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i i WEATHER FORECAST Rain this afteroon; changing to snow tonight, Tuesday. TEMPERATURES Readings from San. noon to Man. noon: Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser FINAL HARBOR, MICH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, rn JV IF Cn 12 n.

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10c High, 34, at ze HI ream xl I jtrv. JUtT: jit lip NARROW ESCAPE: Four people barely got out of this car before it was struck by a tornado and blown onto the remains of a house where six persons died in a small community near Delhi, Sunday afternoon. (AP Wirephoto) EDITION BENTON Niles Van and Red Arrow conferences have been paired off for the first round of the Class district basketball tournament here next Wednesday, March 3. Covert and Lawrence will open play at 7:00 p.m. while Galien and Bridgman will clash in the second game of the doubleheader at 8:30.

The Class championship game will be played Saturday, starting at 7:30 p.m. CLASS AT GRAND RAPIDS GRAND RAPIDS Sauga-tuck will meet Allendale in the opening game of the Class district basketball tournament at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Grand Rapids Union high school. The winner will battle Holland St. Augustine at 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday for a berth in Friday's 7:30 p.m. championship game. St. Joseph Seminary and Covenant Christian at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday for the other berth in the title game.

AREA DRAWINGS LISTED 7H i i mm nasnetoau lourney Pairs Tigers, SHOPPING CENTER DESTROYED: Shopping center in the Waco, Texas, suburb of Bellmead was houses and other business, including post office and bank, were damaged. (AP Wirephoto) mix The Decatur-Watervliet game will be played at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday with the winner advancing to a semifinal game against Hartford at 7:30 Thursday. Bangor and Mattawan meet in the other semifinal game at 7:30 Wednesday. The championship game will be played at 7:30 Saturday.

CLASS AT CONSTANTINE CONSTANTINE Co-favorites Cassopolis and Constantine were placed in opposite brackets in this morning's drawing for the Class district basketball tournament here next week. Cassopolis will play Coloma on Wednesday and Constantine will meet White Pigeon on Thursday with the two winners advancing to Saturday's championship game. All games will start at 7:30 p.m. CLASS AT NILES NILES Rivals from the Al- completely destroyed Sunday by a tornado. Several 3 a.

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12 n. .27 .27 .28 .31 3 p.m.; low, 27 at 8 a.m. Women Ask Welfare Reform Voters League Calls Present System A 'Mess' The League of Woman Voters of the Benton Harbor St. Joseph area is supporting a national drive for reform in the welfare system, according to Mrs. Robert Rood, oresident of the local chapter.

The local league was one of 900 DarticiDatins in a studv af welfare. The studv Drodueed a mandate to "work for construc tive alternatives to our present welfare system," said Lucy Wilson Benson, national president of League of Women Voters. INCOME ASSISTANCE Mr. Benson said league members believe that the federal government should bear the major responsibility for an income assistance program which meets the basic needs of persons unable to work, whose earnings are inadequate or for whom jobs are not available. Work incentives are an integral part of the League position but the organization will oppose mandatory work requirements.

It underscored the- importance of establishing adequate financial incentives and opportunities for realistic job training and counseling. Mrs. Benson added: League members put a great deal of energy and effort into this matter (welfare study) and reached some basic conclusions in four important areas:" First, is the matter of benefits. WTe believe that the amount of income assistance should be sufficient to provide decent, adequate standards for food, clothing and shelter. Second, is the matter of coverage; we belive that all persons in individuals as well as members of families, should be eligible for assistance.

Third, the individual rights of welfare participants should be protected and, fourth, the league believes that a punitive relationship between income assistance and job programs should be avoided. Work should be encouraged, but counseling, realistic- training for "actual jobs and financial incentives not work requirements should be the links between job porgrams and income assistance. SUPPORTIVE SERVICE In addition to income assistance, Mrs. Benson explained the league's position calls for provision of supportive services (child counseling, family planning, health and legal services) with the federal government setting eligilility and quality standards and the continua- (See Page 15, Column 8) .29 .29 .29 .28 HI uth i 1971 32 PAGES si Bureau. Lows tonight are expected to range from 25 to 30 degrees with highs Tuesday in the lower 30's.

