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Page d THE taA f l ALiON MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1981 Sun Theatres 333 University 846-' The only movie in town 846-9808 National Double-Feature Every Week 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. No one unde' 18 New Orleans apartment fire kills 5 BOOK STORE A ?5e PEEP SHOWS A Public Service of this newspaper & The Advertising Council E\ Ibday is the fiist day of the rest of your life. Give blood. so it can be the first day of somebody else’s, too. Red Cross is counting on you. United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Four children and one adult were killed by a blaze that gutted a century-old apartment house, forcing as many as 30 residents to jump from upper story windows. Three bodies were recovered from rubble in the build ing Sunday morning, and fire officials later said two chil dren listed as missing had been confirmed dead. Fire officials said Sunday afternoon they still had not determined the cause of the blaze. Identities of the dead were not available, but fire officials said the victims included four children apparently being cared for by an aunt. The fifth victim was believed to be the aunt. “I know how you feel, but I’m going to level with you,” Fire Superintendent William McCrossen told the chil dren’s father, Norwood Jackson. “No human being could have survived up there. I’m sorry.” Seven people were injured jumping from second- and third-floor windows in the converted orphanage located in a predominantly black lowermiddle income area. The injured were taken to Charity Hospital. A spokes woman said of the victims brought there, the most serious injury was a broken pelvis. Firefighters arriving on the scene shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday were confronted by flames bursting from the building’s upper floor and through the roof. The fire grew to a sixth alarm within 30 minutes and was battled by 125 firefighters for three hours. Rescuers searching for victims were called out of the building during the night because of extensive damage to the structure’s third floor, McCrossen said. Search efforts resumed at daybreak Sunday. One witness to the fire said she saw a man, his clothes apparently aflame, jump out of the building. Others re ported heroic rescues by neighbors, who braved smoke and flame to repeatedly enter the building and lead dazed survivors to safety. Reginald Ringo said he joined other bystanders entering the building to evacuate residents, and said he saw one woman trapped in the flames. “I saw a lady up through some smoke in the middle of the hall (on the third floor) but I couldn’t get to her,’’!i "The smoke ran me down the stairs and that’s thf heard of her. ” Driving rain and hail hampered firefighters’effor McCrossen said the weather did not contribute to] fatalities. “I can’t recall a combination of things going againstl like they did last night,” McCrossen said. “Therainw great hinderance. It pushed the smoke down to I ground. But the major factor in this fire was the de!ar| alarm.” Joanne Hardin, who lives in the predominantlyklJ lower-middle income neighborhood, said the f spread rapidly, engulfing the top two floors. "The fire was just shooting every which way, ” Han said. “People were screaming from those third-floor*; dows. They were screaming for help.” Jacqueline Winchester, who lives next door, said the! |§ apparently obstructed stairwells, cutting off upper-in I residents from escape. Vigilan tes say arrests won t stop them United Press International ATLANTA — Vigilantes pat rolling a black neighborhood to prevent further child killings said Saturday the arrests of three from their group this week on weapons charges will not deter them from carrying guns. “I’ll carry it again, ” said Jerome Gibbs, who Saturday became the third vigilante arrested for car rying a gun in the Techwood Homes housing project. Gibbs, wearing a pistol strapped in a hols ter, was arrested moments after he joined the group. Chimurenga Jenga, an organiz er of the group and one of two men arrested for carrying weapons Fri day, said, "We’ll carry one gun a day. If they arrest people every day, then we’ll all go to jail. “The police have put them selves on the side of the child killer at this point,” Jenga continued. “While they are here arresting us, the child killer is roaming the city.” Jenga, Gibbs and Gene Fergu son all face hearings Monday on charges of carrying weapons in a public place. Meanwhile, about 400 volun teers searched for clues to the child killers Saturday but appa rently found only animal bones. Tracking dogs were used in the search, the 23rd such weekend effort aimed at trying to crack a 20-month period in which 20 Atlanta black children have been slain. Two others are officially listed as missing. Following Gibbs’ arrest Satur day, about 20 members of the citizens’ patrol armed with base ball bats staged a sit-in around De puty Police Chief Eldrin Bell’s car, refusing to let him leave the scene. Bell left his car and went to another officer’s auto, but the vigi lantes followed and surrounded it also. When they refused to move, police tried to force them away but several vigilantes then laid under the car. Bell was later picked up by a third police car. Jenga showed police a copy of Section 26-2903 of the Georgia MSC Arts & Basement PRESENT PAT METHENY GROUP March 28,1981 8 PM RUDDER THEATER TK :KETS MSC: BOX OFFICE Criminal Code which sayi, citizen can carry a gun wifliou! license as long as the weapeij , xas '' fully exposed. £ Before leaving, Bell said 'son, con would "look into” Jenga’s ccjlems, is plaint that he and the othersidoubleh men were arrested without cl-ton Stat The group continued sit-in around the police carandij not move until Gibbs was;! turned from jail by police. Atli Mayor Maynard Jackson has: demned the vigilante saying the police can best hard law enforcement. After Gibbs returned, ^women’s group resumed its patrol ofajits season North Atlanta neighborhood-placing tl marking the second night obvitational vigilante watch. h Thirty- On Friday night, some35'i the tour: lantes patrolled the area. 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