Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • 7

His home gone, physician aids injured $60,000 loss is least of worries By HAROLD GLICKEN HKI.MOND Dr. Allan Nelson walked down 3rd Ave. NK Friday evening, a battered medical bag in his hand, seeking the scores of injured tornado victims. A helpless watch Their homes blown apart RKLMOND () Have you ever seen your home and hearth blown to smithereens right before your eyes? Folks here did. Have you ever emerged from an underground shelter and found nothing but kindling where once stood a farm house, a barn and outbuildings'- His $60,000 home had been destroyed just hours ago by the tornado that whipped through Belmond Friday afternoon.

Rut his home only the frame and fireplace still visible was the last thing on his mind. Amid fallen trees and power lines, Nelson plodded through the de bris. All his personal possessions had been destroyed. "Luckily, no one was injured," he said. of the Homer last of from what remained Hotel Belmond, Mrs.

Hrinton watched the Farmers here did. Or, hava you avtr watched Nrlinn't nuinhhor Hinrv Stokkie, echoed Nelson's relief. Is even persons file unharmed His home, at a right-angle to frnm the notel- big twister at Belmond unusually late NrKon in the northeast eor- elderly man, carrying a ner nf the citv, was surrounded pasteboard suitcase and a hand- helplessly as the store you called your own literally blew up and fell into the street? People here did. I This is tornado country, and fearsome winds that hop bv fallen trees and debris. butjful nf announced.

"That inim lit; we're all out." He walked DKS MOINES 1 API Fri- ,1 11 ni 'i Dnlmnn4 una I'll I un .1 iwinnu" 01 itiiimhiu wwnn and skip and churn and kill and i. unusua late in the year, ac- then vanish in the bowels of the coal-hlack clouds from whence cording t0 S' vvpather Bureau coal black clouds trom wnence thpre have they came visited this farmingl, ones area rndav afternoon. 1 "We were lucky" Stokkie huickly away from tne battered said to his wife and two sons buildin8' It must have just nipped unknown-and then come down on his Mrt. Brlnton said thty wtnt (Nelson's) house." l0 the basement of the hotel Stokkie motioned to his neigh- whfn slorm her bor house, then repeated. I ladSI 5 LW1MCI SCddUll III Most of Iowa's tornadoes.

began April and ended in other Midwest states. A total of tornadoes (form on sultry afternoons under caimed the lives o( persons ominous skies. This one was no ast vear -rne owa tornado season usu- Mrs. A. P.

Thompson was at- ally begins in latter March or South of the Nelson and Stok- Two hours after the tornado kie homes. Frank Eckhardt whipped through Belmond, vol-wandered aimlessly outside the unteer crews were boarding downtown windows with ply tending a church gathering at; April, reaches a peak in May the Bill Johnson home when she and June and tapers off in looked out a picture window. August or September. wood. The whir of chain saws cutting trees to clear the street, filled the air.

Sirens and flashing red lights the sounds and sights of a disaster filled the air now and again. Search for belongings But the season has ended as late as Nov. 27. That was in I960 when a twister cut a five-mile swath through the Clarinda homes escaped serious damage pitched in to help their less fortunate neighbors. Friends and neighbors pick through the Alex Zeigcr homo, 7th St.

NK. trving to salvage clothing and personal property on for the Zeigers. This was only one instance where families whose "I taw the most unusual clouds, traveling so fast," she said "They were very dark underneath and over them were more clouds moving fast and looking like smoke from a fire. Then it hit. We ran down to the area.

A doctor and two nurses aides walked from house to house in northeast Belmond, seeking injured victims. The doctor car Isewh basement and as we glanced out Storms, snow SBA schedules an inspection NELSON STOKKIE ere the window, we saw the garage ried a cardboard shoe box filled with large bottles and bandages. He jumped on the running board of a passinE Dickuo go garage of his son-in-law, R. Thompson's home. the.

western Great Lakes to eastern! in the eastern section of town of hollow lruc't and began answering BELMOND (API Conrad Lawler, regional director of the Small Business Administration in Iowa, was scheduled to in- cnaol orn irr rtomiriA 4kia The Johnson home weathered the violent winds. The Thompson's home did not. And neither did their clothing The aaraae wa bt thk associated pEss 'blamed for six deaths. Two men degrees were reported in The first major snowstorm were missing in Wyoming. Central Plains.

The snow questions most iv trac- Texas. Rainfalls measured up to 2.200, sixty miles west of i I. 1 1 .1 ,1 -in 'i ap- tures and lacerations ahfHlt nf tho cA9cnn nnrl nthar fnrmt two inches in many areas. Springfield, were destroyed or iin. fitivj 'mim I I'M iii.i in 1-.

i t-1 rtt i ha Onion to tne iioukc. rAwmiui that I've seen Lt vinlpnt uM.h,r ri4 Tornadoes and high w.nds 1 uC damaged by the twister whichlstore New two years ago, it aa Sallir-au A woman ih. irnh onirt.i nort ih notmn iniured about 40 Dersons in Mis- storm headed into the Ipper in. snow srorms in Histript 'now no more. ii "nun uin ii uv i.viuiak uaiv si ikiikni -a- said, and then I looked up ana it was dark and I lay down on the floor.

