TORNADO DAMAGE
600 Homeless In Connecticut (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) WATERBURY (Connecticut). May 24. A tornado cut a 100-yard-wide swath of destruction through Waterbury yesterday, killing one person and injuring 37 About 600 persons were left homeless when the tornado wrecked scores of houses, United Press International reported. The winds toppled steel towers carrying high-tension power lines, cutting off power to 25.000 homes. Mr Paul Hartung, aged 68. was killed when a tree fell on his home. The tornado cut one home in half. One witness said he saw homes “flattened like they had been hit by a gigantic hammer.”
Wages Restraint.— The British Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan), addressing a Conservative women’s rally at the Albert Hall in London, spoke strongly in support of the Government’s policy of wages restraint and called employers who ignored the Government’s plea on the subject “selfish” and unions who did so “arrogant."—(London. May 25.)
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29832, 26 May 1962, Page 11
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