The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 7

Cross-Country Trains Moving Out Of Drift Relief Efforts In Full Swing KANSAS CITY, March 26, Cross-country trains! stalled for the past three! days by the Great Plains blizzard began moving to-i day and railroad spokesmen said near normal service might be restored by late tonight. Two major rescue of snowbound trains at Meade and Winona, in full swing. Passengers on both trains were evacuated safely Monday. The Rock Island sent a special train to Meade this morning to pick up the 226 passengers of its Golden State Limited, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago. Four Cars Moved The Union Pacific reported snowplows from Denver were working toward its City of St.

Louis to Los Four of its! TOP NEWS "Right to amendment a ks through House, Page 8. Appropriation bills totaling nearly $84 million introduced in Kansas Senate, Page 9. Twining to chairman of staff, Page 8. become chiefs of FIVE CENTS it THE HOME EDITION SALINA JOURNAL 86th YEAR No. 85 SALINA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957 12 Pages Docking will call special session of legislature if budget not balanced, Page 8.

Dave Beck challenges jurisdiction of probe committee, invokes fifth amendment, Page 2. Cross country trains moving out of snow drifts; blizzard death toll mounts, Page 1. CAL Plane In forced Landing At City Airport The last passengers from a Continental Airlines plane which made a forced landing hero Monday night were flown to Colorado I Springs from Salina at 7 am Tuesday. Generator trouble forced the pilot of the twin engine Convair to feather the propellor of one engine during the regular run from Kansas City to Colorado Springs. The plane made a normal landing at the municipal airport with 44 passengers and three crew members aboard.

Twenty of the 44 passengers were flown out r. another plane at 12:45 am Tuesday, the other "It was a long, cold night. J24 staying in Salina until repairs Everyone was very calm. We sat were completed on the engine. More Storm News On Page and tablecloths to keep warm.

13 cars were moved into Oakleyj as cl( se and as many as possible! The plane left Salina at 7. early this morning. The train's 213 IP a car for warmth. In the dining Tuesday. am passengers were brought to Wino- LINES DOWN AT a still rages across the plains, a construction crew replaces a downed telephone pole near Ellsworth.

An auger on the boom at the rear of the truck is boring a hole for the new pole. (AP Photo) Many Area en nr i Still Isolated UB The highway reported today tha Communications were biggest problem Tues- a11 roads are en as far we st as West To US283 TOPEKA commission US-283. The highway approximates i line from Norton through Hil For many cities, there was still no contact with City, WaKeeney, Ness City, Jet day as North-Central and Northwest Kansas dug out of its worst blizzard in 30 years. the outside world. 'There was no telephone service west of a line extending from Ellsworth to Lincoln and Beloit and the Nebraska line.

Some traffic was getting through on K1S, US40 and US- i 24 to as far as Hays, Plainville and Osborne. Roads in Lincoln, Ellsworth, MiteheH and OsBorne counties were reported open Tuesday morning. Some power failures, especially in rural areas were reported. Several REA lines were reported down near Beverly. Some roads were still closed in Russell County.

US24 was reported open west to Goodland. serious accident, with severa persons injured, was reported at Natoma. No further details were immediately available, however as communications were knocked out. Emery Klein, a Journal route delivery man, succeeded Monday afternoon and evening in carrying his route to Ellsworth, Lincoln, Plainville, Hays and return. He reported masses of snow and damage along the entire route.

"They've been- hit hard out there," he said. "There were lines all over the roads both telephone and power." He traveled US40 to Ellsworth, K14 to Lincoln, K18 to Plainville, US183 to Hays, and returned on US40. He said there was no telephone or electric service at Luray. Oil wells south of Plainville, he added, were not working because a power failure. Snow in the Plainville and Hays areas, he said, appeared be about 15 inches deep, with drifts in some places "higher than car." "I saw a lot of can wilb just tops (ticking out of (he snow," he said.

Klein said he experienced one. way traffic at several spots along the route. He was three hours late in returning to Salina. He couldn't buy gasoline at Plainville, Victoria or Russell, as pumps are operated by electric power. There was power at Wil son, however.

"It would have been a good day for "Jack rabbits were gathered in droves all along the roads. You could have stood in and shot 50 of them." Al Getting, Lincoln County sheriff, said his office has contact with sheriff's offices at Russell, Stockton, and Osborne, but none farther west. Handling' Emergency Messages Getting said his office has been handling energency messages "around Clock" since the storm struck. "We had hundred: of messages being relayed through the office Sunday, and worked from 8:30 am to 1:30 am.the next morning without a stop." Six Army helicopters from Ft. Riley worked throughout Monday and Tuesday on rescue operations in northwest Kansas.

