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PAGE TWENTY THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1951 Hurricanes Still Killers Says Weather Bureau Head By E. V. W. JONES Miami, Fla.'(AP) -- The form- wla for saving your life in a hur- ricane today is the same as when human beings first encountered ese great whirling storms: gp +A mio from the waterfront and other dangerously exposed .raeas. Get out of flimsy buildings. Take shelter in strong structures. Stay in shelter until the hurricane is past. Grady Norton, chief of the weath- er bureau's storm warning service here, has repeated a sermon. often preached by this expert who 'has hoistened more hurricane warnings -- twin red flags with black centers -- than any other man. "Hurricanes are still the killers they always were," said Norton. "No part of our Atlantic or gulf coast is immune to them. It is better to prepare in advance than to hold mass burials afterwards." "The storm just past, the disas- trous »Jamaica blow in mid-Aug- ust, adds one more disaster to a long list, but it won't be the last." Norton's plan for hurricane pro- tection which he advises for all coastal communities is simple. He realizes that older areas cannot do what South Florida has done --en= force a stormproof building code. "Advance planning for evacua- tion of dangerous areas and weak buildings, and the designation of substantial buildings as public shel- ters is all that's needed in most communities," he stated. "The idea is to get people away from windblown water, out of flimsy homes, and into strong buildings. They won't be comfortable and they often litter the shelters, but it lasts only a few hours, And it saved lives." Newsmen returning from Jam- aica reported the island's advance planning provided for evacuation of exposed areas and getting people off the streets by sending them home. But there were no public shelters. Flimsily built homes blew down, killing and injuring or driv- ing occupants into the open where flying debris hit them. One woman was reported decapitated by a sheet of corrugated roofing. More than 150 persons died in Jamaica alone, By contrast, a storm of equal or greater violence swept Miami last October with the loss of two lives. One man died when he ven- tured outdoors to secure a wind- loosened shutter. A woman who failed to seek shelter was killed when her trailer home was wrecked. Norton has spent most of his life trying to improve forecasting meth- " ods and cheat the killer storms of victims. He believed that a longer warn- ing period would permit more people to plan for their safety and save their lives. During the Second World War Norton learned that the surface forecasting of hurricane movement used wntil then was wrong. He learned that hurricanes followed high altitude. windstreams from 25,000 to 60,000 feet above the earth. He termed this the "control level," and began fo forecast storm move- ment by it. Since this diseovery, the weather bureau has been able to extend the prewar eight hours of warning prior to a hwrricane to 24 hours, with an additional 32 hours of pre- liminary alert. Such a warning per- iod would have prevented much of the record 6000 death toll in the infamous Galveston, Texas, storm of 1900, This greater warning period, along with eooperadion from ihe air force, navy, coast guard, American Red Cross and a8 more cooperative publie, has redueed the death toll in prepared areas almost to the vanishing point. A hurricane moved over Miami Oect. §, 1948, without causing a single death, Norton was proud of that. It didn't always twm owt that way. The great Miami hurricane of 1926 Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee storm which killed 1836 and injured 1870, most of them when the mighty winds blew the water out of Lake Okeechobee and sent a flood across Everglades farmlands. The most violent storm ever to occur im the western hemisphere was the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys. Its winds 8 200 miles an hour, and left 211 war veterans dead or mis- sing at, a road eamp and killed 166 civilians for a known total of 376. The Overseas Railroad was wreeked, a rescue train blown off the tracks, and the ¢ity of Key West narrowly esceped becoming a Ghost town because of that mighty "The rest of the comntry Jeeant da look en hurricanes as storms'," Norton cautioned. "Fhe New England hurricane of 1088 killed 600 persons and eaused the preatest property loss im the history of the world from such disasters -- $300 million. "It ig better to realize that hur- rieanes are ocean storms which follow laws of their own. They can srike wherever there is a coast- e" The hwricane expert said much of the terror has been taken out of such storms where there is advance planning. "I feel very humble while fore- casting the movement of a hur- ricane," he added. "They are tricky and death-dealing. Fach one car- ries the potentialities of a disaster. Only adequate warnings and shelter will save lives when they strike." STUDY COOPERATIVES Quebec (CP)-- Premier Duples- sis yesterday' announced the ap- pointment of a three-man commis- sion to study and possibly revise Quebec legislation governing co- operative organizations. The pro- vince has more than 700 cooper- atives with a total membership of S0ine 80000 in farming areas alone. REPRESENTS CANADA (CP) -- ¥xternal Af- fairs Minister Pearson 'announced last night that Mrs. R. J. Mar- shall of Agineourt Ont. retiring of the National Council of omen of Canada has been ap- "Rofnted & member of the Canadian gation to the United Nations