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2 lore nf ffiMuing rlv 10c SUNDAY 15c DAILY OUR MAY HIT 100000 Plane With ootball Cyclone Toll earn Aboard Crashes Still Rising In Brazil 'Dixie7 Index 6C 9C LEAP LAMES IREIGHTERS were at the or AiAA iibb II 6A 2A condolances to family staged College ootball De Gaulle's Words Read In Schools Eight Americans Killed In Vietnam War Action San Bernardino County a disas ter area paving the way for fi nancial relief Most of the destroyed homes were in Smiley Park a small resort and ranching community where 120 residents were evacu ated riday The blaze which broke out near 'the 7000 foot level near Big Bear Lake Thursday and raced to the 1 OOO foot level 20 on the steep canyons of Cuca monga WTderness Area north west of San Bernardino The area is so rugged a force of 200 men had to pull equipment on pack horses and mules Sports Section Pages 1C 5C The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina LORENCE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 15 1970 SAN BERNARDINO Calif (AP) A 20 mile long brush and timber fire that drove 2000 persons from their homes was out of control Saturday in the San Bernardino National or est Pushed by 60 mile an hour winds the traingular shaped blaze charred more than 50000 acres and destroyed 36 homes fire officials said There have been no reports of serious injuries Most of the 1500 fire fighters were trying to save the moun tain community of Running Springs where 1000 residents were evacuated Crews were stationed at the south edge of the community using a high way Rim of the World Drive as a firebreak The flames lapped up to the edge of the highway 47TH YEAR NO 319 (AP) OVER SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS enemy ground fire raising the number of choppers lost in the war to 4120 Two crewmen were wounded in the crash he said South Vietnamese military headquarters said government marines killed 44 North Viet namese and Viet Cong and cap tured 34 in a stiff engagement in eastern Cambodia A government spokesman said seven South Vietnamese marines were killed and 18 were wounded in the clash near the Cambodian town of Prey Veng about 20 miles southeast of the capital Phnom Pnh South Viet namese troops are making a sweep along the Mekong River in the area The US command said North Vietnamese troops attacked two 101st Airborne Division units riday and early Saturday in South northern jun gles DACCA East Pakistan (AP) A cyclone and tidal wave that raced through the Bay of Ben gal and struck East coast may have killed 100000 persons officials said Saturday night The confirmed death toll from storm was 11283 listed in initial reports from district control centers Of these 10000 perished in Noakhali district devastated by 150 mile an hour winds and 20 foot waves Anoth er 2000 persons there were missing The government operated ra dio station estimated at least 50000 persons were killed and noted that a similar storm in 1965 claimed 20000 lives AM Anizussman head of the Rescue Commission made a flying trip along the coast and said the death toll quite There were no reports from many of the flooded offshore is lands nor any estimates of the number of ships and fishing craft lost A magistrate on Hatia Island said he' feared thousands drowned when tidal waves surged over the island Part of Bhola Island was washed away by "the raging sea Of the ships one that may be lost is the 5500 ton Mahajagmi tra an Indian freighter out of Calcutta on her way to Kuwait A shipping official in Calcutta said the last word from her was a message saying she was in the Bay of Bengal the proximi ty of a He added it was feared she may have cap sized She carried a crew of 49 The cyclone with its 150 miles an hour winds and 20 foot waves devastated about 250 miles of the coast Cyclone is the Indian Ocean equivalent of the hurricane in the Atlantic and the typhoon in the Pacific The deputy commissioner at coup was internal politics there was a possibility that Syria now would abandon its go it alone at titude in the fight against Israel and cooperate more closely with the rest of the Arab world Syria refused to sign the US initiated Middle East cease fire last August along with Egypt and Jordan Sources close "to the Israeli government said Saturday in Teb Aviv the coup came as no surprise and officials expected no change in hostile atti tude toward Israel was only a question of waiting to see whether the military or civilian wing of the ruling Baath party would one source said I AT Unlike the previous coups and the dozen minor revolts in Syria since it gained independence from rance in 1946 this gov ernment turnover lacked the usual tank rumblings in the streets