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79th Tampa, Mpiii i 80 Pages 10 Cents i I A I TfTI l- i tf City loves it, as usual crew 4 i ku i i i i i m.w Winds brihg'jn vdcfer as Tampa blows its mind i I By BALDY THE PIRATE Ye Mystic Krewe Yeoman Jose Gaspar barreled into Tampa on a not-so-ill wind today and really blew his mind. Every certified pirate who ever plied the trade seemed to have signed on with him in body or spirit for this fantastic deed. Ybor navy invades, page 4-A; Parade line-up, page 23-A; Parade route, page 14-E. wmmMmfflMmmmmmmmmmmim Small wonder that the crowds who showed up on this stormy day blew their own minds in return. THE INSIDE POOP is that Tampa still hasn't learned much about the mainly lost art of how not to get invaded and that was soon obvious from the noisy doings in an around the Cigar City this day.

And it's not that Tampans haven't had plenty of opportunity to figure it all out. After all, no other place in the world has been invaded 57 times once a year and (J 1 Baldy turns 'traitor' come to like it so well the blokes just can't do without it. See PIRATES, page 2-A firm Power si 5 rmtrWrA 'i ft to xitT-fr V. -ION 31 TL-i TJ: 3-. v.

A 1 tank foal By PERRY FRANK Times Staff Writer PETERSBURG Air Force Base for help. A spokesman at MacDill said a foam truck was dispatched to the scene. Witnesses said the fire is close to a residential area but that homes did not appear to be in serious trouble. The explosion reportedly blew the roof from the tank. plants in the system.

It feeds the entire system," Johnson said. AT LEASE FOUR units and 30 firemen responded to the initial alarm. Officials said a St. Petersburg foam pumper was in use. In addition, firemen said they had asked MacDill Lightning struck a general fuel tank at Florida Power Paul Bartow plant on Weeden Island this morning, sending flames and smoke billowing into the rainswept skies Units from the St.

Petersburg fire department were still on the job at 9 a.m. battling the blaze while trying to keep the flames from spreading to several other fuel tanks. No injuries were reported. Officials said lightning apparently hit the tank and it exploded, sending flames high into the air. BILL JOHNSON of the Florida Power said "it was a very dangerous fuel and oil fire." The tank contained highly flammable Bunker C-type fuel and Johnson deemed the situation serious.

The blaze, which started shortly before 8 a.m. was visible for miles from the plant about a mile off Gandy Boulevard in northeast St. Petersburg. Johnson said this morning that so far, "the incident had caused no loss of power. "The plant is one of eight A VJ Au i Mi Inside The Times Amazing-True 13-D BayLife Sect.

Bridge 14-D Business 15-B Charlie Robins 1-D Comics 13, 14, 15-D Crossword 14-D Dear Abby 5-D Deaths 23-A Editorials 20-A Frank Klein 1-C Jeane Dixon 12-D Movies 11-D Sports 1-9-C Television 10-D Tempo 2-D XJPI photo Rubble was once his home Arthur Prior, his head wrapped in crown-to-chin bandages, walks through wreckage of his home after tornado hit Gulf Breeze yesterday. Prior is a Tena-fly, N.J. air force enlisted man stationed at Eglin Air Force Base. Story on page 2-A..