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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1981 National Tornado leaves five dead, 37 hurt United Press International er, helped searchers locate the southeast Tulsa and adjoining sub- TULSA, Okla. — A small dog, body of the fifth confirmed victim urbs. whining over the body of its own- of a tornado that ripped through Four other bodies had been GET YOUR CAR READY FOR THE TRIP HOME! Do it now and avoid the last-minute rush! LUBE, OIL & FILTER CHANGE (Some Foreign ri* Cars Slightly N* Higher) 11 95 ENGINE TUNE-UPS (Electronic Ignition) 8 Cyl. 6 Cyl. 4 Cyl. $42°° *38 00 *34°° FRONT-END ALIGNMENT 95 (Most American & Foreign Cars) $ 15 Trucks & Vans $19.50 4-WHEEL BALANCE (Electronic Balance) $ 16 00 SPECIAL PRICES GOOD THROUGH SAT., APRIL 25 University Tire & Service Center 3818 S. College Ave. • 846-1738 (5 Blocks North of Skaggs) Owner Lonny Scasta HOWDY WEEK APRIL 20-24 HEY AGS Show your Aggie Spirit by greeting fellow students and visitors with a warm smile and a friendly “HOWDY”! HIGHLIGHTS: TRADITIONS PROGRAM Tuesday, April 21, 8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium. Traditions film, Speaker Cliff Ransdell, Aggie Yell Leaders and Reville. HOWDY DANCE Thursday, April 23, 7-12 at the Thirsty Turtle. Wear your Howdy Shirt and get a pitcher of Old Milwaukee beer for $1.50. MYSTERY PERSON CONTEST A free Howdy Shirt and $5.00 will be awarded to the 100th person to say Howdy to one of the 5 mystery people. HOWDY SHIRTS and BUTTONS on sale in the MSC Sponsored by the MSC Traditions Council THHMIM found earlier and authorities be lieved all of the victims came from a small mobile home park in Bixby that was wiped out by the twister that apparently touched down at least four times as it passed through the area late Sunday. The fifth victim was found lying in a ditch, his body guarded by the small dog, State Trooper Kent Thompson said. At least 37 other persons were injured and dozens of houses and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed, authorities said. Tornado damage was also re ported at Kiefer, a small town ab out 15 miles west of Bixby. “We’ve got several homes com pletely destroyed and a lot of them got the roofs off,” Kiefer Mayor Earl Heylon said. “There’s a lot of trees down, and we ... have exten sive damage in a new home area. ” Before hitting the mobile home park in Bixby, the tornado struck a church and injured several of the approximately 40 people inside, officials said. THE LAZYMAN’S GUIDE TO SECURING A POST-GRADUA TION POSITION WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN SCHOOL. Grad Students, Seniors, 2nd Semester Juniors: send $5 to ‘THE PERSONNEL DIRECTORS CATALOG’ Box 14014, Austin, TX 78761 WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY WILD GAME BBQ APRIL 25 ADVANCE 3.50 AT GATE 4.00 TICKETS SOLD INFRONT OF NAGLE HALL The Battalion Number One In Parallel parking Aggie style •Staff photo by Chuckdl An observer at the scene said several of the people in the church suffered broken bones and other injuries. “The Red Cross is providing first aid (to those in the church and other damaged areas) and Tulsa Life Flight is bringing the injured to St. Francis Hospital,” Amer ican Red Cross spokeswoman Cheryl Blonsky said. With on-campus parking at a premium, the overflowing parking lots and inert University employee driving this pickup crowded streets. Parallel parking ini truck took to the sidewalk to find relief from er’s education was never this demand!:! Latest Atlanta victim w smothered, coroner say ihannon > team lays t tional Soft J ton, Canat Park. “At this point 37 have been brought to the hospital, ” she said. “We have no report on the extent of injuries or the number admitted. ” A preliminary survey showed 21 houses destroyed, 16 with ma jor damage and 30 with minor damage within the Tulsa city limits alone, she said. United Press International ATLANTA — Joseph Bell, the 24th young black .slain in the Atlanta area during the past 20 months, died of asphyxiation and was probably smothered, DeKalb County Medical Examiner Joe Burton said Monday. Of the slain youths, all but two were male and 12 died of asphyxia tion or strangulation. After an autopsy on Bell’s body. Burton told reporters that there did not seem to be any ligature strangulation such as would be the case with a rope. The skin of the neck was too decomposed for him to be certain, he said. The cause of death was prob ably “suffocation or a combination of suffocation and smothering,” Burton said. The body had been “in the river almost as long as Bell had been missing, ” he said. Bell had been missing since March 2. There was no evidence of exter nal injury to the body other than it being snagged on debris in the riv er, Burton said. The autopsy did reveal some thing of what the youth ate before he died, he said. He declined to elaborate, but said “it is the kind of thing that will be helpful in tracing the last steps” before Bell died. No evidence of sexual abuse was found on Bell’s body or on those of the several other victims he has examined. Burton said. “There have been a lot of rumors about the genital organs in the children that have been found dead,” Burton said. “Of all those (autopsies) that I have personally done and personally been associ ated with, the genital organs have been completely intact, as in this case of Joseph Bell.” He did say, however, that de composition prevented his deter mining whether there might have been other abuse. The youth’s body was found on the bank of the South River Sun day, about seven weeks after he vanished. A 25th black youth, 10- year-old Darron Glass, is still mis sing. An unidentified couple trying out a new motorbike on a path near the South River discovered Bell’s body about two miles from where the body of another black youth — 13-year-old Cuiti I ker — was found six week The body of lO-year-olil] Jackson was found on thek the same river in an industii Nov. 2. Three other victims-ij “Bubba” Duncan, 21; Hill, 13 and Patrick RogersM have been found in the ft p tachoochee River within tk|P six months. T Bat ! Bell and Hill li,d .# Tte T “ as ' block of each other in tM southwest Atlanta neig Bell was described byfiiei a street-wise youth who»| ways looking for a way I pocket money. Like many of the other vi Bell came from a poor hood and a broken home. Bell was last seen Maii| the seafood restaurant wIb sometimes worked. He* ported missing the nextJi;,] was not added to the listofii children until March 131 lajit a doubh ixas Tech R< . Lubbock, ne 4-2 and ne 7-6 whei hs in the b ping. he split br You Get What You Pay For. 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Texas, Medical examiners used* X-rays to identify Bell’s which was in poor condition Kalb County Public Safety ctor Dick Hand said Sunday® There were no serious "J to indicate how Bell died,# said. •••I Sources close to the invfl tion said Sunday that autk have picked up several po who resemble a compositec ing of a man seen with one 25 missing and murdered vntp but so far none are consid We sped pects. 1 Investigators have pretty good people tolookab 1 resemble the composite given man driving a car in whichh I Rogers — the 23rd victim-' 1 1 seen entering the day he J appeared, the source said Battalion Classified* Call 845-2611 - —- --1 CtTXEiV DAVIS SPEAK ON: "SEARCHING FOR VALUES” EH PLACE: (j()l Rudder TIME: 7=30 „.m. FREE DATE: Friday, April 24 CLASS OF ’55