But when I saw what Lawler will report his findings Owner Of the A i. tnp en in Washinotnn whirh a stop and tearfully asked as-iand Western states left a heavy souri and Illinois. Strong, dam- Mississippi Valley and into tne and Colorado, with amounts up Police said between 800 and Frank Black into for her missing daugh-i toll of dead and injured Satur-aging winds, heavy rain and northern ureal Lakes region. to 18 inches, and in persons were attending a drive-in, fared no better. Ltj determine if residents and 1 'i nrt run It vm, i u( day and extensive property nan hammered wiae areas in freezing weatner or iru.si ds and Kansas, blocked highways, me community mgn ArH Ihitn it hit The business in which he had businessmen are Eligible for the Plains and from the from the central and dosed schools and stranded mo-'school auditorium, which was j.

i The skies over Rotmnnri or.w' damage knarat was na.ea, ui iuj Tovdc unH flU. cnnthorn Hn'Wips In thp adia- mi! nf the nalh nf thp Inrnarln invested $45,000 was flattened some federal assistance in re-and his car was blown away, ibuilding. uniK .1.1 i nen tne rain came1 uuwiu mm m.ivu nv tuiiis. muus nppicu i icent Western Plains. uower lines and trees and there1 cooler weather ap- parently uninjured as he surveyed the wrecked garage.

down. Hard. and Wyoming lahoma. into areas ofl Near blizzard rum-Was much -drift ine nf snnw. peared likely for much of the conditions and I Severe thunderstorms eas in Colorado before sweeping Nebraska and a i a Kansas was drops in temperature up to across sections from the Cheyenne.

Wyoming's Idl" ieit Qii I snow near northern Border Meatless J. D. Saunders and his wife: stood outside their Main Street grocery store, the windows al ready boarded with plywood. "It sounded like jets by the millions," he said. He looked highways closed by huge drifts.

Istates- Thundershowers were in which measured up to six feetiprosPect from the eastern Great i.dite IL-Kii'ii innJUKii uic iinu Other tornadoes belt Iowa points DES MOINES (AP) A num- fourth of its roof. Water poured deep in the downtown district. Soviet space shot set Ship may carry several men In Missouri, tornadoes dam and south Atlantic states, with sunny and warm weather from Fridays called off OTTAWA (AP)-A national New Jersey to Maine. Clear aged 14 homes and buildings south of the Ozarks resort town skies and seasonal temper of Camdenton. Other twisters or atures were reported in the Far ber of other tornadoes roamed through the opening and caused high winds in the state struck West.

MOSCOW (APl-Communistcuss the China problem, mm i trrtrx 'ml thelmanned launching from Baikon-ur last June. France and the Iowa Friday, in addition to thejextensive damage to the store's conference of Roman Catholic! LI.L a the St. Charles area, injuring about 25 persons, four seriously. twister that ripped into Bel-! grocery, housewares and house- sources in Moscow said satur- a 'Soviet Union are cooperating on oisnnps nas declared an end toj Accordinc to the sources. mandatory meatless Fridays for launch a iarge satellite Sovet bloc discussion of devel-jspace research.

Canadian Catholics, but saidiarrvina spvpral mpn next opments in China could lead to I)e Oaulle was the first for Tear gas injures 7 and damaged property near Brumley. California and El-dridge. Snow measured up to six inches in Northwestern Kansas and winds up to 50 m.p.h. caused drifting, blocking high statement condemn-jeign leader known to have seen joint week. inn Vi i nnco rr I i Most of the Baikonur.

His visit apparently mond. holds appliance departments. One of the hardest hit areas! pierce winds felled trees and outside of Belmond was Ankeny, power lines in Urbandale, Clive, north of Des Moines, where Johnston, Ankeny and Saylor-damage was estimated at ville 000 after, city officials said, "aj big black cloud moved in UtageS W6re just seemed to explode." Winds that gusted up to 80 A tornado caused scattered miles Der hour damaged scores1 damage in the Colfax Prairie Thp cmirr-fx: rnnnrlpH without rinun rnicArl ni iot-l nine imnnn fnitriFnl penitential observance of Int and all Fridays should be maintained. In a directive issued bv the JACKSON. Miss.

(AP)-Scven 2 5 'S denounced the Chinese stand, 'supporters of the Kremlin about ECKHARDT GRUMMITT persons were hospitalized fri 7BS This apparently would be a why they could not do so too. ur. the secret Soviet space cen-' substitute for any effort to gath- day night after tear gas was "I just haven't! conference Friday, the bishops damage" removed the rigid rules on stock lay scat-jfastine and abstinence. Dermit- ways. Trailer courts in the northern and southern edges of St.

