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By FRANK JENKINS
Ou Thursday night, directors of
the Klamath county United Fund
and the Klamath county Red Cross
met in emergency session and
voted unanimously to borrow J 1800
at the banks and rush the money
1o the national Red Cross to be
used in the alleviation of human
distress in the flood-stricken areas
of the Northeast.
The money will be added to the
total of the annual United Fund
Red Cross campaign that will get
underway shortly, and the loan will
be repaid out of the first monies
coming in when the campaign
starts. ,
How was the $1800 amount de
termined? That is an interesting story.
No quota for Klamath county had
as yet been fixed. But back in
the disastrous Middle West floods
of 1951 our county was asked by
the national Red Cross to contri
bute $1500.
WE RAISED $1800.
So it was decided that we should
give at least that much lor the
greater disaster of 1955.
And
Since the distress is great
It was decided to rush the money
in without delay.
I think everybody In Klamath;
county will be proud 01 tne action
that was taken.
Let's take a look at the distress
back there where it falls hard
est and how It will be alleviated.
The chairman of the New Eng
land Council's manufacturing com
mittee says this morning that Con
necticut officials have reported 163
plants damaged in that state. Of
these, 108 have either begun opera
tions or will be in production with.
In two weeks.
But
Fifty-five plants located most
lv in Connecticut's Naugatuck val
ley will require from two weeks
to THREE MONTHS to get.back
into production.
During this period, their em
ployees will go witnouc wages.
In Woonsocket Rhode Island
about 31 plants were reported dis
abled 15 of them completely.
That is in ONE TOWN.
It isn't hard to imagine the in
dividual distress that will ensue
there.
Massachusetts officials report
that in 36 cities and towns ar-
. fccted 135 establishments have suf
fered heavy flood damage.
These are samples of a condi
tion 'that is general in the flood
area.
The federal government is giv
ing quick and large aid both
in loans and in service by the
corps of engineers of the army.
But this aid will go largely into
repair of CAPITAL damage such
as reconstruction of damaged or
ruined municipal sewer systems,
water systems, etc., along with the
repair of damage to the industrial
establishments that provide em
ployment for the people.
There will be insurance to help
out in the case of these damaged
establishments. In this age when
TAXES enter into every conceiv
able situation, there will be tax
deductions to be carried forward
into the future.
And so on.
But these items will go chiefly
toward restoration of capital facil
ities, so that employment may be
provided again as quickly as pos
sible for the people whose liveli
hood depends upon their wages and
their salaries.
But
In the meantime
These bereft people themselves
many of whom have lost all their
physical possessions, along with
their Jobs must be cared for.
They must be clothed, if they have
lost all their clothing. They must
be fed during the period when they
will have neither money nor credit
t buy food for themselves. They
must be housed somehow during
the period when they will have no
money with which to pay rent.
It is Uie Red Cross that provides
this vital service to the disaster
stricken PEOPLE. The Red Cross
gets its money from those who
GIVE. The more promptly gener
ous people give, the more promptly
needed aid can be given.
These floods, following two hur
ricanes, are a REAL disaster. They
call for generous giving on the
part of those of us who escaped
them.
Homesite Sale
Stall Asked
GEARHART '.fi Sen. Neu
berger said Saturday he is taking
steps to forestall sale of the Lillie
Moore homesite in Koseourg oy
the government.
The Democratic senator said sale
of the property scheduled Oct. 4
micht open it up to commercial
or industrial developincnl. He said
he has advised the General Serv
ices Administration that the "high
rt use" of the homesite would be
disposal to the city oi Roseburg
a a center for historical relics.
The Moore home w-as a center
of early-day social life in Rose
burg. A frequent visitor was Ter
ritorial Gov. Joseph Lane. It was
bequeathed to the government In
1M0.
Neubergcr recalled that two
yers ago a similar planned sale
was -postponed indefinitely." Then
the Douglas County Historical So
ciety was formed to Uy to acquire
lh property.
