Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 15

I (florpmihtisft (flatter CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 13 1953 SECTION Local Worker at Waco Disaster Urges Civil Defense Expansion FORCE DIFFERS Tornado As Strong As A-Bomb A Oorpua Christian who helped worked with police eoldlere and up here Immediately should pull bodies from the debris after Civil Defense for 13 hours Monday yet funds and recruits right now the Waco tornado urged a well- night searching for the Injured while everybody is thinking about A University of Corpus Christ! to 700 often they found thedead it" he said with such emergencies when he re- A captain in the Army Reserve Mack stressed that -ihmMeTuM niriitV tnrnHa tured here yeaterday Mack said that the disaster con-menu were not meant to reflect A Mack owner of the Gulfjvinced him that a strong Civil on the personnel of skeleton CD ikinV Wtui the Cout Tnuisfer Co 620 8outh Port Defense organisation should be set units but that he wanted to lm is capable of striking with Undermanned "Civil Defense Alerted As Storm Approaches press the public with the importance of having an organisation to act quickly in time of emergency the work of extracting the injured from the wrecked buildings was comparatively fast after it started it seemed to me like it took quite a while for the Civil Defense workers there to get into action Strong CD Backer hadn't thought too much about Civil Defense before but I am a strong advocate of it now of South Texas in rase of a ms- whether or not any more lives Jor disaster here Like the Salve-icoUld fan saved if the res-timi Army and Red Cross the cue work gUrted Koner is PRC lB0 ca UP problematical but I do believe the field kitchen to feed hundred but rk could have been started the kitohen must be brought here much sooner If the Civil Defense rrom Refugio jjiad been better organized The TSGRC battalion here also he said operates one ambulance two jeeps and a 30-passenger bus both radio-equipped and has eight mobile radio unita for communlca- rescue work followed by the return trip to Corpus Christi today After a sleepless night spent in SILENT Mary Bohland Ice Vogues star and director of the "Trial of Lilly explains to Norman Gaston and the Perky Twins what she wants in the way of silent dialogue for the film Pauline Perky looks on from the right while Caroline takes Camera shots of the goings-on EVERY A SETTING force of an atomic bomb David Robbins assistant professor of physics and head of the mathematics department said a tornado could do practically as much damage bomb but it would be a different type They Don't Work Alika tornado does its destruction with a forceful circular motion where an atomic bomb explodes and thrusts the air away from it Then the air rushea back to fill space left by the explosion" Rcfr bins said I imagine in its own way a tornado could cause as much damage aa an A-bomb" Robbins who had a personal experience with a tornado at Perrin Texas a few years ago said he believes it would be just as easy to protect yourself from an atomic bomb as from a tornado have any more warning from a tornado than from a bomb They can form in a few seconds strike the ground do their damage and break up just as short- a time as they formed" he said know that if the citizens of a town had a 155 in A MACK Mack also helped rescue men In a pool hall also in the path of the tornado north of the City Hall seven Negroes were taken from a building They were all dead Corpus disaster organization went on alert late yesterday afternoon in the face of a storm threat Director of Civil Defense Earl Dunn alerted the emergency organization in the event that the promised squall bearing down on South Texas reached Corpus Christi in destructive force Ready for Action Double As Movie Stars iu Own Film Help Comes In I Mack waa worn out and badly services arose during the night1 The local 1BGRC Battalion and He centered hia activities early time and it wasn't long until the were these organizations: the locsl STARs units are the the rescue work at the Dennis Salvation Army workers were The emergency crews of the cl- official Civil Defense units Building Only two of the first 12 there passing out hot coffee and ty street gas water sewer and a reroltm their designation by peroonj taken from the building! doughnuts to all the relief work- came from surrounding