uake deaths to go over 60; amage total near $1 billion impre. f the fiimj ' ed inthj 3e > it conij[ @:raphy : ice. s his 5p. m- 5p. m- [, Soh^ AL’5 :e , 11 i LOS ANGELES (A*) — Deaths om Southern California’s shat- jring earthquake appeared likely rise above 60 Thursday and iamage was estimated unoffi- :ially at $1 billion or more. Thousands of persons whose wmes were harmed by Tuesday’s jmblor or who were evacuated Erom the area of a leaking reser voir dam either camped out in the unseasonably warm weather >r stayed at Red Cross centers in schools. The total of known dead reached 55. Thirty-five bodies had been found in the ruins of collapsed buildings at a veterans hospital, where three patients and five nurses still were missing and feared dead. In the hard-hit San Fernando Valley, closest populous area to the shock’s center, an estimated 3,000 persons slept on cots or mats at seven evacuation centers at high schools or junior highs. No classes were held. Others, in communities like San Fernando and Sylmar where walls DON’S SALVAGE CENTER SAVE ON THESE ITEMS and MORE • FURNITURE • GROCERIES • FABRICS • GIFTS • AUTO ACCESSORIES WE BUY and SELL ACROSS FROM THE COLLEGE STATION WATER TOWER RITY 1TH ^ ROMANTIC ADVICE for the finest selection of valentine cards shop MANOR EAST SHOPPING MALL of homes were cracked and utili ties were out in some districts, slept under the stars or in back yard tents. Temperatures were in the high 80s during the day, dipping into the high 50s at night. Eighty thousand people were ordered out of a 20-square-mile area below Van Norman Lakes dam, the city’s largest reservoir. The quake shattered the concrete facing, and portions of the wall of compressed earth that retains the water cracked. Officials, fearing strong after-shocks might cause a flood, said evacuees could not return until Friday afternoon when emergency draining would lower water to a safe level. City and county officials con tinued an assessment of damage to public and private facilities, with many yet to be inspected. With preliminary tallies already past the $300 million mark, the county engineer’s office said the ultimate total likely would be $1 billion or more. With a four-day weekend holi day coming up, California High way Patrol officials predicted a “horrendous” traffic jam around the west end of the San Fernando Valley where freeways and other roads to some mountain and desert recreation regions were closed due to crumpling of paving and collapse of bridges. There have been daily com muter traffic jams, as autos are diverted to surface streets, many of them damaged too. Friday is Lincoln’s Birthday and Monday is being observed as Washington’s Birthday. Workers continued hunting bodies in the rubble of two col lapsed buildings at the 45-year- old Veterans Administration Hos pital at Sylmar. Well over 100 patients and hospital employees were inside when the walls fell out and the roof fell in. It was the third day of efforts to clear away twisted girders and huge concrete chunks that plunged and interlocked. The Red Cross estimated that 7,000 persons had used its food and rest facilities at the seven schools, with 3,000 overnighting. Families hastily evacuated from the area of the dam were issued passes to go back in for 45 min utes to retrieve needed personal gear, such as clothing. THE BATTALION Friday, February 12, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 3 Fish drill team faces busy times The Harlem Globetrotters beat the Legett Losers, here represented by Russel Sheaffer, in the Thursday night pre-performance show. (Photo by Mike Rice) A busy spring schedule will be initiated Saturday by the Fish Drill Team. The unit that will defend three straight national championships in April will be the lead unit in Conroe’s sixth “Go Texan With Conroe” parade. Invitation for the all-freshman unit’s performance was extended to President Jack Williams by the Montgomery County Trail-Riders Association. Virtually every succeeding weekend until Final Review is also booked for the team com manded by William L. Peppard of Houston. The Fish Drill Team will have one free weekend be sides the Easter holiday class break. Peppard will step off the 1:30 p.m. Conroe parade alongside a 33-member team making its first spring semester appearance. Team advisor J. Malon Souther land of the Commandant’s Office American soldiers seen with Vietnamese in Laos NEW YORK OP) — ABC Radio reported Thursday that a dead American soldier wearing a South Vietnamese uniform had been evacuated from inside Laos. Both ABC and CBS networks carried reports that American ground troops were taking part in the invasion, some in South Vietnamese uniforms. In Washington, Pentagon spokesmen continued to deny that any American ground combat troops are involved. 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