Price 10 cents St Pages
Israel, Arab
Peace Plan
Endangered
WASHINGTON W - The Eisen
hower administration's . plan to
bring peace to Israelis and Arabs
appeared in danger of quick death
Saturday.
Great Britain Joined the United
States in offering to guarantee the
permanent frontiers of Israeli and
Arab states, but some Arab lead
ers talked of rejecting the plan
outright, and a Democratic lead
er in the U. S. Congress expressed
doubt the plan would ever suc
ceed. PROPOSAL
Sen. George of Georgia, chair
man of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee and chief Demo
cratic spokesman in Congress on
international affairs, said of the
administration proposal:
"I am considering it but I have
not committed myself. I am in
sympathy with the objectives but
I doubt very much that this pro
posal can ever be worked out."
George, in a telephone interview
from his Vienna, Ga., home, said
he feels that other nations might
give only token aid in backing up
the peace plan "and the whole bur
den would fall on us."
ARABS ANGRY
One Arab leader said angrily
that Secretary of State Dulles was
offering Arabs "30 pieces of silver
to sell Palestine to the Jews" as
a vote-catcher in the 1956 Presi
dential election.
Dulles said in a New York
speech Friday the United States
would join in international action
to establish and guarantee new Israeli-Arab
borders, would sub
scribe to' an international loan to
compensate 900,000 Arabs dis
placed in the Mid-East strife and
would aid in water development
projects in the area.
Riot Leaders
Face Charges
WALLA WALLA, Wash. Ifl
Kidnaping, conspiracy to kidnap
and prison riot charges, carrying
possible penalties of death for
some of those involved, were filed
Saturday against the leaders of
the July 5-6 riots at the Washing
ton Stale Penitentiary.
The most serious charges of first
degree kidnaping were filed by
Walla Walla County Prosecutor
Arthur Hawman against 11 of the
men. He also charged them with
the conspiracy and riot counts,
Named in this charge were Em
ory Cobb, Harry Beino, Rody Erh,
Charles Lambert, James Single
tary, Edward Geer, Neal Fisk,
David Hinkle, James Frazier,
Charles McCabe and Herman Salt
er, Seven other inmates were
charged with conspiracy to kidnap
and two with counts of prison riot.
The prison riot charge Is a new
one based on a law passed by the
1955 Legislature. The papers were
filed with the county clerk Satur
day afternoon by Deputy Prosecu
tor Aurel M. Kelly.
Radar Warning
Hole Reported
LAKE STEVENS: Wash. W) A
critical hole has been found in the
nation's outer radar warning line
between Greenland and Alaska
and the Defense Department is
taking rapid steps to plug it, Sen.
Jackson (D-Wash) said Saturday.
Jackson, speaking at a big rally
of Western Washington Democrats,
said the gap in the distant early
warning (DEWi line is serious
enough to place mid-continental
United States in jeopardy should
an enemy attack us.
The senator, memoer of a three
man Senate committee which au
thorizes military construction, has
Just returned from a flight over
the warning network m the Far
North.
He reported that the warning
system is being expanded on a
speeded up basis, with new instal
lations in operation by 1957.
He did not specify where the gap
had been found or how soon it
would be closed.
A crowd estimated at more than
6 000 persons attended the big
salmon bake and speech fe.t, with
much spadeworic done oy support
ers of Sec. of State Earl Coe and
State Sen. Albert D Roiellini. both
of whom are seeking the Demo
cratic nomination for governor
next year.
State Chairman Henry C&t'sten
sen said party officials are not
concerned at this time with which
man wins Uie nomination but said
he hoped they "conduct clean
campaigns." Spokesmen for Coe
and Rosellinl pledged that they
would and reported clubs are being
formed In every county of the stats
to woric for them.
The speecnes followed the
customary tenor of political gath
erings, voicinc cottmism and urg
ing mud bard ork to make it
pay at.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2i, 1955
French, Moroccan Leaders
Hopeful For Peace Moves
ADC LES BAINS, Fraifce Ml
France and Moroccan nationalists
apparently narrowed their differ
ences Saturday to a timetable for
removing Sultan Mohammed Ben
Moulay Arafa and ending ex-Sultan
Mohammed Ben Youssef's ex
ile. ' Ben Youssef is the pro-nationalist
ruler whom the French ousted
in 1953, precipitating a wave of na
tionalism that culminated in vio
lent rioting last week. He is now
living in exile on the Island of
Madagascar.
