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WEATHER CITY EDITION PARTLY CLOUDY (Complete Report, Page 1-B) FOUR SECTIONS-32 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1953 Phone 5-1551 di Parlies Worcester Tornado fe. Lose ler's Tracks Deals Death to 85 Inter. Additiona LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. If 1 to Seek Man WORCESTER, Mass. W) Na Story, 3D) (jo uw Churchill I A 4 tional guardsmen patrolled the rubble-filled streets or 11 Wor Wprines- reported cester County communities Wednesday as searchers dug through helicopter was or land "rr; ruins left by a death-dealing tornado that took at least 85 lives, four- made 2,500 homeless and caused up to $50 million damage.

Elmer Authorities feared the death n. missing fisherman, toll might rise. Police said ruins since hern missing of 200 houses still remained to ha annarel l- wnen if -1-1--- -il 10 Loletta Lakes be searched. Approximately 300 persons were injured. Frantic families visited Oakridgc, ana iu llmoaua walcrshcd.

morgues and hospitals in search located hnnn of missing relatives and friends. TICKS and by a grounu In one Worcester hospital there were eight unidentified bodies. barty. TAKE OFF WORST IN STATE The worst tornado ever to visit Lay, the Glide Ranger New England whirled in a twist oaa iuui He area from Steamboat ing, destructive path through central Massachussetts during Uc summit of the moun-Udio contact had been set the supper hour Tuesday. It spent its fury within 30 minutes.

planes went out in me i twin-encine plane (Clara Ltndland photo, Wtltshtre engraving) City Councillor Irving Katz, a Iseburg was to go up later. real estate man, estimated the EUGENE POLICEMEN rest after a bout with the mountains In the search for Elmer Flock, Lowell man missing since Saturday south of Oakridge. From left to right thev damage at $50 million. Gov. harty was on nuiseucn-n are: Lt.

Clarence Raines, Officer Gus Davis and Officer John Raifsnider. Thc trio fere on toot. Hertcr has declared the stricken sections a disaster area. came out of the woods Tuesday morning. nnia nf nrneress was in In Washington, the Reconstruc Iging of Steamboat Creek, fcwollen oy neavy ram ami tion Finance Corporation declared stricken sections arc qualified lis kept searchers out of Long Vacation Ailing Hip Forces for special loan treatment.

the country. A spokesman for insurance plane was also up from companies said probably most (AP Vflrephoto) SMASHED HOUSES Three-decker homes are a jumbled mass of wreckage after a tornado lashed this area of Worcester, Tuesday with approximately 85 known dead. and anomcr was 10 gu Due Workers Who Stay Put bene. L. Phohill esnit Wr-rlneS.

Taft to Back Seat' homes and- automobiles were covered by insurance, as most fire insurance policies and bank mortgage coverage include such KIHUUIl UC WOO jiiuh. n.m Lnfidemt of bringing Flock WASHINGTON Ml Sen. Taft damage clauses. SIGHTSEERS WARNED whipped her two weeks old daughter out of her arms and out of sight after she ran from her house in the belief she would be safer in the open. than 24 hours after a similar storm hit sections of Ohio and Michigan with a toll of 139 dead and 1,000 injured and $15 million in property damage.

of Ohio, saying his hip ailment 'is a serious one," Wednesday About 400 of the injured were arty (Oakridgp) gave up day-to-day floor leader- either hospitalized or treated at but no deaths were reported there. Worcester alone counted about 55 dead and 400 injured. HOUSES STREWN Big houses were lifted completely off their foundations and dropped yards away. were tossed as much as 150 The storm's botlinn center Approximately 150 men search District was outfitting first aid stations. All sightseers hip of Senate Republicans.

Sen. Knowland of California ed a wooded area throughout the night for the baby. party to work from over to the point where were warned to keep away from the devastated districts. struck Worcester and adjacent towns but its destructive force was felt over an area of about 40 square miles. One eyewitness told how he tracks were sighted Mon- took over the job, one that calls for long hours of close attention to Senate procedure and necessi More than 10,000 volunteers the party is Otto Han- saw a mother and her small child crushed to death beneath a big krry Gabriel and Robert Pittsfield in Western Massa from Massachusetts and other New England states worked to tates being on the floor practic The group will have chusetts and Exeter, N.

also trailer truck that had been lifted by the wind and carried several In Holden, Mrs. Ruth Oslund hysterically told police the wind ally all the time the Senate is in session. aid the injured and homeless. The Worcester housing author felt the effects of the tornado for several days and will brier at Bristow Prairie Taft, hobbling on crutches, ity will give city officials indenti-fications of all persons who own1 up the trail, 26 rugged mm Oakridge. told reporters he will retain his title and continue as Senate ma or occupy 2,500 housing units weather has handicapped jority leader except for the floor in the blasted area.

