Evening Independent (Newspaper) - December 2, 1958, Massillon, Ohio Its Been Worse Partly coudy with little temperature change tonight Colder Wednesday 95 No 149 THE Established 1863 Press and Central Press News and Features Massillon Ohio Tuesday December 2 1958 Todays Chuckle Mighty f e w things art nicer than a wife who to cook and can 18 Pages 5 Cents a Copy 30 Cents a Week 87 Children 3 Chi uns Perish In By The Associated Press CHICAGO Fire struck a parochial grade school with terrify ing swiftness Monday trapping pupils and teachers at their desks a few minutes before dismissal time Ninety perished The final toll included 87 chil dren and three Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The fire was Chicagos worst since the disastrous Iroquois theater fire of 1903 It was the third worst school fire in the nation in the last 100 years More than 85 youngsters re mained in hospitals suffering from burns and broken bones received in frantic leaps for life and shock In the Cook county morgue little corpses a few Parochial School Fire charred nearly beyond tion still lay waiting to be fied by tearful parents A special detective task force joined firemen in seeking the cause of the catastrophe The fearful speed with which the blaze devoured the Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic school led Fire Commissioner Robert J Quinn to consider arson Billowing black smoke indicated an fire he said Quinn called the blaze the worst thing I have ever seen or ever will Drew Brown head of the police arson squad said a rubbish blaze could have started it Brown said he learned a student was instructed to burn some rub Harry Piper 2 City Jobs Will Become City Sanitary Engineer City council Monday night put final approval on a re organization plan combining the offices of city engineer and city sanitary engineer The plan had been tentatively approved by a majority of coun cil members in a committee of the whole session a week ago Two ordinances and a resolution making the needed changes were approved udder pension of rules requiring three separate readings THE PLAN WAS over the objections of Francis Eoz zacco chairman of councils sew ere waterways garbage disposal and public health committee j Bozzacco said that after thori ough study of the proposal to make City Engineer Harry Piper head of both the civil and the sanitary engineering he thinks it a poor way of giving Piper a We are actually doubling his Bozzacco said x bish in a concrete pit just outside the brick buildings northeast stairway about p m some 20 minutes before the fire broke out The vicinity of the northeast stairway was where the fire apparently started Brown said Just 18 minutes was the differ ence between life and death for the students and teachers in the school The first box alarm was turned in at The school let out at 3 p m Within minutes the building turned into a wild screaming in ferno Smoke and heat filled stair cases and secondfloor corridors so fast that norma exits were im passable We are trapped We are trap nuns screamed from the win dows as they huddled with groups of pupils Many children panicked stam to windows Some leaped to death on sidewalks below Nothing killed those kids but neat and Quinn said They just couldnt get out into the cor to go Nearly all the class in two classrooms per ished Screams of children trapped on upper floors drifted down to hundreds of horrified spectators hysterical parents Firemen raised ladders and brought down dozens of pupils Priests on the scene even before the fire fighters led out others Nuns with disregard for their own safety rolled some pupils down staircases Children ducked to the floor seeking cool and fresh air and crawled out Others groped their way to freedom by grasping hands and of class mates and filing out the ed structure For some there was no rescue however God we tried God how we sobbed one fireman But we couldnt move fast enough No one could live in that As the bodies were brought down in the eerie hazy light par ents pushed against police lines crying Where are our children Where are our children The dead were placed in a court yard where only a few hours be fore the children had been laugh ing and playing The injured were taken to seven nearby west side hospitals Twenty two victims died en route to hos or soon after arrival Sixty eight bodies were sent directly to the morgue where parents and relatives gathered frir the dreaded identification ordeal Of the dead 53 were girls and 34 boys The heroic nuns account ed for the other three The school at 3808 Iowa st was built some 40 years ago It was remodeled about five years ago Fire officials said the school was checked last October and no violations were found Exits See 87 10 MORGUE OF SORROW Hospital Crowded With Relatives Seeking To Identify Fire Dead By EDMUND DMOCH CHICAGO AP The acrid stench of burned bodies and clothing hung heavily over the morgue at the Cook county hospital today Inside scores of priests and hospital attendants