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ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
VOLUME 89-NUMBER 278 CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15.1966

TWISTER KILLS 6 AT BELMOND

Brezhnev: Winds Wreak|150
Havoc in NW kj«*:« C*
U. S. Acts Cedar Rapids Mdlll M.
By Jerry Elsea ! I A *

Bar Thaw
MOSCOW ( A P ) - R u s s i a ' s
Tornadic winds hurled their
force against four houses andi
two barns in northwest Cedar; BELMQND (Ap) _ Law en.
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Rapids Friday evening, causing jforcement officers began a slow,

communist party leader, Leonid varying amounts of structural j methodical search Saturday for
Brezhnev, S a t u r d a y brushed damage. [possible additional victims of
aside President Johnson's call No one was hurt, although! Friday's killer tornado that re-
for better East-West relations, veral residents admittedly'duced the town to a pile of
saying U.S. "piratic raids" on , , , , . , . , I bricks and masonry,
North Vietnam bar any im- were badly frightened. j gix persons were ^Qvm dead
provement now. Scene of the destruction was| ant j 159 or more injured in the
"If the U.S. wants to develop the 1800 block of Edgewood road wake of tne twister brewed by
m u t u a l l y profitable relations NW. However, a barn located he same storm system that ear-
with the Soviet Union—and we near Zika avenue NW, just east er produced a death - dealing
would like this in principle—it of Edgewood road, received the lizzard in the Rocky Mountain
is necessary to remove the main greatest amount of damage. It tates.
obstacle," Brezhnev said. was demolished.
A cold, raw wind, accom-
"Stop the piratic raids on a While residents of the area
panied by rain and occasional
Socialist (communist) state and were assessing damage they be-
snow, made the grim task
stop the aggressive war against gan to ponder the question —
more difficult and cast a pall
the Vietnamese people; respect Was it a real tornado funnel?
over the town that now re-
not in words but in deeds the Saw No Funnel sembles a battlefield.
independence, sovereignty and
Mrs. Marvin Moenck, 1860 Officers p l a n n e d t o s i f t
territorial integrity of the other
countries and peoples." '" Edgewood road NW, who was hrough the rubble and debris of
Brezhnev said, however, that home at the time, said she saw ach building as thoroughly as
prospects look better for an no funnel.
East-West t r e a t y to halt the I was looking out the win-
spread of nuclear weapons and dow (toward the west) when I Tornado Victims
the Soviet Union will "spare no aw it — looking just like smoke BELMOND (AP)-Here is
effort to sign an agreement." and growing in size as it a list of the identified dead
came." in Friday's tornado here:
Polish Meeting 1. Sam Crabtree, 80, buried
This was at about 4:20 p.m.,
He spoke to 6,000 people at according to Mrs. Moenck, "be- in the wreckage of his home.
a Kremlin friendship meeting cause that's when the clock 2. Mrs. Edwin Chapman,
with Poland. The visiting Po- stopped." found dead in her home.
lish communist party leader, At home with Mrs. Moencl 3. Mike Kurtz, about 62,
Wladyslaw Gomulka, e c h o e d were her two children, Craig, 9 killed while riding in a truck.
Brezhnev, saying Johnson's plea and Anita, 6. Her husband, wh 4. Emma Sorensen, found in
for an improved climate in is employed by Messinger's, wa wreckage of her home.
Europe could not be taken ser- at work. 5. Ella Pierce, found in
iously until "words are support- wreckage of her home.
Lie on Floor 8. John Greenlander.
ed by deeds."
In a speech Oct. 1, Johnson . "When I saw it coming
said: "We want the Soviet Union —AP PtVJtO
made the kids get down on th possible and then affix tags to
and the nations of Eastern Eur- floor and I got down on top o the front and rear so that there
ope to know that we and our al- TORNADO'S AFTERMATH—This was the scene in Bel- demolished business buildings and houses. National guardsmen, them," Mrs. Moenck s a i d will be no wasted effort. They
lies shall go step by step with mond, a town of 2,506 people in north central Iowa, after a working in a cold rain and occasional snow, were searching the "Then I heard the dishes fallin, covered the same area Friday
them as far as they are willing on the floor and saw the dee] night, but decided on another
tornado slashed through the community Friday afternoon. At ruins for additional victims Saturday morning. Evacuation freeze being moved."
to advance." search by the light of day.
