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ONTANA QUAKE KILLS SIX
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Tourists Cut Off
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VOL. LXX, No. 163
24 PAGES—500 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1959
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Hits Needles
Quakes
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Recalled
Anti-Tax
6
Petition
2
State civil defense director Hugh Potter, at Helena,
strong enough to cause loss
of life and extensive prop- Mont, urged the air force in Montana and the Idaho
Drive Set
civil defense officials to save the stranded persons with
erty damage.
Two small shocks—prelude to helicopters.
The earthquakes, felt throughout the Pacific north-
near this western entrance to Yellowstone National
Oct. 18 when a tremblor, or series
Not Till D-Day
Telephones and electrical power were knocked out
tipped over and buildings were shifted from their
Bar That Bar,
Factfinder
in front of me, I grabbed it and
on."
The torrent flipped their truck
Spo-
kane, wash., and Seattle both re-
Wine Here,
and was part of an unusually
heavy propaganda broadside re-
the licenses," Bergman said,
'it
Miskovsky said.
Wednesday,’
water was forced by the upbeav-
When Robert E. Crennen of
facts behind the steel strike in
reach the town about 50 miles be-
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief of
and Arizona.
and a settlement.
U. S. naval operations, raised the scheduled to consider applica-
possibility the soviet Union al- tions from 27 private clubs statehood, almost 2,000 cases of
ready has ballistic missile-firing throughout the city at 2 p m.
wine, went into wholesale ware-
submarines. The United States is Wednesday. (A total of 30 clubs houses here Tuesday.
al fact finder, will be made pub-
All Brands Sales Co., 101 E Call-
Actor Desi Arnaz, husand of sians have submarines able to nance. However, three of them fornia, with 700 cases, and Cen-
blocked a railroad tunnel near
Lombard, Mont. Almost without its and a few related matters.
exception, quakes dating back to
The secretary told a news con-
covers a
facts he has been assembling
ings may face the loss of their
whether the dam had been dam-
concerned," he declared, "any ceived a token shipment of 10 will be held September 10-30 to
1
a.m. were hitting west Yellow-
raise money for the new Our
cases Monday.
mendatidns for action.
st.39 every 10 minutes. These
The 10 cases had no state liquor Lady of Angels school The new
bootlegger will be stopped before stamps and the management school, expected to be ready in
made no announcement of its ar- September, 1960, is being built
they even get started.”
Bergman pointed out that the rival.
As the wine arrived, and as
(Sm CLUBS—Page 3)
is not a U. S. inland
antiquities from the museum in
"forced admissions” that the
as
Kelvain.
(Sm MISSILES—Page 3)
systematically looted for years.
By LEONARD JACKSON
and
The policy change was an-
/
The Weather
Brook said if the dam went out
City patients were admitted Mon-
ities added, at the intersection
wall of water that would not
morial hospital.
was poor.
SE 39. was experiencing a weak-
"go pretty fast all the way to
IThre. FoFt. » T‘ •
mended equalizing the rates. He
com-
At Bozeman, Mont, Gallatin
Sheriff Don Skerrik
.06-inch.
About 67,000 private customers
are to be from 66 in the Pan-
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
expected here.
izing rates paid by individual
a.m.
9
3
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a series which ultimately totaled
1,794 in a five-month period—
were felt in the Helena, Mont.,
Replenished Vaccine
Permits Booster Shots
The first legal alcohol trans-
ported into Oklahoma City since
club which jumps the gun and
begins stocking up from some
Miskovsky Finds
Backing to Start
Fight on Deducts
citizens committee studying over-
all city problems had recom-
LONDON W—Moscow broad-
cast Tuesday a warning that mis-
Shel Stirling, city manager,
drew a recommendation to the
ing given the green light to begin
serving set-ups and mixing drinks
still working on its first ones.
Asked if he believed the Rus-
It said some U. S. military
leaders concede the threat of
modern Soviet submarines able
to travel under the arctic ice.
The newspaper described these
Quinn said that from the air it
was not possible to determine
on the site of the December 1
fire that claimed the lives of 92
250 pieces have disappeared.
The government has ordered
an inventory of all provincial
An ordinace setting the new
scale also was to be submitted
as councilmen plowed through a
40-item docket Tuesday morning.
families and apartment dwellers.
