Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1951 — Page 2
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Explosion-Fire
hives Busy City New Headache
Other Problems Plague Residents
By ANDY OLOFSON Times Staff Writer
ANDERSON, June 20—
This turbulent industrial city
of 46,809 persons today awoke with new headaches. Its factory activity curtailed, the city was feeling the effects of the fire-explo-
sion in the municipal power plant,
that paralyzed normal activity
yesterday. Today's headaches: ONE Threat that fire might break out while the city Is still handicapped by low water pressure, TWO-—Lack of industrial power foi 33 of the city’s 35 manufacturing plants, idling thousands of workers. THREE ~— Intensified turmoil over the hot local issue—now before the Indiana Supreme Court —of proposed $65 million re-
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ist Keeps On Piling Up—
1derson Is Crippled By !
SEARED CABLES-—Anderson utility officials Frank C. Yar. ling and Arthur Hosek check Sama:stripped cables that caused a
rupture in city-owned municipal power p
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nt yesterday.
EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY—Fire trucks pump water from White River to refill boilers of power plant so that big steam turbine generators could be started after emergency cable repairs.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951
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% CANDLELIGHT VISIT—Mr. and Mrs. } Day, newlyweds who recently returned from honeymoon. The Days’ mid-town home was cut off from electricity all night, stopping the refrigerator and blacking out new television set.
~Times Photo by Dean Timmerdian
Wilbur G. Austin chat with Mr. and Mrs. James R.
building of city's 30-year-old pow- vide the city's water supply from the near-universal rush of local Thirty auxiliary police aided regu- power stalled elevators and other its refrigeration system crippled, of God rally held services out-of- State Police post to get extra
er plant, Bus Strike Still On FOUR -— Continued tie-up of
city's public transportation sys-|
tem as bus-driver strike entered § the 534 day.
FIVE — Slight realization of quickly engulfed the other cable Jocal issue of the proposed enCivil Defense problems from pow-
. erless, water-hoarding hours yesterday when utilities were knocked out.
Fire Chief Earl Toombs téday
sald, “We certainly were lucky I started to cut off switches right heen stalled by injunction suits that no serious fire broke out dur-|
ing the night. I don’t know what we would have done with the weak pressure in the mains,
“The situation is somewhat im-
in those old mains.” Restoring Service
Meanwhile normal electric serv-|
four wells. The pumps were com- residents to build up hoards of|lars in untangiing the snarl.
pletely idled for more than three hours yesterday.
{yesterday afternoon when an old cable in the basement of the {power plgnt exploded. Flames
| Fred Biddinger, veteran of 18 |years experience at the plant,
sald: | “I knew it was that old cable.
and left,” he said. Quick arrival of firemen kept ‘the blaze from spreading through{out the whole plant.
irecelving limited power three
{hours later, | Firemen Called Back
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ice for nonindustrial purposes was Firemen later were called back
being restored to the whole city to the plant to extinguish a flash by mobile generator provided by after ome sector in the heart of repeat of the blaze. It was un- the Indianapolis Naval Armory the city remained blacked out all necessary to cut off the restored at request of civil defense offi-
night, | Power once more was available | for the electric pumps that’ pro-|
Six Injured in Crash as Pow
irae State Service ANDERSON, June 20—8ix persons, injured in a head-on highs way crash, were taken to St. John's Hospital here during the middle of yesterday's municipal power crisis. . Auxiliary firemen helped carry wreck victims into the hospital which had only limited power provided by an auxiliary power unit. Cars driven by Ira Bush, 25, of Muncie, and Lawrence E. Arold, 73, of Winton, Cal., crashed -on on Ind. 67 near Chesterfield. . J - State police say a tire blew out on 1 Bush car while it was at a high speed. Also hospitalized were Mr. Ar-
power,
Potentially the most serious problem in yesterday's crisis was
Head-On er Fails |
through the cell block as the, deputies stood by for émergency; calls. | Power cutoff in downtown area’ also nullified burglar alarm systems, causing police and the sheriff much concern. | However, no breakins were reported. { Local police also were handicapped until 11:30 p. m, by lack,
system, |
was between police car radios or| by telephone relay to nearby
bold’s wife, Ella, and the three
Alexandria which made its police
in the Bush car. They radio available for sending in-|
1 Mrs. Juanita Bush, 19, the
{structions to the Anderson law en-
s‘wife; Nola Balley, 40, and forcement officers. |
Max Koger, 19. ;
Daputias Work All Night « 8h Joe 1. Brogdon kept his on all-night vigil at the in ed-out county jail. Only the
Police Raid Four Tipton Clubs
! TIPTON, June 20—Social life gt four of this town's fraternal
700-Voice Choir Sings
One of highlights of blacked-out| Church of God convention was a musical tribute by 700-voice choir to the late B. E. Warren, who composed more than 200 hymns
for the church, The songfest was led by Fred Shackleton, Portland, Ore.; Prof. Cecil: Hartselle, Anderson, and! Herbert Thompson, Flint, Mich. |
clubs lost sOme of its charm last night as state police raided them! and confiscated their’ gaming equipment, The Moose Lodge lost two! Borse racing machines and two diggers. A digger is a glass en¢losed model steam shovel, which €an be operated after inserting a . A deft operator can win a : by the skillful operation of wheels which control the model
scoop, * At the Knights of Columbus, two diggers were taken. "At the American Legion, two horse maand one digger, The Elk's, Club . two horse machines, - The n County prosecutor Who accompanied state police and | excise officers said today he was planning to prefer charges against| rustees of the clubs:
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| Partial electrical service was) proved today, but we still don’t restored at 5 p. m. with all but| dare build up too much pressure the blacked-out heart of the city
|evening edition of the Bulletin, but the Herald resumed publica{tion this morning.
eerie flicker of candles shown during newspaper
of power to operate police radio/in downtown Anderson's angling
blot The only radio communication! ted out 'by ihe power eutoft.
water—filling bathtubs, buckets, pails—despite official pleas to use
{son's turbulent political added to the clamor of the hot]
{largement and rebuilding of the ipower plant, { Attempts by the city admin{istration to float a bond issue to {reconstruct the utility twice had
{by Property Owners, Inc., headed, {by Hadley Reed, an employee of! {the Guide Lamp Division of Gen{eral Motors Corp.
This suit now i= pending before the state supreme court, :
» » ~ AUXILIARY power to run Radio Station WHBU, the city's full-time station, was provided
cials, Station was needed to inform residents of the situation,
THE POWER cutoff canceled
w » RUMORS flew thick and fast and radio blackout yesterday. Wagging:
tongues had anywhere from one to four persons killed in explosion.
» & = CASH REGISTERS, gasoline pumps and other electrically-|
operated devices were frozen by, the lack of power. Movies were! closed last night also by the power shortage. - ” »
A MAJOR traffic jam developed
streets’ as all traffic lights were
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AUXILIARY firemen
normal services. Firemen helped sent truckloads of ice cream, milk doors when the lights
carry patients up stairs for neces-/and other products to Muncie for tabernacle went out.
after sary medical or surgical atten-'safe storage.
| The power breakdown occurred dwindling water supply sparingly. in. fire -- were rushed to St. Hon. Meanwhile, partisans in Ander-\y prs H
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- = 2 #8 # RESTAURANT owners APPROXIMATELY 10,000 per- most worried about water crisis. town area to prevent any possible ns attending the annual Church Some went as far as Pehdleton violence or underworld activity,
in their water,
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