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concerned about ivatirj the 34-year-oli bully MOTEL FIRE 1 3 Part DEC. 30; 1 963 ftp fflttftli Clntfl damage and had no accurate estimate. ing, $aid tha hotel was as fireproof aa you can get a building. It is a sad thing Although manv bodim On the street below. tolice Casualty List in Hotel Blaze Continued from First Page that those people didn't stay were found in the bedrooms and bathrooms.

Johnston bellowed through mega-nhones for the neorjle to in meir rooms. the Howards. Mehre also escaped safely. The smoke lust built un said all indications were that Iremain inside their roomi with the doors closed to George Olson, executive ana peopie panicKea, jonn ston said. JACKSONVILLE.

Fia many deaths were the result of opening doors and letting smoke in. await. rpsiciN vice president and general He said he was not at the (UPI) A list of the dead in Manv who were led to manager of the Gator Bowl, the Roosevelt Hotel fire safety by firemen wearing oxveen masks assembled Sunday: said all players on the Manhattan College and the across the etreet and gazed University of Florida basket R. A. Patrick, Macon, Ga Max Kahn, Atlanta.

Mrs. Max Kahn, Atlan helplessly up at tnose etui traoDed. ball teams escaped lrf night ta. clothes and bare feet. The Most of the guests were out and the fire was under control at 9:30 a.m..

an hour Walter E. Dupree, Atlan teams played in the Gator YI All MH stoxace. mi s- YEAR GUAitANTEI ON RIPS I TEARS PROM NORMAL USI OF FIX FRE! PARKINO ANY HOLLYWOOD LOT ta. Rowl tournament which and 45 minutes after It William G. Carpenter, Or ended Friday night.

began. They took refuge In Wando. Fla. tha nearbv Snyder Memoria Mrs. William G.

Carpen Chief Fire Marshal E. C. Method! Church before ter. Orlando. Fla.

MfDM-mon said there was being sent to other hotels, James Romedy. asst. fire strong evidence that tne chief. Jacksonville. Worst Disaiter 1.

blaze began in tne umeraia Room, a few' steps up from John Hill East Point, In hves lost it was by far fia. the main lobby. the worst disaster In Jack W. II. McLemore, Vidalia, sonville history.

A 1901 fire Ga. Hang From Window! Hotel doorman Alton which leveled half of what Mrs. Bess Robertson, Gads was the city took only seven lives. Joseph Crowden called the fimt alarm hito the fire den, Ala. Jim Swick.

Alachua. Fla. William H. Johnston, who department. He said he was at at I Mrs.

Rena Swick. Ala boucht the Roosevelt in 1960 rhua. Fla. in the lobby ana "guaaeniy smoke poured out from from the Meyer hotel chain W. W.

Hildinger, Buffalo, and spent $1 million reno- everywhere. N.Y. Firemen found guests Dsdiiii J. C. Cohen, Atlanta.

Mrs. J. C. Cohen. Atlanta.

from Wl servici MCSJ Mrs. Marion F. Curry, gasping for air and pleading fJrefnshoro. N.C. for rescue, borne lapsea mio unconsciousness.

Murray Sherman. Jack sonville. WAN! ID Mrs. Murray Jacksonville. (The Sher i DsJUR STENCmTES very Month Than Any Other Dealer In Tne World SALES i SERVICE ItrvtM r.tiU 17 wtiw In LA.

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t-74 mans were residents of the By La Jolli Career Broksr SALES AGENCY CONTRACT For land, farm ar resort subdivision, da Cal. or OnJ Submit to Bsi IM-Zk, Timet hotel.) i Paul Arant, Pageland, S.L BASKETBALL COACH Manhattan College basketball coach Ken Norton, who escaped fire safely with his team. They had played in the Gator Bowl Ida C. Fish, New i k. Sadie Citrin, New York, UNEXPECTED TIME-OUT All WecSseM Spinalis 2 Basketball Teams Escape Motel Blaze 1 'Ai J' iears to be all right.

The ioys were all anxious to mm ThEflay iff. Are Good thru DEC. 31st i Check tha Many Outstanding Valuej in Our Big Ad, on Display ot All Safswoy Stores. We will closed New Yeart Day. -Hero Aro Just A Few Items From Our Big Ad- Shsp Tenite! sn.Thrn FrL9.33-9.I3,S:L Sun.10 6 Stock No.

