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Vol. LXVI No. 9
Tuesday. July 16. 1974

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky. 40506

 

Hall orders NAM sessions tape-recorded

Last Thursday's registrants to the New American Movement convention later
objected to the taping of the meetings. (Kernel staff photo by Phil Groahong.)

Food stamps
provide aid
for students

By LARRY MEAD
Kernel Staff Writer

Sports car club
sponsors auto rally

Under sunny. humid skies. the Central Kentucky Region

Relaxed requirements now allow more
students to be eligible for food stamps.

In April. 1969. when the program began
in Fayette County. students seeking food
stamps could not be tax dependents on
their parents. Also. two or more students
living in the same household had to be
related.

THESE requirements have since been
lifted and those remaining — living off-
campus. cooking facilities and a monthly
income of3194after deductions — are met
by many needy students.

The Fayette County food stamp
program. federally funded and ad-

By SUSAN JONES
Kernel Staff Writer

Without informing organization
members. Dean of Students Jack Hall
ordered tape recordings made of several
sessions of the national convention of the
New American Movement (NAM) held in
the Student Center last weekend.

Hall reportedly said that UK tapes all
public political meetings. prominent
speakers and controversial events held in
University facilities. “If it‘s a public
meeting usually we don't inform them It‘s
not a secret though." said Hall.

NAM. A socialist political organization
based in Minneapolis. Minn . has a chapter
which is a [K student organization. L'n-
iversity facilities were used for NAM's
national convention under the auspices of
the local chapter.

“The meeting was a national conference
of a political organization." said Hall. “it
should have been taped if for no other
reason other than historical value.“

“We've made about eleven tapes in the
past two years." said Kevin Hill. night
manager of the Student Center.

"THi-I TAPES are held for verification if
the l7niversity should come under
criticism for an event on the campus."
said Hall.

The Dean of Students said the tapes are
filed in the Music Library and that they

ministered by the Bureau for Social ln-
surance in the Kentucky Department for
Human Resources. issued 3538.349 in food
stamps during May. 1974.

Mike Strange. administrator in the
Fayette program. said food stamps are
now issued to over 5.000 households
monthly. Strange said specific figures on
students are unavailable because “they
are treated just like everyone else."

BH‘Al'SE applicants are increasing
every month. Strange now has a caseload
that is "far too high.” Because of this.
potential abuse of the system is a problem.

 

are accessible to the public, according to
Monday‘s Lexington Herald.

A check of the Music Library revealed
no such tapes. When contacted further
Hall said he had been misquoted and the
tapes were in his office. “I just wanted to
see what tapes we had." said Hall.

"WE KEPT some tapes of prominent
speakers in the Student Center." said
Margaret Worsham. assistant director of
the Student Center. “A person wishing to
hear the tapes has to give us a particular
reason. we don't operate like a library.“

Worsham said not all public meetings
are taped. “We tape only those meetings
that we are requested to tape." said
Worsham. “Requests usually come from
the Dean of Students office or from the
program director of the Student Center."

"Sometimes the organizations them-
selves asked to be taped." said Hall.

NAM representatives asked that the
tapes of their meetings be kept con-
fidential and Hall has agreed to keep them
in his office. “Tapes other than those of the
NAM convention are open to the public.“
said Hall. “Any public meeting can be
taped. including those of UK student
organizations.“

Henry Guinn. from the NAM convention
coordinating committee. reportedly said
their objections centered around not
having been informed of the tapings until
after they began.

Strange frankly admitted there is little
they can do to verify applicants” answers.
“We just don‘t have time to do detective
work." Strange said.

There is a quality control unit that spot
checks a number of applicants every
month. but according to Strange this
number if fairly insignificant,

“OVER THE past five years a number
of changes have been made to assure that
low income families have the purchasing
ability to obtain well balanced diets." said
Bill Woods. acting supervisor of the Food
Stamp Program.

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of the Sports Car Club of America sponsored Sunday a
picnic auto rally through country roads in Fayette and
Scott Counties.

Designed more for enjoyment than for the professional
rally enthusiasts, the “Frogtown Follies“. as it was
called. covered 75 winding miles of time-controlled
driving. said Skip Malette. publicity director.

 

ON A RALLY. the driver and navigator follow a set of
directions that lead through miles and miles of back roads
and checkpoints to a final destination. They must
calculate miles per hour to make sure the course is driven
in a certain amount of time.

