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23, No. 49 P.O. Box 4689 Atlanta, Ga. 30302, Sunday, April 1, 1973 314 Pages 19 Sections Price 30 Cents iT Decatur ATLANTA Nursing Home Is Evacuated; Many Trapped UWONIA DEKALB WW T1 mmmmmmmwmm tmmm iiiiaoiiiiiiii'iiiiiinif'iwymgyBWJPM' nmnw ihiumu iu 'A f- 1 "fp1 Ay Map by Mike Huie Caused Damage Some Areas Where Tornadoes Map Shows stait rnoto Bill unmes After? Tornado Hit in Morrow: David Rhodes' Residence at 6918 Vestabrook Road THOUSANDS JAM Y. STREETS Viet Vets Honored by Biggest Parade Vietnam -Pullout Ends; a OnSy ennaisi Tornadoes, spawned by severe thunderstorms, slammed into several areas of metro Atlanta and the Athens area More photos, story Page 2A.

Staurday night injuring approximately 30 persons, none fatally. The twisters ripped apart homes, downed power lines and heavily damaged a nursing home near the Clayton-Henry county line. One tornado swept along Stagecoach Road and U.S. 23 smashing into mobile home parks crushing almost all of the 200 trailers in the parks. Workers were forced to saw through fallen trees so ambulances and rescue workers could reach the injured.

Only minor injuries were reported at the nursing home. Most of the injured were taken to hospitals in the metro area. RESCUE WORKERS still were trying to reach persons reported trapped in the hard-hit areas of Conyers and Morrow. At Athens, "A lot of people were injured," according to a spokesman at the Clarke County Sheriff's Department. One wire service reported at least 20 taken to local hospitals.

United Press International quoted one witness: "We got people lying all over the place." The spokesman in the Sheriff's Department said the twister or twisters "tore up these trailer parks around here." Most of the damage was outside the city itself, he said. He said a good deal of outside emergency help was called in to handle the situation. PAUL COLIER, Stock-bridge chief of police, said he could describe the tornado "as only a big black cloud," because it was too dark to determine the iunnel shape. Colier said he was among the first to the scene and that he could not enter the hardest hit area because of fallen trees. Trees crashed into roofs, spanned electric and telephone wires and fell on top of mobile homes.

Near the trailer park, be THERE were flags fluttering from buildings, flapping atop color guard standards in the parade and waving in the hands of thousands along the route. Small flags attached to little sticks were stuck in tie helmets of firemen atop the Engine Company 23 truck at 56th Street and in the jackets of patrolmen at Columbus Sharply at noon, the head of the parade came to a halt at Father Duffy's Statue between 46th and 47th streets. Times Square normally the city's busiest crossroads then fell silent for a minute of prayer led by Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York, for the 55,000 Ameri- Turn to Page 14A, Column 1 nists surrounded the base on Feb. 26. Hien declined nt vhen asked if a counterattack is being planned to break the Communist siege of the camp, but he said the government "will not let the ranger battalion be sacrificed." Hien has said that, in addi-Turn to Page 14A, Column 2 NEW YORK (NYT) -Bands thundered, bagpipes skirled, forests of American flags waved wildly and large sidewalk crowds roared their approval Saturday as tens of thousands of marchers paraded up Broadway in tribute to the Americans who served in Southeast Asia.

It was the nation's first and possibly only big Vietnam War parade. Warm sunlight bathed mid-town Manhattan through most of the afternoon, and temperatures in the low 60s made it a perfect day for a parade. The crowds were cast and the mood was decidedly patriotic. THE PARADE, sponsors, the "Home with Honor" committee, estimated that 100,000 to 150,000 persons formed the march column, with perhaps as many spectators on the sidelines. The police declined to estimate the size of the parade or crowds watching.

But the sidewalks along Times Square were jammed solid. With Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard contingents leading the way, there were units representing scores of veterans, civic, labor and uniformed city services groups; an array of dignitaries, school bands and drum and bugle corps and other groups. The parade began at 11:45 a.m. and lasted through most of the afternoon, with marchers stepping off at 41st Street, striding up Broadway to Columbus Circle at 59th Street, and then up Central Park west to 72 Street, where they disbanded. Along the line of march, the most common sight besides people were American flags.

"This is the most patriotic crowd I've ever seen in New York," said one observer in Times Square, which has been the scene of many antiwar demonstrations in past years. SOMETHING COULD BE CREEPING UP ON YOU EXOTIC ANIMALS and reptiles are turning up loose in society escapees, or abandoned by disenchanted owners. Page 7C SCIENTISTS 1.1 the United States and abroad are working to slow down the pace of human aging. Page 4D confer Monday and Tuesday with President Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif. U.S.

Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who has resigned his position here after six years, left Saigon Friday and will join Nixon and Thieu in San Clemente. Coupled with the departures, Saigon itself took on the appearance of a peacetime capital. The government has lift-ed, effective Sunday, longstanding bans against dancing, saloons, tea rooms, steam baths and massage parlors. But despite the new atmosphere, the war continued. South Vietnamese military sources said Communist forces continued a heavy artillery barrage against the Tong Le Chan ranger camp, 50 miles north of Saigon, for the third consecutive day Saturday.

More than 2,000 rounds of mortar, rocket and artillery fire hit the camp, wounding three men. The South Vietnamese command spokesman, Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien, said 12 soldiers have been killed and 97 wounded since the Commu- SAIGON (UPI) All remaining American troops destined for withdrawal from South Vietnam under terms of the Paris peace agreement departed Saturday, leaving behind a war still being fought as close as 50 miles to Saigon. The 520 Americans who left had been attached to peacekeeping and supervisory units, principally the former four-party Joint Military Commission (JMC), and remained behind when the last of the combat forces were withdrawn Thursday.

