Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 47, Ed. 2 Tuesday, April 3, 1956 Page: 2 of 4
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Twisters
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makes a ruling.
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help officers in the cleanup and
search.
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because the earth was swirling in
from other areas
Delightful! Washable cottons
from Dallas
Budget-priced at Penney’s!
parents, who had not heard of the
tragedy though they live at. near-
by Oilton.
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• SUN-SUITS; PLAY-ALLS
• FASHION PANTS
• RHUMBAS; SHORTS &
BLOUSE
INJURED:
Virgil Cogburn.
DAVENPORT INJURED
Mr and Mrs Oran Bailey.
Their four children.
Mrs. BiU Bailey
Mrs. Alva Flores
These persons were among those
reportedly injured in Kansas:
MAPLE CITY and OTTO
INJURED:
Mrs Pearl Ford. Kaw City.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lexis, Maple
City.
Charles Bowman. Otto.
C. E Matney. Maple City.
Mrs. Claude Matney. Maple City.
Edna Marie Matney, it, a
daughter.
Claude Matney >, M, a son.
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the mounting opposition D. Ernest
McCurry, Hobart, was among side-
line spectators voicing a
loud "no."
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blocking highways leading into the
strieken city to keep out the mor-
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building, slammed a tree down
upon a nearby school lunch shed,
tore off part of the teacher’s home
porch and overturned a water well
Guard Called Out
The twister hit Miami shortly
of distinction
Regarded as the ultimate In fine men’s hats, the famous
Dobbs Guild Edge (shown above) is the choice of well'
dressed men everywhere. Impeccably tailored crown and
brim dimensions—and new spring colors.
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Cotton plisse, nylon pucker
& crinkle cottom all in
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turn of Chief McAlpine were check-
ing all bouses of the stricken area
to determine if any broken gas
mains had gone undetected.
The city was plunged into dark-
ness as the full fury of the storm
struck and telephone service was
torneys said they desire to present
additional testimony before James
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cleanup task.
Houses Checked
. City trucks, trucks from Cush-
ing and other nearby towns joined
with oil field trucks, manned by
volunteer workers. In cleaning out
the debris. Huge trees, blown down
during the height of the tornado,
were dragged to one side to allow
free access to the stricken area.
the volunteer workers and towns-
people who rallied as the disaster
struck.
“Grocery store owners just
threw there doors open to give
food and coffee tor the volunteer
workers," Allard Mid.
IN Houses Damaged
Allard worked closely with
success in the
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trolmen in policing the stricken
area
Sightseers were being detoured
around the stricken city and only
the eastern section may get up to
JO-inch.
Temperatures" are to be cooler,
meanwhile, with a freeze possible
in the northwestern section. A sub-
freezing 30 degrees is forecast for
that area Tuesday night.
AIDE TO'TESTIFY
WASHINGTON (INS)—, Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jr., has
"We do not live in the city, but
changing the time would be moot
exasperating, inconvenient and
confusing for thousands who shop
blouse and skirt
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nado victims. The hotel •was
among downtown buildings which
Dudley's auto.
Time
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traveling pickets
Van Antwerp, owner of Van’s
bakery in Edmond, told Scanland
and Tom Hamill and Max Law-
rence, assistant county attorneys,
that Teamsters union pickets were
following his trucks as they deliv-
ered bread in Oklahoma City.
He said one of his trucks was
followed Tuesday by two men in
an auto. When the driver stopped
to deliver bread, the men hopped
out and picketed his truck. He
wants to know what can be done
about the unusual tactics.
The teamsters union is attempt-
ing to organize workers in Van’s
bakery.
Antwerp was accompanied to the
prosecutor’s office by Everett Cot-
J ter, Oklahoma City attorney.
Hamill said he and Lawrence
will study the statutes to deter-
mine if the picketing tactics vio-
lates any state law.
state tornado areas
He said food and drug inspectors
also are en route to the affected
areas although local health officers
report no immediate critical prob-
lems.
