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"The newspaper that makes all North lowans neighbors" GLOBE- GAZETTE Praia full LtaM Wlraa VOL. 104 No. 71 MASON CITY, IOWA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER IS, 14 UOc copy)- ThrM Hai-llon nm HOME EDITION Belmond tornado kills six Wore fnan 50 injured; Evacuafion possible Eye-witness direction of Iowa Highway Pa flattened or heavily damaged her home fell on her as she was The dead were identified as; Mayor i of North Iowa towni By CHARLES W. WALK storm story were asked Saturday by oHictrt in char go at Btlmond to pr para lists of pottiblt housing for tornado victims. No evacuation hat yet boon ordorod, thoy said, but preparations ara being mads in the event it becomes necessary.

It was pointed out that many Belmond residents stayed in homes Friday night which were without heat or power. in the north and west sections of Belmond Red Cross and city officials estimated that "more than 1.000 are homeless." The injured are in hospitals in Belmond, Mason City, Clarion and Hampton. Some are in serious or critical condition. An "inch-by-inch" search of the wrecked town was conducted late Friday by teams under North Iowa News Director BEI.UOND-This dazed community of 2.500 was getting off its knees Saturday. It counted six dead.

.15 hospitalized, at least 20 critically, and 100 or more others treated for lesser injuries as a result of the tremendous blow dealt by a tornado at mid-afternoon Friday. fleeing. John Greclandcr. in his 70 killed in basement of home when foundation collapsed. Downtown Belmond is virtual-Iv gone.

It vanished in the terrible seconds that the tornado, striking at 2:55 p.m.. slashed across the town from southwest to northeast. Half of the homes in this Wright County community were Sam Crabtrce. 80. buried in the basement of his destroyed home Mrs i Chapman.

5. found dead in her home. Mike Kurtz. 66, killed while riding in a truck. Mrs.

Kmma Sorensen. in her 70 s. found in the wreckage of her home. Mrs Ella Pierce, in her 70 s. who died when the chimney of trol members, Iowa National Guard officers and law-enforcement personnel.

Capt. Jack Beaman of Uiej highway patrol said Saturday he didn't believe any more bodies would be found. Nevertheless, another careful search was begun Saturday morning. There was a hush over Belmond at dawn Saturday. Then the town began to come alive.

People emerged from houses that looked inhabitable. I They were quiet. They were EDITORS NOTE Mrs. Moody Quandt, the Globe-Gaiette correspondent at Meservey, was in an optometrist's office in Belmond when the tornado hit the town Friday afternoon. By MRS.

MOODY QUANDT BFLMOND Big pieces of building were flying through the air and everything was a mess. Dr. i A. i Rietz was trying a pair of glasses on me when a man came running in and slammed the door and Dr. Rietz shouted "it's a tornado." I waited a few minutes and started to run out to our busy.

They began to count their blessings. Belmond injured listed Some thought back to the mo- ments that preceded the tor- nado, spawned by a collision of warm and cold fronts. Main Street of Belmond had been filled with people early Friday afternoon, watching the high school's Homecoming Day parade. The crowd was estimat Downtown Belmond after tornado car. Dr.

Kieu told me to wait until it was over but I told him I wanted to I be with my husband and he was waiting outside in the car. When I got out things were flying all over and the street was a mess The front of the Belmond Hotel, right next to the doctor's office, had fallen out and clothing had been sucked out of buildings and was flying around People were running all around, but nobodv seemed to be hurt and no one ed at 1.000 spectators and It was preceding the big game of the season, matching Bel-! mond against Lake Mills. Bel-mond's football team was un- The injured were being rushed to hospitals in Clarion. miles southwest; Hampton. 28 miles southeast, and Mason City, 40 miles northeast.

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SI. Aalmna aar In us MRS. QUANDT seemed t0 panic We wanted to get out of there as soon as we could We had to pull bricks and other litter away from the car before we could move. As we made our way down Main Street, it looked as if every building was damaged Flying bricks had broke one window and a headlight of our car. About a mile northeast of town, the Bud Boelman farm home was completely gone I don't know what happened to them.

They (Mr. and Mrs. Boelman I have a son about 14 years old. Their place is on the big curve on Market Road. All the way out of town for about V-x miles houses and trees were damaged and there was debris everywhere There were a lot of power lines down, but there were men along the way who helped us to get through.

Except for some fallen branches, it was pretty clear going the rest of the way home. It was almost as dark as night and the rain was coming down in torrents. We got into Belmond about 2 .10 and they were having their homecoming parade down Main Street. The parade had broken up only a few minutes before the storm hit if they had still been out when it hit I don't think anyone would have gotten out alive. The storm seemed to come in more from the west than the south.

It was pretty dark when we got to town, but we didn't think there might be a tornado. They're going to be a long time getting things straightened out there the whole town is a mess. defeated in 31 games. Lake Mills was undefeated this season. The parade broke up about 15 minutes before the tornado struck.

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day. This led to strict policing of Eyewitness reports to newsmen The general secretary of the Soviet Communist party said the United States must halt its air raids on North Viet Nam and "stop its aggressive war against the Vietnamese people." In a Kremlin speech, Brezh the area Saturday. The town I was sealed off to all but emergency vehicles, volunteer workers and press representatives. Each had to obtain a pass signed by Beaman, the patrol 'captain. Guardsmen, highway Globe gift of $7,000 fo Belmond nev replied directly to Presi-First outside newsman on the dent Johnson's New York scene in Belmond Friday after- of Oct.

