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slh) ere 'S' S'oes i outside the store were killed. "Its just like a terrible dream, said Mrs. William E. Newman. She said the casualties were the two daughters and a daughter-in-law of her nephew, and four of his grandchildren.

We never saw the plane. All we seen was the fire. Some of the wreckage hit a woman standing in a nearby yard, killing her instantly, an eyewitness said. The plane had barely cleared an elementary school, where classes had been dismissed a half hour before the crash. Crash warning A survivor said the 81 passengers and four crew members were told they were going to crash about four minutes before the plane struck.

It was an apparently severe thunderstorm The hail really got bad Lightning struck the left wing tip I believe the hail being ingested in the engine is what really brought it down, said Don Foster, a licensed pilot from Decatur, a passenger. About 30 miles northwest of the crash site, one person was killed Monday when a tornado ripped through a trailer park. At least a dozen tornados were sighted Monday in the Southeast, part of a storm that also brought torrential rains and flash floods to many sections. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta said the pilot reported both engines had "flamed out lost power and that the windshield had cracked. He was told to try a landing at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta.

He crashed 15 miles short of the base after radioing he was unable to make it at about 4:15 p.m. EST, the spokesman said. Foster, hospitalized in nearby Cartersville, said the plane "glided kind of straight with a few turns. Apparently, they saw this paved road and they realized they werent going any further than that," he said. So they made a steep turn and tried to get it into that road and they just barely missed it.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a 12-man team from Washington to try to determine the cause of the crash. Most of the bodies were taken to a Dallas, warehouse, about four miles from the crash, where a temporary morgue was set up, a sheriffs spokesman said. NEW HOPE, Ga. (AP) The pilot of a Southern Airways DC9 which crashed during a lightning and hail storm made a hell of a try for a safe landing on a winding country road, an investigator said today. The crash killed at least 68 persons.

The plane, Southerns Flight 242 bound for Atlanta from Huntsville, with 85 persons aboard, hit trees, cars and a grocery store before it exploded and burned Monday in the woods near this small Georgia town about 35 miles northwest of Atlanta. The pilot reported just before the crash that both jet engines had stopped and his windshield had been cracked during the storm. Rudy Kapustin, chief investigator for an eight-man team sent by the National Transportation Safety Board, estimated the plane was able to glide without power for three to four minutes before it crashed, 15 miles short of a military air base. Deaths confirmed A Southern spokesman said today the airline had confirmed 60 deaths among the passengers and crew. He said that 26 aboard the plane survived, but one died later.

The spokesman said an area funeral home reported eight persons killed on the ground seven of them members of a family group in a car parked outside the grocery store. The cockpit voice recorder and the "black box which records technical flight data were recovered and were sent to Washington for analysis, he said. The team also planned to study tapes of the pilots last conversation with the Atlanta control tower. Authorities said the dead included both flight officers, Capt. William McKenzie, 54, of La Place, and First Officer Lyman Keele, 34, of College Park, Ga.

Officials planned to release a complete list of the casualties after notifying relatives. Kapustin asked local residents who might have -picked up hailstones at the time of the crash to make them available to the board for study. At least two dozen injured were reported taken to five area hospitals following the crash. Relatives killed The owners of the grocery store hit by the plane survived the flames which engulfed them seconds later, but seven of their relatives in a car parked 1. Crasi scene Wreckage of a Southern Airlines DC9 lies scattered in the residential area of New Hope, north of Atlanta this morning after a Monday night crash in which 68 persons were killed.

AP Laserphoto ieorly wife li fes The Daily TTT 28 pages Newsstand price 1 Timades leaw irMODy deod, hurtff hoimeless 4 Of some 12,000 registered voters in the City of Grand Junction, only 600 had cast ballots by 11 a.m. in todays municipal election. But city officials were hoping for increased voting between 5 and 7 p.n)., when many offices close. Even with a significant rush to the polls before they close at 7 p.m., no one is expecting today's election to be a record breaker. There are no highly controversial issues or candidates at Btake in the election, the ingredients that generally guarantee voter interest.

