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THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL. TUESDAY. MAY 3. 1983-3 Quake Highway. work is complete, Strickland said.

Also, Asphalt Contractors of Selma recently got the low bid for an estimated $200,000 resurfacing of the U.S. 80 bypass in Selma. Other state road work continuing in Dallas Countys area includes the building of Little Mulberry Creek Bridge across the Dallas line into Autauga County. The bridge, constructed by NewMc Construction of Montgomery, is complete and the project is awaiting road work, Strickland said. way Patrol in Fresno.

But all residents of the town of about 7,000 apparently escaped death. Were 99 percent sure that everybodys safe, Fresno County Coroner David Hadden said late Monday. Its our great hope that were not going to be needed. Craig Reid, county public information officer, said at least 20 people were confirmed injured. Officials earlier had estimated the injury total could reach 50.

Last October, an earthquake of between 5 and 6 on the Richter scale shook Coalinga but damage was mostly confined to broken glass. two-story brick buildings. Dog teams were brought in to sniff for people who might be trapped under wreckage. Some residents spent the night in tents or campers on the lawns of their ravaged homes, barbecueing dinner as the odor of smoke mingled with liquor from shattered bottles in nearby stores. Semple said residents were urged to use water from shelters due to the fear of contamination in city lines.

Its estimated that it will take days to clean up and get an estimate of injuries, loss of life and property, said Ted Eichman, a spokesman for the California High and ruptured gas lines sent 40-to 50-foot flames raging into the sky before they were controlled. There are 2,500 homes in town, and I dont know if any of them were not damaged to some extent, said Semple. There is going to be a loss in every home. He also estimated that 50 percent of the businesses suffered damage. Gov.

eorge Deukmejian declared a state of emergency for Fresno County, setting the stage for large-scale state and federal assistance. Bulldozers and cranes worked under floodlights through the night, picking up rubble in the search for any people still trapped by flattened (ConUnned from Page 1) from a Radio Shack store als it collapsed behind him just in time to see his car crushed by the Coalings across the street I ran hysterical down the road, husband right behind me, said Agnes Bement. The quake was felt along a 450-mile-long stretch from Sacramento to San Bernardino and into western Nevada, but hit hardest in a four-block section downtown and caused heavy damage elsewhere in Coalinga, especially to brick buildings built in the 1920s. Houses were hurled from their foundations, roofs gave way, large buildings collapsed in clouds of dust Twisters project at Browns is continuing on schedule, he said. The construction of the bridge over U.S.

80 at the interchange and the other construction work is aimed at making this intersection safer. The site of numerous fatal during years past, the Highway 5 and 80 crossing will be much safer after the interchange Selma woman hurt A Selma woman was hospitalized after a Monday night one-car accident on East Castlewood Drive. Tina Ann Terry, 20, of B-3 Jones Trailer Park, was listed in stable condition this morning at Selma Medical Center Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. Selma police reports show Ms. Terry, the driver of the car, was injured when her car ran off the road between King Arthur Court and Camelot Drive at 10:55 p.m.

She was taken to Medical Center by Haynes Ambulance. In other accidents, state troopers report Henry L. Carson, 30, of Hybard, was injured Monday in a 3 20 p.m. one-car accident (Continued from Page 1) calendar days, according to the highway department. Dallas Sand and Gravel of Selma bid $313,183 to be the apparent low bidder on the widening and resurfacing of Alabama Highway 5 in Flatwood at the Marengo County line to Alberta at the Dallas County line.

The nine-mile state maintenance project is to be completed in 40 working days. Harold Strickland of the Dallas County highway department office said the four-laning of U.S. 80, the narrow highway which earned its reputation as Blood Alley because of the scores of lives lost in traffic accidents, is moving ahead with the help of oil-lease revenue funds. He said a grading and drainage project from the river to Browns, the construction of two more bridges and the construction of a bridge and interchange at Browns are partially funded by that state fund. Strickland said Newell Road Builders, the Hope Hull firm which had the job of clearing and grading the seven-mile stretch to be paved next, is currently working on the grading and drainage from the Cahaba River to Browns.

