Muncie Evening Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 6

PAGE 6 MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1979 PEOPLETAUC- Windsor, savaged by freak tornado Pope arrives and the rain leaves mile area less than a mile from the governor personal home. She said more than 125 buildings were damaged. The governor said Windsor Locks suffered $100 million damage and that 1.800 DeoDle will be out of work "for a protracted period of time." Northeast Utilities said power was still out to 2,100 people and could remain off as long as two days. The state's tobacco crop, stored In barns in the Suffield area, was "extensively damaged." There was no estimate of the damage done to the Bradley Air Museum, where one of the world's largest aircraft collections was wrecked. Mrs.

Grasso also announced she will continue an overnight curfew in the area for a second night, beginning at 8 p.m. Two hundred National Guardsmen remained on duty. The airport was closed indefinitely after the tornado struck, but reopened at 9:30 a.m. Mrs. Grasso said her own husband just avoided the winds.

"I was horrified. I'd never seen that type of damage," she said after tour-' ine the area. "I've onlv seen it on tele- vision and here it was happening to my neighbors. My husband was ngni there. If he had left 15 minutes later he would have been right in it.

"The houses I have seen many of them have been reduced to absolute rubble," she said. Her own home was not damaged but she was staying elsewhere overnight because it was without power. Damage was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At the airport alone, winds caused an estimated $150 million damage to planes and buildings. The facility was closed indefinitely, stranding scores of travelers.

More than four dozen homes and bu sinesses were destroyed as the twister cut a swath through about 4 square miles of the two towns. Streets were lit- ONE FOR THE ROAD: The administrator of Alabama's Alcoholic Bever3ge Control Board wants to open liquor stores at tourist welcome centers on state lines. Joe Broadwater says the move would increase the state's liquor store profits as much as $5 million. But State Sen. Bobby Denton doesn't care much for the idea.

He says it would be like saying, "Welcome to Alabama. Buy a jug, get drunk and kill somebody." BY ANY OTHER NAME A Santa Ana, man is incensed over the state's refusal to issue him a license plate bearing his last name. That's a privilege extended, for a $25 fee, to thousands of other motorists but their names aren't Schmuck. Because it translates in Yiddish as an obscenity, Peter Schmuck's last name is on a computerized list of words banned from plates on grounds they might be offensive or insulting. Schmuck is the one offended says he may sue to uphold his name's good name and that he doesn't intend to read the license plate in Yiddish anyhow.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Alan King in New York for the West-bury Music Fair on signs of the times: "True love is couples exchanging keys to their gas caps." GLIMPSES: Engelbert Hum-perdinck will make the first Broadway appearance of his career next month when he does 14 021 At )83rZA United Press International SUNMAKER: Wherever Pope John Paul II went in New York, sunshine followed. It was raining at La Guardia Airport Tuesday when his plane arrived, but the minute it touched down, the sun broke through the overcast for the first time all day. It was pouring Wednesday at Battery Park until he arrived and the sun came out. Brooklyn was a deluge until he got there. Ditto Shea Stadium until he arrived for prayer service.

Said Michael Gardino, in the crowd waiting at Shea, "Once he showed up, that was it no more rain and the sun came out." HALEY GOES HOME: Alex Haley is back to his "Roots" aoain Hp's niirrhased the two- story house where he grew up, in Henning ienn listening to his grandmother's tales oi nis an cestry tales i that later crys tal ized into his! runaway best seller. Says Haley, "I just bought the old1 VimtcA hanlr last Alex Haley week. I'm going to have it restored and make a Kino, oi museum uui ui it." He's working now on a movie and a six-episode television series to be broadcast nationally in March. He brought a team of 10 production experts with him to Henning to seek possible shooting sites. FLY IN THE SKY: George Wil-lig, who made headlines by climb- ing one of the twin towers at the New York World Trade Center a couple of years ago, is back in the "human fly" business this time for the movies.

He'll interrupt his nationwide promotional tour for his book "Going it Alone," to serve as a stuntman "down on the docks" for an upcoming film titled "The Exterminator." Willig doesn't know who's starring or what the director will expect of him says only that it will be "something high." He adds he'll try to complete the film chore in time to attend a birthday party Oct. 11 for Omni magazine under the sky dome at Hayden NATURE'S FURY A piece of a metal building hangs from a utility wire after a tornado tore it from the building Wednesday. The twister struck the east end of Bradley International Airport in Windsor Lock, killing one person and injuring more than 400. UPI. the truck when they saw the storm approaching.

Meteorologist Roland Laro said the tornado caught weathermen by surprise. He said radar failed to pick it up because it was too close to the airport. Winds measured at 8 mph jumped to 86 mph almost instantly and then dipped to 45 mph a few minutes later. Hook's Anniversary Celebration fj sJ I JOHNSON'S 1 BABY POWDER I oz Grebl for babies ol oil oge. sAvit' I $9 1 JOHNSON'S I BABY SHAMPOO 1 weeWQQl oi Mokes stiampooing hoirpleosonl lor both ou and baby.

