Plains feel brunt of storm barrage
By United Press International Spring was really something today from the Midwest to the Rocky Mountains.
Snow covered the northern Plains. Temperatures skidded to zero in the mountains. And from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, police poked through the rubble of smashed homes and buildings caught in a barrage of tornadoes and fierce thunderstorms.
The tornadoes, sometimes coming in groups of twos and threes, Tuesday and Tuesday night, injured at least five persons. A man was killed and his wife injured at Kirksville, Mo., when lightning struck their boat during a thunderstorm packing 58-mile-an-hour winds.
AT OVERLAND PARK, Kan., suburb of Kansas City, a twister cut through a two-block section of a residential area.
South of Chicago near Glen Ellyn, Ill., several homes were damaged. No injuries were reported. Another twister touched down without causing damage near Hampshire, Ill. The snow which brought winter back to the same area of the northern Plains socked twice last month by blizzards began to taper off today.
But it left Casper, Wyo., still isolated by six-foot drifts, blocked highways and forced the closing of schools and businesses.
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ., reported five inches of snow on the ground. Lamar, Colo., received two more inches of snow Tuesday evening and Alexandria, Minn., reported another inch bringing its total to nine inches on the ground.
The same warm winds which collided with the cold pushing out of the north, produced the violent conditions in the Midwest, kept temperatures at mild levels across the South and East. The West Coast enjoyed cool but pleasant readings through the night.
GUERRILLAS STRIKE
U.S. hits Viet bridge
SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. jets dodged Russian-made antiaircraft missiles and struck in North Viet Nam's industrial heart for the third straight day. They knocked out a vital highway bridge only 10 miles from Haiphong in the closest strike of the war to the vital Communist port.
All returned safely, but a military spokesman said three other planes were shot down during the past three days while on raids in the North. One pilot was rescued,
but the other two were missing and feared dead.
In the ground war, Viet Cong guerrillas staged a sneak attack on the An Khe airbase, home of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and the main U.S. air base in central South Viet Nam. About 15 guerrillas infiltrated the base's defense perimeter Tuesday night and opened up with machine guns. Other Viet Cong lobbed mortar shells from outside.
No one was injured, but two U.S. planes were destroyed.
Space glider flies in fall
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI) The Air Force plans to rocket a miniature space glider 100 miles high in November for a soaring sweep back to earth in a preview of returns for manned spaceships of the future.
Four scientists took the wraps off the 80-inch, 890-pound deltashaped craft Tuesday in a highly detailed paper presented to a space conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
"THIS PROGRAM is expected to produce technology that could be applicable to manned, maneuverable reentry," the scientists said.
Such craft, called "lifting bodies" because they are able to produce lift like an airplane in earth's atmosphere, would do away with
costly ocean recovery fleets like those now needed for present manned spacecraft with little maneuvering ability.
THE AIR FORCE first disclosed general plans for the program last year, but until Tuesday specific details of the glider were classified. The paper was presented with Air Force approval by three scientists from the Aerospace
Corp. and one from the Martin Co.
WEATHER
Corp. and one from the Martin Co.
The Air Force, in reply to a query, told UPI the first of the spacecraft is scheduled for launch on an Atlas rocket in November from Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif. Subsequent flights are set for February, April and June of next year.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts colder weather tonight and tomorrow with occasional light rain or snow this evening. Clearing skies with freezing temperatures tonight and mostly fair and continued cool tomorrow.
12 Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 20, 1966
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