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enteral atasee STORMY, MILD Continued mild with periods of showers and i few thunderstorms through Tuesday. High today 70, low tonight 58, high Tuesday, 68. (Complete weather Page 2) 62nd Year, No. 345 20 Pages Monday Afternoon Florida's Capital Newspaper Monday, December 11, 1967 10 Cents A Quake Panhan Perish Storms Strikes In India Report Says 60 Killed BOMBAY (AP) An earthquake shook Western India before dawn today, and the Maharashtra state government said 60 persons were killed at Koyna, 200 miles south of Bombay. A report in New Delhi told of only two dead but said 500 were injured.

The report from the state government, said most of the casualties occurred near Koynana-gar, a town of 10,000 built for workers at the giant Koyna hydroelectric dam and plant. The government said the Koyna dam was not damaged but another hydroelectric plant at Khopoli, between Bombay and Poona, was put out of commission. This knocked out electric service to several thousand square imiles, including Bombay and its population of 4.5 million. In the metropolis hundreds of thousands poured into the streets and spent the rest of the night in the open. An area from Sura, 150 miles Governor Asks For U.

S. Aid Ten Panhandle cities today had counted two dead, and were searching for several persons reported missing and possibly trapped in the wreckage left by a string of tornadoes that struck a 150-mile coastal area yesterday. At least 250 persons were reported injured, most in the Capehart housing area at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City and at Fort Walton Beach 60 miles west. Thought It Was A-Bomb' north of Bombay, to Goa, 300 Damage estimates climbed above $7 million and Gov. Claude Kirk asked federal help for what he termed a disaster area.

National Guardsmen were patroling cities and highways to prevent looting, turn back sightseers and help in the massive cleanup. Twisters dipped down all the way from an Alabama border county to a rural section about half way between Blountstown and Altha in Calhoun County. HOUSES DESTROYED Calhoun Sheriff W. C. Reeder said homes and other buildings were destroyed on four farms Associated Press Wlrephoto Governor Kirk Views Damage Indian-jacketed executive at Fort Walton Beach -Associated Press Wirephoto Fort Walton Home Flattened i wist er skipped tree but mashed frame house miles to the South, and to Poona, 120 miles to the east, was rocked by three tremors.

The Bombay observatory said its seismograph went out when the power supply failed immediately after the first tremors. In the last big quake in the area eight years ago, 110 persons were killed. All-India Radio reported one death in Bombay, a man who was wakened by the rumble, rushed to a balcony and fell to the street. Little damage was reported in the city, but the power cut stopped heavily traveled urban trains and curtailed pumping of water. The meteorological observatory in New Delhi said the shock VC Toll 1,200 Red Unit Mauled In Suicide Attack 'Parents' To View Bodies in the Henderson Mill area about eight miles north of Blountstown when the tornado struck at 10 a.m.

yesterday. He identified the farms as belonging to Jess Stone, Pete Branton, Arthur Ayres and a Waldroff family. "Miraculously," said the sheriff, "no one was seriously injured although there were people in all the homes except at the Ayres farm." He said one Branton child suffered a minor scratch. "Reeder said all four homes were a total loss, that the Stone barn collapsed with SAIGON (AP) Vict Cong i and the two crewmen parachut-troops were badly mauled in a ed into the middle of a firefight suicide assault Sunday on a for-between the American ground troops and the Viet Cong. A hell had a magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale, sufficient to copter pulled the airmen to safety.

tified U.S. artillery post 50 miles north of Saigon while other guerrilla units made three sharp attacks on outposts within 25 miles of the capital. The enemy death toll in major actions over the past week It was the 216th U.S. combat cause severe damage near the epicenter, which was located 70 miles south of Poona. plane reported downed by ene Go-Go Girls 'Go' During Big Blow FORT WALTON BEACH (UPI) The Go-Go girls at the Club Continental were gyrating at full steam when that tornado blew into town early Sunday.

Club owner Nick Stalworth said about 200 patrons were having a gay time watching the girls in their cages when they suddenly heard a roar outside. The music faded away when the building started to rattle and shake on its foundation. Then the plaster started peltmg everyone and the roof suddenly ripped away. Stalworth said he shouted, "everyone hit the floor!" and they did. The tornado smashed through the club in a few seconds and as he described it, "the Go-Go girls were blown out of their cages." One was injured slightly.