No More fears. 1 SAVE 11 WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (UPI) A shaken Gov. Ella Grasso took a dawn flight today over a tornado-savaged section of her state only a mile from her home, then said she would ask President Carter to declare it a major disaster area. "It's every bit as bad as we thought," she said after her tour in one of the few Air National Guard helicopters still operable after the sudden Wednesday storm which ravaged Bradley International Airport and a nearby business and residential area, and killing at least one person.

"I've never seen anything this bad," she said. "The storm struck without notice. When you see the devastation, you marvel that it wa contained even to the extent that it was. This certainly is a tragedy of considerable proportions." The tornado struck so close to the weather service station at Bradley International Airport that there was no warning other than darkening skies Wednesday afternoon. Within mo ments, one person was dead and 418 persons were injured, according to State Health commissioner ur.

uoug-Ias Lloyd. He said said 300 persons were treat ed and released at emergency stations and nine area hospitals. Another 118 people were hospitalized, including 10 in critical condition, a searcn was underway for a woman believed to have been in her home when the storm struck. The governor estimated the freak tornado caused more than $214 million damage to the business-residential area along the east side of Bradley International Airport, which sustained about $100 million in damage itself. The Connecticut Air National Guard sustained about $50 million damage to its aircraft.

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Kigm By United Press International The price of gold fell below $400 in London and Zurich today amid rumors of prpfit-taking and a Saudi Arabian warning about the "instability in exchange markets." The dollar opened marginally weaker in Europe as dealers evened up their positions and stayed out of the market until further indications from Washington about the future course of U.S. monetary policy, bankers said. Gold rallied at the opening in London, hitting $403 an ounce, then dipped to $394.50 at the official morning fixing. It opened at $402 compared to $397.50 at Wednesday's close. In Zurich gold opened at $398.50, down $6 from $404.50.

"Customers are taking a wait-and-see attitude in the face of uncertainties about the further course of Washington's monetary policy," a West German banker said. On Wednesday gold plummeted through the $400 mark on bullion markets and the dollar chalked up another a substantial gain. In London Wednesday gold had closed at $397.50 an ounce, down $26.50 from Tuesday's record close of $424. In Zurich gold closed at $404.50 an ounce, down $33.50 from Tuesday's record close of $438. In New York gold's spot price was $395 at the close of commodity exchanges.

The metal had soared Tuesday in chaotic markets that saw gold trade as high as $442 (the mid-price between bid and asked) and as low as $398. But some of the luster dimmed after Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Sheikh Mohamed Abalk-hail warned about "in- I concerts at New York's Minskoff Theater Ella Fitzgerald Is in concert at the I Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco Dean Martin will be in jSan Diego next week to begin nroduction of Ella Fitzgerald his annual NBC-TV Christmas show on which Shirlev Jones and Dom DeLuise will make guest appearances Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises Inc. with purchase for $13.5 million of Norwich Enterprises Ltd. in London has become the largest casino operator in Great Britain stability In exchange markets coupled with high levels of inflation in industrial countries." Abalkhal told the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual joint board of governors meeting that while Saudi Arabia has always formulated its policy with a "high priority" on international needs and requirements it is "finding it increasingly difficult to continue (these) policies" under present conditions. He also warned that the West must formulate long-term solutions to the energy problem.

"If this fact is not fully appreciated, future difficulties will be even more pronounced than anything we have seen to date," he said. A New York dealer said these remarks were interpreted "seriously" by foreign exchange markets to mean that OPEC countries plan "either another price increase or a production cutback or both." Grants to IU top $50 million BLOOMINGTON (UPI) Indiana University says outside grants and contract funding to the school exceeded the $50 million mark for the first time ever in the 1978-79 fiscal year. The previous high was $48.2 million In 1974-75. The largest single grant last year was $3.5 million from the National Science Foundation, renewing its commitment to help fund the IU cyclotron. OIL PRODUCTS Gasoline Is made from 18.2 gallons of every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil with tires and plastics being made from 1.51 gallons.

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Zl JX FP1 jfi SAVE 40 Return Visit Pope John Paul II is scheduled to move on to Des Moines and Chicago today, as he continues his historic visit to the United States. Pope John Paul first came to the United States three years ago, when he was still Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland. The crowds that greeted him then were smaller, and the future pope spent two days meeting people and visiting farms, churches, and schools in central Wisconsin. Area residents still recall his relaxed, friendly manner and common approach to people. "He was so pleasant," said one woman.

"He visited with everybody and spoke to everybody. It made no difference who you were." DO YOU KNOW Who was the only other pope to visit the United States? WEDNESDAY ANSWER on the Supreme Court. IO-4-78 Thar are nine VEC. CENTER 301 0 E. JACKSON SOUTHWAY PLAZA.