The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

Winclv Edition MACON GEORGIA RIDAY MORNING APRIL 5 1974 36 PAGES 4 SECTIONS 10c Death Damage Toll ontinues To Mount 714 It was the aftermath of a In Wake of Twisters 1 wipdiar PENNSYLVANIA OHIO Montlcillo eSwUM mark in left field Home Run Hirrlitown Parker Tonono Decitur Cincinnati Lexington rankfort Brancfenbarg Louisville Richmond VIRGINIA Missouri ft' 9 Blaine 7 Aaron Strokes Historic Homer in Cincinnati SOUTH State By State Death oil 5 damage at Cleveland and Eto Ke Was Hearst Girl Vietnam Aid Hike Midstate Breathes Easier After Long Tornado Watch (Seo STATE Page 2A) Jury Deliberating Chapin9s ate Middle Georgians escaped injury and property damage Thursday as a series of thunderstorms accompanied Guard called up OHIO: 35 dead more than 500 injured Town of i a near Dayton in southwest half destroyed thousands less National Guard called up Cincinnati damage esti mated at $15 million to $20 WASHINGTON (U I) The case against Dwight Chapin Thursday went to a jury which must decide whether he lied about the part he played in the 1 i cans campaign of 1972 against the Democrats The jury of seven men and five women received the case against President Nixon's former appointments charged with lying to the Watergate grand at told Gesell the jury was not near a verdict Gesell then told the jurors to report back at 9 am riday had rather a long day you Gesell told Davis and Stein hey 've had to listen to you gentlemen and the had to listen to me Now had to listen to each Davis and Stein presented completely contradictory sum ALABAMA: 72 dead at least 900 injured Damage esti mated in millions Hardest hit Huntsville Decatur area Ath ens Jasper Moulton all in northern Alabama Ninety per cent of Huntsville without power London two air masses one moist and warm from the east and the other cold and dry from the west Critics accused the Penta gon of trying to make an end around the $1126 billion limit on US military aid to a i set by Congress last year and stressed they were not abandoning the South Viet namese tinued most of the day as the National Weather Serv ice extended until midnight an area tornado watch first issued at 5 am Law enforcement officers reported no injury or dam age Exactly two weeks ago a line of severe thun derstorms ripped through Middle Georgia killing one person and causing heavy property damage Wind gusts Thursday wfcre reported up to around 30 miles per hour with 18 inches of rain measured at Lewis Wilson Airport from midnight to 6:20 pm Thursday The tornado watch ex tended until midnight in cluded Middle Georgia and southwest into lorida forecast called for fair and windy skies cooling riday night and sunny and mild Saturday By United Press International Gov Jimmy Carter request ed federal disaster aid for Georgia Thursday estimating the damage from tornadoes which killed 15 and injured 85 at $155 million Carter said he had sent a telegram to President Nixon requesting the disaster decla ration which would enable storm hit residents to obtain low interest loans Thirteen counties were bat by the twisters which swirled northeast across the state Wednesday night from Haralson County on the Ala bama line to the of North Carolina The governor who toured the a a in a helicopter as part of the stricken area was under a second tornado alert Thursday said he thought 1000 to 1500 persons were homeless and about 200 300 homes heavily damaged or de stroyed will be in a warm dry adequate place to he said however praising the way more fortun ate neighbors had come for ward to help the victims which can't be ruled out but I believe Browning said are assuming that what she said yesterday was said under duress hold ing a gun at her head or the like or she felt it was neces sary to say those things to get At about the time Browning was discussing the case with reporters in San federal building mother issued a statement at her suburban Hillsborough home saying only a personal meeting with Patty would con vince her that her daughter voluntarily joined the SLA million Telephone service out in stricken areas GEORGIA: 15 dead 85 in jured Heavy damage through out northwestern area ONTARIO Canada: 8 dead at Windsor at least 10 injured NORTH CAROLINA: 4 dead Damage at Murphy area in western section MICHIGAN: 3 dead Most damage in Hillsdale southeast of Detroit ILLINOIS: 2 a 22 in Damage estimated at $12 million in Decatur area WEST VIRGINIA: 1 dead Two tornadoes hit the town of Meadow Bridge about 50 miles southeast of Charleston Sev eral were injured THE tornadoes and related storms that struck late Wednesday and early Thurs day hit 13 Southern and Mid western states and Ontario Canada Whole communities were turned into piles of rub ble more than 30 buildings at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville Ala were de stroyed or damaged a pastor as he led prayers ft Whole communities in sever al states were without power Kentucky appeared to have suffered the most with deaths reported in 15 counties There were at least 40 deaths in the tiny community of Brandenburg Ky alone where twisted grotesque wreckage was evident almost everywhere Survivors mourned lost relatives and friends and faced shattered lives street will never be the said rank Thurman 71 of Louisville as he stared at a tree fallen across his two story home trees made the and now the trees are gone' them eligible for massive fed eral aid Deputy Press Secre tary Gerald Warren said more disaster declarations were ex pected The National Weather Serv ice issued new tornado watch es for parts of nifie states But forecasters said the conditions Thursday were not the same as those that produced the earlier storms which were ere OVER 150 homes and 100 businesses were destroyed in Monticello Ind Damage was estimated