towns alonf with doctors and nurses The Red Cross went into action in a surprisingly short persons taken from the building doughnuts the City Council few hours warning of a coming tor-1 electrical departments mido there would be as much The full complement of the po- hysteria aa there would be if they lice department and its volunteer! A JT I IT IT IT IT fl wera wtmed that an A-bomb 'auxiliary the 100-man Police Re--11 1 LtlWU WOuld be dropped" He added he 'serve Tin77C C'PIffir'V if the The entire fire department Red A Jtr lilj 1 IXLJ LiV age Her Initatlon was in ballet Caroline who auditioned for the where she became the featured ice show in Canada about three star in the Ballet Russe de Monte years ago and have been causing Carlo After ten years of standing ire fans to see double with their on her toes she swapped ballet number ever since shoes for skates and joined the Paul Webber whose The final episode of Trial1 ice show Later she worked for experience includes of Ully Lovelace" is being filmed i the movie studio helping to make ing on With at the Missouri-Pacific Railroad I documentary film a for the mil- Hollywood waa shanghaied into Station at 1 today itary becoming technical director for the The Trial of Lilly is a by-pro-1 Had Own Show production Ben Dova ia the vil- duct of the Ice Vogues of 1953 Before rejoining Ice Vogues she lian ahow that is currently making a had her own ice show in Mexico LiUy a played by Joan Vivian big hit here The silent movie is for six months When Ice Vogues and Norman Gaston a Beaumont being produced directed and acted played there last year she jump- lad Who joined the show in Sept ed bark into the ant and eventual- ember is the hero ly into directorship of Lilly 1 sawv PkTwinfh( pfidta? iSd' Th bert thin bout the movie-saucy Perky Tains Pauline nd mking buinM1 acrording to whose movie-making deludes a hitch work- With the in by the members of the ice troupe Lilly's tribulations started about four months ago when members of tha iee show cast decided to town had been hit previously by Cross Salvation Army National nr Tinv rrra a tornado Guard Texaa State Guard Re- IP I 1 (JlXlSAUUES Less Danger in Town serve Corps Robbins said he believed a tor 'counterpart of the TSGRC) and Robbins said he believed a tor counterpart of the TSGRC) Mayor Albert Lichtenstein nado waa leu likely to form over amateur radio operators Few Called to Duty None of the disaster units were actually being called to duty except for a few TSGRC and STARs a town than in the open country resistance of buildings and other structures would tend to discourage its he said were alive he mid The last of 'era the injured rescued before he left "In addition to tha ambulances waa tha telephone operator She the police used every track and had been pinned to her chair by car available to send tha injured a girder across her shoulder to the two hospitals I was driving A False Move Could Be Fatal a station wagon and I started haul "It looked doubtful that she ling the Injured away as fast aa would be rescued alive because they could be taken from tha de jthe building had collapsed around brie Tha dead were taken to Red her to such an extent that one Cram headquarters for identifies 'false move on the part of the tton" workers would have brought tons He mys the sight of Waco after of masonry down where aha waa tha tornado can only ba likened helplessly pinned to a European city after a bomb "A physician risked hia Ufa to-ing crawl to her and give her a hypo- Steel Ripped Into Bh reads dermic Tanks of oxygen were! Corrugated steel waa ripped Into rushed to the building and a pipe- shreds and wrapped around lamp line gave her fresh air Then the posts ilka so many hairpins Neon rescue work began Huge jacks signs wera masses of shattered were brought to the building from glam in the piles of debris cover tha air bam and men experienced ing the streets in rescue work began raising the Along ona street Mack said ha girders a fraction of an inch straw a young woman crying She la time Fourteen hours later aha said her father was in his car All 'was carried from the building the can parked along tha curb and taken to a hospital there had been completely buried Water Lines Broke in the rubble In other places park- the Dennis Building col- ed can had been crashed flat lapsed the gas and water lines by an avalanche of debris