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WEATHER Fair tonight, Tuesday, little temperature change. High today 90, low tonight 60, high Tuesday 85. Sunset 8:55. Sunrise 5:52. UP1 lele-tooto and UPI Wire News Service Los Angeles TimesWashington Post News Service Central Minnesota Pictures See It First In The Timet 107th Year No.

.34 ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, 56301, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1967 32 Kages 10c Cents Delivered to your horn 35 we. Through Area I Fierce Tornado Rip More Tornado Pictures on Pases 4-5-18 Youth Corps clean up crews are readying to move into Central Minnesota in the aftermath of Saturday's tornadoes which killed an elder ly Becker woman and snaked a path of destruction from St. Augusta to Zimmerman. Alfred Baert, area Civil St.

Paul, still hospitalized, no condition report. Miss Erma Coughtry, 67, Rt. 1, St. Cloud, still hospitalized, no condition report. James Kronenberg, 5, 108 Imperial St.

Cloud, still hospitalized, no condition report. Gust Gustafson, Becker, still in Monticello Big Lake Hospital, no condition report. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hanson, New York City visiting the Gustafsons, still in Mon-ticello-Big Lake hospital, no condition report.

Mrs. C. E. Jenson, 76, Clear Lake, released from St. Cloud Hospital Sunday.

Elizabeth Stephens, 10, St. Louis Park, treated and released at St. Cloud. Russell Coughtry, 66, Rt. Cloud, treated and released at St.

Cloud. Mrs. William Brown, 61, Rt. 1, St. Cloud, treated and ready to move as soon as they are requested.

The tornadoes did untold damage in a 20-mile-long, block and a half wide swath in Central Minnesota. At least 22 farms were damaged or destroyed, five rural homes were destroyed, several lake cottages destroyed, in the path of the twister which traveled from St. Augusta to Zimmerman, Minn. Dead is Mrs. Elvera Peterson, 70, Becker.

Mrs. Peterson, who was crippled with neuritis, was trapped on the second floor of the farm home she shared with her brother, Frank Nystrom. The farm was leveled. Her body was found outside beneath a tree. The 12 injured were: Edwin Hanson, 78, Clear Lake, still in St.

Cloud Hospital, no condition report. Mrs. Esther Knopfler, 69, released at St. Lawrence White, 57," Rt. 1, St.

Cloud, treated and released at St. Cloud. The injured were taken to St. Cloud Hospital by private vehicles. Both Brenny and Granite City ambulance services here went to the areas hit by the storm to administer first aid.

Storm warnings were out at 3:05 p.m. for Central Minnesota, including severe thunder storms and a tornado watch. First sighting of a tornado was at 7:07 p.m. Saturday, by James Scholten, Roy Kraemer and Dewey Jobe at the St. Cloud Weather Bureau.

Civil Defense sirens went off almost immediately and area radio stations went into action to warn the public. Driving rain began at 6:34 p.m. and stopped at 7:25 p.m., bringing .05 inch. The all-clear sounded for Stearns County at 9 p.m., for Benton and Sherburne counties at 10 p.m. Today the clean-up continues, and it will for several days.

Sherburne Sheriff Chester Goenner, who saw one twister "explode" a home near Clear Lake, said today the area is still restricted to travel. "Anyone not authorized please stay away," he said. "They are hampering our efforts considerably." Goenner also warned of fly-by-night repairmen in the area. "Some have been in the area already," he said. To be safe, people should contact their local dealers and laborers.

"These people prey on these people who have hard See Page 2 No. 2 Defense commander, said 50 young men from the Grand Rapids Youth Corps Camp will be brought in as soon as temporary living accommodations can be arranged. "We have 50 workers available right now," Baert said. "This is the same crew that helped clean up after the tornado in Southeastern Minnesota earlier this summer. They are well supervised and are hard workers," he said.

Baert said the crew is Times Editor Sees BlackPower OOO Federal ist ornaao-it as Deiegati0n's Troops Sent Like 'White Shadow Vote Favors Into Detroit By ROBERTA OLSON Times City Editor 'Revolution' DETROIT (HPT Gov At lpast fivp norsnns (UPD Dele- rjeorao Romnev nnnnunred rnnfirmpd rlpnH hv nnlirp' and NEWARK, N.J today that President Johnson four more reported dead for an gates at the final session of the first national conference on had granted his appeal to send unconfirmed total of nine. Three of the confirmed dead were 5,000 federal troops into Detroit to help battle the Negro rioting white civilians. black power shouted their approval Sunday of resolutions calling for revolutionary action to end "black bondage" in which has spread death, arson More than 800 persons and looting through wide America. injured, including at least 23 policemen and six or more firemen, one of them in critical stretches of the city. Some 1,100 cheering persons, Romney said Cyrus Vance, representing 190 Negro organi Wink ryWcs ------rrr deputy defense secretary, was flying to Detroit to aid the condition.

