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it's the North-vs. the So um Today's weather Shreveport and vicinity will be partly cloudy and a little cooler today through Sunday. High today and Sunday in the mid-70s. Low tonight in the mid-50s. More weather on Page 7-A.

in Alli Sta sports, page 7-C It The Ark-La-Tex A Gannett Newspaper ShveVepOVt Bossier City Af Texas kaesas' storms kill Twister cuts wide swath through Paris PARIS, Texas (UPI) A tornado as wide as two football fields spun a four-mile-long path of destruction in this city Friday on its way through Northeast Texas. At least nine people were killed and authorities feared the injury toll might top 150. Officials in Paris and the nearby town of Blossom, a city of 800 destroyed by the twister, issued a call for ambulances, medical aid and law officers to help with the widespread destruction in the city of 25,000. Gov. Bill Clements' office also activated the National Guard to help.

DPS officials said there were six confirmed dead in Paris two of them an elderly couple killed when a church roof fell in. Two of the dead were known be sisters running from the storm. A third sister reportedly survived. A woman also died in Bonham from injuries after her house was destroyed. A heart attack death attributed to the storm was reported in Blossom.

The tornado, estimated to be 200 yards wide, cut a path three-quarters of a mile wide and fouj miles long through the city 90 miles northeast of Dallas after it touched down shortly after 4 p.m. As many as 75 blocks were damaged. Residents had about 15 minutes 'notice that the tornado was heading toward the city. Department of Public Safety officials said that after the twister moved through Paris, it traveled U.S. Highway 82 eastward for 30 miles, hitting the small communities of Reno, Blossom, Detroit and Bagwell before it turned north toward the Red River and disappeared into the clouds.

Damage and injuries were reported in those towns. The same storm system ripped through Arkansas, killing at least 12. Tornado damage also was reported in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. Officials at McCuiston Regional Medical Center in Paris, 500 yards from the path of the twister, reported nearly 80 people had been treated many of them with injuries classified as serious to critical. At St.

Joseph's Hospital, at least 50 people had been treated. "We're just digging them out as we (AP Laserphoto) A survivor of Paris, Texas, tornado hurries across debris with pet dog Saturday, April 3, 1982 islands There were reports of sporadic shooting Friday night, and an Argentine government communique said all British military personnel and civilian officials would be taken to another South American country. Official sources in Uruguay, Argen-' Una's neighbor across the River Plate, said they would be taken there. Some reports said the fighting during the attack lasted three hours. A ham radio operator in the islands reported the invading forces had heavily damaged buildings in Port Stanley with machine gun and mortar barrages.

No British casualties were reported. British Defense Secretary John Nott, asked at a London news conference whether the 84 British marines we're ordered to surrender, said: "The British never give orders to anyone to surrender." He said that a "substantial number of Royal Navy ships" wer ordered to the Falklands several days before the invasion. He declined to say where the warships were located, but defense experts said they were at least 10 to 14 days away from the islands. The London Telegraph reported that the British aircraft carrier Invincible was expected to head a task force of six or seven warships to defend the islands. Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, is a helicopter pilot aboard the Invincible.

The invasion came at a time of increasing domestic trouble for the Argentine regime and the issue of the islands' sovereignty has always been a patriotic rallying point for the country. Britain rushing Falling tree kills five near Hope United Press International Tornadoes ripped through Arkansas Friday evening, killing five members of a family huddled inside their home in Southwest Arkansas and bringing the death toll to 12 statewide, authorities said. A tornado toppled a large tree on top of a house south of Hope in Hempstead County, crushing to death five members of a family huddled beneath a mattress in the middle of the residence. Others killed in the series of tornadoes that rampaged through the state included three in Howard County and one in Miller County in Southwest Arkansas, two in Faulkner County in Central Arkansas and one in Forrest City in eastern Arkansas, Red Cross officials said Friday night. The Red Cross also reported at least 66 people injured, 12 hospitalized, and more than 30 homes destroyed around the state.

Capt. Milton Mosier at state police headquarters in Hope said a tornado that touched down south of Hope at about 7 p.mt blew over a large oak tree beside the house in Hempstead County. Authorities worked for about two hours before getting into the house, only to find the man, woman and three children dead. "We thought we would get them out alive," Mosier said. "We got a doctor out there and when we got in we found all of them dead.

