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S.C. twisters kill three
NINETY SIX, S.C. (UPI) —
Three persons were killed and
at least 47 injured Thursday as
tornadoes ripped across three
Southern states, causing mil
lions of dollars in damage.
Two women were killed when
a twister cut a swath a mile
long and nearly 100 feet wide
through this rural area. It
struck the Ninety Six Manufac
turing Co., destroying a cloth
separating building where they
worked. A 15-month-old boy,
Brandon J. Farr, died in an
overturned mobile home in
Newberry County, S.C.
Twenty-six persons were in
jured in a tornado that struck
Gainesville, Ga., shortly after
noon. At least 44 houses were
destroyed along with two trailer
parks, two downtown busi
nesses and a church.
Roof Ripped Off
Another twister ripped the
roof off an elementary school in
Conasauga, Tenn., Thursday
morning, injuring three chil
dren. Several other children
were trapped briefly in the
rubble but were uninjured.
The worst damage was
reported in Greenwood County,
S.C., where Ninety Six Fire
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Chief Bubba Summers estimat
ed damage in the millions of
dollars. At least 18 persons
were injured.
The tornado ripped through
the Edgewood School com
munity, a new housing develop
ment near Ninety Six,
damaging nearly every house
in the development and unroof
ing many of the structures.
The South Carolina National
Guard was called to duty to
prevent looting.
The workers killed at the
Ninety Six Manufacturing Co.,
were identified as Charity
Griffin and Ozala Thomas, both
of Ninety Six. The plant was
destroyed by the twister.
Team Escapes Injury
The basketball team at Mid
Carolina High School in nearby
Prosperity narrowly escaped
injury when the gym roof was
blown off.
In Gainesville, Ga., County
Civil Defense Director H. D.
Ward said it was an “unusual”
tornado in that it “was narrow
in width but it hit in so many
places.” He estimated damage
at more than $2 million.
“You wouldn’t believe what
was done to those houses and
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Resident of Gainesville sorts through debris of a smashed building.
trailers,” Ward said. “A lot of
times you couldn’t tell whether
a lot had a house on it or it was
just a cleared out place.”
State troopers were dis
patched to the area to prevent
looting.
In Conasauga, Tenn., two
miles from the Georgia-Tennes
see line, the five-room Conasau-
Social Security
increase stalls
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
Social Security benefits in
crease that appeared to be
breezing through Congress has
become bogged down in an
increasingly bitter dispute be
tween the House Ways and
Means Committee and the
Senate Finance Committee.
Unless someone backs down
or finds a face-saving compro
mise before Congress adjourns
next week, 30 million Ameri
cans will have to wait a few
months longer to get their
increased monthly checks.
Ironically, the increase itself
is not a part of the dispute.
Both the House and Senate
have passed a two-step, 11 per
cent increase for 1974. The only
difference is that the Senate
would give the first 7 per cent
increase immediately but the
House would wait until April
ga Elementary School was
flattened. The three children
who were injured were not
believed seriously hurt, howe
ver.
A tornado also struck Dayton,
Tenn., demolishing two mobile
homes and heavily damaging
five others. Damage was
estimated at $60,000.
checks. Both bills would give
the additional 4 per cent in
July.
The dispute revolves around
a raft of non-Social Security
amendments added by the
Senate, including a guaranteed
“work bonus” for the working
poor of up to S4OO.
Normally differences between
the House and Senate bills
would be worked out in a joint
conference committee. But the
House refused even to appoint
conferees.
“Procedurally there is no
way we could deal with all the
complex matters the Senate put
on this little technical bill,”
said Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore.,
acting chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
The “little technical bill”
Ullman referred to is part of
the dispute. Instead of amend
ing the House-passed Social
Security bill, the Senate at
tached its Social Security bill to
legislation passed earlier this
year making small technical
changes in the Social Security
law. Ullman took this as an
insult.
Ullman said the Senate could
settle the whole problem by
simply passing the House bill,
which technically is still pend
ing in the Senate.
But Sen. Russell B. Long, D-
La., chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, said he
would wait for a House-Senate
conference, and “I find it very
difficult to understand why any
House member would refuse to
even talk about measures to
help the poor, the aged, the
sick and the blind of this
country.”
Ullman hinted Thursday that
the House might be willing to
accept a few of the Senate
amendments if they were
attached to the House bill,
saying, “There are some
matters we’d like to take care
of and there are procedures
available to the Senate.”
Long said in an interview: “I
don’t think so. No.”
Asked if any compromise was
possible on his side, Long said,
“Oh, I feel we’d do whatever
we could to humor them, to
make them feel important. . .
anything to help the poor.”
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, December 14,1973
Two men held
on murder counts
ATLANTA (UPI )-Two Atlan
ta men have been arrested and
charged with murder in the
shooting deaths Wednesday of a
suburban East Point housewife
and her teen-age daughter.
East Point Police Det. George
Zellner said Ronald Neal, 25,
and Frank Walker, 17, were
picked up Thursday. Police
have issued warrants for the
arrest of two other men in the
case.
Zellner said an alert teller at
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Neal attempted to exchange
money reportedly taken from
the home of William Martin,
husband and father of the mur
der victims. Walker was arrest
ed by police in Morrow in Clay
ton County.
Mrs. Lenora Martin, 54, and
her 17-year-old daughter, Gin
ger, were found bound with tel
ephone wire and shot to death
Wednesday. Zellner said war
rants have been issued for Gene
Newsome, 45, a South Fulton
building contractor, and Gary
Michael Floyd.