now, too."

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