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245 OakUnbligribUTit Sat, Oct. 13; 1962, Child Dies 300 Flee to Safety as Rivr STORM WINS, TEARS DOWN In Sea of Near Flooding at Oroville GOAL POSTS Mud Here COBURG, Ore. Coi OROVILLE Occupants of into the Yolo By-pass. Farmers in the byJpass areas were burg and Monroe, two small two trailer courts on the out skirts Of Oroville and the whole town of Tobih, nine miles Continued from Page 1 trol term for major traffic alerted to remove machinery and i equipment. Substantial loss in rice and corn crops north of here, were evacuated part of the Central Valley project, was halted when the Sacramento River reached a peak stage of 14.7 feet, nine feet above normal for this time of year.

Most Marysville streets were awash with local flooo ing and all' but two of the thoroughfares leading oat of Oregon high schools, were playing a football game yes. terday afternoon when hurricane started to rip into the area. One goal post was blown down, but play continued. early today after torrential was expected. congestion warning) advising people to stay out of Oakland rain flooded the areas.

About 128 EVACUATED 320 persons fled to safety. because of the emergency and Butte Countv Sheriff Larry Anxious residents here and Giffick advised 120 residents to use only MacArthur Blvd. The wind grew stronger. in the Yuba city, scene of a to- leaveihe-traaer-court for the city were- blocked. Some bjitiujrjfswui 4evastafogt11()o4-mI9557 higher eround after the river sary.

watched the raging Feather downtown stores were dam- washed out a "cofferdam and In Fremont last night a baD against the wind, it sailed behind them. Tlnd when Monroe, scored, Kiver which reached a crest tree fell on a car at Steven Telephone service in the of 55 feet about 1 a.m., about part of a new fish hatchery yesterday. a Tof the trailers floated away. About son and Fremont in area was interrupted by wash iu feet below flood staee outs and downed trees. However, the river began ris the kick for Ihe extra point had to be moved io the good goal post at the other end of juring First Lt.

Jeanne Williams, 25, and Sgt. Frank ing again this morning. 1 1c 1 i 1 tyJ V- J7 200 residents, scattered from Tobin- to wait for the waters to recede. Mitchell, 37, both of Travis ihe Feather River is ex the field. The weather finally won pected to peak at 64 feet at Air Force Base.

CALL FOR HELP Hundreds of cattle are ma Oroville by tonight. This would When play was stopped after New Arrest in Securities Theft NEW YORK 4UPD Joseph rooned in the Oroville area. produce a peak of 69 feet to three quarters, Monroe led The call for help came Some were washed away into morrow the Yuba City 20-0. from every community throughout the East Bay as it the river. Marysville area, nine feet be- J.

Leonti, a onetime dividend Cables of the Ord Ferry on ow the danger point. reeled from the storm which clerk for the Sutro Brothers struck a furious blow at the DANGER MINIMIZED the Sacramento River, north of Colusa, were torn away downed by wind, fallen trees entire Pacific Coast with securities firm, was held The California Flood Con- by a houseboat which broke seemingly ceaseless torment and other casualties ARTERIES BLOCKED rol Office said there appears loose from its moorings mgn- be no danger of overflow er up the river ing along the state's rivers. Mission one of Hay-ward's main arteries, was ing rain. Many subdivision homes were in dire peril. Flooding was widespread, Trees crashed to add a A crest of 112 feet was ex- Workers fled from a 4,000 foot diversion tunnel on the Feather River project before blocked between Palisades St, pected at Ord Ferry on the and Highland where Sacramento River which $7,500 bail yesterday as the thief who took $130,000 in securities from the company Earlier this year.

Leonti was the 11th person arrested in the case. The theft had gone undiscovered for several months. Federal authorities said Leonti carried the securities out of the office by hiding them on a cofferdam at the upper end crescendo to the lapping wa- eieht inches of water was would produce overflows at gave wav and filled the tun ters which could not be kept flowing over the dividing the Moulton, Colusa and Tis- nel. Damage was estimated out oi nomes, streets, uunu- strip. dale rivers into the Sutter By ingS.