Previously, single homes were
have asked to be licensed under
the city's new private club ordi-
lic for Thursday newspapers.
Mitchell said they will cover
wages, prices, productivity, prof-
Miskovsky said Sam Chesnut,
personnel manager for Reda
Pump Co., Bartlesville, informed
cause of debris on the road.
Needles is about 220 miles
northeast of Los Angeles. It is
tive shock hit the city, killing
two more persons and causing
extensive property damage.
Because the two big shakes oc-
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1959 to date, IN; August, 29
1958 to date, 484; August, 39
An 8-year-old Muskogee boy,
who ran in front of a car while
riding his bicycle, was killed
Ike to Reveal
‘Basic Facte’ To
Press Thursday
Benefit Fete Set
CHICAGO (UPI)-A carnival
Fifteen miles north of here, the shocks threatened
to crack open the Hebegn hydro-electric dam on the
Madison river, a tributary of the Missouri. Four to five
HELENA, Mont. (UPI)
—Only once before in mod-
Actor’s Car Wrecks
Guard Rail, 3 Poles
OCEANSIDE, Cadif. (UPD_
1935-36 Period
Brought Loss
Of Life, Property
taurants and other non-residential
(See GARBAGEPage 1)
“Move fast,” Potter urged them.
Potter said giant fissures in the earth, the broken
mountain and the quake-weakened dam prevented the
missiles, Burke said:
“I think they probably have
THE TRAIN STEAMED, the whistle screeched—and the ponies just couldn’t
take it. So a couple of Indian riders hit the dirt, instead of heisting the engineer
on the old Rock Island No. 9. The train ran into Anadarko Monday from Chick-
asha as the opening event for the week-long American Indian Exposition. Dixon
Palmer, the man on the ground, got up to greet the visitors. But Tuesday he was
in the hospital suffering from a sprained ankle, back, and other sundry injuries.
(Other pictures on Page 13)
To Report
On Steel
Bergman sounded the warning on the eve of the
first fullscale meeting of the city’s license review board,
Chesnut, Earl F. Amundsen,
Oklahoma City, and myself will
be the incorporators.
"It is my hope to file notice
from industrial and government
sources.
injured.
Dead is:
JAMES M. KRAGG.
licenses, Bergman said.
"As far as I am personally
of Helena, a new spring was
opened and the old hot springs
doubled their flow.
Montana has had other quakes
Roads Cracked Open
in Yellowstone Park;
Buildings Are Shifted
NEEDLES, Calif. (J) — A desert cloudburst dropped
a devastating load of rainfall that virtually sealed off
this small Colorado river town Monday night.
The flash flood ended early Tuesday—as abruptly
as it started. It left an estimated 200 motorists stranded,
retary of state, either Wednes-
day or Thursday.
“The secretary of state will as-
sign a number to the petition,
and the printer then will begin
turning them out."
He said the first order of pe-
(Sm DEDUCTS-Page 2)
The Madison, Jetterson and
(Se.QUAKE-Pag.2)
Licenses Endangered
"Just because we're issuing
geodetic survey said damage to
Helena alone in 1935-36 was be-
tween $3 and 34 million.
Th* two major quakes of 1935
were felt over an area of at
least 200,000 square miles, as far
north as the Canadian border
200 miles away, eastward to For-
sythe, 250 miles from Helena,
and southward in Wyoming and
Bicyclist, 8,
Killed by Car
Muskogee Corner
Scene of Accident
A high of 98 is expected to
Oklahoma City late Tuesday and
Wednesday.
injury when his sports car ca-
reened off the road, tore out 20
feet of metal guard rail and hit
three utility poles, the California
highway patrol reported Tues-
day.
The accident occurred shortly
before midnight last Friday when
a truck forced Arnaz off U. S.
101 north of Del Mar, Calif., ac-
cording to the patrol report just
made public.
♦
6 Held in Looting
Of Egypt Museum
CAIRO 05—Six employes have
transmitters.
Nautilus Made History
e1
And Legal
Warehouses Fill
For Rum Debut
Opinion Awaited
Clubs which fail to heed the
Coe
In recent immunization clinics,
when the vaccine wA in short
Rains Could
Spot State
Humidity Is High,
So Is Mercury
High humidity was still the
rule in Oklahoma Tuesday as
temperatures continued their 90-
degree stay.