7 urging im-noon was Charles W. Walk, proved East-West relations with North Iowa news director for the emphasis on Europe. Globe-Gazette. Others followed Brezhnev said Johnson him rapidly from newspapers, presented the situation "in such radio and television. a way that relations with the Don Reeder of the Des Moines Soviet Union and other Socialist bureau of the Associated Communist) countries can de-was in a plane minutes after velop despite" the war in Viet the tornado struck.

He took pic- Nam. tures over Belmond and then i Thic ic GOVERNOR ABANDONS TOUR; VISITS BELMOND Gov. Harold E. Hughes, who had been touring the state with a bus caravan of Demo-c a i political candidates, canceled a campaign speech in eastern Iowa Saturday morning to visit Belmond. The Globe-Gazette announced Saturday that it is making $1,000 available to Mayor Robert Mis-ner of Belmond to use "for such immediate hardships that are Photos by Elvvin Muaser Firemen survey extensive damage on Highway 69 on north side of Belmond not covered by other funds.

This was followed immediately by a $100 donation to Belmond from the Globe-Gazette Emnloves Fund. Ray N. Rorick. publisher, said the Globe-Gazette will act as a clearing house for similar flew back to Clarions airport. 7j.

ji c. .1, 1 lin8- the Soviet leader declared. From there he went by auto to Belmond "ave $aid not one D''or Elwin Musser. the many times that if the Unit' zette's chief photographer, and ed wants ,0 develoP mu" renorter Harold Glicken. left relations it must remove Jet losses top 400 mark patrol and peace officers checked passes in nearly everv block.

Mayor Robert MKsner and the City Council declared a state of emergency, giving the highway patrol and guardsmen a free hand. "If people want to help us will continue until the Filipino sary was used by militiamen eluded 10 women soldiers, The business office of the Clone-Gazette will remain open Mason City shortly after Walk. the main impediment," Bre-They were back three hours zhnev said-later with pictures and eyewil-: Tne jg, attacked the ness accounts. Western alliance as outdated All reporters gathered mfor-jafter deciaring that Johnson in mation from those who were cnooh nnlaA SAIGON. South Viet Nam'raids today, including onel i APi U.S.

military hcadquar-ibombing attack inside the em-j ters announced Saturday the battled demilitarized zone and until 6 p.m. Saturday to acknowl Vietnamese spokesman said. The record 175 multiplane missions over North Viet Nam TWISTER (Please turn to Page 2) war's heaviest raids over Northisecond just south of the buffer manpower reaches the sched- and their families, uled 2.000 men in South Vietj A Vietnamese spokesman said Nam. four militiamen and three civil- In another development, it.ians were killed and one militia-: was reported in Saigon that theiman and eight civilians were! nation's war-burdened He said 26 rooms of appeared to have done a turna- the dispensary compound col- Viet Nam and said American iarea. raapwsai "ass nsitu lllc wandering amid the debris of ing world.

plane losses over the north had: In the ground war, briefing Friday included about 450 to 500 individual plane strikes. They included attacks for the second straight day on a surface-to-air missile site 13 miles northwest of Dong Hoi. Pilots reported fires burning when bout from inflation to mild lapsed. edge any such gifts. Contributions to the Belmond relief fund will be announced, as received, in future editions of the Globe-Gazette.

North Iowa Weather outlook Hiphs in the 40's Saturday, with frost in most areas Saturday night. (Weathei Details on Page passed the 400 mark. officers reported only lignt ana U.S. planes flew a record I75scattered action, missions against the north Fri- But the buildup of allied man-day, two more than the previous power continued as 239 Philip-day when a new high was set. Ipine officers and men arrived A U.S.

spokesman said planej today to join the Phil-losses now totaled 403, a figure ippine Civic Action Group al-which included three previously: ready here. They were airlifted the storm. Among them were these reports: In Belmond, Hugh Clark, president of Tomco Genetic-Giant seed corn plant, said 40 people crowded into the office building. "It was one of the hardest decisions of my life, but I told them to go to one of the warehouses." "But unfortunately," Brezhnev said, "in Washington they cannot draw the logical conclusions" from the changes. Johnson's speech "quite clearly reflects the fact that the United States imperialists are still trying to settle problems in the military way of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Brezhnev said.

they left the area. Other fliers reported starting jC3 recession. Businessmen blamed Along the central coast about; the dip on new import rules and 30 miles north of Qui Nhon.j a shipping logjam. South Vietnamese units engag-: Elsewhere, Viet Cong raiders, jing in a combined operation using mines, blew up a Viet-) with American and Korean namese military dispensary 28troops reported killing 21 Viet miles southwest of the and capturing 49 today in city of Quang Ngai. The dispen-two actions.

The captives in- seven tires in a marshalling yard on the North Vietnamese' coast 40 miles southeast of Dong! Hoi. I unannounced losses. (by U.S. planes from the Philip- In another development in theipines to their base near the SAME DATE-1965-586 EYEWITNESS iair war, U.S. B52s staged three Cambodian border.

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