tried to comfort bereaved relatives still trying to identify the bodies who died in Mondays fire Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic school Ninety bodies lay on stretchers in three rooms of the morgue basement Some had been identified within hours after the fire Some bodies contorted agony may never be identified y Among nurses and the partial school in Tax Levy Necessary Teachers Ask Boost In Pay The salary committee of the Massillon Education as sociation submitted a proposed new teachers salary sched ule to the board of education of the Massillon city school district Monday night and was informed that passage of an additional operating levy would be necessary to finance it The proposed new schedule would provide salary in creases over the districts existing schedule ranging from 5300 for a beginning teacher with a minimum of training to for a teacher with a masters degree and 15 years of experience It proposes salaries ranging from for a to be college credits while and 15 years of experience SalUne for membership in all aries under the existing schedule ocal and national range from a low of to a organizations for previous years one for pro activity above the local level one for exceptional public relations one to three for re search one to three for publica tions and one to three for travel The board credits would be determined by a board consisting high of UNDER THE proposed sched ule teachers would be required to earn six credits through addi tional training and various pro activities at each fifth year level to qualify for higher salaries provided for additional years of experience Three of those credits would GRAVEL LIMESTONE Fix your driveway now Prompt delivery Builders Supply 785 Third st NW TE NO MONEY DOWN MONTH will buy you a brand new 1959 Admiral Refrigerator TV or Elec tric Range Maytag Hamilton Speed Queen Washer or Dryer No payment until Feb Pride Furniture rd in Genoa Open MOST SENSA TIONAL CHRISTMAS STARTS Bozzacco said he believes a greater effort should have been made to secure a fulltime sani tary engineer to fill the vacancy in that department instead of combining the two positions See 10 6 Defendants Choose Quick Way To Court CLEVELAND per sons accused of passing in fraudulent checks in six states chose the quick way to get their case before U S District Court Which is the shortest way Perry Emerson jr 26 asked when he appeared before U S Commissioner H A Horn Mon day From where to where re plied the commissioner From here to the federal pen Emerson answered TO THE the photos Page Firemen carry a dead nun left and a youngster right down Our of Angels A Strange Brooding Silence Hovering among the ers was Father Joseph Ognibene This priest a Chicagoan came to Our Lady as the parish was known in 1952 It was his first assignment after ordination HE WAS Father Joe everyone It was his daily routine to walk the schoolyard and near it V F1 JA woman the entrances during recess tha collapsed and immediately lunch period and as the tendante ringed her eased her left the building aI to a chair and administered m o Ing salts Stranger Is First To Report School Fire she out tfl and sobbed The kids on the sec CHICAGO AP strange daughter Helena 6 a floor were hanging out of the brooding silence hung over Our grader who emerged unhurt j windows and screaming At Lady of the Angels school today Across the street from jumped I saw fiv or six sit Lold winds blew through a housewife Mrs Mary ting and laying in the gravel on less windows of the dashed out of ground directly under the up building The char marks apartment Her son Ronald windows They were full o of fames traced a rough pattern one of the first youngsters It was in black tnp tnn nf thp i in black near the top of the north of the school wall The sound of sirens filled the went upstairs in the chilly air of the northwest side A geography seared and shorn and the smoke hit me and I wentas fire trucks police cars and am the Mrs Jalowiecki balances sped to the school Bu ithen a strange silence envelopes out in front SILENCE ALSO ruled the THEN SHE burst into tears the area Mayor Richard J Daley and city officials stood outside the school half an hour before the TT end of Mondays classes Then A stranger walked into the can Deaths 3 j talked in low voices almost m n IO t morgue attendants could be seen the figures of priests Here was one his arm around the shoulder of a weeping woman trying to console her i IT WAS THE will of was heard in a low whisper from the priest Your daughter is an angel in The woman wept unrestrained r From the other side of the Nearby z couple in their 30s Pale dry of tears they fin gered a rosary their lips moving wordlessly The man had said earlier his daughter was not re ported in any of the hospitals to which many of the children had taken The couple came to the morgue but lad not looked at any of the un children They were Braying she still might have only Deen injured perhaps still in a hospital through some in