Pampa Daily News (Newspaper) - February 22, 1971, Pampa, Texas Improvement is liberty since by freedom there are as many possible centers of as there are Stuart Mill EDITION Serving The Top O Texas 63 Years VOL 03 261 Circulation Certified by ABO Audit THE PAMPA DAILY FEBRUARY 1971 4 PAGES TODAY 1W 10 Paralyzed By Blizzard Schools And Businesses Closed My United Press International A blizzard paralyzed the Texas Panhandle Sunday with winds tossing around the 14 inches of snow which isolated the businesses and roads were closed Mo wore stranded on many of the states Travelers warnings were issued for the entire South Plains Early The snow fall ended early Sunday and no addition al snow However northerly winds from 15 to 25 miles an hour were expected to continue blowing the info driving conditions continued through today because I and tornadoes were reported at of ice blanketing the The Athens and No one most dangerous conditions were in places where a thin blanket of snow covered a layer of Temperatures were to remain below the freezing mark throughout the Panhandle until lafe Between four to six inches of tnow fell from Lubbock north ward through the Panhandle Sunday and between one to three inches fell in the southern parts of the plains The high winds caused drifts from four to five feet in the northern sections end one to feet in the northern and one to three feet in the southern was killed but a number of buildings were Early Amarillo report ed a total of 12 inches of snow had Dalhart reported six inches and Lubbock Radar indicated snow fell as far south as near Fort Worth i Sunday Freezing temper atures were reported as far south as San Angelo and Waco after The wind is blowing so high you cant really tell how much snow has Gray County Buster Collins said in Sometimes it blows so hard you cant see at We have had drifts shoulder All roads and highways north high right here in Its j of Plainview were Preston Smith ordered that we the national guard to rescue at actually not all that bad except I just cant go least 3Q persons trapped in cars between Amarillo and Civil just across the border had 25 The Hundreds more were bej raging through i trapped between Amarillo j was worst in the northeast Texas j and Dalhart but frozen commun Panhandle and in western Okla and transportation sys tems delayed rescue Am Defense tor Butler said the National Guard used chained trucks to The northwesterly winds i picking up snow closed roads aS1 fast as crews opened Since the temperature was not rescue 200 stranded motorists due to get above freezing all j from the surrounding A the roads were expected to Department of Public Safety remain spokesman in Childress said 1001 While snow fell in the Panj No Deaths Reported In County By WANDA MAE HUFF Pampa and other cities started Monday mom ing trying to out from under 24 inches of the worst storm to strike the Texas Panhandle since the Blizzard of No deaths were reported in Pampa as a result of tiie day blizzard that started late Saturday night and con into the hours Wes administrator of Highland General Hos and National Guard reported he had contacted Preston Smith to declare Pampa and its immediate vicinity a disaster and had received aid from the Na tional With cooperative efforts of the National the Department of Public hospital of sheriffs South western Bell Telephone crews and Pampas street maintenance emergency runs were made to deliver emergency crews to Pampa hospitals and nursing homes and to deliver patients to the Sheriff Jordan and National Guard officers assisted a helicopter crew from Sill with rescuing 10 adult passengers and a bus driver from stranded Trans continental Bus on Highway 152 28 miles east of They were all Coronado The bus passenger walked home of taken to Pampas Inn by and a told to Glen officers they the farm Hodges east persons were rescued Were completely paralyzed to put it into But Jcr We are experiencing extreme blizzard conditions here and were virtually at a stand The city is shut near tornadoes hit j a suburb of Waco in Central j BUT CLEARING West Foster Street was one of the first downtown Pampa streets that maintenance crews cleared Monday after the two day blizzard dropped its 24 inches of snow on Pampa and the surrounding The parked car was only one of several abandoned after the week end storm struck the Staff Photo and in East Seven persons were injured at none Damage I to homes and other buildings was estimated at in Butler said all schools and Bellmead and at every function imaginable Although the Panhandle was was closed j damage was slight Warm temperatures were con fined mostly to the coastal sec tions of Southeast Texas Sun High temperatures ranged and injuries Police and sheriffs cars still operating wer mainly used to get people like nurses and firemen to their from an 82 at Brownsville to a 22 at Dalhart and a 23 at Am Wreckers instead of The southern portion of the state had clear skies Some sections of North Central and Northeast Texas recorded rain and thundershowers lances took injured and sick people to Drifts were six to eight feet deep in Ama rillo and up to 12 feet in the northeast corner of the Pan Nixon Renews His Plea To Congress For Billion Education Program WASHINGTON UPI ident Nixon renewed today his plea to Congress for a billion higher education pro gram including loan guarantee to college students in all income In a brief message to Nixon proposed a similar to legislation that died in the last It would a combination of payments and subsidized loans for full time undergraduate students with low to middle incomes attending all and nonprofit colleges and universi a national student loan association to raise money privately and make it available for college students at all income The basic Nixon is that all students whose families can be expected to make the same contribution should have the same help available from federal Under the administrations students would be Tornados Sweep Through Deep Killing 60 By BILLY JAMES rescue workers dug through the rubble of sharecropper shacks across the flat Mississippi Delta cotton country today for more dead in the Deep Souths worst series of tornadoes in nearly The confirmed toll was 60 in Mississippi and 6 in persons were and several persons were The death toll was the worst inflicted by tornadoes in the Deep South since a series of twisters took 75 lives in Central and Northeast Mississippi March The main group of tornadoes was reported along a 250mile A Mississippi Civil I line from across just north of the streaming down her grimy Mississippi Her little of Pampa about 8 Monday and reported the bus had plenty of fuel for passengers to stay Hodges helped the two men carry food to the passengers team arrived about 11 The Army helicopter crew from Sill