WEDNESDAY. FEI iRUARY 11. 1959 Toma 19 De lo Hits Si Louis; d, Over 250 Hurt (/P)—A killer tornado caught most of the ,ouis asleep yesterday and left a patchwork istruction in the predawn. ST. LOUIS citizens of St. ] of death and d Nineteen w in 32 years. Ain sre known dead in the city’s worst tornado iost 300 others were injured. The tornado took Notion From 1 Icy Wi Reels Vindy other By the Assoi iaied Press Wide areas of of the nation ree der damaging wi exacted a heavy jured and proper the .astern half : ed Tuesday un intry blows that toll in dead, in •‘y damage. The climatic assault included a rash of off-season midwestern tor nadoes. flood- triggering rains, heavy snow, and treacherous glaze that sent mhre than a thou sand victims of falls to hospitals. A 120-mile area of the Texas Panhandle quivered from what was believed to have been an earth tremor. A pre-dawn tornado that caught its victims asleep ripped apart ments and homes apart in the heart of St. Louis. Mo. At least 19 were killed, 7 missing and nearly 300 injured. Twisters also struck parts of Il linois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. 3 Boats Reported Lost In Stormy N. Atlantic HALIFAX, N.S. UP) U.S. Coast Guard cutters plowed through the stormy North Atlantic last night in answer to distress calls from three small vessels. Foul weather barred progress in the search for two Canadian trawlers earlier reported missing and presumably victims of the wild, wintry seas. The lates distress call came from a Spanish vessel in the earlv afternoon. Bomb Hurts 4 in Algeria ALGIERS (VP) A terrorist threw a grenade into a crowded street car on the main shopping street in Algiers Tuesday, injur ing four persons. /amous SAMPLER * 4BK* asfesfw [ri*j**»* Wilh be Volentii $2.00 I e overwrap entitle Gandy Wrapped for Mailing No charge Any Va n-Whelan Drugs Per the same path as a 1927 twister which killed 78. B. G. Gregory, executive secre tary of the Insurance Board of St. Louis, estimated property damage at $l2 million. The tornado came without warn ing and with tremendous speed. Just- as suddenly it was gone, leaving behind ominous silence. President Eisenhower last night designated the tornado lashed city and St. Louis Coun ty as a major disaster area eli gible for federal relief aid. It crumpled a radio tower, then a television tower built to stand winds over 100 miles an hour, cutting a diagonal path northeast from Brentwood and Crestwoad southeast of St. Louis across the heart of the city. Most of the victims had been in bed for hours when the tornado hit at 2:12 a.m. It was preceded by hours of torrential rains which flooded scores of basements. U.S. Military Unit To Leave Cuba HAVANA WP) U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force missions, a target of revolutionary criticism, are withdrawing soon from Cuba. Twenty-eight officers and men are involved. The U.S. and Cuban govern ments have agreed to the with drawal and there will be no Amer ican replacements, the Ministry of State announced yesterday. The U.S. personnel helped train the armed forces of President Fulgencia Batista. Revolutionary chieftain Fidel Castro made plain soon after the rebel victory New Year’s Day that they are no long er wanted here. English Flu Epidemic Cripples Schools, Shops LONDON (/P) —Influenza ram paging through Britain thinned out school attendances yesterday and kept offices and factories | short on manpower. Doctors in London and Edinburgh, centers of the flu outbreak following last month’s severe fogs, cut down surgery hours and left home early ! to cope with the crush of bed pa- Sampler > THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA SPECIAL HEART BOXES larga variety of beautifully decorated heart* Closing Of Area School Questioned HARRISBURG UP) A Centre County school principal yesterday questioned why it took state offi cials more than half a century to condemn some school buildings as fire hazards. Paul Runyan, supervising prin cipal of the Bald Eagle Area Joint School District, asked the ques tion at a meeting of the State In dustrial Board which ordered one of his schools closed unless fire safety repairs aie made. “They have used this building (Milesburg elementary) for 75 years. Why is this building so dangerous all of a sudden to a point that you order it closed withm 24 hours?” Runyan asked William L. Batt Jr., Labor and Industry secretary and board