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By MATTY REMIN hun-lelegrugth t4taft Write The little community of Boston, in Elizabeth Township, looked like an artillery barrage hit it. Practically every tree was barren of leaves. Many were splintered as if they had been struck by shells. One of the sad things about this tragedy is that the majority of home owners in Boston, Greenock and Port Vue, WO not carry storm insurance. A good number of homes destroyed in these places represented a life of self-denial and saving.

Those whose homes were financed by Federal Housing Authority were more fortunate, because they carried storm storm shattered huge poplar trees in front of the house, and demolished eight new homes across the street. The Kirkland homew as spared. It was when the plaster started to fall that Mrs. Dorothy Wackerle, of Dravosburg, became alarmed. Then it was too late.

She. her daughter, Nancy Jean, 2, and her father-in-law, James Hornor, were pinned In the wreckage for half an hour. It lifted roofs, ripped off doors, plucked up trees and telephone poles, derailed freight, cars, and jtjggled buildings ball. One witness called it a "while whirlwind." Another spoke of a greasy green cone in the center of which floated trees and other debris. Wherever it touched it left chaos and sorrow; orchards ruined, homes torn to pieces, human hearts and bodies broken.

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0. 0 By BERT WILLIAMS nfty homes ere leveled by the tornado in the hamlet of Char-It tiers, Greene County. Eleven persons were killed and around 100 injured, .1 One woman' body was found I in a tree 100 yards from her de. molished home, Furniture and parts of houses were strewn over an area of sev' mil square Mt leS. Hours after the devastating storm, those who escaped unin- ljured searched through the wreck- I age of their homes for valuables.

One boy carried $353 to a state police sergeant. He had found it in the debris Of a little frame dwelling. DAZE Residents appeared dazed by their experience, as if they had endured a blitz of bombs from the sky. Others were stoical. Mr.

and Mrs. Grant Rankin and their daughter, Dorothy. ate their noon 60 meal yesterday in one room of their almost-wrecked house. It consisted of bread and orange pop. The pop was poured into a few cups retrieved from the debris.

Rankin smiled through it all, He explained: "It, is fortunate that one can smile with all the death and destruction around us. Some one has to keep up the Piptrits of others less fortunate than we are." 4 RED CROSS AIDS 4 State police brought Red Cross workers, doctors and nurses from Greensburg to care for the injured. Most of the victims were taken to Waynesburg Hospital. State police guarded all roads leading to Chartiers and prevented sightseers from entering the devastated zone. I i '1 4 1 MOST HOMES DAMAGED The majority of homes in Boston were damaged.

Greenock also suffered greatly. A frame house atop a 100-foot elevation in Center Avenue, Versailles was caught 1 by the twister and blown across the Youghiogheny River, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks into the community of Boston, a distance of several hundred feet. Yesterday victims returned to what were once their homes. They combed the debris. Women were particularly anxious to recover hard-to-get radios and refrigerators.

ROADS JAMMED Roads in many of the stricken areas were jammed by motorists. Squads of state police and local police kept them on the move. Looking down at the foundationall that is left of his home, Prank J. Kunf. 56, of 801 Edmundson Avenue, Port Vue, said: "All my life I worked hard, saved and scrimped to own my own home.

Now in less than a minute everything is lost." Kunf's crippled daughter, Catherine, 26, was blown 5 feet from the house. She is in McKeesport Hospital. 1 Plane Demolished In Brownsville, people said they saw an airplane ripped to pieces in the storm. An all-night search failed to find it. Doctors urged all who had been hurt in the tornado to report to their physicians or to hospitals for anti-tetanus serum to protect them from lockjaw.

In the town of Castile, Greene County, the storm reached into the Craig home. pulling Paul, his wife and their daughter, Faye, 15, into the street. Paul was slightly hurt. The mother and daughter were killed. Mrs.

Edith McAuliffe and her seven children escaped without a scratch when their home in Dravosburg was blown against the house next door. She said: "I thank God but God help those other poor people Who were buried." Pvt. HaroldWilliams came home to Port Vue to be with his wife, an expectant mother. When he got home, the house was shattered and his wife died while he was taking her to the hospital. OCD on the Job In the control room of Allegheny County's Civilian Defense system, OCD communication officers kept in constant contact with police, hospitals and firemen in the haviest hit areas to see that all needs were supplied.

