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Want to Help Belmond? Then Stay Away Roadblocks have been set up around Belmond and only persons with valid reasons for entering the tornado-ravaged area are being permitted to enter the town. All traffic on U.S. Highway 7 Gordon Gammack 69 Is being rerouted around the community and sightseers were requested to stay away. In a joint statement Saturday, Junior F. Miller, Iowa adjutant general, and Ted R.

Mikesch, chief of the Iowa Highway Patrol, called for "the co-operation of all Iow-ans on this day following the tragic tornado which severely damaged Belmond" and pointed out that people could be of greatest help by not converging on the area. Miller was to return to Belmond Saturday morning to meet Gov. Harold E. Hughes, who canceled a speaking engagement to inspect the damage. Radio operators in the Belmond area set up a network to handle emergency calls and relay messages from the townspeople to relatives and others outside, and vice versa.

Dr. Samuel Lcinbach, president of the Iowa Medical So ciety, who lives in Belmond and was among the first on the scene, said: "We have been hard hit, but we are a good community and we'll come back. This is a good town." Gordon Gammack is on vacation. Mis column will be resumed next Saturday. Almanac Amusements 11 4 Editorials Page 6 Radio, TV Page 11 Sports 10 Women's Features Page 9 A Step-Up In Gross' Campaign Finds Touchae BesMoMes Jrlbmme THE WEATHER LOCAL Clearing and colder Saturday night, low 34.

Fair and warmer Sunday, high 58. Rain chances near zero through Sunday. (World's Weather: Page 2.) A Tough Rival Price 10 Cents Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, October 15, 196618 Pages One Section By Drake Mabry (Trlbunt Staff Writer) NEW HAMPTON, lican Congressman H. R. Gross is hustling through his Third District in northern Iowa with STORM DEATH COUNT AT SIX this sign plastered on his car: "The Great Society A New Leech on Life." This blunt anti-Democratic slogan, plus a stout defense of his voting record, sums up Gross' stepped up campaign for re-election to a tenth term in Congress Belmoimd.

Mo and the continuation of his proud role of outspoken fiscal watch dog. The cause of this political flurry by Gross is his opponent, Democrat Lawrence A. (Pat) Touchae, the personable and and Chamber of Commerce ex ecutive. Fear Tornado Toll May Rise BELMOND, IA. A state of emergency was declared here Friday night by Mayor Robert Misner and the City Council after a tornado ripped this town of 2,500 persons apart, killing six and Touchae, 54, and Gross, 67, are locked in one of the state's most vigorous and interesting congressional campaigns.

Issues Each is a unique personality and, in addition, the campaign injuring an estimated 150 to 2007 is overflowing with issues farm Thirty-three of the injured income, Viet Nam and federal aid. Gross was the only Republican congressman in Iowa to survive the Democratic landslide in 1964. He came through by 419 votes out of 166,000 cast. Campaigning through here Thursday, he laughingly re ferred to this in military jargon were hospitalized. The main business street had been cleared of wreckage by Saturday morning and end-loaders, clamshell cranes and other equipment was brought in to start digging into flattened buildings.

It was feared that other dead or injured may be found in the ruins. Cold winds and rain whipped through the town as the grim search started. "Stay Away" The emergency declaration gave the Highway Patrol and National Guard units a free hand in telling residents and others what they could do and spawned by the collision of the cold front which created the blizzard in Colorado and Wyoming earlier, with a tropical air mass that had given Iowa summer-like readings in the 80s earlier in the day. State Senator Ray Hagie, who owns a farm a half mile north of Clarion, 14 miles south of here, said he was in a farm field when "I saw this damn black thing and saw my barn go flying through the air." The storm roared on into Belmond, snatching 19 cars of a 23-car freight train off the tracks, damaging a big soybean plant and then shrieking down the main business street. Paul Miller, 35, said he was at the soybean plant and knelt by a bench when the lights went my Hill 419 It is obvious that this time I have work to do back home." He obviously considers Touchae (pronounced Too-shay) his 99 per cent attendance rec ord in Congress to campaign back home.

Said he, it was a hard decision to make." Touchae, stumping through where they could go until some Black Hawk County, his strong sort of order is brought out of est territory and the key to his campaign, says Gross is out of touch with this district He doesn't vote the way they feel." the destruction. "We have had no looting and we will tolerate none," said Highway Patrol Capt. Jack Bcarman of Alta. Beaman said traffic on U.S. Hughes Factor ir iiiiwrl-niftfiiitfnnrrrnt rra-VfNiiftrriifinnifrftTitnir-iJ imtlii1 inwm i jitttn.

m-j r'it'r' -n yafti'-Aa n'n iniitrimittiiiwTttifttnfcrw-r-Tn----' In addition, Touchae is relying heavily on the broad coattails of Democratic Gov. Harold Highway 69 was being detoured around Belmond from Goodell six miles to the north to the Hughes. "The governor is one of the best things I have going junction with Iowa Highway 3 for me," Touchae says. seven miles to the south. Gross is not a flamoyant cam The purpose is to keep out DES MOINES TRIBUNE STAFF PHOTO BY GEORGE CEOLLA After the storm residents of Belmond, many of whom were downtown for a football parade, return to homes.

sightseers paigner. He calls men he meets "sir" and quietly introduces himself by saying, "Gross is The twister struck at 2:55 p. m. at the time of a high out as the storm hit. Water "I was scared half to death," he said.

