Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 191, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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Tornadoes Leave 46 Dead, Hundreds Are Injured
Miners Scorn
Work Order
Rebellion Starts At Midnight Shifts;
Workers Claim Lewis Forced To Obey
PITTSBURGH, F»-li 13 (INS' - . predictions <>r (heir district leuilm
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Tin > ,I field <il Western ;nul
Central Pennsylvania were com
plainly shut down today by 85 (MMi
iimirv *oft itiil dim who scorn-
ed a Tuft Hartlry injunction .mil
refused to go to work under gov-
ernment order*
WmsI Virginia uuim ivpnrted
that most oi the IIO.immi miners in
the stati- also won- ill It Anil III
the Mim ky Mountain urea, t'.IMMi
men refund to work d« spile the
Continuance Of Coal
Strike Hay Place
Union In Contempt
U S. Plans No
Action Before
Mid-Week
WASHINOTt >N.
—Fixleral attorney*
lief toduv that the
strike places the
Feh 13 'INSi
expressed he-
'ontinuini > oul
Untied Mine
Workers onion in contempt or
eourf.
Hut the lawyer soul that forth
er goveilin en! actual in the mine
crisis is unlikely Indore midweek
lliforn.eci officials ilitilt .ited that
the government probably will wait
to M-e if the si-htduM resumption
of cootiuit talk Wednesday t*e-
tween ItMW President John I.
lew i- and the operafora infill
.♦urn the 400,000 striking Mill coal
Pmoimmss to i-slswi to sink ■
The walkout eonttnued in full
force today despite bark to-work
inr tnu-tions issued bv l.i-s-i* who
nii'iplinl with a federal district
court order It. call off the strike
Government legal ex touts said
Lewi- prohnblv would e-cupc anv
l«-tv.n.il contempt citation bv this
action tail they said it was t.-eh
nu,die iNMuuhlc that ttie union it
self is in eiMifempt of court
Federal Judge T Allan Gold.
Isii • High held three years :>k<> in
mother coal crisis that a union is
responsible foi the mas« actions of
its members
In past iiiies, the I'MW was
fined $7(Ml 000 ami 9I4IHIIHHI In*
cause of dlsohedletue to a court
inti strike nfdet while l-ewis per-
j.n.dlv was fmeil HIimmmi and (20.
I MMI
i inr I'evernnienl official said the
Ifovemuient probably could no to
iiiuri Iml iv and charge the I'MW
w-dh contempt Hut he added
’Any premature action might
threaten complete disaster for the
country Wo want to waif a reason-
able time The lies! way to net the
miners luirk to work would ho for
some assurances to come out of the
mi hi-dulr-l negotiations Wednesday
that a new contract is In the works
Th«' government's objective in this
thing is to get coal mined ”
Continuance of the walkout
lieii/htcnisl the fuel emergent''
Coal tucks are at the lowest level
in lostorv Electric (tower diinouts
have been ordered in some areas.
Railroads have slashed passenger
and freight traffic and steel plants
have only a two-weeks supply of
coal
Some federal officials believe
government seizure of the mines
mnv tie the only solution to the
crisis.
Membership Drive
Opened By C oi C
A membership drive in the
C’haml>er of Commerce liegan to-
day at a luncheon held at the Com-
munity Hull'hug Ernest O'Hearn,
chairman of the drive, outlined the
program of the Chandler of Com
metre to the memlmrship present,
and enlisted help from the rnent-
hn toward contacting non-mem-
liei Itusinesses
O'Hearn said that at the hegin-
nmg of the present fiscal year In
()i toiler, ii M-pnitd program .if
work was adopted hv tlw* Cham
her, coming under the categories
of 12 separate committees.
He outlined smite of the project*
which various committees have
carried out and plans for Upcom-
ing projects.
Plans are to contact businesses
which ire not members of the
Chamlioi of Commerce, and to
give them a chance to loin
Announcement was made of the
Public Affair committee radio
broadcast at 7 4f> mu Tuesday on
l KSIJ.
that they "probably" would
siime production today.
The fields employ some 212.000
members of the United Mine
Workers, who ignored the instruct-
ions of their president. John L
Lewis that they obey the federal
directive.
Thousands of diggers in other
states were expected to join the
"no contract, no work” strike as
the whistles for them to report for
work sounded
An operator spokesman said not
a mine was operating in the rich
Pennsylvania soft coal region.
Disregard Instructions
The rebellion started at pits
which hud midnight shifts It bore
out the statements of district and
local UMW officials over the week
end that the miners would stay
out.
