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Show J FR Telephone 3-50- 50 Fair, Warmer For Ads News, Circulation: through Sunday. in the upper 50s. Provo Office, 190 W 4th N. . FR 50 AC 05 Orem Office, 757 N State today PRICE 15 CENTS PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1964 VOL. 41, NO. 44 High aft M(Q (0X0); o ' ' . , I , i ; , ; j Aftershocks Add to Misery ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) Fire, tidal waves and heavy aftershocks Saturday dealt new misery to Alaskans stunned by one of the most powerful earthquakes on record. Gov. William Egan's office in Juneau said the death toll from Friday's shock may reach 600. Aides said at least 85 were dead and 70 were missing in e arc of five Alaska communities along an southern Alaska. The mighty quake which measured 8.6 on the Richter scale sent tidal waves racing at up to 500 miles an hour across the Pacific to Hawaii, Tahiti, Japan and the Gulf of Mexico. Nine persons were killed in Crescent City, Calif., and one at Depoe Bay, , ' 800-mil- Ore. MS smew ' , - - ' f . - " ' , The initial, massive shock at 5:45 p.m. 10:45 p.m. EST Friday was followed by numerous aftershocks. The sharpest registered 7 on the Richter scale and was recorded at about 10:36 a.m. 3:36 p.m. EST Saturday. There were no immediate reports of new damage but scientists said they could be damaging if centered in populous areas. Disaster Area President Johnson declared the stricken 49th state a disaster area, and federal agencies mounted a huge rescue mission. Egan's office and other authorities reported a : t these casualty figures: 1 Kodiak, 50 dead, 50 missing; Valdez, 28 dead; Seward, 3 dead and 26 missing; Anchorage, 3 dead and 21 injured; Cordova, 1 dead. 111 t H In a telegram to President Johnson, the governor saidi preliminary information indicated that damage i Ff m tit-,- DESTRUCTION AT ANCHORAGE photos show devastation at Ajichorag-- Alaska as sickening aft ershocksi backlashedIn the 49th Statea des olation and grief. photo above, Saturday dealing death, casualties, on level below Fourth Avenue 20 street fee t whole line of cars rests about main thoroughfare. Note cracks and sunken area. In upper right photo, a soldier patrols street in downtown An chorage as he looks at automobile crushed by falling wall from the new J. C. Penney store. Note partially demolished walls in background. Goods rom photo store and pawn shop are moved onto street (photo at icwer righ t) as one of the stores tips skyward at crazy angle. Cracks in street and t'lt ed slabs of concrete jutting from street (right foreground) are evidence of the force of temblor. (Herald-UP- I On-the-sc- ene 5 f i , wouia reacn a quarter ot a. billion dollars. The Air Force announced that the first planeload of persons 1 injured in the quake will land rv"TL- f I in Washington state and California Saturday night. Communications Out Communications wiped out by United Press International the earthquake prevented an A violent earthquake erupted accurate, immediate assessment. But reports trickling to near Anchorage, Alaska, Fri the "outside" via military and day night, possibly killing hun ham radio operators painted a dreds of persons and generating - harrowing picture of devasta- tidal waves that surged through the Pacific against Hawaii, the tion and suffering. In Kodiak, a fishing village California coast and into the on Kodiak Island famous for Gulf of Mexico. huge Kodiak king crab and Kowas rediak brown Buildings crumbled in Anchor14 the under Navy ported by feet of water following two ti- age, the state's largest city. dal waves. Gasoline storage Gov. William E. Egan said he feared as many as 600 had been tanks were afire. killed in the 49th state. Fifty Anchorage, Alaska's largest persons were reported dead city, was hard hit. The ground when a tidal wave struck under stores between A and D Kodiak Island, and 50 others CRESCENT CITY, Calif.,, cent City Saturday, killing 1 streets on the north side col were missing. lapsed so that only the roofs of A tidal wave started persons. (UPI) were visiole. Cars the by the Alaska earthquake raced The five foot high wall of werebuildings flattened The Alaskan port town of by falling brick down the West Coast and swept wate had traveled nearly 1400 A wide crack walls. Valdez had 28 fatalities, the