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2 Advertiser, Lafayette, Li, Sunday, Feb, 28, 1971 i Tornado Alert Proved To Be Accurate Forecaster Saw Winds Showers Move With Front Scientists Still Puzzled By Glow, Possibly UFO (Continued From Page 1) more than 1,000 individual homes and 95 businesses either were destroyed or badly damaged. Total property loss was put at $7.5 million. In every group I talk to, I ask for a show of hands of people w'ho have seen UFOs and there are always some, but very few of them ever report their sightings. May Find Out Asked what a person has to gain from reporting a UFO, Williams says, for one thing, you may learn just what it was you saw and satisfaction of knowing is a reward in itself. Also, he said, if scientists art unable to give you any explanation, you may have contributed information that could be used as a key to answering unsolved questions about UFOs.

Your one sighting could be a very important piece in the UFO puzzle, he said. And we are interested in getting all the puzzle pieces we can. lives alone, declined an offer to move to Meridian, to live in a house trailer. This is my home, she said. (AP I'LL BUILD AGAIN Mrs.

Ruth Sylvester, 76, stands amid the ruins of her farm house at Delta City, and points to where shell build again. Mrs. Sylvester, who Local And Area Deaths JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -When Bill Keating reported to work at the U.S. Weather Bureau here at 3:30 a.m.

last Sunday, the forecast called for warm, southerly winds accompanied by showers and thundershowers a not untypical wet, oppressive February day in the Mississippi Delta. Reviewing the latest weather maps, Keating made a mental note to keep track of an easterly moving low pressure system and trailing cold front developing in South Central Texas. Keating watched and waited and by late morning he knew the low with its bitter cold would collide with the warm, southerly air somewhere along the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Such a union, Keating knew, was the spawning ground for one of the most feared and unpredictable of all meteorological abberations the tor nado. Tornado Watch At 11:55 a.m., Keating acted, and weather wires in newspapers, television and radio stations across the state clattered out the warning.

A tornado wtach was in effect for portions of east central Mississippi. In Louisiana, a similar warning was going out for the west central part of the state. The warnings proved accurate, deadly accurate. At 3:23 p.m., a twister sucked up a frame house in Delhi, 20 miles across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg. It chewed it up and spit out the pieces.

Ten died in the crushing vortex. Six bodies were discovered up to 200 yards away. The others are still missing. Spawned Twisters For four hours, the storm roared through the Mississippi Delta, spawning dozens of twisters to repeat the Delhi tragedy over and over again. The Mississippi civil defense reported 91 deaths in six counties, and workmen continue to probe through the mountains of rubble for other victims.

More than 600 were An estimated 2,300 were left homeless. Four small communities, Inverness, Delta City, Pugh City and Little Yazoo, virtually ceased to exist as they were raked by the pounding funnels. Property Loss The Red Cross estimates Lafayette (Continued From Page 1) strengthening it to permit use by jet airplanes of the DC-9 type. Airport Commission members realized in 1966 that additional runway facilities would be required to maintain carrier operations in Lafayette and to propel the parish into the pure jet age. Federal Aid Phase one was accomplished at a cost of approximately of which slightly more than $700,000 is in funds from the Federal Aid to Airports program.

Texas International jet service to Dallas Fort Worth begins Monday. Flight 903 will depart Lafayette at 6:11 a.m. for Beaumont Port Arthur, Dallas Fort Worth, Abilene and San Angelo. The flight will arrive in Dallas Fort Worth at 7:50 a.m. Return Service Return service to Lafayette will depart San Angelo at 5:10 p.m.

and arrive here at 9:11 p.m. after an added stop in Lake Charles. The second phase of the air-p improvement project should be completed by the end of 1973. This will provide a new north south with an initial length of 6,600 feet, which will be capable of extension to a total length of 7,400 feet. The runway will be designed and equipped for instrument landings to insure unrestricted jet airplane operations.

The project is now awaiting federal funds earmarked for airport developments. It is expected to be under construction during the summer of this year. Anticipated cost of phase two, which includes the new runway relocation and installation of navigational facilities lighting, connected taxiways, strengthening existing taxiways, marking and approach zone clearing, is estimated at approximately $5,000,000. One half of this is expected to come from federal funds. NEW NASA CHIEF Dr.