broke Many of thorn who ware Mack had been in Dallas attend -not killed by the twister died from ing a convention and waa en rout When he reached Waco ar need for workers ha pile and worked until shortly still iter I am Tuesday "Tornadoes have been known to personnel to man the TSGRC and break up when they hit a river I amateur radio control center at canyon or even a corn jthe TSGRC Armory 3905 Ramsey Tornadoes form when a mass 'and amateur operators of warm air strikes cooler air and Dunn prepared to keep the ar-contracts The cool air expands open all night to serve as a from its contact with the warm mobilization renter and shelter in tempera-Jthe event that storm conditions re- yesterday offered the assistance of the people of Corpus Christi to the residents of the tornado-stricken cities of Waco and San Angelo The offer waa made In telegrams addressed to Mayor Ralph Wolf of Waco and Mayor Amistead Rust of San Angelo The message said: city of Corpus Christi and Us people have been profoundly shocked by the disaster that haa befallen your city and wish to expresa to the citizens of Waco our deepest sympathy We extend to you such facilities as are at our disposal and wish to offer any assistance that we may be able to make a movie of themselves in SFJSli''Sl'SJBi Plane With Body was decided upon that followed li-r-e closely the old of Ul LlIVOV 8 HlIC routine cliff scenes and aU Dark-Eyed Girl Directs To direct the show the cast picked dark-eyed Mary Bohland who co-stars with Calvin Cbok in the Ice show adagio dance They used good judgement in their choice Miss Bohland was script writsr for All-Scope films in Holly- Refuels at NAS Royal Air Force A Canadian plane carrying wife of the Mexican ambassador i to Canada stopped at Naval lOT Miss Bohland ia that it is a morale lifter deluxe Each member of the ire show cast gets into the act Townspeople wherever the show happens to be playing wonderful quire activation of some of the disaster units or a need for re- fuge is a silent one the directors foupd air and the change in about helping us with the Miu Bohland says tv si- turn causes air motion The tor- circular drive ia born of ghow Brown of the Nueces Air Hotel where many membera of the WST I around In' 3ihS iri breH juan Manuri Aivm into show business at an early min tlie ambassador and' All-Night Service and in the matter of a few sec- He said amateur operators on onds winds may reach destructive the MARS (Military Amateur Ra-force din Service) network and the to- think Corpus Christi cal emergency amateur stations has any cause to worry about tor- would be asked to serve during ns does" said Robbins con-1 the night These operators would breeze wa have provide not onlv an mtra-cttv com- Jnhaling gaa or were drowned homeV i rom Gulf susceptible to a munications network but also an1 telegram to the San An- WhenI left that building 19 bodies saw the artic change In temperature lntra and interstate tleup i mor- been recovered and they ara ed ta ai home TOWN TALK accompanying the body to fhow leVM lown- Th hopes accompanying uie oooy 10 lu first run in Blue- la is ra for burial 1 field Va two weeks from now for burial brother Luis Alvarez del Castillo were Guadalajara The plane was met by Miss Marla de la Luz Salinas chancellor-in -charge of the local Mexican Consulate and Ricardo Silva rhancellor when it landed at 3:15 pm ver Capt Pyaon end Lt Rear Adm and Mr Glo-G aide to the admiral also met tha plane to extend condolence! to the Watch Our Daily Spot Specials for Gigantic Savings! 9 One Day Only! WEDNESDAY'S Oscar Julius Olson Jr son of Mr and Mrs Olson 1714 Santa Ft haa been made a member of Pi Sigma Alpha honorary government society at the Univer-aity of Texes A member of the Longhorn Band ho was on the honor roll of the university for the fall semester Olson is a Junior government student ea Sets MIIMtMSt George Strauss waa appointed chairman of the Fire Prevention Board by Mayor Lichtenstein ans waa appointed Wt dK pointed to the board caused by cool winds as ia the sit- Dunn said he was not calling tha Navy which haa volunteered large numbers of men in past emergencies or tho 50 to 100 volunteers who have been trained under the city's Civil Defense program unless conditions during the night worsened CD Needs Enlarging Aa the city's disaster organization got one of its rare alerts Dunn commented that the local