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St. Petersburg Times, Monday, December 11, 1967 ndle In lorooaoes (from i-a) 1M0N. and TUES. warn specials t.l,,l1.Mv, itrrr-rhJ ALL GRANT STORES OPEN SUNDAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS 12 to 6 P.M. -x Kirk Tours Hardest Hit 11 7-U Tornado Areas I FORT WALTON BEACH in -Gov.

Claude Kirk, shaking 4 hands consoling stricken I IT 1 Ti families in this tornado devast-ed area, said yesterday "we're blessed (at the time the governor was unaware of the one fatality) that there are no deaths." 1 Kirk and aides were stunned by the destruction wrought here and in adjacent Ocean City by a pre-dawn tprnado that wrecked nearly everything it touched businesses and residences. KIRK ASSIGNED a special aide, Lloyd Hagaman to the area. Hagaman will open an of- Why pay wore jot fancy-luhel no-iron sheets elsewhere? GRANTS PERMANENT PRESS PERCALE SHEETS 1 SALE Ali-C Ulio uiuj. itiiig nt Le vljr Hall here to take applications for loans for disaster ridden families. He said the small busi i Twin Flat P8 rk Mr.nHlilid AP Wirephoto I ill Compare at ness administration is sending a survey team and feels sure it will be declared a disaster area Tornado Tears Fort Walton Beach House Apart Byrd, 29, the wife of M.

Sgt Jerry J. Bryd who was reported Jn critical condition, A base spokesman said the home of the JJyrds, who are from La Fayette, was the first and worst hit of base homes. Eglin Air Force Base reported no injuries, but said high winds blew shingles off buildings and bowled over trees. Adjacent lurlburt Field, a satellite of Eglin, reported minor damage was done to six C123 aircraft and one C47 plane. In the Panama Ciry area, the $7-million Capehart- housing project suffered the most severe damage, according to Bay County Sheriff M.

J. Baffin. He said about 150 persons were treated for cuts and bruises, 31 seriously injured and 10 of them hospitalized. ABOUT 35 to 40 homes were destroyed and others seriously damaged by the twister which touched down six times, hitting the Air Force housing and the nearby suburbs of Parker, Springfield and Calloway. "Capehart looked like a load of bombs had dropped on it," said Hank Basham, public information officer at Tyndall, Trees were uprooted and automobiles crushed by the twisters at Fort Walton Beach which moved through about 4 a.m.

Crews were called from 60 miles around to repair damage to power lines. A recently built' athletic stadium at Niceville was reported destroyed. Several large buildings were destroyed, eight homes on one block were demolished, and house trailers overturned. About 200 people in a nightclub ducked on the floor when the building was wrecked but only two were hurt. "IT SOUNDED like a giant Io-comotive coming toward us," said Mrs.

William Jennings, 17, a soldier's wife who lived with her parents on South Avenue where the twister apparently first touched down. "When it finally hit, there was lightning flashing everywhere," Mrs. Jennings said. "We were all sleeping and I grabbed my baby and lay over him. It ripped the roof off of our house." She said she saw a small fishing boat rammed into a house down the street from her home.

"Some of my friends had entire rooms taken off their houses." Bill Tennis, editor of the newspaper at Fort Walton Beach, Fitted mm for 3.49 and 3.99 No-iron cottonpolyester blend Tumble from dryer, wrinkle-free Limit 6 Per Customer elements. Twister peeled off roof and one wall and dropped them behind the house. One of at least 30 homes damaged when a tornado ripped through Fort Walton Beach yesterday stands bared to the by the federal government. Kirk sped from Palm Beach, where he had been host for the IF Floor Hit She fir National Republican Governors Conference, to Eglin Air Force Base in a private jet. There local authorities escorted him for a three-hour tour of stricken areas.

veryone FORT WALTON BEACH 7fst VifXHf' (UPI) The go-go girls at the Club Continental were gyrating at full steam when that tornado It was an awesome sight of destruction as the officials passed along four-laned Eglin Parkway in Ocean City where twisted wires, downed power blew into town early yesterday. Club owner Nick Stalworth poles, broken glass, scattered' 4it "i said about 200 patrons were bricks and debris made some having a gay time watching the girls in their cages when they suddenly heard a roar outside. blocks look like a bombed city. "I COULDN'T even guess," said Jim Fletcher, manager of TIIE MUSIC faded away when the building started to rat a department store in a devas tle and shake on its foundation. tated shopping center.

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LIMIT 6 PER CUSTOMER nor's highway patrol escorted motorcade passed over bits of Stalworth said he shouted, "everyone hit the floor!" and they did. The tornado smashed through glass and twisted pieces of metal. Residential areas underlined! the club in a few seconds and as he described it, "the go-go girls were blown out of their cages." the viciousness of the tornado. It picked up trees, snapped others, threw limbs for blocks and caused houses to virtually explode as if they had been said he counted 33 houses destroyed. All physicians in the area had been called in, Tennis Visit Grants1 Trim-A-Tree Shop We've got what you've been looking fori At one house a car was flipped over, picked up and said.

Iff 4 "In manv instances, walls and roofs were blown away. tossed onto a tree limb. "MY HOUSE my cars," said Ed Griffin, when Kirk leaving chairs, couches, sewing machines and television sets on One was injured slightly. CLUB MANAGER Mildred Tuggle said she heard a big 'bam" and when she looked up "it was over with." Stalworth said his customers didn't panic and that miraculously no one was killed or seriously hurt. Stalworth, who owns several homes nearby, estimated his losses at more than $500,000.

