The Weather Variable cloudiness tonight with chance of showers or thunderstorms; low 5540. Wednesday partly sunny ; high in mid to upper 70s. MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1973 - VOL. XCII, No. 202 Manchester—A City of Villnfre Charm TWENTY-FOUR PAGES - TWO SECTIONS FIFTEEN CENTS Midwest, South Hit By Tornadoes Nixon — Pompidou At Least 48 Die t n s. '5S, 'N Talks To Cover In Storms Over Several Topics Long Weekend PARIS (AP) — President Georges Pompidou will have two major preoccupations when he meets President Nixon By CRAIG AMMERMAN in Iceland Thursday and Friday. AHsorioted Press Writer a He will want “explanations and clarifications” of I Washington’s European policies, as outlined in Henry A. A record number of tornadoes | dipped to earth from Kissinger’s speech last month calling for a new Atlantic storm systems across the Midwelst and South over the 2 Charter. Memorial Day weekend, claiming ajt least 48 lives in multi­ million dollar trails of destructioni And he will tell Nixon that France, and as a European,” Western Europe will find it dif­ they said. Several small towns were all but bbllterated as about 160 ficult to accept new rules for Pompidou will remind Nixon tornadoes turned the long weekend Into a holiday of horror world trade in the Nixon-round again of the French view that for thousands. talks next fall without an the solution of the world Deaths were reported in 11 a tornado at Athens, Ga., took assurance that the permanent monetary crisis depends large­ sta te s from Oklahoma to the life of one person and left crisis in the world monetary ly on the “good will” of file Florida, and at least six other morel than 60 Injured. system can be resolved in the United States. He will restate ReMrts from local officials 9 states reeled under heavy rains, not-to-distant future. the view agreed upon at the high winds and flash floods. indic{|ted total losses would That depends largely on the Common Market summit The National Weather. Ser­ climb; well above |100 million. health of the U.S. dollar, meeting last October that what vice said the number of tor­ ’The w'orst damage'appeared to French officials say. is needed is a return to fixed but nadoes'reported between Satur­ be in small towns such as Pompidou in particular will adjustable parities and general day and Monday eclipsed any Brent, Ala., and Keefeton, express concern over what convertibility of currencies — previous 72-hour period on Okla., and in the city of I Europeans see as an implied 'W above all of the dollar, whose record. Jonesboro, Ark. threat in Kissinger’s belief that role as a reserve currency must Among the victims of the The storms began their transatlantic political, be reduced. weekend weather were farmers weekend of terror in Keefeton, economic and military in the lower Mississippi Valley a community of 400 in eastern problems are linked and should French officials cautioned whose crops had been delayed Oklahoma. Officials said a be considered as a whole. against any expectation of a Memorial Day Rites Conducted for weeks by spring floods. ’The funnel cloud dropped from the French officials stressed, solution’s emerging from the new rains dealt them another sky just west of town on Satur­ however, that Pompidou would meeting in Iceland. They hope blow, and some counties in the day and proceeded to make a not be acting as a spokesman instead for a “common will” to The parade was canceled but the spirit remained at yester­ at the Civil War Monument in Center Park. East region prepared to ask for the half-mile-wide swath of for Europe. He would be talking resolve the crisis based on day’s Memorial Day observances. Members of the Army Cemetery, Munroe Park and Manchester Memorial ^ . second time this year that they destruction. to Nixon “in the name of mutual confidence. St Navy Color Guard place wreaths honoring those from Hospital were the sites for other wreaths placed in obser­ Destroyed was 75 per cent of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard be declared a federal disaster vation of Memorial Day. (Herald photo by Klemens) area. Keefeton, including 150 homes, T h e weekend weather 125 cars and virtually all of the systems caused five deaths in business district. Five persons, Skylab Crew Set Oklahoma, three in Kansas, including four members of the Rain Mutes Local seven in Missouri, three in same family who were rushing Arkansas, ten in Tennessee, one toward a shelter, were killed. As the storms criss-crossed M For 28-Day Stay in Mississippi, seven in Alabama, two in Georgia, one the Midwest and South during Memorial Day Rites the weekend, a great many of in Florida, seven in North Carolina and two in Virginia. In the deaths resulting from