Tn rastrn Vallov T.aitrol pass. Downstream flows in the at more than $250,000. WORK HALTED Traffic found going almost Grove Hospital was' flooded impossible. There was for hn fho Sacramento and Feather riv ers were expected to spil Construction of the $4 Red Bluff diversion dam, Queen by Italian American Federation through the Fremont Wier example-three feet of water confined to non-patient see-on Castro Valley Blvd. Cas- tions tro Valley The Williams St.

Wa'ter came oyer a hm president Mario Delucchi at the federa COLUMBUS DAY Dolores Bianco, representing the Gallio Club and auxiliary of Richmond, is crowned Columbus Day tions celebration in Oakland last night. uncerpass in ban if anaro was tne rear of the hospital caus. so deep water that traffic ing 40 firemen and CivU Dfr DEVASrATON was DacKea up 10 ndywaiu. fense voiunteers to sandbag at i lie ebceuuw ui midnight tnat Kiuea nine jjiana uoo-i Water is rushing through son uiuumcu imcuoivj auU tWo huge gaps in the 300-fooi Charges Traded by Kuchel, Richards tragedy. long Cull Canyon Dam, threat- Mud from the street above, ening its collapse.

A 30-foot Rishell Drive, tirst nit me high wall of water has hnill State of Emergency In Oregon garage of the Dobson home Ud behind the dam and trnuired By the Associated Press ai lui lumoerun neignia out the two holes one of 30 Drive. The living quarters feet in diameter, the other were below the garage. The 0f 45 in the earthen struc- mud pushed the car out of ture In the race for governor Richard M. Nixon said during a telethon in San Diego that Gov. Edmund G.

Brown should apologize to former the garage onto the roof. The The sheriff's office has Continued from Page 1 reached the warm air of the tropical storm. roof collapsed. The car fell evacuated 12 homes alon into the living quarters. Cull Canyon Road and other Mrs.

James Dobson, wife homes in a wide area may be California wine grape grow of an advertising man, was emptied as the threat of co ers appealed to Gov. Edmund carrying her son, James, lapse increases G. Brown for a state of Incumbent Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel and his Democratic challenger Richard Richards are accusing each other of taking both sides of public issues. Richards, the state senator from Los Angeles County, told-a-Los Angeles news-conference yesterday that Kuchel suffers from "political schizophrenia voting one way on an issue and then talking the other way." His Republican rival countered at a news conference in Merced that he doesn't know President Eisenhower, whom a Brown aide called a "carpetbagger." Nixon said industrialist Dan Kimball made the remark in reference to Eisenhower's recent California tour on Nixon's behalf. ttmBeading Diana out of the A few days ago, the lake house when' the full force of behind the dam was practic-the mud and debris crashed ally dry.

Heavy rains have ency saying they might suf fer a $40 million loss because onto the child, built up a force of water of of the storm born rains that caught them before comple tion of the harvest. The mother, Dorothy, suf- killer potential during the fered a broken leg and was storms. The widening gaps taken to Alta Bates Hospital could cause the dam's col-in an hysterical condition, lapse over the fractures, and Neighbors dug out the child if it goes, the strength of the Three Inches of water coursed through the corridors Seven Dead On Rain and tried artificial respiration flood could carry the entire 1 Prt JL a and rooms of Castro Valley's unsuccessfully. au-iooi-mgn sunciure away. -ActiM Batallion Chief Tw4Advanceioticeahat the rence ToeHner estimated dam- storm was going to be a ter- ror was given eastbound mo Laurel Grove Hospital early today.

