Good Morning!
KOKOMO MORNING TIMES
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
VOL.
1 NO. 228
Tuesday, Apri l 13, 1965
Kokomo, Indiana
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SHOPPERS VILLAGE in Kokomo. . .All in tornado's path ended in rubble. (Picture pages showing Howard county destruction, pages 6, 7, 19, 20)
DIGS FROM SHAMBLES
14 known dead, 400 hurt from tornadoes
List of known dead climbed to 14 in Howard
county last night and the injured to 400 as a re-
sult of Sunday's tragic series of tornadoes.
DESTRUCTION of Kokomo school administration building
Damage was expected to ex-
ceed $i5 million as the twisters
••virtually leveled whole towns,
blew in the west wall of Chry-
sler
Corporation's
trans-
mission plant along the bypass,
and ruined the nearly-completed
Delco plant just east of Chry-
sler.
Separate stories in today's
Morning Times list the havoc
wrecked on smaller towns -
Grcentown,
Russiaville, Alto
.. . all knocked to the ground
with deaths reported.
Miraculously, no deaths had
been reported within the limits
of Kokomo by midnight Monday,
although one of those killed
in the county lived in Kokomo.
Indiana Gov. Roger Branigin
and
Kokomo Mayor John W.
Miller have declared the torna-
OTHER STORIES
AND PICTURES 10 known dead in Greentown
How
A/T O
Grce
rd Community ..... Page 3
Page 4
iown ................ Page- 6
Russiavitlr .............. Page ?
St. Joseph,,,, .......... Page IS
Indiana
.................. POJP ?5
Injured li*T ........... ,.Pogp 16
Times recovery ........ Page J6
A/ro ..................... . Page J 9
Kokomo
.................. Page 20
Schools hit;
schedules
uncertain
By ELIZABETH MITCHELL
Morning Times Staff Writer
Damage caused by Sunday's
twister played havoc with most
school schedules in the Kokomo
area.
No school will be in session
at any of the Eastern School
Corporation schools during the
remainder of the week, and the
following weeks remain a big
question mark, according to
School Board President Ken-
neth Shrock.
Author