Muny of the 400.000 bituminous
diggers chose to disregard the in-
structions of their leader to obey
that Taft Hartley "slave act" be-
cause they claimed Lewis was
forced to comply.
They denied vehemently that
they were rebelling against la-whs
UMW district officials and coal
operator* agreed that only a com-
parative handful of mines would
tie in operation today.
la-wis ap|>ears to tie in the clear
legally He 'elegraphed his district
presidents directing them to “take
all appropriate action" to get the
men bark, but the rank and file
members refused to obey
Some officials believe govern-
ment seizure of the mines mav be
the only solution to the critical
coal situation
Vote Not To Work
hi Pennsylvania and West Vir
■A Kims, hotbed of the miners' angei
for the last five week*, local after
local voted nut to go into the
mines
At Rich wood. W Va.. local pres
idcnt. Gordon Davis, asserted
Vi n i ills l.i-iic Hkl per cent
but we think be is forced to do
what lie is doing, and we can't se*
our way clear to working under a
slave act We're still Americans "
John (tranicb president of the
■Miwerfol 2..700 memlier local at
the Roliena mine iumi Masontown.
Pa . sail!
' We won't work without a con-
tract "
Many of the IKS 000 I'MW mem-
tiers in Pennsylvania am) West
Virginia huven'i bad a pay day for
five weeks But they were tighten-
ing their belts ami determined to
continue their walkout
Other states with normally
heavy coal production cx(iecled
their miners to continue their dr
fiance In Ohio Indiana, Illinois
Kcntuekv and Alabama, district
UMW president* said they did not
think the rank and file intended
to go hack to work
Alabama union officials appeal-
ed to memtiers to follow the in-
lunctlon. hut the miners apparent-
ly were not paving any attention
Their sentiment was expressed by
the comment of one miner
"If we can’t work under a con -
■to
| tract, we're certainly hot going
work umter an injunction "
Missing Workman
Turns Up In Santa
Barbara, Calif.
W It Perkins, who has been
missing since Thursday evening,
was found in Santa llarlwmi. Calif.
, veslerdav by policemen A tele-
phone eall lute Sunday front Pet
kins informed his family that he
was alive and safe
Perkins disap|>eared Thursday
afternoon when he left a drilling
! rig at Pine Milles to return to
Gladewater Before be was found
m California, the last that was
I seen of him was at a service sta-
tion in Hawkins
Perkins' brother left Dallas early
today by plane for Santa Barbara
to return with Perkins
NOW AT HOSPITAL
SANTA BARBARA, Calif, Feti.
13 iUP> W timer Perkin* of
Gladewater. an oil field worker,
was in Cottage Hospital today for
observation and a brother was
flying hero front Gladewater to
be with him
Perkins ? >ld he left Gladewater
at * u m Wednesday to insitect
an oil well He drove a company
Mr and said he recalled nothing
sine*' then
Last night, he went to Santa
Barbara police They took him
to a hospital
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
ST LOUIS. Feb. 13 <UP' Ml
and Mrs Avery 1. Wilcox were
found shot to death today in their
apartment in suburban Rlltsville.
Eight East Texans
Killed In Series
01 Weekend Storms
Chapel Hill
Man Critically
Hurt In Twister
DALLAS. Feii 13 <UP*~The
death toll in a senes of tornadoes
which spiraled through 14 cust-
Centrul and Northeast Texas com-
munities Sunday stood at eight to-
11 •* v
Sixty-five persons were injured,
several of them critically, as Un-
tight twisters tunneled through
the countryside into l-ouisiana,
where they gathered intensity, kill
ing at least 2!i
Three of the dead in Texas lived
in Shelby County on the loiuisiana
border, about (10 miles southwest
of Shreveport Thev were Mrs.
La uni Gravson and Mrs. Will
Eastridge of Haslarn and Mrs Rtia-
j *i-i Fulls. ”7 of the Jericho com-
| mimity
Mrs Grayson and Mr* East ridge
: were inside Mrs Grayson’* home,
which was destroyed by the tor-
. nado
The other dead:
Mrs. Carlcc Banks, titi. who was
killed at Corley, about IS miles
southwest of Tcxarkaliu. Sunday
; Three others were injured at Cor-
ley by the tornado which caused
property damage estimated at $23.
0IMI
Linwnnd Windsor, an IB-month-
old child of the Salem community,
near Lufkin His patents and three
sisters were injured when the tor-
nado struck and demolished their
home
The Ikiv's father. Dick Windsor.