and the presence of mili tary power a In fact most inhabitants of' Damascus awoke Saturday morning unaware that Assad had seized power and that theB old leaders were in jail In its broadcasts Radio Da mascus made no mention of the coup The capital was calm Shop pers thronged the bazaars as' usual and government minis tries were open for business According to the Arab diplo mats Assad and his followers surprised Atassi Jadid and Zay yen at their homes late riday the Moslem sabbath Although Jadid was listed only as assistant secretary gen eral of the party he has the power behind the regime The diplomats said move was not an immediate at tempt to make radical changes in policy A tried to drum Assad out of the party by removing him as defense one diplomatic informant said his authority once and for all Arts Building Business Deaths Editorials 4A 4 eatures ID Horoscope 9C SAIGON (AP) Enemy mines and a booby trap killed eight American soldiers and wounded eight the US com mand reported Sunday A spokesman said Viet Cong guerrillas hit a US Army sup ply convoy Saturday with a ser ies of command detonated mines that killed four American soldiers and wounded four He described damge to the con voy traveling on Highway 1 about 28 miles northwest of coastal Tuy Hoa and 260 miles northeast of Saigon 'as 1 The command said a recon naissance unit of the 101st Air borne Division on a scouting mission near irebase northwest of Hue touched off a booby trap and four US sol diers were reported killed and two wounded A spokesman also said a US Army helicopter was downed by A I Barisal 70 miles south of Dac ca said a 14 man team from the World Bank the United States Agency for International Devel opment and engineering experts were in the area and had not been heard from They left the town of Kulma in a small boat but may have received warning in time to reach shore Officials said they could not reach the team be cause communication lines were down Anizussman said the islands of Hatia and Bhola were the hardest hit and 21 medical teams had been dispatched to the disaster area mostly to the two islands our ships bearing food and medicine were believed to have reached Hatia and other ships! were loading supplies in Dacca A rescue ship left for Dubla Island where 13000 Hindus had assembled for a religious festi val There was no word on cas ualties there PARIS (AP) Millions of school children all over rance rose to their feet in class Satur day to hear excerpts from Charles de most poetic reflections on rance the four seasons and life and death But there were arguments in some Paris high schools about reading from the generals memoirs and young Maoists despite Communist al most reverent the De Gaulle loud protests The readings der of Education Minister Oli vier Guichard They began Sat urday a normal four hour school day in rance and will continue Monday in schools that did not receive the texts on time 'understand every thing but it was one grammar school boy said of the kids The selections which appear to touch children most a rench reporter said were those final paragraphs from Volume 3 of the mem oirs which begin: earth old rance old Mourners continued to file past the now sealed tomb of the general in Colombey les Deux Eglises aJA i or the first time since the fu neral Thursday the generals widow visited his grave stop ping silently for a moment and bending down to touch some of the floral pieces Her son Naval Capt Philippe de Gaulle read the names on the floral ribbons to her Teenage Girl Loses Memory TORONTO (AP) Rose Ann Hebert had to be told riday night that the woman who had just walked into her hospital room was her mother Then the 15 year old Saint Joan NB girl whodoctors say has no memory of her life be yond a little more than a week ago broke into tears Her mother Elizabeth He bert who seen her daughter for 15 days spent about 35 minutes in the room seemed very bright and normal but she re Mrs Hebert said of her daughter mentioned sev eral of her girl friends back home but the names mean Oil Platform ire atal ToWorkman NEW ORLEANS (AP) One man is dead and 13 others burned two critically as a re sult of a rputure a tank con taining a hot chemical fluid on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico A spokesman for Humble Oil Refining Co said the rupture occurred riday night on a plat form some 27 miles off Grand Isle LaA aa" was no spill of oil or gas and there was no pollution the spokesman said Cause of the rupture was un der investigation The heated chemical glycol similar to automotive anti freeze was in the ruptured boiler and spilled onto the men the official said The chemical is used in the process of dehy drating natural gas Three