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Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 17

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Jackson, Mississippi
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Friday, Jan. 24, 1969 Cbc ClatfonHcDger 17 'OH LORD! Continued From Page 1 wearing a blue and white print sTFTTrrnj I i'T-- Mil Clean-Up Begins In Guard armory where there Is food and medical help. A She Is still sobbing. She is dres3 and a blood-smeared creen sweater, her head swa still screaming, "Ohr my Lord, have mercy." 4 Purser and Wise get In the police car and leave, The chief stops at another funeral home thed in gauze and adhesive, aimlessly fills an Army duffle bag with what is left: a tennis Storm Area shoe, a rag oi cioimng, a wine. She is Gladys Perkins.

Purser says the hospital in Jackson reports her child is dead. Does she have a little girl? The ha hrnwn-skinned wom and tells them to go to Jackson and pick up the child's body. As he leaves the hill, an Army Guard sergeant jumps, iff a big GI truck and walks among the people and tells Ing areas were trying to restore the service as quickly as possi an mnans. tnrni hr head to the them to go to the armory out on no 1 1 i By ELSIE MAY CHAMBERS Clarion-Ledger State Editor As the gruesome search of bodies of missing and feared dead or injured went on in the tornado stricken areas of South Her WOrdS n'Mnway i3 wneie wey can eai sKy and screams. ble.

Tornado damage to electric and sleep ana get some, clothes. transmission and distribution in Copiah and Simpson counties was also being restored as rapidly as possible by resident crews and by crews from Israelis Allow JERUSALEM (AP) Israel's government-owned radio broadcast a German-language play this week, apparently end ing what had been an almost total ban on airing of German scripts and songs. Jackson, Crystal Springs, Brookhaven and McComb, according to President are gibberish. Nighbors run to her side. Purser goes back to the radio and double-checks.

Tears roll down the woman's cheeks. "Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord," she screams. "My child is gone, oh Lord, oh Lord, have mercy, oh Lord." She falls flat on her face. Black people and white people help her to her feet. A neighbor consoles her.

"You get holt of yourself, you got others to think about." A preacher comes to the hill with another. Purser tells them to take her to the National Baxter Wilson. The heaviest damage was in Hazlehurst and Mendenhall. Mississippi Thursday afternoon, massive cleanup operation was also begun. Help arrived in the stricken areas from many surrounding towns and cities and counties.

Late Thursday afternoon, the death toll stood at 29 and hundreds were injured. Hospitals in Hazlehurst and Mendenhall were filled beyond normal capacity. Many of the injured were brought to the Jackson hospitals for treatment, "ome were in a very critical condition and their survival was doubtful. RESCUE UNIT The City of Jackson sent a Civil Defense Rescue Unit, and engineering department team The 115 KV transmission line from Jackson to McComb was blown down south of Hazle TV SERVICE BEST QUALIFIED TECHNICIANS hurst. This line connects with Louisiana Power and Light Co.

The tornado also ripped CARL DANIELSON JAMES "COWBOY" LEI down two structures and left three more leaning. Another 115 shelters and soup kitchens, and numerous other agencies all the TORNADO WRECKAGE AT HAZLEIIURST la this view looking north up Highway 51 on the southeastern edge of Hazlehurst, the path of the tornado from left to right may be observed in the swath of wreckage across the area. Houses were smashed, and cars were scattered over the area, one being blown into a pond just out of the picture to the right. The highway is blocked by the top of a house which was blown across the road near the top of the photograph. KV transmission line north of Mendenhall was blown down.

ED INGELS DIAGNOSTIC TV SERVICE W. AMITI ST. 354-1451 There was extensive damage way from Civil Defense to prisoners on the Hinds Penal Farm were on the scene giving assistance. to power lines in Hazlehurst and and two police cars to surrounding area as well as in Hazlehurst to be of assistance 1 the Braxton community north of in the disaster area. JCs List Mendenhall.

Mavor Allen Thompson of Sen. John Steimis, Sen. James fered the city's assistance in O. Eastland, and Congressman! Cowboy Sex: Don't Mitt The Great YEAR-END SAVINGS ON MAJOR APPLIANCES telephone conversation with Mayor Paul Kemp, of Hazle Health Programs hurst and Thursday afternoon You'll Never Save More! Commissioner Derwood Boyles G. V.

"Sonny" Montgomery all urged President Richard Nixon to declare the stricken sections of the state disaster area so that residents would be eligible for loans and other forms of and Maintenance Superintendent John Nutt went to Hazlehurst to The Jackson Jaycees have confer with Mr. Kemp. been very active in the field of Boyles said the six man team Mental Health and Mental Re aid. Stennis said the damage apparently is beyond repartion at the local and state level and requires Federal assistance. The Red Cross was setting up tardation during the past year.

