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Page 6 mmmmmm' More Storm Damage in Belmond Lightning Kills 2 Men Working on Grain Bin (Tht Register! low Newt Service) MOUNT AYR, IA. Two Missouri men were killed Friday afternoon when lightning struck a steel grain bin they were on a farm about 10 miles west of here near Benton. They were James Everett Collier, 36, who was married and a father, and Robert A. Davis, OES 19, single, both of Sheridan, Mo. They were MOINES employes of the Four Valleys Fertilizer Co.

at Sheridan. wim 29 Dr rjiiane Mitchell, county medical examiner, said the men were working in a thunderstorm and that there was rain and much lightning. He placed the time of the accident at about 4 p. m. The body of one man was found on top of the grain bin on the Leroy Bucy farm.

The other was on the ground at the bottom of a ladder. The bodies were to be sent to a Grant City, funeral home. "Pes Moinei Register Oct. 15, 1964 ibk' West Lashed By Blizzard, 5 Are Dead CAB Upholds Morals Verdict WASHINGTON, D. C.

(AP)-The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) upheld Friday a Federal Aviaiton Agency order revoking an airline pilot's certificate for lack of good moral character. The FAA had accused the pilot, a married man, of: 1. Maintaining an illicit relationship with a young woman for a number of years. 2. Taking identifiable node photographs of the woman, and disseminating some of them after she broke off the relationship and married another man.

FAA administrator William F. McKee charged that distribution of the photographs resulted in CHEYENNE, WYO. (AP) -A raging early fall blizzard blew out of southeastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado Friday, leaving at least five dead and two men missing. Heavy, wet snow, driven by winds up to 60 miles an hour, blocked all highways out of Cheyenne early Friday and halted most business in the city. Drifts piled up to six feet on termination of the woman's mar city streets.

By Friday night temperatures had begun to rise and most Wyoming highways were open. riage by divorce. Later the woman was said to have tried to commit suicide. The pilot contended the FAA has authority to establish standards of conduct only in relation to safety. He said there was no showing that the character deficiency charged could adversely affect safety in air commerce.

REGISTER PHOTOS BY DAVID PENNEY AND GEORGE CEOLIA Station Operated by Joe McLaughlin on U. S. 69 Two of the deaths blamed on the storm resulted from accidents on slushy roads. Arthur N. Ivarson, 62, of Denver was killed in a head-on collision in western Colorado.

Dr. Leo J. Shepard, 79, of Salt Lake City, was killed in a car-truck collision near Lyman, in southwestern Wyoming. Bert V. Snider, 57, of Denver, vgas found dead in his car Friday morning.

Arapahoe County Iowa Scarre With Grim History of Tornado Deaths By James Risser The tornado that ripped into Belmond Friday afternoon illustrated once again the savage force of one of Iowa's greatest I -i 7.1 natural hazards. Iowa tornadoes over the years, though not as frequent as in some neighboring states, SJoodlandf have killed hundreds and done millions of dollars of property and farms damaged near Promise City in Wayne County. Apr. 23, 1961 One died and 22 were hurt in tornadoes at Mar-shalltown, Garrison, Mount Ayr, Leon, Centerville and Allerton, May 7, 1964 A tornado injured about 20 after slashing damage. The first record of a tornado in what now is Iowa was made by Capt.

William Clark of the B-l I 'II firs I Lewis and Clark expedition, who through an exclusive residential area of Waterloo. May 5, 1965 A twister caused extensive farm damage and in inert 1 noted that tornado damage had occurred in southwestern Iowa in 1803. Killer Storms The worst tornadoes, In terms of lives lost, occurred before the turn of the century. A tornado on June 3, 1860, in the Clinton-Camanche area, still ranks as one of the biggest! Coroner Z. Realph Bullock said the death was apparently due to a heart attack.

"Mrs. Esther B. Kinsley, 97, died after being struck on the head by a heavy tree branch as brushed snow from a poplar ree in her front yard in Owen P. Cavanaugh, 61, of Seattle, died Thursday of an Apparent heart attack as he put chains on his car near Lander, in central Wyoming. That area was blanketed by 17 inches of snow, but bv mid-afternoon jured 11 near Osage in Mitchell County.

Apr. 19, 1966 A series of tornadoes struck the Quad-Cities area, causing a few minor injuries and damage to homes. June 11, 1966 A tornado killers; it claimed 134 victims brushed past Des Moines to the East; it touched down near Al-toona causing minor damage. M.DTSOFTENS More than one hundred died in a Grinnell tornado on June 17, 1882, and on July 6, 1893, 71 were killed near Pomeroy. Accounts of the Grinnell twister said buildings were "crushed into shapeless CANCER CLAIM skies were fair and tempera tures mild.