Comparison drawn For example, in 1973, when the city asked permission to float general obligation bonds to pay for the Two Rivers Plaza, more than 3,700 voters turned out. And that was with far fewer voters registered' thad there are today. In 1975s city election, there were 9,500 registered voters and just under 3,000 of them voted. Ten candidates are seeking four seats on the council. They are Laurence Flanagan, Millard Ray Gilbert and Robert Holmes, who are vying for the District A seats, Elvin Tufly, an incumbent, Dwain Jackson and Bobby Wilson, all seeking the District seat; William ODwyer and David Kolstad, who are seeking the District seat; and Jane Qulmby, an incumbent, and Randall Chew, who are seeking the at-large seat.

Amendments on ballot Sparking more interest than the candidates this year are four By The Associated Press Tornadoes and torrential rains killed at least 27 persons, injured scores more and left thousands homeless as they whipped across the Mississippi Gulf toward the Northeast. The Birmingham, area suffered the greatest death toll from the storm Monday. At least 19 persons were killed, 17 of them in the Smithfield Estates, a housing project that was leveled. One victim, Edna Davis of Ash-ville, was killed when a tree fell across a backyard shelter where she had hoped to escape the storms fury. The house she left was not damaged.

Aspen court action for Bundy opens ASPEN (AP) One of the key prosecution witnesses in the Ca-ryn Campbell murder case identified the wrong man Monday during a preliminary hearing for Theodore R. Bundy, charged with the slaying. Instead of identifying Bundy, she singled out Pitkin County undersheriff Ben Meyers as the man she saw standing near an elevator where Miss Campbell was last seen. Bundy, 29, a former Washington state Republican Party worker now serving a l-to-15 year sentence in Utah for kidnaping, has been charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Miss Campbell. Body found The Dearborn, nurse was vacationing at this Rocky Mountain ski resort when she disappeared in January, 1975.

Her body, nude and frozen, was found a month later beside a rural road. Bundy was sitting at the defense table when Lizabeth Harter of Chico, was called to the stand Monday in district court. Prosecutor Milton Blakey asked if one of the men she had seen outside the elevator at the Snowmass lodge, where she and Miss Campbell were staying, was in the courtroom. I cant be sure, she said, then asked to have one man stand up and singled him out. That man was the undersheriff, who wasnt in uniform.

Another witness, who according to a prosecution affidavit had spoken to Miss Campbell as she got off the elevator, was called to testify. Ida Yoder, wife of a Littleton physician, promptly said that she did not speak to Miss Campbell and could not remember at what floor Miss Campbell got off the elevator. r. Twister wreckage 5c Grand Junction, Colo. In Georgia, high winds and hail spawned by the storm are believed to have contributed to the crash of a Southern Airways DC9 jet in New Hope, northwest of Atlanta.

At least 68 persons, died in the plane and along the road where the plane hit Monday. Kentucky deaths Four persons were killed Kentucky, where flooding was said to be the worst in 40 years, and the Big Sandy River was expected to cause further destruction as it reached a crest above flood stage today. Officials said that Harlan was virtually submerged but for a small knoll in the towns center i I a i 1 amendments to the city charger that would significantly change municipal elections. Proposed by City Councilman Larry Brown last fall, the changes would provide for the election of council members by the voters in their districts only rather than citywide, increase council members salaries from $1,200 a year to $5,000 a year, require runoff elections if no candidate for a seat receives a majoity of votes, and provide for the election of a mayor by the council annually, instead of every three years. Group charges cover-up in dam projects WASHINGTON (AP) Environmental groups have accused the Army Corps of Engineers of seeking to cover up negative information about some of the water projects President Carter wants to halt.

