The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 1

THE WEATHER i CLOUDY, cool tonijrht, low 41. Sunday partly cloudv and cool, high in 60s. Monday cloudy with showers. Only 10 per cent chance of precipitation Sunday. Wmttr Uwuc 1 Patta flail FINAL EDITION VOLUME 148 NO.

96 CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1967 TEN CENTS BUSES TOSSED ABOUT LIKE TOYS BY STORM Rt. 60 Auto x. Mishap Kills Driver, Wife OAK LAWN, BUS DEI'OT IN PATH OF TOKNADO REVEALS FUTtY WITH WHICH HEAVY EQUIPMENT WAS STREWN AliOUT 47 DEAD, 7,500 HURT Three Vicious Twisters Hit By THE ASSOCIATED. Three death tornadoes that turned heavily populated sections of northern Illinois aud Western Michigan into' a nightmare claimed 47 jives yesterday, and searchers feared more bodies would be found in the rubbla today. More than 1,500 persons were injured in the twisters that left vast wastelands in their wake.

The tornadoes killed 24 persons in Oak Lawn, suburb of Chicago: 20 in Belvidere. a town of 13,000 about Go miles northwest of Chicago: 1. in Chi cago; in atone i'art, another iChicago suburb, and I in Hills jwilli Friday Evening shippers, date County. Mich. The Chicago Weather Burpau said the tornadoes "appear to be the worst since' March 23, 1S20.

And when the' final' report is in, it may be the most dev tornado on record northeastern Kinois." Hardest hit as the tornadoes twisted through scores of Eli naii communities was Oak I awn. Among the victims there were a number of young skaters at roller rink which was dV mo'jsned. hie siinfirmnrkpf. in O. ik iLawn, which had been.

jammed Plot Against LBJ Reported In Bonn BONN, Germany An alleged threat against President Johnson's life was reported today and the U. S. Embassy said it was confident the West German authorities would investigate it. The President is expected Bonn late Sunday or early Mon April 5, day for the funeral of formerj Chancellor Koiirad Adenauer and will stay until Tuesday Wednesday. When Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey visited Berlin WHAT'S IN STORE FOR AIRPORTS? The Kanawha. Valley the only place with airport problems. It's a concern of national proportions. The local and national aspects of airport futures are explored en Sunday's Current Affairs page'. THE' LASER light is "A solution looking for a problem" and the truth about it reads like science, fiction in Sunday's State Magazine.

You're always on the beam when you read the big weekend Mail police arrested a groupi oi young leiusis ana saia were plotting against his life.l They were released after police: isaid thev were onlv olanning to jthrow smoke Domes and custard cakes and did not intend to harm Humphrey. Today, the Cologne 5tadt An reproduced a letter claiming knowledge of a plot to mate Johnson. "We are confident," a U. Embassy spokesman said, "that the German authorities will i vestieatc tills alleged threat." The newspaper printed thej story on an inside page, with the comment of a police omciai: "Just another one of those odd Ibirds who wants to make work us." A spokesman for the West German government said that all measures are Being taken for the President's security. Cologne police said the letter had been handed over to the special group of the Ifederai criminal mvestigaui IServiee.

iwas reduced to rubble. Author jities feared casualties there could raise the death toll. Nine victinis at Belvidere were students. The twister hit students boarded school buses at Belvidere High victims, however, were elementary sduwl students who had been picked up earlier by the bused." Buses were sent sailirlff through' the air like leaves. 6th gtound.and One bus was carried more than a mile from the school.

a womnn rummaged through the wreck age of a'sehooi bus. looking fcr her son. "1 haven't found mv son Ishe said. "All I've found. hk MOST DANGEROUS This is "Tompkins Crossing" on W.

Va. 17 near St. Albans, and the State Road Commission says It is one of the most dangerous intersections In West Virginia. Warning arrows and the reflectors at the. side.

of Uie road, left, have. reduced the accidents 60 per cent, according to the SRC, but not enough, If funds are available, a grade separation will be constructed to carry the highway over or under the railroad. SRC Photo. cornet LITTLE LEFT OF BLOCK OF HOMES IN TORNADO AT BELVIDERE, ILL. Merilt Joseph 1.