32. and his sister. Shirley, 9, died
latet Three other members of the
Windsor family were hurt serious-
i ly-
Mrs Ella Dodson 101 vear old
Negro, who dull yesterday in a
Houston liospit.il She wus kmured
fatally when a Saturday tornado
eollansed her house at La Porte
Other place* in the paths of the
| Sunday twisters were Pines. Gill,
Hremond. Omaha, Hughes Springs
and Swan The Saturday tornadoes
ripped through Chapel Hill, bai-
levvitle and Alvin in addition to
l-a Porte
Only Omaha. Alvin and Swan
survived Hie storms without intui
ics Fifteen wen* hurt at Haslarn
and nine injured at Gill
Two houses were destroyed
i early yesterday in a rural section !
about 10 miles west of Tyler, but
Smith County Sheriff Ross Turner
-aid the occupants wen* not in j
. Jural-
The Saturday night tornado that j
i oared through Hailey ville in lined
only three persona but knocked
down t? to 20 houses, leaving at !
least 38 homeless
Two aged men—John Booker.
02. and Loguc Abernathy, about
70. received critical Injuries when!
one of the tornadoes hit Hughe-
Springs Five others sustained less
cr iniurtes and 13 homes were,
heavily damaged.
Also injured critically was J*io
Thornton, 34, in the tornado at
Chap* 1 Hill
Salem was isolated for several
hours after the twister struck the
little community about 10 a m
yesterday The five iniured mem-
ber* of the Windsor family were
taken from the wreckage of their
home to a Lufkin hospital
Sabine Expected
To Reach Flood
Stage On Thursday j
The second largest flood on the
I Sabine River in the past ten years
| has I Men forecast by Lake Charles
weather bureau
The river is expected to crest at
Mineolu on Thursday at 22 feet
and hit a flood crest of 39 feet on
the 19th This is only five and
one-half feet lower than the April. ]
i»46. flood of M i S feet
Rainfall along the upper reaches
of the Salnne was extremely heavy
during the week-end disturbance
over East Texas. The tornadic
winds loosed torrential downpours
all along the river watershed and
set the river on another rise short
ly after d had lierun to subside
from a nrevious flood when it ,
crested at 33 feet on Feb 9
Rainfall totals weic as follows
Gladewater. 2.01; Mincoln. 3 03.
Kaufman. 4.0: Emory, 3 7ft Rock-
wall 3 30 Wills Point. 3 02; Mar I
shall. 3 04. and Greenville, 3,71
inrhes
A cold front, slipping into Texas !
last night from tin- northwest
brought scattered snow flumes
across sections of West Texas and
brought an apparent halt to the
widespread shower* of the past
48 hours
The thermometer showed a rap-
id drope in Gladewater from an 8
a m rending of 34 degrees to r 43
degne rending at noon laiw tom-
pei dines, forecast by the iaike
Charles bureau indicated a drop
to tin- middle thirties I'm day
morning
Tornado Razes Two Homes At Chapel Hill
Scattered Communities In Three States
Left In Shambles; Family Of 8 Among Dead
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SHREVEPORT. La.. Feb. 13
(UP1—Tornadoes that hammered
three southern states with wintei
most disastrous blow today ind
Sunday killed at least Hi peisons
iigutcd bund: (b ind u ft itti-i
•ad communities in shamble*
Louisiana counted 29 dead, Tex-
as eight aiid Tennessee rune, in
eluding an entire farm family of
eight
Still-rising Hood waters added
to the misery ami loss of life in
three states The H*'d Cross evac-
uated more than 3.04M) !■ wlandei
in Mississippi and Louisiana
Three jiersons were drowned in
Arkansas HoimI waters
Tornadoes rain paged through
sections of Texas and Louisiana
Sunday. Then a new- tornado
hurtled out of the skies before i
dawn today to hit the little com-
munity of Hurricane Hill. Term. I
Mr and Mrs Wilson Carroll
and their six children were killed
outright, probably while still sleep-
ing. Their dwelling simply splin-
tered before the impact of the
winds and fell in on them.
Hurricane Hill, located about 50
A TORNADO which (truck
the Chapel Hill community,
five mile* east of Tyler on the
Honderscn highway, complete-
ly raxed the C. G. Bennett
home labovei. The house was
picked up and carried ISO
yards, then just seemed#d ex-
plode. witnesses said. There
was only one serious injury
in the community, since most
of the residents were at
church whan it hit.