This, coupled with a little un-
stable air, to expected to trig-
ger a few light, widely scattered
thunderstorms through Wednes-
day. Mostly, however, the weath-
er pattern just calls for uncom-
fortable afternoons.
A few light showers were fall-
ing in the southwestern part of
the state Tuesday morning, but
the weatherman said they were
dying out without leaving any
moisture of note.
However, several communties
report measurable rainfall dur-
ing the past 24 hours. These in-
clude Hobart with a trace; Okla-
homa City, with .01-inch; Ard-
more, with -15-inch; McAlester,
with .08-inch; and Fort Sill, with
earth.
Fissures appeared in highways and many park roads
in the western section were blocked or broken open. *
Officials of the state depart-
ment of public safety said Mus-
kogee police reported to them
that young Kragg was pumping
the McKelvain boy on his bicycle
when the accident happened.
They said the boy ran his bi-
cycle into the path of car driv-
en by Carl Herman Streck, 38,
of Muskogee. Streck attempted
to avoid colliding with the bicy-
cle but could not, officers said.
The accident happened, author-
VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. W— At least six persons
have been killed in the quake which rocked Montana
Monday night, the Madison county sheriffs office.
reported Tuesday,
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (UPI) - A series
of powerful earthquakes flattened a mountain Tuesday
Khaidamaa-ST
bower.
He told questioners the pro-
(Sm STEEL_Page 2)
Leaders Named
"We will incorporate the citi-
zens committee to repeal discrim-
UPI newsman Paul Quinn, who flew over the area,
said he saw many “S. O. S. signs and signal fires” there.
Foothills Are Cracked Open by Shocks
miles in front of the dam
a mountain slid across the
upper reaches of the fer-
tile Madison valley and
backed up the river over a
500-foot-wide area.
Town is Emptied
The giant slide looked from
the air as if it had been shoved
off a mountain top by a huge
hand, Quinn said. It blocked the
highway and trapped the tourists
between it and the dam.
Downstream from the slides,
residents of Madison Valley—un-
der order of Sheriff Lloyd Brook
of Virginia City, Mont.—fled from
By HUGH HALL
Circulation of a referendum pe-
tition to knock out Gov. Edmond-
son’s state income tax withhold-
ing law will begin this week,
state Sen. George Miskovsky,
Oklahoma City, said Tuesday.
Preliminary plans to put the
law to vote of the people crystal-
ixed Monday night into an organ-
ization Miskovsky said will be in-
corporated as the citizens com-
mittee to repeal discriminatory
withholding tax.
October Is Deadline
Miskovsky said the group will
have until October 1 to get some
27,000 signatures on a petition
which woould sespend the act un-
til it is voted upon by the people
for either approval or rejection.
If insufficient signatures are
."a
La -aah"aadSMhME
with 1,000 cases, had ended up
in a dead heat as the first to re-
ceive shipments.
18 Cases First
But then it developed that
Famous Brands Wholesale Liq-
uor Co., 629 W Reno, had re-
the state capital city felt the
tremblers.
Four Persons Killed
Two shocks in the 1935 series
day afternoon to Chldren’s Me bThesfrstctharensholndlyostg at once«would create a 40-foot
reached Meadow Creek dam be-
low Ennis.
From there, he said, it would
which is expected to issue
the first permits for pri-
vate drinking clubs Wednes-
Police Chief Robert Ford said
the rainfall started about 9 p.m.
Stereo Flooded
er. Adults are asked to pay $1 spread out appreciably untii it
4, son of per shot. --- . — m-ai
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Although it trapped travelers
between it and the dam, the
fallen mountain was expected to
give residents of the valley an
extra 1% hours to escape from
the flood danger should the dam
give way because the slide
$2.50-a-Month
Higher Garbage Bills
Are Urged for City
By MARY GODDARD
Higher garbage collection bills charged 81.50 monthly and multi-
ported feeling the Oct. 31 shock.
Fsults Near Helena
Cause of the series of quakes
was attributed by the Montana
School of Mines to extensive
faultings northwest of Helena, ex-
tending to Marysville 20 miles
away.