A 12-room house, Wit In 1870, was demolished when it was blown over by the gale in Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County. It is owned by Agnes May and Elizabeth Robbins. Facing the tragedy calm- EATING IN RUINS-ly, Mrs. Grant Rankin pours orange soda pop for her husband and daughter, Dorothy, Ili Sun-Telegraph rhoto In the kitchen debris of their tornado-wrecked Charter home. The cups and bread were salvaged from the rined cupboard.

Note the twisted doorway and torn wails at Itankin's back. .4 ii I 4 I I i i 1 i 1 1 .1 1 i 1 .1 I i 1 1 1 1: 4 't I I I 1 1 I 14,4 4 i 1i ill it r-, i i 1 ft I .4 1 ri I 1 note. I 4 i ame i ect PARTIAL LIST OF INJURED DURING GALE Credit Eased In Gale Loss TRICKS OF FATE Fifty-one boys were eating In the dining hall of Camn Buffalo, near Washington, Pa. Their leader, YMCA Secretary Wilbur S. Baird.

saw the storm coming and led them to a hillside where all lay flat on the ground. The dining hall and cabins were leveled; the boys were saved. Flag Still Flying A small American flag, tacked to a pole, waved, bravely through the tornado; but the house beside It in Baldwin Township was ripped into kindling. Looking across the Youghlgheny River from the National Tube's Christy Park works, Foster Beatty saw seven houses, one of brick. Then the storm struck.

When It lifted, only the brick house remained. Sixty seven year old H. W. Hoak, of Liberty Borough, saw the tornado carrying roofs and doors. He ran into the house to his wife, Ethel.

When the storm had passed, he pointed to the suit he wore and said: "This is all I have left." 'Gone With Wind' John Ambro's 6-year-old daughter and her grandmother were hurt when the house in Port Vue blew away. Said John: "My life's work is gone with the wind." Said Mrs. Anna Bauer, of Hays: "It was as If a giant with a huge scythe had gone along the hillsides. Trees were cut down as clean as wheat stalks." Ray Hamilton, of Versailles Township, looked up from his dinner and asked his wife: "What's the commotion?" Just then his bedroom flew up Into the air. Trapped in Bath A man in Versailles Township took the longest bath of his life.

He was in the tub when the wall caved in, trapping him there. The suction of the storm lifted two freight ears from a Baltimore and Ohio track in Indiana County, and deposited them neatly on another track. The pastor of the oldest church this side of the Alleghenies, the Rev. J. W.

Clawson, 60, of Middle Church. saved himself by clinging to a tree while thii wind unroofed the church and parsonage. LSC Outrides Storm on Ohio The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland today extended a helping hand to the hundreds whose homes were ruined or damaged by the tornado. President M. J.

Fleming an. nounced that "Regulation has been temporarily suspended insofar as it affects those whose real or personal property was damaged or lost. He said: "Regulation IV is intended as a curb upon the inflationary as- peels of credit. It was not designed to add to the difficulties of persons suffering from disasters of this type." Suspension of the regulation. Fleming said, allows dealers or vendors to extend credit on any terms they choose to replace goods damaged or lost in the tornado.

It does not, he emphasized, affect persons not suffering from tornado damage. He warned that written evidence or a signed statement should be kept to show the basis for exemption. Pate played some strange tricks. Take Clyde Holsing, for instance. He and his wife and two children, Elaine, 11, and Jack, 10, escaped Injury.

Their home was destroyed. They were unharmed because they had gone to visit friends. But his brother, James, was not so fortunate. He. with his wife and two children.

Dorothy, 16, and Mrs. Vera Patterson, 17, remained at home. Their home was destroyed. It was hurled down a 75-foot hill. The entire family was injured.

Yesterday crews from the Bell Telephone Company, West Penn Power Company and the Duquesne Light Company were busy replacing poles and stretching wire knocked down by the storm. A Salvation Army mobile canteen distributed hot coffee and sandwiches to rescue workers and storm victims. This is a partial list of the tornado injured in Allegheny County: AMBRO, MARY Morton Avenue, Port Vue, AMBRO, DOROTHY, 8, 1017 Morton Avenue, Port Vue. AMBRO, MIKE, 68, 1017 Morton Avenue, Port Vue. BARCHIE, ANNA, 41, 711 Archer Avenue, McKeesport.

BAXTER, DOROTHY, 4, Washington Avenue, Dravosburg. BAXTER, DONALD, 8, Washington Avenue, Dravosburg. BAXTER, CLARA, 26, 10 Washington Avenue, Dravosburg, BAXTER, HAROLD, same address. BRADY, ELIZABETH, 34, 727 Reynolds Avenue, McKeesport. BELLAS, HELEN, 26, 914 Lys le Avenue, Port Vue.

