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Page 2A-1 LAYGROUND DAILY NEWS, Monday Morning, April 2,1973 Reds Storm Takeo Positions IN TORNADO'S PATH--The only remaining structure standing Sunday at Ihe'Ulhonia Lighting in Conyers, is the Rockdale County water tower. A tornado touched down there Saturday, completely destroying this plant, along with scores of truck tractors buried under tons of debris. Trucks parked only yards away received only minor damage to (lie front the trailers unharmed. PGDN-UPI Tclephoto PHNOM PENH (UPI) Communist forces stormed government positions defending the provincial capilal of Takeo Sunday in what military sources believe may be the opening of an all-out attack on that besieged town. The High Command said at least 13 government soldiers were wounded in the morning mortar and infantry attack at Takeo, 55 miles south of Phnom Penh on embattled Highway 2.

Heavy i i also was reported on Highway 4, Phnom Penh's vital link with the sea; on Highway 1 linking the capital with Saigon and along Cambodia's most important supply artery, the Mekong River. (In neighboring South Vietnam, UPI correspondent Kenneth F. Englade reported i gunners fired 314 rounds of artillery and morlar fire into the besieged Border Ranger camp at Tong Le Chan, 50 miles north of Saigon, which has been surrounded since Feb. 26. South Vietnamese command spokesman Lt.

Col. Le Trung Kicn said four Rangers were wounded in the attack.) The Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communists) Sunday redoubled offensive operations throughout the country despite K5 consecutive days of saturation bombing raids by American B52 bombers and Fill fighter jets. Well-informed military sources said the U.S. bombing raids have failed to halt (he current Communist push. No cease-fire exists in Cambodia.

The Khmer Rouge fired 50 82- mm. mortar shells into Takeo shortly before dawn Sunday and then ground troops struck at the defenses. The High Command said early Sunday a pitched battle between government and Communist forces has been raging for more than 24 hours around the (own of Stung Chhay, 49 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. Field reports said a fierce Sunday morning attack on government lines on Highway 1, 15 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, continued for more than eight hours. At least two government soldiers were killed and 34 wounded.

The Communists now hold a 17-mile stretch of Highway 1, i to the embattled Mekong River naval base of Neak Luong, plus another 60 miles of road between Neak Luong and the Vietnamese border. River convoys bearing des- perately needed supplies of food, a i i and petroleum to Phnom Penh have been halted just inside (he Vietnamese border since last Monday because of the danger of ambush. Wounded Knee Talks Continue Tornadoes Claim Victims Two States Digging Out By United Press International Rescue teams dug through piles of rubble Sunday for more possible victims of tornadoes which slashed with little warning across Georgia and South Carolina. At least eight persons were killed, four of them when a twister demolished a motel in Calhoun Falls, S. C.

Hundreds more were injured, 134 in Athens, alone, where one person died. An estimated 5,000 persons were left homeless in Georgia and 400 in South Carolina. Property damage from the Saturday nighl storms was expected the high millions. Home Hopes Legislature Will Test Government TALLAHASSEE (UPI)-This is the year, says Senate President Mallory Home, that the legislature should realize its goal of being a true "tester" of how well, government is doing its job of solving problems." "If we miss the mark, we may not come close again," he said. "We must become deeply involved in evaluating the performance of the executive branch and then follow it up in dollars and in cents in the.

general appropriations bill," the Democratic leader said. going management and performance audit. We need to know where government is not functioning and why," he said. The results will show in the setting of fiscal policy for the in future years, he said, 'adding that whafthe legislature does now is "touch the surface." The way it works at present, he said, is that the legislature starts analyzing the executive budget two weeks ahead of the session in which it must appropriate $4 billion plus. At the same time, it's having Its achievement must be the (9 analyze 500 separate speri- most in the issue of (he session thafsTarirr.gbverriblF''s budget! As a result, Home said, the state's fiscal policies actually being set by the executive branch after the legislature' adjourns and the state's purse- strings pass to the governor and cabinet.

Tne legislature has been grasping for the role of evaluator since the first session of former Gov. Claude Kirk, first Republican Governor of Florida in modern limes. "The people feel comfortable when the governor and legislature get along well, but they should be scared to death," the senate president said. "Our system is'designed around one branch testing the, other, and the state's in the most trouble are those''where legislature has been a doormat to the governor." Home conceded a the governor who put the Florida legislature in the posture of Tuesday, he said. As the vehicle for the evaluation, Home and House Speaker Terrell Sessums are giving their governmental operations committees the role of ombudsman.