They shuttled food, water andj fuel to the strandei'. City of Louis, crack Union Pacific senger train stalled in 18 drifts near Wino a. more, Dodge City and Ashland where snow has been cleared. There will be one-way traffic on a 20-25 mile stretch east of the area, but otherwise all roads are open from the east. However, the commission is holding traffic east of US 183 which runs approximately between Greensburg, Kinsley, acrosi Hays, Stockton and Phillipsburg.

Only emergency traffic permitted beyond this point, the commission said. The commission 4th graf hiways k71 xx today. The highway commission reported shortly before noon that U. S. 20 and 40 were open for one- way traffic to the Colorado state However, the highways were only open for emergency traffic west of WaKeeney and Hill City.

The commission said more than crews and heavy equipment are on an all-day schedule and na late Monday and given emergency housing. The Missouri Pacific reported it Still had two passenger trains held up at way stations in Kansas. Both are known as the Colorado Eagle. The eastbound train is being held at Horace, Kas. Its 75 passengers were being cared for in the station car they served hot meals.

That! helped. A lot of new friendships were made. We found a strange unusually strong companionship in the situation." along with police were sent to the air field when the pilot radioed he was in trouble. No emergency developed, a First snow tractors, then a hell- CAL spokesman said, and the copter brought in food and medi-S landing was without incident. cine.

"You could hear the cheers all down the train," Vance said. there. The westbound train wasl" Then four school buses came to held up at Hoisington, with lrans us to town." Aboard the Missouri Pacific's 55 passengers. One Still Snowbound eastbound Colorado Eagle, by way of contrast, spirits were high snowbound the Grand Canyon LaJunta, Colo, and Dodge City, Kas. All its passengers were evacuated Monday, transferred to the Santa Fe Chief and Super Chief and rerouted over the Burlington lines, to Chicago.

A number of local trains and freight trains were canceled or held up in western Kansas. The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington today authorized all roads use emergency rerouting of freight shipments in New Mexi- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska. Copters Move Storm Refugees Tuesday, March KANSAS CITY UPi Telephone i ijjJiiiLo illUtl The Santa Fe reported it had and there was "plenty to eat." The only one passenger train still train was a ed with 85 and wer lines down farmhouses aboard Saturday night at Horace, i and entirc communities snowed in on the Colorado state rai roaci an(1 highway communi- "Everyone is well taken carei cation snarlec1 livestock lost and vans of school buses to the rescue of chilled and weary passengers. "It was a long, cold night," said one. Others told of playing cards and elling jokes to pass the frigid lours in unheated coaches.

One had Sunday morning church lervices. Rescued of," station agent Joe Walker reported. "The diner is operating and there is plenty of food. The passengers are passing the time by playing cards and telling jokes. at least four lives was the picture strayed, and lost.

That in Kansas today after a damaging three-day blizzard. Passengers of stranded buses TOP Billings, right, teacher at Hageman school, shows her plaque to her mother, Mrs. Harold Billings, WaKeeney. Miss Billings was named most representative young teacher in Salina. Her mother, who had not planned to attend banquet, showed up after she was stranded in Salina due to heavy snow west.

(JOURNAL PHOTO) The few children on the train are and 1T seeking safety from aisles' their automobiles, abandoned in the snow, were put up by farmers running up and down the having a big time." Heat was maintained with fuel supplied by Slate Highway Department graders. and small towns. At least a half dozen trains on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific were stalled. Passengers on two of the trains were removed by school bus to nearby towns. Others transferred to make-up trains, or stuck it out where there was heati and food aboard.

'Copter To Rescue A half dozen Army helicopters! first were 213 on the Union Pacific's westbound City of 3t. Louis, stalled near Winona "We gave he women Salinans' Son STrandeffTDayr Dareld Kauffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kauffman, 505 W. Iron, was resting in a Scott City lospital Tuesday after being from Ft.

Riley moved marooned three days in the snow of the storm into Grinnell Mon- APPLES FOR THE to sink their teeth into juicy apples at the Business Education Day Banquet Monday night are Rose Mattas, third grade teacher at Bartlett; Mrs. Donna Lantry, fourth grade teacKef" at Bartlett, and Phyllis Nagely, Kindergarten teacher at Phillips. Four hundred persons on the train were taken to Winona high school Monday night. The Ft. Riley public information officer, Maj.

John C. Swearingen, told Schilling AFB authorities the helicopters had rescued Continued to Page 8 Dear Sal: The next storm may come out of Topeka if those lawmakers are called back for a special session. Yours, Ina Journal Directory Cuff Stuff Deaths District Editorials Guideposts 2j Markets Radio Society Sports Theaters Dr. Molncr TV Log Cash For Best Storm Picture The Journal will pay $15 for the best photograph for publication of the March 23-24-25 snowstorm in western Kansas to reach The Journal office not later than Friday noon. It will pay $5 for any other picture of the storm published in connection with the contest.

