Thursday, May 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Violent earthquake shakes Japan
TOKYO—(UPI)—The world's biggest earthquake since the 1964 Alaskan disaster struck northern Japan Thursday morning. Fires and heavy flooding spurred a growing death toll.
At least nine persons were known dead and 13 missing in the minute-long tremblor that violently swayed Tokyo's new 36-story skyscraper but left the world's largest city unscathed.
At least 70 homes were destroyed in the northern Honshu Island city of Aomori, one of the hardest hit areas. At least five deaths and six persons missing were reported there.
The U.S. National Earthquake Center in Rockville, Md., said the quake registered $8\frac{1}{4}$ on the open-end Richter scale and termed it a "great quake," the biggest since the $8\frac{1}{2}$ Richter magnitude Alaska disaster of Good Friday, 1964.
Homes destroyed
The quake was centered 390 miles northeast of Tokyo but left almost all of Japan's island untouched.
Tidal wave warnings were kept on, although the feared wave assault failed to materialize two hours after the mid-morning shock. Waves about six feet high smashed against Japan's Pacific Coast.
Fires also broke out in Aomori, as in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake.
Damage was reported heavy in Aomori's neighboring prefecture of Iwate. At least one person was dead and heavy flooding threatened to increase the toll. Police said collapsed buildings were feared to contain more dead.
No deaths or injury reports were in from Hokkaido three
hours after the quake. Communications with the city, close to the quake's epicenter, were completely knocked out.
The quake registered between four and five, "very strong," on the seven-point Japanese scale.
Rivals Kanto quake
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said it recorded a force a fraction of a degree less than the Kanto earthquake of 1923 that killed 10,000 persons and leveled the Tokyo-Yokohama area.
In Aomori, trains were derailed, roofs caved in, and wide cracks appeared in the ground. Fires erupted throughout the city, which has a population of about 100,000. It is Honshu's northernmost city.
In Tokyo, the newly opened 36-story Kasumigaseki building shook heavily but sustained no damage.
Houses were knocked down in the city of Hachin and smoke-stacks snapped off, sending showers of bricks into the streets.
Kenneth G. Stevens, Sioux City, Ia., sophomore, has received the $1,000 Naismith Hall Scholarship for the 1968-69 academic year. He was awarded the scholarship on the basis of the outstanding record he has made at KU.
"It felt like we were on a rocking boat," said a secretary on the 31st floor. "We couldn't walk, it seemed."
Soph gets scholarship
The scholarship, given annually, is sponsored by Allen and O'Hara, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., developer and operator of Naismith Hall.
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NFL president to bargain
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By United Press International
Art Modell, president of the National Football League and owner of the Cleveland Browns, said Tuesday the league will "bargain in good faith" with its players in an effort to settle a controversy involving pre-season pay and pensions.
Modell is here attending the combined annual spring meeting of the NFL and American Football League.
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