THE HOME of Jostph Thorn-
ton (at right) disinteqratad on
its foundation Saturday night
around 9 o’clock when the tor-
nado struck (he Chapel Hill
community. Thornton Is in a
Tyler hospital in a critical
condition. He was the only
person seriously injured in the
tornado which destroyed an-
other house, damaged five oth-
er*. and blaw four barns and
one blacksmith shop away.
(Mirror Staff Photos).
List Of Identified
Dead In Louisiana,
Texas Tornadoes
SHREVEPORT. I-i . Feb 13
'UP> The identified dead in the
i'. \.i Louisiana tomadoag
Pfc William Eli Oliaaria. 22. if
Honolulu; Slack Air Force Depot.
Pfc Herbert Lawrence Casper.
20, Chicago; Slack Air Force De-
pot. *
William J Dalton, address and
age unknown, a civilian emplove
at Slack Air Force Depot.
CpI William B. Rutledge. 23,
Jones ville. Lu
CpI. William J Henderson. 22.
Englewood, N J
William McKinney. Negro. 40,
killed lust outside the base.
Arthur la-e Frazier Negro. 3,
crushed by the f(repine** in his
home just off the base
Mr and Mrs Sam Smith (17 and
(It* Bienville Parish.
Elaine Smith, nge unknown,
Bienville Parish
Prentiss Little. 4. of Minden, La..
who was visiting the Smiths.
Cecilia Sullivan. (13 Bienville
Parish
Dottle Jim- Knotts. IB. Bienville
Parish
Mrs Lemon Burton, of Minden,
l.a„ killed in Bienville Parish
Mrs John Bell, 70. of Minden.
La . killed in Bienville Pariah
Velma Loud, Bienville Parish,
Negro
W C Angle, and two sons. Cur-
tis. La.
Mrs Ella Dodson. Negro, 101, La
Porte. La.
Mrs I-aura Grayson. Haslarn,
Texas
Mrs. Will Easterwoo»l. Haslarn,
Texas, who was visiting Mrs
Grayson.
Mrs. C C Mayfield, near Log-
ansport. La , but In Texas.
Mrs Buster Fults. 27, Jericho,
Texas.
Mrs Carlee Banks. 86. Corley.
Texas.
Llnwood Windsor. IB months,
near Lufkin, Texas
Illy D. Young, throe years old,
Grand Cane
Louis Howard, age unknown.
Grand Cane
Wilson Carroll 34. Mi Carroll,
27. Hurrteane Hill. Tenn
The Camilla' children Patria.
10; Rufus, eight. Betty Jo, six;
Lillie, four; Joyce Ann. two. and
Bonnie Jean, one
An unidentified Negro at Hurri-
cane Hill
Two unidentified Unites at l-og-
ansport. La.
Secret Sessions Begin On
H-Bomb Civilian Defense
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 ilNS«
j —The joint Congressional "watch
i Jog" committee begin secret ses-
sions this week on civilian de-
| fense against atomic or hydro-
gen Iminti attacks on U. S cit-
ies
Drastic steps— perhaps even
! the removal of the capital fur-
ther inland, or the establishment
; of an "alternate" capital—may be
J proposed
Plans for this study were made
last fall The announcement that
the "hell" bomb may be perfect-
ed and may U* 1.000 times ns pow-
erful as the original atomic
bombs spurred the inquiry.
Extra incentive for planned
. civilian detente came with the
j confession in London of Dr Klaus
< Fuchs that he has passed atomic
and H-immli secrets to Russian
agents.
Fuchs was hem for criminal
t trial after a prclim*naiy hearing
j Friday Meanwhile, the Federal
j Buroau of investigation is seeking
1 to run down the confederates the
j German-born scientist had while
he was working on top secret
I atomic matters in this country
Chairman McMahon «D .-Conn.»
I of the Congressional atomic com-
mittee said his group will lie-
gin closed-door hearings on the
civilian defense theme this week
Public hearings are expected to
Eight Persons Killed In Air Accidents
Over Weekend; 53 Others Said Hissing
SEVEN STUDENTS KILLED
BOZEMAN. Mont . Fob IS 'IT*
Seven Montana State College
students were killed early today
when their automobile smashed
through a guard mil on u twist-
ing canyon road mid drop|ieil 40
I vet down an embankment, Hie
■heriff's office reported.
By UNITED PRESS
Eight |ier*ons died in airplane
accidents and mishaps over the
weekend, a n d rescuers pressed
searches today for two planes
missing with n total of 33 per-
son* aboard.