organization ia better than some' hut still too undermanned and ill-equipped to be cf great value in rase of an emergency the size of Mrs Todd told yesterday we had he mid th of a howling fury which churned -last night a fine rain that I In addition to the usual muni-the Waco business district Into would have been glad to get public Iety and emergen-hash of rubble as she and her hus-lhere The northwest section where cy forces the Red cross and Bai- ration Army the local disaster preparedness program revolves mostly around the local TSGRC battalion the Police Reserve the National Guard and the STARs Navy TSGRC Are Crutches Except for patrol and police work which can be provided by the focal National Guard unit and Police Reserve the program depends largely upon what assistance the Navy can provide and an effective job of keeping out of upon 'what service that ran be the wrecked area everyone who provided by the Red Cross band mt in their swaying hotel I waa wasn't touched at all Alexander commented that very District Atty and Mrs Todd few people out in the residential ln Roosevelt Hotel in I sections away from the storm core 'the midst of the area of deitruc-1 knew what had happened House- wive going downtown at 5 pm 11 fury It was a most terrifying i to bring families home wera aur- ahe mid recalling prised to find the business district a screaming wind that hurled a scene of destruction through the air kipped 7 particularly how the wind had Ona Concert Operetta Set al est Oso A 7:31 pm tomorrow (he first evening mass in the history of Our Lady of the Sea Church will be held honoring the Feats of tha Ascension Maaaes on tha Holy Day of Obligation will ba at am and pm An operetta Mimitea at i th rwitv and a zo-mln-i me hand concert featurinc a vlr-iwr iatv nf arirrtinna will be for Vest Oso students at theachool ar v-m Friday Ura ark: Mmiar hand director annomuv Oarer Keepke president of the'ar Admission receipts will be to buy band uniforms and supplies Seventh and eight grade music I students will present the operetta smash-by Gertrude Graves Martin jinR aklpped car had no business there Alexander Chamber of Commerce CofC Manager Dan Chamberlin Assistant OofC Manager Jack Humphries and Bob McCracken Caller Times managing editor are to kavo today for tha fourth in a Selections of classical PPr untouched while an- i mid he left Waco about a itoa TSGRC and the STARs Tha STARs hare facilities lo set up a field hospital to immedi-lately treat about 150 persons and have about 50 to volunteers aeries of goodwill fours of South ii an( hillbilly music 'will ba ore- parked in front and in back vegterdv Texaa dues Cities to be visited 1 would be demolished sented the band Mrs Horner ra FMirria prmnnt rihi by jemf wwubSrS ESS' "f0 about 80UM 8 Gaatm Maurln IS son of MrJjJSItor and high school hand professions! men who like 1km! ner torm hd Sousa Wagner and others will be er downtovm U'aro1 a 111! I performed Several other local businessand passed trained for first aid work The Red Cross can offer the service Perfect for warm weather wear! Rayon gabardine Rayon tropicals r' students will present the concert' Central Texas town Louisiana has been awarded thej Adm)ltlim be (or adults Monday in connection with the of Its focal volunteers aa well at national assistance 30! Store Men Available The focal TSGRC unit can be supplemented by upwards of 300 officers and men from other areas tha downtown area men and women were he mid yeaterday and men in civilian clothes wera loading tha injured Into ambulances trucks automobiles and everything that came An HEB store was damaged whan the front of the building and part of the roof waa blown away but no one was injured A store room at the rear had also been blown down he mid Expert Rifleman Medal second highest award in junior shooting' a National Rifle Association spokes man announced in Washington yesterday i Dr Daaiel Murrell ami Sirs Hattie McClellan of McAllen will ho speakers tor the New Truth or He la tha smr of Mr and Mrs Religious Science program at the James Woods of Bcttie Nueces Hotel at I prit today Wood Joins Marines 'Derrell Woods 21 of 5125 Curtis Clark enlisted yesterday for four yean in the Marine Corps Sam Susser trial left before the storm struck about 4:45 pm Another aide of the storm waa told by a businessman who returned here yesterday Three Miles From Dtsaster I 31 