Market Area
Rule Opposed
MILWAUKEE Wl A resolution
opposing- a government program
requiring the processing and man
ufacturing .of lumber products
within an established marketing
area was approved Friday by the
CIO International Woodworkers of
America.
Union delegates at their final
convention session voted unani
mously against the plan which is
called the marketing area sus
tained unit program.
The resolution was introduced
jointly by Harvey R. Nelson, pies
ident of Columbia River Council
No. 5, Portland, Ore.; Bulk Chris
tie, president of Plywood District
Council No. 9. Olympia, Wash.;
and Tim Sullivan, president of
Klamath Basin District Council
No. li, Klamath Falls, Ore.
A. F. Hartung, of Portland, was
nominated for second term as in
ternational president. He will be
opposed by James Fad'.ing, Olym
pia.
Also renominated were James
Dicey, Portland, first vice presi
dent; and Claude R. Ballard, Port'
land, second vice president. Walter
Allen, Port Atbernt, B.C.. will op
pose Ballard. Christie will run
against Dicey.
Nominated without opposition
were William Botkin. Portland.
secretary treasurer, and Herbert
Irving, Hoquiam, Wasn., interna
tional trustee.
Mail elections will be conducted
within 60 days by local IWA units.
The union claims 140,000 members.
Smog Warning
Raised In L.A.
LOS ANGELES lP Stinking
smog brought the Los Angeles
area to the stage of alert Saturday
for the second straight day.
The warning to cease all outdoor
burning was issued at 12:19 p. ni.
when tho ozone concentration in
nearby Pasadena reached .51 parts
per million in the air. The alert
call Is mandatory when the ozone
reaches .50 parts per million.
The alert lasted 1 hour and 42
minutes and was called oft at 2:01
p. m. when the ozone count in
Pasadena had dropped to .36.
Friday the alert remained in ef
fect 2 hours 17 minutes when the
thickest smog of the year concen
trated in the Vernon industrial
area and measured .64.
These alarms have been "first
alerts." If the concentration
reaches 1.00, a "second alert"
would bring a halt to all but essen
tial traffic. The "third alert" Is
the danger alert and could include
shutting down industrial plants.
Scientists report that ozone, the
most Irritating ingredient of Los
Angeles smog, is caused primarily
by the action of sun on nitrogen
dioxide particles.
Fire Damages
Blimp Hangar
TILLAMOOK IT. A roofing
fire at a blimp hangar at the
Naval Air Station here Saturday
: caused damage estimated at $50,-
000 before It was brought under
control by fire equipment from six
localities.
Estimate of the loss was made
by State Sen. Warren E. McMlni
mee. Naval Air Station board
chairman. Tillamook County leases
the property from the federal gov
ernment. Fire equipment responded from
Tillamook. Netsrts, Garibaldi. Clo
verdale. Bay City. Tongue Point,
the Crown Zcllerbach logging op
eration near here, and, the U.S.
Forest Service.
The fire, which apparently
started from flames leaping from
the dryer exhaust pipe of a plant
owned by the Diamond Plywood
and Diamond Lumber companies,
burned numerous holes in the roof
01 the hangar.
Most of the damage was con
fined to roof sheeting and roofing
paper. Because of a stiff wind,
firemen had to move inside the
hangar to battle the blaze, which
was brought under control in ail
hour and 15 minutes.
The nationalist Istiqlal (inde
pendence) and the Democratic In
dependence (PDI) parties contend
that the French ouster was illegal
and that Ben Youssef is still the
legitimate sovereign.
As the week-long conference
aimed at achieving peace in the
troubled North African protector
ate continued, French Premier
Edgar Faure predicted that he will
be able 'to present a settlement 10
his full Cabinet by Sunday.