The team that negotiates the course and collects the
least amount of time faults or penalties wins the rally.

Sunday‘s overall winner. in a 26 car field. was the team
of (‘arl \'erluca..l r and David Futrell. They navigated an
Audi Fox to a low score of 296. and won the “B" class (for
those who had some rallying experience, but no com-
puting equipment).

 

 Universal curfew

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released some
alarming statistics on crime in Lexington. Par-
ticularly disturbing was the 100 per cent increase in
rape » or what might be called the “universal cur-
few“ on women in this country.

The FBI figures indicate forcible rapes doubled in
Lexington since last year. Nationally, 49,630 cases of
rape were reported in 1973. Anywhere from three to 10
times this amount of rapes may occur which are not
reported.

Although the legal sanctions against rape are
tough, the social sanctions are not. Women who report.
rapes may have to answer many insensitive and
embarassing questions over and over, some of which
may have nothing to do with the rape. Unfortunately.
there are many people who believe that the victim is
the criminal. that she probably asked for it and
probably “liked it."

Rape is a crime of violence directed against women
rather than an uncontrollable sexual desire. Studies
by psychiatrists indicate only three per cent of sex
offenders are considered psychotic and according to
figures from the Washington DC. Rape Crisis Cen-
ter:

~60 per cent of rapes are planned

—50 per cent of rapes are committed in homes

—50 per cent of rapes are committed by an
assailant known to the victim.

Rape takes away the victim‘s sense of dignity and
the threat of rape denies every woman complete
freedom of choice. It emphasizes the powerlessness
that women in our society must deal with every day.
Besides emotional and legal struggles, rape victims
may also face unwanted pregnancy, venereal
disease, vaginitis and physical injury.

The Lexington Women’s Center recognizes the
emotional, physical and legal needs of rape victims
and is taking action to answer them. The opening of a
rape crisis center is targeted for September if a
location and adequate funding are secured. Trained
volunteers will answer phones to inform victims
about what to expect from police and hospitals.

The Women's Center deserves community support
in their attempt to aid victims of one of the most
harrowing forms of female oppression — rape.

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Viewpoints

Let your mind run amok

If you haven‘t let your
imagination run amok for awhile.
you may have to make a special
effort to do so now. for the fun of
it. As you know. the truth often
hides in the midst of the bizarre,
and we can get at it best by
loosening the mental bonds of
everyday convention in thinking.

Imagine this? You have an urge
to have power over the world.
You have working vehicles or-
biting theearth. You have over 50
years of experience in winning
people. and that many years of
increasing sophistication in the
techniques of thought reform.
You have 20 years worth of
scientific research and direct
experience in psychic
phenomena and psychedelic
drugs.

You are. by virtue of this
knowledge and experience. able
to manipulate the symbolic
culture of whole societies You
are able to keep your knowledge
hidden (or “occult“t by the very
effective means of making it
appear ludicrous and therefore
unworthy of mature scientific
consideration.

That is, you protect the source
of your power, knowledge, by
masquerading it as magic. You
see a country in a state of moral
shambles. It is a country rich in

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arable land and other natural
resources The people in it are in
the habit of greediness

You are able to take advantage
of the fuzzy thinking produced by
the conflicts and compromises in
that society. That is, a guilty
conscience is your handle for
manipulation. You emphasne
and promote that soc1ety's
longing for honesty and truth. It
is a Christian society, that is.
regardless of the individual's
opinion. he has internalized the
understanding of Jesus Christ.

(The individual‘s spiritual or
psychic life may have Jesm or
Buddha or any of a number of
possible religious symbol sets as
standards or expressions.)

You go right to the Christian
symbolism deep in each person
and stimulate that thinking,

initially below the verbal level.
That is. you mystify experience
for the individual and the group.
The cultural expectation is for
the Second (‘oiiiing

At the proper time. you stage a
second coming. from space, in
psychedelic splendor Each
person sees what he wants. and
gets what he sees.