The $840,000 interchange and bridge believed to be in his 80s was crushed when a tornado tossed his trailer into another residence. At least 15 people were injured, authorities said. Police in St. Clair Shores, a Detroit suburb, patrolled damaged areas to warn people away from live electrical wires on streets, in yards and dangling from rooftops, according to officer Albert DeGrande, who said a tornado there did about $600,000 in damage. The twister ripped the roof from a motel and also lifted several boat houses from their foundation along Lake St.

Clair, he said. A tornado spun through Chautauqua County in western New York, destroying about 20 dwellings, killing two people and injuring three others, authorities said. Another person was killed Monday night in Cayuga County when strong winds toppled his mobile home and it rolled down an embankment, officials said. spawned by a lingering cold front centered today over Lake Huron, said Nolan Duke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Services Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. The violent weather resulted when the front collided with warm air along line from Ontario to Texas.

Tornadoes were sighted in 10 Ohio counties but the heaviest damage was in Weston, about 35 miles southwest of Toledo, where twisters shredded two trailer parks. A man (Continued from Page 1) Farther north, more than 1,000 families were evacuated in Missouris St. Louis, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties as the rain-swollen Meramac River inundated areas including Times Beach, where a flood in December spread dioxin-contaminated soil throughout the town. The river wasnt expected to crest until later today, officials said. Mondays tornadoes were MISS vour Paper? we hope not.

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POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to Selma Newspapers, Circulation Department, post Office box 611, Selma. AL. 36701. will bring more news, including a 10 p.m. newscast, Singleton said, and more employees at the station.

WSLA-TV is owned by Central Alabama Broadcasters, a Huntsville corporation. traffic, he said. With the increased coverage area, the station will have a larger audience and therefore increase its revenue, he said. The bigger economic base Good DRY BED LET THEM HAVE A Selma Continued from Page 1) extend into Montgomery and adversely affect them. In action Thursday, the FCC upheld a review board decision granting the changes For WSLA.

The board agreed that the changes will have substantial impact on WCOV and WKAB, but that public interest considerations nevertheless favored a grant of WSLA-TVs application. Singleton said he expects the two Montgomery stations will continue their opposition by aking the matter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, because they have expressed their intention to fight us all the way." Singleton said the local CBS affiliate will keep its studio and offices in Selma while expanding its coverage area to include Montgomery and most of south Alabama. No timetable has been set for construction of. the new tower or other changes, he said.

Our coverage will extend in about a 100-mile radius from the new tower. Thats from near the Mississippi line just about to Tuskegee, and from near the Florida line north to Clanton and Sylacauga, he said. The expanded coverage area wilMnclude substantial unserved and underserved portions of rural Alabama, the FCC report states. The FCC approved Channel 8's request to relocate its antenna from its Landline Road location to Gordonsville in Lowndes County, 23 miles from here. The antenna height will be increased from 360 feet to 1,684 feet, and the effective radiated power will be increased from 53,700 watts to 316,000 watts, the maximum you can have on channel 8, Singleton said.

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Billy Jackson's grin could have lighted up City Hall. I want to compliment you on your honesty and your citizenship. We need more city employees like you. You did the right thing and your boss will remember that, Smitherman said. The couple, who asked that their names not be used, explained why.

Who we are is not important. This mans good deed is." (Continued from Page 1) belonged to a couple who lived about a block from where he was. He returned it. Later, he got the call to be in Smithermans office. He didnt know why the mayor had called him, but he and boss Jim Stallings arrived.

The mayor prolonged the suspense. Did you find a check in the alley this morning? Smitherman asked. Yes sir, Jackson said. What did you do with it? Jackson then told him the steps he took in returning the check. Smitherman told him the couple, who had been waiting on the large refund check, WE HELP SOME DOCTORS CHILDREN Court connection with the same complaint in U.S.

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