"The shop was filled with water when the plant's water tower blew down." Gary Walrod, 18, a Belmond High School student, said he had gone with a group of other teenagers to a restaurant after the parade for a snack and a soft drink. "All at oncev the windows went out and we hit the floor," he said. Walrod escaped serious injury. The walls and roof of the We Three Supermarket went with the wind, leaving shelves with row upon row of canned goods standing just as they were. "Man, can it put you out of business fast!" said Wes Boiler, manager of the Supermarket, which also was heavily damaged.

War-Like Captain Beaman said he had my name." Country Parson Touchae works sidewalks with Red: U.S. school homecoming parade. It left four blocks of the town's five-block-long business district a shambles. Numerous town and farm houses in the area also LSSi. mill- 'Piracy' Storm Loss At Ankeny Is $200,000 More Storm Photos (Picture Page) Bars Accord J' A' 1 1 Northwest Iowa Gets 3-In.

Snow Heavy Rain in Other Sections Cold air poured into Iowa Sat Brezhnev Snubs Johnson Plea collapsed before the winds. Medical Help Dr. Samuel Leinbach of Belmond, president of the Iowa Medical Society, estimated from 150 to 200 persons were injured, about 20 of them seriously. He expressed appreciation for the amount of medical help volun Electrical power was back Saturday morning in hundreds of 'Des Moines area homes blacked out Friday afternoon by MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AP) Find Rowboat Empty at Sea Russian Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Satur high winds. H.

R. GROSS LAWRENCE A. TOUCHAE day brushed' aside President HALIFAX, N. S. (AP)-A teered from within a 100-mile never seen destruction compar urday on the heels of Friday's tornadoes and left up to three inches of snow on the ground in the northwest section.

Johnson's call for better East- The storm spread damage along a two-mile-wide path from Clive and the southeast corner of Urbandale through Johnston Canadian destroyer escort has considerable vigor. He has beemWest relations, saying U. S. "pi found the rowboat Puffin about radius of the town. Maj.

Gen, Junior F. Miller, Iowa adjutant general, said 150 in 75 towns in the 16-county ratic raids" on North Viet Nam Other sections reported heavy 600 miles southeast of Newfound district. bar any improvement now. and Ankeny. The kev to this race is Water- "If the United States wants to land, but the two British Only the Prairie City area, rainfall.

Cresco, in northeast! National Guardsmen were aiding in cleanup operations and street patrol duty. where a tornado caused scat loo and Black Hawk County, and develop mutually profitable re- Iowa, had 4.45 inches of rain "The sad truth is that a properly programmed computer probably could make better ethical decisions than people can." journalists who set out in it to row across the Atlantic are mis political experts from both par- lations with the Soviet Union tered damage and destroyed several houses, barns and silos, within a five-hour period. The National Guard moved in sing, the Air-Sea Rescue Center ties here say that if Touchae and we would like tnis in pnnci- able to that in Belmond in 18 years on the Highway Patrol. He said it reminded him of what he saw in Italy as an infantryman in World War II. The storm flattened a corner filling station, the town's 10-year-old post office and supermarket, ripped the roof and part of the front out of the Belmond Hotel, unroofed sever- Slorm Continued on Page Five remained without power at reported Saturday.

four kitchen units to help feed the townspeople. carries the co-Jity by 7,000 votes, pie it is necessary to remove he will overcome Gross' power the main obstacle," Brezhnev dawn Saturday. Iowa Power and Aboard was a log book with a Light Co. officials said service final entry dated Sept. 3 the in the UD-district rural counties sa- Summer-Like The Weather Bureau in Des Temperatures dipped sharply, with early-morning readings ranging from 30 degrees at Spencer to 47 at Davenport a sharp contrast to highs Friday from 85 at Jefferson to 63 at Spencer and Sioux City.

was to have been restored to and "Stop the piratic raids on a day before winds from Hurri Democrats built ud a 5.500-vote socialist (Communist) state, that area by about 8 a. m. cane Faith swept into the row- Moines said the tornado that hit Belmond was one of several the DRV (Democratic Repub The damage, from winds gust- Canada Bishops End Mandatory Meatless Fridays OTTAWA, ONT. (AP) A boat's area. The entry spoke of margin in Elack Hawk and a lic of North Viet Nam), and winds.

