Waco Tribune-Herald from Waco, Texas • 8

Sunday May 25 1 958 ffiaca CHbunt tralA oot 8 A Waco Texet REE! Cites Courage of Survivors 220 VOLT NORMAL WIRING WITH EACH 1V1 HP 2 HP AND 2Vi HP significant signs of Air Conditioner in MAY 26 THRU MAY 31 Model 24 OK' Much Grace of God We're aa PAINT STOCK RESH AIR CONTROL THERMOSTAT PERMANENT ILTER Model 21 VALSPAR House Paints THIS WEEK'S BEST BUY 88 Gallon HP MATHIS 13300 HIGH QUALITY MS CERTIIED ARI RATING Gallon LATEX Model 135 SEESSEam 31 EXTRA EXTRA WATCH SPECIAL SPECIAL Thia Week Gallon Gallon CAMERON Dial PL 3 7306 1217 Columbus CREDIT INC JEWELERS LEADING AIR CONDITIONING BUSINESS Waco Texas 12th and Austin Ave A HOME OWNED INSTITUTION 307 AUSTIN AVE rr it New Book on Waco Tornado BUY NOW ANO SAVE the Wind Can't Con newspapers interests of the for CONTINUED THROUGH SATURDAY DUE TO CONSUMER DEMAND Decorator's 3829 19th St PH PL 4 5465 DIRECTIONAL AIR CONTROL A perfect finish every time No streaks or brush marks Odor less Scruhbahle Dries Io beautiful flat In less than an hour! the emergency It Perhaps no city certainly Blind or disabled persons may be accompanied by a relative in enclosed voting booths in the na tional elections In Turkey Valentine Means Value A Moder ately Priced Line of Quality Paints Long Lasting: One Coat Prof ac tion for Most Sur faces No iner Quality Made Self Cleaning Out side House Paint Stays Yellow or One Week Only or Carrying Charges NORTH WACO TV MATHES AIR CONDITIONER RESH AIR CONTROL THERMOSTAT DIRECTIONAL AIR CONTROL PERMANENT ILTER URNITURE STYLE HARDWOOD CABINET AVAILABLE IN IVE INISHES Will Wire Your Home With Normol 220 Wiring BULOVASfc HAMILTONS A ELGINSfc LONGENES A WITTNAUERS ArMIDOS 13 Outside voluntary and large ly unsolicited contributions to Waco totaled about $800000 Dominant motives behind dona tions in a disaster are religion and a feeling of sympathy II The American Ked Cross having dual functions seems to suffer from a dual personality Tt appears first as the Great Mother giving with a lavish hand during the emergency stage but later when it demands strict proof of need before it will aid in long range rehabilitation it is transformed in the minds of its beneficiaries into the Wicked Witch 15 Radio and other nearly In stantaneous media of communica tion are vital to the reorientation of the social organization in the period immediately following the disaster The newspaper seems RESH AIR CONTROL THERMOSTAT DIRECTIONAL AIR CONTROL PERMANENT ILTER URNITURE STYLE HARDWOOD CABINET AVAILABLE IN IVE INISHES "Rut After Daddy Got Here Was Just Not Like Home Any more "I Never Knew rd Be Scared of Clouds" "I Just Keep ighting It I Never Have Give "I Dream of a "You Have to Kind of Hold Yourself "CRAZY" DON PHILLIPS "Just to "riends More" "By the All Doing BUY YOUR AIR CONDITIONERS ROM A IRM LARGE ENOUGH TO BACK UP THE SALE AND BUY ONLY CERTIIED AIR RATED UNITS 17 The A quer and Worse are tors based an effort to get at the emotional 1 injuries sustained after the "re peat of a second San Angelo storm In June of 1954 Some of the subheadings give an insight into the deep effect the storms had on those interviewed Here are some of those head ings taken from the interviews: I Different I "If I Get Real Nervous I "It Just Takes Time to Get Over" With The Purchase Of A 1 V2 2 or HP Use Your Credit Pay Weekly Cemetery Meet Sei Greenwood Cemetery Associa tion will have its annual meeting for election of officers and trans action of other business at the cemetery at 4 today MATHIS 23500 CERTIIED ARI RATING MATHIS 21000 CERTIIED ARI RATING 17 JEWEL ALL STEEL CASE WATER PROO GENTS' WRIST WATCH WITH EXPANSION STEEL Mg BAND uaOiVJ in the long run rehabilitation of a stricken community Ifi The Waco dally "faithfully served the the community Blow of ear You It Could Have Been titles for three chap on tape interviews in Mmi oco By CHRIS WHITCKAT i Ware Tribune Harald Staff Unfailing optimism of th peo pie i perhapa the most Important finding uncovered by the entire study of tornado disasters in Waco and San Angalo Dr Harry Estill Moore writes toward the end of his new book Tornadoes Over Texas The 334 paga book goes on sale Monday as a Hogg oundation Publication by the University of Texas Press Its price is $5 It is highly readable a fas ctnaling and sometimes startling report on three years of research Into the tornadoes of 1953 