A civil defense crew was building a wall of sandbags around the hospital to cut off water surging down a age to the Dobson home at Slide Roads torists who spent up to three hours last night getting $35,000 from the battering mud that reached above the is" I I Iks1 'MfM furniture, cracked walls and through the Caldecott Tunnel fdled the swimming pool with going to tontra costa nomes Winds up to 83 miles per mud and debris. Slides, muck and coursing At least seven persons were killed in traffic accidents during the second straight day of torrential rains in Northern hour whipped Seattle last Two nearby homes were water stalled traffic and cars evacuated and firemen warned seemed backed endlessly into night and the World's Fair closed at 9:15 p.m., three 'what my opponent stands for; think it, is fair to say ha has changed his position on public issues on which he has commented." DUPLICITY CHARGE also charged Kuchel with duplicity on a nuclear test ban. Kuchel, he claimed, says in Californis he supports President Kennedy on this issue, but told a Washington news conference that. Kennedy has departed from principle in trying to arrange a test halt. The Democratic nominee said the GOP candidate voted to cut Peace Corps money while voicing support for it.

And Richards said Kuchel voted against the Kennedy bill to set up an urban af- California. hours ahead of schedule. residents in nine others to infinity. evacuate if the rain continued. WORK ALL NIGHT Frank M.

Soares, 76, of 550 rees on the fairgrounds Sunset Concord, a well firemen Tippea OUt tences Ofllclanil 'Strpot Maintpnanro napped like matchsticks and known real estate man, died wind whistling through the ast night when his car and patio walls to allow water Supt. Joseph McCaffery had to flow around the beleagured 60 men working all night with homes. bulldozers to rlear rnadwavs towering Space Needle tripod made a sound like a giant crossed the center line of Franklin Canyon Road west of Martinez. He hit a truck The East Oakland area be- unplug storm drains and re- tuning fork. iween c.

im ai. ana aan duce slides. In Spanaway, near Tacoma, driven bv Robert C. Eriksen, Leandro from 62nd Their efforts did tint nrevent two pet lions, fright 31, of 3102 Ida Drive, Concord, ened by the storm, escaped who was not seriously injured a major catastrophe from hitting Oakland, but they may have kept it from assuming rom their pen and were shot Anderson Viles; 82, of. to death after attacking three Davis Camp, Brentwood, died Ave.

to the San Leandro line was alerted for evacuation. Firemen with fire trucks took families to Frick and Havens-court Junior 'High Schools. WIDESPREAD fairs department while saying even larger proportions. persons. oday eight hours after he James Walker, of 349 Ri- Oregon public utility com walked in front of a car on he supported the administra tion's efforts on the matter.

DOUBLE REVERSE shell Drive, reported a ram Highway 4 just south of Lane missioner Jonel Hill estimated it will take at least four Tree Way in Breritwood. Auto Flooding was so widespread gauge at his home recorded 5.1 inches of rain between days to repaaihility lines. driver Lester G. Wood, 58, of and residents so beset bv Kuchel said later that when Richards ran against him six A fire broke out in Junc problems that the places not 7:30 P-- last ni8ht and 7:30 559 West 10th Pittsburg, wasntheld. inundated, damaged or in dan.

0 He said it has recorded 14.63 tion City, about 100 miles south of Portland, and two square blocks were lev Martin R. Swanson, 46, of ger were the exception not the years ago he opposed nuclear testing and favored 90 per cent parity for farmers. Now, he added, the Los Angeles 15062 Alexandria San rule. inches since the storm began. His home is near the Dobson home where Diana, 5, 1 eled.

Damage was estimated Leandro, a Southern Pacific senator has reversed himself engineer, was killed when his In Gregory Gardens of 'Contra Costa County water was reported five feet deep and at $400,000. In Astoria, at the mouth of died in a mud slide. on both issues. lckup truck hit -a fallen tree Kuchel replied to earlier during a ram. storm near the Columbia River the storm apparently centered Tomorrow- Sunday, Qch 14th Tut anlchamen's Treasures AND THE GLORY OF, ANCIENT mobiles.

Golden taqle Protected! charges by Richards and said QuincV. He was eh route, to a iish he had authored or co-au cannery was fla property he owns in Meadow Water was going into homes WASHINGTON (UPD The on Doris Drive near the Shop- House yesterday completed tened. thored 99 bills which have be Valley, where his wife Ida The peak force of the wind come law in the last 10 years awaited him. Earl H. Swain, 21, a student ping Center in" Gregory Gar- congressional action on a bill dens, Pleasant Hill.

