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Windy, mild FniHA 5n chaos A FA 9, Ole Rliss 3 SP Decreasing cloudiness, Agency to aid farmers 1 What phone users shoulddo: anSlfooTer wgh strays far from purpose Miami 3 1 Pitt. 34 now to prepare for breakup per 60s. Low upper 30s. T7 Atlanta 24 Jets 7 More on Page 5-A -Page 12-B Page I-E 'i'-l A Gannett newspaper 1 ShreveportBossier CUyArk La Tex Sunday, Dec. 11, 1983 iinj mred oft XWt in E-Texas tornadoes Umbrellas and raincoats came in handy at Independence Bowl VIII LOOO see AFA win 4 tion, and a commercial smokehouse.

A sheriff's department spokesman said the Bear Creek Smokehouse, a meat-processing and sales facility, suffered "severe damage." Several barns were damaged along with a mobile home, authorities said. Utility lines and trees were also toppled. Ernest Ethridge, chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Shreveport, said weather radar indicated possible tornadoes in two separate thunderstorm cells which moved across Harrison County. One of the cells moved from the Longview area across Hallsv.lie and north of Marshall toward Caddo Lake. About the same time, the second cell was advancing further north, said Ethridge.

National Weather Service radar in Shreveport also picked up possible tornadoes, indicated by hook-shaped echoes, in the Lone Star, Woodlawn, Henderson, Linden, Jefferson, Carthage, and Scottsville areas, and. Please see 2, Page 18-A Colin Clark's 2nd trial to be held here BATON ROUGE (AP) Acting on orders from the state Supreme Court, a Baton Rouge district judge has ordered the second murder trial of Colin Clark moved to Shreveport. The state's high court last week reversed Judge L.J. Hymel and ruled that extensive publicity in Baton Rouge about Clark's first conviction and death sentence would make it hard to seat an unbiased jury in the city. Hymel then ordered the case moved to Shreveport, where the local court will set a trial date.

Clark was convi led of first-degree murder and sentenced to die for the 1979 holdup murder of restaurant manager Fred Schmidt, and had two execution dates stayed before winning a new trial from the federal appeals court in New Orleans. Hymel twice refused defense lawyers' request to move the trial from Baton Rouge, saying he was convinced an unbiased jury could be seated. Defense lawyer Lewis Unglesby said Clark has offered to plead guilty to first-degree murder on the condition that he is not given the death penalty, but District Attorney Ossie Brown has refused. Meanwhile, jury selection is scheduled to begin in Lafayette on Monday in the first-degree murder trial of Joe Nathan Goods, accused of killing a Baton Rouge bank manager in a 1981 holdup. That trial was also ordered moved from Baton Rouge on grounds of extensive local publicity.

From Staff, Wire Reports Tornadoes skipped across East Texas Saturday, injuring a Lufkin couple and causing extensive property damage at Marshall and Nacogdoches, officials said. Severe thunderstorms raked North Louisiana and South Arkansas as the storm system moved eastward. Shreveport recorded 2.52 inches of rain between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday. Jimmy Clevenger, 49, suffered a severe cut on his neck when a storm struck his mobile home about 18 miles east of Lufkin, said Julia Carswell, a nursing supervisor at Memorial Hospital. Ms.

Carswell said Clevenger was in critical condition. His 36-year-old wife, Patricia, was treated for minor cuts and released, Ms. Carswell said. Ms. Carswell said the tvuple was outside the mobile home and Clevenger was struck by "a piece of flying debris." A spokeswoman at the Angelina County sheriff's office said there were "several overturned mobile homes" on the west shore of Sam Rayburn Reservoir, where the couple lives.

A tornado knocked over mobile homes southwest of Nacogdoches, then skipped across town to the northeast, causing extensive damage to many homes and businesses. Eva Woods, who lives two miles west of Nacogdoches, said she opened her door just as a chinaberry tree fell across her car. "You just don't know what a helpless feeling that is," she said. "The top of it's dented pretty good. It's just squatted down like an elephant sat on it." She said three trees were blown down within 10 feet of her house.

