THE RIVERSIDE A u t o t‘u'r‘l at Port \lbcrnt. BC. v :i~ lcit in ruins by tidal w avcs fl‘-illt the Alaskan earthquake oi‘ hood Fl'lflR}'_ Waves also

Grazing Cattle Displayed Hint t

On Eve 0f

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klilil\l\'. -\!:i,~ka \P -—Tliat ai'ci'zilmn Realy noticed somc'li ii: strange Ztili iicad of t\ were _ .‘ «littclly at his ranch on Narrow tape. a lovely finger or land washed by the Gulf of Ataxia-L 30 miles south t‘nst of here on the Gulf of Ko dun

\bniit lltt'ce o'clock pi‘nimn, tilt! ('aillP l\r‘_‘;;fl in move away from their lnil .lyiii: :t’ftllll: land to hizher grliultrl They had never done lit : hetore so early in the day.

Lou's Realy frowned. The sky was sunny and blue The moun- lain: behind lllm stood serenely 'n 'llP't‘ skirt: of snow The TI net blowing in from the it”. qlll‘rZP :ca WA: gentle

Bearv lagttelr sensed tho tat- tle ind sensed something. Bur nhat”

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What. inrlecrl " The mood of \laska on this Good Friday. March ‘37. 1964. was benign.

Stir'n; was coming. the temper-‘

still'e‘ was rtsiit: People were already betting on when the ice woti'd hroak tip in the rivers.

llccp iiiiricr ‘lie earth‘s crust. more than 30 milcs down. in an e'w-uai darkness without season. it i: thought a huge river at slowly swirling. boiling pitch- like siihs'ance rings the great iron core of the earth. Just what was happeittn: down there on Good Friday .t'n could say with certainty and cows make unreliable seis- multimst;

One theory is that this huge rimr bx l‘: constant and oppos-

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iii; currents wears and strains the ear'li‘s crust. Where the, rl‘lsi is weak. it may cracl:

Alaska is known to lie .m a relav their weak layer of crust.

liar tidy frame home in A r r- h n r a z e. .loan Groom rll'lifll‘l" have cared less about

ni\:‘ci"rii|s fort-es grinding

purl :‘l‘.‘i"i'll‘_‘ ‘i‘le carlh beneath. (if more .mmediate concern 3.1-, mt; \tiltle fort-es that

w i'ri a‘ any moment wreck her

' ": rot-m and nervous te'h Ptltll |\ PROGRESS live i litifll‘f’l'l. at last, were my

ll""' n acc'. lite pink cake With ,4: later at i-m-nnut was on the. two c w:- itnitziifcr (‘laudla had i rt‘:.."r~ .cr i {n and was now

rcrtlv ‘ri ii‘uvi out the four pink (i li‘yi p; c' 'iciv: ac” brothers and sis-

Yew ic'e ‘f‘lt ug she couldn's‘ (iii ' 3'. lit‘r‘ fl"

twin-now Horn Groom. I pituiuumgrr \tas start ind

homo llmvﬂl'n: li-s daughter‘s pnr‘i. .ic riot-'rled on one quick il-i murmur. azainsi the inevtta- bin aim He pulled into the it :h'nnrt l‘"‘ll'i. where they seu t'in drinls for the price of one hP"‘t‘f‘l‘l 3 and 6 o‘clock.

(iii' in the qti'et suburb called ‘l‘tii’iizizan. a well-hirched sub (liv‘ston of ranch and split level

ll'l'l‘CS. F'.~'iier \lr-Crecdy was fin shin: a ham with brown su- ::v-- and pineapple rings. Her

it'ixhand was due home for IUD- ‘

per in about 20 minutes. Fat to the south,

llahaster peaks and sparkling 250 miles from Claudia

sea.