A big tree blowed across the house and just smashed it." Mosier identified the dead as Robert Calhoun 24, his wife Sherry Calhoun, age not available, and her three children by a previous marriage; Adam Cross, 10, Lena Cross, 9, and Shree Cross, 4. A tornado passed south of Ashdown in Little River County about 6 p.m., killing a man working at a paper mill. Three other people died in tornadoes in Howard County community of Buck Ridge just south of Mineral Springs, the state police said. Killed were Detra Nelson, a high school sophomore, Oliver T. Ingersoll, 61, and Leota Davis, who died en route to the Howard County Hospital in Nashville.

The cause of death of the three immediately was not available. A 52-year-old Ashdown man, John C. Helms, was killed when a tornado swept through the Nekoosa Paper mill just south of Ashdown, said John Milner, industrial relations manager at the mill. Helms died of head injuries received when a piece of equipment fell and struck him. Milner said the, tornado caused extensive damage to the mill's power plant, pulp dryer and paper machine.

Officials in most areas of Arkansas reported tornadoes touching down in their areas, some resulting in injuries. Little River County authorities said "two or three" tornadoes touched down near Ashdown. The National Weather Service said every county in Arkansas at about 6 p.m was under a Wnado watch. 'In God We Trust City Edition Index 144th Year, Vol. Ill, No.

127 Copyright The Times Publishing Company 1982 Business-Finance 14, 15-C Classified 4, 13-C Comics 10-B Deaths 8-A Editorials 4-A Entertainment 8, 9-B Hints from Heloise 3-B Ann Landers' 2-B Sheinwold on Bridge 16-C Sports 1, 3-C Television 11-B Tell The Times 1-B Weather 7-A Today's chuckle Wouldn't it be great if the voting records of our congressmen were followed as closely as bat-' ting averages and RBIs? Circulation Complaints: Ph. 221-1982 before 10:30 a.m. OKLAHOMA TEXAS Tornadoes strike Austin find them," a volunteer fireman said. Bill Lamb, city editor at the Paris Daily News, said he talked to one man who "looked up and here it came. So he and six kids got into a pickup truck and outran it.

He said it was the second one he's outrun." "It's just terrible destruction. And of course the problem being rescue efforts being hampered by heavy rains at this moment, plus the debris that is in the streets," said Paris reporter Joe Grant of KPLT, who witnessed the twister's westward path through town. "It stayed on the ground for several miles, and it moved directly across he city. We do have a considerable number of injuries," he said. "It was on the ground for a good 30 minutes." Two minutes is the normal life span of a tornado on the ground.

Grant termed the tornado "good-sized" but said he would not consider it a giant twister like the half-mile-wide killer tornado that destroyed Wichita Falls two. years ago. He said a secondary twister later also touched down, but it was unknown how much damage it caused. There also was a report of a fire raging out of control on the east side of town at the Paris Lumber Co. Numerous trees and power lines were down and gas leaks were reported throughout the city.

Department of Public Safety officials said sirens had alerted the city's residents several minutes before the larger tornado hit. "It was first spotted by the Highway Patrol two miles north of Bonham, continued east of that direction a little north of Honey Grove," said Department of Public Safety spokesman Charles Flemming in Sherman. evening after falling trees clipped a major line at the station's transmitter north of the city. KSLA announced that the station taped both shows and will broadcast them tonight. A spokesman at the weather service office said of rain fell between 7:30 p.m.

and 9 p.m. The peak wind was 36 mph. Power company employees worked last night to correct a few minor outages in the area that were mostly due to wind tossing tree branches onto power lines. Bests Arnold Campbell and Steve Cate of Airline established all-time Louisiana bests in their specialties during the Gator Relays. 1-C.

Near top Hal Sutton fired a 69 to move into third place in the Greater Greensboro Golf Tournament at the halfway mark. 2-C. Pollution Industry will be given greater flexibility in controlling air pollution through a tradeoff system that could save businesses $1 billion by the end of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency says. 15-C. Pork The Agriculture Department says that to be on the safe side, consumers should cook all fresh pork to a uniform internal temperature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit to destroy any microscopic parasites that might be present.

