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The Paris News, April 3, 1982 48 are admitted to Paris hospitals DEVASTATED AREA Local residents-begin sifting through the rubble on the corner of Campbell St. and 7th St. immediately after the twister demolished that afternoon. (Staff photo by Mark Gail) section of Paris Friday As many as 100 homes hit by tornado in North Paris By JOHN MOSELEY Sports Editor One of the worst damaged sections of Paris in the wake of the Friday afternoon tornado that ripped through the northwest and northeast sections of Paris was an area stretching from North Main to Fitzhugh Streets and generally bordered on the north by Grove Street and on the south by Tudor. Perhaps as many as 75 or 100 homes in the predominantly black populated area were totally destroyed as the twister blazed its path of destruction, splintering the primarily frame structures in the area.

And with the first light of Saturday morning, residents of the area began to waken from Not only was Harold Griffith's Garage destroyed, so was that family's home which had been located due west of the business. As Mitchell surveyed the damage to the neighborhood, he found Herman Patterson of 712 E. Grove doing much the same thing. "I don't think it hurt anybody right here in this neighborhood," the old black man said. "It tore the top off my house, but nobody was hurt.

"We dug the (James) Jacksons out of there," Patterson continued, gesturing toward a pile rf rubble which had once been a home. "But there wasn'ta one of them a miracle, that's what it was. By CATHY BULL News Staff Writer A total of 48 patients were admitted to Paris hospitals Friday as a result of injuries sustained when a tornado swept through the city that afternoon, according to officials at St. Joseph's Hospital and McCuistion Regional Medical Center. Jesse Hayes, administrator at McCuistion Regional Medical Center, said that the hospital treated a total of 75 patients, admitted 24 and transferred two to hospitals in Dallas.

Sister Mary Eustace, Farrell, the St. Joseph's administrator, did not have the number of patients treated at the hospital, but listed 24 patients as admitted. A list obtained at the sheriffs office Friday night showed that the hospital had received 65 patients. Nine people were killed in the tornado, according to sheriffs department officials late Saturday morning- Hayes could not break the list of patients received at the hospital into the names of those that were admitted. He also could not information as to the condition of the patients.

St. Joseph's Hospital released the following list of patients that were admitted to the hospital. The list shows one patient in serious condition and five others listed in guarded condition No ages or addresses were included on the list. Robert Hill was listed as being in serious condition with a lacerated liver and fractured right foot. Listed in stable but guarded condition were Diana Welch, with multiple fractures, Nichole Terry, with an abdominal injury and a left eye injury; Sara Evans with head trauma; Lovey Kennedy, with a concussion and head laceration and Vicki Griffin, with a head injury and laceration.

Patients listed in stable condition included Billy Crawford. Crawford was in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Also listed in stable condition were Jermaine Terry, with an orbital fracture; Betiy Carlise, with a concussion and fractured ribs; and Kevin Berry with a possible head injury. Cora Hord was among the patients listed in fair con dition with multiple bruises. Also in fair condition were Ruth Short with multiple lacerations; Anthony Frieson, with fractured ribs and head injury; Margaret Sciferman with a pulmonary contusion and trauma; Jewel Eubanks, with fractured right shoulder; Lara Layton, with fractured ribs and multiple abrasions; and Gladys Ridge way, with fractured left wrist and left eye trauma.

Seven patients were listed in good condition Saturday. Patients listed in good condition included Dorothy Sugg, with lacerations and a fractured left hand; Dorothy Roberts, with multiple abrasions; Sally Hardison, with a fractured leg; Paul Partridge, with a iscalp laceration; Cecilia Bradley, with fractured ribs; Ellen Bradley, with back trauma and Larry a left knee injury. The released by McCuistion Regional Medical Center has the patients' names as they were received at the hospital and placed on the list. The condition of the patient not included and hospital officials said that the list had not been double checked for accuracy of the names. On the list were Amanda Finley, Vicky Finley, Trenton Fintey, Amelia Finley, Karla Davis, Berley Hall, Gary Davis, Brent Davis, Carrie Davis, Pernia Palmer, Priscflla Lawrence, Floyd Pierce, Rudy Patterson, Joyce Smith, Rob Garland, Ruby Polk, Judy Cravend, Feldia Terry, Vista Patterson, Ruby Love, Ray Coleman, Claude Stewart, Dorothy Davis, Shalanda Coleman, Lawrence Thompson, Lynn Smith and Elsa Alexander.

Also, Annette Sheffield, Marie Dickey, Billie Booker, Faybeth Lawrence, Floy Pierce, Clifford Harris, Ray Thompson, Faletha Lawrence, Charlotte Cunningham, Judy McCod, Donald High, James Fulmar, Helen Booker, Ethel Alexander, Chris Reeves, Jackie McClelland, LaVonne McClelland, Marcus Lawrence, Joe Stewart, Ronnie Hargon, Shirley Bridges, Joe Bridges, Ruby Pope, Helen Cullum, Meri Jones, James Castleberry, Janetta Dangerfield, Dorothy Davis, Juanita Cain, Anna L. McClelland, Ella Sampson, Octayia Sheffield, Katrine Liviginston, Augusta Gill, Ted Evans, Vera Harden, Bertha Freeman, Annie Marie McClellan, and Daphene Evans. Also included on the list was an unidenfitied baby boy. Tornado alert system provides early warning HERMAN PATTERSON DON BOSTIC run at normalcy back into their lives. Cleo Mitchell of 815-6th NE was one of the first to venture into his rubble- strewn neighborhood, getting a late start compared to the large number of dogs that roamed the streets searching in vain for familiar haunts.

