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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE Self-Portrait: Editorial Tht Word on River Center: Editorial The Chapel At Westminster: Mirror of Public Opinion FINAL Closing Stock Market Prices Pages 8C and 9C Ml I Mf I Vol. 89 No. 24 (89th Year) u-is ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 196764 PAGES PRICE 7c "uw 1.85 A HDC TO RECEIVE" IJgrswK HEAVY DAMAGE PROJEGTS IN '67; 5 1 CUT 0FJ800.OOO PSBi Storm Hits in West County and Travels Northeast, Striking Many Areas By CARL R. BALDWIN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Daylight revealed desolation today in scattered areas in St.

Louis county that were struck by a tornado last night. The winds killed two children and injured 217 persons. Many millions of dollars in damage occurred as the storm leveled homes and businesses, picked up and drove heavy pieces of debris through walls and broke electric and gas lines. Two girls were killed. They were Jeri Cannady, 6-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. R. D. Cannady, 13212 Greenbough drive, Old Farms Estate, and Diane Schlegel, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Schlegel, 12413 Glen-gate drive, Maryland Heights. Heavy rain accompanied storm. Large hailstones fell in some areas of the county. The tornado first touched down at 6:54 p.m. at Olive boulevard west of Woods Mill road, in western St.

Louis county, damaging the Chesterfield Manor Nursing Home. Traveling in a steady northeasterly direction, the revolving winds struck the small com-munity of Lake, jumped a half mile to the luxury homes at River Bend Estates and Old Farm Estates, left chaos at the Creve By Renyold Ferguson, Post-Dispatch Photographer Devastation and Tears After County Disaster An aerial view of the devastation in the Glenwood subdivision of Maryland Heights. In many cases the tornado demolished a house and left its neighbor untouched. Looting was kept to a minimum by police and members of the various military The photograph was taken from the Post-Dispatch helicopter. OEO Allotment Means Ending Three Phases of Communi-ty Action Here The Office of Economic Opportunity announced in Washington today that it was providing $3,664,585 for community action programs of the St.

Louis Human Development Corp. for 1967. Samuel Bernstein, genera manager of HDC, said the amount appeared at this time to represent a cut of about $800,000 from the amount alloted for these programs last year. He said three programs consumer education, homemaker and group housing projects, costing about $256,000 had been dropped or were being phased out. He said there was some hope that a fourth CAP program, the Banneker school enrichment project, could be funded under a supplemental grant from the regional OEO office at Kansas City.

This might also be possible for small business development and work study programs, he said. However, this is uncertain. No Summer Programs The OEO allocation also does rot include, at least at this -time, the $400,000 received last year for special summer programs, Bernstein said. Although some later allocation is possible, he said, the summer programs do not appear to have a hhh priority. The $3,664,585 allocated, when combined with $1,076,710 left over from last year's funds, equals the CAP operating budget that HDC had requested, Bernstein said.

'He said he was disappointed, however, because of the necessity of dropping several pro-, grams and the uncertain fate of the others. For Current Year The allocation covers expen ditures since last Dec. when the agency's budget year be- FAMILY SEES FUNNY CLOUD RUNS TO CELLAR Roof Ripped Off Home as Mother, Girls Reach Safety By DAVID R. WALLIN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Mrs. Bruce Leppien and her gan.

The money provided will a tornado alert that covered the be used to continue other pro- metropolitan area, grams. At 6:54 p.m. the lights went Among these Is the agency's out. The roar of an approach-comprehensive manpower pro- ing thunderstorm filled the gram, which includes a control thickly carpeted living room, center that operates a job bank Some of the residents gasped at to match persons with avail- the darkness. Others simply able pobs.

The allocation also accepted it. provides for continued opera- Deafening Roar three daughters, Jo Anne, 22 land Heights, an industrial area years old, Teresa, 10, and at Fee Fee and Dorsett roads, Marcia, 5, were in the kitchen St. Ann, Woodson Terrace, Ed- of their new home last night, mundson, Berkeley, Ferguson, washing dishes after the eve- Dellwood, the Hathaway Manor ning meal. subdivision and Spanish Lake. Teresa glanced out the kitch- Storm Loses Punch en window, which faces south, The tornado lost much of its and told her mother there was punch after that, causing only a "funny looking cloud" in the scattered damage on the Illi- sky.

