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21 Persons Die in
Blast and Fire
During Storm
ANDOVER, Ohio UP>—The grue
some job of identifying charred
bodies began yesterday in a tem
porary morgue three blocks from
the village square, where smoke
still rose from an explosion and
fire Wednesday.
Many of the dead and injured
had sought shelter from a storm
in a row of buildings which were
leveled by the disaster.
There were 21 bodies accounted
for, most of them in a makeshift
morgue inside a garage three
blocks away. The injured num
bered more than a score.
The center of the disaster was
the Gateway restaurant in this
village in the resort area of Pym
atuning Lake, along the Pennsyl
vania border. The restaurant and
a dairy store were in a two-story
frame building which disintegrat
ed with a force that shook the
entire town.
Andover has a population of
about 1,200.
Sheriff Tom Fasula said he
thought sewer gas, backed up by
clogged drains, might have been
the agent which ignited the blast.
But he said he could not be sure.
A Cleveland policeman, Elmer
Bumblis, was driving past the
restaurant at the time of the ex
plosion and gave this description
of the disaster:
“The walls blew out and the
roof fell in. There were arms and
legs sticking out of the wreckage
all over the building.”
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DONALD A. QUARLES,
CHIEF MOON MAKER,
NEW AIR FORCE HEAD
WASHINGTON, UR—President
Eisenhower Thursday appointed
Donald A. Quarles —top man in
the earth satellite project—as the
new secretary of the Air Force.
Quarles is now assistant secre
tary of defense for research and
development. He is 61, a native of
Van Buren, Ark., and more re
cently a resident of Englewood,
N.J. He is a Republican.
Quarles will succeed Harold
Talbott, who resigned Aug. 1, ef
fective this Saturday, after the
Senate Investigations subcommit
tee raised a question of ethics.
The appointment will be sub
ject to Senate confirmation when
Congress reconvenes in January.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said Quarles
was recommended to Eisenhower
by Secretary of Defense Charles
E. Wilson. When a reporter asked
about Quarles private business
holdings and what was being done
about them, Hagerty said he was
not in a position to answer that.
U. S. and Red China
‘Near Agreement’ on
Release of Americans
GENEVA, UP)—A Chinese Com
munist source said Thursday his
government and the United States
are “near agreement” on the re
lease of 40 Americans held by
Peiping and only details remain
to be worked out. There was no
official confirmation of the report
from either the Americans or the
Reds.
The Chinese source spread his
report after U.S. ambassador U.
Alexis Johnson and Peiping envoy
Wang Ping-nan met for an hour
and a half. It was the fifth of
their secret talks here on the
American prisoners and Chinese
students the Red regime claims
the U.S. is keeping from returning
home.
The two ambassadors announced
they would meet again Saturday
morning. The talks had stalled
Monday over Wang’s demand for
a list of Chinese nationals living
in the United States and a propos
al that India act as a third repre
senting Red China on the repatri
ation question.
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Big Dam on Yukon
Predicted Unless
Atom Takes Over
J U N E A U—Construction of a
hydroelectric dam at Rampart on
the Yukon River would change
the whole character of interior
Alaska, “and it probably will be
built some day unless atomic
power makes dams obsolete.” So
said Howard Baltzo, of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, on his re
turn from viewing the major pro
posed power sites of the territory.
Baltzo was in a party including
James T. McBroom, coordinator
of river basin studies for the Fish
and Wildlife Service in Washing
ton, which flew to half a dozen
main sites to plan FWS studies
designed to protect fish and wild
life resources where major dams
are built.
Others in the group were Clar
ence J. Rhode, administrator of
wildlife for Alaska, and Mel Mon
son and Gordon Watson of the
Alaska FWS river basin staff at
Anchorage.
An expansion in the river basin t
study program in Alaska is
planned by the service McBroom
was quoted by Baltzo.
The site at Rampart is the larg
est in Alaska. Construction of a
dam there would make a lake out
of a large part of interior Alaska,
undoubtedly affecting the climate
as well as the economyo f the area.
Other sites visited by the FWS
men included the Frobisher sites
on the upper Yukon, Devil’s Can
yon on the Susitna, Wood Canyon
on the Copper and several smaller
sites on Kenai Peninsula.
Three Nations to Survey
North Pacific Ocean
HAKODATE, Japan, W*—'The
142-ton Japanese weather obser
vation ship Yushio Maru left yes
terday to join U.S. and Canadian
vessels in a survey of the North
Pacific.
The Yushio and its 17 - man
crew will carry out tests on tem
perature and composition of ocean
water and will make marine me
teorological observations in the
Sanriku Sea off northern Honshu.
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