Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - September 12, 1961, Wellsville, New York Buyers and Sellers Meet On Classified Page Of The Reporter Daily Reporter Allegany Countys Daily Newspaper Occasional Rain Slated To Bring Cooler Temperatures Eighty First Year NEW Tuesday September 1961 Six Cents Per Copy Hurricane Waters Flood Beach Road OVERTURNED CARS and trucks line a road paralleling the beach at Freeport Texas tides and winds from Hurricane Carla move inland alone the Texas roast inch merged restaurant at AP Wirephoto move inland along the Texas Reds Reject Western Protest Against Berlin Border Closing After Tornado Passed THIS like many others in began sorting the debris of his home to salvage whatever he could from the tornado that passed through the He found some unbroken dishes in his home which was completely AP Maybe Nikita Is Good Guy Pushed by Red Toughies By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON AP Its an but not com fort to think that the pudgy man who talks peaceful coexistence is really a good guy being pushed by Kremlin tough guys into talk ing war and Nothing in the record bears out that notion from time to is floated like a dreamy bal loon to explain the sudden and savage switches which occur Premier was a difference of opinion in Russia when Khrushchev said he his tests the He didnt become leader of the news was suspending same In January Khrushchev said Russia would not resume the tests unless the Western powers resume In Khrushchevs mind the Western as it turned included France which was then preparing to A little more than a month in had triggered atomic test in the Immediately the Russian Communist pack by being a soft touch anytime for He had to claw his way to the top in a league whose philosophy is based on power and not on per The world was shocked when Khrushchev suddenly ended the EastWest agreement to forego nuclear It didnt need to Khrushchev had carefully laid the groundwork for just such a The only missing element in his decision was why he did it when he Nor should his toughness on Berlin now be a He said three years ago he wanted the Allies out of Berlin and it had to be He said there would have to be a showdown this year and hes trying to make good on his Stalin looked tougher than He was behind tre Berlin blockade of the Com munist guerrilla warfare In the pressure on the seizure of no the Korean Stalin wasnt just more By the time Khrushchev took the United States and Russia both had the hydrogen So he had to be more But the two mens goals were the The only difference is A good example of why Khrushchev isnt being pressured by more belligerent than himself is in the nuclear test When President Eisenhower in 1958 suspended American nuclear there were some who thought the United States should not You can be sure there laid down what was to become the Soviet excuse for resuming its own If nuclear explosions should the Soviet government will not be able to overlook it and fail to draw the proper conclusions for its own se Tass The Associated Press reported last May 15 that the American and British then negotiating with the Russians in Geneva on a permanent test were not greatly impressed by the threat of resumed Soviet But Khrushchev meant busi as he Just as some of President Kennedys advisers thought the United States should resume testing in the it can be taken for granted some of Khrushchevs advisers thought Russia This record doesnt indicate that ganged up on Khrushchev to make him change his mind about suspending atmos BERLIN a note as sailing Western troop movements to the Soviet Union has told the West that the Communist East German regime has the right to regulate foreign travel to East Rejecting an 26 note from the British and French am to West Germany pro testing the sealing of the border in divided Soviets told the ambassadors Monday to take their complaints to the East Ger man One major aim of Premier Khrushchevs Berlin is to force Western recognition of East The Western pow ers regard the East German re gime as a Soviet Mikhail Soviet am to East com in his note that the West ern powers had brought troop re to Berlin and had posted soldiers on West Berlins declared such troop movements could encourage West Berlins fascist and re elements and this could result in serious conse Foreigners now are admitted to East Berlin but note raised the possibility that they soon would be Foreigners may cross into East Berlin on subway and elevated trains or on foot and by car at a special gate at the corner of Friedrichstrasse any letter to Am Walter Dowling was published Monday night by the East German news agency The Soviet ambassador said Visits by citizens of foreign states to the East German Dem known as an in dependent sovereign and to Carla Punches After Smashing Path Along Gulf Coast Twister Hits Courthouse Packed With Storm Refugees BULLETIN PORT The Civil Defense on its emergen cy network said today that a broke at Taylor Bayou today and said homes have been flood ed CORPUS AP Dying but still vicious Hurricane miles inland with multi losses on the coast in her threw fresh tornado punches at Texas At least two twisters skipped through Galves Hurricane Refugees age in of it still under water 3 feet deep from j tides and waves j the police a church and at least a few I In contrast to winds reaching 175 miles an hour on the Carla hit no higher than G8 at Driving rains fell across I most of the area behind the hurri j Huddled in shelters across the I crowding parks and homes of relatives j were the refugees whose caravans ton on the coast before Monday reached into Arkansas though they hit the county and 400 miles and house containing storm refu gees and other a Red Cross spokesman said there were no deaths or serious The Weather Bureau issued a special forecast for one or more more from the ravaged Officials in both Louisiana and Texas pleaded for the refugees to j stay out of the evacuated Flooding high I weakened and snakes by j tornadoes in a 120mile wide sec the thousands were still a tor centering