After the shock of Oct 18, a
number of cracks in the earth
were discovered through which
S,
only Un persons nd Toston, "jy i Tre
onM.IPersons.M"AnNn Forks, and Townsend, 32 mlles
sumably are still conventionally
powered The United States has
been putting atomic submarines
into its fleet for about three
years. The submarine Nautilus
made history last summer by
crossing the top of the world un-
der the artic ice.
Vote on China Denounced
Soviet Fleet said "Those peo-
ple with a taste for aggression
should remember the arctic
Johnny Leo Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. Brley Moore, 1108
Whafs Inside
Amusement............ 14
Bridge ............. 7
CtoasHM.............. 19-23
Cmi*i ...... W
$ports ..........16-17
Tall Me Why ....... I
Times Talk............ 18
TV Kay ............... 4
Vital Statiatics ........ 18
Women’s Payes ....... 8-9-10
"I was washed beneath a
railroad bridge and tried to hang
on to a piling but couldn't.
When I saw the limb at a tree
one which registered a magni-
tude of 7.8 on the Richter scale.
An unidentified Montana Power
Co. official at Butte, however,
told Quinn that the quake opened
a 17-foot-long crack in the dam.
Water Suppy Lowered
Quinn said the “dam is brim
full,” however. The road up.
stream from the dam was cov-
ered by water when he flew over
it, he said.
As a precautionary measure,
authorities ordered the lowering
of all dams downstream from
Hebgen. These included dams as
far east as Great Falls, Mont.,
on the Missour river. The Madi-
son is a tributary of the Missouri.
other companies expected ship- children and 3 nuns at the old
ments momentarily, it appeared school.
that by week’s end the spigot----------------—-----------
Mn
a .-220
torrent.
Shipments Speeded
Clarence Ford, co-owner of All
Brands, said 1,600 cases of wine
are expected by rail by that
firm Wednesday. A truckload of
700 cases of whisky to expected
Wednesday afternoon or Thurs-
day, he said, and IS to 20 truck-
loads of whisky are expected by
next Monday.
Almost all wholesalers expect
shipments this week.
They apparently start stocking
retail stores in the next several
days. The retail outlets are to
open on September 1.
late Monday when the auto driv- Tanta, 50 miles north of Cairn
er was unable to stop. A 5year- The Tanta public prosecutor said
old passenger on the bicycle was - F
comedienne Lucille Ball, escaped launch ballistic as well as older came in too late to be considered tral Liquor Co., 1017 W Reno,
at the board’s opening meeting.)
firasdroundossttcestertmting in west Yellowstone. Chimney, fell, gasoline pump.
of two Muskogee streets where for Oklahoma Cityans were pro- pie unit residences paid $1.
— .. .. Tueedev . — ♦. "l In a prepared statement, Stir-
- - ocean
been accused of stealing Egyptian lake."
Lnshredine Tuesday nigt hgdeperalsne nHovr.de sm S ixi
st"am- ■
,T0.ugaq
‘Sofagcanodt 12 milS^th wP atvndae Emmtadharugbt
ified Mercalli scale, including a
For a time. It appeared that shock June 27, 1925, which was
" "" felt over 300,000 square-miles and
_ been banned to make more first, Three Forks.”
, . . . . Alena Mae Gentry, 3-year-old second and third inoculations Ai i
Few widely scattered thunder- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva available to unprotected persons, county
orms thrmgh Wornosrav I.nw A.a... ene em 4A L.a------ VM_____ .1 " ____1_____a.. *.
0ftemblors, rockedHelenaatTwo park were cracked open like egg shells by the trembling
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three railroad workers
missing and parts of high-,
ways 66 and 95 washed out.
Sheriff’s officers said the flood
sealed the town on three sides—
north, south and west—and
threatened the road leading east-
ward out of Needles.
Traffic Stalled
Although the rain stopped, traf-
fic was stalled early Tuesday by
debris-clogged roads and bridges
destroyed by the mountainous
walls of water that poured out of
desert arroyos and ravines.
Three members of a Santa Fe
railway crew of five still were
missing early Tuesday. The men
had been dispatched to check a
washout on railroad tracks 15
miles north of this farming town
of 4,500 population.
mathly rate foe 06single 2si- miteratledaration“Onatane'eity
dences and multi-dwellings.
