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The Whitehorse STAR Monday, March 4, 2019 ORLD 11 Yes we do, and they know what works for us-Thanks for the tip! I know I need to get into this social media. Our competitors are all over it. My son does a bit but he have a lot of time. 668-2060 With Your Trust an Old Friend NEW MEDIA I keep seeing ads for new media services at the Whitehorse you already do print ads there? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEAUREGARD, Ala. Rescue crews searched for victims today amid homes smashed to their foundations, shredded metal dangling from trees and dead animals lying in the open after at least one tornado ripped through a rural Alabama community.

At least 23 people were killed, some of them children. It was the deadliest day of tornadoes in the U.S. in nearly six years. Travelling at least part of the way down a country road, a twister carved a trail of destruction at least half a mile wide and about a mile long Sunday afternoon, overwhelming the Lee County offi ce, which was forced to call in help from the state, authorities said. looks like someone almost just took a giant knife and scraped the Sheriff Jay Jones said.

With daybreak, volunteers used chain saws to clear paths for emergency workers, while at the Grocery, people asked each other if they were OK. still thanking God among the said John Jones, who has lived most of his life in Beauregard, an unincorporated community of roughly 10,000 people about 60 miles east of Montgomery near the Georgia state line. The twister, rated an EF-3, with winds believed to be around 136 mph (219 kph) or higher, was part of a powerful storm system that slashed its way across the Deep South, spawning numerous tornado warnings in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Patrick Marsh, warning co-ordination meteorologist at the National Weather Storm Prediction Center, said the deaths could have come from more than one tornado. There was another likely twister reported in the county, he said.

It was the highest single-day death toll from tornadoes in the U.S. since May 2013, when an EF-5 twister killed 24 people in Moore, Oklahoma, Marsh said. we could do is just hold on for life and said Jonathan Clardy, who huddled with his family inside their Beauregard trailer as the tornado ripped the roof off. a blessing from God that me and my are Beauregard, named for a Confederate general, is in a rural corner of the same Alabama county that is home to Auburn University. The community has a few small stores, two schools and a volunteer re department dotting the main highway that runs through town.

The sheriff estimated up to 10,000 people live in the area. in Beauregard is a real close-knit Clardy said. knows everybody around here. Everybody is Julie Morrison and her daughter-in-law picked through the ruins of home in Beauregard, looking for keys and a wallet. They managed to salvage her motorcycle boots and a Bible.

Morrison said she and her husband took shelter in the bathtub as the twister lifted their house off the ground and swept it into the woods. knew we were ying because it picked the house Morrison said, guring that the berglass enclosure helped them survive. She said her son-in-law later dug them out. The sheriff said children were among the dead, but he know how many. And he said the death toll may rise as the search continues amid houses reduced to concrete slabs.

Levi Baker took a chain saw to help clear a path for ambulances and other emergency vehicles. He said he saw dead people and animals and demolished houses, with one home swept off its foundation and left in the middle of a road. Along the hard-hit country road, giant pieces of metal from a farm building dangled from pine branches 20 feet (6 metres) in the air, making loud creaking sounds as the wind blew. For an entire mile down the road, pines were snapped in half. A mobile home crushed by two trees marked the end of the path of destruction.

An early March tornado outbreak in the Alabama-Mississippi area is not unusual, tornado experts said. The National Weather Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, posted forecasts for higher possible tornado activity in the region on Thursday, three days before the killer twister struck. University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd said the weather service and its prediction centre all over it in the days and hours before the Tornadoes kill 23 in Alabama, rescuers search for victims AP Goldman THE AFTERMATH Ashley Griggs, right, helps Joey Roush, left, sift through left of his home today after it was destroyed by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Sunday afternoon. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY Declaring that the church afraid of Pope Francis said today he has decided to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized by Jews of staying silent on the Holocaust.

Francis told offi cials and personnel of the Vatican Secret Archives that the archive would be open to researchers starting March 2, 2020. Pius was elected pontiff on March 2, 1939, six months before World War II erupted in Europe. Pius died on Oct. 9, 1958, at the Vatican summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The Vatican usually waits 70 years after the end of a pontifi cate to open up the relevant archives.

But the Holy See has been under pressure to make the Pius XII documentation available sooner and while Holocaust survivors are still alive. The Catholic church has been widely criticized for not doing enough to stand up to the Nazi regime. Vatican archivists had already started preparing the documentation for consultation back in 2006, at the behest of German-born predecessor, Benedict XVI. The Vatican has defended Pius, saying he used behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save lives. Francis indicated he, too, embraced that interpretation.

actions will be scrutinized as part of efforts underway to decide if he should be declared a saint. Francis indi- cated that the church was confi dent that the papacy would withstand the ndings by studying the archives, saying Pius was one can say, with some prejudice and In Jerusalem, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial commended the decision and expressed the expectation that will be granted full access to all the documents stored in the It noted that it had for years called for the opening of the archives, saying that will objective and open research as well as comprehensive discourse on issues related to the conduct of the Vatican in particular, and the Catholic church in general, during the foreign ministry also expressed hopes that there would be access to all relevant Francis expressed confi dence it was the right move. church afraid of history, on the contrary, it loves it, and would like to love it even more, like it loves Francis told staff at the archive. with the same trust of my predecessors, I open, and entrust to researchers, this patrimony of Francis expressed certainty that historical research would properly evaluate legacy appropriate He said the Pius papacy included of grave diffi culties, tormented decisions of human and Christian prudence, that to some could appear as Instead, he said they could be seen as attempts keep lit, in the darkest and cruelest periods, the ame of humanitarian initiatives, of hidden but active aimed at possibly announcement followed decades of lobbying by Jewish advocates for access to the documentation to help answer the long-standing question of whether Pius did all he could to save lives during World War II. In New York, Rabbi David Rosen, the international director for interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee called decision important to Catholic-Jewish He noted in a statement that he had raised the issue with Francis and his predecessors in meetings.

is particularly important that experts from the leading Holocaust memorial institutes in Israel and the United States objectively evaluate as best as possible the historical record of that most terrible of times to acknowledge both the failures as well as the valiant efforts made during the period of the systematic murder of six million Rosen said. Later this week, it said a delegation of the leadership will be given an audience with the pope at the Vatican. The organization has lobbied for more than 30 years for full access to the archives. Historians will also be keen on examining documents from Pius papacy in the years after the war ended in 1945. Pope: Vatican to open archives on wartime Pius XII next year.