Prints may be any size but mast be accompanied by the developed negative and with full caption information. A stajnped, addressed envelope should be enclosed. While The Journal will atempt to return prints and negatives, it assumes no responsibility for doing so. The Journal is the sole judge of the contest and its decision is; final. If no entry is suitable for publication, no priie will be awarded.

Pas-j more Ere being sent from eastern'Cadet foot Kansas today. Highways were open from Salina in all directions, Tuesday. Travel-was still held up in a number of points over the area. The Salina office of the highway patrol US36 open to all traffic as far as Norton. Emergency traffic can get through to Oberlin.

US24 open to all traffic as far as Hill City, emergency traffic to Goodland. US40 open to all traffic to WaKeeney, 1-way emergency traffic to Monument. US50 closed at Kinsley. closed at Great Bend. K-l closed at LaCrosse US54 closed at Grecnsbcrg.

storm which whipped Kansas. Kauffman is with the highway patrol at Scott City. He and the sheriff left Scott City Saturday to answer a call following a wreck. Seven persons, including kauff- all the blankets to man and the sheriff, were strand- and children," ed in onc car Saturday and Sun- 'day while the blizzard raged. western day.

Some needed medical attention, most were motorists found huddled in the snow near their James Vance. 22, of the U. S. Air Force Academy. He is from Hays, Kas.

"The men tore up curtains They were rescued Monday. Theirj of only food was two candy bars. Kauffman suffered from exhaustion and exposure. Grocery Stores To Close Sundays Salina grocery stores will close day closing in the future. deCiSi i Sundays, starting March 31.

Members of the Salina Grocers Association Monday night unanimously for Sunday by the Salina Ministerial said Thomas associationiAUiance. stalled automobiles. Thirteen Civil Air Patrol planes operating out of Colby, scouted roads and farmhouses. Relief parcels supplied by the Red Cross were dropped where needed, especially near Hutchinson. A string cars were stuck in drifts there along State Highway 86.

Hageman Teacher Feted At Banquet During I he afternoon, teachers I learned how bread is baked, how pop is bottled, and what a telephone office run. i Three teachers, taken on a tour lof a laundry and cleaning establishment, wanted to know how Although the featured speaker didn't appear, the ts werc removed. How many banquet honoring Salina teachers Monday night went on as scheduled. shirts can be done in an hour? business firms and at a banquet sponsored by Junior Chamber of Commerce in Memorial Hall. Business-Education Day is spon-j" to the crew of an oil rig near Sublettc and the stranded men responded with a giant "O.K" tramped out in the snow.

Beat Stork Mrs. Jim Baley of Sublettc gaveition third and fourth grade room! birth to a girl during the Hageman school, early Monday. Nine neighbors pulled the expectant mother by i If cleaning fluids are still highly inflammable? Teachers were guests of honor at tours Of Salina Touring the laundry were I'va the Zimmerman, Lincoln junior high; Alma Taylor, Roosevelt jun- jior high, and Mrs. Viola McCoy. --jLowcll grade school.

After looking at the maze of wires and the complicated machines, the- six teachers touring the tclcchonc company wanted to I know what kind of an education "-''was needed to understand the sored annually by the Salina of schools. An emergency ration was drop-l Chamber of Commerco The ban- Ostenberg commented ped by volunteer pilot C. C. Spikesi quet nsorcd bv tne sonic tj me he'd like to get that on the isled to the hospital around 2:30 was introduced into the team as he seemed to always for the first time this year. oe a substitute.

Named as the representative The current Salina school young teacher for the year wasiuation and what can be expected Kathryn Billings, 763 S. Santa Fe.jj the future were briefly out-! Miss Billings teaches a combina-jijned. Ostenberg said, "We figure we have almost 10,000 students in thej Salina schools which is about of our entire population." jnartly cioudy west with a "People ask me when the i few light showers or snow Fair east, She Ft. Hays Graduate received her B.S. degree president.

Neff said Grocerymen met with ministers, all the stores would and with each other to discuss the be closed on Sundays with the ex- matter. of two neighborhood Neff said the grocerymen fell uatc work towaru masters dc A helicopter also came to the re-l lowaru a masars cie- (Jief of Darrell Graves, a radio grce expansion program is going by evening; end. I see no end in at least the ception stores. He indicated that these that the meeting Monday would probably observe the Sun-iwas very successful. night Texas Farm Home Sheltered i 91 Persons During Bfizzarcf Easfern Colorado 'Hiqhways Open engineer at station KGNO's trans-! 'ss Billings was presented a mitter near Dodge City.