BERLOVICK, JOSEPH. BROWN, DUANE, 17, Greenock. BRUNTON, ELIZABETH, Greenock. BACK, ROY, 8, Elizabeth. CAPNER, DAN, 52, 727 Monterey Street, Port Vue.

CORDISCO. LOUIS, 19, Boston. CAPNER, BERTHA, 18, Monterey Street, Port Vue. CAPNER. DANIEL, 13, 727 Monterey Street, Port Vue.

CAPNER, REGINA, 11, Monterey Street. Port Vue. CINDRICK, DOROTHY, 23, 700 Lys le Avenue, Port Vue. CINDRIC, ROY, 544 Long Run Road, McKeesport. CREEK, AMELIA, 27, Greenock.

DAVIS, MRS. MARGARET. 20, 2100 Garbatt Avenue, McKeesport. DAVIS, ARTHUR, 72, husband of Margaret. DANIELSON, MILDRED, 27, 2710 Garbett Avenue, McKeesport.

DERRICK. AIRS. Clay Street, Dravosburg. DERRICK, DOLORES, 13. DOLORES' grandmother.

DOTHARD, ARTIIUR, Versailes Borough, DUFFY, H. 55, Long Run Road, McKeesport. DOUGLAS, MRS. JAMES, Baldwin Road. DOUGLAS, MRS.

AMANDA. 59, 801 Ganges Way. Lincoln Place. DOUGLA JAMES, 64, 801 Ganges Way, Linciiin Place. EMERY, AI ARGARE 'I Clay Street, Dravosburg.

EMERY, ALICE. EMERY, LILLIAN. EMERY, BARBARA JEAN. EMERY, BERTHA. EMERY, ROBERT.

EMERY, GEORGE. EMERY, JUNIOR. EAIERY, SARAH. FERRY, WILLIAM, 57, Versailles Township. FLOCKER, OLIVE, 23, 2436 Weis-sea Street, Liberty Borough.

FLOCKER, JOHN, 2, same address. GALLEY, PAULINE, 9, 2436 Weis-sea Street, Liberty Borough. GASPAROVIC, JOHN 21, 717 Archer Street, McKeesport. GASPAROVIC, MARY, 15, same address. GASPAROVIC, MARGARET, 1, same address.

GRANT. HELEN, 28, Boston. GRDICH, JOSEPLINE, 53, 544 Long iun Road, McKeesport. GRDICH, FRANCES, 10, Long Run Road, McKeesport. CHARLESTON, W.

June 24. commander of an LSC (ship landing craft) Proceeding upsaeam on the Ohio River last night, reported to State War Finance headquarters today that his ship was buffeted by a brief but terrific storm last night. The unusual occurrence coincided with the tornado which wreaked a heavy toll of life and property damage across Central West Virginia, which prompted Lt. J. J.

Braun. the boat's commanding officer, to report the occurrence to War Bond headquarters. The officer said that at 10:15 p. in. "an extraordinary electrical and thunder storm" broke, and 15 minutes later "the clouds literally opened up and the rain fell in such sheets we couldn't see the bow of the vessel." Braun ordered the boat put about with the intention of dropping anchor and ridings out the storm when it ended as suddenly as it came.

Mongel Road, Versailles Borough. MeKUTURA, ALICE. Boston. MePHATTER, DONALD, Ruffs-dale. ORMAN, JEAN.

24, 2710 Glarbett Avenue, McKeesport. PAVOLIC, FRANK. 43, 2933 Wissert Street. Liberty. PAVOLIC, MRS.

ROSE, 38, wife of Frank. PLACENIK, BARBARA, 58, 1000 Morton Avenue, Port Vue. RACER, ANTHONY. 22, R. D.

1, Elizabeth. RACER, ROBERT 25, same. address. SANDRIC, ANNA, 25. 544 Long' Run Road, McKeesport, SEDLOCK, ANDREW.

26, Meal': SEDLOCK, AIRS. ANDREW, 28, Li bert V. SEDLOCK, ANDREW, Infant, Liberty, SPENCER, LILLIAN, 56, Elizabeth, SHIELDS, SAM, 28, R. D. 1, Clairton.

