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'A Senate Okays Blackmun For High Court Skyscrapers Torn By Savage Twister Israel Pulls Troops Back UNITED NATIONS Israel told the UJM Security Council today it had completed its operation against Arab guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon and that its troops would leave the area United Ortw Interactional The Arab nations said 100 Israeli tanks and 2000 Infantrymen Invaded southern Lebanon today and that Lebanon Syria and Iraq were fighting back in the biggest Mideast battle since the 1967 war The UN Security Council was called into emergency session Israel said its armored columns with aerial support knifed into Lebanon to wipe out Arab guerrilla bases which had launched 61 attacks against 22 Israeli settlements in the past 40 months Fierce aerial battles broke out and Israel said it shot down three Syrian MIG17s NEW Construction workers supporting President war policy seem to have picked up a friend The sexy girl works at a Wall Street bar and seems that she is familiar with construction men who work there About 2000 people a majority of them burly construction workers in hard hats conducted a noisy but peaceful demonstration In front of City HalL (UPI Photo) A boy walks Ms dog along a downtown Lubbock street this morning following a killer tornado that struck last night killing 20 persons and Injuring hundreds The First National Bank and the Pioneer Gas Co buildings were a little more than rubble and damage will run in the millions of dollars (UPI Photo) After 6 Killings Maps Campaign Mayor to Attack Health Problems By SETH KANTOR Herald-Post WnMngton Reporter WASHINGTON El Paso mayor Pete de Wetter today promised to open a major assault against health problems In his city "the center of a six-county area which has an appalling lack of health Guardsmen Called To Put Down Riot AUGUSTA Ga (UPI) Hundreds of National Guardsmen under orders from Gov Lester Maddox to shoot to kill moved Into this riot-scarred city down what was described Confirmation Vote Ends Dispute With' Nixon Over Court WASHINGTON Judge Harry A Blackmun of Minnesota was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice by the Senate today ending an abrasive dispute with President Nixon that persisted for almost a year The confirmation vote on the federal appeals court judge came two days short of the anniversary of the resignation of justice Abe Fortas which created the vacancy NIXON WAS twice rebuffed by the Senate on his nomination of southern federal judges to the -Clement Haynsworth Jr of South Carolina and Harrold Carswell of Florida He then turned to Blackmun a life-long friend of chief justice Warren Burger and a judge on the 8 th US Circuit Court of Appeals since 1959 No serious opposition was raised against nomination He won the highest endorsement of the American Bar Assn and was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 17 to 0 Blackmun is expected to be sworn in quickly and to assume his seat as the ninth justice on the court when It next meets Monday However because of the lateness of the session he is not expected to participate in any decisions until the Court convenes for a new term next fall -auv us House Group OKs New Postal Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Post Office Committee has approved creation of an independent government agency to run the Post Office as part of a measure which also would give the 700000 postal workers an 8 percent pay hike The bill would provide for an 11-man board of directors to run what would be called the United States Postal Service Nine of the directors would be appointed by the President They would in turn choose the Postmaster General and his deputy who would join them on the board THE PAY RAISE would be retroactive to April 18 It would provide added wage benefits for postal workers living in high cost-of-living areas The reform measure grew out of negotiations which ended the first postal strike last March The House committee version differs from what the Nixon Administration requested in some areas In addition the Senate Post Office committee is working on its version which is reported to differ in several major aspects from the House bill BUY US wammmmsrm: ms El Paso Sunshine The sun shone today for the 79th consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only 7 days out of the last 3138 days (May a me Believe Over 1000 Injured LUBBOCK Tex (UPI) tornado striking from the blackness of a spring thunderstorm tore an eight-mile gash through Lubbock last night causing death and destruction that the and injuring as many as 1000 persons and leaving 10-000 homeless City Manager Bill Black-well said the twister that roared up killed 26 persons But a body count today showed 20 dead The Small Business Administration (SBA) today declared Lubbock Tex disaster area THE DECLARATION enables residents in the area to apply for long-term low-cost loans for rebuilding private property Special disaster offices were set up in Lubbock to take applications The National offices of the Office of Emergency Preparedness the Civil Defense and the American Red Cross rushed rescue teams to Lubbock The spring dawn over this west Texas city of 161000 showed damage over 2500 square blocks from the tornado and the main storm that spewed rain and hail the size of lemons WIND GUSTS after the twister lifted were measured at 100 miles an hour Damage was estimated into the millions "It hit us where it Blackwell said He said the list of injured could run as high as 1000 Skyscrapers the tallest 20 stories stood pocked and battered At least one building was in danger of collapsing weather was dark and cloudy with more deadly thunderstorms forecast for the Lubbock area THE TORNADO touched down at 9:27 pm the time a gymnasium clock stopped at a local junior high school near the Texas Tech campus headed northeasterly through the downtown section and moved out of town by the airport Most of Texas 18000 students had left town at the end of the spring semester Today was the last day for final examinations All power in the city