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12 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Mon. Aprn 5. 1964.131“; M help. They tried ml 1‘

ow him a line but couldn‘t. i

pushed the footbridge olf its Port Alberni is on the

lleftt. moorings it'oregroundi atid west coast of Vancouxer ls- IA hlm'k aways l}: “VP-“0193’ . , a , “raked mP (.ar of WWI”: land. :.. .- Pcnncy in mg swayed > I H out «nor the street. swayed back Br'mh 1mm'gram [ﬁrmly (AP “'rl'l‘lwl“) and then one end sank in a roar

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of crumbling m a son ry glass. Elsewhere. a new six storey apartment. not yet occu- pied. t'fllltlllbf‘d in thunder and in many places earth fissures sna'e rizht through living

llstorcy Mount Mc»

' rooms. At the l e Kinley Apartment. one of An- lt'lioi‘age's two tallest buildings.

They saw his small boat car-‘ ricd off crazrly in a wild mati- strcm of swirling boats and dc ris

LANDED 0N STORE

Cuthbert waited for the next onslaught. came 55 minutes. later. with less force but more: height. Again. the heavy scow‘ was whirled around and around atid battered its way through‘, buildings and came to rest up-‘ right on a crushed store.

The third wave. less violent still. retloated the scow' and Cuthbert tied a line to a teley 'phone pole Througlt the night. just about every 55 minutes,‘ the waves came in weaken each time until the nightmare. .ended at 3 am.

3 Trooper Church. still at his ‘radio. was trying to contacti each of the tiny. remote villages on the island. In days to come“ he would visit each personally.‘

of radio I warnings. most of the people in: the village escaped. A few arel me drunken Targstill missing. But in at. leastl SO t l _ a . . i I after five full minutes—811d “0W ‘ bumped into his boat. Cuthbert i ﬁggufaaieinngga ﬁagbuozrlE-lllted l tall 0f AnChOI‘aEF. ll S??m5» “'35 stormed out on' deck and saw destruction was almost com.l ‘ arrested in an unfamiliar. over- 'masls waving madly at] over‘ lele lwhelmingly complete silence. _ the bay, He reamed at once it i CALM AGAN

And from far out in the agi—| was an earthquake and turnedi Suddenly it‘ was over taled ocean cattle the MVP on his radio to the emergency“ 'l‘hc seal became serene 3"aln .l‘llb‘llinx‘. toward the sliakcn laud. marine band. Few Alaskan sca- The war of me “.3” of “Tale; .-\s the depth grew shallower. mm need in be told that quakes and tumbling houseg and boats. ithe. wave grew higher. Where it make waves was M, "

’hil the land in broad open areas 7 ' .,‘ . . _. lit looked like a broad. suddenly AliARM SOU‘DED (111211120212?! {gaskgggag :mathn: rising tide. Where it had to pass Mate Trooper Don Church. Wij mgu‘qh me dobﬁﬁ in.

finally ; acmss the waters. Suddenly. the grouni‘water took fire and a wave of tlanie rushed toward the head of the hay.

Ahead of the flames. small boats raced for the shore and many riding the crest of the tidal wave. sailed over trees 30 feet high arid ended up on a pas- ture on the inland side of the

lpttclting and crawling itnct'e her way to the illoor and out She looked back and saw nthcrs crawling grog- gily out of thc hlllltill’lﬂ. Up the ‘entire lace of the structure the. apartment was scarred by a se- rics of zig‘zaggin: cracks. Wlicn Esther Mct'rccdy‘s ham ‘ pitched from the stove she knew it was no ordinary trcinor and hurried out. Near the door she wvas thrown down by a violent lnew shudder. And just ou15ide the door. she turned and watchcd her home sink "as if in slow motion" up to the root

Far to the southwest. on Ko- diak Island. the quake shoo ‘Ltlllls Beaty's ranch house but he and his clairvoyant cattle were safe on high ground. At the narrow head of Slicarwatcr Bay. the great quake opened 19"“ in *1 hm" “9‘35" , long fissures. the bay rushed in.

Beyond. where 100 homes had and the ground snapped shut stood. she saw an ecrie expanse and towering geyscrs shot sky- of ruin. The bluffs overlooking ward.

(‘ook Inlet had fallen away. 2 At the town of Kodiak. yards inland. taking with it quake was less spectacular. It houses snapped in two and three S110th lWUM’S‘ fumbled (llSlIGS. pieces in", deep gorges. ‘but somehow Father Bullock's ‘ ' ‘cross clung to the wall.