"There isn't much left," Mitchell said as he surveyed his home, the frame structure's rear portion standing roofless. "I decided to stay with what was left last night. Some of these people around here would carry off the devil." Mitchell said he was working at the Bobcock Wilcox boiler works when the tornado touched down "They (plant managers) gave just about everyone excused passes so they could go home," he said. "It took me almost two hours to get here." The twister struck with an almost discriminating fury. Mitchell noted that his mother's home, located next door to his own, had been less damaged and that a mechanic's garage one more address to the north had been completely destroyed.

gotten, clothes from up town and got down behind my car when the tree behind me went to That car saved me. Yes sir, I would have been in a lot of trouble if that car hadn't kept it from hitting me." Don Bostic, 540-lst NE, was one of the luckier ones. His home was about one block away from the tornado's path giving him an opportunity to center his concerns on getting to his aunt's home which had been completely destroyed just a few blocks away. "It's a wonder there weren't a thousand people killed," he said, pausing on his way to survey the damage suffered at a wrecking yard owned by Nathaniel Williams which had once been the old Gibbons High School gymnasium. "We could hear the knew what they meant, but I think most people around here were confused and thought they were just ambulances." Bostic is one of several people in the area who is willing to swear that mote than one funnel cloud had dipped down on the city.

anyway. But by the time I could get over here, another one was coming through." Not all of those pouring through the ruins left in the twister's wake were. residents of the area, however. J. B.

Lyons of Dallas had just arrived for a visit with his parents when the storm struck. "This doesn't look like Paris, Texas, but it's not as as they made it sound on television and radio," he said, expressing disgust with early media reports that proved inaccurate. "We had heard that-Blossom had been destroyed and that downtown Paris was all torn up." But it was his wife, Regina Boyd Lyons, who seemed more shocked by the destruction she had witnessed. "They'll never get Paris like it never be the town I grew up in, anyway," she said. And it was somewhat ironic that A.

J. Reese, who was picking through the ruins of his home nearby, was not as noticably upset as Mrs. Lyons. some about all," the stooped little man said, managing a nervous grin. "We spent the night over there at my sister-in- law's were here with us when it hit.

"We were all back in the we ought to be thankful that we all get out alive," he continued. "I don't know how we did, but we did." As he continued to move pieces of splintered lumber from the heap that had once been his home, Reese said he didn't know whether he'd CLEO MITCHELL rebuild or not. "Idon'tknow whether.I can," he said. Mitchell found it impossible to muster an ounce of optimism, even falling short of Reese's indecision "I've seen one of these in was driving a truck through Seymour when one hit and saw what it had done there, but it's different when ifs your home and your neighborhood," he said. "They'll probably have to bring some bulldozers in here and just knock everything down.

There ain't a thing in the world you can do with this." Weather FORECAST North Texas: Fair and a little cooler today. Fair tonight and Sunday. Warmer Sunday. Highs 76 to 82. Lows 48 to 56.

Highs Sunday 80s. OUTLOOK North Texas: Partly cloudy with cool mornings and mild afternoons. Lows in the 40s Monday and Tuesday warming to the mid 40s and to mid 50s on Wednesday. High temperatures in the 60s Monday and Tuesday and in the 70s on Wednesday. OKLAHOMA FORECAST Mostly clear with warm days through Sunday.

Highs mostly 70s. Lows 40s. Panama City was founded in 1519. By SHERRIE LANGSTON News Staff Writer National Weather Service officials in Fort Worth received word Friday at 3:21 p.m. of a tornado on the ground northwest of Bonham near Highways 121 and78.

By 4:10 p.m. La mar County Department of Public Safety officers reported sighting a tornado on Highway 82 East, according to Jeff Brown of the National Weather Service. Five minutes later, at 4:15 p.m., an amateur radio operator reported a tornado in the south part of Paris, Brown said Saturday. The weather service maintains an amateur radio network to track severe weather in Texas. At 5 p.m.

a weather spotter notified the Forth Worth office of a tornado south east of Paris; The Apollo 15 spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific Jan. 31, 1971, following the third successful American moon landing. Fort Worth officials inv mediately alerted emergency personnel in Hopkins, Van Zandt, and Franklin counites of the possible danger, according to Brown. "We always alert everyone ahead of the severe weather," Brown said. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for portions of North Central and Northeast Texas at 9:15 a.m.

Friday. This warning was to expire at 3 p.m., but conditions necessitated the extending the warning until9 p.m. The watch area was along and 70 miles east and west of a line from 45 miles south of Dallas to 40 miles north and northwest of Paris. "It (the weather) was an ideal situation for a tornado," Brown said. When Friday's twister was first sighted the only visible evidence of funnel cloud activity was debris swirling high into the air.

"Torandoes start off just as wind," Brown explained, "nothing is really visible. Normally, they start picking up debris and dust as they travel." Two National Weather Service members, Allen Moller and Mike Mogel, who tracked the tornado Friday came to Paris Saturday to survey the damage and photograph the path of destruction. All PISD classes to resume Monday All schools i the Paris Independent School District will have classes as scheduled Monday according to Felix.Gibson, superintendent. "We have four schools in the city and not a window was broken in any of them," Gibson said. He added that school buses will run their regular routes Monday morning.

"We're assuming that streets will be cleared by then. "The best thing for ail students to do Monday morning is come to school," Gibson said. FAMILY BIBLE Leta Williams, a Walker Street resident, clutching a Bible under the sheet, is lifted into an ambulance after she collapsed while inspecting the remains of her destroyed home. According to a relative, she was under a doctor's care prior to the tornado Friday. (Staff photo by 'Anton Riecher) LAKEWAY BAPTIST Sunday School Superintendent Randy Mahon, right, and others help salvage items from the destroyed Lakeway Baptist Church at 901 19th N.W.

A woman was pinned briefly under one wall of the church when the building collapsed. (Staff photo by Anton Riecher).