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The Tyler Courier-Times from Tyler, Texas • 10

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Blood Supply Tyler Courier-Times 11) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1987 Sec.1 People can dpnate blood at Stewart Blood Center, 815 S. Baxter, 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m. Saturday.

Storm Victims Picking Up Pieces Stewart Blood Center strives to keep the East Texas blood supply at safe levels while serving more than 1 million people in 27 counties. Ann Wheelock, donor recruiter, said this week's blood supply was affected by Sunday's tornado, as several units of blood were sent to hospitals in Palestine and Jacksonville. The graph below indicates Monday's supply of each blood type. "Good" means there is an adequate supply of that type of blood. "Critical" means there is a press- ing need for that blood type.

CRIT1CAL LOW GOOD We've Moved Still in New Location UROADWAY Back Door unr' A SQUARE Southwest Entrance Optometrists Dr. Gene Bennett Dr. James Lee AB WMItOM rtltkbrt 300 Off 0- 581-2020 THE CONTACT LENS SPECIALISTS B- AB- County Judge Larry Craig said. "We will go ahead and inform Austin and if it's needed next week, we'll put it in the form of a resolution. Those people have experienced a terrible disaster and we need to do everything we can to assist them." The storm, which ripped across Anderson, Cherokee, Smith and Upshur counties during a two-hour period beginning at 3 p.m.

Sunday, left six dead and scores homeless. The dead were: Elizabeth Agnes Schulze, 68, killed when her mobile was struck on Dudley Road, southeast of Whitehouse off FM 346. Linda Smith, 30, died at Medical Center hospital from multiple fractures after the tornado struck the mobile home where she was staying with her mother, Elizabeth Schulze. Jesus Lara, 6-week-old infant son of Mr. and Mrs.

Carman Lara, killed when his parents' mobile home located in a lumber yard in the Lakeview community nearJacksonville was struck. Johnnie Leroy Myers, 49, died when his mobile home in the Scrougeout community in southwest Anderson County was struck. Inetta Henson, 78, a senior citizen confined to a died when her frame house in Mixon was hit The tornado also killed a Palestine resident, whose identity was unavailable today. Some 100 storm victims were being treated or had been treated and released at Medical Center Hospital and Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Nan Travis Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville and Anderson County Memorial Hospital in Palestine, hospital spokesmen said. Damage assessment teams of the Smith County chapter of American Red Cross Monday checked pockets of destruction south of Whitehouse on FM 346, State Highway 110 and in the Mixori community, said Patty Garner, chapter executive director.

Team members found 18 homes destroyed, 20 homes with major damage needing extensive repair and 32 homes with minor damage, Ms. Garner said. In Cherokee County, Jack White, Cherokee County emergency management coordinator, reported 32 homes received heavy damage, 22 moderate damage and 18 light damage; 27 mobile home residences were destroyed, five moderately damaged and one lightly damaged; and 10 businesses, including two mobile home sales parks, were heavily damaged. Television station KETK was back on the air by 7:30 p.m. Monday when power was restored.

Two churches also were heavily damaged. In Palestine, national and state guardsmen patroled the hard-hit west section of town where some 85 businesses, including a row of businesses along West Oak Street, were left partially standing. Palestine Independent School District officials said classes again would not be held today in damaged Story and Washington elementary schools. Partial phone service has been restored to the city but lines are being flooded with calls, said Ben Watson, director of public relations for United Telephone of Texas. "We're asking people to limit phone use to emergency calls," he said.

U.S. Highway 69, which was blocked Sunday near Love's Lookout when a series of huge electrical transmission towers were felled by the storm, was reopened Monday afternoon. Texas Power Light crews worked around the clock to erect temporary suppports, officials said. "We've got towers on the way down here now from Dallas to replace these six," said Howard Hoskins, Dallas, a inspector. Installation of the new towers will take a week to 12 days, "according to the weather, if it lets us," he said.

The towers usually withstand "pretty high winds" unless directly they're hit," he said. Residents in tornado-battered areas of East Texas sorted through rubble of their strewn remains Monday and officials took steps to secure emergency disaster relief for scores of victims, many left without a home or belongings. Many were awed by the destruction and having survived the ordeal. "I think it was the devil's work and I think the Lord stepped in to show he couldn't be boss," said A.J. Fowler, weathering a rainy Monday morning after a twister demolished his mobile home in Jacksonville.

Fowler's wife, Inez, was sucked out a window and he was tossed ahout when the ripping winds lifted the trailer and blew it apart. Damage assessment teams representing relief organizations, congressional representatives and various government agencies Monday visited Anderson, Cherokee, Smith and Upshur counties where tornadoes from a powerful storm cell wreaked destruction Sunday afternoon. The storm left six dead in its wake. Preliminary reports estimate damage exceeds $5 million. Officials began steps to acquire disaster relief funds to rebuild broken lives and destroyed homes and businesses.