Istiqlal leaders conferred for al
most three hours Saturday after
noon with Pierre July, minister ior
Tunisian and Moroccan affairs, on
the question of how and when Ben
Youssef is to be allowed to come
to France.
The Istiqlal delegation spokes
man, Abderrahim Bouhabib, ex
pressed optimism as he leit the
conference suite in the Splendide
Royal Hotel. "I have the feeling
that we can make progress," he
said.
A delegation from the PDI en
tered July's suite as the Istiqlal
left and it was apparent the French
are seeking full support from both
parlies for a Moroccan settlement.
,PDI spokesman said his party
agreed with the Istiqlal on Ben
Youssef's return. Neither party is
demanding his immediate restora
tion to the throne in Morocco.
Airman Denies
Red Statement
TOKYO i.n The pilot of the
unarmed U.S. plane shot down
Aug. 17 in Korea by the Reds
denied Saturday he ever told his
captors that their treatment con
vinced him "U.S. propaganda was
deceitful. . ."
The statement of Lt. Guy H.
Bumpass Jr.. of Jackson, Miss.,
was released by the U.S. Air Force
alter he was brought here for
treatment of. a sewre .-compound
skull fracture.
The radio at Pyongyang, capital
of Communist North Korea, has
been broadcasting an alleged state
ment, attributed to Bumpass dur
ing the week he was in Red hands.
He was quoted as saying:
"I have been filled up until my
ears almost ached about Commu
nist atrocities and by the American
propaganda and bourgeoise publi
cations and believed in them."
'Therefore I was quite scared
when Korean doctors treated me.
I was scared when surgeons gave
me a shot. When orderlies tried
to cut my nails, I shuddered hi
terror, fearing they were trying
to pull off my nails as the U.S.
propaganda has told me.
"I came to acknowledge after a
day or two how the U.S. propa
ganda was deceitful and how I was
foolish."
Saturday's Air Force release of
a statement from Bumpass said:
". . . The whole statement. . .is
a complete untruth. Sure, 1 was
scared but I didn't feel my life
was in danger. They didn't offer
to cut my nails or to pull them
off. . . I deny the entire statement
as being words of mine."
The Air Force, which had main
tained a tight news blackout since
Bumpass' release Tuesday, said he
would speak for himself at a news
conference, probably next Tuesday.
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SATURDAY MORNING'S 9 o'clock "ipeclellth" were two
Klemeth FelU leaderj in the construction builnett. The Hereld
end Newt o'clock photographer, Don Kettler, snapped Con
tractor Albert Walker, left,, and Aniitant Manager Tommy
Themei of the Long Eall Lumber Co. at they plnl 'or
building homa.
Telephone (lit
Expert Says
'Edith' May
Miss Coast
MIAMI. Fla. t.fl Hurricane
Edith whirled 100 mile an hour
winds around her center Saturday
and was growing in intensity, but
a top storm warning authority
voiced cautious optimism for the
entire Atlantic Coast.
Cordon Dunn, chief forecaster
in the Weather Bureau's Storm
Warning Service here, said the
Southeast Coast from Cape Hal
teras, N. C, southward, could con
sider Itself in the clear.
Baring some unexpected de
velopment, the Middle Atlantic
Coast from New York to Cape Hal
teras also will be in the clear,
said Dunn.
CAUTIOUS
He was a little more cautious
about the New England states, say
ing: "If the present trend of the
storm continues, there is very lit
tle chance that it will affect the
North Atlantic Coast. The people
there can be optimistic about uie
situation." I
Dunn said the hurricane is mov- j
ing very slowly toward the north-1
northwest. When it gains a few j
more degrees of latitude, it should
come under the influence of a ;
trough of low barometric pressure
which will turn it more to Uie
northeast.
STORMS TRICKY
That would swing the storm
clear of the coast. But Dunn point
ed out that hurricanes are tricky,
and since lt is now in a critical
area a 24-hour watch is being kept
over it by Air Force and Navy
Aircraft.
