The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 1

COLUMBUS Seven years ago Sunday, this small plane was hurled against a hangar wall at the Chehalis. Airport by the worst windstorm in Northwest history. One hangar was destroyed and thousands cf dollars in damage caused fo DAY, 1962 planes at the airport in the Columbus Day storm. Extensive damage was done the entire length of the Pacific Coast by winds that reached 120 miles per hour. Chronicle Staff Photo Sunday Is A Day To Remember Columbus Day Storm By ERIC HOXIT Assistant City Editor The Daily Chronicle Sunday is Columbus Day, the anniversary of the iiscovery of America.

As Lewis County residents reflect on that historical event, many will recall another Columbus Day seven years ago that certainly will live in local history. It was on.the evening of Oct. 12, 1962, that the Northwest's worst windstorm screamed across the state, leaving death and devastation in its wake. Most local residents who endured the storm vividly remember the hurricane-force winds uprooting trees, toppling small buildings and utility lines, smashing store fronts and windows, and tossing airplanes about at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport. Damage in this area ran iato the hundreds of thousands of dollars and took weeks to repair.

Miraculously, no deaths were reported in Lewis County, although 7 were killed ia-the rest of Washington and Oregon counted 26 dead. Staggering Blow The winds, reaching nearly 100 miles per hour, dealt the county a staggering blow. Electric and telephone failures were widespread as the howling gusts ripped down lines. County roads and some Twin City srteets were blocked by fallen trees. Some trees in town uprooted and sent crashing against houses.

Boats and trailers left setting in driveways were flipped over by the wind. Signs on businesses went sailing through tie air. Roofs of buildings were ripped away. Utility workers labored for several days to restore normal power and telephone service. Damage Done The screaming winds struck the area just before 7 p.m.

and began to subside an hour later. But the destruction bad been done. Certainly the 1962 Columbus Day windstorm will rale as one of this area's greatest natural disasters. It was a terrifying experience. But OB this Columbus Day, hopefully, it will be just a memory a memory not easily forgotten.

Of Coal County UGN Total Gains This United year's Lewis County Good Neighbors cam paign passed the half-way mark Friday toward reaching its goal of $45,800. Total contributions (o date are $23,455, or 51 per cent of the 1969 goal. Collections are running about 50 per cent ahead of last year at the same point in the campaign. latest figure was the second UGN report meeting, held at the Lewis-Clark Hotel. At the second report meeting in 1968, a figure of J11.943, representing 26 per cent of the goal, was announced.

division chairmen received "Good Guy" awards Friday for achieving the highest percentage of the 1969 division goals. Two chairmen, Mike Griffeth and Mrs. John Moore, were repeaters from last week. Mrs. Moore and Eldon Wiggs shared honors in Centralia, with both their divisions having reached 76 per cent of the goals.

Wiggs is chairman of the payroll division and Mrs. Moore heads the professional division. disclosed Friday by Warren Jeffries, UGN president, during Dedication Scheduled OAKVILLE Dedication of the new $163,000 addition to the Oakvili" School will be Friday, Oct. 24, Superintendent Jack Wamsley announced Saturday. Wamsley said invitations to the dedication have been mailed to Sen.

Gary Odegaard, D- Onalaska, and Rep. Hugh Kalich, D-Toledo. Officials scheduled to attend include John Erak, deputy superintendent of the Grays Harbor County section of Intermediate School District 113, and Ken Kennedy of Arild and Associates, car roof when he fell bet- Everett, architect for the ad- wee 6 a i a cordlD j'i- in jsntralia A The event will be held at 7 i special gifts division in Chehalis has reached 88 per cent of its goal, highest in Chehalis, qualifying him for another "Good Guy" award. Mrs. Jan Zuber, UGN secretary, later reported the highest per employe donation to date has come from five loca' employes of Northwest Industrial Laundry, Portland.