They said Monday that the corps and the federal Bureau of Reclamation "have seriously distorted the examination of several of the 30 projects on which Carter proposes to stop federal funding.l John Burdick of the Coalition for Water Projects Review, said the Corps of Engineers, in particular, has rigged data sheets to favor continuation of the projects. cials who are taken to lunch or receive other attention by lobbyists trying to influence their vote. He termed it a "serious and drastic cutback in the law that might prompt litigation in the future. Knox renewed an earlier argument that the people initiated the Sunshine Law and passed it on the general election ballot, and that it was the responsibility of legislators to protect the interests of the people, and not lobbyists. That interest is not being protected by the changes in the law.

House Minority Leader Ruben Valdez, D-Denver, did not argue against the bill today, but on Monday termed the Republican action in pushing it through an exercise in arrogance, and said majority members should look for the governor to veto it. (For related story, see Page 3) Inside today Page Tuesday, April 5, 1 977 and was without power or drinking water. Virginia Gov. Mills Godwin declared a state of emergency in the southwestern part of his state, where at least one person died and where National Guard troops wereontlnuing efforts to rescue thousands of residents stranded high water. In West Virginia, fires were reported to have broken out in Williamson in Mingo County in the states southwestern corner.

Officials said they had lost all contact with the town of 12,000, flooded by the Big Sandy River. We have no communications lines into Mingo by radio, telephone or any other means, said Richard Weekly, head of the states Office of Emergency Services. Flood warnings Farther north, flash flood warnings were up today for parts of the Ohio River Valley, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, southeastern New York and New Hampshire. At least a dozen tornados were sighted as the storm cut through the Southeast on Monday. One person was killed and two others were injured when a twister flattened a trailer park in Floyd County in northwest Georgia, about 30 miles from the plane crash.

Authorities said 75 to 100 persons were evacuated from a nursing home after a tree fell on the building, but no one was injured. In Kentucky, Gov. Julian Car-roll was forced to cancel an aerial tour of the hard-hit southeastern counties today because of an oncoming snow storm. Only one of the dead in Kentucky has been identified; Susie Evans, about 40, of Harlan, drowned when the car in which she was riding stalled in high water. The people weve talked to say its the worst flood they can remember," said Tom Little of the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services.

He said 200 people took refuge in a school and National Guard armory Monday night from the swollen Cumberland River, which rose to a record 18 feet or more above flood stage. We had no advance warning this was about to happen, said Everett Jones, Harlan County Civil Defense director. He said some forced from their homes 'were "hanging in trees, waiting to be rescued. West Virginia reported that a man and a 7-year-old boy drowned in the southern part of the state while close to 300 people were evacuated from their homes in McDowell County. Sunshine Lav change approved in House DENVER (AP) Changes in the 1973 Colorado Sunshine Law as it applies to lobbyists won final approval in the House of Representatives today, and Democratic leaders said they would look to Gov.

Richard Lamm for a veto of the measure. The measure caused weeks of the debate in the Senate earlier this session, was unamended in the House State Affairs Committee, and unchanged during lengthy debate on the floor Monday. Democrats objected to the bills being brought on to the floor this week, pointing out that as a Senate measure it was not subject to the self-imposed deadlines the House has for acting on House measures. But House Speaker Ron Strahle, R-Fort Collins, and Majority Leader Carl Gustafson, R-Denver, said they preferred to act on the bill now, hopefully to insure that a House bill dealing with Sunshine regulations would get safe passage through the Senate. Democrats, led primarily by Wayne Knox of Denver, made 10 attempts to amend the bill Monday and all tries were beaten by the Republican majority.

Today, Knox claimed the Senate approach weakens the Sunshine Law considerably by eliminating the disclosure of names covered elected offi- Debris litters the Smithfield Estates area of Birmingham, after a tornado raked the western section of the city Monday. At least 17 persons were reported dead in storms across Alabama, most of them in the Birmingham area. i AP Laserphoto 2 .1 i1 if.