Edith was centered near latitude
27.5 north, longitude 64.1 west, a
location that would place the eye
330 miles south of Bermuda, 840
miles southeast of Cape Hatteras
and 1.000 northeast of Miami.
It Is expected to turn to a more
norths-northeasterly course some
time Sunday and then pick up lor
ward speed.
Truman Blasts
Ike's Policies
FRENCH LICK. Ind. w Harry
S. Truman opened his give-'em-hell
speech-making Saturday night oy
charging President Eisenhower
with "misrepresentation and dem-
agoguery.
The former President started his
drive lo help return Democrats to
the White House with a speech
prepared for delivery at the dia
mond jubilee meeting oi the Indi
ana Democratic Editorial Assn.
Truman did not mention Eisen
hower by name, but said the Re
publicans '-began tcumg down tne
.New Deal and the Fair Deal
wherever they dared and as fast
as they dared" when they took
over in 1953.
"They obtained control ot tne
national government by misrepre
sentation and demagoguery," Tru
man declared, adding:
"And right after the election, the
President-elect went so iar as to
use misrepresentation and dema
eosuery in his message on the
State of the Union in January.
1953, and he lias never missed a
chance lo bciuddlc the real, issues
in, every speech he reads."
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WAVING FAREWELL to Main Street is Guj lampropuloi after
28 years as proprietor of the Olympia Grocery on Main near
Twelfth. Gus is moving his building to Martin and Holly
streets to make room for a super service station on his old
location. He first started in the grocery business in 1927 to
culminate boyhood goal in far-off Olympia, Greece, where he
was born. (See Story on Page I2)
Stassen Meets
Red Delegate
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Wl
Harold E. Stassen, President Els
enhower's disarmament adviser,
held an unprecedented meeting I
Saturday with Russia's Arkady
Sobolev in his consultations pre
liminary, tot the disaii ffint con
ference opening 'here 'Monday. ; -Stassen
conferred during the
morning with all the Western rep
resentatives to the disarmament
subcommittee and then arranged
lo see Sobolev at the Russian's
suggestion in Stassen's hotel suite.
Anthony Nutting, British minis
ter of 3tate; Jules Moch, French
representative; and Paul Martin,
Canadian health minister, dis
cussed strategy with Stassen at
their morning meeting. Stassen
talked with each separately Fri
day. The U. S. representative had al
ready Invited Sobolev lo luncheon
in his holel suite Monday, bclorc
the .subcommittee begins dis
cussing the Eisenhower aerial In
spection plan to control Disarma
ment and British Prime Minister
Eden's proposals for guaranteeing
zones ol neutrality In Germany.
Sobolev had accepted.
In the history of disarmament
talks, the U. S. representative nas
never, bcloro sat down for prelim
inary private talks with the Soviet
representative.
A U. S. source said the develop
ment mirrored the Elsenhower
Bulganln moves at the Geneva
summit parley to relax tensions.
Slashings Fire
Under Control
GRANTS PASS W A fire in
100 acres of slashing and second
Biowtl: timber of Ihe House
McDonald Logging Co. about l!0
miles northwest of here was be
lieved under control Saturday.
A crew of 85 men and six pump
ers worked to quell the blaze, the
?tat.e forestry office reported. Tne !
fire stnrtcd Friday afternoon, ap- j
parently irom the backfire of a
tractor. I
Basin Housewives Planning
Flood Relief Food Sales
Hou.vwlves of the Klamath Ba
sin will be cooking lor disaster
victims this week!
Following Ihe decision of the
United Fund and Red Cross Loards
August 25 that 11800 should be
lorwarded immediately as Klam
alh County's contribution to meet
the special appeal for aid Ui Hood
sulfcrei-o, communities throughout
Ihe Ba m arc organizing cooked
lood sales to be held simultaneous
ly on Thurvduy, September 1 with
all proceeds to be applied agalnsv
:he U300 loan secured from local
banks bv Red Crois disa.ttcr chair
man. Otto L. Smith.