James C. Fletcher, University of Utah president with a background of 20 years as a scientist and administrator in the aerospace field, was named to head the nations space agency. (AP Wirephoto) Fletcher Has Much Catching Up SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Dr. James C. Fletcher, the tall, lean university president who President Nixon will nominate to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, says he has a lot of catching up to do.

I have some familiarity with the early days of the space program, the grey-haired, bespectacled physicist said Saturday. But I dont feel at all competent these days since Ive been out of it for quite a while. He met with newsmen after Nixon confirmed in Washington that he would nominate Fletcher to the space agency post, which has been vacant since Thomas O. Paine resigned last September to enter private industry. Founded Firm Fletcher, founder of a firm that later became Space General Corp.

and a former member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the per-decessor agency to NASA, stepped out of the aerospace field in 1964 to become president of the University of Utah. He doesnt foresee many problems in stepping back in. Ill be an administrator, he said, and administrative techniques are the same, whether at NASA, in industry or at a He said when the glow reached the tree tops the area lit up. Scientists who combed the area later found a clearing a ring about 30 feet in diameter in the vicinty of where the pulsating light was believed to have come from. Bark on the trees along the edge of the ring was scortched black on the side toward the clearing.

Bark on the backside of the trees was not damaged. The men of science, many of them very much interested in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) agreed it would have taken a tremendous amount of heat to scorch the bark. No Explanation But, they could come up with no explanation. They ruled out every possible cause they were knowledgable of up to that time. They ruled out such things as oil or gas burnoffs, lights from a freight train and other similar possibilities.

All they know to date is that whatever it was, it generated a huge amount of light and tremendous heat. John Williams, professor of astronomy and physics at Centenary College in Shreveport, is very much interested in UFOs and finds stories like the one above intriguing and frustrating. He doesnt believe in men from Mars piloting flying saucers, but he finds UFOs an interesting subject for talk and speculation and will deliver a lecture on the subject at the local planetarium this afternoon at 2:30. The public is invited to attend. The astronomers talk will center around his work with data collected from an equally interesting general public.

Wants Reports And if youve sighted any UFOs, hell be very happy to hear about them. Williams says that since the Air Force closed its Project Blue Book an investigation of UFO sightings people have not known where to report such experiences. By coming to the astronomer said, 1 hope to show that people in the scientific community are still very much interested in UFOs. I want people to contact me when thev spot a UFO. The professor has arranged to have a local contact and he urges area persons who spot UFOs to get in touch with Dr.

Dwynn LaFleur, Ph.D, in the physics department at USL. The two men attended the University of Texas together. Even Birds Although he refuses to go out on a limb and speculate on the cause of the light in the lead of this story, Williams says many UFO sightings can be explained. Meteorites, clouds and even birds have been misidenti-fied as UFOs. Only about one fifth of the sightings can not be attributed to known phenomenon.

One problem Williams has in gathering data about UFOs is; that only a small percentage of people who have spotted them ever report them. It used! Seven (Continued From Pago 1) on forgery charges. Celestine was arrested on two counts of burglary, and Gotch was charged with burglary also. In Jail Listi said all are being held in the parish jail after arrests were made late last week. Capt.

Nick Lane and Lt. Roland Bouttee conducted the investigation, and they said the investigation began Feb. 14 when a forged check was cashed at a N. Washington St. grocery store.

The check reportedly had been stolen from Air East Airliner, Inc. The detectives investigation led to the discovery of several other checks taken from Emmanuel Baptist Church and Curlev J. Broussards Real Estate. The sheriff said the checks had been forged and cashed at various local grocery and liquor stores. Capt.

Lane said that during his investigation it was revealed that the check books used had been stolen from the various places and sold to the persons forging them. Celestine and Gotch are charged with burglarizing Curley J. Broussard Real Estate. Two check books, a camera, whiskey and a tape recorder were taken. Celestine also is charged with burglarizing Emmanual Baptist Church and Empire Gas Company.

Listi said Celestine took check books from each place. Capt. Lane said a total of $669.05 in forged checks have been confiscated in connection with the case. KELLY RAYE RENKEN Mrs. Thibodeaux Found Dead Early Saturday Morning Funeral services are scheduled tomorrow for a Lafayette woman found dead in her apartment house on Chestnut St.

about 1:20 a.m. Saturday. Services for Mrs Rose Abboud Thibodeaux, 42, 120 S. Chestnut will be held at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the St.

