The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 1

A'CONSTITUTIO ATLANT JL 111 For 104 Years the South' Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, GA. 30302, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1973 P.O. Box 4689 58 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS TEN CENTS VOL. 103, No. 244 v.

Hllnai fit i i If Br i 1 i i .1 Staff Photos by Downs and Chuck Vollcrtsen Tornado Demolished Conycrs' Slacks Manufacturer, Miller Brothers, Left Photo, and Lithonia Lighting Company Warehouse NEWS THIS1M0RNING pr2, 1973 GOOD l(lORNING! Partly sunny skies and mild temperatures' are expected to prevail over Georgia Monday. No raiivs in the forecast. Highs should be in the 70s fol- 2 Dead. 5Q00 Homeless yr lovylhg early morning lows mostly in the 40s. Details on va i tf" a a ir-: rage z-a.

WORLD VATICAN CITY Pope Paul VI decries the execution of a priest for baptizing a baby in Page 5-A. NATION" WASHINGTON Future of U.S. farmers is coming under closer scrutiny this year than at any time in the past. The second in a series of articles on the problems 'of farming and the costs of food is on Page 12-A. WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Elliott Richardson says U.S.

could renew aerial attacks on North Vietnam if Hanoi fails to live up to the cease-fire agreement. Page 2-A. MEMPHIS Rep. Andrew Young predicts that President Nixon's economic policies are leading to a recession which will hurt whites more than blacks. Page 11-A.

GEORGIA WALDO IITTT, an engineer, reflects on how railroads have changed in the last 50 years. Page 17-A. MRS. CAROLYN HASKELL, one of the Atlanta founders of Fight Inflation Together (FIT), tells how she got involved in the movement to boycott meat. Mrs.

Haskell's "QUOTE" is on Page 11-A. JUDICIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE will soon be investigating complaints against state judges. Page 8-A. ATLANTA MAYOR SAM MASSELL will ask the Board of Aldermen to approve spending new funds from beverage taxes to hire 175 to 200 new policemen. The mayor also wants to abandon the controversial program of hiring policemen only from within the city.

Page 14-A. INDEX More tornado stories and, pictures on Pages 6-A, 7-A and 15-A. By SAM HOPKINS A killer tornadic storm called by Gov. Jimmy Carter the "worst, natural disaster" ever to hit the state caused an estimated $100 million damage and left 5,000 homeless, Carter said Sunday. More than 300 persons were reported injured in Rockdale, Clayton, Walton and Clarke counties.

The wide-reaching storm which left six dead' in South Carolina as well as two in Georgia first hit the Jonesboro area just below Atlanta and developed so suddenly that the National Weather Service had not seen the tornado on its radarscope. Gov. Carter, who flew pver the tornado's route for some 100 miles Sunday, called it a "miracle that no more people were killed." Carter, in a special news conference Sunday afternoon at the Governor's Mansion, said he had already called on federal officials to declare the hard-hit counties a disaster area. He said officials with the U. S.

Office of Emergency Preparedness will tour the areas Monday morning to start assessing the damage as the first step for possible government relief funds. Carter said he will instruct State Compt. Gen. Johnnie Caldwell to urge insurance companies to expedite payments on insurance policies covering such disasters. He also said he was asking State Labor Commissioner Sam Caldwell to work with the Civil Defense Department to expedite unemployment compensation for workers whose firms were destroyed by the tornado.

Carter announced Sunday night that four task force relief centers will open at See STORM, Page 15-A Good Health 8-B Astrology 8-C Bob Harrell 10-A Business, Industry Comics 6-B Deaths 9-C Editorials 4-A Movies, Amusements 13-A Sports 1-C Television 8-C Want Ads 10-C Women, Family 2-B Mohile Home Park in Conycrs Near Interstate 20 Was Left in Shambles DESTROYS MOTEL, SUBDIVISION Kills do orna Missionaries Burned Alive By Reds? Last America POW feared his release a Communist-triefc. Page Z-A. CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP) Communist troops burned to death two American women missionaries when they were captured five months ago. in Laos, ac-, cording to a 'Canadian missionary captured 1 with them, i Evelyn Anderson, 25, and Beatrice Kosin, 35, were tied to a post and burned alive in a grass hut, his account said. When the women's charred.

bodies were found a few days later in at the village of Kcngkok in Southern Laos, thoir hands were tied behind their backl'. The CantidiniVtloyd 20, of British Columbia. to have told the story to his, escort oflicer, who related it to Canadian-born Shirley Jones, wife of a civilian employe' here. Mrs. Jones relayed this account to newsmen: "Mr.

Oppel, the two women and another ft a son of Fletcher Ferguson, owner of the Abbeville Press.i and Banner, was killed sucked from the front door of his home and struck by a falling trc-e. Tammy New ton, 9, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William R. Newton Jr. ofiMcKenzia Acres, was killed when her home, was lifted and thrown about 40 yards and shattered into splinters.

Mrs. Robbie Allen of McKenzie Acres she i heard the tornado and fan to the rear of the house. She dropped to the floor In den in front of the sofa and hung on to the "Then the house lifted and fell It was all over, I grabbed the dog and crawled out between the bits of debris." She Said It was pitch black dark and she' had a flashlight in her hand. "I started hollering and the man door ran over and helped me out." Tom Allen, said his wife is six months pregnant. The area around th" posh subdivision was littered with roofs nd overturned automobiles.

Trees were sapped, uprooted and twisted with pieces of hemes and clothing littering them. it was stripped from its frame and scattered for miles along the The three occu- pants were said to be in fair condition. Kay Hapey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Huney Calhoun Falls, said she and mdmbts o( her family were at her parents; house when the twister struck.

Sh i'Thunder and lightning was ail'around us and mother told us to gel into the hall. Then the walls and ceiling fell on us." She said they all escaped injury. Road crews were all' along SouthCaroTk na 72 replacing snapped or twiste utility poles. About 12 poles were broken or twisted along the two-mile 'stretch of road Officials i they hoped power cou'd be restored by Monday. The tornado lurched over about a stretch; between Calhounj Falls and Abbeville and landed ra a service station and a smail church.

Both were- leveled. The whirlpool of wind yien a 50-foot-widc path through a wooded area and its full on the McKpzle Acres subdivision of 'Abbeville. Two Abbeville youths wereilled as the twister routed itself through the, neWly-de-vcloped section. Tommy Ferguson, 16-year- By BOB IIITT 4 S.C A tornado that left two-dead to Georgia Jumped the state line Carolina about .950 p.mi Saturday-, sis nabn lives and injured yj i Authorities siitf the twister sat down jiear Calhoun Fttlls, S.C, end demolished a small motel about three "miles east of there on South Carolina Slaton's Motel was uprooted from its foundation and strewn along the west side of the highway like confetti. The cotton field adjacent to the highway was covered with multicolored insulation material and snapped utility potoi.

Authorities closed -the road because lartfe pieces of the mote) made About 20 persons were rogisterei at the- motel nd autiiorilies said four'of the'm were killed. They were identified as Wallace Powell 4'J, and Forest G. Addison, 47, berth of Calhoun Falls," ammy Lott.bx of McCor- mack and Floyd Daniel of Greenwood. A large field behind the motel and fa- thcr down the highway looked like a yard. A mobile home with three occupants In Sec MISSIONARIES, Page 13 Freezer Left in Decapitated Trailer.