While pausing to assail Red least six persons were killed and about 150 injured as the winds centers for the homeless were set up in Hampton and Clarion. One person who said the wind-
China's leaders as renegades, storm resembled a funnel was 33 Hospitalized
Brezhnev devoted a major por- Mrs. James Bright, 1850 Edge- At least 33 victims of the
tion of his speech to a direct
reply to Johnson. Three-Inch Snow Blankets Attacks on General Electric Accord wood road, who was driving tornado remained hospitalized
west on 0 avenue NW with her Saturday, several of them re-
He said the President pre- husband at about 4:20. ported in poor or critical con-
sented the situation "in such a Sioux City; Mercury Sags North Are Gets President Off Hook "What I saw had a triangular dition.
way that relations with the So- By Neil Gilbride called the settlement "a major shape with an apex at the bot- It left four blocks of the 2,508-
viet Union and other Socialist By Associated Press Biggest Yet
countries can develop despite" Temperatures tobogganed to ture was 45 degrees.
The 2 p.m. Saturday tempera-
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- bargaining."
accomplishment for collective tom," Mrs. Bright said. "Yes, population town's five-block-long
it looked like a huge dark fun- business district a shambles,
the war in Vietnam. wintry levels in Iowa Saturday The Weather Bureau said the SAIGON (AP)—U.S. military'dent Johnson and 11 labor un- It was also a victory for Paul nel." with virtually every business
light rain would be ending in all ions a ear to hav e 1 Mr. Bright, who runs a piano building flattened or heavily
"NATO Outdated" as an intense storm system headquarters Saturday J announc-! PP . f^f," Jennings, president of the In-
parts of the state by late even- ed the war's heaviest raids over 'the victors in a contract settle- ternational Union of Electrical tuning and repair shop at his
This is "strange and mislead- plastered parts of the north-|mg Iment with General Electric that (East Iowa Storm Damage,
ing," the Soviet leader asserted. western counties with up to j Highs Sunday should be most- North Vietnam and said Ameri-jforestalled a strike by 125,000 Workers which led the 11 un- (Continued: Page 2, Col. 3.) Page 11.)
"We have said not once before "uree inches of snow. can plane losses over the north workers, ions.
!]y jn the 50s under generally
. . H. It was the first major con-
but many times that, if the U.S. It was the same storm system f a j r
wants to develop mutual rela- that buffeted Colorado and Wy-;
had passed 400.
U.S. planes flew a record 175 administration," ?? !' C
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tract fight for Jennings, who Boy, 4, Clings 3 damaged. farm houses
Numerous houses and
also fell to the
a government s
union's president last year! after »!! Miles to Train
tions, it must remove the main ommg oming withwitn a aeain-aeaiing bliz-
a death-dealing DIIZ-ij . ,. . .11. • missions against the north Fri- source said of the agreement rending winds.
impediment." zard and spawned tornadoes MlSSOUri, /////7O/S day, two more than the pre-boosting wages and fringe bene- Law enforcement officers,
The R u s s i a n attacked the vious day when a new high was fits an average of 51 cents an the labor department declared LOS ANGELES (AP) -
national guardsmen and vol-
Western Alliance as outdated Hit by Tornadoes hour over three years.
Carey's re-election fraudulent. Thanks to a strong grip, Rene
conference board of the Araiza, 4, was safe at home unteers toiled through the
after saying that Johnson in his .. .. . . .