Mrs. Carl Jones, who lived
through the tornado which hit here
Monday night, also survived the
twister which took 108 lives at
Woodward in 1947. I
Rear Was Same
She told a reporter: "It had
quite a roar last night. This one
sounded just the same as the Wood-
ward tornado."
Another Drumright resident.
Lew Smith, 24, a next-door neigh-
bor to the Bevil family, escaped
injury although his house was
blown down practically on top of
him.
His wife and 2-year-old son had
raced to the storm cellar seconds
before the storm struck.
Around 3 a m. a rumor swept
through town that Miami, Okla ,
and Baxter Springs, Kan., had suf
fered even more damage than had
Drumright.
The ravaging tornado did exten-
sive damage at the dison school
house and practically demolished
the CaH Grocery store, nearby.
Lou Allard, state legislator and
publisher of the Drumright Der-
rick. was one of the first to reach
the disaster scene His home was
in an area not affected by the
storm. He said he thought dam-
ages would total about $150,000.
Allard was high in his praise of
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had to break the news to Bevil'e
The tornado had leveled the
home of Mrs. E. H. Haville. As
rescue workers pulled her from
beneath her flattened home she
said, "I can’t see anything with-
out my glasses." A rescue worker
pawed around in the debris and
came up with Mrs. Haville’s
glasses, unbroken.
shed.
The teacher, F. R Head, who
escaped with Ms wife and four
children, planned to reopen school
Wednesday in the First Baptist
church some 2*4 miles away.
Beyond the school, the twister
dipped down at the Oscar Lawless
home long enough to cause 11,000
damage, then plunged into the
Cogburn farmstead half a mile
away.
Couple in Shock
The Cogburn home, barn and
two outbuildings were wiped out.
bed when the tornado ripped away
the home.
Joplin Smacked
Two persons were injured in
Joplin, where a tornado hop-
skotched across the city and
caused considerable damage Ar.
nold Cox, 38, was treated for a
cut arm after his trailer home was
blown over. Charles Hart, a Jop-
lin fireman, suffered cute when a
{ window was blown out of the cen-
(tral fire station.
No homes were demolished in
Joplin, but much damage was
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Sterling Ackley.
Mr. and Mrs. Lone Jones, Bax-
ter Springs, Kan. /
Ruth Colvin, 39, Miami.
POND CREEK
INJURED:
Mrs. Paul Clegg.
Marsha Clegg, 14, a daughter.
Billy Clegg, a son.
HOPETON
WNJURED:
Mrs. Rose Veatch, 77.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Rogers, state chemist, said it called out at Miami Tuesday to
ed the Drumright Lumber Co..
Wade Drilling Co , CAH grocery,
Shideler Trucking Co., South-
west Welding shop and a Pure
Oil Co. pump station. The Chris-
tian church, in the north part
of town, was leveled.
POLICE SERGEANT Nova Se-
bastian, who was on duty as dis-
patcher when the tornado swooped
down, remained at his job through-
out the night as emergency gen-
erators were pressed into use for
power for police and fire depart-
ment radios.
An Oklahoma City man, Ralph
Norton, of 1228 SW 48, was among
the more seriously injured taken
to the Cushing hospital. He was
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Crowder, who also were injured.
Jewell Shelly, manager of the
Roberts hotel, whose own home
was blown down, threw open the
hotel to Drumright's homeless tor-
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She is charged with a felony the southwestern part of Drum-
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jured, and with passing another downtown business district. It then
vehicle on the right side, jumped to the Deep Rock oil camp
were damaged
The news of the Bevil family
deaths reached Jim Snodgrass, a
nephew, via radio at Tulsa. He'
off and the furniture was
stripped out of the building
BUT OF THE 11 people in the
living room, only Mrs. Joan
Johnson, 26, visiting from Dun-
can. was injured. She was treat-
ed for a cut on her neck.