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fieldhouse. r* -duu- m- --- •—a- .......... '
their lowland homes to higher
WASHINGTON (A — President ground.
"hihimumnsndensitybishtamd. Mitchell u Eisenhower’s person-
.","92
He said he made no action pro aftershocks, however, were far
posals Tuesday morning in a 45- smaller in intensity than the first
minute conference with Eisen-
damage caused by each. But a
summary of the U. S. coast and foundations.
the boundary between1 California
area OcL 3, 1935. Almost daily
until March 31,1936, residents in stranded travelers from escaping.
The information gathered by already were gone.
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cpnsor lngg af fa VTwn norsnng ---“99 XVlb UUUUKUVUL LUU - W--V UU&UI*
were"kimed anda score tajSed west, began shortly before midnight Monday. Foothills
major part but not all of the foruedtnctemporary natural dam
1805 in Montana centered within ference the information
a 100-mile radius of Helena.
7^. the Soviet craft pre warningz against premature open-
will be.widesopenwithnwhisky Polio Cases Climb
and other liquors arriving in a ----------------
ness in the neck and legs. He supply, the booster shots have
had received no shots.
em history has Montana and threatened the lives of between 50 and 100 tourists
suffered earthquakes caught between it and a tremor-weakened dam.
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he reported. The warning was printed in the day afternoon.
The sheriff’s office said the naval newspaper Soviet Fleet.
—- —SES: a nyana wuum -
Mitchell said the report will be aged by the shocks, which by 6
a factual one with no recom-
The injured boy ts Ken M. Me- musetnscasinmuecmtnahtges U.s- •• R. could retaliate against
hopes of spurring negotiations low the dam, he said "99 per-
cent" of the town’s 600 residents
■:—> P"1os8."mhe“"t2.sS"Ves,°psus bandleto74esewhere, with n
The ordinance.as Iorsseguah the adjusted rates paid by res-
Brook said a highway patrol.
However, he said it will be man at the town of Lyon, about
I
Desert Flood
withecome “teeivBoctbe2 AUnKe worrene uuppea tnai truck
holding for the state five percent at awa idsdngwezkeratlng
of the amount they withhold for ing to the sides Of the vehicle.
federal income tax.
Fourth,, or "booster,” shots of ful. "There's no point in letting
Salk vaccine will be available it sit around on the shelf," a
once again in the mass polio spokesman said.
immunization program, with
v. - ... ... Many small stores in this sible-bearing Red submarines
, him sufficient finance had been southern California town were could enter Houston bay from
arranged to get the petition drive flooded. Water rose to three- feet' under I116 arctic ice and bombard
started. in some of the town's outskirts, the industrial heart of America.
somehow must raise more
money. ।
Oklahoma City Times Mountain Slip
Greater Oklahoma City: 600,000 in ’Sixty I
had one shot of vaccine., _______ ..________ .0wtuazum
The city-county health depart- second-round clinic held Monday north ’ ot here."to‛be rAHE
ment and National foundation said night at Northeast highschool, evacuate. ' 53 W
fourth shots will be given at Some Ijm ptnaoi got shots
Tuesday night's clinic because there to the first-round clinic
the vaccine supply to now plenti- July 27.
ah
Spray u. s. Chief Warns
Moscow Warns
By BILL THOMAS
Attack rossible Police Chief Roy Bergman Tuesday warned private
From Hudson Bay drinking clubs not to open their bars here before D-day Yellowstone National park.
u adults. The state heath de- radioed him that the water in
nounced as Oklahoma county’s Bursmng the"htondatioheroereim tasMadigonseiyerabelowmHebgon
polio caseload for the year cine given to children, does not the hell out of here" 558
reached 60. Two more Oklahoma furnish the booster shots.
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ppppppee
A few hours later, railroad
workers found George Ashmore,
the crew foreman, and Geronimo
Rodriguez, 29, a truckdriver,
wandering near a road. Both
were taken to a Needles hos-
Ashmore was in a dazed condi- Reds Claim
tion with head and body injuries •
but Rodriguez told deputies: C 1 (
, "Suddenly a water, 25 3uDS Lan
feet high, swept down on us.
_ ------ This came 24 hours after a for members before September.”
.us West.of.theColorado.river, Washington news conference of with Bergman as its chair-
man. the license-review board is
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