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The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 14

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Grand Junction, Colorado
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14
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'fs jrw i i 8L i FRIDAY EVENING, MARCIT0966 THE DAIUY SENTINEL. GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO PAGE FOURTEEN ri)- rf- iurwiw rTy 4 a Howard Polk, owner of the his home one mile from the grocery, said he saw a dead I shopping center, woman and a child in a car in "You could hear it coming for i. way patrolman said (here was looting at the shoppllitf-fcenter shortly after the torna2i2assed "but it was kept to a ftfitiimum antf stopped about as qwieh as it began." a i 1 charge of search operations at the shopping center, said he feared there would be additional dead. Fifty military police stood guard around the chopping center to prevent looting. A high- MI.

JACKSON. Miss. (AP) "It sounded like a thousand jets." said one survivor of the deatlv dealing tornado which struck Mississippi's capital city. "Like about 50 freight" trains on the same track at the same time, was the way another described the fury at dusk Thursday. Larry Swales, 17, an employe of a grocery store in the Can dlestick Park shopping center which was flattened, said: "Somebody rushed into the store and yelled, "Theres a tornado coming." There was mass confusion.

After it passed, I pulled a dead child from under a car in a yard the shopping center parking lot. "Another child was walking away from the car with blood running down his face, said Polk. "When it hit," continued Polk, "I was about three blocks up the street. It picked up my car. When it got back on the ground, I was going back in the direction I had come from.

"I heard an explosion and the Woodville Heights Baptist Church just disintegrated just poofed. Debris was going everywhere." -Mike Callahan, 19, a Universi- Ik 8 a long time," he said. "But when I finally saw it, it was just there for a few seconds. When it finally set down, it sounded like about 50 freight trains. L.

M. Luke saved himself by hugging a steel post supporting a building. He said he watched the building collapse and got a gash on his arm. The only thing that saved me was the seat belt," said Jim Ward, whose car was into the air and dumped upside down in a nearby yard. Mrs.

Clayborne Strickland saw the tornado rush toward her home, then hop over it. Deputy Sheriff Bob Fasano, in 4M c-' i 1 Ci.iIJuj I1 i- i 1 () Jr outside. People were running ty of Southern Mississippi stti-around screaming. dent, watched the tornado from 4 if 4 J. persons.

Additional Jackson residents are missing and more than 400 were injured. 1 UPI Telephoto. This is the demolished remains of a portion of the Candlestick Park shopping center in Jackson, where a tornado late Thursday killed at least 57 Astronauts See, Bassett Paid Arlington Tributes wILV Saturday March 5th! 8 am to 5 pm Grancf Junction's Original 7 to 1 1 Store i I Available in 7, 15 and 25 lb. bags also Block, Crushed and Dry Ice 50 OFF We Have Fishing Licenses and Boat Permits MOR-VALU STAMPS COLESCOTT'S Carvel Hall SLICING planned to make next May, were killed in an attempted landing at St. Louis.

Their plane struck a building at the plant where Gemini spacecraft are manufactured. The graves of the two astro nauts are close together, and only about 100 yards from that of Capt. Theodore C. Freeman, an astronaut killed in a jet trainer crash at Ellington Air Force Base, Oct, 31, 1963. Seventeen astronauts, a group ot officials of Jthe National Aem, nautics and Space Administra tion and the widows and children of See and Bassett were on hand for the separate graveside services.

WASHINGTON (AP) -The U.S. astronaut team buried one of its members in Arlington Na tional Cemetery today and moved on to the same last rites for another. Both were killed Monday in a jet plane crash in St. Louis. Several hundred persons gath ered in a gentle rain outside the Ft.

Myer, chapel for Navy services for Elliot M. See 38, a civilian and former Navy pilot. Air Force services for Maj. Charles Diysaett II, arranged for the same place four hours later. The two men in training for the Gemini 9 three-day orbital rendezvous mission they ii as- Foodmarket YoujCan Win This Free Hog 551 So.

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