Across the street, Mr. and
Mrs. Cleo Hutchison were play-
ing cards In the kitchen of their
home which adjoins the grocery
which he operates. Their home is
in the hard-hit Maple and Harley
streets section.
"We always figured we would
head for our walk-in refrigerator
if one hit here,” Mrs. Hutchison
said. "But all we had time to
do was hit the floor.
THE HUTCHISONS were not
hurt, though the grocery store
caved in.
Paul McClary, whose house
was at the corner of Oak and
Ohio streets, said he was in the
trolled city streets advising per-:
The Christain church, however, sons needing assistance to contact
was demolished, the Red Cross or Salvation Army
There was considerable danger at emergency beadquarters set up
from exposed power lines shortly at the American Legion hut
after the storm, but OGAE crews
temporarily disrupted However, weuoU,..
emergency crews from the Okla- from the left bumper of an auto house was unroofed
homa Gas A Electric Co and driven by Miss Johnson. Taylor
jumped to the Deep Rock oil camp
grew out of an ac- where four of the dead were killed.
Winds, said to be twisters, ripped
farm. I The Oklahoma forecast calls for
______ Jscapes the possibility of showers or thun-
Damage at the school was esti- derstorms Thursday and Friday,
mated at $5,000. The twister flat- The western part of the state may
get up to .40-inch of moisture and
livingroom with his wife and two
small daughters.
"We had less than a half-
minute's warning, just enough to
get under a table. My wife and
I laid down on top of the girls.
Our house was blown away," he
said.
McCLARY RECEIVED minor
Injuries and wu treated at a
first aid station quickly set up
at the American Legion hut,
where Helen Jones, nurse from
Creek county health department
i at Bristow, was on duty soon af-
vder a call for help went out.
' Mrs. Rose Johns, 57, neighbor
of the McClarys, said she had
gone to bed when she heard the
roaring and thought it was a
truck coming down the street.
She barely had time to get out
of lied when the twister struck.
Her home also wu blown away.
Squads of police and firemen
from some 15 towns rushed aid
to the stricken town. They were
joined by army reserve unite
and civil defense workers. Capt.
George Smith of the Drumright
and Cushing salvation army
posts had bedding and clothing
ready at the Legion hut.
THE SALVATION Army build-
ALWAYS FIRST O U A L t I Y '
were at the scene in less than an
hour, restoring service.
Service Restored
A total of 450 telephones were
knocked out of service here but
long distance service was re-
stored before noon. All other local
telephone service is expected to be
returned to normal bv Wednesday.
The tornado pulled familiar
tricks as it ripped through the city.
Sheet metal roofing was wrapped
around trees; clothes were scat-
tered on broken power lines but in
some instances just across the
street television antennas stood un-
damaged. More than a dozen win-
dows were blown out of the Hotel
Roberts at the corner of Morrow
and W Broadway.
Ne Fires Reported
Just across the street, many
windows were shattered in the po-
lice and fire department building
while nearby buildings were un-
scathed.
The Drumright fire engine was
kept revved up all night because
of a danger of a fire breakout but
none occurred
One member of the Bevil family.
Billy Bob, 8. escaped death as he
wu taken into a storm cellar at
the home of a neighbor. Mrs.
George Hermanstorfer, with whom
be had been visiting.
Serum on the Way
Dr. Grady Mathews, state com-
missioner of health, said at noon
out of an Help from across the state had
i arrived Tuesday and workers were
making a door-to-door search of
the debris for other injured or
owner of an auto from which state I after, midnightgrippingn
bneckheoruras
had just returned here from Ar from 250 yards to 2 miles wide be-
xansas. . . . fore hitting the southeast edge of
The charges were based on a Quapaw. A tavern and grocery
chemical analysis of paint scraped destroyed at Quapaw and a
Tuesday that tetanus antitoxin,
sprays and typhoid immunization feare
serum are on their way to all the ports
been invited to give congress the
administration's position on civil
rights. House judiciary committee
chairman Emanuel Celler ID*. --
N Y.I, asked the official to appear | Itffttt Stffitf earn feQiMnt
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Ing and city library, both to the
storm's route across the business
section, were badly damaged.
