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Crashi Kills 29 Evansville U. canceled today and that a memorial service was being planned for today or Thursday. The team was to have flown to Nashville, then to ha vt takes a bus to Murfreesboro for a Wednesday basketball gam with Middle Tennessee State University. The university party aboard Included 14 players; Coach Bobby Watson of Newburgh, university controller Charles Snike; assistant athletic director Bob Hudson; sports information director Greg Knipping; Msrv Bates, a sport-scaster for WUEV, the campus radio station; and three team managers, said the sheriffs office. Authorities said two local team boosters, Charles Goad and Maurice King, also died in the crash.

Still missing at dawn were the pilot, Capt. Ty Van Pham, and James Stewart, president of National Jet Service Inc. Also killed were Bill Hartford, general manager of the charter firm, and two crew members 1st Officer Gaston Ruiz and flight attendant Pam Smith. resident who remembered pick-up games with Washington. "Now that's where they (the bodies) art.

It's unreal" The bodies were later taken to area funeral homes. Assistant coach Mark Sandy, 25, did not accompany the team because he was on a scouting mission at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, m. "I beard it on the radio coming back," said Sandy as he awaited relatives of the victims in the Community Center gym. "It felt like it was somebody else that it was a mistake," Sandy said. Sandy said the Evansville Aces had won one game and lost three this season.

The Aces were five-time champions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division II basketball tournament This year the school had moved up to Division I play. "We had eight freshmen, all new coaches," be said. "We were just getting started." Jim Byers, the college athletic director, said classes were explosion," said Patrick Alvey, a licensed pilot and owner of Metro Beechcraft a charter service at the airport Alvey said he and a companion were among the first people to arrive at the, crash scene, near railroad tracks north of a new residential subdivision. "The fuselage was intact, the left wing was ripped off," he recalled. "Very many bodies were still in their seatbelts and many were strewn around.

It was a mess just a total mess. "We had four people alive. They were Just strewn around. The wreckage was on fire. There was nothing we could do for the people inside of it," said Alvey.

The bodies were taken in a Louisville Nashville Railroad boxcar to a temporary morgue set up in the dty Community Center in downtown Evansville, 10 miles from the crash site. The room where the rows of bodies lay beneath white sheets is sometimes used as a basketball court John Ed Washington, one of the dead players, "used to come in here and play ball in the gym," said Walter Thomas, a local EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A chartered DC-J loled with college basketball players and team supporter wai trying to tarn back to the airport here with a spluttering engine when It crashed into a muddy hilktde in rain and dense fog, witnesses say. All aboard were killed, Including the entire 14-member Evansville University basketball team and their coach. Searchers slogged through the mud today looking for two bodies still missing.

The twin engine propeller plane, chartered from National Jet Service Inc. of Indianapolis, left Dress Regional Airport here at 7:20 pjn. Tuesday bound for Nashville, and "encountered some type of difficulty," said Bill Phipps, deputy coroner for Vanderburgh County. He said the plane appeared to have turned back to the airport when it crashed into the hillside. "We saw it go into the clouds.

We heard a loud pop-' We heard an engine rev up, then we heard the crash and saw an Marshall mm good afternoon' Ml MtllWI WIS atu. rtmj Mews fesci)gr .32 Pages Three Sections Marshall, Texas, Wednesday, December 14, 1977 101st Year. .162 PENTAGON officials claim U.S. security wu not threatened by NATO spy scandal. See story, page IA.

A GOOSENECK lamp may have caused the fire that killed eight women in Providence, R.I., Tuesday. See story, photo; page 2A. A. EGYPT, Israel begin negotiations in Cairo today. See story, page 8A.

NOTRE Dame choice over Longhorns in Cotton Bowl Classic. See INDIANA Pacers trade Adrian Dantley. See story, page 9. MAVERICKS upended by Mount Pleasant. See story, page 9B.

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10B normal this month, 4.58 inches; Stocks 9A total this year, 43.21 inches; Television 10B normal through December, 45.57. Forecast 'ijLfj 1 AP Wirtplioto I Rescue Victim Rescue workers hurry to free Mrs. Jim Standi from the wreckage through the area. One person was killed and at least 40 others were of her home in Northeast Houston Tuesday after a tornado ripped injured. I Houston Twisted Kills 1, Razes 600 Buildings Northeast Texas Mostly fair through Thursday.

