The Daily Herald du lieu suivant : Everett, Washington • 1

EVERETT HERALD I "4 Associated Press United Press International EVERETT WASHINGTON TUESDAY JANUARY 16 1968 76th Year No 14 28 Pages Two Sections TEN CENTS Texas Harbor Set Ablaze Laos reeway Opening Set Thursday orces lee Death Toll Mounts or Opening reeholder rom Sicily Quakes NYStocks TOMORROW'S Council Passes Pinball Law BLUsTLRy I 4 Only nine bodies were offi cially counted but it was feared far more lay crushed beneath the heaps of stone and rubble that were once ly destroyed was Salaparuta with a population of 3000 The smaller town of Poggio reale was hit almost as hard and each was believed to hold more victims The homeless coped with Sales 284300 197000172000 171000 154400 142200 136300 103700 87300 84500 84300 83900 82500 80400 79800 most York eng Close 63 1512 15e 10 34 13 32 31 17'2 74 26 16a 27 they could Some joined army and police rescue squads to dig through the rubble for victims Old men and women with shriveled faces and gnarled hands hunched over bonfires The new fencing is another ex periment by the State Highways Department to enhance the beauty safety and serviceability of the Interstate and standard highway system Green plastic coated fencing eight Jeet high has been installed alongside part of the route The plastic coat over the steel fencing is ex pected to help resist erosion too New overhead illumination with lamps 40 feet above the six lane roadway are expected to shed more light on the concrete surface Approximately 250 persons are expected to jam the Elks Lodge dining center in Everett for a no host luncheon program following the ribbon cutting cer emony Harold Walsh a mem ber of the State Highway Comt mission and prominent Everett businessman will join Wallace Turner Mayor "ATT Bud Alex ander Mardesich and Stewart Aidcroft in brief comments at the luncheon Governor Evans will make the principal presen tation thousands of tents to shelter villagers whose homes were leveled or who were afraid to ledve the relative safety of the open countryside About 60000 persons lived in in eight villages In the fields sobbing wom en huddled under blankets and Sicilian men in blacky berets stood stoically before bonfires that dotted the fro zen hillsides 3V Long Study SAN RANCISCO (UPI) Charles Klaus 33 Green Bay Wis a criminology stu dent at the University of Cali fornia today began a long study of his specialty A US district court judge sentenced him Monday to con current terms of 25 years each for a $10500 bank robbery at Napa Calif Nov 20 and'Jor the earlier $5000 holdup of a Los Angeles bank Klaus was on parole from Sari Quentin Prison for armed rob bery at the time of the Napa iank robbery completing a simulated' pro gram for the new high school District officials hope to present the simu lated program to' state school officials in Olympia this week The program will be used as a basis for de signing the building During last meet ing the board also awarded contracts for purchase of three school buses to Irate Dancer MEMPHIS Tenn (UPI) Jimmy Luckett 735 police Monday that when he refused an invitation to dance with Jessie Burgess 37 she pulled out a pistol and shot him in the foot Miss Burgess was charged with assault force them to rent equipment from distributors They protested that the ordi nance would give city council the power to approve vor dis approve the sale of tavern own property if they owned their own machines If therefore would be unconstitutional they claimed The wholesale distributors then climbed onto the crowded soapbox with their opinions leg al and otherwise of the ordi nance Their objections centered on the provision of the ordinance for only one master license per 200tMLpopulation of the city The master license at $500 apiece allows leasing or renting of the machin Continued on Page 4A Col 1) VIENTIANE Laos CAP) Two thousand Laotian govern ment troops are believed to have fled before advancing Communist forces in the strate gic Nam Bae valley in northern Laos government sources said today No report has been received from the three government bat talions since Sunday when the government ordered the village of Nam Bae and its airstrip abandoned Some of the government troops have straggled into the Royal Laotian capital Luang Prabang which was mortared by the Communists Sunday night It is 50 miles south of Nam Bac A general arid two colonels were sent north to assess the situation Nam Bac which government forces captured from the Pathet Lab in July 1966 had been un der heavy artillery attack for several weeks Meanwhile the government gave a further report on a Com munist air attack last riday It had reported earlier that two Communist plants were shot down A gQvernment communique said four North Vietnamese AN2 Colt biplanes" bombed and strafed a village of the Meo tribe at Muong Yut killing four civilians and wounding many others It said machine gun and rille fire brought down two of the planes well within Laotian territory One plane was destroyed and the other contained three bod les two in North Vietnamese uniform and one mutilated be yond recognition the commu nique said A map found in the plane was in Vietnamese it added It was the first report of North Vietnamese planes at tacking Laos lington The firm submitted a low bid of $12135 each for the buses The contract is subject to the passage of a special levy in the eb 6 election A motion to offer a three yOar contract to Blore was approved unanimously by the board Details of the agreement are to be worked out after the budget for next year is approved Vital Message CHESTERIELD England Postman Jack Barker delivered one of the most vital messages