appeared over a area of Cres- - miles by the time it reached ALASKA QUAKE, Page 4) governor's office said, and an this Northern California town (See oil tanker in the bay off Seward of 3, 000. Yet it packed enough reported that city's waterfront sledgehammer force to knock was ablaze. buildings off their foundations, destroy power facilities and ruin numerous businesses by Re-Exami- ne Tidal waves struck Hawaii fire and brute force. early Saturday, forcing movement of 300,000 persons to high De Norte county sheriff Oswald Hovgaard said the water ground, and five persons were killed in Crescent City, Calif., hit a ong a front, surgJOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) when town tidal waves hit before ing four blocks into SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) President Johnson said Sat- rece .ingl the Pacific coast. Waves urday that he has issued "very Crescent City sits on the The Bureau of Reclamation feet above normal surged agreed Saturday to strong instructions" to the U.S. northern end of a shallow Southern California and bay. the runoff situation into Lake against Air Force to avoid letting more a section of the There is no breakwater to pro Powell and to talk with Upper planes stray over the Commun- tect it from the sea. coastline. Colorado Basin state governors ist East German frontier. bo Million Damage about the situation. Holding a surprise news con-- i President Johnson declared ference at his LBJ Ranch, the Every one of the city's 150 Rep. Sherman Lloyd, Dom-in- y Commissioner dam said suffered the downtown Floyd stricken area a major disshops President firmly denied Soviet would him the told He esti said. aster area and promised the agency Hovgaard age, charges that three airmen reColorado at look new the a more than take at mated damage government's full and prompt cently released from East Gerrunoff River rhillion. assistance. The Agriculture De potential. many were spying when their $20 would take me told "He they partment, the Red Cross and plane was shot down March 10. (Sed CRESCENT CITY, P10) on the April other relief agencies mustered based look new a The President was highly re1 runoff, but obviously we are a vast aid effort. laxed in his ranch clothes as entitled to more than that," (See QUAKE AT he answered questions of about GLANCE, P4) Lloyd said. 60 reporters, invited out to the Secretary of Interior Stewart ranch from press headquarters On" Udall ordered increased outflow in Austin, Texas, on five minfrom Lake Powell to bolster the utes notice. water supply downstream at He earlier declared earthquaAn Lake Mead. His order came ke-ravaged Alaska a disasNAPLES, Italy (UPI) ter area, pledged the Federal Alitalia Airlines Viscount earlier this week after a pes- By United Press International Government's prompt assist- carrying 45 persons on an simistic runoff survey March 1. ance and assured Alaskans of Easter holiday flight from Dominy said he has not been The earthquake the nation's "warmest sym- Romt to Naples crashed into approached for any definite ap- death toll in history was 830,000 pathy." He said the sympathy the slopes of Mount Vesuvius pointment with the Upper killed in a quake at Shensi, governors. will be backed by action. late Saturday night. It was The President has no plans feared all aboard were killed. At the same time Sen. Frank China, on Jan. 24, 1556, accordto go to Alaska himself. Pol ce said the wreckage was Moss, D-- Utah, said he would ing to the U.S.' Coast and GeoJohnson covered more than sighted early today on the press for a change in the filling detic Survey. criteria for Lake Powell, but The San Francisco eartha dozen foreign and domestic north1 vestern side of the volcano which rises added he doesn't think the up quake of April 18, 1906, the topics, sitting and then standing behind the desk in his ranch 4,013 feet above the pictur- per basin states are in a posi most serious one in U.S. history tion to demand it. killed 452 persons. house study. esque Bay of Naples. Earthquake 4r At a Glance bears Tidal Wave Engulfs Crescent Citv; Kills 11 Christians Aspirants Spur Filing Pace; Everywhere Still Vacancies on Tickets Hail Easter leader, is running . .for rgovernor f ana inereiore is oui oi me ieg- lslative race. ing Tuesday at 5 p.m., 15 canLegislative District Two comdidates