To these committees will be funneled people complaints that come to individual legislators. Investigations will be made and records kept. Some isolated audits will be made, reaching down to the very level where a welfare check is paid, a convicl is delivered to prison or a health officer inspects a hotel kitchen. The state auditor's office does a good job of fiscal post-audits, said Home, a Tallahassee attorney who heads a multi- i i a development corp. It determines whether agencies are spending the money appropriated by Ihe legislature in a legal fashion.

"But what is needed is an on- being a "tester" was the flamboyant Kirk. "The governor that has the capability of destroying it is Ruebin the present governor, he said. Playground Daily News VCurFREEDOMMEWSPAPER PubHsned Sundaythru Friday Mornings by The PLAYGROUND DAILY NEWS Divlsionof.Florio'a Freedom Newspapers Inc. EglinparKwiy.SE 1 Ft. Wallon Beach', Florida EnftTred a second crass matter February 7, 1946, at the post olftce ol Fort Wallon Beach.

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12.75 I monlh $1.35. Member of the Audi I Bureairof Circulalion Gov. Jimmy Carter, returning from a helicopter tour of the stricken areas in Georgia, called it "economically speaking, the worst natural disaster we've ever had in this state." He said a "conservative" damage estimate could be placed at $100 million. South Carolina Gov. John West, also touring ravaged areas, called oul 200 National Guard troops to protect against looting in the two towns hit.

Authorities imposed a 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. as further protection. At least half a dozen tornadoes pranced across a i a Smashing mobile hea'vily damaging buildings and disrupting power.

Hardest hit were Athens, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta and site of the University of Georgia, and the smaller towns of Conyers, Morrow, Jonesboro and Stqck- bridge, where a nursing nome was narrowly twisters therj.ychurned outh Carolina 1 striking Calhoun Falls and Abbeville where nearly 100 homes were destroyed. Two children died in Abbeville, one of them hit by a tree as he ran for his home from a small house in back where he and friends were listening to a stereo. A man died in Mount Vernon, where his trailer home was flipped over on him. "We had absolutely no warning," said Ray Hankins of Columbus, who was visiting a friend in Conyers. "We heard this tremendous roaring, booming sound coming 'at us and then it hit." PINE RIDGE, S.D.

(UPI)-Top representatives of both sides in the 33-day-old controversy between federal authorities and the Indian occupiers of Wounded Knee met Sunday for the second day of renewed talks in a tepee overlooking the besieged settlement. Government negotiators, led by Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell, artd leaders of the American I i a Movement A I climbed the hill to the tepee for the noon MST meeting. Both sides said progress was made in Saturday's session, the first face-to- face negotiations in 13 days. The cease-fire continued. The second meeting was expected to explore more fully the matter of Ihe government's enforcement of the 1868 treaty with the Sioux nation.

Russell Means, one of four AIM leaders taking part in the negotiating sessions, has said restoration of all treaty provisions is the major issue between AIM and the government. Ramon Roubideaux, a Rapid City, S.D., attorney and chief counsel to AIM, said Saturday "a novel legal defense" was being planned for AIM leaders indicted in connection wilh.the- armed takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation Feb. 27. Roubideaux said the defense would be based on provisions of the 18G8 treaty. During Saturday's session Frizzell handed AIM leaders a list of 'those lindicted by a federal grand jury in Sioux Falls, S.D., on charges stemming from the occupation.

The list included all five AIM leaders in the occupation -Means, Dennis J. Banks, Carter Camp, Clyde Bellecourl and Pedro Bissonette. Banks was the only one of the five not present at the negotiations. Indian negotiators rejected a government offer to set up a food station near federal roadblock No. 1.

