Storms Lash B Y the ASSOCIATED PRESS a Mass of Cold Air Moved Into Dixie Today, While Snow B Y Quakes and Some Sleet Or Freezing Rain Continued in the E)Ast
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, I A v ^ n t p e Hally Nat Press Rna For llie Week Etideil j M u o r y e, leae 15,534 Manche»ter-—A City of ViUage Charm ^ VOL. LXXXVn, NO. 88 (TWENTY PAGES—TWO SECTIONS—SUPPLEMENT) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1968 250 Killed Storms Lash B y THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A mass of cold air moved into Dixie today, while snow B y Quakes and some sleet or freezing rain continued in the E)ast. Heavy rains poured down in the Pacific Northwest. It was colder in some cities in Florida this morning’ than it was in Boston, New York or Philadelphia. Tallahassee, Fla., had an over- In Sicily night minimum of 28 degrees and It was 29 in Jackson'vllle. r PALERMO, Sicily (AP) — A and Marsala, on the edge of the Town Stays Gainesville and Pensacola, each catastrophic wave of killer disaster area, causing some recorded 80 degrees. The lowest earthquakes smashed across the damage and vrldespread panic. reading In Florida was 26 in Val western Up of Sicily today and Hundreds were Injured as the Safe Inside paraiso. police ssdd more than 260 per shocks came In a series of Snow, sleet and freeslng rain sons were killed. death-dealing waves. During Glaze covered sections of the nation Police said most of the vlc- Five tremors had rocked the from northern Mississippi and Georgia to the Great Lakes and Ums died when a hospital at region Sunday and at least five Xt was the wanmest day of New Ehigland. Some schools Montevas^> collapsed and burled more came today, starting at the new year yesterday, but 200 persons. were closed by the storm from 2:84 a.m. and continuing mjcst .c t Manchester apparently More than 20 other vlcUms through midday. went) into lUbernatiion when Illinois to Georgia. In spring- field, capital of minoia where 18 were counted from the stricken The disaster plunged western rising tempera/tures, hovering inches of snow was piled up, all communlUes near Montevago. Sicily Into winter misery. The around the 32-degree mark cund schools were closed. The quake was the worst na Italian government mounted a aoDcmpended by freezing rain tural disaster to hit Sicily—the massive relief and rescue oper- end gusty winds, covered the Weather-related deeiths num bered 66 for the weekend. In largest and most populous Is aUon of planes, ships, trucks town—W<e the rest of Connecti land In the Mediterranean sea and cars to get medicine, blan cut—iwllth a slippery, treacher Iowa eight persons died to an auto collision on a snowpacked —since an earthquake destroyed kets food and tents into the dis ous giaze. road. Messina In 1908 with a loss of aster zone. Surprisingly, the town ap- 76,000 lives. Hundreds of homeless huddled peaired today to have escaped ’The season’s worst snowstorm caused two deaths, glased high The quakes ripped across a without shelter In bone-chilling pretty much unscathed from the ways and closed schools In half mountainous farming region of cold, many In fields where snow ice atoirm which hit the north the state of Kentucky. Power Sicily considered to be the lay four inches deep. east in the wake of last week’s failed In several communities In stronghold of the Mafia. At least record-breaking cold wave and 5 The full fury of the quakes western and south-central Ken half a dozen towns and villages struck in a mountainous trian ibrought the mercury to its high tucky where many homes are were wrecked. gle roughly halfway between the est mark since Dec. 2k heated by electricity. The shocks also reached Into Oooning as it did on a Sun Princeton, Ky., limited water the clUes of Palermo, Trapani (See Page Ten) day—a day off for most resi to emergency needs as the pow dents—the miserable, icy rain apparently kept many indoors er failure hit the town’s pumping station on Lake Barkley. There by the fireside or close to the was a 10-inch snow cover In Lex TV set and the Super Bowl / To Combine hy Feb. 1 ington and Louisville had 7 Inch championship game between the es. Green Bay Packers and the Oak land Raiders. ’Thousands of persons in four High Court Approves Manchester police reported other states were left without c(dy four minor skidding ac- electricity over the weekend. Schools in six Maryland coun ddents and no Injuries during (AP Photoiaz) the period between 1 and 6 p.m. ties were closed for the day by Penn-Central Merger when local streets and high heavy