on a line from Gal veston northward all the way across the state to The battering the Gulf Coast all the way from Cor pus Christi to Morgan slammed ashore on Matagorda Is land Monday to start a destructive push deep into Weather Bureau observers said only a few traces of Carlas pow er remained by the time it reached the Austin area in central Texas about 4 Winds of 50 to 75 miles per hour continued in squalls near the van ishing storm center and gales continued in scattered squalls ex tending 150 miles Forecasters warned of possible flood threats from eight inch rains expected as remnants of the hurricane pushed on toward the northwest through Texas and into southern Responsible who said they could only guess at the state wide toll so advanced tenta tive estimates of crop and proper ty losses well over million in There were two known deaths from Carla and the tornadoes hatched in Texas and A number of persons were but wholesale evacuation of coast al areas apparently held casual ties to a surprising Hurrying to aid aged coastal cities were the aircraft carriers ShangriLa and the destroyers Compton and the transport Fran cis Marion and two Marine Corps In the predawn twist ers bounded southward from the business district through an area eight blocks wide and 16 blocks Although one hit the court Red Cross County Chairman Fletcher Harris said i shattered windows were the main He reported flying bits of i REFUGEES DRIVEN from their homes by high tides and winds of who of Hurricane Carla fill the floor space of the City Auditorium in Hous on a i Others sit idly in the seats around the arena waiting for the National local cers and Texas Rangers maini Terrific winds and rains hit stin streets and made automobile traffic Heavy rains made travel almost The Southwestern Bell Telephone srid it lost circuits soon after the storm struck The only known dead was Able stepped on a power I line Monday and a child who died in a Louisiana tornado Sunday night as Carla churned 150 miles Spawned in the Caribbean Carla shouldered between west ern Cuba and Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula last Thursday to enter the Gulf of Meteorologists first described the great storm as Then Carla was called very and finally extreme ly Civil defense of said Carla might be the fiercest storm of the 20th cen Civil defense leaders said a half million people fled before the The Red Cross estimated the refugee flood at Of said the huge scale evacu ation saved thousands of lives and warnings helped save lions in property Officials hesitated to estimate The farm 1oss in Texas was placed by Agriculture Com missioner John White at mil The mayor of Corpus Christi es damage in his city at to There were almost no other of storm to AP Texans Begin CleanUp Of Battered Coastline By CHARLES GREEN started picking up the pieces along a battered coastline today and trying to guess how much Hurricane Carla Relentless poundings from winds hitting 175 miles per hour at the worst and tides raping up to 15 feet above normal took a property loll running into trillions of Qualified sources said they could only guess at the overall Tentative estimates indicat ed the statewide figure easily could top Homes and businesses from Cor pus to were flooded by the wild The winds ripped off roofs anil downed power lines as far inland as anything its still under wa where persons Cattle left as their owners hastened inland drowned in the jow coastal Carla iiil the Texas rice a lone strip near the es rice farmers to Texas Agriculture er John White said crop damage alone may Harland disas ter services coordinator for the Salvation placed property damage in tine state at mil its capital are regulated by government of the the I glass cut 50 to 60 persons but none died in a 1900 appar The rice was about I ently was one of the hardest hit ready for Torrential rains was hurt There was other tornado dam were expected to leave little for General DAW Settle Strike Issue DETROIT issue that triggered a snowballing plant strike against General Mo tors by the United Auto Workers Union was settled over When agreement 92 GM plants were shut across the na tion and men were with indications that the remain der of GMs 129 plants and production workers would be idled in a matter of if not The 1 issue on which local level strikes started erupting Monday was the amount of relief afforded assembly and pro duction line An allnight bargaining session Sunday failed to resolve the dis pute and carried new contract negotiations past Mondays 10 strike But within four hours after a fresh start Monday night agree ment was reached on a formula reportedly suggested by Secreta ry of Labor Arthur UAW President Walter Reu their predicted settlement of the relief time issue would material ly speed wrapping up of a new threeyear contract between his union and the worlds largest au They have agreed on an The only question is economic package which the un why did he do it when he during the Berlin A good guess is that he decided it was good strategy to show the West he meant business on Berlin if terrorize the Allies into yielding to FOUR GUARDS ESCAPE BERLIN border po escaped from East Ber lin Sunday Berlin of disclosed They had been assigned to dig ditches along the sector The four had been friendly for some the West Berlin re port and decided to flee to ion estimates is worth cents hourly in takehome Several issues left dangling at the national level included pro duction standards required work per the scheduling of over time for employed men when some employes are on the time union representatives may spend in the processing of griev ances on and work done by foremen which the union insists should be done by hourly Still dangling at the were demands ranging from factory airconditioning and air cushions for truck drivers to automatic permission to take time off for deer Reuther postponed from 10 Wednesday to 1 Thursday a scheduled meeting of the 280member General Motors Con which has authority to wrap issues and ence meeting was delayed to pro vide more