The five contributed 3 total of $246 to the 1969 drive. workers are collecting funds for li agencies serving Lewis County which benefit from the campaign. It was announced the next UGN report meeting will be next Friday at noon at the St Helens Hotel. Birds Down Mets BALTIMORE (AP) -The Baltimore Orioles, riding Mike Cueliar's fix-hit pitching and Don Butord's extra base hitting, deflated the cinderalla New York Mets 4-1 today in the opening game of the 1969 World Series. i Don Buford's leadoff homer in the first inning and double gave the favored Baltimore Orioles a 4-0 lead over the New York Mets after six innings of today's World Series opener.

Buford, a .291 hitter with II regular season homers playing in his first series, jumped on Tom Scaver's second pilch in the bctlcm of the first and hit a fly that carried 375 i feet over the right field fence. It barely eluded the reach of leaping right fielder Ron Swoboda. Saver, the winningest pitcher in the majors this season at 25, settled down and stopped the )rio'es until two were out in the ourth. Then Elrod Htndricks singled to right field, Dave Johnson walked and Mark Be- anger stroked a run-scoring single to right. Pitcher Mike Cuellar then looped a single to center for another run and Buford ripped a double to right for still another.

Ship Rite Date Eyed After a minor mishap in Puget Sound which scuttled the Oct. 18 commissioning date of USS Cbahalis, early November is now the tentative date for the ceremony, Lt. Paul D. Frazer, USN, commander, announced Saturday. The mishap, which occurred Sept.

8, caused seven of eight blades on one of the vessel's twin propellers to break off when the ship struck a log during a test run. Trial Successful "After repairs were made, the USS Chehalis was. taken; on a trial run Thursday with good results. Further trials by the 2 Soviet Cosmonauts OH On Space Mission MOSCOW (AP)-- The Soviet government newspaper, show- Union sent cosmonauts into space today with the task of welding metals in weightless conditions, apparently a step toward building an operational space platform. Tass said the men, aboard the spacecraft called Soyuz 6, "feel fine" after the launching from the Soviet Union.

was the 13th Soviet manned space shot. Informants in Moscow said more launchings could ollow in the next day or so with he aim of carrying out a dock- ng experiment. Docking Reported There were reports in Moscow oefore the launching that the Soviet Union was preparing a complex space docking experiment involving two or three spaceships and 4 to 12 cosmonauts. The reports stemmed from a weekend article in Izvestia, the Prominent Centralian Norton Seip Claimed Norton C. Seip, 63, a i a i a businessman, was killed Friday- evening when he fell from a carport at his home in Cen; tralia.

Seip, who resided at 914 West Second was working on the og a sketch of an orbital space station. The article was entitled 'At Home in Orbit." Bui a Soviet scientist, Alexei Konstantinov, describing Soyuz 6 in a television broadcast, noted that it differed from the previous versions in that it lacked a docking collar. This appeared to mean Soyuz 6 did not have a docking plan on its flight agenda. In Britain, Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope station that tracks space flights, said Soyuz 6 could be the beginning of a series of flights that will result in an orbiting space platform. "The establishment of such a platform will have great consequences for the future of space research and deep space exploration," he told newsmen.

The launching of Soyuz 6, with Lt. Col. Georgy Shonin, 34, and Valcry Moscow said there was no con- i Engineer Kubasov, 34, at p.m. 7:10 a.m., EOT two stops and that there was informauon i i known advantage to having space Mperimcfltj the two ships linked expect that carried out in earth or-! doubled the number of cosmo- Welding Of this new mission, Tass oil. of the previous manned flights by the Russians have gone beyond earth orbit, so far as is known.

Tass said the cabin of the bulb-tipped Soyuz 6 maintained its pressure, temperature, humidity and artificial atmospheric composition in the early stage of the 'flight. The last manned flight of the Soviet Union was last January when the spacecrafts Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 rendezvoused and cosmonauts Alexei S. Veliseyev and Yevgeny V. Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4. The Soviet Union hailed this as the "world's first experimental space station." But Western space experts in said: "The program envisages, among other things, the testing of methods of welding metals in conditions of deep vacuum and weightlessness." This would be the first attempt in space to assemble metals using such techniques.

