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South Viets Hold Off Two Communist Attacks HEY, LOOK SUN Clearing and cooler to-night; low mid-40s; sunny and pleasant tomorrow; high lower 70s. Page 51. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS HOME EDITION MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1972 "Whw iht Spirit of ih Lord It, lhm It Liberty." II Cor, 3-17 103rd YEAR 10c Mc Per Wot Corritr Deluered Hi" Tornado Damage On Eastside To fr I I xceed will 1 1 fc i. 2 Mount Comfort 1 i 70 I ft Ry.n 10th u.s. -r I Cumberland 1 Drak I Terrac I pta.

Homes, automobiles victims of twister on city's Clacks Of Horses Only Sounds Heard Map locates tornado area. Other Pictures on Pages 12, 14 rounded by swirling debris and could see still another funnel cloud about 200 feet off the ground. Baker said the funnel cloud he could see never touched down, and roared over his head in a northeasterly direction. Witnesses to the tornado said the roar of the twister resembled that of a freight train, and the force of the winds could be compared to that of a giant buzz saw. The Heather Hills Baptist Church, 1421 North German Church Road, narrowly missed becoming the site of a Reds Slowed At An Loc, Kontum ion tragedy.

About 500 persons attending services at the church were not hurt when the tornado slammed into the church building, tearing down a wall and ripping off one section of the roof. Witnesses said the funnel cloud first dipped down in the 9700 block of East Washington, causing damage to the Drake Motel. From there it slammed into the Drake Terrace Apartments, ripping the roof off a two-story apartment building. The twister then skipped northeasterly where it uprooted trees in the 500 block of Mitthoefer Road, then touched down in the Ryan Homes housing development which was hardest hit. From there the funnel cloud was tracked across the Northwest corner of Hancock County where it dipped down in Mount Comfort toppling three mobile homes, ripping the roof from cement block upholstery shop and lifting a 50-ton car from a railroad track.

The cloud was also sighted in southeast Madison County. An Indiana state trooper said he followed the hopscotching twister in his patrol car to the intersection of Interstate 70 and Ind. 9 before the cloud lifted and vanished. There was a report that a funnel cloud dipped down in Eden in Hancock County, blocking highways and roads with debris. 5 The New York Times reported that the mines in Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese harbors are of the magnetic type capable of turning themselves on or off at irregular intervals or of disarming themselves permanently.

Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim denied the report: "We're not going to discuss the specifics of mine technology, but the New York Times story is wrong." 6 The Paris newspaper Figaro said in a dispatch from its Moscow correspondent that the Soviet Union will begin its summit with Nixon "all the more serene in that they have received the assurance of the American President that the B52s and the naval artillery will observe a truce concerning North Vietnam for the entire duration of the visit. It is less certain that Moscow has obtained from North Vietnam a gesture of conciliation, for example that it avoids attacking in force at that moment." 7 Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, military adviser to Presidents Lyndon B.

Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said in a television interview that South Viet- nam will fall to the Communists unless there is widespread public support of Nixon's blockade. "If we support him there's a good chance of his achieving what he wants to achieve. If we don't support him, he hasn't a chance in the world." Downbeat It will be clear and cooler followed by sunny and pleasant weather tomorrow, the National Weather Service, said. For tonight the Weir Cook weather station says the low will be in the mid-40s with an afternoon high tomorrow in the low 70s.

Probabilities of measurable precipitation are 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent tomorrow. The extended outlook through Friday calls for a chance of showers Thursday and Friday with a warming trend bringing possible highs in the upper 80s Friday. mcnt confirmed long-standing speculation that he would make the race. NEW YORK Americans donated a total of $21.15 billion to charitable causes in 1971, including a $1 billion bequest from ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON to establish a foundation bearing his name. The philanthropic activity was an increase of $1.65 billion over the amount donated in 1970, the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel said in its annual report.

The morning after. The only sounds in the tornado-devastated area on the far East side were the hoofs of the sheriff's horse patrol, a helicopter overhead and chain saws cutting the debris down to size. A police command post was still in operation at 14th and German Church Road. Capt. J.

D. Moore, assistant commander of the horse patrol, said he got a call at 8 o'clock last night, was on duty by 9 o'clock and has been there since. "The value of the horse patrol, formed four years ago," he said, "is that we can get into places with a horse, that you can't with a car. We had people coming through the fields last night, to go through belongings in damaged houses. That's pretty sick." The hardest hit was the North German Church Woods Subdivision east of 16th and German Church.

The extraordinary thing was that so many unoccupied homes were hit. On Sedlak Lane, 12 houses on the southside of the street, all empty, all scheduled to be occupied this week, were destroyed. The fact there was no grass on the lawns of many of the new homes made the morning-after devastation appear even worse. Mrs." William Massey, 1527 Tina Marie Circle, who moved into her home four weeks ago, went through the same routine this morning she walked the dog, right through the middle of some of the hardest hit homes. The Massey home had very little damage.

Tractor Disappeared Yesterday morning, a large construction tractor had been parked next door. It disappeared yesterday during the tornado. A native of Germany, Mrs. Massey said, "I have been in bomb scenes in Germany, but I never saw destruction like this. Then we had a warning at least.