was knocked out and hospitals and one radio station went to auxiL-liary power The only lights in the streets were automobile lights and the red flashes of police vehicles WATER STOOD one foot deep in downtown streets the hardest hit area but available drinking water was scarce City officials said Lubbock uses 35 million gallons of water a day and was down to reserves of four million gallons from gravity flow towers Mayor Jim Granberry asked Lubbock citizens to conserve water as much as possible not using toilet facilities and taking no baths first he said "is to tend to the living bury the dead and clean up the city We have a disaster plan in effect but Lubbock at this time is a dead city The destruction (Turn to Page A-7) Pullout Started WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said today the United States already has pulled "several troops out of Cambodia But he urged Congress not to Impose any limitation on President authority there We have a restriction that we will be out of there by the end of Laird told the Senate Armed Services Committee concerning the US thrusts against Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia Already we have withdrawn American forces from Laird said have withdrawn several thousand this week and we will withdraw more this THE SECRETARY declined to say specifically how many American fighting men had pulled back into South Vietnam from Cambodia He said the Cambodian operations were going better than expected and that all US troops would be out by June 30 Laird said the United States did not plan to send its forces back to Cambodia if the Communists reclaimed the sanctuary areas But in response to a question from Sen Howard Cannon D-Nev Laird said he not rule out the requirement for the use of (US) air power on the supply routes which come down out of Laos into The Secretary said the Cambodian operation had been more successful than the US military leadership in Vietnam had expected But he suggested there may not be a permanent stationary Communist headquarters in Cambodia of the sort that the new offensive was designed to seek out and destroy THE SENATE has scheduled debate this week on an amendment which would bar the use of any American ground troops air forces or in Cambodia Laird urged defeat of any legislation limits the President's authority to protect Americans American fighting men in South believe the limitation would not help us as far as protecting American lives and (accomplishing) the Vietnami-zation Laird said Laird repeatedly dodged questions by Sens Cannon and Henry Jackson D-Wash on whether die Administration (Turn to Page A-7) THE BATTLE raged throughout the day in the Mar-jayoun area of Lebanon six to seven miles north of the Israeli border and 32 miles southeast of Beirut A Beirut military spokesman said fierce Arab counterattacks had stalled the Israeli push A spokesman for the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command said the Israelis attempted to drop paratroops into south Lebanon but gave no details He said the guerrillas engaged the Israeli forces in to hand There was no Israeli confirmation of the report but a spokesman said 11 hours after the attack began that Israel did not want to disclose details as long as Israeli troops were still in enemy territory LEBANON IN a letter to the Security Council asked for the meeting because of what it called an of Lebanon It said the fighting raged on the slopes of Mount Hermon near the occupied Golan heights and that the Israelis were forced to call off the attack despite Israeli air supremacy A spokesman in Beirut said Lebanese gunners scored a direct hit on an Israeli ammunition vehicle producing a huge explosion Arab sources reported as many as 21 Israeli tanks knocked out Israel said Syrian artillery opened up later on Israeli forces in the occupied Golan Heights but two Israeli air strikes were called in and silenced the batteries THERE WAS NO immediate reaction from Egypt but Cairo said its commandos struck across the Suez Canal shortly after midnight and Israel said it hurled them back King Hussein of Jordan telephoned Lebanese President Charles Helou and offered full support Beirut dispatches said Both Israel and Lebanon asked for urgent meetings of the United Nations Security Council Israel to consider Arab guerrilla attacks which it said precipitated today's raid and Lebanon to protest the actual incursion into the Mount Hermon area Nine hours after the attack began a Lebanese military spokesman said fighting is still going and that Lebanon had inflicted heavy losses on the Israelis in a counterattack A spokesman in Beirut said helicopters could be seen removing Israeli wounded THE LEBANESE spokes-(Turn to Page A-7) De Wetter said the three largest challenges facing him when he took office 13 months ago were job-training needs poor housing conditions and of the worst health problems in the state of THE MAYOR has helped launch federally aided activities to war on the first two problems Today he was meeting here with Dr Paul Sanazaro director of the National Center for Health Services Research to undertake the third campaign De Wetter complained that El Paso City-County Health Board clinics operate from one US Streets' Funds Doubled WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Appropriations Committee refusing to wait for Judiciary Committee action voted today to nearly double current federal "safe aid to cities and states The committee approved the full $480 million that the Justice Department had requested for grants loans and research contracts to fight street crime violence and drug addiction at the local leveL This was $212 million more than Congress appropriated this year for federal contributions to state and local police work It fell short of the $750 million the House Judiciary Committee is expected to propose shortly as next year's authorization under the Safe Streets Act today to help police put as a night of guerrilla warfare The Negro rioting left six blacks dead and many whites and blacks badly injured Maddox dispatched nearly 1000 Guardsmen to this