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I 780 The Arizona Republic 11 1 Ti VKB 5 ps' ssH frjrL lSau :1 Mesa Fireman Ralph Churchman stands amidst debris as he hoses down the charred remains of home owned Debris from the twin-engine plane lay strewn across South LeSueur Street in Mesa as neighbors and firemen surveyed the damage. 1' Donna Joiner Terry oss Stranger lends a hand I saving couple v. I HAWLEY smoke and ran over to see if there was anything I could do. "I jumped over that fence and saw a woman (Mrs. Joiner) with a hose trying to spray her house down.

1 pulled some of the cans (of paint and gasoline) from the storage shed and then took the hose from her and wet the whole thing down." While Ross was telling his story, Mrs. Joiner interrupted to point him out as the man who saved her house. "I just wanted you to know that," she told Ross. "Thank you again for saving my house." The Joiner's kitchen became a hospitality room where reporters and neighbors discussed the near-miss of the as Leonard Joiner skimmed ashes and debris from his ipool. backyard Mrs.

Joiner's father, Frank Richards, 72, who lives with the couple, said the blast blew him off the living room couch onto the floor. "Alt of a sudden, it seemed like the floor just came up," he said. "It was bad enough but I've seen worse when I worked at Atlas Powder Co. in Ohio during the, second world war. I don't need that anymore.

Of course, I didn't need this one today either." about mended that the Maricopa school board purchase property with uncollected tax levy funds, which is in violation of state law. A spokesman for the Board of Education said Franklin can ask for a rehearing on the suspensions but no request has been filed. He said he also could contest the matter in the courts. When Franklin resigned at Maricopa he agreed to drop lawsuits he had filed against school board members and county officials. I i The district board agreed to give Franklin $6,500 in severence pay.

His annual salary had been $25,700. Franklin had been superintendent at Maricopa since 1974. 1 Rwubllc Dlwtn by Miki Smith by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Goodman.

Rwubllc plMta by Nvli LmHiiiti thumb while helping his next-door Goodman from his burning home. MmMIc mm by Chuck Hiwtt' More about Plane Continued from Page A-l straight down and hit in the back of their houses." Turrentine, was watching television when there was an explosion. As Mesa Fire Department paramedics bandaged the hand burned during his rescues, he said, "I looked out the window and I saw flames next door. I pulled my roommate out. I came out of the house and went into his (Goodman's) house and there was fire on the carpets and fire on the walls.

And I seen him, with flames, and I just grabbed something and rapped it around him and dragged him out. "I guess he kicked in the door (of the Goodman house said Bayes. "I don't know how he got in you couldn't jsre' anything. Just flames. But he got- in there and he got; the old.

-man out." While paramedics worked on Goodman on the front lawn, Mrs. Goodman was taken to the home of Mrs. Sylvia Despain, across the street at 924 S. Lesueur. The Despain house became a combination aid station and news headquarters, with paramedics working on victims while the victims were being by reporters.

Reporters, police and FAA officials lined up to use the Despain telephone. Mrs. burned water. Despain put hands into Mrs. Goodman's a bowl of cold "She (Mrs.

Goodman) said she was in flie dining area, quilting you know, making a quilt," Mrs. Despain said. "And he (Goodman) was standing in the kitchen. And when it hit it just blew him oyer toward her. And so she grabbed him-to try to help him out but she couldn't much, and the whole house started burning.

"And then the kid from next door came in and pushed her outside and him out. Oh, he got there fast, that kid did. He really moved." Goodman was listed in critical condition Thursday night in the burn unit at Maricopa County General Hospital. Burns covered 85 percent to 100 per- cent of his body Mrs. Goodman, in the same hospital, was listed in satisfactory condition with less-serious burns.

Mesa Police Lt. Duffy Neilsen said the airplane was purchased last' year by Franks Distributing a Nogales produce firm. Harrison's relatives said he flew for the company and was involved in the operation of Mariposa Ranch. i Relatives in Nogales Harrison is sur vived by a wife, Wanda, a daughter, Patricia, and stepson, William Moss-burg said tail controls on the plane weren't working right, and he was flying it to Phoenix for repairs. His wife was to meet him in Phoenix and return with him to Nogales.

John Walkup, general manager of Arizona Piper at Sky Harbor International Airport, said Harrison had no appointment to visit his firm Thursday for repairs. He said Harrison had flown the craft there several weeks ago, also without an appointment, for an adjustment to the autopilot. Walkup said Harrison had radioed the airport tower just before the crash and said he was having difficulties with the plane's electric trim control. tine burned his neighbor H. A.

Ken Turrentine, 27, stands in front of houses that were damaged by fire after a plane crash. Turren- By CHUCK Sfrangers become saviors and homes becme havens of refuge when tropjie strikes a neighborhood. rinna Joiner was in the bedroom of I her Jiome when a plane plowed inl the ground behind her neighbor's house in south Mesa. I "The bedroom just glowed red and I there was a boom. I had no warning; I thought something out back had blown 3 up because we have gas tanks out 4 tBere for our boat," she said.

3 She seurried to the back yard of her at 921 S. Lesueur and saw the explosion -was next door. But she also noticed the flames had already begun to singe the paint on her house. "I grabbed the garden hose and tried to save something I guess, but then this man: came jumping over my back fence and took the hose from me.f-H, saved my house," she said. "I ran across the street into I didn't want to my see neighbor's house, Terry R6ss, 30, an art student at Mesa Community College, was the stranger who came to Mrs.

Joiner's aid. 5 "I was driving over near the school 5 (about two blocks away) when I heard 5 a plane sputtering and heard a big i Warn," Ross said. "1 saw the 'black More Ex-school superintendent wuiiuucu iiwiu rnE n-l tjwere aware that Franklin had lems at Maricopa. "We had no idea it was anything like 3 this. We thought he' had been railroaded at he said.

"Now, we just can't hire him for next year." Griffin said Franklin was hired be-i cduse he was available and "we needed a principal." j-'And the people we contacted were very high on him," he said. I Other charges against Franklin released by the state Board of Educa-J tion were that he had personal work done on his car by school employees 'during school hours and that he recom- yf 'He saved my life," said Jack Thomas after Ken Turrentine pulled him from their burning home..