State highways, blocked over routine. Irch and has kept planes Lying long over the moun-lut Wednesday the Assocl- night, were opened Wednesday in He expects to attend White CHICAGO Wl A radio, and phonograph manufacturing company has signed a union contract providing that employes after 10 years of service will get a year's vacation with pay or double pay for time worked during the year. Paul M. Davidson, president of Hedco Mfg. Co.

said the contract signed Tuesday with the AFL Electrical Workers Union was made in the hopes of reducing employe turnover and attracting new employes. The firm has 155 employes, mostly women. Davidson said few of the employes have been on the job more than two years. The contract also provides for one-half week's vacation for workers employed up to one year; one week for up to two years' service, and two weeks for service between two years and 10 years. The full year's vacation or double pay is to be granted every 10th year.

North Bend Blaze Kills 1 feet. Debris was carried by the heavy wind as far as' 40 miles away. A big housing development in Worcester was almost completely leveled. The Lane County Red Cross chapter in Eugene now has direct teletype contact with all of the disaster areas throughout the Midwest and the East, Mrs. Lydia the Worcester-Shrewsbury area House legislative conferences, Repair crews of the Worcester fres! reported from Rose-liat planes from a CAP Senate GOP policy sessions and public works department discov look after other leadership de A-Bombs Said Innocent WASHINGTON W) A congressional committee may be asked Wednesday to investigate the relationship between atomic bomb explosions, and recent tornado epidemics.

"The public is entitled to know if there is any connection between the atomic explosions and the tornadoes which have followed," said Rep. Madden (D-Ind). He said he would ask the An AEC spokesman said "there is no evidence of any general relationship between weather condition and atomic bombings." The U. S. Weather Bureau has said the AEC and its exploding bombs is entirely innocent.

A spokesman said the bombings had "no effect on the weather pattern." ton were again over the ered several leaking gas mains area, favored by clearing tails so long as these do not interfere with treatment of his ailing pr. The planes are in radio and gas workers were summoned to fix them. COVERED 40 MILES mtti ground parlies and hip. Scheidt, home service director, Taft said he expected Sen prying emergency supplies to Flock if he is located At dawn, eyewitnesses said, the SEN. ROBERT TAFT Gives Up Floor Duties Knowland would continue as act he air.

said Wednesday. Through this, the Red Cross can find conditions of anyone liv ing floor leader most of the ses smashed area resembled pictures they had seen of the dam MEDIC READY sion. X-rays showed "a lesion of the age wreaked by the atom bombs Taft said doctors told him that there is an impairment" of his td Flock be located and edical aid. McChnrrl Air bone," he said, and he must un on Japan in World War II. The tornado struck here less dergo a series of treatments first to restore the bone and later to left hip bone that must be treated with "X-ray and cortisone." ing in the area, she explained, and the service is free of charge.

Mrs. Scheidt said the office has received many requests for tho service and that many calls have been completed by eastern points. build it up. Sdll send a plane with a edic aboard. The flying can be dropped to the nn.

McChord estimates an Taft said he and Mrs. Taft had There is a delay in reporting ma a half would be needed Inside Today planned to make a trip later this summer to Ireland where their son, William Howard Taft III now i Truce Details Ironed Out; Tension Mounts in Korea ue man in. NORTH BEND, Ore (ID One man was killed and several others is this country ambassador. back to the local office, however, she explained, since the Red Cross must make personal contact with the persons sought before a report is made. nave expressed doubt Pock, who had only one en and was dressed light- narrowly escaped early Wednes He said he hopes this still will day when fire swept through the be possible, although the effec De Gaspcri coalition squeaks through in crucial Italian election.

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in such physical walk out. But for 0Vrv tiveness of treatments Between The local Red Cross telephone minutes, then adjourned until Oregon Hotel in downtown Norm Bend. Authorities identified the dead now and the time Congress ad- ive ODininn fWv Thursday. number is 4-5244 and the office is at 47 W. 8th Ave.

journs probably will determine Per side. Flock is reputed Meanwhile, thousands of Korean youths snaked through Seoul man as Alonzo Egan, about 70, that. ui omaoorsman with mmr, BERN (m The Swiss government announced today it has. revised its earlier decision and will participate in the (ive nation prisoner repatriation commission in Korea even If the South Korean government declines to give explicit who had been a longshoreman on Taft is 63. Nee.