They said the idea of a "soup kitchen" would be degrading and they refused a government condition that those who came to the food station would have to submit to Kidnap-Murder Trial Remains Deadlocked SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -The jury at Ruchell Magee's kidna'p-murder trial said Sunday they were deadlocked 11-1 after a week of deliberations and were ordered to make another attempt to reach an unanimous verdict. The jury of men and six women are in the seventh straight day of deliberations, i Sunday's special session ordered by Superior Court Judge Morton R. Colvin in an effort to bring the case to an end. Colvin called the jury into the courtroom after they had deliberated more than 40 hours and asked foreman Bernard Suares whether a unanimous verdict had been reached on either of the two counts against Magee. Suares replied "no" on the kidnap charge.

He began to say "yes," on the murder count but was drowned out by a chorus of at least three jurors. He then changed his response to "no." The panel was sent back in to Ihe jury room to work out how many ballols they had conducted. In a second appearance. Suares said the jury had conducted 10 ballots on each count. They were deadlocked 11-1 on both charges, he said.

Hong Kong Union Aided Communists HONG KONG (UPI) Members of the left-wing Hong Kong Seamen's Union (HKSU) were organizers of a Communist Chinese spy ring responsible for political i i a i in the United Stales, the Hong Kong Sunday Posl Herald said Sunday. Quoting what it said were secret reports by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other intelligence sources, the British-owned paper said Chinese spies from (he union pose as seamen aboard merchant ships, then jump ship when (hey reach the United States, "The political murders of al least five Hong Kong deserters in Ihe United Slates are linked by A i a i i agenls wild a lacking-directed espionage ring opcralcd by members of the HKSU," it said. GOVERNOR TOURS STORM AUEA-Gcorgia Governor Jimmy Carter (right) touretl this storm- damaged trailer park in Athens, Sunday a i to many of the tornado victims. A couple with their a child, the father and daughter bandaged from the Injuries, listen as the governor (ells civil defense personnel, "I think it's just a miracle no more than three people were killed." PGDN UPI Tclcsiholo a search and to arrest if indictments or warrants were outstanding for them.

Tornado Hits In Virginia FAIRFAX, Va. (UPI) A brief fury of high winds and at least one tornado ripped apart a suburban Washington center Sunday and expensive homes in various parts of Fairfax County. Seven persons were reported injured, but not seriously, from the shopping center where citizens reported that a tornado tore through the stores. Police said at least five buildings had collapsed. The National Weather Service said 20 buildings had been damaged throughout the county.

A tornado watch remained in effect through the early evening for all of northern Virginia, Washington and parts of suburban Maryland, a region nol often hit by tornadoes. At least four separate areas of Okaloosa Digest Items to appear in the Okaloosa Digest must be brought or mailed to the Playground Daily News in typewritten form, double spaced, caps and lowers, by representatives of the organization who wish (o have their notices appear. It is nol possible for the PGDN staff members to take these items en PI the telephone. Items will be printed one time only on a space available basis. No carbons, please.

Today's County School Menu The Okaloosa County school lunch menu for -Monday is hamburger, french fries, leftuce and tomato, peach cobbler. Niceville-Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce The board of directors of Niceville-Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon Monday in the chamber conference room. Kaffee Klatch Mrs. Anne Mitchell, member of the Okaloosa County School board, will be the speaker Tuesday morning for the Kaffee Klatch meeting of the Niceville-Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce at the Americano Pancake Inn.Niceville. Chamber members and interested persons are invited to the 8 a.m.

meeting, being hosted by Wesley Slack, operator of the A Drive Florosa PTA wUl hold in'the school cafetorium shopping at 7 p.m. Tuesday. purpQse of th'e rrieeting is to nominate new I damaged officers for next be open house that evening. Free babysitting will be Okaloosa Island Leaseholders The monthly meeting of the Okaloosa Island Leaseholder's Association will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Okaloosa Island Authority Building on Santa Rosa Island.

Okaloosa Republican Club A regular business meeting will convene at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Americano Pancake Inn, John C. Sims Parkway, Niceville. Registered Republicans-are attend; Agenda includes discussion of plans for a countywide Republican dinner, and a project to raise funds tp assist the building of Republican strength in Okaloosa.County, s' Mental Health Association The Mental Health Association of Okaloosa County will hold a board of directors meet ing at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the conference room of the Fort Walton, Beach Hospital.

