Vesuvius furious

NAPLES -- After a few hours of hope yesterday the inhabitants of this district saw the prospect of relief vanish when the fall of sand and ashes emitted from Mount Vesuvius began again more furiously than Monday. The high wind drives the ashes like falling snow. Even with the sun shining high in the heavens the light was a dim yellow in the midst of which the few persons who remained in the sticken town, their clothing, hair and beards covered with ashes, moved about in the stillness of desolation like ghosts.

The case of Torre del Greco is typical. For 30 hours the place has been practically deserted, but amid the ruins and semi-darkness illuminated from time to time by vivid flashes of lightning, a few of the inhabitants go about hungry and with throats parched with smoke and dirt.

50 years ago

Harwood firm is robbed

Between $50 and $100 in one-dollar bills and a quantity of merchandise were taken last night in a break-in at the B. McGee Service Station in Harwood.

Vernon County Sheriff Les Hunt received the notification at 6:55 a.m., today shortly after the break-in was discovered by McGee.

Besides the money, the burglars also took a Philco radio, two Montgomery-Ward batteries, one six volt Farmall tractor battery, two boxes of AC spark plugs, one Ray-O-Vac flashlight, three cartons of Camel cigarettes, one carton of Doublemint gum and four pairs of yellow buckskin gloves.