More than 1,000 persons arrested. Blocks of homes were de crisis. He said vance wouia land at Selfridee Air Force zations, gave their assent by acclamation to proposals for boycotting the enemies of black power; for the establishment of black nationhood: And for a Base and confer with local stroyed by fire and snipers traded shots with police aiKr officials. drive to triple black representa Romney appealed fot the tion in Congress. guardsmen, As looting spread through the city like an infection, Cavanagh said, ''the' disturbing thing was the num The free wheeling conference federal troops to' back up 10,000 National Guardsmen and police already in the area where fires engulfed whole blocks.

He did also expressed some strong views on international ques so after a tour of the area with "It's a tornado!" I had never, seen a funnel cloud, except on film, bdt I knew the blacjtail hanging from the thick, black clouds was a tornado, minutes before the Civil Defense alarm sounded. We had company and escaped the oppressive heat by dining in an air-conditioned restaurant, We were so thankful for the rain when it started to come down in buckets about 7:15 p.nt Everything is so dry. People ran out of the restaurant to shut their car windows. The rafn came straight down. When it subsided we left and drove east into the city.

That's when I saw it. The funnel cloud was to the southeast, hanging out of the large rain cloud that had moved across the city minutes before. It was still sprinkling. I just had a glimpse of it between the trees. But there was no mistake.

Sirens sounded. "A tornado has been cited six miles south of St. Cloud," the' car radio reported, confirming what I already knew. "All area residents are urged to take cover immediately. Go to your basements.

If you are driving, drive away from the storm Downtown, people were standing on street corners watching for the tornado. A handful of teenage-looking boys hopped into their cars to go see the damages at St. Augusta. Damage there had already been reported. We drove away from the storm, travelling north past the quiet-looking St.

Cloud Hospital toward Sauk Rapids. "A woman reports a funnel five miles northwest of Sauk Rapids," the radio reported. Seconds later a man reported a sighting northeast of Sauk Rapids on Rt. 1. We turned south on Highway 10.

The storm was again ahead of us. "What's that? See that white shadow?" I pointed. It was another huge funnel-shaped cloud. This time I could see it touch the ground. But it was white and funnels are supposed to be black.

It looked like a (See Tornado, Page 2) Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, who estimated damage to the city at at least $100 million. tions, demanding the end of the Vietnam conflict; expressing solidarity with black Africans; and recommending the condemnation of "Israeli oppression against the Arabs." It also urged black youth to refuse draft for Vietnam. Romney had announced ear crashed between the buildings. Both structures were destroyed and Kron-enberg can't understand today why he is alive.

An electric clock in his house stopped at 7:05 p.m., the time the twister hit. FLIRTED WITH DEATH Barney Kron-enberg, St. Augusta farmer, missed death by inches Saturday night when a tornado struck his farm. He sought safety between two buildings: one brick, the other wood. A large tree lier, during the pre-dawn hours, that 5,000 federal troops were on their way.

Minutes later, ber of people on the street. It wad like a carnival spirit a great lark." The National Guard said it had ordered five tanks and two armored personnel carriers into the heart of the riot area, a 175-square block neighborhood on the West Side three miles from downtown Detroit. The guard said police sharpshooters were firing from helicopters on rooftop rioters. Romney toured the riot areas with Mayor Jerome P. Cavan- agh after dawn today and then returned to city hall, where he sent President Johnson a terse telegram: See Page 2 No.