In November the Jaycees co operated in a state project to of the rescue unit had been in training for several months for such a disaster. Fifteen men from the engineering department, equipped with power saws and axes, were also sent to Hazlehurst from Jackson. raise funds for the Maurice Lit tle Memorial Mental Health and Mental Retardation Scholarship Fund, a project named in honor In Columbus, Gov. John Bell of a former National Jaycee Di Williams learned of the tragedy and flew to the area for a first hand look at the damage. Shortly after the news of the killer tornado reached the outside world, Louis Priede, dis JERR0LD STEPHAN FURNITURE rector of Region III who was killed in an airplane crash near Jackson last year, and is used to award two scholarships each year.

These scholarships, in the amount of $2000 each are awarded for graduate study in a field related to mental health and mental retardation to persons who will pledge to work in Mississippi for at least one year trict manager of the Insurance Information Institute in New Orleans, advised Mississippi INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL DAM-AGE The tornado wreckage extended across this strip of land between the Illinois Central Railroad and Highway 51 at Hazlehurst. An observation plane may be seen at lower right. Steel culverts were scattered like toothpicks near the railroad tracks. property owners hit by the storm to get in touch with their insurance agents as quickly as Monroe asked, "What si that, upon completion of their Dazed Tornado Victims Try possible. He said that a team of adjus studies.

tors would be in the area very The local Jaycees each year hold a party for a group of the To Pull Selves Together soon to handle claims. In the meantime, he said the property momma, a choo-choo train?" The Hazelhurst radio station constantly pleaded with the public to stay away from the disaster area, but the plea seemed to serve as an open patients at the State Hospital at By LARRY GUEST owners where possible should go Whitfield. Each patient receives a predominately Negro residential section in this Copiah County city, starting near Highway 51 and stretching ahead and make temporary re WALNUT FINISH a small gift from the Jackson pairs to prevent further damage to the property, and that in most Jaycees. Haven Hall, a home for severe invitation. In addition to high several miles to the east.

ly handicapped children, receiv Almost all property within cases the insurance would pay a reasonable cost for the temporary repairs. path was totally es various forms of help from the Jackson Jaycees. A great HZAELHURST Dazed residents of South; Hazelhurst wasted time Thursday morning in 'sorting through the remains of their homes for salva-gable items, following the touchdown of a devastating tornado around storm completely flattened a three-block wide strip of deal of work to improve the Many telephones were hundred curiosity seekers bottled up side roads, slowing passage in and out of the hard-hit area to a snail's pace. knocked out of service, put physical facilities at Haven Hall has been carried out. emergency crews from surround Make any room in your home more spacious with attractive storage cabinets by Jerrold Stephan.

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32" wide, 14 'A" deep. Weight: 56 Lbs 24.95 stroyed, while homes and businesses just 100 yards to either side were, for the most part, untouched. At 8 a.m., just 90 minutes after the catastrophe, victims of the blow were somberly prodding through their belongings, in hopes of finding various articles of personal value. There most of the busy victims, al- BENNINGTON Medals Awarded ENGLAND AFB. La.

The Silver Star Medal, First through Sixth Oak Leaf Clusters to the AirMedal, and the Purple Heart, with First Oak Leaf Clus for overj thing under the sun iiiil was utile discussion among thoueh periodically someone would walk throu-rh reports of additional injuries deaths. The working residents would Hill' then pause in a stunned silence for a moment, then return to the task at hand. 1 While we were shooting a pic ture, one worker shouted Hey! You re standing right where my trailer was." He is BOOKCASE DESK Drop front writing surface. Open shelves at top offer convenient space for books, and other items. 32" wide, 33" high, 11" deep.

Weight: 53 lbs. 24.95 CHINA HUTCH Protective sliding glass doors show off china, glassware, and decorative objects. 32" wide, 11" deep, 33" high. Weight: 51 lbs 24.95 Robert Newsome, a middle- aged highway worker. "With all the rain, I knew we couldn't work this morning," Newsome said, "but I left my.

trailer anyway to pick up a friend. When I REPEAT OF A SELLOUT! SPECIAL! NOVA TWEED TOTE BAGS returned, my trailer was gone." ter were presented posthumously to Lt. Col. Emmett Rucker of Lormanr in a special ceremony- at England Air Force recently. The presentation was made to Nancy Rucker, Plantation Hill, Lorman, widow of Rucker, by Col.

Albert S. Commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing the Central Louisiana base. 'Also present at the ceremony were' sons Claude. 16, and daughter Sally Lr 13. Another son, Ernest C.

a Chief Petty Officer Second Class is stationed in Edzile, Scotland, with the U.S. Navy. -Col. Rucker distinguished himself 'by gallantry in con-1 nection with military operations against an opposing armed force as a UC-123B Fairchild Provider aircraft commander near Camau, Republic of Vietnam, May 24, 1968. Col.

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One unidentified Negro said he wasn't aware of the tornado. His frame house was about two blocks away from the path of the storm at the crest of a hill. "I got up and was drinking a cup of coffee and didn't realize what was going on. I thought it was just another bad rain storm. When I walked out of my house a few minutes later, my knees nearly buckled.

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