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PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Tupsriav. Aliens is.Mn.fg Power Failure Hits NY; Heat Blamed NKW YORK (API - Lishts flickering oil in hospital opcrat inj rooms, tlevator service knocked out In huge apartment buildings. Packed suhways, with a sweating human cargo, trapped in underground tunnels. That was the picture as a sud den power failure struck the heart of Manhattan. The power lailure hit thousands of buildings in a Sonhlork section of upper Manhattan, leaving a half million people without elc vynrt, air conditioning, tralfic Cnii Tonit ' ..nnoiiawj. -n amigos. CtlFTON ' M' Jill B-raitu wit r urn lllLM Plus -TRAPPED ESSStf HOWARD KEEL ANNE HEYWOOO ' lights, or any of the complex sys tems that keep a great city func tioning smoothly. The power failure began in mid afternoon Monday. Gradual res toration continued into the early morning hours today. Power was completely restored to the area at 2:42 a.m. today, almost 13 hours after it went off. The mercury was near 9fl when power went off and the humidity was suffocating. Suddenly every intersection became a tralfic jam. Then the recovery began. In hospitals, emergency lights came on. Kxtra police poured into the area, straightened out the traflie. Police sent emergency genera tor trucks' to Mount Sinai llos nital, where nine polio- patients in iron lungs depended on auxiliary power. Subways, which have independ ent power but were stopped when signal lights went out, began to crawl, as workers with red lan terns signalled the way was clear ahead. Apartment dwellers began to find how it feels to climb stairs. Then darkness came, and New Yorkers in the stricken area saw the eerie spectacle of a city with out lights. In hospitals, . they faced the problem of getting expectant mothers to delivery rooms with out elevators. At least one child was, delivered in the beam of a flashlight. ' , But New York night life went on. Bartenders bought candles by the dozen, and complained be cause the beer was warm. Children, when they found the television and radio sets wouldn't work, enjoyed the novelty of 'see ing candle (lames flickering along Broadway. Bank vaults wouldn't close, and extra guards were assigned. At a radio station disc jockeys had a OPEN DAILY 7:00 P. M. MARIO LANZ'A sounds a NEW not in melody and font . ft I t J seven HILLS or ROME I TECKNIRAM A. TECHNICOLOR Fnoturt ?i40 t 10:15 Thurs. and Fri. im. sen lieia flay, me turntables were knocked out, so no records could he played, and the listeners were treated to one, long, continuous line of chatter. Meanwhile 10.000 employes Of the Consolidated Kdison Co. la nored lo repair the damage to power lines, apparently caused by a record demand made by refrig erating and other, cooling devices. Kxlra police were assigned to Central Park, which sretches through the middle of the dark ened area. More patrolmen walked the shadowed streets, lit only by the headlights of passing cars. in an, .i.ihiu extra police were sen', into the blacked out section Hours later, as power began to come back on, police reported only one burglary and one assault case. the blacked out section stretched across the island of Manhattan, from- the Hudson Riv er tu the Kast River. On the West Side it ran the length of Central Park, from 5!)th to 1 10th sis., and on the Kast Side from 74th to 110th. People thronscd onto the streets, rather than climb stairs to stuffy apartments with electric stoves that wouldn't work. Stores had a run on candles and flash iignis. Lnnnren nawked penny candles in the streets at 10 cents apiece. One shop owner sold 3,500 candles in two hours. The American Broadcast ing Co. s television network was knocked off the air lor 24 min utcs. and newsmen worked by candlelight in the ABC newsroom Several live TV programs were canceled. . .. . . Many restaurants and bars hampered by lack of refrigeration and ice, closed down at dark. Oth ers kept open and served by can dlelight. ' JUKenoxcs and lelevtsion sets were otif, and in bars and apart ments, New Yorkers were thrown back on their conversational re sources. Movie theaters emptied when the power failed, but little groups of people gathered outside the darkened houses. In front of one theater, a man entertained by playing tinkling tunes on glasses and cups. People gathered around news stands, and bought papers to read about the failure. Many went down to subway platforms, sup plied by independent power, and read papers in the weak, yellow light. A physician summed up the teeling of many people when he stepped from his pitch-black East Side apartment house. "It looks," he said, "like a part of the. city has died." From the gripping and dramatic best-sellerl iUDRESEPDUntl IN ' The Hun's Itorh TECHNICOLOR Peter Finch WNltOllHtMUS MMCrCGGIASHCROrr OUNJACCJR -..wii-ct I Lri I 1 1 1 I -J J Door. Open 1: :30 2:00 0 Matinee for Kids! Wednesday -- Aug. 19 7 CARTOONS --Plus 3 jIM MVM1T TV K t Breakthrough Predicted . WASHINGTON (API- A pos sible breakthrough in the search for a way to harness an H-bomb reaction for peaceful purposes lias been reported by the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. W. R. Faust; who described the work Monday, Was cautious in appraising it but said it was a step forward. The problem in harnessing the H-bomb reaction comes in heat ing heavy hydrogen gas to a tre mendous temperature in this case 28 million degrees until its atoms fuse and release ener gy, and then containing the gas long enough for the fusion lo take placo. Kausl said Dr. Alan Kolb suc ceeded in containing the gas longer than previously reported for such a high density gas. u,V 'j y -i s .'."viiu.: ... J THE TREMENDOUS DEVASTATION wrought by the ex plosion of the dynamite-ammonium nitrate truck in Roie burg can be seen by this aerial view of the explosion spot. The round hole in the middle of the picture is the spot where the explosive truck stood. The picture was taken by Tommy Esslinger, Copco employe in Roseburg, several days after the blast. 'DENNIS THE. MENACE" "ItMGO LIVE WITH AiRJ.K'll.ScX: SHE UTTl 60yS SURPRISE FOR FAMILY LK PONT, Switzerland UCI I Mrs. Marie Louise Masson Monday blindfolded her husband and four children, told them they had a surprise in store, then shot them, police reported. Two ol the children were killed in stantly. The father and the two other children were seriously wounded. Police could discover no motive. Welcome Newcomers! Greetings from the sponsors of Klamath Falls Greeting Service. Sally Comsrock TU 4-5216 Ping Pong Ball Chokes Boy, 2 BFXLMAWR. N.J. I API-Larry Weisenbach, 2, suffocated Monday when a ping pong ball became stuck in his throat. 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The victim had a hand kerchief in his pocket with the laundry mark "Hart" stamped on il, Bartolomie said. Several dol lars in change were found in the man's pocket. Bartolomie said the victim was struck behind the ear with a sharp instrument. He said there was evidence the body had been dragged a few feet, probably from an automobile. Largest man-made island in the United States is Treasure Island FREE DELIVERY SERVICE! ON ANY ITEM IN THE STORE! : . Phone Us Your Needi Deliveries Each Day at 11:00 - 2:00 - 4:00 IN THE VILLAGE COURT 9th & Moin TU 2-3475 MILTON TO VISIT FAN-AM GETTYSBURG, Pa. (LTD President Eisenhower's brother Dr. Milton Eisenhower, will reji. resent the White House the opening of the Pan America Games in Chicago Aug. 27. ih Gettysburg Wiite House said. The President was forced to cancel his appearance because of his, scheduled trip to Western Europe Aug. 26. THE NATION'S (! 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