helicopters took the 14 burned men ot St Ann Hospi tal at Raceland 45 miles south west of New Orleans and most of them were transferred to a suburban New Orleans hospital Glenn McSwain 29 of ox worth Miss who incurred burns over 90 per cent of his body was pronounced dead on arrival to Baton Rouge La General Hospital Saturday Two other workmen had burns over 90 per cent or more of their bodies They are Don Chabert 19 of Cutoff La and John Lefebvre 21 of Galliano The Humble spokesman said the victims were either on or below the deck when the rupture occurred Eighteen oth er men on the rig remained tjjcre Work on the platform was shut down immediately The strains of 'Dixie' can still be heard in Americana Brazil the cen ter of the area where Americans from the Old South sought refuge after the Civil War See page 8 A Massacres have been part of American history since Europeans ar rived end began fighting the Indians I See page 5 A A Spaniard has come to lorence to conquer the English language He's a student at rancis Marison College See page 1 WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cooler through Mon day with chance of occjasional light rain High today and Monday mid 50s Low tonight upper 3Os De tails Page 2 A 5 Witnesses at the scene near this southwestern state commu jnity said the plane slammed I into the side of a small hill at I about 7:40 pm and exploded into giant ball of I State Police said at least 15 bodies were counted outside the I burning craft but flames were too intense to probe the interior of the plane This was the second plane in less than two months which crashed carrying a football team On Oct 2 one oi two chartered planes carrying the Wichita Slate University foot ball Steam coaches boosters i and others crashed in the: mountains in Colorado killing 31 including 14 football players Witnesses said they were out of their chairs from the concussion of the ex plosion John Young who lives about a half mile from the crash site said he this loud noise I ran out to see what it was and all I saw was a big ball could have survived 'Young said Albert Rich whose house also is about a half mile from the scene said he first thought the loud noise was lightning He went out to see heard this one bang and a minute later there was this ter rific bang which shook the whole house I ran outside to see if there was a storm and I saw this flash over the Rich said He said the plane skimmed the top of an abandoned house just before it crashed A light rain hampered rescue efforts where the site was nonnccihla nnlv hv 3 nfltTrtW VVVMMA Ml V1HJ 'J dirt' ro ad which had turned mostly into mud Only a few emergency vehi cle's had made it to the scene including an undetermined num ber of ambulances No ambu lances had left the scene how ever by 10:30 pm (See CRASH Page 10 A) 74 Persons eared Killed In Crash Near Kenova a KENOVA Va (AP) A twin jet Southern Airways DC9 carrying Marshall footbal team rooters and crew crashed and exploded in flames near here Saturday night with no apparent survivors according to State Police and ederal Aviation Agency spokesmen A spokesman for Southern Air ways in Atlanta Ga said the $35 million craft was carrying 70 passengers and a crew of four They said it was the only plane Marshal had chaiteied Syrian Moderate Gains Upper Hand DAMASCUS (AP) eight coup in 24 years of inden dence was described here Satur day as a battle for internal po litical survival by groups of the Baath Socialist party with foreign policies not an im mediate factor The winner was Gen Hafez al Assad' the de fense minister and chief of the Soviet equipped Syrian air force The losers were Gen Salah Jadid leader of the party i President Noureddin Atassi and former Premier Youssef Zay yen all extreme Marxists Diplomats said it was not clear if the postmidnight coup had any ting to do with the de feat handed tank forces in civil war in Septem ber It is known that Assad re fused to provide air support for the tanks lest jets launch retaliatory strikes Assad was described as a moderate Arab diplomats said that while the basic cause of the PLAN ATTACK AS Burning on 20 Mile ront 36 Homes Were Reported Destroyed Saturday Huge Brush ire Drives 2000 rom Their Homes iremen halted the southwest front of the blaze at the San Bernardino suburbs of Del Rosa and Highland Some 600 resi dents from the two communities and from the nearby San Man uel Indian Reservation began returning to their homes Elsewhere the flames were burning wildly but mostly in unpopulated areas were are not sp wors fer fta in southera cali formation officer i 1 In another blaze that had Were just hittinghot spots kened 3 500 acres irc 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