Frightened Families Seek 
     
     To Leave Aberfan Village 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Granville watts brought in to slice the top off 
     
     ABERFAN, Wales (AP) — the slag heap to make it safer. 
     
     Aberfan is still a place of fear. | Officials said 50,000 cubie yards 
     
    

    
     Frightened families are pre-|of. material ‘would be taken 
     
     paring to leave this small | from the top. 
     
     Welsh mining village, unable to| The action followed a‘ state- 
     
     live any longer under the threet | ment last week at the tribunal 
     
     of the killer coal slag heap that | in nearby Merthyr, which is in- 
     
     towers above. vyestigating the disaster”. The 
     
     The man-made mountain of | Tribunal opened last Tuesday 
     
     coal -waste slipped Oct. 21. en-| and is expected to go on for 
     
     guifing a school and killed 144/| six weeks. 
     
     persons, 116 of them children. A| PLEAS FOR PARENTS 
     
     Lawyer Ackner, 
     
     representing the bereaved par- 
     
     ents of Aberfan, pleaded that 
     
     terrified villagers should be 
     
     Phursday,— following torrential ’ 
     
     rains, bringing fears of a fresh 
     
     disaster 
     
    
   
   
    
     As the families got ready to 
     
     quit the place, bulldozers *were 
     
    
   
   
    
     ightmare experience 
     
     has clearly caused in the minds 
     
     of a number an intense feeling 
     
     of terror,”’ he said. “In common 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     SEA FINISHES WITH KNOCKOUT PUNCH | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Indian Voting 
     
     The wreck of the 12,831-ton England Tuesday. Recent se new onslaught drove the ship ; 
     
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     Hollywood Youth Battle 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Goes On For Three Weeks 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion of ‘the curfew law against 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
          
     
            
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     By GENE HANDSAKER 
     
     HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Thow- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     to be temporarily housed of 
     
    

    
     Aberfan should be so housed 
     
    

    
     with the utmost dispatch.” 
     
     Rev. Kenneth Hayes, Baptist 
     
    
   
   
    
     desire 
     
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     minister and chairman of the. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Aberfan Parents’ Association, 
     
     said at least ‘10 frightened fam- 
     
     ilies are ready to leave Aberfan 
     
     immediately. 3 
     
    

    
     “But the oumber may be 
     
     higher; we are getting sew re- 
     
     ports all the time,“ he added. 
     
    

    
     Mrs. Gough, who lost two 
     
     children, aged 9 and 8, said: 
     
    
   
   
    
     “There is no point in them say- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing ‘there’s no danger. We 
     
     don’t go to bed at night, worry- 
     
     ing about it.” - 
     
    
   
   
    
     STRAIN TOO MUCH 
     
    

    
     The people.of Aberfan have 
     
     borne their tragedy with for- 
     
     titude, but for some the strain 
     
     has become too much. 
     
    

    
     It was, a Saturday 
     
     that sirens similar to those 
     
     used for Second.World War air 
     
    
   
   
    
     those persons who 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Talks Underway 
     
    
   
   
    
     LONDON (Reuters)—The dt 
     
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     w hit Chrysler Corp., of the 
     
     United States which may lead 
     
     to a closer association between 
     
     the two companies. 
     
    
   
   
    
     was added to Rootes share mat- 
     
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     British firm. 
     
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     raids would be sounded to warn 
     
     residents of any move- 
     
     ments of the coa heap, 
     
     Leaflets, delivered by police 
     
     to householders, said: “This 
     
     arrangement must be -regarded 
     
     as merely a i 
     
     measure and,not an indication 
     
     that any fear is felt about the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     gafety of the area. 
     
    
   
   
    
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