15-C. Commentary The El Salvador elections showed the intent of its people to chart their own destiny toward democracy, says a Times editorial. 4-A. ARK. Vvv Hope Parisv 1 Dallas I LA.

ships to BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Several thousand Argentine troops led by marines seized the Falkland Islands from Britain on Friday. The government claimed the South Atlantic islands' governor "surrendered unconditionally." "The Argentine flag flies again in the Malvinas. Mission accomplished," the communique said. Jubilant Argentines cheered, waved flags, tooted horns and sounded sirens. Church bells pealed.

The military reported one dead and two wounded among its assault forces and there were no official reports of British casualties. Uncon- firmed reports in Buenos Aires, however, said there were "lots of casualties," without specifying whether dead or wounded, or on which side. Britain said some of its warships were steaming to the scene and a "very powerful" task force was being assembled to recapture the archipelago, 250 miles off the Argentine coast. i The bleak islands, called the Falklands by Britain and Malvinas by Argentina since their dispute over them began early in the last century, are home for about 1,800 sheep farmers of British descent. In recent years, there have been reports of oil and gas deposits.

Britain condemned the "unprovoked aggression," broke diplomatic relations and demanded the invaders withdraw from the islands Britain has ruled for 149 years. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in London. Friday's attack was the first time in more than 100 years that Argentina has been involved in a conflict outside its borders. Weather spares local area New Caddo judgeship approved An additional judgeship for Caddo Parish was approved Friday by the Judicial Council of the Louisiana Supreme Court, a move which could bring to nine the number of permanent district judges serving the parish. Though the state Legislature must still approve the request for a ninth judge, a spokesman for the Louisiana Supreme Court said the Legislature usually supports4he recommendations of the Judicial Council.

Another request by Caddo judges in 1980 for a ninth permanent judge had been denied by the Judicial Council. However, Natchitoches City Court Judge Marvin F. Gahagan was assigned as a temporary judge in December by the high court after Caddo judges asked for assistance with a heavy backlog of cases. His term here will expire in June. Caddo District Judge James E.

Clark spoke before the Judicial Council at a meeting in New Orleans Friday morning on the need for a permanent ninth judge in Caddo. The eight Caddo judges now rotate between civil and courtroom duty, although only three criminal court judges are seated at one time. High court spokeswoman Paulette Holahan said the Judicial Council's evaluation committee had recommended that the council approve the request. She said the evaluation committee had compiled statistics on Caddo's criminal and civil caseloads before submitting its report. Mrs.

Holahan said the chances are good that the Legislature will approve the request during its ext session. "As far as the judgeships go, they do look to the Judicial Council for recommendations." If the Legislature approves the request, an election date will be set. Caddo District Judge John R. Ballard speculated that the judgeship election would be placed on the fall ballot when other parish elections are planned. Worker injured at water tank site A construction worker at the site of Bossier City's new water tank on Shed Road was severely injured Friday morning when a sheet of steel fell on his head.

Larry Mitchel, 31, was stable and "guarded" in Bossier City Medical Center's intensive care unit last night following neurological surgery. Two Universal Tankemployees at the same site were killed Dec. 17 and a third was injured when a cable holding a roof support broke. Firemen who were called to the site at 5500 Shed Pioad just before noon Friday said a steel plate weighing about six pounds fell 40 to 60 feet from the tank and struck Mitchel on the head. The weather system which ravaged the region Friday spared the Caddo-Bossier area from most of its destructive wrath.

The National Weather Service at Shreveport's Regional Airport and local law enforcement agencies reported little damage and a few scattered power outages after the storms passed. However, an estimated 450,000 area television viewers missed the CBS broadcast of shows Dallas" and Falcon Crest when KSLA-TV, Channel 12, was off the air for several hours during the CaddoBossier Polls Voters to go to polls for municipal elections in Moor-ingsport, Vivian, Blanchard, Plain Dealing. 9-A. Tax Shreveport Chamber of Commerce endorses Caddo School Board's half-cent sales tax proposal. 8-A.

NationWorld Lawyer weeps The attorney for a woman sentenced in Virginia Beach to 20 years in prison for forgery weeps and tells judge he was preoccupied with a basketball tournament. 2- Jobless Unemployment rose in March to equal the post-World War II record of 9 percent, the Labor Department reports. 3-A. Vetoes The United States cast two vetoes within an hour in the U.N. Security Council Friday, killing resolutions dealing with Nicaragua and the Israeli West Bank.

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