Cool today and tonight. A little warmer Thursday. Highs 63 to 73. Lows 36 to 43. Highs Thursday 67 to 76.

Engineer Opposes Increase AUSTIN (AP) Jerry Eubanks, Longview engineer for Sun Oil said Tuesday that operators supporting an increased allowable for the huge East Texas oil field merely want to hike their current income. This, Eubanks told three Texas Railroad Commission examiners, "is not a duty -of the commission, particularly if the change would be detrimental to the maximum ultimate recovery from the field." Sun opposes an increase from the current allowable of 86 per cent. Other operators contend, however, that the field should be allowed to produce at the current statewide market demand factor of 100 percent State Gets 9-Mile Limit AUSTIN AP) Texas now has undisputed authority over foreign fishing as far out as nine miles into the Gulf of Mexico. Attorney General John Hill said Tuesday that the federal government has given up its claims to jurisdiction over foreign fishing in Texas' coastal water beyond three miles offshore. The only other state with similar jurisdiction is Florida.

"We secured this jurisdiction through extended Congressional and court battles with the federal government in the 1950s in order to preserve our state's right to offshore mineral and other natural resources which the federal government wanted for itself," Hill said in a statement. "This suit was an effort to put a chink in the legal armor we have successfully used for decades to protect our offshore lands from federal takeover." Madalyn 6'Hair Sues State 1 AUSTIN AP SlArtino ftarlv nn her "vpnr nf litiffstinn atheist MnHalvn out and saw it. It was coming right at us." Largent said most of the 100 workers at the site took cover in a nearby culvert, but Hester jumped into his truck and drove off. He died. The area looked like it had been heavily-shelled during a war.

A large metal warehouse was molded into a surrealist sculpture. A mobile home rested atop another residence. Tree limbs, hunks of metal, slabs of wood, strips of tin, and other debris blocked many nearby roads, snarling traffic and causing additional troubles for police. ment's ambulance service, said, "There could more dead. There could be many more injured.

Some maybe under debris or lying somewhere in a ditch. We hope not, but that is a possibility." Many of the 40 injured jersons suffered minor in-'juries. McReynolds, who flew over the path of the five miles long and 300 to 500 feet wide, said, "The destructive force I saw snapped trees two feet in diameter like a matchstick and would have destroyed anything in its path." Police officers said Billy D. Hester, about 50, a superintendent for a construction company, was killed when the tornado lifted his pickup truck from a highway and hurled it about 350 feet into an oak tree. Describing the death of Hester, Dave Largent, 29, a coworker said, "It started raining and we all went into the office.

Somebody outside yelled tornado. We went HOUSTON AP) Many told Of miraculous escapes from death or injury when a tornado struck Tuesday near a crowded Houston freeway, but one person was killed, at least 40 others injured and an estimated 600 homes and buildings were destroyed. Civil Defense Director Bland McReynolds said if the twiste had moved into the downtown area "it would have gutted most of the modern buildings." Authorities said if the funnel had crossed the bumper-to-bumper freeway during the morning rush hours, the death toll would have been staggering. Rescue and repair workers scrapped and dug through the shambles left of the homes and the buildings in search of other victims until halted by darkness. Police and sheriffs deputies then set up tight security in the devastated area to prevent looting.

Whitey Martin, chief of the Houston Fire Depart Thunderstorms continued to rumble across the area during the day, building muddy, slimy pools, and hampering the work of of those attempting to replace the snapped electric lines and the humpbacked telephone poles. Striking Texas Farmers Block Store Warehouses Begin, Garter Will Talk In Washington Murray O'Hair has filed a federal court suit to force state officials to remove a nativity scene from the Capitol rotunda. Mrs. O'Hair said Tuesday that the scene is "sectarian" and as such, violates the principle of church-state separation. "If they are going to have this, they should have Hanuka.

a representation of the birth of Krishna," she told reporters. She also asked the court to award her, her son Jon and "the class they represent" $9 million in punitive damages from the defendants, Gov. Dolph Briscoe, Attorney General John Hill and Homer Foerster, director of the State Board of Control. Manpower Probe Continues BROWNSVILLE (AP) Dealings among a language academy, the federal Manpower program and one of the program's former directors took the spotlight Tuesday as a Cameron County probe into the Manpower agency continued. Most of the attention focused on a $3,000 loan former director E.