Residents authorizing a penalty of up to were piling up their Jurnitiire. six months in jail and a $500 at Portland was not measured. Power lines were knocked out at the weather bureau before the height of the storm. Wind- at the University of California at Davis, died when his ar The PG had "all avail- fine found guilty skidded on the wet pavement able workmen to repair lines of harming a golden eagle. measuring equipment registered 80 miles an hour before and struck an abutment on Franklin Road, two miles OAKLWO'S IOCAILY" OWNED LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY Suprtmt on Comment) Sid of San Francisco Bay Established February 21, 1874 Member American Newspaper Publishers Association Charter Member Audit Bureau of Circulation -Complete Associated Press Service for Metropolitan Oakland going out of operation.

Ex south of Franklin, Sacramen to County. perienced weather observers Two men in separate pick estimated the gusts at well over 100 m.p.h. up trucks died near Redding Full'United Press International Service when gale force winds tore MtMBtK Of THE ASSOCIATED PRES5 Th Associated Press is entitled loose huge trees and limbs. George Mayhorm, of Eure e'uaively to the use for republication of all the local newi printed in this newspaper as vrell as all AP raws ka, was smashed, by a limb They were measured at 120 m.p.h. at a station on the northern Oregon coast.

Hundreds of Streets were blocked by toppled trees. U.S. 101, a major north-south high-; way, was blocked by downed redwood trees between Eureka and Crescent City, Calif. as he attempted to clear the A THRILLING ILLUSTRATED LECTURE presented by A. GREGORY RATCLIFFE (of Australia) JOIN THE THOUSANDS AT THIS UNFORGETTABLE LECTURE Please note TWO GREAT SESSIONS eistMtcnes.

THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING PUBLISHERS road in front of his truck. AT LONG LAST NOW OPEN INTERNATIONAL DINING ROOM IN OAKLAND'S NEW JET AIRPORT TERMINAL Donald Windmiller, 25, of JOS. R. KNOWLAND, President and Publisher, WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, General Sacramento, was crushed when a huge tree fell across Manager, Assistant Publisher and the cab of his truck.

Editor. HAROLD 8. FORSTERER, Secretary Treasurer. AQVERTISEMENT A man tentatively identified PUBLICATION OFFICE: Tribune Build. as Dwight E.

Myers, about ving corner of Thirteenth and Frank. 30, of Arbuckle, was killed iin streets, none i mpieber 2-60OO Entered at second-class matter Fahm. early today on Highway 99W -ry 21, 1906, at tht Post Office at Oakland, California, under Act of AFTERNOON SESSION 3 P.M. EVENING SESSION 7:30 P.M. south of Woodland.

congress Marcn Vf CARRIER 1 Dally ani Sunday DINNER FROM PJ1. Ont Week .50 HERE ARE ADDRESSES OF NATIONAL AND On Month 2.25 On YT 27.00 Sunday Only On Month .95 STATE LEGISLATORS U.S Swi ThnmM lrirtil Anil II C. Postage Stamps Honor Col. Glenn Alai Stiepard tni tha Russia SpaceiRtn. NEW YORK, October 13 (EN) A new series of postage stamps honoring the American Astronauts and the Russian Spacemen is to be issued by Togo according to tha Togo Mission to the United Nations.

The stamp's are to be distributed by the 'Elmont Stamp Co. Because of the lively Interest in Space and Rocket stamps, Elroont'j New York office has prepared a collection containing the Togo set plus stamps from Russia, Pnf.nrl and Czechoslovakia Dictunno FOR FREE TICKETS RESERVATIONS LA 4-3218 or OL 3-8877 or BR 6-1610 BY MAIL (payable in advance): Daily and Sunday 1 California, Nevada and Oraaon Sen. Clair Engle, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. ap. Jeffery Cohelan, 7th Ohtr1ct Rep.

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