Mrs. Leppien looked out nois side of the Mississippi and shouted for everyone to run river at Fosterburg, Godfrey to the basement. They had and in Macoupin county, hardly reached there when they Gov. Warren E. Hearnes and heard a kitchen window blow County Supervisor Lawrence K.

In above them. Roos toured the area of devasl Seconds later the roof was tation in helicopters this morn- lifted from the house and they jng. With the Governor was were deluged with water. Rain Harold H. Knott of the United was pouring through the kitch- states Office of Emergency en floor above them and cas- Planning for Region 6 Denver cading from heating ducts 0ne can't realize how bad it above their heads.

A large js until he has seen jt from board blew through a window above," Gov. Hearnes com- of the basement, but neither it mented after surveying the nor the shattered glass hit any- damage for 40 minutes. "If you one' didn't know better you would Just Moved Into Home think that the storm actually The family had moved into had a life of its own and could the two-story $33,000 brick house pick its own path." Tuesday. They had come from The Governor said that ha Livonia, when Leppien would attempt to have the Fed-became general superintendent eral Government declare St. at the Goodfellow a Louis county a disaster area Plant here.

Two other daugh- in an effort to obtain financial ters are attending school in assistance for the victims. Livonia and a son is away at "We'll seek help from the college. municipalities and in some When Mrs. Leppien and the cases from individual citizens," three daughters went upstairs Hearnes said. they found extensive damage.

proof of Uss Needed Walking on the first floor was Knott- wno will make a rec- IE STRUCK: SOI ii 93 Residents Number of Injured Has Not Been Determined By FRANK LEEMING JR. Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The 93 residents of Chesterfield Manor Nursing Home in west St. Louis county had just finished their evening meal. They walked slowly or were pushed in wheel chairs to the living room. Some went directly to their rooms.

At dinner, they said later, there had been some interest in Mnmpnfo hp. came deafening and the windows crashed in. Wind howled through the room. The residents screamed. Debris filled the air and pelted everyone.

The sound of falling bricks could be heard. A tornado that was to skip across west and north St. Louis county had struck. It tore the root ana away Ir01" east wing of the one-story brick nursing nome. it snauerea large large sections of the west wing.

Several patients spokesmen for the home are not sure how many were injured by the storm. Some were persons confined to their beds in the two wings that were damaged. Others were in the living room. Miss Edna Overath, a regis- TURN TO PAGE 3, COLUMN DENIES THAT POOR LIGHT DAMAGES THE EYES LOS AN GE LES, Jan. 25 (UPI) Reading in poor light and endless television watching re not harmful to the eyes, contrary t0 popular belief an eye expert from Boston said yesterday, Dr.

Albert Sloane of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear In-firmarv told a Dress conference that these "myths" still exut. Sloane said that although poor "fiht may make a person's eyes reel urea, aoes not damage them. 5-DAY FORECAST: BELOW' NORMAL Forecast for St: Louis and vicinity for the next five days: Temperatures will average '3 to 6 degrees below seasonal normals tomorrow through Monday. Colder weather is expected for the next two days with, a warming trend over the weekend. Showers are likely tomorrow.

Normal highs are around 40; normal lows are from 21 to 26. NURSING Of PATIENTS DT Ulll By Renyold Ferguson, I Post-Dlspatoh Photographer white roof is a St. Louis county branch library. The library will closed indefinitely while repairs are made, Roofs torn from shops in the St. Ann shopping district were scattered over the area.