Woods of County ordered illimisj National Guardsmen ileri to guard against looting in dc 1 tH Ls strewn uak Lawn. looters. wUl be shot or he said, rcd Dumke. village nresi said Oak Lawn is "in jsia'te of terrible emergency the sheriff's office declared the village a disaster area and ordered outsiders to stay awav. uumke reported quite a few: A lew fainted.

9SOi' Street in the! suburb. "I know Sheriff Woods has issued orders to shoot sght anyone who is caught loot ing. 'l think its a good ruling." jDumke continued, "Anyone who root at a ume like this His. voice trailed off as walked into a temporarv morgue in a Veterans of For: I'igu wars nan. In the hails nice mil rows of bodies were lined up against the west wan.

People stood in clusters, talk ing and consoling each other. They walked by the bodies, lifted sheets and shook their heads. Outside the hall and for block; around it, all was confusion Fri (day night. Red, white and bluej See STORM, Pg. 2, Col.

I CENTER OF EPISCOPAL STORM Morgantown Cleric Fired MORGANTOWN Wl The Rev. Michael Paine, controversial and outspoken Episcopal minister at West Virginia University, was fired Friday night from his job as acting rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church here. A high church official said the action was taken because of "growing dissension in Uie church" brought' bv his "involve ment primarily with minority groups and civil rights." The action also solit the ranks of the church's leadership, with the Trinity senior warden and a member of the vestry tendered resignations when the vote to fire Mr. Paine was taken. Edwin Reynolds, junior warden jof Trinity, said the action did not affect Paine's position as Virginia University campus minister, an appointive position made bv West Virginia Episcopal loiauujj YYjiuuiu from Charleston, Mr.

Paine has 'criticized local officials for loler REV. MICHAEL HA1NE Formerly OF Charleston Tompkins Crossing To Be Eliminated By BOB MELLACE Of The Dally Mail Staff The State Road Commission has plans to eliminate one of1 the most dangerous railroad crossings in the slale this year, if funds are available. It is "Tompkins Crossing" near St. Albans W. Va.

17 intersects the Chesapeake Ohio Railway's main line. ine intersection Has one of the highest accident rales in West Virginia despile partially suc cessful eftorts to bring il down. Under consideration, accord ing to the SRC, is construction of a grade separation that will carry Ihe highway over or under the railroad and, perhaps a partial relocation of W. Va. 17.

The road commission's statistics show that from March, )v63, to March, 1963, the accident rate at the crossing was 2,020 accidents per 100 million vehicle mites travcieu tnrougn It. This compared to a state average of 376 accidents per tool million vchiclo miles. After March, 1065, (he SIIC I in stalled larse warnine arrows, and red reflectors on tlic sides of the highway approaching the crossing from both directions. These resdlted in a drop in (lie accident rate, as of month, to 7S6 aceldcnls per 100i million vehicle miles. This still is above Ihe aver 'age, the SRC said, and that agency, with the U.

S. Bureau of Pub ic Roads, will work for the grade separation. If money is available, the SRC street. sam ma project win uc aavcr Used lor bids later this year, fay prayers before athletic Faine could not be reached lor comment Revnolds also blamed the ister's involvement with the' Students for a Democratic Society fur festering church dissension. "They're a bunch ol honligans," Reynolds said.

Hoy E. Emerson, wlio was Trinity's senior warden, said today hh resignation was in the mail. Another veslrv member. Mrs. Elsie Creswell also was reported to have resigned after: Uil' was taken.

(Mr. Paine was formerly the' curate of St. Malhew's Episcopal Church in the South Hills are; uf Charleston, and was in chargi of St. David's Episcopal Church at Cross Lanes. He left for Morgantown last June.

(He was in the news in Charles ton last October when he charged ating discrimination against Ne Charleston real estate agents groes. He also has criticized (he refused to sell his home on Lou IwVU football and basketball don Heights Road on an open coaches for requiring players InjoccupRney basis. cstnlc profession "closed minded, IF FUNDS AVAILABLE hypocriUcal and double 3,000 Riot In Jakarta JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) More than 3,000 Indonesian youths went on a rampage Jakarta's Chinatown jtoday smashing hundreds of Ishops and attacking scores of Chinese. I More than five smashed and the Chinese inside I beaten. The mob surged toward the Communist Chinese Embassy but was stopped in front of the huge red gale ry a double cordon of armed troops backed up Ibv armored cars.