Bruce Caswell, catastrophe coordinator for State Insurance Commissioner Broward Williams, was sent to Fort Walton Beach to determine if emergency licenses should be issued to out of state adjusters. Tornado Hits Alabama BON SECOUR, Ala. (JT) A tornado smashed acrows the asked him what he had lost. A bare floors," Tennis said. "Merry Christmas signs were flung into trees and waved in the wind and rain," Tennis reported.

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Grant Extra Special Value 2 for $5.00 OFFICIALS said the Fort Walton Beach storm plowed a swath five miles long through shell remained of Griffin's single-story bungalow. "Thank God I wasn't here when it happened," said Griffin. Griffin said he just recently returned from Air Force duty in Vietnam. Kirk inspected communications units set up by National Guardsmen he had activated to help with traffic and guard damaged businesses. By the time he arrived, some 200 soldiers had been assigned.

"You need any help, you Just holler," Kirk told Chuck Luther, whose home was demolished in Ocean City. Most of the homes blasted by the twister were occupied by FIRST QUALITY SEAMLESS NYLONS Baldwin County coastline early yesterday, damaging homes and other property. No injuries were reported. The devastating winds left a path of destruction at Bon Sec-our, Gulf Shores, Midlin and Josephine. A number of houses were damaged at Miflin, one was destroyed and a house trailer turned upside down.

The winds heavily damaged a boat yard in Bon Secour, demolishing a recently constructed building at the yard and damaging equipment, tools and boats. Owner James H. Nelson estimated the uninsured loss at $20,000. Cinco Bayou, Ocean City and Shalimar. The hospital at Fort Walton Beach treated 40 persons and sent 26 of them to nearby Eglin Air Force Base for further treatment.

A watchman was reported missing at Gibson Shopping Center where a concrete block wall was caved in by the tornado. The tornadoes struck about five hours apart during a drenching five-inch rainstorm and hail was reported at Ocean City. Tornado warnings were pulled down at 1 p.m. SAL Kirk Inspects Tornado Damage Gov. Claude Kirk (striped jacket) inspects demolished house as rescue workers pick their way through debris following tornado which struck Fort Walton Beach yester day.

Tornadoes struck many areas in northwest Florida, but damage was the heaviest in Fort Walton Beach with more than 30 homes destroyed. pair military personnel from bgiin AFB. Neighbors pitched in and helped each other. Lawns were strewn with pieces of lumber, or entire walls, pieces of furniture. Sometimes pieces of metal and clothing could be seen high up in tree limbs.

"GOT A PLACE to stay tonight?" Kirk would ask several families. The answer was always yes. Kirk wore boots, brown trousers, a Texas hat and his colorful Seminole jacket. He shook Fabulously sheer and well fitting, yet long wearing. Your choice of World mpact Of Social Security Aroun seamless, run-resistant mesh or plain stitch in a complete range of WASHINGTON There are cial Security check from the 183,710 people scattered from United States Treasury every Hong Kong to Rumania to month, darkest Africa who get a So- The foreign remittances of leg-flattering up- 4 to-the-minute fashion shades.

among the senior citizens can be seen in the weekly morbidity report of the Public Health Service. IN THE WEEK ending Nov. 25, 19G7, the service reports that in Miami there were 87 deaths, and 60 of them were among people 65 and older. In Jacksonville, 37 of the 54 people who died that week were senior citizens. In St.

Petersburg, 52 people died, and 42 of them were 65 or over. Sizes 8-11. jr IS hands with scores of children among them two youngsters: whose father is fighting in Viet-' nam. "How you doing, cowboy?" the governor asked time and again. He rarely stayed in his car, usually walked for blocks to view rows of smashed homes.

One housewife explained to in this country. Checks Won't Reach More Than 250.C00 Times-Miami Herald Service WASHINGTON More than a quarter of a million people 65 and over will die before the government mails out the first Social Security checks with the new increased benefits. The checks with the increases go into the mail the weekend of March 3. This is thirteen weeks hence. AX AVERAGE of 36,000 people die in the United Sates every week.

More than half of these are 63 and over. So in thirteen weeks about 250,000 people in that bracket will be dead. The incidence of death the Social Security system amounted to nearly $13-million in June, 1967. The Social Security beneficiaries living in far away places are probably the most excited of all about the substantial improvements in benefits just voted by Congress. The amendments to the Social Security Act brought the most generous adjustment in payments in 32 years.

A gandy dancer or hod carrier who retires after a life time of labor in the United States can usually live like a king on his Social Security when he returns to his native village in Italy or Greece. The 13 per cent increase in dollar benefits will bring greater gains to these pensioners than to most of the retired people Largo Dunedin Reading That Sticks To Your Ribs Pleasant, satisfying, substantial Consistent high quality is yours every week in Florida's distinctive Sunday magazine FLDHOIAN t.pflcrsbur0eimfs Kirk how her husband pulled the week of March 3, when the elderly folks In 1968 her young daughter out from underneath debris leveled by the onrushing tornado. "I was telling my husband he are looking forward to a raise in their Serial Security benefits tens of thousands of these checks will be returned to seven U.S. Treasury disbursing centers, with the brown window envelope stamped: "addressee dead." didn't know how strong he was Crossroads Pinellas Park 2190 Tyrone Blvd. 7680 49th St.

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