Northwesterly winds gust- . t | mi
• C H I r>C A \rG f\O <\T>\ (AP) - vinipnt'
Violent ^ U.S. spokesman *• said £plane The sudden settlement Friday ! The ooo-member union meets in Saturday after clinging to the night, some of the time in a
speech had noted the changing losses now totaled 403, a figure after weeks of deadlocked talks 80;
world.
ing up to 40 miles an hour j weather in the central and
which included three previously- New York Sunday and is ex- outside ladder of a moving cold, fine rain, to clear rub-
western states has left a heavy averted a nationwide walkout ble and search through the de-
"But unfortunately," Brezh- drove the cold air into the toll of dead and injured and ex- unannounced losses. freight train for three miles.
pected to ratify the contract
scheduled for 12:01 a.m. • Monday bris for additional victims.
nev said, "in Washington they s t a t e , leaving temperatures
The other unions win work out
U.S. B-52s staged three raids against the defense supplier. P o l i c e said he climbed
Saturday morning 40 degrees tensive damage. local plant issues and in most aboard Friday while playing. State Highway Patrol Capt.
cannot draw the logical conclu-
or more cooler than Friday's The blizzard which lashed Saturday, including one inside But strikes over local issues jcases submit tne contract to a Then the Southern Pacific Jack Beaman of Alta said an
sions" from the changes. the demilitarized zone and a j and grievances were still a ,vote o{ their members
jColarado and Wyoming Friday
Johnson's speech "quite clear- highs at some points. bef
second just south of it. possibility at some of GE s 160 In Pittsburgh) Westinghouse
train began to move. His 'inch by inch search" of the
ly reflects the fact that the U.S. There was three inches of ^ sweeping into Nebraska older playmates jumped off, :own had been completed by
lflTMl Kansas was Diamea Light Action {plants. Electric and three unions agreed but he was too frightened to midnight.
imperialists are still trying to snow on the ground at Sioux deaths. Two men were missing
settle problems in the military City, one inch at Estherville and In the ground war, briefing The settlement saved Johnson to extend tneir contract negoti- jump and hung on. He said he didn't believe any
in Wyoming. officers reported only light, from the politically touchy de-
way of NATO," the Russian add- traces at other points. Scattered Tornadoes and high winds The other boys notified more bodies would be found.
scattered action. cision of whether to invoke a (Continued: Page 2, Col. 2).
ed. light rain, mixed with snow in Taft-Hartley Act injunction that authorities and the train was Dr. Samuel Leinbach of Bel-
ripped into sections of Missouri
Without referring directly to some places, continued in north- and Illinois, injuring about 40 It was reported that South was being drafted by the jus- stopped. Police lifted Rene to mond, president of the Iowa
the U.S., Brezhnev noted thai western and north central sec- people. Damaging winds, heavy Vietnam's war-burdened econ- tice department. Pope Reportedly safety and took him home. Medical Society, estimated from
omy appeared to have done a said he didn't even cry. 150 to 200 persons were injured,
the possibilities of an agreement tions. rain and hail hammered wide
to ban the spread of nuclear Mason City had 2.29 inches of areas in the plains and from the turn about — from inflation to Hailed by Meany To Visit Canada They He was uninjured. about 20 of them critically. He
weapons were looking better. rain in the 24 hours ended at mild recession. Business men AFL-CIO President G e o r g e VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope The train, moving about expressed appreciation for the
Midwest to Texas and western! blamed the dip on new import Meany, who had threatened to Paul VI has agreed to visit Can- five miles an hour, took him amount of medical help volun-
Chinese Refusal 7 a.m. Saturday. Davenport had Oklahoma.
2 inches, Waterloo 1.60, Spencer Near-blizzard conditions and rules and a shipping logjam. bring the major weight of the ada next year during the Expo from near his suburban Al- teered from within a 100-mile
Johnson discussed this Mon- 1.30, Sioux City 1.06, and Bur- In announcing the plane toll, U.S. labor movement against 67 World's fair in Montreal, a hambra home to just inside radius of the town.
day with Soviet Foreign Minis- lington 1.05. (Continued: Page~2, Col. 5.) (Continued: Page 2, Col. 3.) the company in event of a strike, reliable source said Saturday. the Los Angeles city limits. Emergency
ter Gromyko, who said talks An unofficial 4.45 inches of Beaman said Mayor Robert
would go ahead. rain was reported at Cresco in
Sea Rowboat Misner and the city council had
"We welcome some moves northeast Iowa, but other com-
which have appeared lately in munities in that area generally
this direction," Brezhnev said. reported an inch or under.
