The Howard Crawford Murder Case

This is Bob broadcasting from Topeka, Kansas hope and thanking the sponsor of your regularly scheduled program for this two minute interruption Ladies and gentlemen in the last ten years. I visited many dramatic spots in this world But just a few minutes ago. I returned from a tour of what was once North Topeka, Kansas

I've just seen block after block of total destruction Streets caved and buildings undermined and flattened and entire new housing developments and shambles with the houses jammed together like battered boxes. As we toured this sickening area, I thought of the heroics that must have accompanied this disaster as it happened. The emergency operations of the Red Cross, Salvation Army,

Air Force Coast Guard, veterans organizations and the thousands of civilian volunteers, all striving to hold this hungry, call river within its banks. Then the complete frustration when it crashed into the streets. But the excitement of that time has passed.

Today it's a dismal task of dirty drudgery. Imagine the heartbreaker returning to what was once your home and finding three feet of dried mud on the front porch. After scraping and digging for hours, you'll finally get the door open only to find dried, drifted mud, banked throughout the house with everything in it destroyed beyond repair. Countless of

the heartbreaking stories of human despair this great flood of 1951 is written. But you and I, neighbors of these call valley folks of Kansas, can help. And I mean help with dimes and dollars. The Red Cross and other agencies have done a magnificent job, taking emergency care of 10 to 15,000 refugees and they're still doing great work in helping the needy with rehabilitation.