A twin-engine plane carrying
material for the Atomic Energy
CommiraiOt, rammed into a New
Mexico me*a, carrying three per-
sons -to their death*.
1 Three were killed when a light
plane crashed and burned short-
ly after a takeoff from the Fort
i Bragg. Calif . airport.
The hodv of a private pilot
washed ashore from San Francis
ro hay. where his craft apparent-
ly crashed while on a flight from
Oakland to Monterev. Calif.
Searchers hunted along the
shore of lamg Island for the Uxlv
of Steward John Harris, who was
swent out of a Pan-American
World Airways Stratoeruiscr as it
nenred New York on a flight from
London
ABC officials at Santo Ft* N
M. identified the dead in the
rrash near Albuqiienpic -s pilot
Hugh H Williams, Jr Albuquer-
que: Roliert F Purcell, 31 Love-
land. Colo.: and Warren C Flesh
man. 29. Watongn. Ok> i Purcell
and Fleshman were AFC security
officers-, carrying ’‘classified in-
formation."
The throe were killed instantly
when the plum* phinged to earth
and exploded as it approached its
. landing strip Saturday night
In the Fort Bragg crash, the
J dead were Jarvis Williams. 48.
1 Sacramento. Calif.. Mrs. Ethel
Svopp. 60. Fort Bragg, and Charles
Becker. 37. Ban Francisco. Their
plane crashed Saturday night.
The bodv of Malcolm B. Woods.
39. Carmel. Calif., who had been
missing since he left the Oak-
; land airport Friday afternoon,
washed ashore near Newark. Cal-
if The finding of the body end-
ed a two-dav search by plane*.
hclioooDter* and Coast Guard
| crash boats
For the third dav, Navy planes
and Coast Guard boats searched
the Gulf of Mexico for a twin-
encine Navy flying boat that van-
ished Friday with nine men a-
bcird
The search w-’s spurred by
knowledge that the craft might
still t>e afloat and its occupants
safe.
The search for a C-34 transport,
which disappeared Jan 26 on a
flight from Anchorage. Alaska, to
Great Falls, Mont., with 44 pas-
senger* aboard, was temporarily
suspended hv bad weather. But
search crews utilized the time
spotting six mntvlo radio units
along the British Columbia coast
and at certain inland points
Thev mustered the additional
radio eqmoment after faint SOS
•-Ignats Fstdav nlitht arourod
hope*: the C 34’- occupants might
be alive
open about M.ireh I.
This- study comes in the wake
of warnings by two leading
scientists that a tramp steamer
or a submarrtne stealing into an
American harbor ofters the most
probably method of "delivery”
of un atomic weapon.
The underwater bomb test at
Bikini demonstrated that a har-
bor burst might be the most da-
maging of all—if a gentle wind
i carried the enormou.* clouds of
radioactive spray inland to con-
taminate the harbor city.
Meanwhile, military expert* dr-
] dared that one hydrogen bomb
could almost wipe nut the larg-
est of cities—hv either an over-
head or an under water burst.
Military experts said privately
that the hvdrogen bomb would
cause:
1 Total destruction within a
four-mile radius—leaving only
debris over an area of eight miles
across.
2. "Severe to destructive" da-
mage within a 12-milo radius—
an area of 430 square miles—
more than the size of Manhat-
tan.
3. "Moderate blast and severe
fire damage" within 30 miles of
the center of the hurst.
4. Radloactivlt;- that might ren-
der a city uninhabitable for
months in the event that the hv-
drogen or atomic hurst is under
water and the mist is spread in-
land by winds.
The Atomic Energy Commis-
sion has made plans for two
training courses—cne in the use
of Instruments to detect and mea-
sure radioactivity, and the other
in the medical effects of radio-
activity
C of C Panel
Plans Broadcast
The public affair* commitee of!
the Chamber of Commerce will
present a 15-minutr radio broad- j
cast from 4 45 a m. until B tumor- I
row over Station KSIJ. discussing j
the program of work lor 1950
Heading the commitee is E D i
Cleveland Other commit feemen
are H I McAfee, Glenn Kincaid.