Genevieve Catholic Church. A resident of the apartment house in which she resided discovered her body at the bottom of a staircase early Saturday. Lafayette Parish Coroner Dr. Henry Voorhies Jr. said that the death is believed to have been caused either by cardiac failure or by a fall down the flight of stairs.

Final determination of cause of death will not be made until tomorrow, he said. Mrs. Thibodeaux was a native and lifelong resident of Lafayette. She was employed by Lafayette General Hospital for the past 18 years as a nurses aid. Her father was the late George Abboud.

Survivors include her mother, Mrs. George Abboud of Lafayette; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Gomez and Mrs. Carolyn Cassard, both of Houston, two sons, Mitchell Thibodeaux of Lafayette and Gerald Thibodeaux with the U.S. Army in Vietnam; three sisters, Mrs.

Eddie Quartana of Lafayette, Mrs. Vicki Cumbers of Wiling-ton, N.C., and Mrs. Alice Abboud of Tampa, one brother, Mitchell Abboud of New Haven, and three grandchildren. A rosary will be recited tonight at 7 oclock in the funeral home. The Delhomme Funeral Home, Northside, is in charge of funeral arrangements.

of the Church of Christ conducted the service. Burial was in Lafayette Memorial Park Babyland, where Robert Gay, minister of the Church of Christ, conducted graveside services. He is survived by his parents. Mrs. Barnes was the former Jane Patton, Lafayette, ne brother, James D.

Barnes of Lafayette; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Patton of Shreveport; his maternal great grandmother, Mrs. Ada Johnson of Lawton, his paternal great grandmother, Mrs. W.

M. Patton of Lawton, Okla. Earl S. O'Dea ABBEVILLE Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at United Methodist Church for Earl Pat Stratton ODea, 70, who died at 8:10 p.m.

Thursday at Abbeville General Hospital. Rev. Tracy Arnold. Rev. Opha Vaspard, Rev.

W.H. Efferson and Rev. E. Bruillet will officiate at the services. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery where graveside masonic rites will be held.

He was a member of the Louisiana State Board of Health, Abbeville Masonic Lodge No. 192. Lake Charles Scottish Rites bodies, the Jerusalem Temple Order of Mystic Shrine in New Orleans, the Lafayette Shriners Club and the Oberlin Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his widow, the former Winnie Trahan of Abbeville: one son. William Martin ODea of Cincinnati, Ohio; one daughter.

Mrs. Dean Eleanor Frost of Lincoln, Nebraska; two sisters, Mrs. Madeline Tatum and Mrs. Lillian Marchman, both of Denham Springs; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Arthur Lee Pickens Funeral services will be held at St.

James Baptist Church Mondav at 3:30 p.m. for Arthur Lee Pickens, 33, who died in Lafayette Charity Hospital Fri-dav at 7 a.m. Burial will be in the Holy Seoulchre Cemetery. Survivors of the Beaumont native include his widow, Mrs. Alice Breaux Pickens; his father, Henry L.

Pickens; his stepmother, Mrs. Alice Pickens; two brothers, Oliver and Cleveland Pickens, all of Beaumont, six sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith and Mrs. Murry Jean Williams, both of Hankamer, Mrs. Inez Riddle of Houston, Mrs.

Bcrnell Witter-son of Anauac, Mrs. Bernice Rosette and Miss Mary Helen Pickens, both of Since everything costs money, what would your family do without you? Life insurance was developed to help solve this problem. i uW-iftd i DID YOU KNOW THERE IS AN INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH IN NEW IBERIA? jibe Bible Way Baptist Church Harlan Cott, Pastor Anyone interested in having an independent Baptist Church in Lafayette, please write Harlan Cott, 104 Richelieu Circle, New Iberia, La. or call 365-3489. FRANK DUNLAP, C.L.U.

820 EAST ST. MARY (OIL CENTER) PHONE 232-3322 LIFE INSURANCE CROUP HEALTH ANNUITIES PENSION PLANS If, to be that people were ridiculed by their neighbors if they reported seeing a UFO. IXfWW" f-1 5 Compounded Daily! Services Set Monday For Kelly Renken Funeral services are' set here Monday for a four year old Lafayette child who died Saturday after an 'accident in her home, 213 Robinhood Lane. Services will be held for Kelly Raye Renken at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Lutheran Church.