Assembly, . - Gardens Post Big Reward For Barilko Toronto (CP) -- The directors of Maple Leaf Gardens Yesterday posted a reward of $10,000 for the person who locates missing hockey player Bill Barilko, dead or alive. The Toronto Maple Leafs de- fenceman and Dr. Henry Hudson, Timmins dentist, have been miss- ing in Northern Ontario since Aug. 26 when their light plane took off from Rupert's House, on the south- ern tip of James Bay, en route home after a weekend fishing trip. A widespread air search has been carried on since then by the RCAF, Department of Lands and Forests and private planes. Conn Smythe, president of the night: "We are making this announce- ment at a time when hundreds of hunters will be flocking to the north and we hope the offer of a reward will result in a final all-out éffort to locate either the men or their bodies before freeze up time." The offer terminates Jan. 1, 1952 and if there is more than one claimant, the president of. the Gardens will divide the reward as he thinks appropriate. 'Fantastic' Near Border Hogansburg, N.Y. (AP) -- Four northern New York residents claim- ed yesterday to have seen a fan- tastic flying ball, powered by a motor - driven propellor, land near St. Regis and Hogansburg, then take off and vanish in the alr over Massena. They described the ball as a dark brown rubber or plastic sphere about four feet in diameter, with no appendages other than a pro- pellor and a two-foot brass shaft, They said it bore no markings. Alex Lafrance, 20, Peter Phil- lips, 40, and Francis Arquette, 16, told police they saw it land in a field near this Canadian border In- dian reservation, bounce about three times and stop. They said the sphere took off with a humming noise at about 25 miles an hour. Mrs. Angus Cook, 26, a: house- wife, told a reporter that she heard a sound like a motor and saw the ball about 400 feet up in the sky. She said it landed about 200 years from her home. Checks with the United. States weather bureau and the civil aeron- autics authority appeared to dispel the possibility that the object could have been a weather balloon. James Mason, chief communica- tor at the Massena airport CAA station, said the wind velocity at the time was three miles an hour, hardly strong enough to whip a balloon into the air from the ground. In Ottawa, A. D. McLean, con- troller of Canadian civil aviation, said: "I don't know of any Can- adian machine that corresponds to that description." "Fantastic is all I can say." Helicopter Crew Saved By Destroyer Tokyo (CP) -- Rescue of a heli- copter, in distress while on a rescue mission itself was a highlight of a recent patrol by the Canadian de- stroyer Sioux off the west coast of Korea. An aircraft from a British ecar- rier had been forced down on tide- flats off the enemy shore. The crew was picked up by a helicopter at- tached to the carrier, but thé 'copt- er ran out of fuel en route to its mother ship and landed on a small island. The Sioux, dispatched to the scene when it became evident the helicopter was in trouble, arrived in time to see it landing. The destroyer anchored off the island ! and sent ashore her motor cutter under command of Douglas Babin- Maple Leaf Gardens, said last| ° Flying Ball 1 eau of Halifax and carrying the ship's doctor, Surgeon - Lieut. H.| D. MacWilliams of St. Andrew's N. | B., and Halifax, | The cutter brought the airmen | back to the destroyer and then took | out a supply of gasoline for the! helicopter, guarding it overnight against possible enemy attack from the mainland. The operation was successfully completed next day, en ---------------------- VESSEL MISSING Halifax (CP) -- The RCAF re- ported last night the fishing vessel Inez and Aeloise was still missing after an all - day search by two planes. The 44 - foot craft left the Cape Breton community of Port Morien Friday to search for a lost trawler. Four men were aboard and nothing has been heard of them since. VOTE ON SUNDAY VOTES Vancouver (CP) -- Decision of eity voters will be sought this fal on a "sensible" Bunday sports and cultural program for Vancouver. City couneil yesterday ordered a plebiscite ter receiving a peti- tion from a" six-man committee known as the Sunday sports and cultural events committee, Jt eon- tained 13,000 signatures. . LAFF-A-DAY *T'd Eke to see something in mink--preferably myself." "Egg-Beaters'" On Trail Plummeting earthward feet first after jumping from an H-19 helicopter is one of four seasoned jumpers who participated in new test near a | U.S. air force base in Japan. The experiment was designed to determine | the feasibility of using the large "egg-beaters" for parachute rescue | missions, | --~Central Press Canadian, Jets No Novelty To Japs In North America jet planes are still enough of a novelty to make us crane our necks when we hear them roaring through the sky, but to this farmer, who works his land near a U.S. air base in Japan, they are so commonplace that he doesn't give a shooting star a glance as it rips through the air a few feet over his head. This is one of the wing jets charged with maintaining aerial security of the Japanese islands. ~--Central Press Canadian, Tugs Free Ship Off Bell Isle Windor (CP) -- The efforts of five tugs plus the removal of some of her cargo today freed the ground ed 450-foot freighter Venus from the Detroit river. The ship, owned by Boland and Cornelius Steamship Company, of Buffalo, ran aground at the head of Belle Isle early Tuesday. It was never in any actual danger, RESUME HARVEST Lethbridge, Alta. 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