Wind velocity was expected to be from 20 to 30 miles per hour today, with gusts up to 40 m.p.h. Berrien and Van Buren county road commissions reported "nearly all" roads icy and dangerous early this morning. Area police agencies reported numerous accidents. State police at Niles and New Buffalo said the freezing rain began about 4 a.m. and the South Haven State police post reported road conditians became worse around 7 a.m.

Minor accidents were being reported throughout the area and two personal injury accidents were reported by the Berrien county sheriff's department. Public schools reported closed in the area were St. Joseph, River Valley, Brandywine, Galien, Lake Michigan Catholic, South Haven, Bangor, Covert, and Lawrence. Niles school buses ran late, and classes at Eau Claire high school were dismissed during the morning. TO HIE rn i UUJ Mississippi Towns Are Demolished Low Pressure System Comes In Off Gulf By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dozens of tornadoes lashed a 100-mile strip of the Mississippi River Delta late Jaunaay.

otu-cials reported 65 persons were killed, 59 in Mississippi ana in Louisiana. Hundreds were injured. Pro perty damage was extensive. The death toll cumbed sharply early today when authorities reported additional victims in Mississippi's LeFlore County" and in Inverness, Miss. 'THOUSAND HELLS' "It looked like a thousand hells!" exclaimed Willie Young, a railroad employe who survived one of the first tornadoes near Dehli, La.

A National Weather Service spokesman at Jackson, said there probably were 40 to 50 tornadoes in the 100-mile line of violent weather that raced across Mississippi after spawning two twisters in northeast Louisiana. Mississippi officials reported 19 killed in rural LeFlore County, 13 at Inverness, eight at Cary, seven at Delta City, five in rural Humphreys County, three at Little Yazoo, two at Rome and two at Bovina. The LeFlore deaths included 16 at Pugh City where, a deputy sheriff said, only seven of the 50 houses were left standing. In Louisiana, near Delhi, six persons died when a tornado lifted a frame house from its foundation and splintered it over a wide area. Some of the bodies were found 200 yards from the foundation of the house.

Telephone communications were knocked out in some of the hardest hit areas in Mississippi. National Guard units were mobilized in several communities and shelters were being set up for the homeless. About 50 emergency Red Cross workers were sent to the storm area. Sen. James Eastland, asked President Nixon to declare the stricken region a federal disaster area.

A spokesman for the University of Mississippi at Oxford said 40 students were hospitalized after a tornado struck a trailer parked on the edge of the campus. He said 50 trailers were destroyed anl 50 others damaged. Some trailers were wrapped around huge pine trees like pieces of wire. Damage at Inverness, a community of about 1,100 persons about 90 miles northwest of Jackson, was widespread. Ray Armstrong, a Civil Defense worker who was.

helping tolook for victims in the debris, said: "We don't know how many are dead, how many are injured or how many may still be under this stuff." SECTION FLATTENED Authorities said a Negro section of Inverness was completely flattened and all homes in a four-block white residential area were either destroyed or heavily damaged. Among structures destroyed at Inverness were a large cotton gin building, a Baptist church and the fire station. Power lines and trees were down throughout the community. Dot Williams, an Inverness housewife, reported: "I was reading a book when the children started hollering 'Tornado! Tornado! When I looked out the window and saw tin flying in the air, I put them under the bed. My husband was watching TV and was half asleep on the couch.

He didn't really believe me at first." Mrs. Williams' home suffered minor damage. Mrs. Williams said a nurse from Leland, som 20 miles away, was driving through Inverness when the storm hit. She parked her car on the highway and walked through a rainstorm to set up a rescue center.