SPIVAK, MARY, 33, 1009 Morton Street, Port Vue. SPIVAK, JEAN, 9, 1009 Morton Awmue, Port Vue, SPIVAK, JEFFERY, 4, 1009 Morton Avenue, Port Vue. SJORGEN, CARL, 37, 1916 Trimble Avenue. Port Vue. SJORGEN, ELSIE, 1916 Trimble Avenue, Port Vue SJORGEN, JULIA ANN, 4, 1918 Trimble Avenue, Port Vue.

SUTTON, WAYNE. 17, 2624 Walnut, Street, McKeesport. TOMPOS. BETTY, 27, 700 Archer Avenue, McKeesport, TOMPOS, AIARIE, 22, 700 Archer Avenue, McKeesport. WACKERLEY, HARRY, 4 Washington Road, Dravosburg.

WACKERLEY'S son, 1VILLIAM. WACKERLEY'S daughter in-law, MRS. DOROTHY WACKERLEY. MRS. WACKERLEY'S daughter, NANCY JANE, WALDBAUM, FRED, Liberty Borough.

WALDBAUM, AIRS. FRED, Liberty Borough. WATT, MRS. Liberty Borough. WEINEL.

MRS. RALPH, Liberty Borough. WEINEL, CAROL, Liberty Borough. WEINE, ALICE, 2502 Fritchie Street, Liberty Borough. WILSON, 'WILLIAM, 33, Bull Run Road, Dravosburg.

YEAGER, AIRS. DOROTHY, 32, Coulter. Educator to Speak Dr. Willis Sutton, a leading educator, will speak on "Education and the People's Peace" in the Hampton Township School auditorium, Allison Park, Sunday, July 2, at 8 p. m.

Tornado Kills 11in Midwest HERE'S DEATH LIST IN TERRIFIC STORM Power Lines' Loss Heavy The storm caused the worst destruction in 10 years to power lines, the Duquesne Light' reported today. Wind knocked down 50 poles In the McKeesport, Port Vue, Glass-port area. Of these, 15 carried 22,000 volts, the other 4,000. A special force of 100 men went to work. This morning, service had been restored to all industries except Hubbard Mine and National Tube's Versailles Works, and to all communities except Glassport by noon today, and all others weathered the storm without stopping service.

The West Penn Power Company reported that for the first time In its experience, steel towers were wrecked. Two of these, carrying 132,000 volt lines, were smashed. Repairs were expected to be completed in 24 hours. There was no interruption of service on West Penn Railways. GRDICII, FRANK, 15, Long Run Road, McKeesport, GIFFORD, ARTHUR, 35, Ridge-view Avenue, Dravosburg.

IIAIDLE, OLIVE, 52, Elizabeth. HAMPE, ALBERT, 73, Versailles. HOLSING, DOROTHY, 16, Greenock. HOLSING, ADA. 41, Greenock.

HOLSING, JAMES, Greenock. HBANICS, ROSE, 30, Boston. HAYES. DANILE, 32, Versailles Township. HEHOLT, FRED 55, Elizabeth.

HRANICS, JOsEPH, 10, Greenock. HRANICS, STEVEN, 3, Boston. GRDICII, JOSEPHINE, Long Run Road. McKeesport. HRANICS, STEVEN, 4, Greenock.

ICKS, LUELLA, 62, Versailles Township. JEFFERS, ADAM, Peterson Plan, Versailles Township, KAYLOR, MRS. Versailles Township. KAPNER, MARY, 14, 727 Monterey Street, McKeesport. KENDERS, MARAGARET, 38, Liberty.

KENDERS, JAMES, 43, Liberty. KENTERS, JAMES, Liberty Borough. KINCAID, G. 38, 605 Shaw Avenue, McKeesport. KLASICK, THOMAS, 39, 718 Manning Avenue, Port Vue.

KLASICK, CATHERINE, 25, same address. KUM'. CATHERINE, 26, Port Vue. KOBUENICKY, MIKE, 1923 Trimble Avenue, Port Vue. KRAUTZMAN, HENRY, 62, Greenock.

RAUT ZMA AMELIA, 54, Greenock, KRAUTLMA LAWRENCE, Greenock. AU TZMA EUGENE, 11, Greenock. KUHARIC, JULIANE, 43, Versailles, KLETICH, JULIA, Versailles. KOVACII, JEAN, 57, Versailles Township. LEPACH, ED, 39, R.