chairman, answered Runyan's query saying: “Until the recent Chicago fire that killed 90 children and nuns, we thought differently about cer tain safety factors. But that fire made us change our requirements and that is why your school has been declared in need of safety repairs.” Pilots Cautioned i To Avoid Reds WASHINGTON UP )—President Eisenhower said yesterday that [U.S. planes are under strict orders not to play games designed to stir up Soviet interceptors along the Turkish borders. Eisenhower told a news confer ence, however, that "once in a while we believe there are false radio signals that will take a plane out of course.” That was injected into a discus sion pegged to the crash last Sep tember of an unarmed American transport plane just inside Soviet Armenia. The State Department contends Russian fighter planes shot the transport down with the loss of 17 Americans 6 known dead and 11 unaccounted for. KQDL KROSSWORD 2. Half of pleasure 3. Fontanne’s youth 4. Friend from Paris 6. Remember: Kools are fresh 6. "This Gun For " 7. Dance of the 30’s 8. Bottle hitters 9. It’s not quite ample 10. Specializing in digs 11. Is there somebody ? 12. Peroxided 20. Twitches 22. Hoop-motl vated dances 23. Cheer-leader talk 24. I love Latin 25. It’s almost as cool as a Kool 27. Sort of elope ACROSS 1. Esther Wil liams' afterglow 7. Put on an act 13. The guys tv ho made it 14. Kind of ga! who makes it the hard way 15. Guy who’ll make it in May 16. Put in front of 17. It’s usually right on top of you 18. Low kind of heel 19. Guided 21. Letter for crewmen? 23. It's human 26. Does she give you your tumps? 29. River that sounds like loye 80. That drivel you hand her 81 One way to meet expenses 82. Face the : Kools are cooler 28. This is the 33. Vou and me, kid 32. Big-date duds 84. Middle of 35. Sayonara folks * kiK » 36. Lighted, 85. Kind of pot Koolly or session g 7 you trv 87. Tear jerker Kools, you’ll 40. Soldier boys stay with 'em 43. Rockefeller 88. Favorite hangout - Russian word 45. Opposite of at U.N. de starboard 89. They go around 47. Get through with ends 48. Real cool 40. N T avy mascot 49. Kind of walker 41. My foolish 50. Assessment for friend being a bad lad? .2. Hell uf a river M4**»*»» 44. Plural of 34 DOWN Acmes L Cummerbund 46. Kind of pal • As cool and clean as a breath of • Finest leaf tobacco...mild refresi and the vrerldh most thoroughly • With every puff your mouth feels your throat refreshed! Omericak Mosf Rfcfieshini ... ALSO REGULAR SIZE KOOL WITHOUT FILTER • 1809, Browa A WUlJsmftoa Tobacco Cory. Integration Ordered At Front Royal, Va. RICHMOND, Va. (/P) —A fourth Virginia community rural Warren County in the northwest was ordered yesterday by a federal judge to open its white classrooms to 22 Negro pupils next week. Even as U. S. Dist. Judge John Paul issued a Feb dosegragation order for the re opening of closed Warren High at Front Royal, the city of Alex andria, 50 miles to the east, held racially mixed classes in three schools for the first time. Alexandria followed the same unwilling but peaceful and un eventful pattern of school deseg regation set last week by Arling ton and Norfolk when Virginia's 100 per cent school segregation reached the end of an era Nine Negro children were ad mitted under the watchful eyes of reinforced police guards to two elementary schools and a high school in Alexandria. I—CAMP COUNSELOR OPENINGS—i for Faculty, Students and Graduates THE ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE CAMPS ... comprising 250 outstanding Boys. Girls, Brother-Sister and Co-Ed Camps, located throughout the New England, Middle Atlantic States and Canada. ~. INVITES YOUR INQUIRIES concerning summer employ ment as Counselors, Instructors or Administrators. . . . POSITIONS in children's camps, in all areas of activities, are available. WRITE, OR CALL IN PERSON: The ASSOCIATION of PRIVATE CAMPS - Dept. C 55 West 42nd Street New York 36, N.Y. CAMERA CLUB MEETING FEB. If, 1959 7:30 P.M. 212-213 HUB Speaker: R. S. Beese Dulles' Sit-Ins Much the Same WASHINGTON (&)—The two men who’ll run the State Depart ment while Secretary John Foster Dulles is on the sick list have a lot in common. Christian B. Herter and C. Douglas Dillon were born in Eu rope, both were honor graduates at Harvard, both have long had a deep interest in foreign affairs, and both are tall men. No. 14 PAGE THREE * 4
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