Plans will be made for mental health month. All board members are urged to attend. Viking Band Parents The Viking Band Parents will meet at.7:3p,p.rn. Monday in the the county were hit Fort Walton Beach High School cafeteria'. Plah's'for the.trip to the 4 p.m.

when a deluge of rain and state contest will be'discu's's'eH) to attend. FROM TALLAHASSEE hail darkened Washington area skies. "J'r Fifteen 'minutes later, residents whose homes were damaged wandered aroundjn bright sunshine "suffering from shock," a fireman said. United Press International reporter Jim Hildreth, whose home escaped damage, said at least 11 $60,000 homes a blqck away were hard hit; land Jljat four of them were a total loss. Al another sile in Fairfax City, Ihe roof was blown off five separate apartment complexes.

Trees were snapped at mid- trunk and roads flooded, witnesses said. Cargo Ship Fate in Doubt HONOLULU (UPI) An American cargo ship floundered helplessly in the Pacific Sunday, abandoned by most of the crew and in imminent danger of sinking. Seven men were still aboard the 482-foot Silver Dove which the Coast Guard said was listing at a "dangerous" 35-degree angle and sinking slowly 220 miles southwest of Johnston Island. Twenty-seven of the 34 crewmen abandoned the ship Saturday and spent the night in lifeboats when the vessel listed dangerously apparently due to a shift of cargo in the holds. The Coast Guard said the cutter North Wind arrived early Sunday at the scene, 930 miles southwest of Hawaii.

The cutter was preparing to rescue the men in lifeboats and to evacuate persons slill aboard the ship, which was on a voyage from Southeast Asia to the United States at the lime of the trouble. A Coast Guard C130 Hercules rescue a i a circled the refrigerated cargo vessel throughout the night. The plane maintained contact with the ship and lifeboats by a radio dropped earlier. The Coast Guard said a distress message received Saturday reported the ship was sinking and the crew was "lowering the life boats." The life boats were reported well slocked with food and blankets and well able to withsland the six-foot waves in the area. A later message from the ship said, lhe deck is awash when Ihe ship rolls." Water was filling the hold.

An automatic alarm continued to oul distress signals. --said they were doubtful the ship could be saved. Rescue efforts were conccnlraled on the crew. Capitol News Items DAYTONA BEACH (UPI)--The Volusia Grand Jury resumes its probe Monday of alleged court and government corruption in Dade County, and the panel is expected to hand down'some indictments this week. I The gf and juryjaunched the probe last week and despite a frenzy it futile--by defense attorneys, the panel heard evidence on at least two major cases in the investigation.

The bulk of the legal challengers to the probe have hinted on the validity of the wiretap placed on the Miami Telephone of Frank W. Martin, the central figure in the 18-month investigation by Miami Police and Dade Sheriff's Deputies. PEMBROKE PINES (UPD-State Rep.Dan Bass, angered by the weekend escape of 12 patients from the South Florida Mental Hospital, has demanded the governor put an armed force of state troopers at the facility. Bass fired off a telegram to Gov. Reubin Askew Saturday night after a dozen patients all charged with felonies and considered dangerous--overpowered two hospital employes, fled from the grounds and escaped in two stolen cars.

Three escapers were captured a short time later and two more were returned to the hospital by relatives Saturday night. The other seven remained at large. News in Brief PRAGUE (UPI) A Czechoslovak Communist party delegation led by General Secretary Gustav Husak will leave Monday on an official visit to Cuba, the news agency CTK said Sunday. They will discuss further cooperation between the two governments in talks with Premier Fidel Castro and other Cuban officials, CTK said. DACCA (UPI) Students at the university in Jesoure assaulted their professors and ransacked the president's office when special measures to prevent cheating in final examinations were announced, police said Sunday.

Police fired blank bullets and used clubs to chase the students from the president's office and disperse their protest demonstrations on the campus at Jesoure, 100 miles west of here. The measures designed to prevent cheating were not reported. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Natioiial Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Sunday it has told tuna fishermen to quit bugging porpoises. The agency, a part of the Commerce Department, issued a new regulation prohibiting anyone to put a radio transmitter on the back of a porpoise. It said it took the action because of reports that some fishermen were using the porpoises tohelp them track schoolsof tuna.

MONDAY'S WEATIIER-Showers and rain will fall over the Southern Rockies and in the vicinity of Ihe Lakes, while showers will he indicated In portions of the Gulf Coast and Florida. Clear to partly cloudy elsewhere..