The Puffin carried a margin in Cerro Gordo ing 50 to 80 miles an hour, was heaviest in the Ankeny area. life raft, but there was no im Des Moines had an overnight County in 1954, and Gross still stop the aggressive war against the Vietamese peo Damage there was estimated at mediate report from the des won. low of 38 and an official meas ple; respect not in words but troyer escort Chaudiere whether national conference of Roman Catholic bishops has declared $200,000. Extra Crews urement of .01 of an inch of rain in deeds the independence, Republicans concede Touchae is the best opposition Gross has had in years, with considerable the raft was among items still intact aboard the rowboat. after a high Friday of 82.

sovereignty and territorial in an end to mandatory meatless tegrity of the other countries Fridays for Canadian Catholics, David Johnstone, 34, and John Sioux City reported three Henry Harper of Iowa Power said service was restored by 3 a. m. Saturday to all areas but popularity in rural counties as and peoples." Hoare, 29, set out from Norfolk, 'Offers of Rooms Beds and Meals SPcll Dlspjlth to Th Oe Wolnti Trlbuns) MASON CITY, college student who raced to Belmond to aid tornado victims described the scene as "like a bombed-out World War 11 city." "The business district was but said penitential observance of Lent and all Fridays should well as on his home ground of Waterloo. Thus, Gross has set Brezhnev said, however, that inches of snow on the ground; LeMars had 1.5 inches of rain- May 26 to cross the Atlantic Prairie City. Some "switching" be maintained.

in the 15-foot rowboat. The last of lines had to be done to get snow mixture and one inch of reported sighting of them was In a new directive issued by power to that area, he said. Harper said 10 extra line snow cover; Sibley, 2.5 inches out to shore up his normal sup- 'ty to halt the to a or less margining declared that Russia will Black Hawk and to break even no effort to s- an spare no Aug. 11, when they were about of snow and hail, and Garner, half way across. crews and six extra service crews were called in from as 1.36 inches of rain mixed with aprppment.

Tear Gas Halts snow. in cerro iorao. Most observers the conference Friday, the bishops removed the rigid rules on fasting and abstinence, permitting Catholics to decide for themselves what penance they will do on Fridays and during the Lenten season. far away as Council Bluffs, here 8lve Tha TJussinn lpad- Rainfall amounts included: Avoca and Red Oak, also served All-Negro Show by Iowa Power, to repair dam Mason City, 2.29 inches; Davenport, Waterloo, 1.6; Win vnuaa me CuBc er gpog t0 6 omj persons at a Touchae concedes he is the un- friendship meeting with derdog "at the moment. p0Hsh officials.

Visiting Polish JACKSON, MISS. (AP) tered, 1.19; Burlington, 1.05; In separate interviews, we communist Party Leader Carroll, .87 of an inch; Ottum- Seven parsons were hospitalized when tear gas was thrown at a wa, .81, and Cedar Rapids, .58. performance of the all-Negro age in the Des Moines area. The outages were spotty through the damage area, Harper said, making it impossible to estimate the total number of homes without power at any one time. Ankeny city employes were The 200 member marching "On these days, penance should be considered as an important requirement of Christian life," the directive said, addins: "The manner of fulfilling this duty is left to the discretion of the faithful." two candidates disagreed on wiadySiaw Gomulka echoed nearly every issue.

Brezhnev, saying President Touchae charges Gross with Johnson's plea for an improved voting against the farm bill that cijmate in Europe could not be brings $39 million a year into tain seriously until "words are 'Harlem Revue" at the Missis band from Valley High School, nado's severity on their 28-mile drive to Belmond. "Seven miles from the town, we saw sheet metal, pieces from some of the buildings that had been wrapped around fence posts," he said. "As we neared town, we saw 12- and 14-inch telephone poles snapped off." "When we got there, they were stearching the Belmond hotel for possible victims," Murray continued. "It was weird. The roof and sides of the third-floor walls were torn off, but chairs were still in place on the third floor." sippi State Fair Friday night.

West Des Moines, was en route pretty well wiped out," said Paul Murray, 19, of Mason City. "When we got there, tractors were pushing pathways through the rubble." Murray and his companion, Walter Donovan, 21, students at North Iowa Area Community College here, wanted to offer extra space in their apartment to homeless victims of the storm. "But people from all over the stale were offering rooms, beds and meals," Murray said. "They told us they already had places for everyone." Murray said he and Donovan saw evidence of the tor- No one was reported in seri ous condition. Archbishop Philip Francis Po- The gas, either thrown working Saturday to repair the damage and clean up littered streets, most of which were open for traffic.

his district, where 20,700 larm- supported by deeds." ers are in the feed grains pro- mf. Johnson, in his speech to grair and where most industry the national conference of edi-(meat packing and farm imple- torial writers in New York Oct. ments) is tied directly to farm 7, said: "We want the Soviet income. Union and the nations of East- cock of Toronto said that Catholics, in following individual conscience, must beware of going to the Northwest Iowa Band Festival at Estherville but was turned back at Fort Dodge by the Highway Patrol because of weather conditions. The Weather Bureau, in its latest 30-day forecast, predicted below-normal precipitation for Iowa and above normal temperatures through Nov.

15. through the entrance or freed under the edge of the tent, sent the audience and cast to the exits, gasping for air. The fumes drifted along the entire too far in relaxation of penance. About 140 Ankeny men who Someone who never does met for breakfast Saturday to Gross counter that he voted ern Europe to know that we and penance in the Lenten season, midway, causing thousands to Reply Ankeny Continued on Page Five for example, would be sinful," he said. (Copyright, 146) Congress Continued on Page Nine leavehe amusement area.

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