Club Manager Mildred Tuggle said she heard a big "bam" and when she looked up "it was over with." Stalworth said his customers didn't panic and that miraculously no one was killed or seriously hurt. Stalworth, who owns several homes nearby, estimated his losses at more than $500,000. my action in South Vietnam, By WILLIAM BAYNES PANAMA CITY (AP) "I had no idea what it was. I thought it was an atomic bomb to tell the truth." This was Tech. Sgt.

John Griswold's reaction to the tornado that flattened both apartments of the duplex in which he lives Sunday morning, killing a woman in the adjoining apartment, Mrs. Jerry Byrd, a close friend. Mrs. Byrd died of a crushed skull and her husband was critically injured. A six-month-old baby adopted two-and-a-half weeks ago was in the same room when the storm hit but was not scratched.

"It's like the wall broke in the middle to must miss that baby, then the roof fell in and the wall crumbled after it," he said. Griswold said the only warning before the storm were lightning and thunder for about three minutes. He sent his wife and two children into the hall of the duplex and he huddled next to a living room couch and pulled a blanket over bis head. He ran into the hall himself when the storm worsened. "We're fortunate," he said.

"My wife and two kids and the one kid that was staying with them got out with just scratches." He said a wall fell on top of them but didn't hurt them after he herded his family outside. He said he went into Byrd'i (Continued on Page 2 CoL 2) In the ground assault on the U.S. artillery post one Viet Cong who got through the barbed wire and deadly crossfire climbed past 1,200, according to U.S. and South Vietnamese calculations. I An estimated 400 Communists 'charged out of the predawn darkness toward bunkers in the American artillery post but jumped into a U.S.

bunker and was strangled by an American sergeant. The Communists over I Declare! By Malcolm B. Johnson How To Find A Yule Tree damage to seed, feed and equipment, that some animals perished in barns and that utility lines were damaged. In Gulf County, Sheriff Byrd E. Parker said a tornado touched down about 11 a.m.

in the Dead Lakes dam and bridge area, blowing two housetrailers off blocks and destroying two cottages. All the buildings were uninhabited. He said the twister struck twice in a 200-foot wide area. ran one bunker and destroyed an M60 tank. An American in the bunker played dead and es were caught in a heavy crossfire of machine guns, grenade launchers, 40mm cannon and caped with an eye wound.

The artillerymen took two prisoners, one of them a major 105mm howitzers level for point-blank fire. GIs found 124 enemy bodies on the battlefield and said many The simplest, quickest way to who commanded the Viet Cong assault battalion. UNDER TORNADO WATCH Off On Honeymoon License Stolen But Couple Wed get a proper Christmas tree is to drive up to one of those commercial or civic club lots and buy one to fit the spot wliere you want it to stand. Or go into the country where tree growers direct you by the want ads to tracts of planted cedars or pines just right for vou to harvest with your own "little axe while the family stands HOLLYWOOD (AP) An Ohio optometrist and his wife were reported planning to fly to Florida today to see if their daughter is one of two young murder victims pulled from Whisky Creek Friday. Dr.

and Mrs. Louis T. Kent of Amberley, a suburb of Cincinnati, are expected to view the body of a woman identified by her former husband as Terry Rae Kent, 23. Police said they had established tentative identity of the other victim, but refused to release the name. Earlier, the other victim, who was younger than Miss Kent, was tentatively identified only as Miss Kent's roommate named Ann.

"We have a very good lead," said Hollywood police Lt Fred Rohloff. Rohloff said the suspect "was not yet under arrest." A set of blood-stained men's clothing created a flurry of excitement in Hollywood police headquarters Sunday, but a short time later detectives said the clothes bad no connection with the two brutal murders. "We have completely discounted this blood-stained clothes angle as being connected with the Detective Jack Warner said. Police believe that Miss Kent may have been killed because she witnessed the death of her teen-aged companion. "There is little doubt, one detective said, "that whoever killed the younger woman wanted to make sure that the other woman apparently a witness to the killing was also dead." The younger woman was CHICAGO (UPI) Thanks Lynda, Captain In Virgin Islands were only teen-agers.

