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14A ANTONIO EXPRESS Friday, 4, 1965 Virtually Destroyed Town Measures Tornado Loss RAVAGED STORE hats are still neatly arranged in shelves of a roofless clothing store ravaged Wednesday by tornado in Hale Telephoto. SHATTERED Residents of Hale Center inspect the shattered remains of their possessions after a tornado whipped through Hale Telephoto. 3 Dead, 100 Injured in Texas Tornado BATTERED WALL tumbled children's blocks, bricks from a battered well in Hale Center lie in tongled debris, the aftermoth of a tornado that hit the town Telephoto. HALE CENTER (AP) The The Red Cross also said 55 South Plains of Texas counted other buildings, many of them property damage in millions and busine.sses, suffered, three deaths Thur.sday from ai shelter was opened. Two tornado that cut a wide path of I mobile canteens were sent from destruction.

About 100 persons'Fort Worth and OkLihoma City, Number of Legs Sets the Rule HAIFA, Israel (AP) Asked by the judge to produce a wit- in her divorce suit, a woman in her 50s called out through the courtroom door, A small black poodle padded in. The woman contended Bucki would respond to her calls but nrft to those of her estranged husband and this proved her case of The judge seemed amused but said: we cannot accept evidence from quadrupeds only from The case rested there Collins Heads Brooke School EUROPEAN LEW RISES LUXEMBOURG (AP) The high authority of the European Coal and Steel Community has raised its levy on product output in the community from 0.20 per cent to 0.25 per cent, effective Jifly 1. The levy returned $19,1 miUion in the last fiscal year. Col. Glenn .1, Collins, former executive officer in the office of the surgeon general of the Army in Washington, has become the commandant of the Medical Field Service School at Brooke Army Medical Center.

Col. Collins succeeds Brig. Gen, James T. McGibony, who has been assigned to Washington as deputy surgeon general of the Army. Col.

Collins was assistant commandant of the school here from 1961 to 1963 when he was moved to Washington. A native of Elmore City, Col. Collins earned his B.S. degree in medicine in 1933 and his M.D. in 1935 from the University of Oklahoma.

Col. and Mrs. Collins reside at 417 Dickman Road, Fort Sam Houston. were injured. The business district of Hale Center, 35 miles north of Lubbock, was virtually destroyed.

Dead are Mrs. Tom Rice, 50, and Mrs. Alma Woody, 68. Mrs. Floyd Shackelford was killed in the crushed wreckage of her house two miles east of Cotton Center, a village 10 miles southwest of Hale Center.

Spade, 10 miles southwest ofj Cotton Center, also was! battered. Ten residential blocks in Hale Center, a rich farming town of 2,500 people, were levelled and only foundations of houses remained. The center of the town was devastated so completely that officers sealed it off. Hundreds of cars were upended. The post office lost its back wall.

The city hall was a shambles. were the fire station and three trucks, a hotel, the first national bank and a motor agency. The Red Cross reported that an area three blocks wide and five blocks long was affected at Hale Center. Tlie relief agency said 66 homes were destroyed, while 35 others suffered major damage and 56 minor damage in Hale Center and Cotton Center. The tornado whirling down Fifth Street the Hale Center hospital by just the width of the street.

Telephone and water service were lost. Tank trucks took water to the hospital. A grade school was destroyed and Mrs. Joe Stokes, a teacher who took refuge in a cellar across the street, said the walls of the cellar The Church of God in Kale Center was demolished and Lupe Parneicio, 9, was injured critically. Six other members of her family were injured at the prayer service.

First Lady Says Youths Think Begins at CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands Lyndon B. Johnson said Thursday she sees a strong, new trend among young people who want to improve society: believe progress begins at are casting their stakes where they originated and working to make the areas resemble more what they know so well it the wife said. believe I see in this generation the happy tendency to apply ourselves to our own Mrs. Johnson declared. In a speech for the first graduating class of the College of the Virgin Islands, the First Lady advised: land of promise is in your own For them, she said, the opportunities and challenges lie not abroad in the world but in their home areas.

winds of change, certain as the trade winds, are sweeping over these lush islands and shimmering she said. changes will be wise in proportion as they are directed by a trained generation which really cares. Miss D.C. May Leave Pageant MIAMI BEACH (AP) Miss District of sponsor threatened to pull her out of the final Miss U.S.A. competition Thursday if television officials went through with their order to cut and tone the hair.

Nineteen year old Dianna Batts, a blue-eyed model, was told to have her shoulder-length, natural light blonde hair cut and toned down for Friday televised (CBS) finals. Dianna was told her hair was too long and too blonde to look well on TV. Tearfully, she insisted she did not want a last- minute change. She was selected Tuesday as one of 15 finalists. franchise holder, Sid Sussman of Silver Springs, that if Dianna was forced to alter her appearance, he would pull her out of competition.

thing going to keep Dianna said later. hope looking forward to this. I want to change what I Miss Minne.sota, Elizabeth Carroll was in bed with an ankle injury. Elizabeth was not one of the 15 finalists, but all of the girls are to be presented in the finale. territory can absorb all the leadership you can give it.

It will offer your rich rewards for your dedication and Only 13 were in the graduating class of the Caribbean college, launched only two years ago, but an audience of more than 500 gathered to hear the First Lady. Mrs. Johnson was introduced by Gov. Ralph Paewonsky, under whose administation the college was founded to try to keep the talent at home. A political scientist.

Dr. Lawrence C. Wanlass, is its president. Wanlass taught at the University of California, Utah State University, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts and was assistant to the president at Sacramento State College in California before coming here. Still pioneering, the college offers only a two-year course, but it is aiming at becoming a regular four-year Institution.

Its 5M students are mainly residents of the Virgin Islands, but some come from other Caribbean islands, from the mainland and from Africa. Mrs. Johnson came here mainly to participate in their first commencement ceremonies. She plans to remain on vacation in the islands until Monday. Hale County Disaster Area WASHINGTON (AP) The Small Business Administration designated Hale County, and adjacent areas as disaster areas Thursday due to tornado damage Wednesday.

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