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wall, Kansas, Wiped Out by Tornado on May 25, Rapidly Being Rebuilt
Volunteer Labor,
Insurance Playing
Big Part in Task
F.dftr't Note: Flash floods have
takrn mor than 20(1 lives and left
34.000 families homeless In six North
eastern states. The future is inm for
the stricken towns and cities. Here
ts a report on how a 1isater-struck
community fights its way back.
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UoJll, Kan. ttJ.FS A new
Udair'is rising from the rubble
left by the terrible tornado three
monthi ago.
Valunteer labor In the spirit
of the early settlers who helped
their neighbors when there was
trouble has helped make the
ebuTHing possible.
The money has come mostly
from insurance, the federal gov
ertjpent and the Red Cross.
Work Volunteer
Workmen from Wichita, 20
miles north of Udall, donated
their time to pour concrete for
a new Citv Hall. Contractors
' charged nothing for the material.
This brick building will give
Udfll space for a fire station,
the public library and offices
for the mayor and city clerk.
The sight of the new City Hall
going up has helped keep up
the spirit of Udall residents.
It took only one minute, on
o the night of May 25, for a twister
Oto reduce this town to debris.
Eighty persons were killed, one'
sixth of the population. Scores
were injured.
E. B. Harvey, the town black
3 smitbwho also ran an automo
bile .'igency, lost his wife in the
tornado and spent six weeks in
a hospital recuperating from the
injuries.
Harvey's home and some of
5 new cars were partly cov
ered by insurance. With the in
surance money and a govern
lrient loan he has started to re
build.
(iWhat's done is done, and
ther's nothing I can do about
it.so Ijustgoaheadwith my busi
rtess and try to be happy in my
works' said Harvey. "There are
lots of people worse off than I
am."
Insurance Helps
Most of Udall's citizens will
be in debt for several years to
the government and to banks
and private loan companies. Of
ficial estimate the indebtedness
will fftnount to about two thirds
of the total cost of reconstruc
tion. Majy were left with only trn?
clothing on their backs after the
tornado. At least half the popu
lation had some kind of insur
ancebut it covered only a small
part of their losses.
One father and two children
(the Qnother was killed in the
gtorrtS) vere not eligible for a
government loan so the Red
Cross replaced their small home.
Aether family was left home
less when the wind reduced a six
room frame house to kindling.
The house, valued at $7000, has
beenQ-eplaced by a new one that
costs 11,000. Insurance paid for
$45W and the remainder was
covered by a personal loan. The
Red Cross provided furniture for
the new dwelling.
Home Drinking Said
Foremost Problem
Ltn Beach, Calif. (U.R)
The President of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union to
day warned that home drinking
has become the nation's foremost
temperance problem.
ft5. Glenn G. Hays of Evan
iton, 111., told the WCTU's exec
utive committee prior to tomor
row's opening of the Union's
81st annual convention that ra
dio and television commercials
"have turned iceboxes into bars."
She called for "greater sup
port" of bills in Congress to out
law alcoholic beverage advertis
ing on radio and TV.
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Young Spelling
Champion Runs TV
Take To $16J
New York (U.R) Little
Gloria Lockerman, the 12-year-old
Negro spelling champ who
ran her winnings to $16,000 on
a TV giveaway show, rides back
home to Baltimore today for
some boning up with the diction
ary and- family conferences
about her TV future.
Gloria confidently spelled her
way through a nonsense sentence
on CBS-TV's "The $64,000 Ques
tion" last night to earn a possi
ble shot next Tuesday at $32,000.
Indications were that Gloria
would go for the bigger money.
Her divorced parents, James
Lockerman and Vivian Single
ton, both of Philadelphia, seem
ed to favor a go-ahead.
Future Important
"The important thing is Glor
ia's future," said her father, "we
don't want the publicity to
affect her life in any way."
Gloria's mother said: "She has
nothing to lose since she had
nothing to start with. And she's
assured of $4,000 anyway."
Mrs. Singleton referred to the
$4,000 the producers of the show
give as a consolation prize to any
contestant who reaches the up
per levels in the TV question-and-answer
game.
Gloria, however, said she
didn't know whether she would
go on.
She revealed that she had
stumbled through part of the an
swer of her question because "I
forgot where I was." The answer
on the quiz program was the
spelling of: "The belligerent as
tigmatic anthropologist annihil
ated innumerable chrysanthemums."
Mexico Expects Agricultural
Imports To Be Lowest in Decade
'Dog Lung' Surgery
Performed on Child
Minneapolis (U.R) Carey
Ann Kutz, 3, Madison, Wis., was
reported in satisfactory condi
tion in University hospital here
early today after undergoing a
so-called "dog lung" heart oper
ation. University surgeons used the
lung of a dog, removed from the
dog a short time earlier, to sup
ply oxygen to the blood of the
little girl while they tied off
her heart to repair a hole be
tween its chambers Tuesday.
Nine airmen from Traux field
at Madison flew here to donate
their blood for the girl, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Kutz.
The hospital said some of
their blood was used during the
operation.
Anti-Sovief Congress
Approves Resolution
Rio de Janeiro (U.R) The
second congress against Soviet
intervention in Latin America
yesterday approved a resolution
calling for all Latin American
countries to break diplomatic
and commercial relations with
Communist countries.