One American was killed and 31 wounded in the two-hour battle for the 120-man post. Two of the attacks closer to Saigon were apparently diversions but in the third a wave of guerrillas broke the perimeter at a U.S. 9th Infantry Division camp at Nhut Tan before being thrown out in hand-to-hand fighting. 7 GIS KILLED The U.S. Command reported that seven Americans were to an understanding Cook county clerk, wedding bells rang Sunday for a suburban couple whose matrimonial by, approving.

hese i 1 1 While the newlyweds relaxed CHARLOTTE AMALIE, V.I. hopes were shaken Saturday night when their marriage in the Caribbean, Mrs. Johnson "w-y-ji prooaoiy are wV cheapest 'fways, too considering the license was stolen. Carols Hit As Twaddle1 By Minister 1PSLEY, England (AP) (AP) President Johnson's daughter Lynda and his new planned to fly to Texas today to win the President at their The clerk made a special trip to the county building in and i ranch. He flew down Saturday son-in-law honeymooned today in the privacy of one of the Vir the city's loop with the aspir mileage spent night after the wedding, saying killed and 46 were wounded in the three skirmishes around Saigon, with almost all the casualties at Nhut Tan.

Renewed skirmishing also ing groom, Ronald Kamen, 22, gin Island most exclusive re he was "very tired. The Rev. Frederick Foreman sorts after the first White House of suburban Chicago Heights, and duplicated the stolen Robb's family, from Milwau on a hunt in the I wilds, the risk of fine lor trespass, and pote.itia! wedding in 53 years. kee, held a Dig reunion aunaay thinks Christmas carols are "meaningless twaddle." license from county records, was reported along the central coastal plains, where 30 Viet Lynda and Marine Capt. at an inn near Winchester, Johnson A few hours later, Kamen They are sung with "great Both these counties along with the others in the Big Bend were under a new tornado watch today, set from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. by the weather bureau. This danger area, however, did not extend into the area hardest hit by yesterday's twisters. The area of greatest danger was described as along and 60 miles either side of a line from Gainesville, to Dothan, Ala. A few severe thunderstorms with large hail and locally damaging winds also were forecast, PAXHANDALE TOLL Adding to the Panhandle toll early today was the death of three-year-old Joan daughter of Master Sgt.

H. Coker, at a Fort Walton Beach area hospital of injuries received when a twister levelled her heme. She was one of seven children, the youngest born in a nearby hospital just hours before the tornado struck. Loveta Byrd, 29, the wife of M. Sgt.

Jerry J. Byrd, died of a crushed skull and her husband was critically injured when their two-family house splintered before the tornado at Capehart. A six-months-old baby adopted by the Byrds two weeks earlier slept in the same bedroom but was unhurt. "It's like the wall broke fa (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Charles S.

Robb spent their attended by his 83-year-old Cong died in one action. But gusto and without thought," he erandmother. Mrs. Harvey J. wedding night at the White was married to Barbara Marcovictz, 21, in a ceremony wrote in his parish magazine.

Sims, and 59 other relatives. guerrilla fire brought down a U.S. Air Force Phantom jet, House, then slippd aboard a at a suburban Evanston hotel published Sunday. The White House bustled with commercial airliner Sunday aft "There 'God Rest Ye Merry, medical bills for i snakebite, pneumonia, chops and lacerations. (Last year, I got an eyeball punctured by a pine needle).

But, for the hardy adventurer, there's no Christmas tree quite as satisfying as the one he hunts workmen changing from wed ernoon and flew to San Juan, Gentlemen' where 'merry' could ding to Christmas decorations. P.R. A private plane took them be interpreted in more senses Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) to St. Thomas, and then they than one.

had a 15-minute boat ride to St. John S. Knight Wins An Award "And The Holly and the Ivy John, three miles east of St. is difficult to understand. Thomas, where they are staying shot with a small caliber at the Caneel Bay Plantation.

A rumor persisted that the bullet. Medical examiner R. K. couple would go on to Hawaii, Haueen said the heads of both Bay County Meeting Set Over Crisis By The Associated Prfsl but there was no confirmation. women were caved in by what could have been an axe.

