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Tuesday, June 8.1976
University Daily Kansan
Tornado . . .
From page one
homes around it. But the rest of the neighborhood was destroyed.
"We always had a close, tight-kitty shirt. It was blue, she said. After that it boke up, it was all over."
Mrs. Bennett still lives in Topeka, but in a different house that she dislikes because it
"I just get frantic when about any storm blows up and the worst part of it is that they can attack you."
towe up and the worst part of it is that there ain't a basement handy', she says. One of the devastated areas in Topaka was the Washuburn University campus. The tornado cut diagonally through campus, leaving no room for math and destroying five major buildings.
"The tornado changed the look of the whole campus," Lloyd Durow, director of the physical plant at Washburn, said. "One of the reasons is that we had to move and the next day there were none."
Final damage estimates for the campus were $8 million and 124,000 square feet of classroom space. Classes for the summer fall sessions had to be held at other sites.
Washburn's clean-up after the tomato and its eventual reconstruction are representative of Topeka's recovery from the disaster. From the shells of buildings built by Topeka, Washburn's washburn rebuilt and expanded into a modern camp with worth more than $30 million.
"Returning alumni can't believe how much different campus looks." Durow said. The comment we get most from people is "They're not going to the storm is, 'All the trees are gone!'"
toy Reynolds was bowling when the storm hit. Weather reports had him walking back and forth from the bowling alley to a window to look at the sky. When he saw the funnel cloud it was only 300 feet from the building.
"It was worse than Pearl Harbor because the damage was instant," Reynolds, who fought in World War II, said. "After the storm there was nothing but devastation."
Kenneth Grate, who lived in an apartment building at 12th and Kansas Ave., was trapped under the rubble of his demolished kitchen for hours after the storm.
He heard the civil defense siens but thought they were police or ambulance siens. When a driving min gushes into his car, he sees no injuries without seeing the twister approaching.
"I'd no sooner closed the windows when they popped right out," he said. "Then the mirror on the wall stuck straight out and the just floated right out the kitchen window."
The next thing Gate remembered was regaining consciousness in a pile of plaster, but he wasn't sure. He laid there for several hours until the police spotted his feet sticking out from
under the pile of rubble and pried him out,
Of course not everyone now living in
Toppeka was around on the evening of
the storm.
"We have a few staff members, mostly young guys from out of the area, who've never even heard of the storm," Dick King of the Topeka Daily Capital said.
But King remembers it well. He reported on the tornado's damage minutes after it laid the city low. The Capital's phone and power lines were blown down so King and other reporters had to guess which parts of the city to canvass in search of stories. They wrote their copy in a hotel room by candelight.
"Because we had no communication lines and it was impossible to drive anywhere, we had no idea that the tornado had even hit up the airport until the next day. King Clementine. We did not correct the tornado to strike the entire city, but it touched down all over."
For the first time since just after the storm, Justice Kaul climbed Burnett's Mound Sunday, a clear and almost windless sky. The windblows from the tornado followed through Topeka.
"It came on the left side of the Mound, a black funnel about 300 yards wide at the base," he said, making an arc with his arms. "If you follow a line from here to the Capitol building you get an idea of the tornado's course. It was just that straight."
The Midwest Health Exposition and Conference that opened this morning in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., will feature University of Kansas Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and University of Kansas Medical Center public relations director Helen M. Sims in a public relations event on Monday at the University of Kansas Image-Who's Responsible?" according to Pris Owings, public relations director for the conference.
Med Center hosts meeting
Kaul inglued awhile on the Mound and then went home to his apartment at 29th and Gage Blvd. It's the same one he and his wife ran on of the day of the storm. Neither the man nor the woman were stop Burnett's Mound minutes before the tornado live in the city or the state.
Owings said 7,000 people are expected to attend the three-day conference.
Other Med Center staff members who are speakers or members of panel discussions are encouraged to serve as instructor in radiology; Doris Gelgely, dean of the School of Nursing; Larry Alkire, director of pharmacy computer application; and director of emergency medical training.
Thursday morning sessions will be conducted by Owings; Peter Beyer, assistant professor of dietetics and nutrition; Lowell Flore, coordinator of training; and Jean Taylor, director of education and respiratory therapy.
Viola Unrush, assistant director of nursing, was the program coordinator for
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