Crash Kills 75-Storm Toll 100,000 Story in Columns 1—3 Story in Columns 5 -6
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Crash kills 75-Storm toll 100,000 Story in Columns 1—3 Story in Columns 5 -6 Vol. V , No.THE 4 , Serving the OBSERVER.Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College Community Monday, November 16, 1970 Cyclone, waves % m assail Pakistan DACCA, East Pakstan (UPI; since floods and tidal waves Government officials said yester killed 200,000 in northern China day the cyclone and tidal wave in 1939. that struck the southern coast of The country of Pakistan is East Pakistan last week deva divided into two parts, its princi stated an area of possibly 10,000 pal western section on India’s square miles and may have western border and East Pakis killed more than 100,000 per-' tan about the size of the state of sons. Arkansas more than 1,000 miles The confirmed death toll was across India to the east. 11,163 they said and more than Officials flying over the af 2,000 persons were reported fected areas estimated that in missing in areas with which com addition to the deaths at least 200,000 houses were washed This is the group team football picture of the Marshall team taken prior to the start of the regularmunication has been reestab away, thousands of boats and season. Most but not all of the players were on the ill-fated plane.(U PI) lished. But most of the area affected is still isolated and un other sessels were sunk, 500,000 der water they said. cattle died and all crops in the Among those missing were area were lost. Marshall U the 14 members of the World The government has begun Bank team including several “maximum possible efforts to Americans who were on an in render help to the affected perishes in tragic crash spection tour of water and people” a communique said power development projects in “but the effort is inadequate.” the Patuakhali coastal district. In the Noakhali district where HUNTINGTON W. VA. (UP!) wreckage which was scattered ita State University football They were aboard a launch when co m m u n icatio n s have been The charred bodies of 75 about 200 feet in every direc squad era led into a mountain last seen in the delta area that restored the union council esti persons 38 of them Marshal’ tion. Trees were '-hopped down at Silver Plume Colo, killing 14 forms the coast on the Bay of mated unofficially that 15,000 University football players were in the densely wooded valley to players, the team’s coach and Bengal. persons had been killed in the taken yesteday from the scat allow fire trucks and recovery t'. s athletic director. The confirmed death toll al area. Five thousand bodies were It iad been 10 years since an tered wreckage of a chartered vehicles into the crash site. ready makes the storm last week buried there in a mass grave accident involved a college foot DC9 jetliner that crashed just the worst disaster of its type Saturday and another 1,000 T ie bodies all of them burned ball team. That occurred in late short of landing in what federal since 30,000 were killed in a have been collected for another beyond recognition were placed October of 1960 when 16 mem officials described as “one of the wind storm in June, 1965 also in mass burial. in plastic bags and taken to a bers of the Cal Poly team from greatest tragedies in aviation his East Pakistan. Unofficial reports from Bari- temporary morgue set up in a tory.” San Luis Obispo, Calif, died in a The official estimates that the sal 50 miles south of Dacca said National Guard armory at the A 35 man team of federal wreck at Toledo, Ohio that death toll might exceed 100,000 more than 13,000 were killed Tri State Airport. investigators recovered an in claimed a total of 22 lives. would make it the w >rst disaster there. flight recorder and a badly dam State Police Capt. J.D. Bais- aged tape of the cockpit conver den said 15 of the bodied were sation from the twin jet Sou identified tentatively from per thern Airways plane which sonal effects such as rings. skimmed across two small hills Walter Rollins a mortician Union budget allotted and fell into a deep foggy Ap who helped with the recovery palachian valley Saturday night said he believed “death was in By Dave McCarthy He explained the rationale of it bring speakers to this campus just short of the Tri State Air stantaneous to every one on the saying that among the duties of who would not come port. The plane exploded and plane.” An ammendment proposed by the Senate “should be popular otherwise.” burned for nearly five hours John Reed chairman of the Stay Senator Fred Giuffrida control of the Student Union.” The result of a roll call vote “lig-.ting up the sky” witnesses National Transportation Safety requiring the Academic Don Mooney, an Off-Campus favored the ammendment and it said. Board headed the team of inves Commission of the Student S e n a to r spoke against the was attached to a motion to Chartered by Marshall Univer tigators who came to the scene. Union to seek the consent of the ammendment saying it “could allot $37,000 to the Student sity the plane was ending a 40 The flight recorder will tell Senate before inviting a speaker be a possible restriction on the Union, but that motion failed. minute flight from Kinston, N.C. the investigators the air speed, who will cost more than $300 to open speakers policy.” He also The ammendment was also carrying 38 football players, five altitude and general operation of the University was attached to noted, later, that the Student attached to a motion to allocate coaches, one team trainer and the plane before the crash. the motion to allot the Union Union had been created to $35,000, which is what the members of a “booster club” “There was some damge to it $ 3 5,000 during last night’s handle such affairs as inviting Senate passed. including one newly elected but we expect a read out” Reed Senate meeting. speakers—duties that had, in the state legislator and six physi said. The two hour meeting, Soon after the Student Union past, been handled by the Senate cians. All perished along with He said the cockpit recorder chaired by Student Body Vice allocation was decided, a and Student Government four crewmen and a baggage bent and twisted but still func President Mark Winings in place number of Senators left the Steve Novak, an Off-Campus handler. The team had played tioning would provide “the last of Student Body President Dave room, leaving the body without Senator concurred with Mooney. East Carolina earlier in the day ■ 30 minutes of conversation Krashna, who is on a recruiting a quorum. The Senate was then He said, “The Academic losing 17-14. between the plane pilot and trip until Thursday, was devoted r e c e s s e d . Commission was originated to Federal officials said it would copilot.” exclusively to considering the be “about a month” before they The plane was at the outer budget of the Student Union. could determine the cause of the markers of the airport’s radar One spokesman for motions mysterious crash the nation’s screen when it crashed Reed to allocate $43,000 and Cohen tells of drugs worst this year and the second in said. The pilot reported no mal $40,000, figures higher than that Mexico when he was served the six. weeks involving a college function but witnesses in the recommended by the Finance By Milt Jones silocybin mushroom which is football team. area said the craft appreared to committee said, “Its a good Citing many facts from known today to be the source of The sky was overcast with be in trouble immediately before chance to show top priority to actual living experience, Dr. this drug. All Leary’s students in light rain, smoke and fog-what the fiery crash. the entire student body at the Allen Cohen exposed many his psychology class at Harvard pilots called a “ragged ceil Reed who called the crash University of Notre Dame.” insights into what he termed the were offered the opportunity to ing” -but the control tower said “one of the greatest tragedies in Another spokesman said, the “polarized” drug scene in a turn on to LSD. This led to there was “no indication of trou aviation history” said he ex Student Union programs were speech at the Library trouble, and a problem arose ble” as the plane headed for a pressed the sorrows of the fede somet ling “the off-campus Auditorium Sunday night. He with the law enforcement landing. It crashed one and one ral government and President student can take advantage of.” talked very informally about his officers of Massachusetts. That half miles short of the runway. Nixon. “We will do out utmost Both motions failed. experiences with Drs. Timothy summer, Leary founded a A steady drizzle continued as to find out actually what hap When the Senate began to Leary and Richard Albert, both community in Mexico to work state police, firemen and Nation pened” he said. consider the Finance Committee at Harvard and in Mexico. on the LSD question. They were al Guardsmen worked for about Only six weeks ago on Oct. recommendation of $37,000 According to Dr. Cohen, 12 hours combing through the 2 a plane carrying half the Wich Giuffrida introduced his rider.