Ed Bradley said he put his wife and three children in bed, put a mattress on top of them, and weathered the storm. He said only one wall and the bed (See Page 15, Column 1) -'J TORNADO VICTIM: The body of a tornado victim is loaded into an ambulance today at Inverness, after tornadoes raked across the state claiming a number of lives. (AP Wirephoto) N1LES Defending champion Benton Harbor will square off against Niles in the first game of the Class A district basketball tournament here next week. The Tigers and Vikings will meet at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday with the winner advancing to the championship game at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday against St. Joseph, which received the lone bye in a drawing conducted here this morning. Only three teams were assigned by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to the Berrien county district, which also included Holland last season. CLASS AT BERRIEN SPRINGS BERRIEN SPRINGS Lake Michigan Catholic and Eau Claire will meet in the first game of the Class district basketball tournament here next Tuesday, March 2. Berrien Springs and Buffalp were matched in the other first-round game on Wednesday during the drawings this morning.

Winners of the two games will meet in the championship game on Friday. All games are slated for 7:30 p.m. CLASS AT WATERVLIET WATERVLIET Host Watervliet will take on Decatur in the first game of the Class district tournament here next week. That was' determined by drawings today which gave first-round byes to the other three teams in the field Bangor, Hartford and Matta-wan. Accountant Fails To File Tax Returns Paw Paw Man i leans ouiuy PAW PAW Donald H.

Bolinger, 51, Ackley lake, Paw Paw, a certified public accountant, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of failing to file income tax returns for 1967, the Internal Revenue Service district office at Detroit reported today. Bolinger, a self-employed pub-lie accountant in Paw Paw cino iiKfi was chareed with failing to file returns for four years, 1964 through 1967. The TRS rhareed that in those years he earned a total gross income of $115,768, upon wnicn he filed no returns. Bolinger entered the guilty tiloi hpfnro Cornelia Ken- norlu IT S. district court.

Detroit. He remained free under $1,000 bond pending a pre sentence Investigation. The offense carries a maxi mum penalty of one year prison and $10,000 fine IRS SCHOOLS SHUT DOWN Sleet Leaves Glare Of Ice; Snow Due 'Ay I Coloma school buses were called back in, but the schools remained open. All schools in Cass and Allegan county remained open, however. Many students were I bussed in up to two hours late and buses in Dowagiac and Cassopolis were not sent out.

All roads in Cass county were i reported glazed with ice. i Cass county heriff 's department reported four accidents as a result of the icy road conditions. INDEX SECTION ONE Editorials Page 2 Twin Cities News Page 3 Women's Section 4,5,6 Ann Landers Page 6 Obituaries Page 15 SECTION TWO Area Highlights Page 17 Sports Pages 18,19,20,24 Comics, TV, Radio Page 26 Markets Page 27 Weather Forecast Page 27 Classified Ads Pages Freezing rain early this morning left a glare of ice over most southwestern Michigan roads, causing numerous accidents and the closing of many schools. The rain was expected to change to snow late tonight, diminishing by Tuesday afternoon, according to the Weather Holland Fire Damage Set At 8100,000 HOLLAND AP) Firemen said preliminary estimates indicate that as much as $100,000 damage was done to a storage building "at the Harrington Coal Docks in Holland Sunday. One fireman was overcome by bmoke and was treated at the scene.

Four trucks inside the building were damaged, as well as two front-loaders, and small amounts of charcoal briquettes, salt and fertilizer. The cause was not immediately reported. FROM RUSSIA WITHOUT LOVE: Leonid Soviet-born Jew who won U.S. citizenship in December, tells a press conference in New York City Sunday that the Soviet government tried to prevent Jews from leaving the country because they were "intellectual assets" and the country's leaders "want the slaves to work." Rigerman, who was finally allowed to leave the Soviet Union, said the desire of Jews to leave Russia for Israel could not be extinguished. (AP Wirephoto) notice stated..