Tuesday. June 14, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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New storm delays clean-up in Topeka
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Cleanup operations slowed down in this tornado-lashed city as workers labored through mud and water, the aftermath of a storm center that deposited 3.39 inches of rain in the city.
The U.S. Weather Bureau at Topeka said 3.39 inches of rain was reported through Monday morning, but 3.31 inches of that was dumped over the Kansas Capitol after 5 p.m. Sunday.
Four named in fund drive
Four national division chairmen and seven area chairmen for the KU $18,617,000 Program for Progress have been named by Stanley Learned, Bartlesville, Okla., national chairman.
The three-year Program for Progress campaign is a major capital funds program for private support of the University of Kansas.
Geographical area chairmen will be;
Eastern—Charles Haines, New York City; Central—George P. Garver, Chicago; Greater Kansas City (including Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas) —A. H. "Red" Cromb, Mission Hills; Kansas—Odd Williams, Lawrence; Western — Paul J. Adam, Dallas, Tex.; Pacific—Jack H. McDonald, San Diego, Calif.; International—Dr. J. Mark Hiebert, New York City
Accepting posts as division chairmen were: national primary gifts—Ned N. Fleming, Topeka; faculty—Dr. Paul W. Gilles, Lawrence; national advance gifts—Plez V. Miller Jr., Kansas City, Mo.; national corporate gifts—Byron T. Shutz, Kansas City, Mo.
Woody wins award of Alumni Association
Robert Woody, KU graduating senior, is the 1966 recipient of the Agnes Wright Strickland honorary award of life membership in the KU Alumni Association.
Woody, of Bartlesville, Okla., received the award at the Class of '66 farewell breakfast. About 15 other seniors received life memberships as graduation presents from their parents.
The storm center moved over the city late Sunday, but workers continued cleanup operations until the showers came. Lightning struck Ronald Bloom, 20, of Topeca, an Army reservist.
OFFICIALS SAID Bloom wore insulated combat boots which probably saved his life. He was treated and released from a hospital.
pital Police said some debris floated back into the streets but cleanup operations continued throughout the day.
Heavy runoff locally caused some flash flooding in the city's streets. No serious flooding was reported in the streams and rivers near the city.
City engineer Bernard Williams said about 60 per cent of the cleanup operation has been completed.
However, police were still plagued with scattered reports of looters who swarmed into the disaster-struck area.
THE FIRST ARREST for looting came when police caught a man taking a television set from Riley Park. He was booked on a petty larceny charge.
One resident reported a garbage disposal was taken from the rubble of his home. Kitchen cabinets, which the storm left standing, were looted of their contents
Another said somene attempted to remove the washer and dryer from the basement of his home. When this proved impossible, machines were stripped of all movable parts.
THE TORNADO which hit the city Wednesday night caused an estimated $100 million in damages and claimed a total of 17 lives, including one near Tonganoxie. Police said 535 persons were injured here. Thousands of persons were homeless.
Mayor Charles W. Wright suggested a high-rise apartment complex as one solution to the critical housing shortage, and he also said use of rented trailers as another.
another. The Red Cross estimated that 1.818 Topeka homes were damaged in the storm.
IN KANSAS CITY, Mo., creeks and small streams surged from their banks into streets and lowlying residential areas of this storm-plagued city and numerous families fled their homes.
By daylight, however, the worst
appeared to be over and the weather bureau said it appeared levels predicted earlier would not be reached.
The Weather Bureau measured 3.55 inches of rain and said there were unofficial reports of four
inches or more in some sections of the metropolitan area.
In the pre-dawn hours Turkey Creek threatened the business district of suburban Merriam, Kan. The Blue River, running across southern and eastern sections of the metropolitan area, left its banks in many localities. Brush Creek became a raging torrent, flowing through the Country Club Plaza. It did not top its banks in the famed shopping area, however.
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