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i. f.i A Wit .4 Member of the Gannett Group 82nd Year No. 26 10 Cents Two Sections Pensocola, Florida, Monday Afternoon, February 8, 1971 22 Pages ifti 1 iM. 4 Aerial view shows destruction at English Cove Apartments after Gulf Breeze tornado mm 'Work Ma Take 6 Months' I 1 SF At h1 jr Jlf ISM 1 1 i wSf 4 McAbee said. The tornado hit about 4:13 a.m.

Sunday, slamming into the 1 1 2-unit apartment complex, causing what was estimated at $3 million in damages to the apartments and nearby Gulf Breeze cottages. The apartment complex was about 50 per cent wiped out by the damaging winds and dam- Bill McAbee, or.s of three owners, said Monday that as far as he could determine the apartment complex, which was finished in 1967, will be rebuilt. "I'm sure we (meaning his partners Kenneth Eulghum, John Hinman and himself) will rebuild. "But just off hand, I'd say it would take six months," By FRED BROWN Newt Stiff Writer As mopup operations continued today in the aftermath of a predawn tornado that hammered Gulf Breeze Sunday, an owner of English Cove Apartments, hardest hit by the twister, said it would be at least six months before the complex can be rebuilt. 1 Six U.S.

Helicopters Downed 1 rA 3 So The aftermath of the storm is shown in these pictures loos Bnto wee age is extensive to remaining units. And roughly 18 to 20 of the cottages were destroyed, causing what was estimated at $100,000 in damages to the beachfront houses. Gulf Breeze mayor C. E. Cau-dell said damage to homes and other buildings in the city would reach another $1.4 million.

He said there will be an open office in the City Hall all day to take care of those damaged in the tornado. Harvey Cotten, executive assistant to Gov. Reubin Askew, said today that he gave a damage estimate to the governor Sunday. Cotten's preliminary estimate was $3-5 million. "Federal authorities are coming in to make an assessment of damages and attempt relief help if needed." He said it is impossible to determine what state or federal relief is available until a thorough assessment of damages is made.

"The miraculous thing is that nobody was killed in there," Cotten said. "The property damage was small when you consider there were no deaths," he said. Cotten said he hopes to deliver a report to Askew this afternoon after a more thorough investigation is made. The building was insured, but some of the residents were not, Cotton said. McAbee praised the more than 500 people involved in the rescue and mopup, noting the Escambia County Search and Rescue, Civil Defense, Navy, Highway Patrol, state insurance group and all the auxiliary groups who rushed to the scene.

"And especially the tenants. They were fantastic. They did everything anyone asked in an orderly fashion," he said. More than 100 people were homeless after the tornado slashed through town, and the Red Cross, which set up disaster headquarters in the Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church, the Gulf Breeze Elementary School and later the Turn to COVE Page 7A took the troops across the border, and the U.S. Command pledged its full air and artillery support.

But the U.S. Command said no American ground combat forces or advisers would cross the border. A communique said the 9,000 American troops who moved into the northwest corner of South Vietnam 10 days ago SAIGON (AP) Thousands of South Vietnamese troops swept into southern Laos today in an attempt to cut North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh trail, something six years of American bombing has failed to do. Six U.S. helicopters were reported lost in the first waves.

American helicopters and South Vietnamese armored cars Jl Two Men Are Lucky i i i ju tr i Saw the Roof Go And Grabbed Clothes' would act as a blocking force on the Vietnamese side of the border. Field reports said four U.S. helicopters were shot down and two crashed due to mechanical trouble. Pilots reported heavy antiaircraft fire, but the reports indicated most of the crews were rescued. Associated Press correspond-out Michael Putzel reported from the border that South Vietnamese troops made contact with North Vietnamese forces within an hour after they crossed the frontier.

U.S. helicopter gunships attacked the enemy positions with rockets. About a mile inside Laos, American Cobra helicopter gun-shiDS caught some more North Vietnamese troops in the open and fired rockets at them, but the results were not known. Other pilots reported seeing 50 to 75 enemy about two miles from American howitzer batteries on the Vietnamese side of the border. The South Vietnamese moved into Laos for the first time in the Indochina war little more than nine months after U.S.

and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to smash 'North Vietnamese bases there. The new move represented a widening of the war and was certain to cause political repercussions across the world. Prince Souvanna Phouma, the premier of Laos, issued a mild protest against the South Vietnamese action but said the "pri- Turn (o SAIGON Page 7A Lux' More scenes of the devastation in Gulf Breeze and Fred Brown's interview with the first officer on the scene are on Page 2A risacola (JJVews Inside The News Forecast Instant Index Amusements I)B Billy Graham 10A Bridge 6A Classified 6-9B Comics 4B Deaths 10A Editorials 4A Editorial cause he was not one of the number one deputy estimated 100 wheeled off in ambulances Sunday morning. Around him the word destruction comes to life. Cars, his one of them, were thrown about the parking lot.

"Totaled," Honaman said. Like moss on the trees, insulation hangs from skeleton rafters. Where walls stand, cracks give testimony to the Turti to 1 SAW-Page 7A By CAROLYN CAIN Ntwt Staff Writer Two young men. In the apartment of one, serenity. In the same complex, where the other was awakened by what he thought was hail, muddy broken glass crunches under the feet of rescue workers.

Both were lucky. Lt. John Sol-berg because his was one of the apartments in the section of English Cove left untouched by the tornado. Craig Honaman be- "A Flea in Her Ear," an adult comedy, and the First Chamber Dance Company of New York highlight Horoscope 4B the coming week. Page 8A HARD FREEZE WARNING.

Cloudy, windy and cold with clearing and much colder weather tonight. Low tonight 28. High Tuesday near 40. (Full weather on Page 7A.) 8A Living We know the name of the This is National Children's Dental Health Week 1-3B Sports town is Gulf Breeze, but Television 5A and dentists are working to help teach children to prc- wow! To Your Health 9A serve their teeth Page 12A 9,.