and 19M and the rehabilitation which followed devastation Displayed Courage Dr Moore professor of sociol ogy at the University of Texas writes that the people of Waco and San Angelo displayed cour age and perseverance a pride ful ability to "take and a determination to build better lives on the ruins of their old ones an attitude that is reas suring in a time when doubts are often being voiced about the stamina of the nation "Rut even more the author writes "they spoke their faith that they would accomplish the task of creating a better personal family and community life" He writes that Waco had "its shining hour" in rallying to meet the tornado emergency The book has the urgency hot news in its description the Waco tornado on May 1953 what happened then and forward The unbelievably thor ough study of all phases of disas ter and rehabilitation comes off the presses vibrantly exciting and NO SPECIAL GROUP ENTIRE White or beautiful pastels to match Valspar velvet SPECIAL This Week 4 I SALE Get It off My Just Mean So THIS WEEK ONLY WE WIRE YOUR 220 REE Barbecue Slated By Legion Post I James A Edmond Post of the' American Legion will have its an nual fund raising barbecue at post headquarters at Third and i Tennessee Avenue Saturday Tick ets are $2 per person The event is for all veterans and friends I of veterans and their families profits will be used Io carry on i veterans services to make i awards to school students to fi nance a Boys' State trip to Aua tin support junior baseball and community service and to run the legion home Barbecued chicken will be served and a dance will follow mid Waco Native Writes Book On Camus Thomas Hanna 29 native Waco an who is now professor of phi losophy and religion at Hollins College Roanoke Va has a new book published by a Chicago com pany "The Thought and Art of Albert Prof Hanna is son of Mrs Hanna 3204 Lasker Avenue and nephew of Mrs Tucker 3007 Parrott Avenue He is a grad uate nf Waco High School of TCU ort Worth and holds a bachelor of divinity degree from University of Chicago He is now working toward a PhD He and his wife a son and daughter live near Hollins College campus Author was in Paris 1950 1952 as director of a club for refugee students at the University of Paris It was here he met Camus found him a genial person an extraordinary man the most pro phetic moral philosopher living to he says "The Thought and Art of Albert is an analytical study of thought in both literary and philosophical productions Camus said to be one of the most controversial and least un derstood of contemporary think i won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature "He has taken the mask off ef rvoni loie irtvnr onri chMUn II LCUCIIL HU1IV1J' Q44V4 OUVXU world which we can recognize i only with difficulty perhaps be cause what he shows us is so I intimately our own world His significance is no longer just that of a renchman nr even a Euro he is a world says Hanna 4 onlact Lens ioncress Set Here in June ourteen states and Mexico will le represented at the second an nual Southwestern Contact Lens Congress at I he Roosevelt Hotel in Waco June 7 8 and 9 Gov Price Daniel will deliver the wel coming address eatured speaker will he Dr John Collins Neill of Philadelphia He was featured speaker at the International Contact Lens Con gress in Urfarhr Germany last August Contact lens representative from California Illinois Kansas Ohio Oklahoma New Mexico Ari zona Colorado Louisiana Geor gia Alabama Arkansas Ne braska and from Dallas Houston Denison Temple ort Worth and Other cities in Texas have regis tered for the congress according to Dr Herman Gerdes Jr of Waco Drs Irvin Brodsky of Dallas and Bernard Mazow of the Uni versty of Houston are other speak ers Manufacturers of contact lens and other optical products whose firms are located in Detroit Chi cago New York Minneapolis Sunnyvale Calif and Portland Ore will have display booths All proceeds from the congress will be donated to schools en gaged in contact lens research Baylor president White will give the opening prayer Rich ard itzpatrick vice president of American Airlines will be princi pal speaker at the Saturday night banquet Valspar SEMIGLOSS ENAMEL "THEY CUT THE GUTS OUT IT" said Dr Harry Moore when television film crews of Columbia Broadcasting System finished recording his research notes on the Waco tornado That was