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12-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore, Frl, May 25, 36
Kansas Toim Still Rebuilding Year After Destruclive Toriiado
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Bede levelled the little Wwa W
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Brlaa Cejre ef ' Um Arkaasaa
City, Kaaw Traveler tells tke
terjr tf Veall year later la lac
acceaapaayiag dispatch writtea
far tbe Asasciatee1 hm)
By EUAN COYNE
UDALU Kan. -"-tow
that refuted to die tQ
pause a few moments tt,
mark the first anniversary el ita
destruction by a tornado.
The twister took 79 livea and
tent mora Uua 200 to hospitals.
There will be a snort memorial
service at the main intersection,
called four corners.
Then Udall wilt go back to rebuilding-
itself.
Vdall'i story is (rave i the
Inscription at the entrance of tbe
Congregational church:
'Touix'ed ISO Rebuilt 1955."
By mid-September, time for its
traditional fall festival, Udall
expects the reconstruction to be
complete. It will celebrate then
and invite all the world to come
see.
retsualsaa taste seed
Rescue workers and even some
of the survivors said Udall would
never rise again from its rubble
and misery.
But Mayor Carl Rowe, aa oil
field worker, stood amid the
debris and proclaimed:
"We are going to rebuild this
town."
City Clerk John Arbuckle re
ports there already are ISO new
homes, 14 new business build
ings. Udall has a new $100,000
high school, a new $85,000 ele
mentary school It has the latest
in utilitv systems, is cettinf dial
telephones. Arbuck'e's log shows
almost two million dollars wonn
of new construction. For tbe first
time there is a drug store, and a
full-time barber shop.
Net All Regained
Udall had about 000 residents
that black night tbe twister hit
Some left. Some o' them came
bark. Tbe losses have not been
entirely regained. But Mayor
Rowe enthusiastically predicts
Udall msy grow to 1,000. He says
it's a better town now than ever
before.
Reconstruction began from
tents, field kitchens snd the
three building; in the business
district which es tped the bank,
the post office and the Odd Fel
lows lodge hall.
Faads Received '
The led Cross gave Udall and
its stricken peop.e $336,756. The
town got $325,000 in civil defense
fi'nds $142,653 of it for restor
ation of utilities, $94,750 for the
new high school and $83,150 for
the new elementary school.
There's a steel and concrete
storm cell." beneath the music
be caught agiin vithout warning,
half asleep as it wu on the night
of May 25, 1955.
Constantly Maaaed
Almost a fifth of the towns
people volunteered for two-hour
shifts in a 23 foot watch tower
built southwest of town. It is
manned every night It is man
ned da) and night when the
weather bureau reports tornado
breeding atmc-phrics.
Five times this year watchers
have sighted funnels snd pressed
the button which sets a siren
wailing and sei.ds Udall to its
cellars. But it has
..
are fading. Udall is blooming
sgain this spring
There is one vivid reminder.
Udall haa no tres. The twister
blew them all down in a minute.
rqom of the tew high school.
large enough for all the nuoilsKtorm
and facility. Most of the new unscathed this tornado season,
homes have storm shelters. I So Udall a year later is almost
Udall is determined it will not i a new town. The disaster's scars
Gvil War Veteran
Spends 'Good Night'
DULUTH, Minn. ( Hospital
Puget Sound
Base to Have
Jet Bombers
WASHINGTON -Several
squadrons of Navy jet bombers are
to be stationed at the Whidbcy
Island Naval Air Station. Rep.
Westland iR Wash) said Thursday
he has been advised by the Navy.
He said his information came
from Adm. William Russell, chief
of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics
of Douglas Sky Raiders, which car
attendants reported Thursday Al-iry a 3-man crew ana are capame
bert Wooison, 109. last Union 1 of carrying an atomic bomb.
inr vmn ni th Civil War I Westland quoted Russell as say-
"spent a good night" and his con-ling the jet craft will arrive at the;
ditton was unchanged. - Puget Sound station late this yCari
The old soldier was hospitaliied ' and early next. . I
w sv,H with hint rnniKton.1 Alnouen nusseu aecuneu io
"' Hii nuutilinn has not been con
sidered serious and he has been
able to be up and around his hos
pital room.
state how many squadrons
be assigned to the station.
would
west-
Soviets Glaim
Atomic Powered
Aircraft Near
LONDON W The Russians
claimed Wednesday to have every
thing ready to build aa atomic
powered plane.
The Moscow radio quoted K. P.
Slavsky, head of the chief director
ate for the use of atomic energy,
as saying:
"Great prospects will be opened
up in the domain of atomic trans
port. We shall work on the crea
tion of atomic reactors and engines
for sea vessels, land vehicles, avi
ation and other transport . . , and
we have all the prerequisites for
building an airplane with an atom
ic engine in the scar future."
Western scientists regard weight
of the power plants as the No. 1
problem in harnessing the atom'
for aerial use.
PHOTOGRAPHER DIES v
DENVER George M. Wil
liamson, 71, a pioneer in the de
velopment of underwater photo
graphy, died Wednesday, He wae
born in Norfolk. Va.
land said he was told it would re-'ground and air personnel being
suit in more than 500 additional i brought into the community.
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