Firt of the communitifs to re
sKind to the appeal (or county
wide hcip incluar Blv, Boi.anzu,
Chlloquin. Fort Klamath, Mnlin
and Merrill.
Mrs. Frank Obeuchalii, chair
man for the Bly District, announ
ces their baked food sale will be
held at the Sycan Store from 11
to 3 p m.
Malln's sale will be held at Ka
llua's tore from lo o 3 v, uli a
committee manned by Louis Ka
lina, Mrs. Gerald Qulnn and Mrs.
T. A. DcMerrill in charge.
Merrill women will bring their
kitchen product to the Merrill
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair with aome high
cloudiness throufc h Sunday and
Monday. I Ugh both days 80. ow
Sunday night 43,
Hlfh Saturday ...;. Hi
Low at midnight Saturday 54
Salem Pilot
Dies In Crash
SALEM til Two private planes
collided and crashed just north of
the Salem airport Saturday, and
one pilot perished in the flaming
wreckage of his craft.
The two occupants of the second
plane were taken to a Salem hos
pital. Neither was in serious con
dition. The dead pilot Is Gordon King.
35, Salem. His body was burned
almost beyond recognition. Identi
fication was made from a billfold.
He Is survived by Ihe widow and
three children.
The Injured were Nancy M. Nord
strom, 21, a University of Wash
ington student from Seattle, and
Ihe second pilot. Shelby S. Sulli
van, Bellevuc, Wash. Miss Nord
strom suifered a sc?lp laceration.
Sullivan suffered bruises.
Oeorge Douglas, stale board of
aeronautics member, was investi
gating tho tragedy. The board's
headquarters aro at the airport.
Bob Feller, a farmer residing
near the airport, said he heard
a loud noise" and looked up to
see "parts of a plane" flying
through the air.
Feller said the King plane hit
Hie ground first and broke lnlo
flames Immediately. Sullivan's
plane made a belly-landing aoout
300 feet away.
Quake Reported
Near Eureka
TiF.IlKELEY IUPi A "mncler
atclv strong" parlhn'iake hrlleved
to be In (he direction of Eureka,
was recorded today by W. C. Mar
ion. University of California seis
mologist. Marlon recorded ihe temblor at
12:01 a.m. and said It had a Rich
trr rating of 4 5 and lasted 10
minutes.
Pharmacy with sule hours begin-
nlir at 10 a.m. Mrs. Paul Lewis
lb heading the Merrill response.
Chlloquin will hold Us sale at
Ihe Indian education office and
Mrs. Walter Zimmerman and John
HeilbroniKT, co-chairmen, will an
nounce sale hours later.
Mrs. Lloyd L. llankim heads the
Bonanza saie; lime and place will
be announced early this week.
Fort Kin math residents may
make voluntary contributions ol
money with Mrs. Elizabeth Loose
ly at Looscly's store or leave them
with Mrs. Myrtet Wlmer of the
Fort Kb math garage.
The Klamath FjIIs sales will b
held at two location, one in Ihe
Pelican Theater building. Kighth
and Klamath and the second on
South thxih Street at the Hig V
Market. In every community par
ticipating in the food sale, women
meinbeis of all organizations are
being contacted by their president
to ask for their kitchen products.
No special Red Cro personal
nlleltatuin Is planned lor this ap
peal, but workers of the United
Fund-Red Cross Advance Oitts
section aie starling early and will
ask for inrreajed m!t to cover
the additional need.
Spectacular
Blaze Levels
Huge Plant
WHITING. -Ind. Ml A ragins;
fire, touched off by explosion of a
2rf-story gasoline cracking tower,
took two lives injured 44, and made
a shambles of sections of the
Standard Oil Co. (Ind) refinery
Saturday.
About 950 families were evacuat
ed from their homes. Gasolinn -raced
down the streets of this
Northern Indiana city of about 10.
000 population. The gasoline ran
into saivers and police Issued a ,
"No smoking" order.
Damage was estimated all the
way from 10 million to 100 million
dollars.
