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The Tampa Times from Tampa, Florida • 12

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The Tampa Timesi
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horn Hits hurt es near many ml npd i s)(0 ORLANDO A huge eight-jet B52 bomber crashed into a residential area near McCoy Air Force Base today, apparently killing all the crewmen and setting a number of homes afire. There was no immediate word from the Strategic Air Command base on the number of men on the plane but an Orlando police spokesman said first units on the scene of the crash reported no survivors aboard the plane. Police and sheriff's officers had no report on civilian casualties. As many as 11 homes were re said, "I saw the whole thing, and that pilot's action kept the plane from hitting the airport terminal. "As he came in, he was still above the clouds, but the engines sounded unusual so I went out to see what it was.

"When he broke through the cloud cover, he couldn't have been more than 200 feet up," Taylor said. "When the pilot of that ship saw what was happening, he pulled it to the right and dumped it in a field. ported damaged by the explosion as the big plane crashed. The plane apparently crashed shortly after taking off. An eyewitness, a "Mr.

Driscoll" at a car rental agency on the civilian side of the field from the military base, reported seeing the plane tipping to one side and then dive into the ground. "Pieces were falling off the plane. It hit the ground and is still burning," reported Driscoll, who saw the crash through his office window. W. M.

Taylor, the taxi supervisor at McCoy, "All I could see then was a terrific ball of fire, and we felt a lot of heat on our faces." Taylor said the aircraft, which apparently was on a landing approach, hit the earth about 10 blocks northwest of the airport, in a middle-income residential area of mostly cinderblock homes. "The plane was the black one," said Taylor, who works at the civilian airport terminal which shares' the field with the Air Force. I think it's the See B52, page 2-A lamp 80th Year No. 47 Tampa, Friday, March 31, 1972 56 Pages 10 Cents of Vict ms storm he C5 qu Kiiy 1 1 J-' By MORRIS KENNEDY Times Staff Writer Help arrived from several sources for victims of gale force winds that ripped through the Holiday Mobile Home Park at 6:25 a.m. today.

Fire department, police, rescue squad, Red Cross and military personnel began clearing the wreckage and hauling off belongings for the victims. Damage was estimated at $80,000 by Bill Goodson, Red Cross disaster director. Ambulances took three persons to Tampa General Hospi- tals emergency room. Virginia Moody, 35, and Michael Thaler, 27, were both reported in good condition and will be released today. According to fire rescue captain Don Alvarez, a third victim, Karen Adams, 19, of trailer 412 in the badly-hit Second Terrace of the park, was injured after the winds swept through.

Alvarez said Miss Adams went back into her wrecked home to look for clothing when part of the siding fell, striking See STORM, page 9-A MTmmmmmimmiMmtnmm'm mmiiiiimmimwimmmim Staff photo bj August Staebler Staff pbolo by August Slaeb'tr Bottoms up Extended session asked TALLAHASSEE (tf Legislative leaders today agreed on an extension of the 1972 sessiondue to end at midnight tonight for one week to allow consideration of bills ranging from appropriations to abortion. The joint resolution must win the three-fifths approval of each chamber sometime today, but Senate President Jerry Thomas and House Speaker Richard Pettigrew envisioned no problems. The extension would end at midnight April 7, but could be extended again for any specified length with three-fifths approval in each house. Earlier Story, Page 8-A. Chess plans dropped BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) The Belgrade organizers of the Spas sky-Fischer world chess match announced today they are dropping plans to organize the match in the scheduled period in this city.

The contest between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and American challenger Bobby Fischer was set to start June 22. The second half of the 24-game match was to be played in Reykjavik, Iceland, under a compromise agreement reached in Amsterdam by the International Chess Federation FIDE and the two players. Pope leads ceremonies ROME (UPI) Pope Paul VI walked shoeless and hatless tonight in mourning for the crucifixion of Jesus. The gesture came during a two-hour ceremony at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, marking the most solemn day of the Christian year.

He sat on a plain throne before a bare altar as three priests sang the Gospel According to St. John in ancient plainchant. The Good Friday observances also called on the Pope to carry a cross in a "Way of the Cross" procession around the Rome Colosseum, the procession getting under way about 9 p.m. (2 p.m. EST).

Nixon blocks rail strikes WASHINGTON () President Nixon today blocked, for 60 days, the threat of strikes in two railroad labor disputes. Nixon's action-appointing emergency boards under the National Railway Labor Act removed the possibility of the railroad strikes which could have come at midnight tonight. Thieves bag MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Federal and local agents confirmed early today that police are working through the night to locate a suspect in the robbery of perhaps several million dollars in cash and jewels from the ultra-ritzy Carriage House residential hotel on Miami Beach. Like a tattered sail Aluminum siding plastered against tree Overturned trailer frame evidence of disaster Commission seen forced to assume role for ecology By STEVE HILL Times Staff Writer Hillsborough County's new environmental protection act, termed the "best pollution control law in the state" by its originator, will "force the county commission" to take an active part in environmental matters, according to State Rep. Guy Spicola, D-Tampa.

Spicola said the county's new act, which abolishes a separate pollution control hearing panel and replaces it with the county commissioners, spells out what should have taken place five years ago. Spicola said when the act was originally drawn, the county commission, was designated as the pollution control commission to "provide elected public officials a chance to have the ultimate say" in environmental matters. "But this had been circumvented by the choosing of a separate panel as a hearing board," Spicola said. "If someone disagreed with a decision of the panel, they had to appeal it to circuit court, so the local elected offi I -f0" vvi 'ill Inside The Times cials never were involved at all," Soicola said. "They had completely divorced themselves from pollution decisions," he said.

Isn't it wiser to have an appointed panel, whose members are knowledgeable in pollution matters, to insure the most proper decisions, Spicola was asked. "Yes, we could just stick with appointed experts," Spicola agreed, "but they would not be responsible to the public for their decisions. The commissioners can, should and will have to become aware, of pollution matters. Then, if someone still disagrees with one of their deci- See ECOLOGY, page 5-A BayLife Sect. Bob Martin 1-B Busines 4-C Charlie Robins 1-B Classified 5-21-D Comics 5, 6, 12-B Crossword 6-B Dateline 1-C Dear Abby 2-B Deaths 9-A Editorials 6-A Frank Klein 1-E HomeLife 1-3-D Jeane Dixon 11-B Legislature 8-A Movies 10, 11-B Sports Sect.

Television 8-B Tempo 2-B WeatherScope 2-A Staff pboto by August Siaebltr Storm debris Qutter was wrapped around street marker at trailer park.

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