This vri. streets in apparently well-organized demonstrations. Coos Bay for several years, The word that he was giving Volcano Erupts, save him, un floor activity as Senate GOP to Washington to make a personal appeal against the truce. Rhee, he said, will not leave Korea "at this time of grave situations." Details of what went on at today's plenary session at Panmun-jom were not disclosed, but the delegates presumably completed their work. After 23 minutes, they recessed at Communist request subject to call by either side.

Shouting "Yankee go home!" they marched on U. N. and U. S. The fire broke out in thc third floor of the three story frame building about 4:20 a.m., quickly swept through the floor and leader was given out first in a statement by his administrative buildings, but were held back by Kay Opens assistant, Jack Martin.

Women's News 5A Editorials 6A News Briefs IB Comics 4B Theater, Radio 5B Sports ID, 2D, 8D Business News 3D Classified Ads 3D-1D military police. South Korea's draft bureau or spread to the rest of the building, The Taft announcement caused The hotel register was lost in the fire but officials said all other minor sensation among senators PANMUNJOM UB United Nations and Communist truce negotiators their work apparently and colleagues because of the dered all Korean men between 19 and 25 to be ready for call as government leaders reiterated threats to fight on alone if a truce tenants were believed to have es Hurls Huge Rocks TOKYO Mt. Aso, whoso volcanic center is the world's largest, erupted Tuesday hurling rocks the size of a man's head. No casualties were reported among the 60,000 Japanese residing on the broad floor of the crater, 10 miles long and 15 miles wide. The volcano killed five persons in an eruption April 27.

toil Dam Lower level officers then as- key role he has been taking in caped. Egan's body was recov all but finished Wednesday I scmbled in the tiny truce hut the Eisenhower administration ered. and reportedly went to work on leaves Korea divided. Men between 17 and 19 and be handed staff officers the job of putting a Korean armistice into review of. the cease-fire line twoen 25 and 40 were ordered to final form, then recessed indefi that will separate Allied and Red Red Cross to Read Air Budget Cuts report their whereabouts and any nitely.

JMIT, Ore. mA genera-ng burned out at Detroit Wednesday but the dam Interior Secretary 'McKay went on with only change in schr-rinio forces during a truce. change in draft status. They met for an hour and 36 All signs still pointed to a Reports, Elect Officers The annual report of the Lane cease-fire within the week, but these developments clouded the PERSONNEL REDUCTION SEEN p1e.rsons turnd nut County Chapter of the American picture: Defended by Ike Switzerland announced it Red Cross will be made pumic at a meeting and dinner in thc tana csUraated' for Stock Protests Funds Gut would not serve on the five-nation prisoner repatriation corn- Eugene Hotel Thursday at MINNEAPOLIS (in President 6:30 p.m. was Oregon's gov-poured the first bucket number of planes or ships or divisions or billions of dollars that can automatically guarantee security," Eisenhower said.

"The most uncompomising ad Officers and workers of the local chapter will report on work theory won't work in his depart last week allowed Stock's depart Lane County Assessor George ment S53.280 for appraisal work. ment because his office ts working at "minimum strength" the Eisenhower said sharply Wednesday that air defense is not won by "juggling magic numbers." He said his cutback program should produce more planes "more swiftly and less expensively" through greater efficiency. Another $79,950 was set up in a separate category lo finance Stock said Wednesday his department hasn't been allocated enough funds to allow efficient operation during 1953-54. during the past year, and officials will tell of the fund campaign results. Election of the board of dlrcc- year around.

Sheriff Ed Elder last weeK vocates of such magic numbers have themselves' changed their calculations almost from year to LONDON (B Prime Minister Nehru said Wednesday night India stands by its offer to help supervise the repatriation of Korean War prisoners but added his country would have to reconsider its position if South Korean troops broke away from the United Nationi command, lm wo dam nearly 'Wars ago. Wednesday he have pushed a button 2' WMMtor to turning. prosram started, fflerator given a warm- the bearing went out. WW the alteration that Program continued as Stock said he submitted a the joint county-state reappraisal program which will be in progress for tho next three to four years. tors will also take place, and snecial salute has been planned year." r.konhnwnr answered both written protest Tuesday to the county budget agreed with the County Board of Commissioners that probably some employes in the tax collection department could assist the assessor's office during rush pe for Mrs.