drown- SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — Skylab astronaut Dr. ings. Flash floods and wind- SUE KEEMENS cipal speaker at ceremonies and acceptance of others: This addition, six persons in North whipped. lakes knocked out Joseph P. Kerwin today pointed a battery of telescopes at (Herald Reporter) held in Woodruff Hall of Center must be the new approach to an Carolina and one in Virginia power, sfvept away homes and the sun, hoping to give scientists their best iook yet at how The drums were silent, Congregational Church yester­ American dream of peace sup­ were listed as missing and Watergate day morning. uprooted trees in state after thid seething sphere of gases controls our solar system. batons invisible and trumpets ported by a young generation presumed drowned. WASHINGTON (AP) - For it is the Vietnam veteran, state as the storms moved first Physicists also hope the muted yesterday during a rainy nourished on newspaper The storms began Saturday in Government prosecutors coming home to “no fanfare, no southeast and then up the East experiment will help unlock the Memorial Day. headlines as well as history eastern Oklahoma and con­ ference televised to mission reportedly would like President Coast. But this lack of brass bands, job, no recognition, reduced books. tinued into Monday night, when A secret of controlled ther­ control Monday, Conrad Nixon to testify on how the G.I. benefits and reduced monuclear fusion, the source of replied, “You betcha,” when flag-waving children and sore- In order to cure the American Watergate coverup could have medical benefits,” who bears the sun’s energy. This might aid asked if he felt they could com­ soled Boy Scouts (attributed by dilemma of divisionism and un­ been carried out without his the brunt of the turbulence and in the search for an unlimited, plete the full four-week mis­ most to the weather) was rest, Garofalo once again knowledge, but are said to feel bitterne.ssof society,” Garofalo Holiday Highway pollution-free power source on sion. perhaps the only way to usher prescribed “communication” > n a subpoena would be of dubious said. earth. “If the temperatures keep in the first “war-free” and m utuar “Respect, Dignity constitutionality. Through a formula of mutual and Appreciation” as a means While Kerwin tuned up the going down, it’s gonna get real Memorial Day in 40 years, ac­ The Washington Post, quoting “ R espect, Dignity and Ap­ Toll Set At Five )107-million array, Charles pleasant in here. It’s not bad cording to John Garofalo, prin- of achieving the ideal of peace Y Justice Department sources, preciation,” Garofalo urged a Conrad Jr . and Paul J . Weitz now.” and tranquility. said today that the President’s crowd composed of mainly This simple ceremony was By The Associated Press assembled cameras and sen­ Kerwin, the first physician to role in the scandal is the only “those who have the same color sors which they’ll use starting fly in space, conducted three apparently a reflection of the Traffic accidents claimed five lives during the rain- key question remaining to be Explosion hair as me” to listen to the Wednesday to survey the major medical experiments peace advocated by Garofalo. drenched Memorial Holiday weekend in Connecticut, in­ clarified in the grand jury in­ words of today’s youth in order earth’s resources. Monday. He drew blood from The only musical accompani­ cluding three killed in a collision on a rainslicked road. vestigation. Interrupts to fulfill the American ideals of ment was provided by a piano It was the fifth day of the all three Crewmen and then Meanwhile, Sen. Howard H. working and growing together. played by Mrs. Everett During the three-day holiday planned,28-day orbital flight. monitored Weitz on two Baker Jr., R-Tenn., said the Power Service He advocated a return to the weekend last year, seven per­ The telescopes are mounted devices. Kennedy of the American Monday, killing all three people Senate Watergate investigating peace and beauty of a Memorial sons perished in traffic mis­ on a large device that is One was a cylinder which fit MIDDLETOWN (AP) - Legion. Auxiliary. Peter Ven- in them. The driver of one, An­ committee, which resumes Day prior to the war-turbulent drillo, chairman of the Perma­ haps. drew Zitnay, 65, of Trumbull extended away from the or­ over the lower half of Weitz’ Some 7,200 Hartford Electric hearings June 5, will not call society of today. At that time, nent Memorial Day Committee, In addition, one state resident and his 64-year-old wife, Jean, biting station on long metal body and, with air evacuated, Light Co. customers were John N. Mitchell, H.R. young and old alike gathered to introduced Mayor John Thomp­ drowned in New Hampshire and were dead at the scene.