Official biographies of the cosmonauts released first by Radio Moscow said Shonin, commander of Soyuz 6, has been in the cosmonaut training program since 1960 and was a backup man for the January space shot. Kubasov, also a backup man for that shot, is a civilian engi- Centrotia-Chehalis, Washington 10 Cents SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1969 24 PAGES 78TH YEAR, NO, date can be Frazer said a set early next ship contractor, Tacoma Boat Building will determine the ship's readiness before the new commissioning confirmed. Lt. date may be week.

The builder's trials are to test the satisfactory operation of all machinery and equipment on the boat. The ship, named for the city of ChehaJis, is a high-speed gunboat and one of the lightest ships in the Navy. Plans for the original commissioning will no doubt be carried over fo the cew date. Caravan Planned Paul McBride, manager of the Chehalis Chamber of Commerce, said original plans called for a car caravan of Chehalis residents to travel to the commissioning ceremony, in Tacoma. A reception was planned after the commissioning and one-hour Old Engine Due Display The Twin Cities continue to a "switching station" for old rain engines destined for immortality.

Last May, two old Shay Jgnines which had been used in Centralia for a number of p.m. at the school with Samsley as master of ceremonies. The will be opened for public inspection following the dedication. The new addition, authorized by a special Oakville bond election last year, contains five new classrooms and a covered play area. Late News Bulletin PHILADELPHIA (AP) The presidents of 79 of the nation's private colleges and universities asserting that time had come to speak up, appealed to President Nixon Saturday far stcpptd-up for American withdrawal from Vietnam.

FOGGY Fog Sunday morning. Sunny oftemoon. Low near 32. High in 60s. Complttt en t.

to Centralia police. An am bulance was called at about 8 p.m. when a neighbor boy discovered Seip lying on a concrete area. An attending physician said death was caused by a fractured skull, police reported. Seip lived in Centralia for 46 years and was a partner in the Seip and Hansen automobile firm for 25 years before entering the insurance business in 1962.

At the time of his death, he was president of the Riverside Golf Club. He also was a past exalted ruler of the Centralia Elks Lodge and a past president NORTOM C. SEIP of the Centralia Kiwanis Toastmasters clubs. and Seip also was a member of the Centralia Planning Commission. Obituary on page 4.

No Antiwar Protest Seen Yet At College The possibility of organized a i a College student participation in the nationwide i a moratorium next Wednesday hart not materialized as of Saturday. Larry Nelson, coordinator of student activities, said Saturday had seen no indication of any participation. "A few students have talked in general abwt it," he said, "but there has been ao organized action." The moratorium is planned throughout the nation as a peaceful protest to the Vietnam vrar. Nelson added, however, that a rally for the moratorium is planned at St. Martin's College in Lacey on Wednesday.

a signs, depicting scenes of Vietnem casualties, have been posted in Central! a College halls, be reported, urging students to attend the event. cruises, carrying 40 people at a time, were fo be provided. Jury Term Postponed The 1969 autumn jury term in Lewis County Superior Court, slated to open Tuesday, will not open until Oct. Margaret a county clerk, reported Friday. The reason for the delay, Mrs.

Donaldson said, was that all cases scheduled for next week have been settled. Ninety cases had been docketed including 37 civil suits. 30 condemnation cases and 223 criminal actions, but some have been settled out-of-court. she said. Scheduled to be heard Oct.

21 is the state of Washington versus Donald L. Pickctt. who is charged with second degree burglary. Closures Planned Columbus Day, which falls on Sunday, will be observed Monday by state, county and city offices, which will be closed that day. This is in accordance with the state practice of observing on Monday any holiday that falls on Sunday.