The resolution was adopted
unanimously but with reserva
tions from Argentine delegate
Sergio Boton. He said the United
States, Britain and France should
make the break first, setting the
example for the other countries.
Mexico City (U.R) Mex
ico expects its imports of agricul
tural products this year to be
the lowest in a decade because
of reports of almost uniformly
good harvests.
Government sources predicted
wheat would be the only crop
to fall below the 1954 yield.
They estimated the value of
over-all agricultural production
for 1955 at approximately $760,
000,000, an 80.95 per cent in
crease over 10 years ago.
Mexico imported more than
$132,000,000 worth of food pro
ducts in 1953, but the figure
dropped to $98,500,000 last year,
the sources said.
The country will not have to
buy corn or beans in the foreign
market.
Earlier, the government had
predicted it would not have to
purchase wheat abroad in 1955.
However, the wheat harvest is
now expected to be lower than
last year's bumper crop because
of losses due to frost in Janu
ary and March.
More Corn
As a result, the economy min
istry has asked wheat producers
and distributors to meet soon to
determine how much of the
cereal will have to be imported
to meet domestic needs.
Although figures for corn pro
duction are still incomplete, the
yield is expected to be slightly
larger than last year's unusual
ly good harvest because of a 30
per cent increase in acreage in
Nyarit and other west coast
states.
Good harvests were also ex
pected for rice, oats, barley,
citrus fruits and sugar.
Mexican farmers are expected
to take advantage of a poor year
for U. S. cantaloupe producers
by shipping their fruit north..
The Mexican Union .of Cotton
Growers estimated it would pro
duce a record crop of close to
2,000,000 bales. The harvest was
valued at. more than $300,000,-
ooo. -----.
The official figure for cotton
production in 1954 was 1,300,
000 bales!
The cotton growers were wor
ried about possible "chaos" in
their industry because of mount
ing world surpluses of the fiber.
Cotton Problem
They said they would have a
carryover of 150,000 bales from
last year after all sales were com
pleted. Domestic consumption
and exports were estimated at
1,750,000 bales, leaving a sur
plus of 400,000 bales for 1956.
The growers advised a reduc
tion of cotton acreage in Mexico
Wilsonville Area
May Have Hospital
Portland (U.R) The Wil
sonville area of Washington
county will become the site of
a proposed new $14,000,000 state
mental institution if the
Board of Control adopts a rec
ommendation made last night by
its site selection committee.
The 10-member committee also
named two other sites in Wash
ington county as desirable alter
natives. One is between Hills
boro and Beaverton and the oth
er is at the edge of Wilsonville.
The " Legislature provided
$245,000 for site acquisition ,f or
the institution that would be Ore
gon's third mental hospital and
house some 1500 patients.
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to eliminate overproduction,
measures to increase home con
sumption which has remained
stationary during the past 10
years while output has increased
400 per cent and opening of new
foreign markets.
They demanded the abolition
of the 22 per cent ad valorem
tax on cotton exports, which they
said cost them almost $28 on
every bale shipped abroad.
However, the treasury minis
try promptly announced the ad
valorem tax would not be
changed because profits earned
by cotton producers were 70 per
cent higher than those of wheat
growers.
"A substantial reduction in
taxes on cotton would result im
mediately in an increase in the
price of cotton for the textile
industry which has just emerged
from a long and difficult period,"
the ministry said.
Cat's Curiosity Blamed
For Her Many Troubles
Detroit (U.R) The cat is the
biggest" problem faced by the
Michigan Humane Society.
Of the 50,000 "cases" it han
dled during the past year, most
of them dealt with cats. They
involved cats stranded on poles
and in trees, cats caught in ma
chinery and cats which became
lodged between walls of build
ings. Clifton Johnson, executive sec
retary of the society' blames the
curiosity of cats for their predic
aments. "They do more investigating
than most dogs," he said. "That's
why they get into more trouble."
FIRECRACKERS FOR CROWS
Tallahassee, Fla. (U.R) A
new state Agriculture Depart
ment regulation requires that
farmers buying firecrackers file
a statement with their county
sheriff swearing they will use
the explosives only to frighten
crows or other destructive birds.
Boy Slays Mother
To Prove Bravery
Los Angeles (U.R) Jimmy
Thomson, who shot and killed
his mother "to show other kids
I was no sissy," was held in ju
venile hall today pending a pre
detention hearing.
The tousled-haired boy shot
his mother, Mrs. Hilde Thomson,
51, with a .22 caliber rifle in
their East Palmdale, Calif., home
late Monday. He told sheriff's
deputies "the kids at school kept
calling me a square because I
didn't steal or get into trouble."
Mrs. Thomson was shot in the
head three times and her clothes
were partly torn from her body.
The boy's father, Harry Thom
son, and his older brother, John,
18, both were away from home
at the time of the shooting.
The boy telephoned sheriff's
deputies after the shooting, say
ing, "I shot my mother. I think
she's dead. I'll wait here for
you."
FIRST AIR ATTACHE
Weisbaden, Germany (U.R)
Col. John C. Kilborn of Cisco,
Tex., will assume duties Sept. 5
as the first United States air at
tache to West Germany. The ap
pointment of Kilborn, inspector
general of U.S. Air Forces in
Europe, was announced Tuesday;
by European Air Force ' head
quarters here.
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