The Cedi Cummings home, in
the southwest section, wu said
to be the first hit. It was here
that a Smooth-old baby, Sharon
Cummings, wu injured.
Five youths were jailed early
Tuesday by highway patrolmen
who cruised the areas touprevent.
looting.
A hard rain which preceded
the storm slacked off suddenly,
then the wind began roaring
“and the windows blew out and
the power went off," reported
garage owner Jack Hill, whose
business is located on the main
street.
“IT LOOKED JUST like it was
raining bails of fire when the
power lines went down," he said.
The twister crossed the busi-
ness section at the foot of Tiger
hill on Broadway and seemed to
skip across town, leaving a trail
of damage 2 blocks wide in some
areas and a half-block wide in
other places
Businesses knocked out includ-
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A hop-skip twister dipped down done to roofs
four times in the little Sobol com- Carterville and Webb City, Mo,
munity, 23 miles east of Antlers suffered similar damage.
in southeastern Oklahoma. Worst An area of about four blocks
hit were two 5-acre areas, at the was damaged in Baxter Spring,
Sobol school grqnds and around Kan. Three persons were injured,
the Virgil Cogbur
Teacher Ei
hit 4-miles west of there Monday
night, injuring Mrs. Keith Cooper,
who wu in a car.
Reports of injuries from the sec-
ond storm were not available
At least one person wu killed
in the Kansu storms. Mrs. Ethel
Whited. about 70, reportedly was
killed at the home of her daugh-
ter south of Grenola. She wu in
there," he wrote.
City councilmen have been asked
to consider the change at their
next meeting. Meanwhile, the
Times ballot box is still open.
What do yod think?
Wheat Looks Better
Except in Northwest
The general half to quarter-
inch weekend rain perked up Okla-
homa's wheat everywhere except
in the. arid northwest, the federal-
state crop reporting service indi-
cated Tuesday.
In their weekly survey, crop ob-
servers uid rains "greatly bene-
fited" the wheat belt. Pastores,
except for the extreme southwest
corner, are also showing rain-fed
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Men on the way up ... men who have arrived ... all
choose Nettleton shoes. This delightfully cool summer Al-
gonquin comes in tan calf and wheat mesh, or black calf
dead.
Oil Camp Hard Hit
Wft-* chief
McAlpine was placed in direct
charge of rescue operations by
MAonu TwasseKtVut for volunteer She Is charged with a felony
workers to aid in the cleanup count of Waving the scene of an
campaign that got under way accident where persons were in-
shortly after daylight
The volunteer workers huddled
around the fire station in the chill
light of dawn, waiting for the first
sight of daybreak to begin the
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Wiwh Any Purehew a m er Men •
Rethachild’a, Mein M Hervey
rescue workers, newsmen and rel-
atives of the dead and injured were
Mayor King, Chief McAlpine and1 being allowed to enter.
Maj. Rollins in co-ordinating the I An announcement calling for ad-
preliminary relief work ditional volunteer workers wu
Allard estimated that at least1 made at * a.m. over radio station
75 homes were severely damaged KUSH, the Cushing-Drumright sta
■ ‘ tion located three miles east of
get on the floor," he said
County Attorney Granville Scan- sTheeront wal andrro’ DJ
land and two of his assistants were nouse
"S" in additioii. a sound truck pa- bed-wetting
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specialized supervision and guid-
ance to which they are entitled."
Miskovsky suggested a board
made up of “one qualified
woman," one psychiatrist, one
lawyer, and two other members
"of outstanding character and re-
pute.”
He suggested the board be em-
powered to employ directors, as-
sistants and personnel at institu-
tions under its control. It also
would be authorized to establish
qualifications and standards of all
such personnel.