He charged that "the refusa
Found Empty
Watch Helplessly As Homes Go declared a state of emergency
and given the highway patrol
and national guard a free hand.
The d o w n t o w n Cedar By Associated Press and then vanish in the bowels fire. Then it hit. We ran down the basement and crawled
of Chinese l e a d e r s to make HALIFAX (AP)-A Canadian to the basement and as we into the deep freeze, leaving "We have had no looting,
agreements with other Socialis Rapids temperature began to destroyer escort has found the BELMOND (AP) - Have of the coal-black clouds from
whence they came visited this glanced out the window, we the door ajar so she could get (Continued: Page 2, Col. 7.)
countries to defend Vietnam' climb slowly about 11:30 a.m. rowboat Puffin about 600 miles you ever seen your home and farming area Friday after- saw the garage go." out. The b u i l d i n g disinte-
has hurt the communist cause Saturday after hanging onto southeast of Newfoundland but hearth blown to smithereens noon.
its overnight low of 43 de- the two British journalists who right before your eyes? The Johnson home weath- grated above her.
there. 1 more Most of Iowa's tornadoes, ered the violent winds. James Waddington, proprie-
This has s p e c i a l signifi- 8™* than four hours. set out in it to row across the Folks here did. Today's Index
Have you ever e m e r g e d like those in other Midwest The Thompson's home did tor of a dry g o o d s store,
cance, Brezhnev added, "since The o v e r n i g h t low was Atlantic are missing, the air-sea
states, form on sultry after- not. And neither did their 3
China is the only Socialist coun- reached about 7:30 a.m. i rescue center reported Satur- from an underground shelter noons under ominous skies. clothing store. New two years shooed his customers to the j Church
try with a common border with. Until 11 p.m. Friday, however, day. and found nothing but kindling rear of the place, and told Comks 10
This one was no exception. ago, it's now no more. Courthouse 2
Vietnam." ithe temperature had held to 70 Aboard was a log book with where once stood a farm them to lie down on the floor. Crossword
Mrs. A. P. Thompson was Frank Black, owner of the 10
He described Peking leaders;degrees. Friday's high was 78 a final entry dated Sept. 3— house, a barn and outbuild- "I don't know why," he said, Daily Record
as the renegades of the com-:degrees. In six minutes, begin- the dav before winds from Hur- ings? attending a church gathering A & W drive-in, fared no 2
better. "but I stood with my hands Deaths 2
munist camp. Ining at 11 p.m., the tempera- ricane Faith swept into the; Farmers here did. at the Bill Johnson home when
ture dropped from 70 to 66 de- area. The entry spoke of winds. ; Or, have you ever watched she looked out a picture win- The business in which he against the front door and my Editorial Features 6
grees. By midnight, the tern-: David Johnstone, 34. and helplessly as the store you dow. had invested $45,000 was flat- feet braced against the coun- Financial 11
ter. I stood there until the Marion 12
: "I saw the most unusual tened and his car was blown
Today's Chuckle perature was 60. John Hoare, 29, set out from called your own literally blew
Cedar Rapids had .53 inch of; Norfolk, Va., May 26 to cross up and fell into the street? clouds, traveling so fast," she away.
debris from across the street Movies 7
Remember w h e n having rajn beginning _____ ___ at 4.30 p.m. Fri-the Atlantic in the 15-foot row- People here did. said. "They were very dark Black's wife, Venetta, was smashed my front glass win- Sports 4, 5
dow.
money to bum meant in our , day T- ^e heaviest downpour, 'boat. ' - - - • The
• " • - -last < - j sighting
' - • • reported -•--•-•- — This is tornado country, and underneath and over them one of the lucky ones. Television g
She was alone in the place "Then I dived to the floor Want Ads 12-15
pockets instead of in rockets?Jabout 37 inch fe __ of them was Aug. 11, when theyi the fearsome winds that hop were more clouds moving fast
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