Cora Pirtle, former chapter manager who recently The President added that the changes were reasonable because In this final budget session De- Recent action of the budget fore the taxpayers' meeting June resigned. critics of the cut in number of Air Force wings from 143 lo 120, and the reduction of In the air appropriation for 30, budget members eliminated committee, Stock said, cut the funds he had requested more of technological advances but he said "Insistence that the latest change is final, definitive and un- salary requests for several em mission unless South Korea ap BASEBALL ploycs in the tax department anil assessor's office in an apparent ion for the tnnk note of abnut pnwcr "'facts now under discus- riods. The commissioners pointed out that extra money had been budgeted under "additional help" to provide a safeguard In case present personnel couldn't handle the proves the truce, fiscal 1954. SPEAKS TO JAYCKES than $34,000. This reduction may mean two appraisers and four clerical personnel will have to be released after July 1, the as challcngablc that is not reason, able." AMERICAN LEAGUE South Korean leaders reiter effort to utilize more fully man II F.

"Reasonable defense posture is ated bitter nnnosition and anti power between the two depart Philadelphia om Chicago 100 000 000 1 sessor said. STRESSES COOPERATION Thn Minneapolis speech was 0 armistice demonstrations raged ments. work load. not won by juggling magic numberseven with an air of great B.vro, nan ii Dor an (Hi at collar, wnson si'egra, Stock said an Oregon law provides him with authority to hire additional personnel when ALWAYS RUSHED' -Stock, however, said he couldn't day. authority," President Eisenhower, said.

the-first of five Eisenhower will deliver on a tour that will lake him to Soulh Dakota and then A spokesman for Syngman Nw Vork ooi 007 ois 11 1 Detroit 000 400 000 4 8 2 these are needed to carry out Rhce' dashed reports that the South Korean President will fly spare anyone to work in the tax department because his office is always rushed. the department's work. Tho as Eisenhower said that production schedules can be reduced from the present 26 months for a B-47 bomber and 34 months for The budget committco has no authority to hire or fire county personnel, but through Its control of budgeted funds It can, in effect, dictate the number of personnel a department may employ. TRADE WORK In cutting funds for new per sessor said if his budget is not Sain, scaroorougn mi et suvera, Bcrra (811 HocH, Madison (8), Wlghl (61, Erlckson (81, Hcrberl () tt Batta. Waihlnglon at Cleveland, night, Boston at St.

Louis (2), night. unauie lor, he would 10 that! 'Party COmraCl inJuriousl l.0 lon8 in anythins iffi' have wo 1 i 10 upset th Mustnai growth that incroascd by July 1, he might KILLEN BOWS OUT a B-52 to about 18 months. back to Washington by next sun-day evening. Then, answering advocates of isolationism and criticis of the United Nations, Eisenhower said that none of the free nations "can sanely seek security alone." All nf us have learned," he have to invoke his legal authority to hire additional help. Ho made the statements in a PITTSBURGH tifl-Dave Killcn, NATIONAL LEAGUE t( pro golfer from ElP speech to the annual convention of thc National Junion Chamber of Commerce here.

sonnel In the two departments, Milwaukee 500 000 030 8 11 gene, shot hlmscll out ot According to the law, Stock Tho proposed county budget, according to law, can be revised as much as 10 per cent during thc June 30 taxpayers' meeting, After this meeting, however, the budget as adopted will remain in effect until July 1, 1954. It was not immediately learned Wednesday what the budget committee's reaction was to Stock's written protest. budget members reasoned that there arc off-peak periods in tho U. S. Open golf tournament said, this extra help would have Gen.

Hoyt S. Vandenbcrg, re id, "first from the onslaught of Wednesday when ho fired an to 08 Pal(1 bV county, regard- tiring air chief of staff, has con-MW. thcn rom Com. each dcpurtment when some employes of one office could assist New Vork Ill 110 mm 5 II 0 Blckford. Buhl (SI.

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Loula at Pittsburgh, night, I tended that a reduction iron, that all free with work in the other. 14 strokes over par, over the 'ess oi wnai is stipuiatea in tne Oakmount course. He had an 81 budget. at Pittsburgh Field Tuesday. 1 The six-man budget committee ffJIiia.

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