Gov. Bill Clements was to meet Anderson and Cherokee officials at this aftenoon and survey storm-swept areas, Cherokee County Judge Emmett H. Whitehead said. The Cherokee County delegation will include Whitehead Jacksonville Mayor Robert Nichols and City Manager Gordon Pierce, the judge said. Pierce said city officials Monday took Robert Lansford, state emergency management coordinator, to Mount Haven, off Cherry Lane Road, (FM 747) to see the storm's damage.

"It's more devastated than I thought," Pierce said. "I'm pretty optimistic. We showed him the area hardest hit, and I think he was impressed with the fact that it is mostly a low-to-moderate (income) area and these people will have the hardest time replacing things." "We feel the state will assist them in any way possible," Pierce said. "Many of these people are old and may not have insurance. just no place for them to turn." Congressional representatives also rushed teams to East Texas to tally damage.

A federal disaster field team created at U.S. Sen. Phil Gramrrr's request arrived in Palestine late Monday. "Our first aim is to assure a rapid response by federal authorities in Washington to the request for disaster-area designation that we expect from the governor," said Gramm, R-College Station. "I also want federal officials to assess damage firsthand in order to closely match federal assistance programs to the actual needs of the people." Edd Hargett, regional director of Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Sam Moseley, regional director of Department (of Housing and Urban Development, were to lead the team including HUD and Small Business Administration disaster specialists.

"I intend to see that the full ability of the federal government is brought to bear to provide assistance to the people who have endured a calamity," Gramm said. Palestine City Manager Warren Driver and Peyton M. Walters, district director for U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Lufkin, surveyed damaged sections of the city from a Department of Public Safety helicopter late Monday.

A representative of U.S. Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Sulphur Springs, called Cherokee County officials and said his office also is sending a team to make damage evaluations, Whitehead said. County judges in Smith, Cherokee and Anderson counties declared property in the tornado's path disaster areas, an action which paves the way for residents to become eligible for government emergency assistance funds. "This will set in motion emergency provisions if they're needed," Smith i Iforrifegmgi UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE AGENCY HEALTH CARE SPECIALISTS Individual Major Medical Group Insurance 2-15 Employees (Prescription Drug and Dental Coverage Available) Medicare Supplement Insurance (That pays up to 100 of actual charges) Nursing Home Insurance (Plans that pay ALL levels of care, for up to 10 years) 3613 S.

Broadway, Suite 111 Tyler, TX 75701 Bus. 214-534-0575-William A. Lumley Jr. General Agent Conditions Listed For Storm Victims transferred from Anderson County Memorial Hospital in Palestine to Medical Center Monday. He was in good condition today.

At Tyler's Mother Frances Hospital, Gilbert Charles Moss, 29, 6703 S. Broadway, next to Rod Bam 5qaure561-0535 Gresham, at West's Shopping Center894-7280 Cleaners Laundry 'Spur 3M at Indian Creek595-1964 Jacksonville, is in ICU in serious lindale, Hwy. 69N next to Moe's Pizza882-5752 but stable condition. Jeffery Chandler, 24, Jacksonville, treated and released for chest pain and lacerations. Chantie Morgan, 5, Jacksonville, was admitted with a fractured arm.

She is ICU in serious condition. Nettie Redford, 62, Jacksonville, admitted with a fractured jaw and multiple contusions. She' was released Monday. Joe Ferguson, 46, Ore City, treated and released with a foot injury and scalp laceration, treated and released. Gary Hooks, 30, Neches, was Barbara Watkins, 21, White-house, treated and released.

Ann Myers, 51, Palestine, admitted with head and internal injuries. She remains in ICU in critical condition. Preston Mazingo, 36, Mixon, treated and released for head lacerations. David Teague, 21, Jacksonville, admitted with cervical spine injuries. He is in the neurology unit in critical condition.

Frederick Olsen, 70, White-house, treated and released for head injuries. PLAIN SHIRTS LAUNDERED (U N0 dry-cleaning order Jw LIMIT TYLER PEDIATRIC CLINIC Joe B. Bates, M.D. and Rick Rogers, D. are pleased to announce the association of Alvln H.

Prause, M.D. 595-3942 Fellows American Academy of Pediatrics RECOLLECTIONS Tornado victims taken to Tyler's Medical Center Hospital and their conditions this morning include: Natalie Kern, 58, Troup, admitted with head lacerations. She remains in the intensive care unit (ICU) in serious but stable condition. Edna Rollings, 61, Mixon, admitted with chest pain. She has been discharged.

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