at $100 million Two banks were destroyed and the president of one of them stood guard at his vault through the night Insurance adjustors estimat ed damage in Ohio at over $100 million including $75 mil lion in Xenia They said West Virginia suffered $1 million in 1 damage and Michigan $3 mil lion High winds and flooding con tinued in the after a A Virginia teen ager was killed Thursday when his mobilahome was picked up by the wind hurled 100 yards and dropped on its top Acting in response to pleas from state officials President Nixon declared Alabama Ken tucky Ohio Indiana and Ten tornado Henry Aaron was at bat The stands in Cincinnati were packed It was the top of the first inning the count on the Atlanta slugger was three balls one strike Then Reds right hander Jack Billingham gro oved one and with startling sud deness Aaron smashed his his toric drive over the 375 foot By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer Rescue workers counted the dead on Thursday and tried to help the living rebuild after the worst tornado dis a in 49 years left more than 335 dead and thousands injured or 1 ive states were declared federal disaster areas damage reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars The death toll in 11 states and Canada stood at 337 destruction the devas tation is said Vice President Gerald ord after flying over damaged areas of Ohio can see where the houses were re duced to Hospitals overflowed In Dayton Ohio near hard hit Xenia ambulances arrived at Miami Valley Hospital at the rate of one a minute in the hours just after the tornado Miior cases were treated in the hospital cafeteria unable to do anything out in said radiologist Shir ley Kitchberg returning to a only one portable ray The rest of the SAN RANCISCO (UPI) The US District Attorney said Thursday authorities are assuming that Patricia Hearst was when she announced that she was join ing the Symbionese Liberation Army and remaining with the terrorist band that kidnaped her James Browning US attor ney in San rancisco said there was no evidence that Miss Hearst had been a will ing kidnap victim when she was carried screaming from her Berkeley apartment two months ago is a possibility however By Tht Associated Press Here is a state by state death toll from the tornadoes which struck a wide area Wednesday: KENTUCKY: 80 dead at least 280 injured Heavy dam age at Louisville rankfort and Brandenberg National 54 dead Guard called up Telephone hundreds injured Heaviest service down in stricken areas INDIANA: 62 dead at least wah in southeast and Cookville 1000 injured Damage esti and Nashville area National mated at least $25 1 1 1 1 hardest hit areas Hanover in southern Indiana and Monti cello and Rochester in north central Indiana National Guard called upTelephone service down in stricken areas number 714 and a record estab lished by George Herman Ruth one no one thought would ever be equaled had been tied And as a sort of insignificant postscript to it all Atlanta lost the game Com plete details on Sports Pages W' Graancaitte by a da 1 tornado Gusty winds heavy rain watch recalled memories of lightning and thunder con a severely damaging thun derstorm two weeks ago EllateWm KENTUCKY American people are not in a mood to abandon South i a said RepOtis Pike NY in a mood to question how much money they should But Rep Robert Sikes la said that without the increase be out of busi ness on helping South Vietnam After rejecting the increased military aid the Hou se ap proved a $114 billion supple mental defense authorization bill by voice vote and sent it to the Senate 1:48 pm EDT from US Dis trict Judge Gerhard A Gesell The jury began deliberating after chief prosecutor Richard Davis and defense counsel Ja cob Stein summed up their cases The jury was to have delib erated until 5 pm recessed for i and returned for more deliberations But at 5:45 pm jury fore man Charles Wesley 59 a retired Postal Service worker mations of what the evidence presented in the case meant Davis described it as indica tive of of dccep i by ultimately leading to lies before the Wat ergate grand jury on April 11 1973 Stein said Chapin was too busy with his duties for Nixon to oversee political sabotage against Democrats and never lied intentionally to the grand jury Cliyton NORTH Chtroket UPI Map Map Shows here Twisters Took Heaviest Toll UPI Photo Civil Defense Worker Mans Phone in Resaca Gai Twisters Left 15 Dead in North Georgia Communities Rejected WASHINGTON (AP) The House rejected on Thursday night any increasein US military aid to South Vietnam An amendment to increase the aid to $274 million was re jected by a vote of 177 to 154 despite contentions that South Vietnam needs it to survive Athoni Huntivlllt Moulton Docttur CARTER said state service centers had been at Dalton and Calhoun national guard armories and at a church in Dawsonville where state officials would be on hand to assist in filing insur ance claims and compensation nessee disaster areas making ciaims Carter said he expected Nix on to in the affirm to the disaster declara tion request and the first fed eral aid to be en route to the state in two three days Of the total loss only about $5 million was covered by in surance and it include some expected flooding from rivers and streams Carter who had earlier de ated by an unusual collision of 1 a 13 counties disaster areas for state relief said it State Damage Near $1 6 Million Carter Asks US Disaster Aid CANADA Ctkf Today's Chuckle when the whole countryside goes on releaf June ARKANSAS' WEST Virginia Meadow 1 Bridge Cookville Erin Tennessee Maryville Etowah tuHiiiVt citvtIWe Mui Georg TTM IH I 7 1W JL ill I I ir IT'J ME'" 7X3 WoWER TOSS' Uml dwfy I WST A 1 fir dp Met KRSpiS' 4 4 4 11 1 i I T' 4 ITT' IK'? 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