C s Patterson, and Neil Cooper
Gladewater citizens are urged
by the Chamber of Commerce to
hear the broadcast and roteivel
information as to what the chain |
tier i* doing. 1
miles north ot Memphis. Tenn.,
near the Mississippi River, got its
name from u hurricane that hit
tlu- town in 1887
Property Damaqe Haavy
Authorities have not had time
' .ikl up the property damage but
t ..is exported to be hundreds of
Kiusand* of dollars. In Louisiana
lone the Red Cross said it would
likely la- more than ISOO.IHHI
One of the major problems of
•il such storm*—failure of com-
-numcations—hampered rescue ef-
tort.s Telephone, telegraph and
mower lines were stripped from
; -lies and dangled idly in the calm
that followed the mighty storms
Tornadoes are caused when col#
Hi in the upper atmosphere spills
into warm layer* of air near the
earth. It is extremely difficult to
predict where one will hit. al-
though the forecasters said condl-
■ •■!*• ripe today for imm
uch weather in ections of Ala-
bama and Mississippi.
A real killer tornado such as
the one that hit Hurricane Hill oft-
en builds up a velocity of about
300 mile* an hour inside the vor-
tex. according to the weather bu-
reau. They are usually sliort lived
One Negro wa* killed near the
spot where the badly-battered bod-
ies of the Carroll family were
found.
Bodies Scattered
William Klutts. one of the first
members of the rescue teani to
reach Hurricane Hill, said that
bodies of the Carroll family "were
scattered for 80 yards."
Klutts believed the family was
sleeuing and never knew what Jut
them when the twister damrr#d
against their house about 2 a.m.
First aid headquarters were set
up at Ripley, nearby. Hurricane
Hill’s eight telephones were knock-
ed out making communications to
tbc tricken area difficult.
The tornadoes apparently had
spent their fury in Louisiana and
the danger ta Arkansas was dimin-
ished by today.
There were unofficial reports of
injured person* dying during the
night, indicating that the death toil
in Louisiana might rise but some
slight!' injured patienta were be-
ing discharged from Shreveport
Charity Hospital after spending
the night there.
Doctors in Snreveport Chantv
Hospital had to tell one patient
that she 'utd lost a husband and
iwo children.
She wus Mrs. Gladys Angle,
about 35. who wa* sttU in a *j-
'•ere state of shock. Her husband
, and two of her children were kill-
ed at Curtis. La. She ha* three oth-
er children, two of whom were in
I the hospital with her.
Cold Front Predicted
Thre still was no overall esti-
’ mate of the damage. But Col.
Thomas W Steed of the Air
Forte's Barksdale Field said de-
struction at the nearby Slack Air
Depot alone would run as high as
9250.000
In the areas favorable for torna-
: does today, thundershowers were
i predicted, to lie followed later by
i cold front It was raining yester-
day when the epidemic of torna-
does burst upon East Texas and
Northwest Louisiana.
The tornadoes oeat a freakish
t path nf destruction
around this oil-producing center
of IlO.ObO persons and left it vir-
tually undamaged.
State police gathering reports
from scattered areas said 25 of
the dead and 160 of the injured
were in Louisiana Six were dead
and some 40 iniured in Texas.
Thev broke down the Louisiana
casualty as follows:
Sligo-Curti* area in Bisaier Par-
ish '15 miles east of Shreveport*—
Thr«n killed. 10 injured
Cedar Grove-Forbing-Slack Air
Force Depot 'just south of Shreve-
port proper'—Seven killed (four
airmen and a civilian on the depot
•ind two Negroes outside. 66 in-
utrod (16 airmen, five critically in-
i jured'.
Three Killed. One Hurt
! Lognnsport '50 miles southwest
of Shreveport—Three dead, one
critically injured.
Mansfield-Grand Cane area '40
miles southwest of Shreveport*—
I Three dead.
'DeSoto Parish Sheriff Harmon
Burgess said 45 persons were in-
iured, one critically, in the section
embracing Lognnsport, Mansfield
and Grand Cane *
Castor-Jnmes-Alberta area in
Bienville Parish '43 miles south-
east at Shreveport- -Nine killed.
35 injured, 'five critically*.
WEATHER
FORECASTS
Gt.ADFWATlR AREA—Cloudy
and colder with occaeiunal rain to-
night. Tuesday cloudy to partly
cloudy and continued cold. Lowest
tonight near 35.
TEMPERATURES
Sunday maximum 68
Sunday minimum 47
Monday 8 a. m. 54.
SABINE RIVER
Monday 8 a. m 34.33 (rising*.
RAINFALL
Saturday-Sunday 2 01 Inchee.
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Greep, J. Walter. Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 191, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1950, newspaper, February 13, 1950; Gladewater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1008028/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lee Public Library.