snow. Icklee fom ed by freeTing rain are suspended today fr<Mn a street tight in Delaware Park at Buffalo, N. Y. Wheeling Downs In West Vir WASHINGTON (AP) — The $670,206,798. The Pennsylvania’s ways were at their wonsrt. State poiUice at Hertford re ginia canceled its hone racing Supreme Court approved today net income that year was ported slippery conditions dm^ program for today suid ’Tuesday the merger o t the Pennsylvania $46,066,820, the C e n t r a 1 ’s Ing the afternoon along Inter because of snow. and the New York Central Rail $60,110,679. state 84, but said several minor Hazardous driving warnings Transplant roads, clearing the way for their Justice Abe Fortas, speaking ][fJQ J)oWnS U.S, Plane accidents in the area were ail were In effect for eastern Ohio combination by Feb. 1 for the high court, said the Jus of the “fender bender’’ var Into the western parts of Penn 0 g A 0 J90 -m g The two roads were given a tices could find no basis for rev Successes iety, with no injuries end no sylvania and New York. In Ver go-ahead almost six years after ersing approval of the merger by arreabs. mont icy roads added to hazard they had asked the government the Interstate Commerce Com ous conditions. Are Doubted During Kaid on Airfield Even Manchester Memorial to allow what will be the biggest mission and a federal court in Snow fell from northern sec-, New York. Hospital’s emergency room ex merger In the history of Ameri perienced a routine weekend, tions of Alabama and Georgia STANFORD, Oalif. (AP) — SAIGON (AP) — A MIG21 ’The only two raids above Hanoi ’There have been reports that can buBlJess^ He said the court’s Job is limit without the rash of accidents Into the lower Great Lakes and Mike Kasperak, his transplcmt- nariied up through monsoon were on the Yen Bal airfield the North Vietnamese are mov ■nie court ruled 7-1 In favor of ed to deciding whether the com- usually associated with such a from Virginia Into NeW England. ed heart still functioning well, clouds to riioot down a U.B. Air and the Sam ’Tra railroad yard ing large quantities of men and the merger. miasion has proceeded in accord atorm, spokesmen said. More than 4 inches of rain feU remained to critical condition Force ’Thunderchlef Sunday dur on tile northwest line 94 mhea supplies to the s»uth, both At the end of 1966 the Pennsyl ance with law and whether Its Officials at the Hartford Elec In 24 hours in Brookings, Ore. today after removal of his gaU ing a strike against an airfield northwest ot Hanoi. Bomlb drops through the southern i>anhandle J vania Railroad had assets of findings are supported by sub tric Light Co. 8uid the Southern Blue Canyon, Calif. — In the cen bladder Sunday to an emergen deep to North Vietnam, the U.S. were made by radar In both and down the Ho Chi Minh trail $2,464,686,882, and the New York stantial e'vldenee. New England Telei^one Co. al tral Sierras — recorded 1.85 cy operation at Stanford Univer Command announced today. strikes and no assessment of through Laos. ’The main thrust Central $1,886,691,618. Combined Having done this, he said, "We so reported that the two utilities Inches. sity Medical Center. ’The pilot is missing. damage could be made because of the U.S. air effort has been their assets were $4,291,128,445. find no basis, consonant with the came through the weekend with Clear skies prevailed from ’Hie one-hour operation was The F105 ’Thunderchlef was of the weather. on cutting down the movement The Pennsylvania’s operating prlnclplea governing Judicial re- out Incident. Southern California to Louisiana performed by a team headed by taking part in a radar attack on U.S. spokesmen say the Yen of truck convoys through Laos, revenues at the end of that year Dr. Norman E. Shumway. The the Yen Bal airfield and storage Bal airfield has never been but these strikes are never re were $907,678,890, the Central'! (8ee Page Hiree) (See Page Tan) (See Page Four) stu*geon led the group which re area 78 miles northwest of Ha completed and there have been ported by the U.S. Command moved the greatly enlarged noi. It was the 786th American no reports of MIGs flying off the because Laos is supposed to be heart of the 64-year-old steel warplane reported lost in com field. It is used primarily as a neutral. worker Jan. 6 and replaced It bat over North Vietnam. ’This In storage area for n\Jlitory sup The raids were on suspected with one from a 43-year-old San cludes 36 downed by MIGs, plies, according to intelligence Communist staging areas 20 and ta Clara housewife who bad Just 'vriille American pilots claim to reports.