of his career Monday after hobbling knees together 100 yards to a telephone booth send me a new pairof he asked frantical ly after his uniform pants split as he squatted to pop mail through a letterbox He stayed in the phone booth for more than half an hour until a van from the post office arrived with a new pair of pants walk to the box seemed the longest ever he said 146 ractures UPPER DARBY Pa Sidewalks weres slippery Mon day in this Philadelphia suburb Ask the staff at Delaware County Memorial' Hospital The which normally treats at few fractures daily said 146 persons entered the emergency room with broken bones suffered in falls on the ice Colder (Blue lashing Bea con) Showers and partial clear ing Wednesday High Wednes day 40 45 Low tonight about 35 except 30 in the usually Scolder areas Southerly winds 15 30 inph with occasional stronger gusts Small craft warnings displayed Local temperature range during the past 24 hours High 51 Low 38 RairifaUQJ3 inch Pass' Stevens: 24 degrees light snow one inch hew 61 inch total compact snow Snpqualniie: 32 degrees light snow trace of new 48 inch total compact snow carrychains and watch for Slides and rolling rock MARYSVILLE The Marysville School" Board last night accepted bids to talling $820783 for construc tion of the Pinewood mentary School 5200 84th NE The board voted to recom mend that the Washington State School Board approve the contracts at its next meeting Marysville officials hope to begin constructiononf the 20 room campus style school next month They hope it will be finished in time to be occupied next September Contracts approved in last night action included the general contract which went to Rudy Simone Coristruc tionCo Inc Seattle which bid a total of $561200 in eluding additive and alter nate items accepted by the board HOUSTON Tex (AP) The freighter Christiane Smashed in to a string of gasoline laden barges in the Houston Ship Channel early today tumingthe water into an inferno of blazing fuel exploding in shocks felt and seen for 30 miles There were no serious injur ies as two American tourists the wife and 3 year old daughter and 27 officers and crewmen from the Christiane fled through the blazing waters in lifeboats Traffic was choked off on the ship channel one of the busiest in the nation until midmorning when Coast Guard units began allowing ships to pass through the gasoline laden waters with caution One of the barges flamed up anew shortly after dawn before the fire was tapped out and the gasoline barges were towed to anchor amid fireboats on the side of the channel The Christiane limped toward Galveston Tex for repairs The collision occurred about 12:30 am just south of a high way tunnel between the suburbs of Baytown and La Porte which is 30 miles southeast of Houston The Christiane a 372 foot craft of Liberiari registry owned by Christiane Shipping Co of Bermuda was outbound toward Port Arthur Tex when it struck the barges being pushed by the tugboat Barbara Waxler? One barge was empty but the other two bore 30000 barrets of high octane gasoline which ex ploded spraying fire across the have been higher if persons had not fled their homes aft er the first warning shocks Montevago a village of about 3000 inhabitants ap peared Jo be the worst hit Officials said an icy wind kept residents from fleeing their homes when the first shocks hit and they said as many as 200 might be buried under the rubble Scientists said the quake was caused by a shifting of rock deep beneath the Medi terranean and not by vol canic Mt Etna 100 miles across1 the island? Today's Most Active Births Deaths Marriages Pg 8B Bridge Pg 6A Building Pg 5A Comics Pg 10A Crossword Pg 7A Editorials Pg 14B inancial Pg 5C Movies Pg 4B Sports Pgs 6 7B Social Pgs 12 13A TV Pg 4B Weather and Tides Pg 8B chilly waters of Upper Galves ton Bay Help was quick because res cue units along the heavily in dustrialized waterway had just finished dealing with and explo sion and fire two hours earlier and 12 miles upstream at a Shell Chemical Co plat our men were hurt one critically in that unrelated mishap Tourists aboard the freighter were Mr and Mrs7 Heber Gingerich of York Pa They went aboard the Christiane with their car a week ago in Hondu ras They planned to debark at New Orleans and drive home had just gone to my said Mrs Gingerich 62 who was watching the twinkling lights of refineries glide past her cabin window looked just like While she watched WL Nix a guard at the channel tunnel heard the Christiane and the tug hooting at one another Then they hit Walnut Street from the freeway without stopping Traffic northbound on Walnut Street will have to stop The freeway will be opened Thursday morning at 11 (Staff Color Photo by Jim Leo) ett Right are lanes emptying from7 the: freeway's northbound lanes Right center ii the southbound "on The stop sign behind the truck right center will be taken down soon to allow traffic to move onto 6 I and I Iow PALERMO Sicily (UPI) The known death toll climbed steadily today in the series of earthquakes that devastated portions of picturesque narrow streets western Sicily and left tens and piazzas of thousands homeless in Another town almost total freezing weather Some sur vivors kept alive with bonfires made from the debris The ministry of public works in Rome said) more than 250 were known dead and more than 200 persons the cold weather as best had been admitted to hospi tals Temblors shook the area again today adding to the fears and the ministry said the final toll would be far higher The hilltop town of Monte vago which is Italian for Shadow Mountain was the hardest hit It lay as if it target of a satura Italian government