Power was out at Stephen F. Austin University for about half an hour, but the university was spared damage. The tornado tore off the front of a television store and collapsed the corner of a department store on the cast side of town. The wall of a restaurant was tossed into the street, blocking traffic for about an hour. Detective Sgt.

Neil Phillip responded to a police call for all officers. He said that, as he tried to drive into town from the north, the sound of the twister was so loud he could not make radio contact with police headquarters. City officials set up a command center at the central fire station. Nacogdoches sheriff's deputy John Ragland said despite the extensive property damage, no injuries were reported. A tornado damaged homes, barns, one business, and knocked down trees and power lines near Marshall.

Most of the damage in Harrison County was concentrated near Hallsville and There were no reports of i-j jrics. Harrison County sheriff's deputies reported tornado damage to three homes, including one under construc Times photOTOM STANFORD 3 "AFA! All the way!" the crowd screamed as he disposed of the flag. A small group of Independence Bowl-goers attended the dedication ceremony for the expanded memorial garden built in honor of the late Gen. Omar Bradley. The new Freedom Shrine, which replaces the temporary structures erected each year during previous bowl preparations, features a mounted bust of Bradley and a garden surrounded by a brick wall of historical documents from the Exchange Clubs of Shreveport and Bossier City in cooperation with the Exchange Clubs of America.

Bradley, a World War II general and the only living five-star general before his death in 1981, received the first Spirit of Independence Award in 1977. The general's widow, Kitty Bradley, who had planned to attend last night's dedication, was ill and unable to attend. Comedian and producer Danny Thomas, this year's award recipient, accepted the shrine on behalf of Mrs. Bradley, who said in a letter to bowl officials that Thomas "has dedicated his life and energies to the less fortunate (and) reaches out his hand to the sick children among us." "General Bradley was a tremendous human being," Thomas said. "He was a soldier, but he was also a man of peace." Because of a recent bout with bronchitis, Thomas did not go onto the field when Independence Bowl officials presented him with the eighth Spirit of Independence Award.

Instead, the comedian made his comments over the Please see AFA, Page 15-A Donald Duck?" "I call it the Lord's miracle because it's close to Christmas," Mrs. Warren said Friday during her first interview. Mrs. Warren, who has mouthed the words to hymns for years at the Central Baptist Church in Kirbyville, said, "I'm thinking about trying out for the church choir, seriously. "They could use me; they need a good bass," she said, giving a self-deprecating laugh at her deep, raspy voice which doctors say will improve over time.

"It's been so many years since I had a voice that I've forgotten what my voice is like," she added. After losing her larynx, Mrs. Warren was unable to speak through a traditional method esophageal or "burp" speech because the constrictor muscle in her neck went into spasms. Blom said News for Miss, bowl visitors Special news from Colorado and Mississippi is included in he Times today for football ans from those states attend ing the Independence Bowl. See stories below and on Page 2-C.

Two hospitalized after bus crash LAKEWOOD. Colo. AP) A 9- year-old student and a Denver man remamea nospiiaiizea saiuraay with injuries from a school bus-car accident on icy roads here Friday, officials said. Matt Rontzon. 9.

a student at Notre Dame Darochial school in Lakewood, was in stable condition today in the St. Anthony Hospital pediatrics unit, a hospital spokeswoman said. Delores Koanquez, zu, oi uen-ver, was in serious condition in the surgical intensive care unit of the hospital today, the spokeswoman said. Gre2 Morrison, a Lakewood g)lice spokesman, said the Notre a me school bus was driven bv Yvonne Cole. 30.

of Lakewood. He said the bus was eastbound on Florida Avenue when a car driven by Leanne Rodriquez, 20, of Denver skidded broadside on ice and was hit by the oncoming bus. I-H suit seeks return of funds OXFORD, Miss. (AP) A for mer Calhoun County farm equipment dealer has been accused in a lawsuit filed by its main suppliei setting up a bogus line of credit in excess of $1 million. International Harvester Credit Corp.

filed the suit in U.S. District Court to recoup lunds it alleges were fraudulently obtained by Bruce Equipment Co. for equip ment that was never sold. The dealership, owned by Thomas P. Waits and Sara H.