Was KOw). 37J11 KATURAL JILVM BLUEt MINX JTOIi JSS5 $435 34762 NATURAL lAKCHt $183; 237C2 KATURAL ARSENTAt KifUC 3225 1 37J27 KATL'RAL LUTETlAt UM JTCli 3713 32:3 373S3 BYI3 SHEARED KAVHt JACKET WITH KATURAl SILYEI FSX CUfFS $533 $3S5 31SS4 DYI9 IS0A2TAIL PRSCESUS IAMB JACJiET S2S3 3181 J7333 XATURAL DIACEXt KINX 3785 $445 37107 KATUnAL AUTUM KA2t KIK'X STOLE S7S3, $SS5, 37101 NATURAL BLUE IRISt mm 3713 3545 31013 KATURAL BAKCIt UM STOLE $435 '3185 35112 KATURAL SlLYOt ELUEt STOLE $S3 3445 37423 NATURAL RASCHt KSKX $185 373S3 NATURAL BLUE IRSSt KINK 31235 37421 NATURAL LUTlTlAt KIKX $1133 1335j 37357 NATURAL BIASSSt KINX $1 423 taint JJwigj 1J Can JACKSONVILLE, Fla. JUPI) A dozen players "of the Manhattan College basketball team were by firemen Sunday in the Hotel Roosevelt fire. Coach Ken Norton of the Jaspers and his wife, an assistant coach and the team chaplain also fled from the smoke-filled hotel. None of the players were injured and Norton said the entire team went to a 10 a.m.

mass, less than two hours after fleeing from the hotel. Firemen assisted the players out of fourth floor windows. Norton and his wife climbed down a ladder from their fifth floor room. Manhattan, a Catholic school located in the i feronk, N.Y., was in Jacksonville to participate in the 13th annual Gator Bowl Basketball Tour-; natnent. The Jaspers lost both of their games in the tournament which the University of Florida won.

i The Florida team also was staying at the Roose- velt and members of the team alsd escaped. "My wife is still pretty shook up but we are all OK and everything ap- get to mass," Norton said. It had been reported that the Manhattan team was at early mas3 and not in the hotel when' the fire began. But Norton said the team wa3 asleep in the hotel when the smoke started pouring through the building. Richard Peek, center for the Florida Gators, fled from the hotel clad only in a bath towel and was seen wandering around the street oujjrlde.

He had wrapped his feet in towels. "We didn't wait to put on our shoe3. When that smoke started pouring in, we just got out of there as fast as we could," Peek said. Norm Sloan, coach of the Florida team, reported that all of his players escaped safely from the hotel. Two other basketball teams that participated in the Gator Bowl, Florida; State and the Air Force Academy, stayed at other hotels.

The two football teams that participated in the Gator Bowl Saturday, North Carolina and the Air Force Academy, also stayed elsewhere. Mb. Ctni. mm Qt. I (O On.

I. ir' UK dJd) J738I BLEACHES WnlTE KiKX STOLE: .31333 Mum (SaEiG OTH MAHN1S FURS UP TO $15,000 AH turn Suhlict Prof Sah wJ Mrs. Wright's 0) (T)C 23 0 CI 0) bottles Crcg mont Bum Nut L- 51'00 (O) 12-cx. ring FUHS AT Oim ACTUAL COST! Natural, Bwotiful 1964 StylM MISS AMERICA 1 wrapped a wet towel around mv face, ran across in UU((0 Li'lJoJ Continued from Second Page at the weekend Gator Bowl activities. Fielden was staying in a room across the hall with the corridor again and broke into Donna's room.

She was i'MINK SLESi leaning out her window, trying to get fresh air. I picked up Miss Previti and told his father, Arthur Fielden, a ii. Donna to come with me. Jonuary Spaelol fT Limittd QuantitUl Miami public-relations man connected with Miss Axum's Gator Bowl appearance. Dul "We sot over to our room and slammed the door.

Don 1 11 II. uA- Morrell's "We were awakened by the smoke," said young Fielden. "and when I opened CSEY3 $1.00 ESCh na was coughing and her eyes were smarting, but she didn't cry or panic. Sire CSava $1.71 E2Ch Natural Tip-Dyad CKSKlLi SELE, SHEARED EEAVER COATS, JACKETS, SHRUSS from 0400 $13,000 "After about 20 minutes, our hall door the corridor was filled with smoke so the smoke e'ased up, and thick vou couldn't see. some firemen got up to our floor and they helped us psi Boneless Steaks "Dad and I ran across the hall to Donna's two-room dnwn to an ambulance." lovely Natural rxx JICXETS suite and pounded on the Fielden said that before door.

It was locked, and no he left the 10th floor he i 7 i UN one answered. Then we had entered Miss America's suite to cet back to our room be once again to get wraps for cause we were choking. We the women wno were in U.S. No. 1 Idaho Russet Uniform sizo night clothes.

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