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Officiab Plead for Men, Machines Mac Outlines Viet Success; NeedofGIs
Fourth Day's Cleanup Aime
At East Side A caU for noon machbei ud manpower wm iasued here Sat urday u city efitdali and volimteer wottsi met to map plans for the fourth day of cleanup in tornado - ravaged TopeU. Bernard Willianu city en gineer, called for 40 more trucks. 12 street sweepera. 10 to » power braomi and SO men. He said 4R men are now work ing at the cleanup task in addi tion to i aremnand national guardsmen. dean dAreu "All streeu southwest of the Veteran's ta] are cleared for trafUe smd I about SO per cent of the area j between the Santa Pe shops and anmganunga Creek clear." Wdiiami tald. Mayor Charles W.. Wright prop^ a coneentratiOR manpower today in the ttonnlom area east of ^ungamtnga Creek in East Topeka. Street department q>dcesmen said their biggest problem Sat urday was wreck^ and inop erable can on city streets. Forms were issued to owner? ^tuHay to obtain permission to move the cars. Police Oiief Dana L. Hummer iold the group that 10th Street. i a main art«y for downtown I commuters, was opened Satur day through its intersection with Kansas Avenue. It was the find Hme te intgsection had been opened Mnce the tornado stru^ Wednesday night. Vohuicer Werkcn Dr. Robert C. Hsrder, coordioilor of vohmleer service centen. said volunteers talked to 1J09 families In Balt T<Kwka damaged hi some way by the storm. He said there were "hun dreds of people" in East Ttopeka who need housing on a .per-
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from a military toward a civdian r^lme. However, after cuUing the eRectivtocts of the military campaign in half earlier this spring, the internal turmoil's I impact on the anli-Viet Cong
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overcome and "1 don't I wm Impede military progress." McNamara said. The administration's defense and foreign affairs chiefs spoke at a wide-ranging news confer-
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cial White House bneHng f {Danocralle and Republican . il leaders. Preaident Johnson presided at the tw«>hour eesskm. which alw featured a report by Rusk oo bis just<o(Uluded European trip.. Senate Rejmblicaa Leader I Everett M. Dirksen'of Ultnois I bad ccoiplained that tbe admlniutratioa was not engaging in
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- Harder said the entenlavei than 175 famiUea In the dty. Pint adi was rendered to 41 persons Saturday at two kiealions-. Most bore only minor punctures and scrapes, he said. A special pass was approved for contraclora and constnetiMi companies at the requOst of ooe represefflative who complained that some coptracton been admitted to litter • atrm a but not aBowed to re-enter to Mayor Wright suggested an effort to salvage lumber for use In rebuilding, but the operation was delayed dntll clearing with heavy equipment is competed • We need power nm.i
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Legislative Session Not Yet Decided
'/X StHage tad repair openllocis were aaderway Saterday as damaged bootos te the heart at Topeka tteod ta bleak aadrea - trees and raefs berrea after Wednesday MghPa tor-
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hub greea vegetattea of eariy Jaae hat been replaced with a barren stripped away path of debris.
June 8: New Day of Infamy By ELON TORRENCE AMaciatod Preav Writer 'ettaodky, Jtma 8.' dawned
WASHINOIW (AP) - Sec retary' of Defense Robert S. Mc Namara said Saturday that mOiiary successes in Viet Nam ■•exceeded our expecUtions" in the first quarter ol.this year, but said more VS. troops will be sent there to counter contin uing inflliration from the Com munist Noryi. McNamara said 13,000 irok Gls already are ticketed for South Viet Nam doty, which would boost the tott! there to some 2C.000. Some expect the buildup to reach 400,000 by the end of the year.
midday gathering, be left tbe White House voicing satisficHon with the meeting. ! Senate Democratic Leader Mike MansfKld of Montana and ioiber admlidstration supporters recited sUlistics desigited to jshow how much the Johnsw reI gime has kept in touch with Cooi gress and the RepuMkan oppo.sltlon. The President hlnuelf told reporters this was »e S9tb I such bipartisan parley since he ' entered the White House. McNamara and Rusk stMUy denied any intent to cut back the rs.mmrn VS. force in West Europe.