Alexander iM8 South Tan-caliua mid he didn't know anything unusual was going on from where he mt ln a building three miles from the center of the blast Damage Suit Asks Mens LACK Riggins yesterday sued calls! Cecil Raker for 531000 In con- nection with a traffic collision near Long distance tele placed into Waco and telephone San least had 20 filed Bargain priced at tha Intersection of Highway 5 and Hunter Lane last Dec IS A rar driven by Mrs Riggins and a car owned by Baker wera in collision according to Riggins' court petition filed in 117th District Court Riggins asked for 125000 for Injuries and disabilities sustained by hia wife 5250 for past medical expenses S5000 for future medical expenses and $750 for car Grand Jury Recommends 4 Less Severe DWI Law The grand Jury yesterday rec-'the state senator and four repre- Ing the judge of tha county court at Tlirff nu' ommended enactment of two state sentativea from this area jtaw discretionary powers on the' 1 statutes affecting the county court Umler the law st present a six- suspension of rimer's licenses jn1 Of at taw i month suspension of a driver's i DWI cases making tho adult pro- I UllO I IxUICII till wera meeting with at jsix hour delays here last night A Robbins comjlany manager said focal switchboards 217 calls waiting for Waco and for San Angelo at 6 pm The oldest Waco rail waa at 7 am: tha oldest San Angelo call I pm Angelo suspension of a driver's DWI cases making tha adult Tremendous exciting collection of men's sleeks budget priced for your summer enfoy ment Solids end patterns in sixes 28 to 44 INSIAM alterations only Men's Wear Street Floor pro-Tho grand jury recommended license la automatic upon a con-batUm taw applicable to jvk-tlon for driving while intoxicat-'nor rases (tint offense of DWI is 1 Giving the Judge of the county I a misdemeanor subsequent often-1 yesierday at 1 tha right to use dls- At resent the county court at aea era tetanies) and trial of un-j Thy are a 12-vesr-olJ dri from reuon as to suspension ot a per- law haa six eight-week terms of aggravated DWI rases (under axis- tha campus of the University of son's driver's license upon convic- oourt A bill to make tha terms con- ting city ordinance or an ordinance Corpus Christi a rirt tlon for driving while intoxicated haa been passed by the to be passed) in Corporation Court! from KlnsoMng Courts and a zirL 3 Making terms of tha county House of Representatives and sent To improve tha present situation1 3 from Alice court at taw continuous to the Senate i County Judge John Young and' There were five polio patients The recommendation waa pro- The grand jury according to In-! County Atty Noah Kennedy Jr: under treatment at Memorial Hoa-encs by Judge Harry Carroll sented to Judgs Harry Carroll dirattona from time to time haa have recommended creation of a pital yesterday Th hospital has of 105th District CYmrt yesterday of 106th District Court by Harold spent considerable time In a study second county court at law making trraled 27 cases of polio this year Johnson pleaded gmllv Suspen- A-Carr grand jury foreman vf the heavy docket of tha countyMermi of the county court at lawto date compared to 50 on the talon of hia driver's license for one The grand jury requested tha court at taw and particularly to continuous making the probation same data last year Nueces' year waa automatic judge to refer the rerommendatlmrs the great number of driving-white-! In applicable to misdemeanor County hns had IS cases this yesr Tho indictment against Johnson Judge Suspends DWI Sentence Erwin 1 Johnson charged with a felony offense of driving while intoxicated wna given a three-year suspended sen- Leek to Use your Credit Plate for foster easier shopping to representatives in the leg- Intnxicatsd cases on the docket cases and passage of a city ordt-j compared to 25 a year ago County Judge Carroll said he A special commutes of the nanca making possible the trial of! cases include 10 from Cbrpus Chris-1 Will have copies of the recoin men-1 Nuerea County Bar Association re-j weak and unaggravated DWI cases tt this year compared to 20 this' Will stated that ha waa convicted of a misdemeanor offense of driving while intoxicated In rreudio Coun-ily on Jan 23 1950 Sorry No Mail Or Phono Order ttona mads and forward them to cently recommended legislation giv-1 in Corporation Court time in 1952 Hi Owd Hoe tore 4 I.