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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 12

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Allentown, Pennsylvania
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A-12 SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE, Allmtown, March SO, 1975 For 3rd time battered 4W in years, town by Mayor John Frezer, clad in pajamas and a hunting coat and cap, spent most of the night supervising rescue efforts. The YMCA and the National Guard armory were opened at once for homeless families. Frezer, 36, said Friday's storm was as severe as the tornado that struck Warren Jan. 3, 1949, killing 57. Frezer was 10 years old then.

He remembered riding his bike through town when the twister touched down nine blocks away. "The storm last night stopped 50 yards from my home," he said. Warren also was hit by a tornado on Dec. 31, 1947, and 17 persons were killed, The latest twister left Warren's streets strewn with debris. The tornado tore the wall from an egg company's warehouse and threw green and pink cartons over a wide area.

At a lumber yard, sheets of metal stacked on top of each other were whipped away like playing cards. The metal was cast over most of the southwest section of town. One hundred guardsmen manned roadblocks and sifted through debris looking for additional victims, while others operated a small portable generator supplying electric power to a nursing home and the water department. Authorities said the wife of one of the persons killed Friday night, John Frey, was killed in the 1949 tornado. -A spokesman for Southwestern Bell said 75 persons were working in the area Saturday to restore phone service.

He said three major phone cables were cut, and said he didn't know when full service might be returned. Arkansas Power and Light Co. had nearly, 100 men working to restore which was lost in several sections of the city. A spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute in Dallas urged persons who suffered property damage in the tornado to contact their agents as soon as possible. The spokesman said the victims should make immediate repairs where possible to prevent further damage.

The spokesman said extra insurance adjusters will be sent into the area. The Red Cross said it established disaster relief centers in the YMCA building and in the Warren High School. WARREN, Ark. (AP) The elderly man, blind, huddled with his family inside the battered wood-frame house. They prayed as a tornado brought death and destruction to Warren for the third time in 30 years.

Authorities early Saturday listed six dead and 86 injured. "There was a lot of praying going on, I can tell you that," J. Shields McClain said later. McClain, who is blind, makes his living caring for foster children. McClain's 62-year-old wife Vera said they didn't dare tell the five children that a tornado was tearing through town Friday night.

One of the children, she said, goes into seizures when excited. "It was a scary time, I tell you, for sure," she said. The McClains and their foster children, ages 2, 4, 8, 9 and 12, escaped uninjured. An uprooted metal shack was hurled by the storm through one side of their home and uprooted trees crashed around it. Authorities said the tornado, which hit about 8 p.m., cut a path through Warren a half-mile wide by three miles long.

At least 50 homes were destroyed and 350 damaged, said Red Cross spokesman Joe Webb. National guardsmen helped authorities in this community of 6,500 south of Little Rock in preliminary recovery work, and Gov. David Pryor planned an afternoon visit to the storm-torn city. The dead were identified as Ellis Clan-ton, 61, of Warren; Fay McKinstry, 45, of Warren, John Frey, no age or hometown available; Danny Boyd, no age or address; Berda Stoddard, no age or address; and Marilyn Robertson, no age or address. Associated Press WIrepnots Salvage efforts in Wan-en, after tornado struck BOTWIN DENTAL LAKOKATOIIY biv conaressmen voted HOURS: WE FIT YOU FOR NEW DENTURES MON.

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H.I. BOTVEN DEfJTIST i mmsspRim BEAUTIFY YOUR MOM AT GflOiSlE THIS SUI ENCLOSURES MUGS FOR BEAUTY AMD COMFORT Voting to delay tax cut bill: Lawrence Coughlin, R. SCHOOL LUNCH PRICES By a 269-144 vote, the House defeated a proposal to roll back the price of a school lunch to 35 cents. The proposal would have required the federal government to subsidize the difference between the 35-cent price and actual cost, which averages 45 cents a meal. Those supporting the price rollback argued that financially strapped families with young children needed additional help and pointed out that they would use the money they saved to make other purchases, thus helping to stimulate the economy.

Supporters also contended that other programs which provided free and reduced-price lunches to needy students would be in jeopardy without price cuts needed to attract more children to the full-price school lunch program. Opponents objected to using the tax dollars of poorer Americans to subsidize lunch prices for children from middle-class families that could afford to pay the higher prices. They insisted that the government could find better, uses for the $500 million it would take to roll back prices to 35 cents. Voting to roll back school lunch prices: Flood, Rooney, Yatron. Voting not to roll back school luncV prices: Biester, Coughlin, McDade.

FOREIGN AID The House voted 193-185 to pass a bill providing $3.7 billion for foreign economic and military assistance for fiscal year 1975. The administration had requested $5.95 billion. The Senate then approved the bill by voice vote and sent it to the President. Voting for foreign aid funds: Biester, Coughlin, Flood, McDade, Rooney, ment, would increase consumer prices and would reverse the trend toward free competition in farm markets. Supporters of the bill contended that higher price supports were needed to assure sufficient production at a time of slipping farm prices and rising farm production costs.

A conference committee will resolve Senate-House differences. Voting for farm price support: Schwei-ker, Scott. House TAX CUTS By a 197-214 vote, the House refused to send the 1975 tax cut bill back to a House-Senate coherence committee for further negotiation. By rejecting that move, the House cleared the way for final congressional action on the tax cut measure. Supporters of recommitting (delaying) the tax cut bill argued that the bill would overstimulate the U.S.

economy, risking renewed inflation, and run up the federal deficit. In addition to an refund of 1974 taxes, they pointed out, the bill provided additional reductions of $14.8 billion for both business and individuals that probably would permanently erode federal revenues. They particularly objected to tax credits for buying new homes and $50 bonus payments to Social Security recipients. Opponents of recommitting (delaying) the tax cut bill contended that measures of that magnitude were precisely what was needed to shock the economy out of its recession. The House later passed the tax cut bill by a 287-125 vote.

Voting not to delay tax cut bill: Edward Biester, Daniel Flood, Joseph McDade, Fred Rooney, Gus Yat-ron, D. By Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON Votes of Lehigh Valley-area members of Congress on key roll calls for the week ending Saturday: Senate TAX CUTS By a 45-16 vote, the Senate approved a compromise tax cut bill providing $8.1 billion in 1974 tax refunds and 1975 tax cuts of $14.8 billion for both business and individuals. The bill also granted each Social Security recipient a $50 bonus and repealed the oil depletion allowance for major oil companies. Supporters of the tax cut bill argued that the combination of tax cuts and bonus payments would give a shot in the arm to the U.S. economy.

They contended that these measures would shock the economy out of recession much more surely than President Ford's $16-billion package of 1974 rebates and business tax cuts. Opponents cautioned that the bill would increase the federal deficit by more than $6 billion and risk setting off another round of inflation. They added that the $14.8 billion in the 1975 tax reductions would be felt too late to fight recession anyway. Voting for tax cut bill: Richard Schwei-ker and Hugh Scott, both R. FARM PRICE SUPPORTS The Senate by a 57-25 vote passed a bill to provide three-year increases in price supports for wheat, feed grains, soybeans and cotton, and one-year increases in price supports for dairy products and tobacco.

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