and National Guardsmen rescued 17 stranded 11 on the bus and six others stranded eas of Pampa on Highway 152 early Sunday reported the would remain in Pampa Tuesday morning to assist state and local law enforcement of fleers with rescue Vermeil director o nurses at Highland Genera reported no patient were admitted as of noor Monday as a result of th but that one heart attack was take to the hospital by members o the telephone companys five A tornado was reported early bandage around his i o today near and high winds destroyed a barn near Hail the size of golf bails was reported near Theres Its all Everything on that is said 17 Defense official estimated 500 delta Lois tears eligible for federal aid if they were from families with adjusted family income of or less and with one other The maximum total amount of subsidized assis be pea The maximum grant available to one student would be Sports Cancellations The following sporting events have been The game and Hot T u n a F i r s t Baptist basketball game in the TOT Youth and Community Center Independent Basketball Tour Times for the games will be The White contest ia the Harvester has been cancelled will be played later this A time had not been set at tune of REDS ALSO SUFFER HEAVY LOSS Communists Wipe Out Viets Ranger Battalion By BEUT SAIGON UPI Creighton the commander in South met tonight with high and the North Vietnamese were Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker South study Vietnamese the South officials to Vietnamese using truck routes further and South Vietnamese spokesmen would not confirm reports truck traffic had doubled but the Air Force said it was destroying more than 100 a Tlie hardest hit South mese unit in Laos was the 39th Ranger military sources said it lost at least 50 more than 100 wounded The South Vietnamese are drive into The incursion is bogged down in heavy opposition and is a week behind Communist forces surrounded a force of about South Vietnamese troops on a five miles inside Loas after all but wiping out a nearby ranger and opening fire on a second base nine miles inside pilots pouring heavy fire into the Communist positions said they saw at least 500 North Vietnamese There were indications the drive had to halt Independence Palace in lives on the Ho Ciji Mini Trail Saigon met with j and President Nguyen Van for more than an A spokesman would say only that they discussed Laos and an update on the overall Indochina They would not elaborate but cried Wheres mama and daddy The girl didnt Her Isaac and Rosilee were injured when at tornado ripped into their wooden scattering the family of We havent seen them I dont know where they said at an emergency shelter for Six persons were killed in a small hut near where Cleveland Lenore j lived with 12 members of his Lenore and two sons were visiting friends at the Danny was the only known and he suffered a back other persons were The Mississippi Civil Defense office in Jackson listed victims in at least eight communities in the The confirmed dead were 11 in 8 in 7 in Delta 7 at Little 5 in Lefore 5 in Humphreys 2 at Rome and 2 near James D asked President Nixon to man emergency Five phone company Dud Jill Fred Martin and larvin Young started at 9 unday and were still on duty t 11 Monday helping answer emergency calls in the The men took a heart attack to the a nurse a a local a little girl to her BULLETIN Two Shamrock men were reported dead of carbon mon oxide poisoning on Interstate 40 and were found in their car by Department of Public Safe ty assisted several stranded and worked with police and sheriffs officers o help patrolmen answer their according to Sid Out of our normal hospital crew of 25 or five were able o get to work but with lelp from the National we were able to get enough nurses to operate two with minimum Miss Meador Don Tinney and Dick both of were stranded visitors at Highland and volunteered kitchen ser vices to help maintain hospital food Miss Meador Bob street superin tendent and his crew working at 4 Monday clear streets and as of today had cleared most of the drifts in down town Bonsai crews would need two or three days to clear all residential and said crews will operate day and night until all blocked streets are Bonsai estimated snow drifted worse in the northern part of on 23rd but that all streets had from to two to three high em drifts in one military observers said it was j declare the stricken delta unusual for Abrams to attend such a federal disaster and John Bell Williams said he make an inspection tour I of the area Snowstorm Cancels All Pampa Activities The blizzard that Richard Jack son of swept Pampa and and and 250 unaccounted for from its original force of Survivors made it to another reported up to 22 miles inside At near Laos but the main columns are only 17 miles or so inside the base quarter of a mile b ord has a city official said homes were squashed like a tractor had run over Panhandle Saturday night and Sunday left moisture in 24 inches of snow and postponed or cancelled everything from jury calls to pancake All stores except grocery markets ware closed in Pampa Schools closed Monday and are scheduled to be closed Nothing moved except with snow and specially equipped snow A jury call for 9 Tuesday in 31st District Court was postponed until further according to sheriffs The jury may be rescheduled in but jurors will be by the sheriffs The Matthews Episcopal Church Pancake Supper scheduled Tuesday night was rescheduled for 5 to 8 March in the Parrish The Pampa Fine Arts Associations Alpha Omega players presentation of the Diary of Adam and Eve is postponed until further Terry Pampa High re away to make a stand against the North Vietnamese reported tor nearly a There has been intense Four houses were destroyed i The group was stranded in artillery and antiaircraft fire and 12 persons injured at persons were hurt and when 40 according to Elbert a Pampa Optimist At tonights strategy session which has taken a heavy toll of tornado damaged a trailer meeting to and a senior at is the honoree for this Pampa Chamber of Com merce monthly luncheon on the oil and gas industry was scheduled for Monday but was postponed until further The agriculture committee meeting for Monday postponed and will be according to Foster chairman of tha Chamber of Commerce agriculture A meeting at 10 Tuesday in the Chamber office with a delegation from Chile under of the Pampa Rotary Club is Chamber of and Rotary members were to meet with delegation to explain city and coutny Chamber of Commerce operations and a presentation of Pampa and the Top Texas The men were ta be of the chamber directors at directors meeting Tuesday but that session is corn and and South near site of Young Texan of the Month was j Childress University of postponed until
