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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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man in his mid-50s, 6 feet 5
inches tall, and weighing 205
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kerchief in his pocket with the
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il, Bartolomie said. Several dol
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