Their Robb has leave from his mili tary duties until Dec. 29. "Then there is all this senti. mentality about the baby Jesui and carols like that. We don't pray to a baby, do we? "There is very little connee tion with events as they appear in the Bible.

It is often just sentimentality." But many of the carols the rector complained about will be sung in his church, "because of public demand he explained. stomachs were cut open in an Both Lynda and her mother ilk apparent effort to keep the down in the woods and brings back like a trophy to a family silently thankful that he made it home whole again one more year. I'm a pine tree man, myself; which Dorothy accepts, but never without the casual comment that at HER house there was nothing never anything but a cedar. At OUR house, on the pla'ns of Canada, there was no such thing as a growing tree on the landscape and we settled for the same long-cut firs brought in from afar that you can buy in the stores here today. bodies from surfacing as gases have visited at the Caneel Bay home of millionaire Laurence S.

built during decomposition. Rockefeller, who has developed Dr. Haueen said the older John S. Knight, editorial chairman of Knight Newspapers and vice president of The Tallahassee Democrat, has been named winner of the 1967 John Peter Zcnger Award, one of the most distinguished in journalism. The award, given by the University of Arizona Department of Journalism, is for meritorious service in the causes of freedom of the press and the people's right to know.

State School Supt. Floyd Christian scheduled a meeting today with Bay County school officials to seek a breakthrough in a crisis which tne norineasi tip ot the nine- woman died last and that her mile-long island as an exclusive face and body were bruised, resort. indicatine a struggle. The has seen classrooms closed When I found trees I could cut for Christmas, it was pines You have to hunt long and discreetly in the woods to find a properly shaped cedtr. It wasn't always that way In Florida.

Cedars were plentiful in the woods; and most of the pines were longleaf, which don't (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Big Bend Tornado Watch On From 9 a.m. To 3 p.m. Tallahassee and all the Big Bend was put on a tornado watch at 9 o'clock this morning, the danger expected to continue until 3 p. m.

The Weather Bureau warned of the threat ef me or two tornadoes in the watch area, covering extreme southeastern Alabama, northern and western Florida and a portion of southern Georgia. The greatest threat of tornadoes and severe than, dmtorms was described as in an area along and miles either side of a line from Gainesville, Fla to Dothan, Ala. A few severe thnnderstorms with large hall and locally damaging winds also were forecast. John S. Knight newsman honored for seditious libel because of his attacks on government.

Andrew Hamilton, most noted lawyer of the day, defended him and, while admitting Zenger's responsibility (or publication of the material, denied that it was libelous younger woman had no such marks. Boaters discovered one of the bodies late Friday night when they saw the feet floating on the surface of the water in the creek that was once a hideout for rum-runners. The other body was found by police who probed the area from a launch. Both women wore expensive bathing suits and jewelry. The bodies were weighted with blocks of concrete.

The younger girl, about 18, had freckles on her chest, neck and face. Her shoulder length hair was tinted auburn and the older woman's hair was dyed black. since last week. Purpose of the meeting, a spokesman said, is to "simply try to find out what the situation is and outline the law and what he (Christian) is authorized to do." The session was requested by Bay County officials. Schools were closed last week when teachers, angered over a cutback in wage levels, walked out.

The education spokesman said Christian might consider rejecting Bay County's school budget and send it back to the officials "with instructions to levy enough millage to finance schools." Knight will accept the honor at a luncheon Jan. 13 in Phoenix. Knight was selected from a list of eight nominees by 69 editors and publishers from across the country. The award is named for German -born Zenger, who came to this country in 1710 and became a printer in New York. Later he became editor of the New York Weekly Journal and was highly critical of stale government.

In 1734 Zcnger was arrested Bridge 13 Comics 12-13 Crossword 13 Editorial, Columni 4 It Happened Here 11 Obitnaries 2 Sports 14-llt Television 12 Theaters 13 Want Ads 16-19 Weather 2 Women's News 6-7 unless false. The Jury ac Today's Chuckle When a man forgets himself he usually does something that everyone else remembers. quitted Zenger in defiance of the law, a victory notable in affirming freedom of the press,.