A. Gonzalez made to Carlos Rodriguez, owner of the Texas Language Academy, which later received a federal contract. Gonzalez's testimony came during a Court of Inquiry called by State District Court Judge Darrell Hester. A Court of Inquiry is a little-used legal procedure that is similar to a grand jury investigation. Gonzalez said that in 1972 he loaned the money to Carlos Rodriguez, owner of the Texas Language Academy Texas Weather Clear, Cool By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Clear skies, light winds and cool temperatures prevailed irt Texas today as a weak high pressure area settled over the state during the night.

Forecasts called for fair skies and warming temperatures today. Highs were expeted to be in the middle 60s in North Texas and the 70s over the remainder of the state. Gusty winds were expected in the Panhandle during the afternoon, but most of the state could expect calm weather. Early morning temperatures ranged from 21 at Maria in Southwest Texas to 54 at Galveston on the coast. Some early morning readings included 29 at Amarillo, 30 at Wichita Falls, 45 at Texarkana, 38 at Dallas-Fort Worth, 47 at Austin, 38 at Lufkin, 42 at Houston, 50 at Corpus Christi and Brownsville, 41 at Del Rio, 35 at San Angelo, 29 at El Paso and 34 at Lubbock.

from nearby farms and scores of others were reported on the way to Dimmit, Pampa and other towns where similar blockades were planned. Police said there had been no incidents of violence. The Panhandle has been a strong supporter of American Agriculture, the Colorado-based group that is organizing the farmers' strike. Farmers are protesting low prices paid for their products. They claim that the cost of producing exceeds the prices they get for their grain.

Until Tuesday, the proposed strike had received little support In most of Texas with the farm unions the Texas Farm Bureau and the Texas Farmers Union declining to offer official support to the strike. AMARILLO, Texas (AP) The men who produced the goods prevented their delivery Tuesday as angry Texas farmers parked heavy tractors in front of grocery warehouses across the Panhandle to spark a nationwide strike. The farmers' actions blocked delivery trucks at warehouses of Affiliated Food stores, Safeway and Borden Milk, "They let us send trucks out to serve hospitals and rest homes," said Borden Milk's general manager Jim Graves, "but a lot of schools are not going to receive milk today." Three large tractors rumbled to the driveway at the Affiliated warehouse early in the morning and blocked it "All our stores have been called," said Affiliated spokesman Lewis McNeice. "Nothing will be delivered today except perishable items, meat and milk. No dry food products." McNeice said the action of the farmers would affect about 80 stores in the Panhandle area.

Graves said about 150 stares would be affected by the creamery's failure to supply milk. Nearly 300 tractors rolled Into Amarillo TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Prime Minister Menahem Begin left for Washington today a few hours before the start of the Egyptian-Israeli conference in Cairo. He said he was going to inform President Carter of "problems connected with the real chance of establishing peace in the Middle East." The Israeli leader refused at an airport news conference to be specific about the problems he would discuss in Washington but said, "It does require very serious consideration by the president of the United States." He said he was taking "suggestions connected directly with, the peacemaking process" and that Carter "should be informed In detail. He should hear this in direct private talks." The problems did not appear to be urgent. Begin told Secretary of Slate Cyrus Vance last Saturday that he wanted to see Carter, the president 'agreed within four hours, but the two will until Friday.

Accompanied by Atty. Gen. Aaron Barak, overseas information chief Shumel Katz and two military advisers, Begin was scheduled to arrive in New York this afternoon, but it could not be learned if he would go on to Washington immediately. Aides said his meeting with Carter was being delayed until Vance's return from his Middle East trip, and the delay would also give the 64-year-old prime minister a chance to' rest up from the flight. There was speculation In iirael that Begin was going to Washington to meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat or that he was carrying a new Israeli peace plan and needed U.S.

approval of some of its provisions, such as an American guarantee of Israel's security in exchange for the return of captured Arab territory. SHOPPING CAYS till mrm.