Warm, Humid Day in Topeka
I Cooler air may move Into foe ; Topeka area tonight after anoth! er wa™ humid day, the Weather Bureau said. Mercury levels are expected I It pulled back up. A second lime'to rise into the middle to u^ foe finger dipped and pulled ;*» in the Topeka arw this Atertikr fhen a foirt time.' I noon. A shower might develop • It was just like you dropped late today. weafo«TOen said, saur WHe linger, then puBed Iti Mercury .levels soared to 100 back up." Hathaway said at Russell and to M at Hutchm-, teletype circuit that heavy hun- "As sbem as 1 saw that finthe first lime, il Topeka's high reading was 87 :ger dip down d "These ttundetsiorras w'I’lwas coofifirmed as far as I was Satuiday. A low of 63 was re corded before dawn. likely contain hard rain which concerned But I'm itew K cw»lnx«w IX * (CootteuedoBl^e lt. OJ. !t wiU poeslblyr produce hail and
It Began Like Any Other
?. N. Elhnd Doti^ «irii^ of rain as be drove from hla Mrs. Miller, in No. 110 of foe founderstonn developcnent in woman mental patient who was ihome to the Weather Bureau at Caly County about <5 milea holding a cocked and ' ‘ ' fTopeka Municipal Airport, pistol.'Tuesday night, a police About ei^t miles southwest ing fmrrerd to her favorite dL northwest of Topeka. had gven on calling a special session of the airport, in a relativriy versioo that night - contract Mrs. Milter, her day's work officer be works with traffic ticket ended, walked from foe sUtethe Kansas Legislature to new luxury apartment complex, bridge. than two hours later with Justice Frontren. sider Mrs. .Pearl MiBo- was acteing late. the young man had Jumped QlRors. (fronton remarked: tornadoes at Top *" for her drily trip to tbe Kansu ’it's surely gotten sultry.” SettlettoWerk and Jarbalo. slalebousc rriiere ^ k a see Mrs. Miller was in a hurry to to his Dan Myers. » “-iretary te Justice Ahn Frantren ReacMng the airport weather get home. Mrs. Louis Hell wps "All I hope is we don't have This obser\'alion, along with sistamteCov. William H. Avery lof th^ Kansas Supreme Court, bureau office. Eland took - foe he Embassy at 66:45 foe trouble we’ve been having." the tornado watch imued earlier charge for the day. B was ap to fti^i by said today no decUioc will be | - ' ' elecU ' lUler. rMV rMtsrtiy At foe Weather Bureai was emugb u send Tcqwka poparent that ibundrstonns aetiv- pjn. Mrs. MUler. made until an acointe assess-| ] into action. O^rs were unxiO.SS OF PASSENGERS RIDE his trains every year. • d's attention had lUftad to i^ was in the making. Sboitly ed prerident of the I ment am be made of damages Hathaway, a Kansas tmlt of tbe American Manhattan where there was : b»i ttav. », .b,™ Il»y M-tol. -n» •»!- »l I w™»" adter. 11 a.m.' he received word and needL I was sleeping late before repertBridge League, had report of a tornado, and foen ^ S* »x> 1. Wd m ; "He lAveryi hasn’t said no. m for the 3 pm. to 10 p.m. from foe severe weather fore Contract appointed Mrs. Hell publicity back toward Topeka. IrS w.. » MW«y cast center in Kansas City that ' el what we need there wont be' n ordinary beginning tornado-watch wa^being put chrinnan. They were to Uis«^ ■Ttwre was a squall.line ad on his way to his post on Burr..,...., netrs Mould. The mound is a 0(3 the InSide Forecast , a decialon." Myers said. | tor a late spring day but in a into effect for Easteni Kansas. • »tory before going out to play vancing east. prominence overlooking foe, heavT Cleat to pertly doudy “W;ih the federal dUAster hours they would have including foe Topeka area. Quiet Night Hoped had been to the north of tbe siriMiion and this $l nitllk)B>|,v«d through a tornado that Miner decided -kb. « available we won’t be in surii;clalm claimed 17 lives, injured »ttrough foe tunnel from foe Hathaway was hoping for a Kansas River." Eland said EdUoriats and Cohiinas leg^foaiBurnell'»^undiEdiiori.f».«ia.himM J fondersbewer late fots after"We noticed a few tmaU thun bad shape financialty other persona end created prob-sUtehouse to foe atate "« te Damage has been cstimalcd ,bly the greateai property iossIhniWmB for huich. It was drts-;T*toaday_____________ drt*-Tu«»*>’ he had to (Usarm a derstorm cells spring into baiaf would keep tornadoes from Eatertatemcat MOMoadgbl.Blgi»tMteyte naaiiP|al and Maekeu , » to foe south and they intoBsi- striking Ihe Weather Bureau by Avery ar«l« million Seven- „[ any iwbter in'Kinsas his- sling flutaide. :________________ — mMte upper 88s. ned quickly." said this had been disproved teen persons died.al ‘Dipeki.ltery. oa«..sabbaih M V At tbe Embassy. Mrs. Miller many times, but stiU foe storms Medicare Losses to publi public buildingB-in-! ^I he drove to work. Etend OUtnariet ... 81 yivw a» w ‘V^\ V--V .-.M.IUBI uau *uv »• stale printing plant (tnught farmers of foe sWe Ubo for I p.m roll call. He foen, -ny » Is a lamp «ato telrvistoa U« MMwav Defoiied Weoffcer com before Mrs Kell ar-|ctuscd great t swwt cot •ngWafoburoUniverkily ofYo-’vouM be i^eaaed; 'dro^ headed for his patrol area in IV feet p.b. I On Mninj H.lb..: ^ riv^ at peka among foe major ileQa.;bteikiflg rains of up to live::S<Nifowen Topeka News, Po9e2 path' Fialm Five minutes later Eland put way saw something like a black: woqwn new* MviToei' »ia cowmemiNO linches had falleti foe night b^' At ilie Weather Bureau. Rl-I— 1 note on Iht Weather Bureau finger dtp down from foe cloud. , 1 and kept a close eye on a strong' i^TSSSSm fS5!i *
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