have announced for prises Pleasant Grove; Lindon; seven state legislative posts West (of U. S. 91) Orem north from Utah County; four for two of 400 North, and East Orem county commission vacancies ; north of 400 South. two for Fourth Judicial District In District Two, Democrat attorney, and none as yet for M. Axton, Orem, Geneva James Fourth District judge. Steel employee, opposes RepubIn the county commission licans: Incumbent Russell H. race, incumbent Democrat G. Hansen, Orem; J. Elden JohnMarion Hinckley, Provo is opson, Pleasant Grove, and David posed by Republican B. ManC. Harvey, Pleasant Grove. ning Jolley, Orem, former state District Boundaries term. senator, for a four-yeLegislative District Three commission For the two-yein Lake View Vineyard, takes term, Republican incumbent Orem south of District Two, and Provo districts north of a line running east along the Provo HERALDING the News River and Fifth North to 100 West; north to 940 North; west to 500 West, and north again to the river. In District Three, no Democrats have yet filed . Republican candidates are J. n The awful tragedy of the Alaskan earthquake Taylor Allen, Vineyard, leader, and a series of devastating tidal Randle agricultural and its aftermath E. Theobald, Orem, waves extending across the Pacific, down the Caliof Small Business Aspresident fornia Coast, and even to. the Gulf of Mexico sociation. dominates the news coverage in today's Herald. Legislative District Four Pictures from some of the points of greatest takes in Pleasant View and devastation, through the wirephoto facilities of Unit- northeast Provo as bounded by ed Press International, add extra realism to the Orem east city limits; Provo River south to 940 North; east coverage. We must not, however, let the tragedy of one to 100 West; west to 200 West; By JOAN GEYER With deadline for filing loom- ar ar Spanish Fork, Sterling Jones, i is opposed Dy Democrat Mar-- 1 cellus Nielson. Soamsh Fork, former county commissioner J. Clark Elmer, Payson, Democrat, also a former commissioner, withdrew his earlier announcement to run. Legislative Races In Legislative District One, comprising L e h i, American Fork, Highland, Alpine, Fairfield and Cedar Fort, Democrat Dean Prior, a former mayor of Lehi, opposes Republican Paul Willes, Lehi. Democrat incumbent Ernest Dean, American Fork, House minority v i m I i i. . Alaskan Temblor, Easter Observance Dominate News well-know- of the century's greatest disasters on this continent divert our attention from another singular event the Resurrection, being commemorated today in Easter rites across the world. Our Easter coverage includes a story on Page 1, a roundup of church services on Page 8A, and an Easter feature page to lead off the women's section. Easily the greatest single human event in all history, the Rescurrection is told simply but powerfully in the Scriptures one of which is quoted on the feature page. . (See ASPIRANTS, Page 4) B umted Press International Tens of millions of Christians throughout America, "their Lent over and their Easter won," Saturday mourned the crucified Christ and prepared to celebrate the joy of His rising from the dead. Young adults of Angelica at Los Angeles continued the prayer vigil they began at 3 p.m. Good Friday. The vigil will continue until 8:30 a.m. Easter. Tattered linen shrouds flut tered n the chill March breeze on rough hewn crosses erected in three Chicago area cemeteries. Crosses of light glowed in the pre - dawn darkness of New York's Wall Street financial district, formed by the lighted windows of office buildings. Rockefeller Center was ablaze (See EASTER, Page 4) Invites West Berlin Mayor to U. S. LBJ JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) President Johnson has invited West Mayor Berlin to visit him Willy in May and Brandt Italian Premier Aldo Moro for a working visit in July, the White House announced today. Johnson invited Brandt to call on him in Washington on By United Press International May 18 and the mayor has acCommon house mice are cepted the invitation, the White as shown by the fact House said. Brandt will be in that a pair of them may multi- the United States to address the ply to 1,000 mice within a year's Foreign Policy Association in time. New York on May 15. 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