INITIAL BLAST
The Initial blast wrecked- the
world s largest liquid hydroformer
a high-octane gasoline still
hurling great slabs of its steel
piate sides into a residential area
across U. S. highways 13 and 20
which form the plant's west bound- -ary.
A hurtling piece of the huge tow
er smashed through the frame
house of Frank Plewniak, killing
his 3-year-old son, Richard, in his
bed. Another son, Ronald, suffered
loss of his left leg, and the father
was cut by hurtling plaster.
The other death was that of Wal
ter Rhea, 63, a foreman at the
refinery, who collapsed of a heart
attack after he was summoned to
emergency duty.
HOUSE SMASHED
The smashing force of the explo
sion demolished two houses, did
major damage to 80, and bashed up
another 100. One automobilo was
squashed to less than one foot of ,
thickness by a 10-ton slab of 2
inch steel. Another was tossed up
side down atop a shattered house.
After the Initial thunderclap of
force, flames spread among oil
storage tanks of the big refinery.
They roared through some 30 tanks-
and twisted two other gasoline
cracking units.
The American Red Cross, on the
basis of reports from Whiting, an
nounced a damage estimate of 100
million dollars, However, Dr. Rob
ert E. Wilson, chairman of Stand
ard, said in a statement "It is too
early to estimate the amount of
the damage, but lt probably will
exoeed 10 million dollars."
FIREFIGHTERS ' '
. 'Firemen from "Whltlngy Hast ;
Chicago, phioago and Uie com
pany's own department, aided by
some 6.500 volunteer workers
hundreds of whom drove dump
trucks at breakneck speed between
the fire and nearby sand Pits
nad tne names in check by 4 p. m.
The sand was used for dikes to
contain flaming fuel.
But a few minutes later, a tank
containing 3,200,000 gallons of nap-tlia-propane
exploded with a blind
ing whoosh, sending flames one
thousund fect into the air.
The new blast, which singed the '
hair of workers a quarter of a mile
away, forced a heartbreaking re
treat for preciGtis hours while a
pool of flames spread over a 500
yard diameter. Fifteen firefighters
were burned, apparently not se
verely. Somo lire equipment was
destroyed.
GAMOLINK FLOWS
Oil and partly refined gasoline
flowed into tho sewer mains of
Whiting, and some was sluiced in
to the Calumet Sag Ship Channel
to disperse and divert it.
At one tune, burning oil surged
across the highway toward the
blast-shaken residential area from
which nearly 1.000 families had
been evacuated by Red Cross
workers. National Guardsmen and
police. These naming sallies were
checked with sand dikes, and final
ly were extinguished.
Some 15 hours after the first
blast, Fire Chief George Macko
finally told reporters "It looks
wonderful. We have It contained.
We ll he okay unless the wind
comes up or shifts." -
Comp-iny officials said lt may be
days before the fire actually Is
extinguished.
The big Standard refinery, cov
ering 730 acres situated IP, miles
southwest of Chicago's loop, Is
rated by company officials the
largest In the Midwest and the
fourth largest in the United States.
Sudan Rebels
To Surrender
KHARTOUM, Sudan i.fl In the
face of government forces advanc
ing lo wipe them out, army mutin
eers In Ihe Far Upper Nile Milage
of Torlt agreed late Saturday to
surrender.
The South Sudan soldiers had
been In rebellion for more than a
week against being placed under
command of ofticcrs from the
North Sudan.
The rebels let a r.oon-tlme ul
timatum deadline pass but seven
hours later, when Hie government
lorccs were on the move, they an
nounced readiness to give up.
The rebels in Ton', radioed their
decision In re ,ponse to an ultima
tum r riday nirht from Gov. -Gen.
gir Aiexand.-r Knox Helm
Helm notllied the London and
Cairo governments of Ihe surren
der. He reported the Torlt rebels,
in giving .up. asked for 24 hours
more to enable them to gather up
other mutineers irom outlying
posts.
Their message said naditional
lime would "avoid further blood
shed" since scattered outposts in
the area cf '.he Nile headwaters
wera unaware ol Helm's Friday
night ultimatum.