Under the proposal, the governor
would appoint all five members of
I the board, with confirmation of the •
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cident on U. S. 82. three miles .—---- .
east of Oklahoma City, in which down a drive-in theater and dam-
Mrs. Bobbie Jean Dudley and her aged outbuildings on two farms
son. Charles Wayne Dudley, 18 near Tishimongo. No one was re
months old, were injured. portedly hurt Buildings on the
They were riding in a car driven Kenneth Robinson and Preston
by Robert D. Dudley Jr., 3500 Lovett farms were torn down
Brookside drive, husband and fath-, A no the r tornado reportedly
er, when their auto was struck by struck Minco, in southwestern
another vehicle and flipped into a Oklahoma, causing some damage,
ditch. No injuries were reported here
. ------ .h. gsg Miss Johnsbn denied she was in- either. ----
Volunteer crews under the dires volved in an accident, stating that
she and a friend, Leon Block,
bid
Also arriving at the scene short-
ly after the disaster was Okla-
homa City’s veteran fire chief.
G R McAlpine
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, o city firemen and the accident January 1.
ment’s disaster truck, eq pped The delay was ordered after sev-
eral witnesses had testified. At-
Cogburn suffered a leg laceration
and his wife was in shock when
neighbors brought them to Antlers
for treatment Tuesday morning.
The dazed couple could not ex-
plain how they escaped from their
flattened home.
Last slap from that 12 10 a.m.
twister was at tho Jack Clay (arm,
half a mile from Cogburn’s, where
a smokehouse was blown away.
Frank Fodge, state highway di-
vision engineer, had crews work-
ing Tuesday cleaning up the Sobol
debris. He Mid many county roads
in the southern part of Pushmata-
ha county were blocked by uproot-
ed trees and wrecked power lines.
In Jacktown. Lincoln county, a
new 5-room frame house was de
stroyed. The house, owned by
R. E. Hale, was not occupied and
no one was hurt. Jacktown is 8
miles west of Meeker on U. S. 62.
Lights Are Out
An adjoining farm, owned by
Hale's father, wm damaged.
One twister dipped to the ground
between Tonkawa. in Kay county,
and Billings, in Noble county, de-
stroying a barn and outbuildings
of the Walt Mielke farm. Debris
wm scattered a half mile.
Lights were out in Pond Creek.
Medford and other scattered areas
Authorities in Kansas said "a
number of persons” were injured
and several houses were knocked
down at Maple City and Otto,
about 15 miles east of Arkansas
City.
One Man Missing
Five of the injured were taken
to the Arkansas City hospital for
treatment None was reported cri-
tically injured.
The Kansas highway patrol Mid
it was apparently the same storm
that hit several houses and barns
southeast of Grenola and west of
Howard, injuring several persons.
One man, Ole Reek, was report-
ed missing in the Toronto, Kan.,
area.
Town Hit Twice
A funnel dipped to earth about
10 miles southwest of Strong City,
Kan., early Tuesday, which made
Baptist church but no damage
occurred in that area.
progress. Some damage was
Crash Hearing —v Ea.mwvaCnatss
. .. badly damaged near Skeedee, in
Otto D. James, justice of the the Shawnee vicinity.
peace, Tuesday continued the pre- The death-dealing tornado that
liminary hearing for Miss Flor- ripped across blocks of Drumright
once D. Johnson, ». of 2221 NE was reported at 0:35 p.m. Five
23, to April 17 for further testl- persons were killed and at least
* with two 20 were injured.
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were quick to arrive at the dis-
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Looting Reported
Same looting wu reported in the
wtedotty of the ball park.
Ika highway patrol and Dram
right police departments were as
sited by officers from Midwest
City. Tulsa. Casbing .nd Sapulpa
The Dramright and Oklahoma City
• firemen wore aided by Cushing.
Edmond, Blackwell, StiBwater,
Tulaa, Midwest City, Perry and
A atonal guard unit of Shaw-
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