D. 1, Elizabeth. LUCAS. MIKE. 42, Grenock, 12, Versailles Township.

MACKEY, MARY, 49, Versailles Township. MACKEY, NORMA, 17, Versailles Township. MERIZIER, MRS. DOROTHY, 1117 McElhenny Street, Lincoln Place. MAKATURA.

STEVE, 43, Boston, MAGDIC, ANN. 29, 804 Washington Street, Port Vue. MAGDIC, ANNE, 61, same address. MEAHL. VIRGINIA, Greenock.

MANNING, IRVIN, 42, Greenock Heights. MARSDEN, II IRLE 3101 Versailles Avenue, McKeesport. MARSDEN, ALICE, 3101 Versailles Avenue, McKeesport. MARTIN, MARTIIA, RFD Elizabeth. MASER, GERALD.

14, Avondale Plan, Boston. McDONALD SANDRA LOU, 4 months, Crossland Street, Port Vue. McKUTRA, STEVE. 43. Boston.

MESSNER. JOHN, 29, Port Vue. MILLER, RUTH, 7, 903 Center Street, McKeesport. MILLS. MRS.

ZELLA, 903 Center Street Versailles. MOLESSO, MRS. SUSAN, 50, 936 Lvsle Avenue. Port, Vue. MORRIS, GERAL, 10, 110 North Ray.

MORRIS, CORAL 11, same address. MOSHER. VERONICA, 23, 903 Morton Avenue, Port Vue. MOSHER, ALOIS, 26, same address. MOWEICIL GEORGE, 42.

445 Bruised! Internation31 Nrws .0111,0 FREEPORT, June .24. DeputySheriff Kenneth Addams. 34, today raised to II tiki toll of dead taken by a tornado which ripped Its way through La Fayette County, Wisconsin, and Stephenson County in Northern Illinois. The tornado Injured 60 persons and did an estimated $1,000,000 property damage throughout the storm area last Thursday night and early yesterday, State Superintendent of Police Harry Yde with 30 of his men directed a staff of officers in keeping hundreds of curious from the stricken areas while rehabilitation work was proceeding. A Versailles man had withdrawn $1,600 from the bank to pay off his mortgage.

The twister took home and money; but rescue workers found $1,400 nearby. Dog Guards Boy Patrolman Albert Binkney and Fireman Howard Thorpe entered a wrecked house in Dravosburg and found a dog sitting beside a who was critically injured. They carried boy and tlog outside. Hours later, the dog still sat at the rear steps, waiting tor the master who was not there. Seven montiis ago, the Willis Kirkland bought a house on the Boston-Greenock It ad.

Seeing the tornado coming Friday night, Mrs. Kirkland led her husband and daughter, Adora. 9, to th0 basement. The House Blown 150 Feet, Mother, Baby Escape SHINNSTON, W. June 24.

Mrs. Mills stooped over last evening in her home at Oakdale to pick up her baby for its nightly feeding. The state's worst windstorm struck just then and the house was wafted 150 feet across a near by creek. The baby suffered a few bruises, Mrs. Mills likewise.

Storm deaths by counties: PENNSYLVANIA Allegheny 16 Greene 18 Indiana 2 Washington 4 WEST VIRGINIA Harrison 66 Taylor 10 Tucker 3 Barbour 12 Randolph 6 Brooke 1 Marion 3 31ARYLAND Garrett 3 Storm Victims Rushed Serum South's Red Cross To Aid in W. Va. ATLANTA. June Southeast ern regional headquarters of the American Red Cross announced today it was sending assistance to storm-stricken West Virginia sections at the request of national headquarters. GALE PARTS FAMILY; GIRLIKILLED, 4 HURT List of dead In the tornado: Allegheny County WARD, MRS ANNA, 35.

Long-Run Road, Versailles Twp. SERENA. MRS. DOROTHY. 32, Lovedale Hollow Road, Elizabeth Hollow.

DANNEIIAUER, DAVID, 50, 309 Nevada Street, Liberty. DENNING, JAMES, 65, Greenock. DENNING, MRS. EMMA, his wife, Greenock. GASPAROVICIL MRS ANNA.

44, 717 Archer Avenue, McKeesport. BA XTE KENNETH, 9, 10 Washington Avenue, Dravosburg BAXTER, MERLE, 6, his brother. same address. WILLIAMS, MRS. RITA, 18, 1009 Morton Avenue, Port Vue.