3 however, he said he had decided not to make a formal request at that time because of "problems "Black bondage will be ended when black young people become political," declared John Wilson of the Student elsewhere in the country. Presumably, what Romney Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. (SNCC). "If it is discovered that work within the system is impossible, a whole saw by daylight caused him to change his mind. Although there appeared to be a lull in the actual rioting, this was the condition of the nation's fifth new revolutionary system must be' developed." The conference drew the largest city: conclusion that the riots were "the inevitable results of the criminal behavior of a society which dehumanizes people and Negro Reporter Recalls Her 'Nice Neighborhood' drives men to utter distrae tion." EDITOR'S NOTE: UPI repor smoke from saturating the house.

ter Sandra West, a Negro, has lived for 13 years just two At 6:30 p.m. the electricity Nasser Urges Arabs to Wage Viet-Like War blocks from where Sunday's riot went out. We couldn't use our electric and were forced to broke out. In the following dispatch she tells what happened to her neighborhood and open the house again. We walked to 12th Street where the riots began.

There we to her neighbors. York to Israel. He said the continuation of a war-like status there can be no Israeli By WALTER LOGAN United Press International Israeli Foreign Minister Abba By SANDRA A. WEST DETROIT (UPI) Negroes watched as arsonists touched off fires at two establishments. Burglar alarms wailed.

They went unanswered. Negro-owned stores sported hastily printed signs that read "soul brother." Israeli view is that there is now no alternative but a choice between war or peace. He said there can be no indefinite cease-fire since Israel withdrawal from captured Arab territories. He said the Nasser speech shows no change of philosophy but that if Egypt moved into Detroit's near west side because it was "a nice neighborhood." Eban today restated Israeli demands for direct peace negotiations with the Arab A 12-year-old boy flashed a holds that an armistice tends uses the Suez Canal, Israel nations despite U.A.R. Pres must use it too.

diamond ring he said he found on his lawn. more often to lead to war than peace. He said the Israeli Sunday they cried with fear as burning and looting raged all around them. I have lived in the area with ident Gamal Abdel Nasser's return to a hard line and his threat of a Vietnamese-like Eban said Russia appears to have restored about half of the government envisions this se On Linwood Avenue, three Arab air force lost in the six quence of events: Cease-fire, blocks west of 12th, smoke was guerrilla war against Israel. my parents since 19M.

day June war and nearly half negotiations, peace. Sunday I saw sights never Nasser in a speech Sunday Seo Page 2 No. 1 Ana Jtigypt insists on a so truck it was impossible to see a block away. Some of the families on the blocks between dreamed possible. I saw things night on the 15th anniversary of had only read about or seen the overthrow of King arouk called for total mobilization of on television.

12th and Linwood packed their belongings and prepared to leave during the night if it Racing fires burned out of control for blocks and blocks. the Egyptian people to ensure final defeat of Israel. He also said he was reorganizing the became necessary. We were one Thick black smoke and cinders rained down at times so heavily of those families. armed forces for the second they blocked out homes as close round against Israel.

as 20 feet away. The belief in Jerusalem was Looters drove pickup trucks At the height of the rampage, several homes caught fire from the burning stores. A man, his wife and two small children, stumbled along loaded with everything from "for us the struggle is only beginning." It was echoed in floor mops to new furniture Price tags still dangled from the merchandise. the street with a suitcase and a bedsheet filled with the few Cairo where Egyptians prepared to tighten their belts another notch in preparation for an austeritv budget Nasser Youngsters, no more than 8 or belongings they could grab. Fire 9 years old rode two on a promised will "end privilege" had destroyed their home.

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"In this, we have taken into consideration that the There was agony on the faces of those who lived close to the burnings, afraid their homes greater burden shoule fall on those capable of shouldering it. would be burned too. Friends of ours, in and out of mother's face. By the 9 p.m. curfew, the streets were relatively quiet, but fear remained etched on the faces of those of us who had to spend the night here.

Nothing stirred on the streets at 10 p.m. except an occasional police car and jeeps and trucks loaded with National Guardsmen. But the residents of "this nice neighborhood" were afraid that the riot wasn't over. And it wasn't. He said Egypt had lost a battle but not a war and pledged that the war against the area, set up telephone relay systems with us to pass on any new information.

Rumors spread fast and it was hard to Israel has not ended. The restatement of Israel's 2-DAY-OLD CAR WRECKED A car, nen who stopped at the Leonard only two days old, was completely de- Drinkwine home on Highway 10 about molished when the twister picked it 8' miles south of St. Cloud. Drink-up rolled it around and dropped it wine's three-level home was razed by about 100 yards from its original po- the tornado. sition.

The car was owned by Al Hei- (Times Photos by Myron Hall) know what was true. position came when Eban By 5 p.m. it was necessary to close our home to keep the (paused in London fpr a news conference en route from New".