Atfer their departure Saturday, only 223 U.S. servicemen remained in South Vietnam. There were 156 Marines to guard the U.S. embassy, 50 servicemen assigned to the Defense Attache Office (DAO), 14 soldiers who will work with a Joint Military Team (JMT) to try to locate and identify missing Americans, and three Navy engineers (Seabees). President Nguyen Van Thieu also left South Vietnam Saturday, flying to the United States on the first leg of a globe-circling tour to seek financial and other support for post-war Vietnam.

He will STREET SCENES Mother carefully combing shoulder-length hair of son, who is about 20, before he enters downtown employment agency. Norcross matron calling on friend who admires her new shoes so fulsomely that visitor feels impelled to sell her the shoes even though she has to walk home barefooted. Lady at Jamestown shopping center finding car won't start, lifting hood, tapping motor authoritatively a few times with screwdriver, remarking, "That's all it takes," and being proven right. PINEY VOODS PETE SAYS: DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Mayor Sam Massell didn't act surprised when the judge told your city to stop using revenue-sharing funds to pay rebates to water users. He probably knew all the time his plan wouldn't hold water.

Yours truly, PINEY WOODS PETE Art and Music 3F Billy Graham 13D Eooks 6C Business and Finance. 14-19D Classified Want Ads 2E-62E Crossword Puzzle 6C Dr. Alvarez 20D Editorials 18A Furman Bisher 1J Gardening 14-15F Goren on Bridge 2F Hugh Park 19A Home Section 1-18H Jeane Dixon 11D Jesse Outlar 2 Names in the News 16A Obituaries 16-17B, 12D Reg Murphy 19A Sports 1-19J Television, Radio 23-25F Women-Society 1-18G Theaters 6-10F Travel 16-20F Weather Map 16B tween 35 and 50 persons at the Faith, Hope and Charity Convalescent Home were evacuated. EXTENT OF injuries were not known, but Colier said ambulances crowded the hard-Turn to Page HA, Column 1 CDCS WORLDWIDE TASK Disease Puzzles, Kills Busing Proves Bad, Good For Big Cities in the South 3 WW K'VX. jS-JS" IN THE FOURTH city, Charlotte, N.C., a school system spokesman was more ambivalent.

Among other things, continuing occasional physical disruptions in the classrooms have made Charlotte uneasy. tory at the Center for Disease Control CDC in Atlanta. Now, more than three years later, after Lassa fever has claimed several more lives on the African continent, the disease and its relationship to man continues to puzzle scientists. "Because of Lassa fever's highly infectious and virulent nature, the disease poses a considerable public health hazard," says Dr. Robert Kiss-ling, chief of the CDC's virology branch laboratory division.

The CDC has assumed the awesome responsibility of tracking down new, often deadly, exotic diseases such as Lassa fever that are cropping up throughout the world and posing serious threats to man's health, and economic well-being. Any of the new diseases poses a potential hazard to the United States, contends the CDC. ONE SUCH malady occurred first in 1967 and hit laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany, and Yugoslavia Turn to Page 14A, Column 5 SHOWERS ENDING Georgia's weather Monday will be partly cloudy with showers ending in eastern portions of the state, the National Weather Service reports. Highs will be mostly In the 60s in north Georgia and the 70s elsewhere. Early morning lows will be in the upper 40s to near 60.

The forecast for metro Atlanta is partly cloudy and fair with lows in the upper 40s and highs in the upper 60s. Winds will be westerly from eight to 15 miles per hour. Sunset will be at 6:58 and sunrise Monday at 6:24. By CHARLES SEABROOK In January 1969, two missionary nurses in the town of Lassa, Nigeria, died of a mysterious fever. A third nurse who had cared for one of the victims also developed symptoms of the puzzling malady.

Alarmed doctors found they could not offer any explanation for the mysterious sickness, and flew the surviving nurse to a special isolation ward at a medical school hospital in New York. There, while the missionary nurse recovered, a Yale University scientist and his assistant managed to isolate a virus from a sample of the woman's blood. The virus, heretofore unknown to the medical world, was closely ttudied by the Yale investigators but not for lon. THE YALE investigators soon developed the symptoms that had plagued the three nurses. The laboratory assistant died.

The Yale administration immediately banned from the school's campus Mi mi ii.iiimiii'ww.ii.f By STEVE STEWART Mandatory busing for school desegregation untried in Atlanta, but possible by next fall has proved a tad news-good news experience for a number of other big-city Southern school districts. Four of those cities cited by local observers as having some characteristics in common with Atlanta have experienced some of the same problems that concern many Atlantans: white flight, disruption of educational programs, and racial tensions in schools. But school officials in three of those cities Jackson, and Norfolk and Richmond, Va. said last week they were generally pleased with the way massive desegregation had worked. the Institute for Urban Studies at Notre Dame University.

Desegregation has "opened up the possibilities of more positive action on the part of the leadership of the schools," he says, claiming that it has "not detrimentally affected the educational experiences of the students" and has produced "a much more positive kind of educational atmosphere to learn the total reality of growing up in America." But there have been problems, and they are far from solved. The bad news often precedes the good. Jackson's system now has 30,000 students less than a third as many as Atlanta's of whom 65 per cent are black. It thus approaches Atlanta's 79 per cent black figure and, like Atlanta, has lost Turn to Page 14A, Column 4 Jackson, Norfolk, Richmond and Charlotte are part of a national desegregation picture that includes an estimated 600-plus school districts involved in litigation. The national picture is encouraging to observer, Thomas Broden, director of research of the disease, now known as Lassa fever in deference to the place where it first struck, and investigation of the baffling malady was moved to a maximum security labora '1.