TRICKETT, MRS. IIANNAH, 55, Greenock Heights. SJORGEN, ELEANOR, 12, 1916 Trimble Avenue, Port Vue. HAMPE, LYDIA, 50, 908 Center Street. Vergaineq BRLrNTON, DONA.

six months, roar; HUFFMAN. GUST. 45, Elizabeth. HUFFMAN, SUSANNA, 75, Elizabeth. ROUSKA.

BLANCHE, 72. Switzer Road, Boston. Dead in Other Pennsyl vania Counties LUKE. MRS. MEREDITH DIX, 23.

Indiana RFD 3. MRS. LUKE'S 10-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER. BARNISH, MRS. STEVE.

50, Chartiers, Pa. 11-RS. BARN1sH'S dsughter. DECLARE, GEORGE Mather. 13 $2,500 FHA LOANS FOR STORM VICTIMS CHARLESTON, W.

June hurry call came out of West Virginia's tornado zone today for anti-tetanus-gas gangerene serum and Health Commissioner J. E. Offner himself undertook to deliver it. The call came from St. Mary's Hospital at Clarksburg, where dozens of critically injured storm victims needed this particular treatment for tearing wounds.

Miss Katherine E. Cox produced 59 treatments from the state laboratory and Dr. Offner left by automobile to make the delivery. Girl Scouts Hold CamplOpenHouse1 KEENAN, HENSLEY, Independence, Pa. 5100RE, MONTA, Independence, Pa.

SCHUCK, WILLIAM, Taylortown, Pa. SCHUCK. MABEL, Daughter, 15, KNEPPANN, Mather. BERTROM, MRS. ROBERT, Mather.

LIZZIE VUKSON, Dry Tavern. MIKE VUKSON, Dry Tavern. MARY OZLANICK, Greene County. BERGOVISIE FRANK, Mather. VUKSON, PAUL, Mather.

YAR1s11. ALiNA, Dry Tavern, Pa. ROHRER, 12. Castile. CRAIG, MRS.

PAUL. Morgan Township, Greene County. CRAIG, FATE, Mrs. Craig 's daughter. DIAMOND, DOLORES, 9, Dry Tavern.

Pa. DECLARE, MRS. Chartiers. Mrs. Declares baby daughter.

ANDRUSKY, MRS. LIE, Chartiers. Mrs. Andrusky's baby daughter. Hospital with an eye injury.

There, too. was Gunnard, his arm hurt. There also was Marlene. The newspapers told of a 4- year-old girl sleeping in the hospital. her face' swollen, her identity unknown: on her left had a little silver ring with three red stones.

They told, too. of a 10-year-old girl who had lain unidentified for 24 hours in the morgue. As Gunnard prepared to leave the hospital yesterday, he asked about his daughters. He was taken to the morgue. The 10- year-old was his Eleanor.

The 4-year-old with the ring was his Julia. Herbert and Baby Carol, uninjured. had been taken in by friends. The Sjorgens Were sitting where American families are wont to sitin the kitchen of their home at 916 Trimble -AVentle, Port Vue. There was the father, Gunnard, 37, home from work at the Jones Laughlin McKeesport plant.

There was Elsie, the mother, 37. There were the children, Eleanor, 10; Herbert, 13; Marlene, 7: Julia, 4. and 7-months-old Carol. Roy, 16, was at 'work. Mrs.

Sjorgen looked up and itstened. A strange menacing roar filled the atr. She took the baby in her arms. and she and Gunnard and the children went to the back porch. Scarcely had they reached it when the house started to tremble.

to shake, to lurch drunkenly. The next thing Mrs. Sjorgen knew, she was In McKeesport Tornado victims are eligible for an PHA loan up to $2,500 to rehabilitate their homes and restore household effects. The FIIA the borrower five years to rep-i the loan at a low interest rate. Here's what you do: If your hozne is mortgaged.

eon-suit the bank or agency which holds the mortgage. Your bank or financing agency will aid you in preparing your Insurance claim if your house Is covered by fire, flood or Windstorm Insurance. If you have no mortgage and carry insurance on your house or furnishings, notify your insurance agent or company immediately. Even if your home is not an 1FHA home, you may borrow up to $2.500 for repairs and rebuilding. Your bank will arrange for the The cost of this type of loan istarts at $5 for every $IM borrowed and drops as the amount of the loan increases until the rate for a maximum $2,500 loan is $4 per COO.

Beginning its twenty-fifth season with a registration of 500 Girl Scouts and Brownies. Camp Redwing, at Renfrew. will hold its fIrst open house celebration today. A water carnival will feature the days program. The camp is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Allegheny Countys 4 2, 41.

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