in send tion bombing 800 ing help to the disaster area houses destroyed along with which encompasses eight all the" municipal buildings Jrillages at the poverty banks and schools The wa stricken western tip of Sic ter and sewage systems ily Relief workers piched were gone More than 200 of Monte 3000 residents died when aperies of quakes hit it Monday Other towns in the 230 square' mile area on western tip near Palermo were almost as hard hit (hillside town of Santa Margherita Belice with a population of nearly 8000 was 95 per cent destroyed INDEX In Gibellina where offi cials estimated destruction at 95 per cent the only liv ing beings to be seen besides rescue workers were a few stray goats and swarms of crows that picked through the debris for food In the 'Villages it was sometimes impossible to tell where streets ended and blocks of houses began rom the air the towns looked as if they had been bombed A series of 16 shocks 34 hours beginning late Sun day and reaching a peak of violence shortly before 4 am Monday swept the 260 square mile triangle Offi and watc4 cials said the toll would me unitea states Britain and the Vatican the WEATHER indicated by The Pictoial Weather Sign By JOHN KEEL Staff Writer Everett City Council passed its pinball ordinance this morn ing and drew resounding tilt The second and final reading of the ordinance regulating and licensing coin operated amuse ment machines Including juke boxes attracted about 30 owners and distributors of the machin es Immediately after the reading of the proposed ordinance the machine operators" and dis tributors began to vocally tear it to pieces Armed with legal opinions and just plain opinions the machine operators mostly tavern own ers claimed that the proposal would not allow them to own their own equipment but would The mechanical contract went to Snelson Plumbing and Heating Sedro Woolley which bid $104384 and the electrical contract went to the Tyee Const Co Kir kland which bid $155199 in cluding additives accepted by the board The figures do not include incidental costs such as fees sales tax and land costs The new school i one of severalbuilding projects the Vic Cox Motor Co Ar oeing contemplated ov me board in an effort to keep up with the rtiushroom enroll ment growth of the district Another of the proposed projects is a new high school in the northern section the district SupL Wallace Blore reported to the board last night that Marysville High School Principal Wes Apker and University of Washington officials are WHAT Ur Motorists approaching East Grand Ave nue and Walnut Street will oe greeted by thisarrange ment of signs and curbing designed to move traffic to and from the freeway as if passes through north Ever reeway Set A ribbon cutting and a' drive under a symbolic archway of highway signs Thursday will mark the opening of a three mile segment of Interstate 5 in Everett The ribbon cutting will take place under the 23rd Street over pass me ireeway soum bound lanes i Entering the freeway at the I uaoi auu lauipa uui ernmost end of the newest seg ment of road the official pro cession will travel south to the I 1JUUUU vumug After that Gov Dan Evans state arid local officials will re turn to their vehicles and contin ue south under an archway of highway The caravan will go south to approximately 41st Street where a turn in a specially designated spot will aim tne group back to tne norm Leay ing the free way at Pacif ic Avenue and Maple the offi cials will proceed to the Everett Elks Home via Hewitt Avenue Because the procession is ex pected to be travelling slowly on the freeway' the highway will not be opened to the general public until shortly after noon a Highways Director Charles Prahi said that the new freeway including several bridges four interchanges and a new experiment in fencing will be ready for motorists shortly after a brief ribbon cut ting ceremony and procession Miss Megan Mardesich a 14 year old brunette and daughter of State Senator and Mrs Au gust Mardesich will share the ribbon cutting honors with Gov Daniel Evans The $14000000 section of free way will eliminate 'the need for thousands of motorists to meet 14 stop lights However one new stop light has been added near Walnut Street and East Grand where a temporary connection has been built to carry traffic: between Interstate 5 and Old US 99 The newest freeway section will take traffic away from but parallel to the heavily congested Broadway route now used by ap proximately 50 OOO people eveiy day On weekends traffic frequently doubles and frustra ted motorists lose aS much as 30 minutes driving through Ever ett The final segment of the Ever ett freeway is scheduled for completion before of this year This includes the long Sno homish River Bridge where northbound motorists will be treated to a sweeping panoram ic view overlooking the' Hverand nearby lowlands NEW YORK (UPI) The 15 active stocks traded on the New Stock Exchange Tuesday Gulf Western Armour Glen Alden Am Photo Benguet Rexall Drug El Music Indi Leh Vai Ind 7 20th Centox Inli Paper Alleghany Cp Monogram Budd Co 4 Gt West ncl Nat Gen Cp See inancial Page 5B for to day Closing New York Stock Quotations Marysville School Board Okays Building Contract blearing Tonight The second in a series of three public hearings conducted by the City of Ever ett board of freeholders will be held this evening at 8 in the PUD auditorium Tonight's meeting which is open to the public specifically will be to hear suggestions by civic and fraternal organizations on proposed charter changes A third public hearing will be conducted next Tuesday Jan 23 at the PUD EB y' 5 HH 1 I 4 I i i It 1 I BB HEE Bl En HHH HI.