On con- scholarship and a plaque, tinuous duty since Saturday, he Snc lias taught a year in a rural was picked up Monday and de-! scn o1 in Trego County, four years posited at municipal airport WaKeeney grade school and ten his family came to get him. Leav- vcars al Lowell and Hageman ing him, the helicopter picked up 'chief engineer Bob Ellinger at his ihome and transported him to the; SaIina hranch of the Associatonj I transmitter in Grave's' relief. CLARENDON, Tex. Itfl-The Andy Brown family said goodby Monday to 91 unexpected weekend guests who were sheltered from a howling blizzard in their seven- room farmhouse. Mrs.

Dorothy Evans of Chicago said of the Browns. She said the family had no sleep from Saturday until the last stranded traveler left late, Mon- The guest list included 43 pas-; da sengers from two Greyhound buses bound for California from Oklahoma, 37 motorists and 11 truck drivers. All made their way to the twinkling lights of the Brown home after the spring storm blocked roads in the area with insurmountable drifts. The farm is located about 17 miles north of Clarendon on U.S. Highway 70.

"They wen wonderful," They didn't have titue," Mrs. Evans said, busy cooking "Jfrs. Brown all the time was and Andy was always needed to help someone in trouble. They were wonderful." Pretty Mrs. Mclba Brown slender and with prematurely gray hair busied herself today serving cup cakes and cookies as an in-between whipped up lunch.

snack. A corn She also goulash for The Melba, their children, David and Linda, and Andy's uncle, George Shoop opened their doors, their larder and even relinquished their warm beds DENVER un Eastern Colorado's highways were open today for the first time since Saturday, loudy tonight and Wednesday, occasional light rain ior snow southwest or south central tonight and occa- isional light rain southeast 'Wednesday morning; a lit- jtle warmer southwest little change in te'm- ineratures Wednesday; low He said the big group is now in tonight 25-30; high Wed- the fifth grade which explains whyj esday in 40s. another junior high will be needed 1 by the fall of 1958. SALINA WEATHER Ostenberg said in spite of all the! Downtown: 2:30 pm -17: increase in Salina and the 27; Max. Monday 34.

Miss Billings is a member and'ing program, Salina still has the past 2-1 hrs. trace, officer of Delta Kappa Gamma, second lowest mill levy in the! City Airport: 1:30 pin an honorary society for womcn'slate for support of schools. i44; Min. 26; Monday 33. schools in Salina.

a past president She's of foreseeable future." He pointed nut that in 1930 there were 4488 students in Salina schools. In 195C there were 6955, an ncrcasc of almost 54 percent. "Wichita is the only city in jsas increasing faster percentage- Iwise than Salina." of served as an officer and on committees of the Salina City Teachers Association. Honorary Society to the cold and weary men and commerce throughout the women. The house had only one bath room and the Browns the line sometimes numbered 20 waitees.

Children and adults rotated in shifts for a few winks on the beds and some adults were forced to stand because of limited floor space. They took up a collection of $170 "as small measure of our thanks," as one woman said to Mrs. Brown. slowly jand storm-stricken plains turned to normal. Some moisture relief was peeled.

In the aftermath of teachers. On hand to watch the presenta- Apples For Teachers The tables were decorated Precip. trace. CAA reported 1:30 pm: Barometer 30.05 steady; Wind' Calm; heaviest spring storm in recent years, however, comparatively heavy damage was counted in wind-lashed wheat, livestock losses and land erosion. Property damage also was high.

tion was her mother Mrs. Harold! Billings, WaKeeney. She had nants bea1nng he na humidity 55 percent. re -visiting in Salina and was snowed: Slahna schools Al cach placc Lowest this date 0 in 1955; high- Jin here. lhcrc was an applc for the tcach 86 in 1918.

About 550 attended the er Sunrise 6:25 am; Sunset 6:49 The invocation was given by the JAs serving the main speaker still had not put in an appearance. Due to severe weather condition, Dr. C. Cunning- Rev. Charles Wilson.

pm. Don Williams, member of the Alr irM Jaycecs, emonies. was John master Shaver, of president Monday CCr-! pm Despite the return of clear skies! and warmer weather Colorado's southeast communities struggled from under deep snow. ham, president of Ft. Hays State! 1 College, was unable to attend or of hc ia lbcr (get word to the Salina Jaycecs Svclcomcd lhe lcachors to the bnn hc come.

Pinch-hitting WH W. M. tenberf, Sallnn luperlnlendent ciuot n- 1" C. 0. Scott, principal at Roosc- lft volt junior high school, spoke, resenting the teachers.

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