The rampage was in reprisal for a demonstration Thursday by some 2,000 Chinese protest ing the anu uuncse campaign ihere. The Indonesian mob slammedl Chinatown with such ilhat many Chinese were off guard. The youths smashed1 tno wnv into scores oi snons. dragging the owners into the Cluba and chains were' used against the Chinese. Campbells Creek Pair Victims; 2 Others Die In Preston County By TOiU CUAIMl.MdS Of The Daily Wail Slnrf A Campbells Creek couple, driving along aid S.

GO in a drenching rain before dawn today, died when their car slammed lift a utility pole. The force of the crash near DuPont High School, almost cut the vehicle in half, investigating State Police reported. Mrs. Palricia Jo Crowder, 30, ol 3311 Spring Fork Drive, was dead on arrival al Charleston Memorial Hospital. Her husband, Howard Thornton Crowder.

31. tlied in the same hospital less man uiree hours alter the crasn, iwhich occurred at 4:05 o'clock. Three hours earlier, a Iwo car "ash on U. S. Rl.

50 in Preston County, killed Thomas J. Rittan. Uonald, both of Reedsville. They jdied when their small foreign make car collided with another 'chicle, police said. The deaths raised Ihe slate's highway fatality total to t2B, four below the same time last year.

CROSSED HIGHWAY Col. D. L. tjemmons and Trooper D. W.

DeMurino, who 'estigated the Kanawha Cnun ly mishap, said the driver ap parently applied the brakes of the station wagon after it had crossed from one side of the highway to the other. The vo; hide spun around and slid into the pole. Crowder, who was driving the vehicle, was thrown lo the hieh way. Mrs. Crowder suffered a massive skull traeiure wrien me rnnf of the statiun wagon was crushed.

The crash power service to approximately 1,000 customers in the Maiden' crea tor almost four State police described the car a tola! loss. Mr. and Mrs. Crowder were parents of four small children: David Eugene, Cheryl Lynn, Connie Joe and Sheila Kay Crowder, home. The bodies are at Fidler audi Frame Funeral Arrangements ate being made for joint Crowder was an emolove of Bell Lines.

He also is. survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lud Crowder of Camnbell Creek Drive, brothers John B.

and! IWayue Atlen, hoth of that area, and David, who lives in Indiana; Igrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. jThornton Young of Mill Creek. Mrs. Crowder also is survived by her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. M. Atkins of D'j Pont City sisters, Mrs. Guy L. Brown of Du Pont City and Mrs.

Charles W. Hall, Indianapolis, Ind. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crowder were graduates of DuPont High heiioul.

bfie was a member ot the D'j Pont City Presbyterian Church, a former high school majorette and a Girl Scout leader. Id HOWARD T. CROWDER PATRICIA J. CROWDER Surveyor Digs Lunar Surface No Surprises PASADENA, Calif. W) Sur veyor 3 dus a trench about tliree feet Jong aud at' teast six inches deep in the surface of the moon loaav hut uncovered nothing spectacular.

The trench, the second scooped oul by a two by five uich shovel in less than three hours, turned up a considerable amount of lumpy material much like that on undisturbed surface. Pictures the operation. Jtelevised to controllers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed no surprises and nothing to in dicate the moon's surface might unsdfe for manned landings. Shortly after midnight, the Ijspidery device did its first. digging a foot long trench in jerky motions lasting two seconds each.

The scoop marie a second pass through the trench about an hour laler bul spokesmen said the pictures were not clear enough to show whether the Ircnch had been deepened. At this poinl. the moon was beyond the horizon of the tracking station controlling the spacecraft and the operation was suspended. A television camera, mounted just above the scooo's extenda That Morris Harvey College ble arm, relayed a series of CHARLEY WEST SAYS; leain on die GE College Rnwl photographs of Ihe history mak is proving that 'IV Isn't always operation to its controllers a "hooli tube." 1 See SURVEYOR, Pg. Col.

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