Tuesday, April 20, 1965 University Daily Kansan Page 9
Flood Waters Devastate Midwest As Mighty Mississippi Rampages
UP AND DOWN the mighty river, makeshift dikes and sandbagged levees groaned against the powerful flow of water. Nearly everywhere, the Mississippi was running at record levels. In some places it held steady, in others it inched ominously upward.
Upstream at Winona, Minn., police routed 1,000 persons from their homes as the city braced for the river's full height. Far downstream at Quincy, Ill., worried authorities feared the runaway river would cut through a dike and sweep out across 8,000 acres of rich farm land.
LA CROSSE, Wis. —(UPI)—The siege of the Mississippi continued full force today against scores of communities along a 500-mile stretch of river from Minnesota to central Illinois.
Three hundred volunteers worked through the night to build up a threatened dike at La Crosse where the flood record waters chewed through two dikes Monday.
A tense situation developed at La Crosse Monday when the river cut through a dike and pounded
A WINTER HANGOVER chilled the extreme northern Midwest. Light snow fell at Minot, N.D., and the temperature dipped to 21 degrees at International Falls, Minn.
A Red Cross spokesman said the Midwest floods had driven 32,000 persons from their homes and caused 11 deaths in Minnesota and two in Wisconsin.
The river was running 17.3 feet deep past La Crosse early today, with a crest of 18 feet expected Wednesday, Civil defense spokesmen said the crest will be maintained for two or three days.
A windstorm, described by the weather bureau as a possible tornado, damaged a house trailer at Monkey Island, La. A twister Monday collapsed the roof of a college
huge bulk gasoline tanks to a precarious tilt. Authorities feared the tanks were leaking and that a spark would set off a sea of flames through the town.
Fire experts were called in and Monday night determined that the tanks, containing 15 million gallons of fuel, were not leaking.
In their regular meeting, Charles Hook, Glen Head, N.Y., sophomore and president of SPU, said the table would be set up next to a table being used by Navy ROTC recruiters.
SPU "Peace Table" Faces Navy Recruiter in Union
The Student Peace Union (SPU) announced plans last night for a "peace table" in the union.
WHILE FOLDING leaflets distributed by the SPU national headquarters, the members also heard plans to show movies the night of the Naval ROTC dance. May 15.
Arthur, Byron Leonard II, Lawrence senior and a member of SPU, said an anonymous donor had contributed $85 to pay for the showing of one of two films by the SPU.
Funeral services for Mrs. Colleen J. Rieger, 30, graduate student, who died in a fire in her Lawrence apartment early Monday morning, will be held in Artesia, N.M.
"In order to symbolize alternatives, we set up a table next to them. When we do something in kind to what they do, it brings us closer to a confrontation," Hook said.
THE FILMS WOULD be Akira Kurosawa's "I Live in Fear," or if it could not be secured, the French film, "Hiroshima Mon Amour."
Leonard said the films would "be good for SPU relations and provide an alternative to ROTC functions."
Windblown thunderstorms knocked out power in some sections of Houston, Tex. A five-inch cloudburst with winds up to 80 miles per hour dumped five inches of rain on Mirando City in southern Texas late Monday, closing several farmroads, unroofing houses and downing power lines.
Mrs. Rieger was asleep in the east bedroom of her apartment when fire broke out in the living room early Monday. Her 10-year-old son, Kyle, was in the west bedroom, and he awakened. By pounding on the wall of the apartment next door, he gave the alarm. A neighbor called the fire department.
dormitory at East Bernard, Tex. killing one student and injuring two others.
New Mexico Rites For KU Student
the small number of demonstrators in Topeka last Friday.
Fire Chief F. C. Sanders said she was probably dead when the firemen arrived.
The demonstration was in support of the Washington demonstration by thousands of students over U.S. policy in Viet Nam, he said.
When firemen arrived, Kyle was found unconscious. At first firemen could not find Mrs. Rieger, but finally located her in the smoke filled east room.
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Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jackson of Artesia, N.M. Local arrangements are in charge of Cooper-Warren Mortuary.
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Senior
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The SUA Minority Opinions Forum
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"COMMUNISM-MENACE OR PROMISE?"
Wednesday, April 21-4:30
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