Waits, closed its doors more than four months ago. Most of the equip ment is gone. Attorneys for the farm supply company tried to obtain financial records alter learning oi Dreacnes in the dealership contract through an August audit. The suit alleges that Bruce Equipment submitted bogus retail contracts for transactions with farmers. The contracts were signed by Leon Todd of Bruce Equipment.

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As the rain repeatedly alternated from a light drizzle to a downpour, the fans opened umbrellas and purchased lightweight rain coats, determined to stay until the end. The final score: The Falcons over the Rebels, 9-3. The enthusiasm surrounding the match was evident early in the afternoon as over 1,200 croweded into Hirsch Coliseum between 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday for the "biggest Ole Miss pep rally ever." With the university's marching band playing rousing renditions of traditional Southern tunes, include Dixie, students and fans in red and blue mingled with college officials and enjoyed barbecue, beer and soft drinks. In the cow barn on the Fair Grounds, where the Air Force Academy's supporters gathered to root for the Falcons, activities included cheerleader formations and fight songs and chants over a booming microphone.

Both pep rallies were "crashed" by opposing forces, but while the AFA unit at the Ole Miss rally was only hissed and booed, the poor carrier of the huge Rebel flag at the Air Force rally was swamped as a tight Woman speaks after 31 years of silence Klansman convicted in black's death MOBILE, Ala. (AP) A predomin? ''y white jury Saturday convicted 29-year-old Ku Klux Klansman of capital murder in the slaying of a black teen-ager whose battered body was hanged in a tree, and recommended he be sentenced to prison for life without parole. Mobile County Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell Jr. set sentencing for Jan. 19 for the defendant, Henry Francis Hays.

The jury of eleven whites and one black deliberated about 3Li hours before returning the verdict against Hays in the death of 19-year-old Michael Donald on March 21, 1981, whp allegedly was chosen at random in an effort to show Klan strength. Before the jury began considering a Please see KLANSMAN, Page 20-A tice. Head and Neck Surgery As sociates at Methodist Hospital. In 1 978, the two developed a voice prosthesis, an inch-long white silicon tube resembling a cocktail straw that is inserted through a surgically created opening, or stoma, between the windpipe and the esophagus. The esophageal end of the tube contains a one-way slit valve that lti air enter the esophagus from the windpipe for sound-producing vibrations.

Since the two were working for the VA, the government acquired the patent on the device and made it part of the public domain. Later, after Blom and Singer left the VA, they developed a second device, a self-closing valve, to fit in the stoma on the throat. The valve remains open during breathing, closes automatically with air flow and opens outward with a up to 30 percent of all laryngec-tomes are unable to use this method of speaking, which takes up to six months to master. And Mrs. Warren chose not to use an electrolarynx, which uses a buzzer in the throat to produce sound.

But earlier this year, she read an article published by the International Association of Laryngectomies about Singer and Blom, and a method of voice restoration they had developed. Singer, an oralaryngologist, and Blom met in 1976 while both worked at the Veterans Administration hospital here. Singer, who was in charge of ear, nose and throat surgery, and Blom, head of speech and hearing, realized a "very desperate group of people" needed a way to talk, Singer said. They now work in a private prac By LAURA WILKINSON The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS The children and grandchildren of Stella Mae Warren will hear her speak and sing carols this Christmas for the first time in 31 years because of what she calls the "Lord's miracle" an artificial voice. Mrs.

Warren, 62, of Kirbyville, Texas, had her larynx removed decades ago after she developed cancer. She was unable to speak to her four children, 10 grandchildren and husband, Hollis, until after the operation last week. "She has, in fact, been silent for 31 years," her speech pathologist, Eric D. Blom, said Friday, four days after she was fitted with a voice prosthesis that he and or-alaryngologist Mark I. Singer developed.

Her husband said her first words were: "I can speak. Do I sound like English..