Both Twin City post offices will remain open, however. Al! city, county and siate offices in Chehalis end Centralia will be closed, and the meeting, of county commission anc be postponed until Tuesday. ANOTHER LOCOMOTIVE BOUND FOR MUSEUM Ratio Change Schools Face Problems a were removed by members of the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association, and transported to the asso i a i museum at Snoqualmie Falls for refur- lishment. Now, another old engine destined for the museum is currently being restored in Chehalis. The engine, an old time 0-0 ype locomotive, was donated to he museum by the Inland empire Paper Company, of Uillwood, museum president Charles Maslow, Seattle, said Friday.

The locomotive, sidelined near he Central Reddi-Mix Company, being refurbished under the i i of association Harold Borovec, Chehalu. When the work is complete, Borovec said, about spring, the engine will be moved to the museum for display and operation. The locomotive, No. 924, was uilt in 1899 by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in Patterson, NJ. It latsr operated on the Northern Pacific Railway before being sold to the paper company in 1948.

Meanwhile, the two Shays transported from Centralia are currently at the museum site OLYMPIA (AP) -Many- school districts will face severe financial problems despite a $3- per-pupil hike in state aid to local districts, State School Superintendent Louis Bruno said Friday. Cause of the money problems, Bruno said, are a change of tax assessment ratios used to raise school funds and enrollment drops. He said the loss reported in undergoing to Raoul repairs, according Martin, Seattle secretary of the organization. He said they will be returnee to lull operational use and will join the museum's collection 15 steam locomotives and 3( other pieces of historic railroad equipment in the rear future. Founded in 1937, the Puge Chehalis City Commission will Railway Historica Association has members.

the districts in the red is about $5.6 million. The increase in aid guaranteed to the districts will cost the state about $3 million. Bruno wrote Gov. Dan Evans that "changing the guarantee does not adequately assist many districts where the assessment ratio drop has caused a significant financial impact." The superintendent's letter accompanied statistical information re- by Evans. YD Cases Increasing At An Alarming Rate Venereal disease is increasing female are a at an alarming rate in Lewis bounty with a 1,100 per cent ncrease in gonorrhea cases noted in the past decade.

Dr. I. Sherwtn Johnston, Lewis County health officer, reported. Dr. Johnston appeared before he Lewis County School Superintendent's Association fhursday in Chehalis to enlist Ae help of the schoolmen to ight the problem.

Venereal disease has always hrived on ignorance of causes, hazards and potential i effects, the health officer; declared in urging the school 1 superintendents to fight back! against this ignorance. Ten years ago there were two i cases of gonorrhea in Lewis County. So far this year there have been 24 cases. The pace picked up since the Vietnam war began. In 1966, there nine cases, in 1967.

10 cases. and last year. 16 cases. Johnston pointed out. American soldiers returning home hive brought i with them what appears to be a very vicious strain of gonorrhea, the health officer said.

I)r. Johnston said the so- called new sexual freedom and use of modern contraceptive i that provide no protection are other chief causes of the sharp rise in VD cases ia Ltwis County. pill and other new contraceptive good birth devices control measure but not a safeguard Bruno said there was "no reason to suggest," as Evans has, that "a reasonable estimate of enrollments in the preliminary budgets was not done this year." The governor has suggested that some districts did not really expect as many pupils as they budgeted for. Statewide enrollment on Oct. 1 totaled 820,500 compared with 827,630 for which districts budgeted and 822,944 for which the state budgeted.

He said the increase in the guarantee does help many districts, such as those in King County and the Tacoma area, which have problems caused by tow enrollments. Bruno said the information requested by Evans on 29 was hand-delivered to the governor's office Friday afternoon. He said Oct. 10 was the date a a i venereal disease, by which it had been promised. However, the only male contraceptive device does serve as a i against gonorrhea," Dr.

Johnston explained. Syphilis is not a problem in Lewis County at this time, the health officer added. Evans has indicated Bruno was late ia producing it. The school official also disclosed that the Washington Education Association had told him it was "exploring the possibility of a suit" against him if he did not raise the guarantee. The Day Of The Deerslayer.

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