The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 September 1965 — Page 4

4 The Daily Banner, Greeneastle, Indiana Monday, September 13, 1965 * Moisture Threatening Famous Venetian Cathedral Foundations

VENICE, Italy UPI — Experts have been called In to save one of Venice's most famous landmarks — St. Mark’s Cathedral. The foundations of the cen-turies-old building are being weakened by excessive moisture around the site, little wonder in a city built almost entirely over water. The Cathedral, which houses the bones of the city's patron saint, was started in 830, the year after the remains of the evangelist were brought to Venice from Alexandria. Its Byzantine splendor, however,

charge of the Cathedral's maintenance, expressed optimism that the building can be saved from disintegrating. From the city's foundation." Forlati said, "Venetian builders have sought to protect their strutures from the moisture of the area. The foundations of the most famous buildings, in fact, consist of large blocks of stone well fastened together, the remains of Roman buildings abandoned along the shore. In additon, they are a kind of stone which absorbs very little

water.”

The most promising remedy

dates from an extensive remod- so far proposed is the placing eling job in the 11th and 12th of tar-coated slabs of lead withcenturies. in the walls themselves. This It has five domes and hund- was successfully tried in an-

reds of marble columns, most of them brought from the Orient. The name “Golden Basilica” derives from its mosiacs, some of them going back to the Middle Ages, which are decorated with gold leaf in traditional Eastern style. Giuseppe Forlati. who is in

other Venice building, the Scuola di San Giogio dei Dalmati. The Italian Government's reaction to the problem was to appoint a commission. The group has called in Swiss. German and American firms for consultation.

BIGGEST YET—The second stage of the biggest rocket so far, the Saturn-IB, is joined to the first stage on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy. NASA hopes to launch it around first of the year.

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Hurricane Toll May Reach 200 NEW ORLEANS UPI — Res-' cuers moved into previously inaccessible areas of wind and flood wracked Louisiana today j in search of more victims of i killer Hurricane Betsy, fearful j the eventual death toll could go ■ beyond 200. An ominous mystery complicated the rescue and recovery’ operations — what happened' to 1.2 million pounds of lethal 1 chlorine ? The liquid chlorine was aboard a barge which disappeared Friday from its moorings near Baton Rouge at the height of the storm's fury. It i was presumed sunk in the Mississippi River. The federal government rushed 100.000 gas masks to Baton Rouge as a “precautionary measure.” President Johnson ordered an all-out emergency search for the missing barge, owned by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass

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Baton Rouge Mayor W. W. Dumas, however, said he was "not alarmed” about the barge. He said the gas masks were for the people of Baton Rouge but added “we are not even going to distribute them.” Officials here feared receding flood waters would reveal many more dead in areas isolated since the storm struck with unprecedented fury during the weekend.

More Yanks In South Viet Nam SAIGON UPI — Advance elements of the U. S. Army’s First Cavalry Division, an air mobile strike force of 20,000 men and 50 helicopters, moved into a secret base in South Viet Nam today. The division Is . the largest single American unit to be committed to the war effort. When the landing is complete, it will boost U. S. combat strength to the 125,000-man mark ordered by President Johnson last

July.

The “First Cav” e described as the Army’s "Sunday Punch” in guerrilla warfare. Its men are specially trained to swoop in by helicopter against areas threatened by the Viet Cong.

REAL-LIFE ROLE HOLLYWOOD UPI — Debbie Reynolds’ brother, Bill, made his movie debut in “Harlow” playing his real-life role of makeup man.

Farm Measure Approval Soon WASHINGTON UPI — The Senate w r as expected to hand President Johnson another key victory on the farm bill today. There was even a chance of final approval of the big measure by nightfall. Both the administration and organized labor rallied behind an amendment by Sen. Ross Bass, D-Tenn., under which the Labor Department would continue to decide when foreign workers could be imported to help out on the nation's farms. i ; The Bass amendment would serve to strike from the farm' bill an amendment by Sen. i Spessard L. Holland. D-Fla., to I shift jurisdiction over foreign farm workers Mexican “braceros,” Canadian potato diggers. West Indian harvest workers and the like to the; Agriculture Department.

By early today, 45 persons were knowm dead in Louisiana. Eleven others died in other states earlier as Betsy moved from the Bahamas, across Florida and into the Gulf coast.

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BIG TV BAKERS CHICAGO UPI — Strange as it may seem, baking is a vital ^ quality control process in making color television tubes. At Admiral Corporation’s new color tube plant under con- j struction here, three huge bak-1 ing ovens 200 feet long and 20 feet wide are being installed. One gas-fired oven will be used for sealing the front panel . to the glass bulb of the 25-inch picture tubes, while an electric oven will be used to exhaust ( the air from the tubes and a second electric oven will bake out the panel

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