four years ago when CBS filmed The Search Today Dr Moore's years of research are condensed into one 334 page book called Tornadoes Over Texas Dr Moore mentions the Waco TV incident in his introduction "When the Columbia Broadcasting System became interested in a television presenta tion of the research project" Dr Moore writes "it was found imposible to escape putting major emphasis on what had happened during and im mediately after the tornado with only and almost casual reference to the tact that research was being done on rehabilitation of the cities" (Bob Turner photo) disaster" Dr Holtzman writes magnificent performance tn meet in a preface the emergency "Initial shock reactions defeni a perhaps no city certainly ive behavior and neurotic symp not Waco could have faced such toms of a more chronic nature losses and survived if It had which had their roots in the tor nado are amply documented Striking similarities are apparent between the traumatic neuroses in bomhed cities In the Second World War and the emotional disturbances manifested by some victims ot the tornadoes More Impressive however is the much larger number of victims who doggedly went to work to rebuild what had been destroyed 'Hie determination to recover the fundamental cohesiveness ot fami lies in disaster their unfailing optimism toward the future and the gratitude ot those whose lives were spared though property was lost are strength which if wisely nur tured in a society can ha a powerful defense against disas Dr Holtzman writes Some Observations Here are some of Dr 3 Thera was no single ease of disease that could be attribu ted to the Waco tornado 4 An Inability to foresee what would be required in such un usual and unplanned for circum stances resulted in the social or ganization failing to meet the challenging a book that is hard problem nf using the manpower to put down (available in the crisis and in It is as personally absorbingjnot having provided means for as a diagnosis from a family meeting other problems that doctor and a brilliant piece of work Documented Investigation Dr Wayne Holtzman associate director of The Hogg oundation for Mental Health says Torna does Over Texas is the first thoroughly documented investiga tion of the social disorganization and recovery of major cities fol lowing disaster of catastrophic proportions "This exhaustive study is rich In Its implications for the develop ment ot a theory of social or ganization and disruption through THIS OER GOOD OR ONLY ONE problems that arose later The press of the morbidly curious was one of the greatest handicaps to persons working in devastated areas in both Waco to play its most important role and San Angelo 6 Waco by "Old economic conservatism was not ready for a cooperative integrated and harmonious plan to replace the dilapidated and un sightly structures on City Hall Square after the tornado 7 Warn for a short time Im mediately after the tornado had its shining hour in whlrh all fac tions and all persons rose to not been for the generous out pouring of aid from throughout the nation Attempts to enforce rigid modern building code while many of the damaged buildings in Waco were being repaired not wholly 10 The two Waco utilities and the telephone and telegraph cor porations maintained according to advance planning their social or ganization more effectively than did the municipal government or other agencies of the city 11 Emotional consequences were clearly evident more than a year after the tornadoes amilies found it much easier to solve lheir economic problems than their emotional ones 1J Negro families less able to meet adversity ot the tornado damage were hit much harder fknn i ArA itkiia Mmiline in iliA JUfLC Llu 9UIIH Ul i 'li nr I line laillim ill llic observations picked at random same disaster "It was the al from a book that sheds new light ready fundamentally insecure" on understanding human behav writes Dr Moore "whose small ior: measure of security was most 1 Victims of the tornadoes did nearly destroyed" URNITURE STYLE HARDWOOD CABINET AVAILABLE IN IVE INISHES 1 07 sB ENTIRE WAI Un STOCK vLi VELVET LAT WALL Paint rnnf nvr iwl gnr lnwe on umeolhl never gtreaki Completely washable ml not panic as had been expected nor did many recover their emo tional equilibrium with the short time medical 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