She died about 3 p.m. Saturday when struck by a workbench that fell on her. Dr. Lawless Bourque, assistant parish coroner, said she suffered head Injuries. She is survived by her parents, Mr.

and Mr9. Reid Renken and one brother. Randall Reid Renken all of Lafayette; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert G.

Renken of Corpus Christi, her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Omar Audi-let of Yorktown, her paternal great grandfather, George Renken of Corpus Christi; and paternal great grandmother, Mrs. John Koehn of Orange Grove, Tex. The Martin and Castille Funeral Home is in charge of burial arrangements. Mrs.

Lucien Roy Sr. KAPLAN Funeral services are incomplete for Mrs. Lucien Roy 72, the former Ovelia Schexnider, of Kaplan, who died Friday at 11:30 p.m.. in a Kaplan hospital. Services will be in the Holy Rosary Catholic Church and burial will be in Maurice Catholic Cemetery.

Surviving are three sons, Maxie Roy Sr. of Patterson, Lloyd Roy of Maurice and Lucien Roy Jr. of Kaplan; three daughters, Theresa Roy of Kaplan, Mrs. Leroy LeBoeuf of Kaplan and Mrs. Sidney Romero of St.

Martinville; two sisters. Miss Odelia Schexnider and Mrs. Zeno Landry, both of Kaplan; three brothers, Isaac Schexnider of Mansura, Hazard Schexnider of Rayne and Gilbert Schexnider of Lafayette; seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mcaux Funeral Home of Kaplan is in charge of arrangements. Mrs.

Edna M. Chentlen Funeral services will be conducted for Mrs. Edna Mae Chentlen, 32, the former Edna Mae Connley, at 1 m. today at the Pine Grove Church of God in Christ in Leesville. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

She died Saturday, Feb. 20, at 9:25 p.m, in Lafayette. A native of Leesville, she was a resident of New Iberia for eieht months. She was the wife of Rev. Melvin Chentlen of New Iberia.

Other survivors include two sons, Melvin and Walter Chentlen of New Iberia; one daughter, Mary Ella Chentlen of New Iberia and two brothers, Andy Lvnch and Avon Lynch of Leesville. The Fletcher Funeral Home is in charge of burial arrangements. Barnes Infant Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Del-homme Funeral Home for Edward Anthony Barnes, infant son of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward W. Barnes, Jr. who died at 11:30 a.m. Friday in Lafayette General Hospital. Mr.

Gene Me Cann, minister 3 Crosses Burned In Opelousas OPELOUSAS Three burlap wrapped crosses made of two by fours burned here Friday night, apparently the work of the Ku Klux Klan, city police and sheriffs department officials say. Shortly before midnight, the crosses, saturated with either kerosine or gasoline, were lighted, one before the St. Landry Parish School Board office, another in front of the Cutrera Grocery, where a week ago Budge Cutrera Sr. was killed and robbed, and at a service station a quarter of a mile east of town on Highway 190. About a month and a half ago a man was shot and killed near the service station.

Assistant chief of city police Julius Guillory says the cross-burnings were possibly the work of one person. Two of the signs carried KKK cards with Swartz, La. and a phone number written at the bottom of them. A special investigator from the sheriffs department and the city police are investigating the cases. "earning money while you sleep" Guaranteed Interest! a higher rate, with no risk Baton Rouqe Man Killed In Accident KROTZ SPRINGS A Baton Rouge man was killed when his car went out of control Saturday morning and ran into a tree on Highway 71 about six miles north of here.

Killed was John Morris Dempsey, 35. State police troop officers i say the accident apparently happened about 12:15 a.m. Saturday but was not discovered until 10 a.m. Saturday. Open With Only $100! "for folks like you and me" GUARANTY NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC I will be it the following places on the dates indicated between the hours of 8:30 and 11:00 A.

M. for the purpose of allowing persons eligible to sign their Homestead Exemption for the year 1971. Monday, March 1st Scott City Hall Tuesday, March 2nd Duson City Hall Wednesday, March 3rd Hebert's Country Store, Ossun. Thursday, March 4th Judice Elementary School Friday, March 5th Alice Boucher School Lobby Monday, March 8th Northside High School Cym Tuesday, March 9th Acadian Elementary School Cafeteria Wednesday, March 1 0th Broussard Elementary School Cym. Thursday, March 11th Carencro Elementary School Cafeteria Friday, March 12th Comeaux High School Cafeteria Monday, March 1 5th Fernand Stutes Store, Ridge Road Tuesday, March 16th L.

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