An airman from Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne was missing after starting out from Cheyenne to a missile site north1 of Kimball, Neb. A hunter was missing in snow in western Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. wrecks" and many bodies muti lated beyond recognition. AUSTIN, TEX. (AP)-A of the U.

S. Surgeon Gen In the Pomeroy tornado, eral's Advisory Committee who chickens were found alive Thursday spoke of a "break though completely stripped of tnrougn in research on ciga Visibility dropped to zero in rette smoking and lung cancer parts of western Kansas and said Friday his remarks were western Nebraska as high winds misinterpreted. pounded the snow in from the Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre, west.

University of Texas vice chan feathers. The week beginning June 17, 1882, the day of the Grinnell storm, may have been the worst period for tornadoes in Iowa history. Three more big tornadoes hit the state in the next week, killing at least 11 and injuring many. Another bad year was 1918, when 11 tornadoes caused 29 deaths The worst were one in cellor for health affairs, told an Many schools were closed in the Goodland, area and several football games were organizational meeting for the Texas Interagency Council on canceled. Numerous power failures were reported and some Smoking and Health Thursday that a Texas scientist has isolated a major cancer-causing element in cigarette smoke.

livestock were forced into Good- the Denison area and another He did not know newsmen that moved from Boone to Grundy Center. Nine died in were present and when his remarks became public Friday he Boone. Another one that year in issued a statement: Eldridee injured a dozen and damaged many buildings. "A number of harmful agents in tobacco have already been In more recent years, deaths from tornadoes have dropped land's main streets by the storm. Schools also were closed in all of southeastern Wyoming, including Cheyenne.

At least 30 schools were closed on the eastern Colorado plains. By mid-afternoon there were i six inches of snow on the ground at Goodland. The town took on the appearance of a disaster area with broken tree limbs and downed utility lines. A phenomena of the storm was )he accompanying lightning and Jhunder. but the number of tornadoes has staved about the same an average of about 15 a year.

There were 54 tornadoes in 1964, probably the most in any identified LeMaistre said. "Among these are known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents). "My comments were intended to imply that we can expect additional identification and isolation of such harmful agents in the research that was undertaken after the Surgeon General's report was made public. "It is anticipated that the road one year. Only one person died, though, in the first tornado that year at YorKiown on Apr.

u. Twenty-eight were Injured there and damage totaled about $2 million. The tornado that hit Belmond to a less hazardous cigarette, if one is to be found, will be the result of a series of advances in came late in lowa tornado season, which extends roughly from late March to early November. Latest at Elkader knowledge, the first of which is not yet specifically identifiable as to time and place." Vixon Assails Uohnson Remark NEW YORK, N. Y.

(AP) -Former Republican Vice-President Richard V. Nixon charged JYiday night that President Johnson h-s jeopardized bipartisan support for his Manila trip -with "a vicious, unwarranted ind partisan assault upon the Jlepublican Party." Nixon said Friday: "Yesterday, in Wilmington, President Johnson said ihat a vote for Republicans irould cause the nation to 'falter In Washington, a spokesman for the Surgeon General told a reporter the Surgeon General's office doesn't know anything about the study to which Dr. One of the latest dates in a year for a serious tornado was on Nov. 16, 1958, when a twister roared through Elkader, damaging several major business places, toppling trees and lifting roofs. No one was seriously LeMaistre referred.

injured. Lost Housewife Other recent damaging tor Dies in Snow nadoes include: SALEM, ORE. (AP) Apr. 5, 19t A tornado in imd fall back and fail' in Viet JIam. "This is a vicious, Un War Searchers found the body of a I I till mi' ZZt y- i -7- 1 'fc i WTH Page County in southwest Iowa wrecked several farm homes.

young housewife Friday in ranto) anH nart kan aceault UDOTI snow-covered mountain area where she and her husband had the Republican Party that has caused some minor injuries and killed livestock. President Johnson tne fcunnort for fhe war that his become lost earlier this week. Dale Quest, 32, had stumbled into the base camp of searchers Thursday afternoon, following May I and II, 195) Tornadoes caused heavy damage in Guthrie County, at Avon Lake south of Des Moines and on the north edge of Des Moines. May 29, 1959 Five were hurt I jwn party has denied him. With iris insensitive attack, President ilohnson has gravely jeopardized Ihe brpartirin backing he should ave when he goes to Manila." an eight-hour hike from the makeshift lean-to where he left Register Reporter Jerry Szumski (dark coat) at Unroofed Store his 26-year-old wife..