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9m ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Monday, May 22, 1978 Fire and Rescue Roof Collapse GARLAND, Texas (UPI) The roof of a church collapsed under tons of rain water at the start of Sunday services, killing a 9-year-old girl as well as injuring 57 parishioners and three policemen rescuing survivors. Two huge wooden beams running the length of the sanctuary at the Walnut Village Church of Christ splintered first, opening a seam down the middle of the flat roof. Tons of water drenched the worshippers. Then beams, roofing and gravel came crashing down. The southwest AP Laserphoto Workers Look Through Debris After Roof Collapse Kills Girl, Hurts 57 corner of the roof collapsed about 15 leased.

Most young people were in the minutes later, injuring the policemen. "children's church" in another part of the same building. "The water gushed in the debris was over our head," said Charles Sams, 43. "People were grasping for Youngblood said the injuries inthey could ahold of. We volved broken bones, lacerations, anybody walked get the roof." bruises and shock.

literally out on Police Chief Jeff Youngblood told a One of the injured James Freenews conference the sole fatality man, 31, a Dallas policeman was in Shannon Smith, 9 died of head inju- critical condition with multiple fracries. tures at Garland Memorial Hospital. Five others were in serious but stable Her father, James Terry Smith, 31, condition at Garland Community Hoswas treated for minor injuries and re- pital. 84 After ganization, issued a statement Sunday saying it would be better for Rhodesia's blacks to "live under a strong, protective whiteminority government with justice for all than under a black government that preaches selective morality and tribalism." ZUPO spokesman Gibson Magaramombe said the future of Rhodesia was grim unless "stone-throwing politics" end. ZUPO, Muzorewa's UANC Boat Accident Kills 4 Youths ALEXANDER CITY, Ala.

(UPI) An overloaded pleasure boat carrying two adults and 16 children capsized Sunday during a heavy thunderstorm on Lake Martin. Authorities said at least four children drowned. Rescue workers suspended dragging operations late Sunday night after everyone was believed accounted for. Eleven persons were treated and released at an area hospital for shock and ingestion of water. Authorities said two adults, two teen-agers and 14 younger children were aboard the boat.

The 16-foot pleasure craft was caught in the thunderstorm about 100 yards off shore. Four bodies, all children, were recovered in 15 feet of water. The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of relatives. Jerry Wheeles, one of the first Alexander City firemen to arrive on the scene, said another boater took rescue workers out to the capsized vessel. "We made two trips get them all in," Wheeles said." Albuquerque Journal PO Drawer Seventh Silver, SW Albuquerque, N.M.

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Burroughs Continued from A-1 office and the state industrial division into the Department of Development. In a final bid for re-election as governor in 1966, Burroughs lost the Democratic primary to Gene Lusk in a close race. Lusk went on to lose the general election to Republican David Cargo. A native of Robert Lee, Texas, Burroughs became one of New Mexico's most successful businessmen after moving to Portales following graduation from Texas Tech in 1929. He established a peanut mill there 1942, and developed radio stations in New Mexico and Texas.

His longtime interest in politics started with his election as chairman of the Democratic party in Roosevelt County. He first sought elective office in 1956, winning a seat in the New Mexico House. Bike Bill Advances WASHINGTON (AP) The House Public Works and Transportation Committee has approved legislation pumping $100 million into bicycle paths and related facilities, including bicycle lanes, traffic control devices, shelters and parking. He served there until he made his first bid for governor. Burroughs served on the state Finance Board under former Gov.

Bruce King and Gov. Apodaca. He was treasurer and a board member of the New Mexico Broadcasters Association, and a member of the New Mexico Farm Bureau. Funeral arrangements are pending. Schmitt Offers By PAUL R.

WIECK Of the Journal's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Sen. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, R- NM, has urged a temporary foreign workers program combined with criminal sanctions on smugglers as the first step toward 20 Years Police Experience ED TANUL For Sheriff (D) Pd. Pol. Ad. by Tom Tomlinson, Treasurer, Tanuz for Sheriff Com.

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They did not say what groups were involved in the Saturday clashes. The black leaders of the three main nationalist organizations serve with white Prime Minister Ian Smith on the governing Executive Council (AP) out in said that has promised to establish black majority rule in Rhodesia end of the year. Bishop Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council accused supporters of the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole of haranguing black residents and ordering them to attend the Sithole rally at the stadium. The third black group in the transition government, the tribal oriented Zimbabwe United People's Or- Four Die in Accidents On Highways in N.M.

SILVER CITY (UPI)-Three members of an El Paso family died in a head-on collision on U.S. 180 and State Police reported the death of a motorcycle rider in an accident north of Albuquerque. Killed in the accident near Silver City late Saturday were Ellen Abrams Hunton, 46, her husband, Charles, 38, and the couple's six-year-old daughter Ann. State Police said a car driven by Augostin H. Chavez, of Bayard, crossed into the path of the car driven by Mrs.

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