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THE CO'UHIERJOURNAL TIMES, SUNDAY, JUNE 9. 1974 A 3 In Oklahoma, Kansas 4 SyA Twisters kill 17, hurt 200 Associated Press Tornadoes slashed across Oklahoma and Kansas yesterday, killing 17 persons and injuring more than 200. Six persons were killed and about 100 injured when twisters whipped through Emporia, population 21,000. The tornadoes struck first at Oklahoma City, and in the next six hours hop-scotched northeastward to Tulsa, 100 miles away. Five persons were killed and more than 100 injured in Drumright, three persons were killed in Tulsa, three drowned in flooding caused by the storm in eastern Oklahoma, and 16 were injured in Oklahoma City.

In Emporia, 160 miles north of Tulsa, the funnel clouds hit a mobile home park, an industrial park and a shopping center. The twisters struck the industrial park first, hitting a cake factory and a mobile home factory shortly after 6 p.m. CDT, and then moved on to the 2-year-old Flint Hills Shopping Center where 20 businesses were left in ruins. Next a tornado crashed through the Lincoln Village Trailer Court, overturning all but two of the 100 trailers. Most of the Emporia dead were in the mobile homes.

Nineth-seven persons from the Emporia area were admitted or treated and released at local hospitals. "Some of those homes were shredded like confetti," an Emporia newsman said after visiting the trailer park. The hardest-hit town in the tornadoes' paths was Drumright, a community of 3,000 persons 43 miles west of Tulsa. Highway Patrol and Civil Defense officials said more than 100 persons were injured, many of them elderly residents of the Drumright Nursing Home. The storm hit Drumright at 5:01 p.m.

CDT, striking first at a fashionable residential area and then at the nursing home. A Creek County sheriff's spokesman said the western half of the town was "nearly wiped out." Power was out in the town. Emergency generators, portable lights and drinking water were dispatched from Tinker Air Force Base at Oklahoma City. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars in Oklahoma City, Drumright and Tulsa. The first tornado reported in Oklahoma hit the National Weather Service building at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport at 2:35 p.m.

CDT. No one was injured. But half an hour later, a twister possibly the same one struck a residential and commercial neighborhood of Oklahoma City's southwest side, four miles from the airport. Sixteen persons were injured, one seriously. Three persons were reported injured, one seriously, in the residential-commercial neighborhood.

In Tulsa, police said three persons were killed. Roofs were blown off and some major, streets were impassable because of fallen trees and power lines. Amateur radio operators, working with Civil Defense units, said they had also received reports of heavy casualties at Pier 51, a fishing and boating resort 18 miles west of Tulsa. Both police and the radio operators said they had received reports that the pier simply disappeared into Keystone Lake, an Army Corps of Engineers reservoir. People reportedly were on the pier when it vanished.

No casualty figures were available. In Arkansas, meanwhile, police said search for possible victims of Thursday's tornado had ended. Authorities estimated yesterday that the tornado that killed four persons in Forrest City caused between $10 million and $20 million in damages. Associated Press jured yesterday as a tornado swept through Drum-right, 43 miles west of Tulsa, killing 5 persons. NEARLY 100 persons, many of them residents of the Drumright Nursing Home, shown here, were in- GOP losers rule out Nixon help in November Ohio 1st: Willis D.

Gradison, a for OXMOOR CENTER mer Cincinnati city councilman lost to Democrat Thomas Luken for the seat left vacant when Rep. William Keating resigned to become publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The district had gone Democratic previously only in years when there were national Democratic landslides. There will be a rematch in November. Gradison, who had a number of nation GIVE DAD OUR BEST It will be the best you can give al KepuMicans liberals and conservatives campaigning for him, said he will campaign as he did last March, attempting to convince voters he is an individual.

Asked if he will do anything differently, he replies: "Yeah, win." California 13th: Lagomarsino de feated a field of seven Democrats and avoided a runoff by getting 53 per cent of the vote. But his predecessor, the late Rep. Charles Teague, carried the district in 1972 with more than 70 per cent of the vote, and he will be forced to run in a district that has been reapportioned to include more Democrats. James Loebl, the top Democratic vote-getter, will be Lagomarsino's opponent in November. Loebl has tried to characterize Lagomarsino as a Republican loyalist like former Atty.

Gen. John N. Mitchell By DAVE GOLDBERG Associated Press Six times in this second year of Watergate, voters have elected congressmen in normally Republican districts and five times they have elected Democrats. The Republicans who are trying again say this time they'll stay independent of the White House. "There would be no useful purpose in inviting him back now," says James Sparling, who invited President Nixon to campaign with him last spring in a Michigan congressional district that Republicans normally win but which Sparling lost to Democrat Bob Traxler.

Four of the five Republican losers are running again in November and so is the one winner, Rep. Robert Lagomarsino of California. None want any help from the White House and most say they'd be happier if Watergate would just go away. But all are planning their campaigns on the assumption it won't. "It would be helpful, yes," Sparling said when asked if he would prefer Vice President Gerald R.

Ford to Mr. Nixon as president. "I really don't know what may happen regarding Watergate; a lot could happen. I'm hopeful things will be cleared up by then," said Harry Fox, who lost to Democrat John P. Murtha in a western Pennsylvania race to fill a seat vacated by the death of Republican Rep.

John P. Saylor, Ford visited the district on Fox's behalf. But Fox added: "I hope tit won't be necessary to seek help from national figures. I think they're going to be busy enough handling the affairs of statei and this will be a local election between Mr. Murtha and myself." Here is a rundown on the other four districts: Michigan 5th: Democrat Richard Vander Veen defeated Republican Robert Vander Laan in a special election to fill the! seat Ford vacated when he was appointed vice president.

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