IT WAS OVER . Out in the harbor. skipper Bill ’ V Suddenly it was over—some (“when cursed. He isay after 90 seconds. others

the

Church's

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through a narrow passage. as it hat'k 1“ KOdlak only a half hm” . v . -' did at Seward 110 miles south ﬁlm" 7‘ 2243-" mu“ "f his dis" seawh or homes 8" “Cd‘s t . ' « . .. . - end. the total of kno"'n deadi of \nchwwe I. «where mo. ll‘l(‘f~ll‘l€ entiie Aleutian chain ' l n. - ~ - and presumed dead was 1’9 l lmemum and for“. and I‘m-(id where he knows every village "

The figure was astonisltingly‘ low. Why? Some explained if. in‘ terms of Alaska's sparse nopii-

and nomadic family—rushed Lo‘

ifot‘ward like a wall of water. _ the police station to sound the

On it rushed toward Seward. a

town of 1.900 which Ill ciglit alarm m'erlthe marine radioz. mm small mm“ bro d ‘days was to celebrate its sclecv ESPN" a lldal Wave: Eel mistrem; and In“. huildih'“ 03b illelihine H'ilev was riding the “on as a".ha“"'\m°'l'.°an "m" hmh “Vund‘ let's foun the answer 3n their1 Groom's birthday party and 00 to the floor. glasses smashed. i l ' ‘ ‘. because of its economic self-mi- Rut Bill Cuthbert couldn't: He km,“ - imilcs northwest of Louis Bealy's women screamed. People tried elm'alw “N” ill". Plllh'l‘ “00L provement. it was 5:44. eight had a lame, engine. With no — V ‘ curiously acting cattle. Bill to rush to the door bill the floor “‘9 “will” ‘l U ' "9 F.9d 3”” minutes after the quake hit choice, with his boat tied to thel QFR‘VK‘FQ IMMPFRFD Cuthbert. 3 leathery and :riz- was billowing like insane icllo. “filmed T110" " Della” “mm”: - Seward and a wall of walet 40 d (k 9 went to the galley andI ({P, ‘T‘wo‘ﬁrd f ﬂed ﬁsherman. was sming “my fell and may crawled. ;l)lllalllf‘l flip; ii. up and dogvn. land 1 feet high iuslicd through the trailed. The first wave com; a: “a”; 1m?) 0m;— “mfkolyl‘ so]: 0" 5 «'3 i i p "‘1"? ‘l‘i" S‘Tm‘m" ‘" C" 1 narrow mountainous passage oi 6:47 .m. — gent y. a gra ua ‘. ' ' ' f . — gisigﬁtromlutsiﬁa lnTltleiesililgy 0‘ “ELI? 0.\‘T0 (-sts rm. The Mm]? “ﬁrm it seemed Resmwcmn Ba.“ m9” followed h}. a madua‘ {t‘loycd by the lslta;eiansweiedllal . ' . . Hairy Groom finally made it to hm: “:15 screaming. i I I _ V n , (an. l‘lllmlmlel (a m 8_ “Ht-hf. The boat was tied to its 5in m the street. Sm] holdmg‘ mr lt smashed met the new I wn h \ dirk and [he “mm- Smke Friday paralysmg Ham i" l‘o‘llak BMW“ 3 plﬂmp’que no reason he remcmbcrcd. the SHE ESCAPE!) ll’"r" r'pped hams. loose from people whodhad scampercd UP "MW and hampering DOSIHI': horseshoe at the foot of the (“n.ml._0ne glasses. unbroken um. clown“ Sm!de hnunc jlltc dock. sent f‘l'fjll'll'll'lfl‘ ml 155‘ me mm mm {1;};llli(vl‘l\ Imkm telegraph and telephone serv-l .mOllmalllS- 1" "‘9 hmd “"1" Outside. on Fourth Avenue, int: momentarily between floorstlm'h [l'lnblmg mma'd‘ 1m,- l-l In like fn'éfljec Tho «rt-mid wave "'05 Xm‘c‘m‘mm‘m “mm” ac‘ ‘s:i.ooo worth of Alaska king . me pavement was mum-mg and and Shp Sqiioc'zcd through a 10— “l: 3 “My” g‘l“"_"l':;”“\"f V““‘"" M with a ‘hm. am In an m_ I copied a government. offer of. '"ahs' [‘90an were failing and cars inch obenin: in the doors and e" e "p “x m ‘ a‘dl' “an, new puma. “My an_‘lllf‘};l0lllaflnlll:i for an overhaul of. IT WILL HOLD were bouncing and one whole climbed to the floor above. Sh8.l.EFT A “'ASTELAVD clint. every line. every picr. ‘10 casséﬁcatml‘s' salar'es' bn' block of stores sank 20 feet into made her way to the stairwell" in seconds. it scented. Sew'- snapped and broke and the "uses 'm anmns'