Charles were hardest hit. The storm uprooted trees, blew roofs at the store: estimated the Much of the thrown at a performance of the off some houses, disrupted pow of homes in Ankeny, and blewj.y Jasper County the roof off the gymnasium afternoon- East Elementary School. Several houses, barns and The city of Des Moines wefe destroyed, its suburbs also felt the wrath The Weather Bureau also re- all-Negro "Harlem Revue" at the Mississippi State Fair. None was reported in serious condition. The choking gas, either er service and damaged cars Des Moines news editor dead at 65 ter in central Asia.

er 311 wona communist panics to criticize China. A number of Th launch will be watched by important parties have resisted! Communist leaders of several a move. East European countries who The Soviet Union launched' are coming to Moscow to dis-i Friday no. 129 in its series of cosmos space satellites that are (described as being for scientific) Sneatfer Pen Co. research.

The sources said this tered in the stores aisles. The ting Catholics to decide for couple looked down the remain-themselves what penance they der of Main Street, where rub- will do on Fridays and during ble and mangled autos were the Lenten season, strewn, then turned back to! -On these days, penance their own. should be considered as an im- portant requirement of Chris- A tornado pounded Mount Sterling. 111., injuring between 15 thrown through the entrance a short, violent thunderstorm ported tornadoes or aDDarent and 20 persons, with two hospi-jfreed under the edge of the tent, and tornadic winds. (tornadoes near Wellsburg, south talized and causing widespread! sent the audience and cast gasp- ITll win 1" itian life, the directive said acainst a car across from the DES MOINES (AP) Edward L.

Vaile, 65, commercial gets U.S. award apparently was a rehearsal for a manned space shot. Officials said damage would and southwest of Lenox, north-total several hundred thousandleast of Colfax, northeast of dollars. jMitchellville, between Monroe Ardans, a department store in and Prairie City and northeast north Des Moines, lost one- of Arlington. Hotel Belmond.

She had been property damage. Several build-ing to the exits. The fumes drivings and the grandstand at theed along the entire midway and Brown County FairgroundsScaused thousands to leave the were flattened. Several homes! amusement area. "The manner of fulfilling this duty is left to the discretion of the faithful." news editor of the Des Moines in the basement of the Vet's Club when the tornado struck.

FORT MADISON (AP) The i It has been 19 months since heaffer Pen Co. held a special "v'u Register since the early 1940s. Archbishop Philip Francis the last Soviet men went "All at once a wind came up 1 i a i I iiArnmnttn rnfjau ia Mmiiia IHa hing would at Melhist Hospital VirJ i ff-J ri- inn- i hone itt and I saw the house next to the toronio saia mat space. A new launc Vet's Club eo down and I tried iC athollcs- following individ-1 presidential award granted come just before the 7 I "'K CI i it el i Ul I the Bnlshpvik1 ne naa Decn nospuanzea since to eel out of the basement as ual conscience, must beware of for its contribution to the growth anniversary of of U.S. foreign trade.

revolution. mid-septemner wnen ne sutterea quickly as I could." 100 far in relaxation of "If I'd been home I probably penance. The citation was presented by letting European lead-d" lled11- "-Lawrence C. McQuade. assist-jcrs see a launch appeared to A native of Kewanee, and wouldn't be here." she said, motioning to the northeast corner of Belmond.

"Someone who never does penance in the Lenten season, for example, would be sinful," ant U.S. secretary of observers here to be a result of a graduate ot Beloit College, and was accepted by company; having shown President CharlesjVaile worked for the Moline. president John A. Keenan. de Gaulle of France an un-j'i ipaicn ana me ivioum Standing across the street said.

i lemens. before joining the Register's staff as a citv hall reporter. Survivors include his widow, Jane; a son, Charles, who is sta tioned with the Iowa Highway: Patrol at Shenandoah; and a daughter, Christie. Funeral services will be held Monday at Central Presbyterian Church. Crash kills 2 teen-agers CRESTON (AP) Two teenagers were killed and two others injured Friday night in the collision of their car and a Burlington Railroad train at a Highway 25 grade crossing five miles southwest of here.

Killed were Donald England. Man IBlt HMHpl SftHft jjMjn nil" I ant MMMi 16, of Clearfield and Ralph Jones, 15, of Conway. Injured were Richard Cordell, lfi. and Michael Gaul, 15, both of Clearfield. They were taken to a Creston hospital.

Authorities said young England was driving the car. Twister flips train AP Photofax law of a Chicago Great Western freight train lie sprawled along the tracks after being upset Unharmed, but curious, this girl looks over damage on 3rd Ave. NE. Friday in a tornado which hit Belmond..