21 Killed, 200 Injured
In Wake of Tornado ,
In South Birmingham
Ry THE Assof TAT ED PRESS
Thunderstorms rumbled across
the Gulf States and northward to
North Carolina today in the wake
of tornadic winds and destructive
windstorms which struck sections
of Alabama and Georgia yester
day.
At least 21 persons were killed
and more than 200 injured in the
twister that ripped into suburban
areas of Birmingham, Ala., Sun
day. More than 100 houses were
flattened and hundreds of others
damaged. Some 400 persons were
homeless. ,
The deaths in Alabama brought
this month’s tornado toll to at
least 62.
heaviest toll of dead and in
jured was in McDonald’s Chapel,
a community of 3,000 population
outside the northwestern city lim
its of Birmingham. Most of the
victims there were Negroes.
Bulganin and Khrushchev
Are First Red Leaders To
Visit a Western Power
MOSCOW, (jD — Premier Bul
ganin and Soviet party chief Nik
ita Khrushchev set out Saturday
on the first leg of their historic
journey to Britain.
It marked the first time since
the Russian revolution that top
rulers of the world's chief Com
munist state have left their cap
ital to pay a state visit to a major
western power.
The two Soviet leaders were to
set sail from the Baltic port of
Baltisk. They are scheduled to
arrive in Britain Wednesday for
their 10-day visit.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Mary Ahnangnatc
guk, Bert Bell.
Discharged: A. Polet, Steven
, Attatayuk, Mike Ahkolik, James
Moses.
ARGENTINE TEAM PREPARES
TO SCALE WORLD'S HIGHEST
UNCONQUERED MT. PEAK
NEW DELHI, UP>—An Argentine
expedition has begun its attempt
to scale rugged Mount Dhaulagiri,
the world’s highest unconquered
peak, the Argentine embassy said
Saturday.
A spokesman said the embassy
received a letter April 4 from Col.
Emilliano Huerta, leader of the
expedition, saying an advance
party had set up camp at the
base of the 26,810-foot Nepalese
slope.
The eight-man team expects to
make the final assault on the
mountain late next month.
Chinchillas, aristocrats of the
rodent family, are related to
guinea pigs, rats, squirrels and
rabbits.
Father, mother,
Son and daughter
Drink and wasn with
Bronson's pure water
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Unexpected Commonplace
In High School Play
On Thursday Evening
A test run was made of “No
More Homework” last year in
Gorden, Nob., and it was rated
tops and a sure success by a
committee of judges. The author,
John Henderson, dramatically
startles the audience in the third
act.
Romance kicks up its lovely
heels in this merry turnabout.
Who would ever have guessed
that elderly Miss Goodin “carried
a torch” for the confirmed faculty
bachelor, Mr. Harper? Who ever
would imagine that “Tok,” the
diminutive janitor, would even
tually dominate Mrs. Ratchet, the
demon scrub lady who — every
expected—rode home each night
on her broomstick? Or that some
body would accidentally lock a
limburger cheese sandwich in a
trunkful of costumes for1 “Rusty
Wings,” the school play? All of
these events and more keep Act
ing Principal, Pamela Jones in a
whirl.
This hilarious three-act comedy
will be presented at 8:00 p.m.
on April 19 in the school auditor
ium.
Two Men Swap Homes
To End Commuting
DALLAS, UP)—Braniff Airways
employe Jim Phillips, tired of
having to travel daily to Fort
Worth where he was recently
transferred, put an ad in the pa
per offering to swap his home for
one in Fort Worth.
His first caller was Branifff em
ploye Harry Betz, who for three
years has been commuting daily
from his Fort Worth home to Love
Field in Dallas, a distance of about
30 miles.
They swapped even.
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Souvenir Hunters
Deplete Mile Signs
On Alaska Hiway
OTTAWA, (ill—Souvenir hunt
ers have made it almost impos
sible for the Army to keep mile
age signposts on the Alaska High
way. The Army has had charge
of maintenance of the 1,221-mile
highway for the past 10 years.
! There was a signpost every
mile along the highway, indicat
ing the distance from Dawson
Creek, B.C., southern end of the
road, to Fairbanks. Each mile
post is numbered.
The Army said the majority of
the mileposts indicators go un
touched but tourists have a yen
for signs numbered 333, 777 and
1,000.
With the signs disappearing as
fast as they could be put up, the
Army attached boxes to the mile
posts filled with spare markers.
The idea was that tourists want
ing markers as sduvenirs could
take one of the spares. But the
travellers continued to wrench
markers from the wooden posts.
Army engineers then erected
steel posts with the markers
welded to them. So far they have
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