famed home of the Masters Golf Tournament after police battled during the night with snipers looters arsonists and rock-throwers The violence similar to that which raked northern cities In the 1960s was the worst racial strife to fait a southern city in decades THE GOVERNOR instructed the Guardsmen if fired upon by snipers to "blow whatever in off its foundation until peace is restored in He said anyone causing trouble should be to meet his The Guardsmen and 150 state troopers sealed off 130-block Negro district before dawn Gunfire that started yesterday afternoon subsided by daybreak and all that remained of fires that destroyed at' least 30 stores and damaged another 20 was a pall of smoke that hung over the city All six of the dead were black men who had been shot At least two of them were shot as looters by police FORTY PERSONS were admitted to two largest hospitals many of them critically or seriously hurt Doctors said at least six of them were cut in the eyes by flying glass and will lose sight in one or both eyes One of them was Wilbur Foster a 64-year-old white man from Warrenton Ga who happened to drive into a Negro neighborhood with his wife at the start of the riot Black teenagers swarmed around his car and smashed his windshield with pipes causing glass to fly into his face The blacks after attacking him then picked him up and drove him to a hospital emergency room Doctors there said he would lose one eye and maybe two The rioting apparently was touched off by the death of a black youth Charles Oatman 16 in the Richmond County Jail during the weekend Authorities said the boy was beaten to death by two black cellmates Maddox however said the riot would have occurred of what happened in the is part of the conspiracy that has been planned and well organized to help bring this country to its Maddox said THE GOVERNOR vowing that he would not said the riot would be put down US BON Known Tornado Victims Listed LUBBOCK Tex A list of known dead in the tornado that struck Lubbock last night: Thomas Andrew Cook Mrs Henry Short Frank Moreno Canales Jr Jose Aguilar Salvador Lopez Jack Lopez Kenneth Medlin Mary Jean Med-lin Alan Ray Medlin Dusty Medlin Mrs Ruth Knight Estesana Paz about 65 Oleta Gonzales Glenn Mrs Butts John Stephen Cox Dora Graves 45 Dale McClintock 37 Aurora Salazar Pauline Zarazua hour to three times a week on an afternoon s-only basis clinics lacking medical doctors and in poor The chief executive said El Paso has "one of the highest alcoholism rates in the Dental care for the poor he said available on an emergency-only DE WETTER SAID El incidence of tuberculosis one of the highest of any metropolitan area of the nation with about 52 victims per 1000 people a year Statewide the incidence of TB is 292 per 1000 Nationally the rate is 245 for every 1000 people illness is at a high level too in El said the mayor Thomason General Hospital he pointed out is the only teaching hospital within a 1000-mile stretch from San Antonio to Tucson and the city is left "with a somewhat antiquated system of providing health DE WETTER was here to make the rounds of federal offices seeking avenues of approach to various problems But he was zeroing in today on the start of a push to develop a comprehensive health plan for the city The mayor said new con- cepts of health care with an adequate financing plan is required It will take a marriage of local resources and federal funds to develop the plan he said He also was scheduled to meet today with Robert Eichom associate director for program development at the National Health Center which is in suburban Rockville Md and with Dr Austin Copely acting director of the Health Care Division mmtoweiuj in suHtewmcetesni Inside Your bfid Herald-Post ffjr Weather Bureau Forecast: Continued fair warm and windy (Details on Page A 9) Amusements A 6 Ann Carroll A 6 Classified 5-1 Crossword and Comics 11 Dear Ah by A II Deaths 5 Dr BUL Conner 2 Editorials 2 Markets II Sports 5-5 TV Programs News A II 11 Wrist Watch Is Sinter Governors Back Nixon on Cambodia War A beautiful Swiss made ladies or wrist watch is prize in The Herald-Post Sizzler Contest It is being offered by one of The annual contest boosters Mrs Cornelia Sere-brenik of Omega Jewelry and the Importing Co of El Paso Inc at 404 East San Antonio street All contestants must do to win the Sizzler Contest is guess the time the mercury will hit 100 degrees OTHER PRIZES offered: The State National Bank will give a $25 US Savings Bond A Basic Mary Kay Skin Care Set and facial will be given by Dorothy Blackham a $25 gift Paul Carrillo Jr owner of Wheel Alignment and (Tun to Page A-7) Herald-Post Sizzler Contest The 100-degree temperature will be reached for the first time this year: Month Date Time: AM PM Name Address Mail to Herald-Post Sizzler Contest Editor or bring to Newspaper Building at Kansas and Mills Entrtas mute to In Iterate ten Ma four tauri totem sinter time By TED KNAP Scrtuto Hoteord Staff Writer WASHINGTON The governors are going along with President Nixon on his military operation in Cambodia but a number of them disagree with Vice President Spiro rhetoric about campus dissent This emerged from a three- ences on how to attain it we agree that he is trying bis Love said adding that he personally is convinced that the Cambodian incursion will shorten the war and save American lives Somewhat in contrast there were strong suggestions and some criticism of the Administration for not establishing (Turn te Page A-7) President sought no resolution of support for his move into Cambodia the governors gave him a as the conference ended yesterday He said no governor expressed opposition to the Cambodian incursion "EVERY GOVERNOR there felt that the President was pursuing peace for the world that while there are differ- i hour session in the White House between the governors and Administration leaders including Nixon and Agnew in which they had what was described as a and discussion of the war in Indochina and revolt on the campus Republican Gov John A Love of 1 a do chairman of the National Governors Conference said although the.