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The Odessa American from Odessa, Texas • 24

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Odessa, Texas
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24
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Thursday, October 4, 1979 PRICES EFFECTIVE FRIDAY SATURDAY 0 mm THE CAQ.q EARTH, WIND FIRE I AM including Boogie Worn lf mkJ In TheStom After Trtili)v Is Gone Star You And 1 Rock Thai' -MIMpY-Q 7 REGi FC 35730 Another musical masterpiece from one of the outstanding groups of all time. E. features the brilliant talents of 9 unbelievable individuals. Tornado path SUGG. LIST 7.S3 Rubble strews the runway after a tornado destroying hangers, planes and residences In its touched down in the northern Conn, town of path.

Windsor Locks late Wednesday afternoon GIBSON'S REG. 6.13 Twister kills All SUGG. LIST 8.93 r-ii margie unanes Singleton 41 I XV GIBSON'S LO fr-4j JBEa 6.93... 1 TOP I GEORGE I TOP STARS 1 RIDDLE 1 SOUNDS in i i THE LEON ASHLEY SHOW The Journey Men THAT GRAND OLE COUNTRY MUSIC JONI MITCHELL 3 1 a tr-- MINGIIS SHOW ind DANCE Saturday Oct. 6th 8:30 pm Sheriff's Posse Barn Fairgrounds Pecos TICKETS AT THE DOOR SpofiMrtd by Pecoi lumber of Cwnmtrcc 37 CALVIN'S I MEAT MARKET; JuL 1 J) 2619 H.

GRANDVIEW ODESSA PHONE 362-7305 Weekend Oct. 4, 5, 6, 79 filTlLUS A CMS MHWmytiM 1, injures 100 in Connecticut WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) A freak tornado described as "a big monster" killed one person, left more than 100 hospitalized and caused damage estimated at well over $100 million as it churned through north-central Connecticut. The Wednesday afternoon twister, which accompanied a storm with vicious 86 mph winds, destroyed a collection of rare irplanes and blew away homes and businesses througA parts of Windsor and Windsor Locks. "The wandered around saying, 'Gee, my house just blew the Rev.

James Silver said of the survivors of theBrutal storm. Silver's Congregational Church in Poquonock lost its roof and steeple to the winds, rare in New England. Gov. Ella Grasso, who lives in Windsor Locks, declared an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

curfew in the stricken area to prevent looting and vandalism. She dispatched 200 National Guardsmen to enforce the curfew and patrol the area, a swath about three miles long and up to a mile wide. Mrs. Grasso, whose home was not, damaged, said an application for federal disaster aid was being drawn up. Bradley International, the state's major airport, was closed today, its regular and backup electrical power knocked out and the airfield strewn with the splintered wreckage of helicopters and airplanes.

"It looks like it's been bombed," said state Transportation Commissioner Arthur Powers. Rescue efforts after the storm were hindered because most of the Connecticut National Guard's helicopter fleet was destroyed. The few available helicopters were flown in from other parts of the state to airlift the most seriously injured to hospitals while roads remained blocked by debris. The funnel cloud unexpected by weather forecasters destroyed the airport's Bradley Air Museum and its collection of rare and antique military aircraft. There was no immediate count of the number left homeless by the twister.

Authorities planned to search again today to determine if any victims were trapped beneath the rubble of the scores of homes and businesses crumpled by the surge of wind. Killed when flying lumber bashed into his pickup truck was William Kowalsky. 24, of Manchester, authorities reported. Officials reported 118 persons hospitalized. including a 10-month-old baby, were in critical condition.

"About 180 other persons were given treatment at makeshift first-aid stations or released after hospital treatment, according to Dr. Douglas Lloyd, the state public health commissioner. The National Weather Service issued no tornado ad-visory when a wave of thunderstorms moved into the state. Because the twister struck so close to the National Weather Service office at trie airport, radar was unable to detect it, said Roland Laro; meteorologist in charge. Raymond LaMontt, 58, of Hartford, was driving when the storm swooped down.

The twister propelled a large sign, then an airplane into his car, crushing it. "It was like a science fiction movie a big monster coming at you like there was something outside the windows," said LaMontt, who was hospitalized in good condition. At a restaurant in Windsor Locks, two visitors from the tornado-prone Midwest realized what was about to happen. "We were in there eating and St started to get recalled Roger Barker of Toledo, Ohio. "We tried to tell this guy behind us that a tornado was coming.

He said tornadoes don't happen up here in New England. Windows started breaking and we hit the deck. I said to him, "Well, you've got one now." 7 iV, r- mM tin MCfl ri as I No. 1 1 2 Choice Beef Hinds No. 2 Choice 'ncludmg Shin A I Last Tram TcvLon0! uiary Of Horac w.Z.

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6.13... EQUAL TIME COUPON SUGG. LIST 8i3 GIBSON'S REG. 6.93... County gets federal grant WASHINGTON (AP) A federal grant has been awarded Deaf Smith County, Texas, to alleviate the health hazard posed by a migrant labor camp's inadequate sewage system.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is making an "imminent threat grant" of to the Panhandle county for work in the community of San Jose, adjacent to Hereford. "The problem there is that they have a health threatening situation with open privies, connected with the migrant labor camp. We have made the grant to assist them with this major problem," HUD spokesman Jim Flynn said Wednesday. The grant was made un- der the department's com- i munit'y development program. including inrbldinQ JHE KNACK 1 1 fiat TL.

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