I didn't even hear a noise Her husband just recently returned from Vietnam. They were forced to spend the evening with friends due to gas leaks in the area, she said. A man from a roofing company was passing out his cards this morning to residents of the area. German Church Road still was closed between 10th and 21st and residents were required to stop at the command post to get permission to enter the area. One of those residents, Ed Owens, 30, of 1334 N.

German Church Road, said he was "out here working on my car. I heard something like a real loud explosion. "I looked up and saw a tornado, so Scores of Eastside residents, left homeless by one of two tornadoes that ripped through a new housing complex yesterday with the force of a giant buzz saw, poked through debris today, searching for what personal possessions they could identify. The Marion County Sheriff's Department began issuing passes homeowners at 7 a.m. today, nearly 19 hours after the twister dipped into' the housing complex, which allowed the residents entry into a four-square-mile area that was hit by the tornado.

Sheriff's deputies said at least 26 homes which were occupied were destroyed and another 22 homes ready for occupancy were demolished. Damage estimate has been set at more than $1 million, and 10 persons were reported injured, none seriously. A spokesman for the Small Business Administration's Indianapolis office said today all indications are that the stricken complex will be termed a disaster area. He said the SBA began gathering figures on losses within an hour after the twister hit and that it will be up to Federal officials in Washington to declare it a disaster area after recommendations are made here. "It's a matter of getting a dollar loss established, but we feel, tentatively, that there has been enough loss over and above what was covered by insurance to make it (a disaster area)," he said.

Deputies worked throughout the night, keeping looters from the area. A command post where residents could pick up passes was set up this morning in the 1400 block of North German Church Road. Struck At 12:20 P.M. More than 300 volunteers from the Sheriff's Department, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis police, Red Cross, Salvation Army, General Hospital, Warren Township and Civil Defense converged on the site of the damage within minutes after the tornado, one of two. twisters spotted in the area, struck at 12:20 p.m.

Community Hospital reported only six persons, who were in the path of the tornado, were treated for minor injuries and released. Another four persons were treated for injuries they suffered while leaving the area. The Sheriff's Department sent 20 deputies to the area, bounded by 10th and 21st Streets, German Church Road on the west and Cumberland Road to the east, to prevent looting today. Deputies patrolled on horseback, on foot and in patrol cars. Also sent into the area were deputies from the K9 Corps.

Indianapolis Power Light Co. sent 15 crews, which represented more than 45 workers, to restore power to the homes that were left standing. Power was restored by 7 p.m. The twister that touched down came without warning. The National Weather Service had no tornado watch alert in effect.

A spokesman for the NWS said a tornado watch, which is given when conditions are right for a tornado, comes from its weather warning center in Kansas City. The spokesman added that a tornado warning alert can come only after a twister has been spotted, either by radar or by a sighting. Sheriff's Deputy Carold G. Baker, who was patrolling the area in which the tornado hit, radioed the first warning to his headquarters. Baker said he was suddenly sur- The NEWS Photo, Rodoer llrchlleld cloud from 9600 east.

-v ST 3 Funnel Till NEWS Photo, Patty Haley. far Eastside. I ran in the house and had my wife and kids lay down on the floor. It took my garage down. It didn't last very long, but I didn't have any warning." Dale Huff, 30, of 1650 Moores Court, said he was alerted by his wife, Susan, who said that something was coming.

He ran outside and yelled at his neighbors. Then Huff ran back inside and he, his wife and their dog huddled in a half-bath in the center of the house "and just hung on." Damage to the house was estimated at $20,000. Judson West, whose home at 11850 E. 21st is the last house in Marion County on that street, said he was on his front porch when he looked "at the woods to the southwest. I heard noise.

I saw stuff flying around in a whirlwind coming towards me." West, a former state representative and state senator who is now a deputy attorney general, said he and his wife sought shelter in a downstairs bathroom. When they came out, they found that their fence, a regular farm fence, was covered with "aluminum siding, plywood, tar paper and what-have-you. "A neighbor's corn crib was out in the middle of 21st Street. In the yard on the ground was a beautiful shorty nightgown, with a little coat lace on it. It wasn't very dirty and it was still on a hanger." Mark Roach, 1425 N.

German Church Road, was home alone when the tornado struck his home. "I was asleep. I work the midnight shift at Ford. The sound of the train woke me up. My wife was gone I was the only human involved.

"I started knocking out the windows with a chair so I wouldn't have the vacuum effect after it passed over. "I had about 20 seconds and I got out about 10 windows before I got to the hallway and laid down. So I got minimal damage, although it went right over me. "I heard that old train effect Across the street at 1426 N. German Church Road, John Goble, 49, a worker at Naval Avionics, had a trailer, boat and motor blown away.

"Well, I was just getting home from a fishin' trip, went in the house to take some equipment walked outside to the southside of the house. I heard something and saw something swirling up in the southwest direction. "I went back in and saw my back shed lifted up and carry over the garden. It spun the furniture in the house here. It had a high screaming noise in your ears." athletics have really brought our school together, to where It is now.

