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rare Pantagraph A-S Btoomingten-Normal, III. Tim April 1177 Storms contribute to 102 fatalities to make federal relief funds available to storm victims. Kentucky, Gov. Julian Carroll planned an aerial tour Tuesday of the hard-hit southeastern counties. "The people we've talked to say it's the worst flood they can remember," said Tom Little of the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services.

Virginia Gov. Mills Godwin planned to declare several mountainous counties in the southwest disaster areas. late Monday night. Citizen teams went door to door and Mayor Andy Williams broadcast repeated appeals to residents to seek safety. The flood ran more than two feet deep through downtown streets.

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, who was in New York early Tuesday to appear on a television show, planned to stop in Birmingham later in the day to assess damage. A spokesman said Wallace likely will ask President Carter Wreckage of Southera Alrlinei DO was tterel Tuesday morning in the resi- dential area of New Hope, north of Atlanta, where the plane crashed and exploded during a fierce hailstorm Mon- day afternoon. By Pantagraph wire tervicet Savage spring storms battered the Southeast Monday night and early Tuesday, spawning tornadoes that virtually wiped out whole communities, unleashing a hailstorm that may have caused an airliner to crash and feeding floods that drove thousands from their homes.

The lethal combination of twisters, floods and fierce hail and thunderstorms claimed at least 102 lives, and authorities said the toll could go higher. National Guardsmen were pressed into flood duty in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. Scores of persons were missing in Wise County, but Civil Defense officials said it was impossible to say how many found refuge from high waters and how many might have drowned. Sixty-eight persons were killed and 27 others injured when a Southern Airways DCS crashed and exploded Monday in a fierce hailstorm at New Hope, Ga. A tornado killed 21 persons in north Alabama Monday, another twister claimed 1 life in Georgia, floods killed 4 persons in Kentucky, 4 in West Virginia, 2 in Virginia and 1 in Tennessee.

One traffic death in Tennessee also was blamed on the weather. Eighteen of the tornado victims died and nearly 100 persons were injured in devastated Smithfield Estates, in the Birmingham, area. Authorities feared the toll at the subdivision would rise as debris of smashed homes was cleared. The twister flattened virtually every home in an area several blocks wide before skipping on to the nearby suburb of Fultondale, where two persons were killed. Another tornado claimed one life in St.

Clair County, Ala. An estimated 1,500 of the 3,000 residents of Pineville, fled to higher ground when the Cumberland River-swelled by five inches of rain lappped over a concrete floodwall into the town i iViOrninCJ Oil Gr Pdff) Ol CrOSn f. -V tar 71 At Birmingham, Ala. Debris littered the Smithfield Estates area after a tornado Smithfield Estates area raked the Birmingham-i Xuesday eaving ig dea area subdivision dead and nearly 100 persons injured. (AP Laserphoto) Botulism cases in Michigan grow to 39 PONTIAC, Mich.

(UPI)' The number of botulism cases in the worst outbreak in U.S. history rose to 39 Tuesday with four more cases. One new victim was in critical condition. Doctors said the patients contracted botulism last week by eating hot sauce made with improperly canned peppers at a Mexican restaurant in this northern Detroit suburb. The peppers have been confirmed as the source of the botulism, and investigators said the number of cases could rise to 50 this week.

Five new cases of botulism were reported Monday and health officials said they expected new cases to emerge on the average of three per day. The Daily Pantagraph Reg. U.S. Pt. Off.

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Btoorrvington, II. BT701 I IWIcfpf nCtln I WIS I CI pUIII IOOL 110S Etn Belli Btroett TP5U Convicted ex-official Edward Barrett dies Av i airliner as the pilot made a desperate attempt at an emergency landing on a two-lane highway. (AP Laserphotos) Chicago Democratic organization and win election as state treasurer. Later, he ran and won as secretary of state in 1944 while still a sergeant in the Marine Corps. His political power began to wane toward the end of his career and Daley turned from him when Barrett failed to deliver the vote of the 44th ward, of 'which he was Democratic committeeman, in 1969.

"The last few years of his life, he suffered a great deal," his attorney, Thomas A. Foran, said. "He was a good man. He never did a mean thing in his life." Barrett is survived by his wife, Jeanne. Demolished automobiles and a de- stroel general store show the path of damage and death left by the disabled He was sentenced to three years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

But, because of his already failing health, the government at first ruled he could serve his sentence at home and then, on the day his term was to begin, he was paroled. Barrett's health continued to decline, along with his financial fortunes. He died in the Veteran's Administration Lakeview Hospital, to which he had been transferred when his medical insurance ran out. Barrett built the foundations of his long political career when, at the age of 17, he enlisted to fight in World War was wounded and gassed, and cited for "performance above and beyond the call of duty." That record helped him buck the Defense Secretary Harold Brown Monday announced the reassignment of Lt. Gen.

Sidney B. Berry, right, super-i i intendent of scandal-marred West Point, l) UD and the recall of retired Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster to replace him. Selection of a retired general to head the U.S.

Military Academy is unprecedented, officials said. (AP Laserphoto). 99 Prhfe ot'Fspsi CHICAGO (UPI (-Edward J. Barrett, a powerhouse in Illinois and Chicago Democratic politics until he was convicted of bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion, died Monday without serving a day in prison. He was 77.

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