Am the hill abive the bat p I M a huge crack of the convulsed

earth. The marquee of the. De- nali movie theatre. which was

=and in the darkness. in the in- icrcdible shaking and swaying. ‘ she became hysterical.

bor. in the sancttiarv of James the Fisherman Episcopal (Anglican) Church. (.‘arpentei

Louis Hm.“ was mm in a new to open in a half hour for the Crying. she pitched herseil 'cmss aha", the “Mir g“ was evening show, sank to the level ; headlong d o w n eat flight. 5 20 pm_ HM” “lulled h“; of the sidewalk. l crawled across the landing. and

jard was left a wa~lclaiid of de- harbor became a diny whirl- IRRIGATING LAND stroyed houses and broken rail- i pool. in a region where a few sentr‘ away cars all looking like toys‘ Cuthbert dashed to the wheel- nomadic farmers scratch a. anng smashed by it wanton house while his two crew mem- . hare livittg from the soil. Ghana‘ child The big tucl tanks ncar bers clung to the rail. They is putting 21.000 acres of land‘ the dock tumbled and oil spread heard a man in a small boat i tinder irrigated crops.

PIUSVILLE

The last of tlic Study Club nli‘C'lllﬂs was held at the home of the leader. Mrs. Peter

7'1

: Gallant on Tuesday with the its-

ual attendance. Meeting opened by the Rosary followed by read- ing by Angela Corcoran and Mrs. Herman Corcoran. A les- son in catechism was read and discussed by Mrs. Peter F. Gal~ latit Questions and answers were discussed Meeting closed by a prayer

The funeral of the late Peter

‘ E. Gallant was held on Tuesday

at St. Anthony's Church.

Miss Hermia Corcoran. stu- dent at St. Dunstan's. spent Easter holidays at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Corcoran.

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Corcoran

‘ returned to Saint John, N.B.. on

Sunday evening after spending Easter at their home in Piusvil—

e. Miss Shirley Murray. nurse-in- training. spent Easter Saturday at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Warburton Murray. Miss Florence Arsenault. Wel- lington. spent the Easter holi- days with friends in Piusville. Elmer Gallant. Allen Gallant, Saint John and girl friend. Monc- ton. spent the weekend at their relatives in Piusville. The last of the meetings of the

Christian Doctrine Study Club‘

was held recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aubin Gallant

with Mrs. Gallant as leader.

MONTAGUE

Mr. a n d Mrs. Laurie Mac Lure. Charlottetown. spent the Easter lioli d a y s with their

daughter and son - in - law Mr.

lEnd Is Urged To Sex Barrier Within Church

TORONTO WP‘ -\ .\.“ltillal Assembly of Laymcii ol lite United Church cf Canada was told here that the ('llll‘.‘ ‘i is

the last stronghold or main privilege in contemporary a"- cietv.

But the 40 coast-to-coast (icic- ‘gates attending the ll’ll‘(‘{‘~(l.ly lannual meeting of the Ullllt‘il Church Board of Men were not congratulating themselves.

" is high time the barrier between sexes in the church Icame down." said J. Gordon thiburn. Toronto consultant on personnel matters.