I'm still just I'll never get over this." "After a careful review of all of the information," Eskew's statement said, it was decided Gary West should be suspended "from membership in the IHSAA from and after the date of this decision (today) to and including March 17, 1973." Gary West, which became the first IHSAA member to be suspended for a year since Muncie Central received the same punishment in 1964, may apply for reinstatement on or after March 17, 1973. Connersville beat Gary West, 80-63, in a major upset in Indiana University's sscmbly Hall. SPEEDWAY AT A GLANCE Bobby Unser is the fastest qualifier ever. Page 33. Jim Malloy's practice run ended violently.

Page 34. The crowd's favorites, Jim Hur-tubise and Lloyd Ruby, are in the field. Page 33. Of yesterday's 12 qualifiers, three are rookies. Page 33.

The qualifiers row by row on page 35. Federal Mediator Sought For Suds Drivers' Strike Efforts were being made today for a Federal mediator to meet with representatives of both sides in Marion County's 5-day-old beer drivers' strike. Meanwhile, retailers continued to pick up their supplies of beer from distributors' warehouses. George 0. Reed, president of Local 150 ef the Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Union, said he was trying to get a ruling from the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission on the legality of tavern and package store operators picking up their own beer.

Reed feels it is illegal. Approximately 175 drivers went on strike at 6 a.m. May 11, shutting off the delivery of all brands of beer except Falstaff. (Falstaff drivers belong to a different union.) Reed added, "I think this strike will go to Federal mediation. I heard there might be a meeting with a mediator Thursday, but I have not received any official notification yet.

Nothing else has been scheduled." IN THE NEWS Pages Pages Amusements 10-11 Pictures 12 Bridge 21 Sports 33-38 Business 31-32 TV and Radio 15 Comics 20 Want Ads 38-51 Editorials 8 Women 17-19 Obituaries 23 The NEWS Phone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Want Ads 633-1212 The News Zip Code 46206 Crime Alert (Emergency) 633-2811 Wage-Price Questions 633-8611 Harris Survey, Page 11 IHSAA Gary West, which lost to Connersvillc in the final game of this year's state high school basketball tournament at Bloomington, today was suspended for a year from the Indiana High School Athletic Association. In a statement, 11ISAA commissioner Phil Eskew said that on the day of the finals March 18 "unsportsmanlike and violent acts were observed and or reported to the Board of Control to have occurred on the part of Gary West Side student personnel and followers. "The Board of Control and its staff have Investigated the reported events and heard Gary West Side school officials and their representatives." The board concluded that Gary West officials had provided "routine vision and precautions for control over By United Press Intemitiroil South Vietnamese forces held off Communist attacks at An Loc and Kontum yesterday and reoccupied artillery base Bastogne near Hue today. At Camp David, President Nixon went ahead with preparations for his planned summit conference in Moscow. In Paris, a respected newspaper reported from Moscow that Nixon has assured the Soviet Union he will halt all air and naval bombardment of North Vietnam during his visit.

These were the major developments: South Vietnamese troops in a helicopter assault today reoccupied Artillery Base Bastogne, 10 miles southwest of Hue, military sources said. They encountered no opposition in retaking the base, abandoned April 28 after a long, bitter fight. Bastogne has been hit repeatedly by air strikes, including B52s, since it fell to the Communists. 2 North Vietnamese pounded An Loc, the provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon that has become a symbol for both Communist and government troops, with 2,000 rounds of mortar, artillery and rockets. South Vietnamese troops reported the shelling killed 12 troops.

In addition, Communist ground gunners shot down a U.S. 02 Super Sky-master observation plane but the pilot parachuted to safety. South Vietnamese troops trying to relieve An Loc were reported five miles south of the city on Highway 13, but Communist bunkers stood between them and their objective. 3 Communist troops led by tanks probed the defenses of the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, apparently in an effort to overrun the city and cut South Vietnam in two. But South Vietnamese forces held in the six-hour battle and when the Communists retreated U.S.

52s were called in to pound them from the air. 4 President Nixon spent yesterday at his Camp David, retreat studying Vietnam war messages in advance of his planned departure for Moscow Saturday. He returned to Washington last night. 39 Suspends Gary West In Brief its student personnel and followers," but that despite this "Gary West Side student personnel and followers were not controlled and engaged in damage to property and inflicted physical injury to other spectators largely as an apparent expression of disappointment at losing the final game of the tournament." The suspension means that Gary West's entire athletic program apparently will be wiped out for one year. "I'm not gonna make much comment," said Ivory Brown, Gary West's coach who is on strike with other Gary teachers and has been walking a picket line.

"But I feel the penalty is a very severe, penalty for us, very severe to a school that Is only four years old. I feel WASHINGTON PRESIDENT NIXON told a delegation of families of prisoners of war that the U.S. will maintain its blockade of North Vietnam until the prisoners are released, MRS. JAMES B. STOCKDALE, wife of an imprisoned Navy captain, said today.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. Former Navy Secretary JOHN II. CHAFEE, a Republican, said today he will challenge Democrat CLAIBORNE PELL for Pell's U.S. Senate seat. Chaffee's announce-x r..