Monday Father Ognibene met art old friend for lunch They dal lied at the table Then he noticed it would soon be time for his young parishioners to school for home I hurrying to the school in my he said I saw smoke coming from the upper and drove my car the wrong way up a oneway street I parked car and ran into the building Some children were leaving See 10 Milling Throng Had A Life Of Its Own CHICAGO AP By HAROLD LISTON Thj milling throng had a life of its a vi OWn stretching and straining at a leash that was fastened to disaster As firemen bore each lifeless form shrouded in canvas to waiting line of ambulances faces surged forward then back Some heads turned away from er wae no e can 3 ae n THE COMMISSIONER allowed dy of Glow whispers lackl cuy me r J school They were grave and the small crossed herself her lips in figures Others faced ahead in the school use the tele vv i that the shortest way was waive a preliminary hearing He asked to Then Emerson said she related and I told And I waive was the j him I had no public phone quick reaction of Frederick K he said the school was on fire an i Moore 21 charged along with Emerson and four women com See 10 CHRISTMAS BAZAAR First Methodist Church Dec 45 the president of the Massillon Sec TEACHERS Page 10 WANTED TO RENT 4 or 5 room apartment for young couple with small child Reason able rent Dial TE TUES WED Spaghetti or Ravioli Dinner with Meat Sauce LINCOLN TAVERN 3534 Lincoln Wr GRILL Now serving meals and tasty chops ham RUTH JEAN The stranger had a calm air Parents 8 Health ig Sports iz 7 The behind strands of 1 rope stared quietly as if couldnt believe what had hap Searchlights were trained on Others faced ahead i blank unbelieving as they watch firemen carry the dead from of the Angels Catholic THROUGH THE broad door t the during the night while firemen and investigators abl UdU 4 3 1 I O about him and Mrs 14 combed the blackened reaction was slow But when shr Markets 11 of the building THROUGH THE evening moth Sec 10 the import of his state PIZZA The best and the biggest 1 n Ginger Ale Qc with every Comics IT Report and stairway the tragic proces sion came under the arch chis with Our of the An gels An old woman held a black kerchief to her thin lips She p Fri II a Homemade Xmas Popcorn Balls Caramel Corn Popcorn TE Popcorn Ball on a Candy Santa Claus Xmas Tree Star 1 hr dry cleaning 1 hr shirt laundry 150 feet east of Cherry Swift i Hr HANES UNDERWEAR THERE IS A WARM BUS IN TOUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVERY HALF Popcorn Ball on a Stick DeBos 536 5th SW TE 23347 P J BORDNER CO Wednesday Fresh Milk gal jug Large Eggs doz Blue Bonnet ib Cake Mix 8 oz pkg Hamburg Ib Ice Cream gal PAGE 21 IN WEDNESDAYS e c t i r wieners i x CPP cigar Dinners 6 a m starting Monday Sign N DONT WAIT ijo i V A 11 LUNCH AT THE SUGAR famous Thermal shirts the 195 Christmas Club at If taste tempting foods each Joe First National Bank in Mas mg beverages and fast 169 Lincoln Way Union service are what you lunch us NOTICE LOCAL 1121 Regular membership Wednesday Dec 3 p m i Hall 413 Lincoln Way E tive Board meets r Signed Robert Siffrin V Al Frankies MOST 2 for TIONAI CHRISTMAS 500 DOZ COUNTRY FRESH EGGS 1 DOZ MED SI 00 While Inst Cheese Ib Charlies Market THESE MENS STORES K a n n e r s Joe Stones and Working mans Store will be open Monday Basket 1129 State j Thursday and Saturday from s m until 8 p m during Dec i Dick Swaney owner New Car Amherst Store Open 9 till 9 Other 2 Stores till STARTS THURSDA Y PAGE 21 IN WEDNESDAYS XMAS SHOPPERS Enjoy your coffee break us We arc now serving complete lunches homemade and same famous quality S A 1 E as our candy you have been ca joying for years JIMMYS SHOP 24 Erie on the MUD SNOW TIRES x 15 SI exchange tax Be ready for cold CITY TIRE 4 REPAIR CO 148 Charles S W Phone TJB MASSILLON DOOR CHECK CO We repair sell and install com door closers Dial TE BOYERS POPCORN BALLS Red Green White Caramel Wholesale Retail 3612 Erse st S ext Dial TE 35072 We deliver YOUR FUTURE LAUNDRY will be a combina us show you how you cat eliminate all the work and save you money Investigate to day Community Store TE 21543 FLORAL SHOPPE Call us we will deliver and place your prave blankets We also have wreaths roping and Christ mas decorations 1404 S Erie st TE in prayer Two men wept openly They talked to each other ta Hushed soft Italian voices the murmur Most just looked A man touch cd the woman by his side they turned away without words And others waited Those est to the tragedy the went to hospitals then to See MILLING page 10 PIANO LESSONS Beginners and advanced Dial TE CHRISTMAS costs money join the 59 Christ mas Club Now Open at The First National Bank in ICE SKATES SCISSORS and knives sharpened at Barber Shop 214 Lincoln Way W HOME CANDY MAKERS Buy your raw materials from Jimmys Diced Fruit Ib Candied Ib Pineapple Rings ii Also citron fruit peels chocolate coating peanuts cocoanut and raw nuts Two stores to serve vou 24 Erie S and 16 Penn JIMMYS CANDY