"Some men seem to think that [only members whose pants are visible should undertake impor ltant duties in the church." he

m m

Cl tln g the acceptance of ‘women as equals of men in Eother walks of life. Mr. Coburn .uoted the boom in the employ- 1ment of married women and ltheir equal status in education. i As for woman's role in too family. he added. “masculine authority at the present time il in pretty poor joke."

Yet the c h u r c h relegate: lwomen to second-class status— frelatively few serve as cliurcn c 1d e r s or on administrative ._ boards of stewards—despite the biblical reminder that in Chris- fian life “there is neither male nor female: ‘For ye are all one. . . .' "

l BURTON

and Mrs. John MacDonald. Al-:

liston.

Doris Wright. studciit Fredericton. N.B.. s p e n t the Easter holidays with par- ents Mr and Mrs. Lou Wright. llowcr Montaguc,

Mr. and Mrs. attd family. Miltown. were wcckcnd visitors at Borden. guests of Mrs Godsoe‘s sister. and brother - in - law. Mr. aitd Mrs. Chester Lake.

at

Norma Campbell. Charlotte- town. was a r e c e nt guest of her parents. Mr and Mrs ley Campbell. Whim Road.

Barbara Wright. Charlotte- town. spcnt the weekend at her home in Lower Montague.

Merrill Godsoc i

Mr_ and Mrs. Vance Luttrell and baby daughter JoeAnn of Charlottetown. spent the liastcr weekend visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs (.‘ccil Wood. Bur- ton.

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Mar- Gregor. Burton. spent the East- ‘er weekend visiting their son-in- ilaw and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Douglas Ross. Mont-ton NB.

Mrs Edward S. Griffin. Rur- iton. has returned from a pleas- .anl holiday spent with he" dau- ‘ghtcr. Mrs Everett McKennn and Mr. McKcnna of Borden.

Miss Darlene Colltcutt. B U r- to _ spent the Easter weekend ivisiting at the home of her aunt. ‘Mrs. Roland Pickering and Mr. Pickering of Borden.

small eye bolts to suspend the heavy cross from the ceilin: "no you think these will hold

it. Loliis’” asked Rev Donald Bullnck.

"Sure. Father "

"What if we a an earth-

quake." the father chuckled.

i 'Even in an earthquake.‘ i laughed the carpenter. Then the earth crust under

Alaska could no longer enduie t. strain of the inexorable iforces below. it let go at 5:36 3 pm. Anchorage time.

And across more than 8th miles of mountains and towns and spruce forests and icy streams and secluded coves and great expanses of snow broken only by animal tracks. the eartn strained and groaned and shook.

ln untold hundreds of places it.

cracked open. In scores of places it buckled and toppled t buildings. swayed trees and

. poles in wild dizzy arcs. heaved vup pavement and snapped .bridges. sheared avalanches of snow and dirt and stone from mountain tops. Out in the sea it raised a mighty wave.

THE (‘AKE SMASHED ‘ to Anchorage. .loan Groom's l house quivered. then shook with tincreasing force. The chimney icrashed to the roof and the lbirthday cake smashed to the ' floor. Screaming with i'right the children toppled over in their chairs. .loan Groom lost her bal‘ i once and pitched to the. floor in i a litter of flying books and glass and overturned furniture. ' Then suddenly it ended. Some— ‘ how no one was injured. White with terror. Joan Groom began to sing a song the. children had ‘ memorized. Slowly. one by one. they stopped crying and began singin : "The little book shelf "ls wiggling itself t "And the books are down.

“The fairy tales and fables ' “Are tumbling over chairs and ‘ hles. . "Mother Goose is running loose.

“She is marching into town."

At the Highland Fling. Harry I Groom felt the first tremor and . smiled. ‘Oh." said . pantly. “another earthquake.‘ i ‘ Others at the bar smiled. After many years of gentle tremors i and no real quake, Alaskans: had come to regard the subject ‘ ' with nonchalanco. ‘ t But this tremor refused stop, and the bar fell quiet and a then the whole room rocked with new force. Bottles pitched f l

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