St. Charles Rock road is in the foreground. This large building with th A i Casualty List; 38 Admitted To Hospitals Coeur Meadows and Glenwood subdivisions and then hit Marv aSStST said that owners must Trespnt proof oss jf the county is designated a disaster area, Monev to finance reoairs and rebuilding will be drawn from Federal Housing Authority, the Veterans Administration and the Srnali Business Administra- i Imans will available, "xne Federal Government wjj pav the temporary cost of repairing public facilities, espe- ciaiy schools," Knott said, Hearnes said that he would rey on iocai authorities for who first toured the devastated area last night, said that he had been in touch with Gov. Hearnes early this morning. "I was appalled by the dam- TURN TO PAGE 13, COLUMN 7 NEWS INDEX Fag Fag Book! 2C Picture Pagt IF taitonal it- loaay i no tvaryaay Magaunt ir-naaio or 5ection Fcia, Ann und.r.

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7F Wick.r 1C xion a netwurn in iieigii- borhood stations, program de. velopment, birth control education, group housing, voluntary education and certain other projects. R. Sargent Shriver, director of the OEO, announced last vember that St. Louis and hun dreds of other communities would have to curtail some anti-poverty activities.

The HDC reduction would be diminished, of course, if some community action programs could receivme alternative funding. The CAP programs do not Include operation Head Start, the Neighborhood Youth Corps and Jop Corps, which are handled sevaratcly. ONE WAY TO ESCAPE LEGHORN, Italy, Jan. 25 (AP) Six prisoners chopped a hole in the ceiling of their jail cell last night and escaped via neighboring monastery. Monks in the monastery did not see the prisoners.

Prnl Rain I iL-plv ooi, tvain i-iKeiy Official forecast for St. Louis and vlolnltv! fnrrAacEncr rlnuHt. ness and continued cool to- night with rain likely tonight or tomorrow; cool tomorrow; low tonight 24 to 30; high tomrr- row in the lower 40s. Temperatures GOVERNORS TO MEET IN 1 a.m. 2 a.m.

3 a.m. 4 a.m. I a.m. 6 a.m. 7 a.m.

8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 Noon 1 p.m.

2 p.m. 3 p.m. POST.tVrATCH WEATHER BIRO we, u. MT. err.

Other weathrr Information on Pe 2 A 36 o8 fi 41 41 217 injured in a tornado that cut a damaging path through parts of west and north St. Louis countv vesterday. Of those injured, 38 persons were admitted to hospitals. The dead were identified as: Jeri Cannady, 6-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs.

R. D. Cannady, 13212 Greenbough drive, St. Louis county. She was dead on arrival at Missouri Bap- tist Hospital.

Diane Schlegel, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schlegel, 12413 Glengate drive, Maryland TURN TO PAGE 13, COLUMN 5 gtess. A swing room second floor was gone. rrr xiaa onnp "This is the first time in 25 years that I've had a sewing room, and it went with the wind, Mrs.

Leppien said. The Leppien home is at 13258 Greenbough drive, Old Farm Estates. It was in an area of heaw damage. After the storm, rescue workers poked through the rubble by flashlight, and the sound of sirens on emer- gency vehicles could be heard on nearby Olive boulevard. The first concern of families whose homes were damaged TURN TO PAGE 4, COLUMN 5 workers to get proper assist ance.

t-. P. Th Snamsh Lake Fire Sta tion, 12220 Belletontaine road, and the Creve Coeur Fire Sta- ti0n No. 2, on Schuetz road, have been designated for resi- dents of Maryland Heights, TURN TO PAGE 13, COLUMN 4 Red Cross Sets Up 4 Stations To Receive Applications for Aid St. Louis County Supervisor families in need of food, cloth-Lawrence K.

Roos, acting in ing. shelter or financial as-the wake of last wight's tornado destruction, signed a proclaim tion this moring declaring the c. A. "i-ii jean National Red Cross as the official disaster relief agency. in the county for assistance to families.

The Red Cross has set up four registration points where By Floyd Bowser, Post-Dispatch Photographer Bewilderment, a dressing and a big tear attest to Kelly Baiter exper.ence as she was being treated at St. Louis County Hospital after last night tornado. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Baker, 9613 St.

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