negotiating time at the local He predicted real and meaningful progress could be made with bargaining sessions today and Settlement of the relief time is new The UAW will de sue was the key to unlock some pany keeps its basic rule of 24 He said the figure was very was based on re ports from six disaster crews scattered along the Towns in low coastal areas caught the brunt of Carlas tides as homes and public buildings County Judge Lavalle said he believes Galveston suffered to million in danu ge to There is no way to estimate damage to business he Freeport was the hardest hit by mountainous That city southwest of Houston was evacu ated while Carla was still 125 miles out in the The tides 1 broke a levee and water poured through the Multimilliondollar plants of Dow Chemical at Freeport were So was the nations first salt water conversion Civil defense workers said it may be Thursday before the wa ters go down enough in Freeport to allow people back in their wrecked The area of the coast caught Carlas full Five Die In Wake Of Storm minutes a into two j 12minute the union Winds up to 175 ripped wins its insistence that relief except in be mand the contract be met by oth er members of the Big Three Ford and Reuther said the GM confer of the most difficult problems we had told Under the the com at the local Reuther given within the last three hours of morning and after noon Reuther said that in effect that company have to provide a relief man for each 14 employes instead of 1 for each Auto Workers Strike General Motors through Port Lavaca before the wind gauge was carried Few buildings escaped but no serious flooding was re The situation in other areas Corpus Ben McDonald estimated property losses up to Port A weakened levee posed an even greater Baytown Flood conditions on was so flooded it was declared a disaster An estimated people fled two inundated Texas City Isolated by high waters and Business dis completely This Galveston Bay city had water up to the eaves of its stores and in many The yacht basin was a clutter of splintered yachts and sailing Bay City Torrential rains flooded streets and strong winds damaged only a glanc ing blow but tides rose almost 15 feet above normal in its ship ehan 50 miles from Wie Warehouses full of flour were Homes were flooded Store windows were BULLETIN AP The death toll in a tornado rose to aix here today and author feared the death list may grow At least 100 wooden residences were reported Brad Messer of the Galveston after a walk through the tornado AP A following in the immedi ate wake of hurricane cut a destructive path across this flooded island city early killing at least five The apparently originat ed in the Gulf of Mexico as a wa swept across the two mile island in a path from the seawall to the The tornado narrowly missed the center of downtown but struck the courthouse where storm evacuees were Most windows were plucked from the A Red Cross official was credit ed with saving many of the evacu ees in the building from serious The Red Cross man heard the roar of the approaching twister and shouted for all persons to Hit the All fell to the floor as the storm First reports indicated two twisters hit One cial described them as localized water originat ing over the Marie died as her home was All of the injured were reported not seriously The twisters bounced southward across the city in an area eight blocks wide and 16 blocks of 3rd graf Windows were shattered under the force of the A county courtroom and a jus tice of the peace courtroom were Three doctors set up a temporary hospital in the tax as office to care for the in A large hole was torn in the courthouse roof and a driving rain added to the misery of those who had taken refuge Marys Catholic Cathedral and an adjoining school sustained extensive roof Several houses in the area were demol ished and police estimated that between 30 and 50 cars were One woman in the courthouse died of a heart A number o frame houses in the tornado path were Many were homes built high off the Reports that two twisters hit Galveston apparently originated in a report that two twisters or waterspouts had been sighted on a radar Part of the tornado area is still under four to five feet of water from the towering tides kicked up by Hurricane Rescuers hurried to the scene in About half of residents were in their homes or evacuation centers when the twist er struck before The city has been without elec tric power since The big John Sealy Hospital and other hospitals are being supplied pow er from emergency Seawater over 90 per cent of the 35mile long island U slowly and is expected to be out of the business area by late A city Raymond Ad was bitten by a snake while searching for tornado He was taken to John Sealy NORWEGIANS ANNOYED BY NUCLEAR TESTING OSLO plan to evacuate the population in areas of northern Norway if Soviet nuclear explosions cause a dan gerous increase to the radioactive a civil defense spokesman scid Sverre civil defense said that 60 observation UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION MEMBERS walk out of the General Motors Fleet wood body plant stations In the north In Detroit and circle the plant with a picket The UAW began striking General Motors plants across he I of toTam tiie stalemate llad developed with on one AP i i j j u UI IU WcU II Lit stalemate had developed in negotiations with GM on noneconomic national level I if any of the Soviet test explosions create dangerous Holdup Man Loses In Gas Station Visit gun man lost in a holdup attempt at a Portland service Attendant Steven told police a man walked into the station Monday handed him a and asked for The visitor then pulled a Thinking Stabler shout ed Theres a police car Youre not getting anything from me There was no police ear but the rattled gunman fled ARRIVE FOR TOWN AP A 33member group ofthe Editorial an or of over weekly and daily newspapers in the Unit ed arrived today from South Vietnam on a ob servation Heading the visiting publishers and editors is Theodore Serril of executive vice president of