[)0 you think this is possible" If
so. isn't the best recourse to get a
healthy conscwnce. individually
and nationally" And a real
education. one not bound by
striving for status, one that frees
each person to look completely
intoevents without prejudice” Do
you think it is possible to
strengthen the human spirit in
this way'.’ Surely. it is necessary
to strengthen that spirit

l-Zdna l'rie

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By WILLIAM M. KUNSTIJ-IR

On May 28, 1974 the United
States Supreme Court dismissed
an Indiana Federal judge’s ap-
peal from an appellate court‘s
order directing him to allow a
black criminal defendant to have
his out~of~state counsel of choice.

Since I was the lawyer in
question I will comment no
further on the merits of that

decision. Suffice it to say that a
significant threat to the great
American tradition of the
itinerant lawyer has, for the time
being at least. been turned back.

IV I713. the two local lawyers
representing John Peter Zenger.
a New York publisher accused of
libeling the provincial governor.
were d'starred when they dared
to challenge the jurisdiction of
the court before which their
client's case was pending. On the
very eve of Zenger's trial. An-
drew Hamilton. a celebrated
Philadelphia attorney, agreed to
defend him Zenger‘s victory,
which elevated press freedom to
an exalted status in the Colonies a
half—century before the Con-
stitution was drafted, also
ushered in the concept of the
traveling lawyer.

Since that time, attorneys have
traveled from one end of the
country to the other to appear in
its most controversial cases.
Clarence Darrow, for one,
represented clients in Tennessee
(John T. Scopes), Michigan (Dr.
()ssion Sweet) and Los Angeles
(the McNamara brothers).

An endangered species

Samuel Liebowitz defended the
Scottsboro Nine in rural
Alabama, and Fred H. Moore
went from California to
Massachusetts to stand up for
Sacco and Vanzetti.

The last decade has seen a
splendid continuation of this
tradition. During the nineteen—
sixties, attorneys from around
the nation flocked to the Deep
South to defend freedom riders
and other opponents of racial
segregation

(INLY RECENTLY, out-0f-
state counsel were deeply in-
volved in such cases as the
prosecution of Dr. Benjamin
Spock. the Chicago Seven, the
Harrisburg Eight and the
(iainesville Eight, Angela Davis,
Robby (I. Scale and Dr. Daniel
Ellsherg and Anthony J. Russo
Jr. to name but a few. At this
time. in Minnesota. South
Dakota. Arizona and Nebraska,
American Indians who par-
ticipated in the Wounded Knee
protest of last year are being
defended bylawyers from diverse
parts of the country.

This is not to suggest for a
moment that nonresident counsel
are better lawyers or more
fearless human beings than their
local counterparts. However, it is
obvious that the former are not
subject to the same pressures as
the latter.

Thus, they often can be bolder
and more aggressive in their
advocacy than attorneys who
depend upon their communities

Nicholas Von Hoffman

Supreme Court decisions leave us nowhere

WASHINGTON — With the
suspicion growing that the nine
Supremes are unable to ad
minister their own court's routine
business affairs with equity or
efficiency, the boys in black have
lessened themselves again with
some of their recent decisions.
Their latest pronunciamento on
obscenity is calculated to depress
and madden people on both sides
of this never-settled point of law.

Only a year ago the court
ruled that obscenity was
anything that a jiry said of-
fended local standards of taste.
()bnoxious as this ruling has to be
to First Amendment lovers, at
least it seemed that the court had
ended the controversy in a
manner that everybody could
understand. The law was clear:
the smallest and angriest spirits
in the Baptist and Catholic
churches. our two largest
religious bodies, would be em-
powered to censure our movies.

BUT NO. The Supremes have
overruled the Georgia courts
which had banned the movie
“Carnal Knowledge,“ with the
result that now nobody can tell
you what the obscenity laws
are. Local standards of taste

 

have been dumped for no known
standards of taste. This is fine for
the lawyers who make more
money when thejudges make the
law more obscure. but the rest of
us would just as soon not spend
our time and resources suing and
being sued because the Supreme
Court of the United States is
incapable of stating the law in a
manner that a reasonable
person can understand.

The Supremes did the same
thing in a recent ruling changing
the law of libel. As in the 0b-
scenity case, it matters less
whether you agree with them or
you don‘t than whether you can
understand them. In this matter
their meaning is in-
comprehensible to all save the
packs of litigious lawyers
roaming about in hopes of getting
their clients to bankrupt them»
selves by filing a law suit. They
understand all right.

The Supremes don't always
disfigure meaning by dousing it
with the opaque muck of Delphic
viscosity. Some days you can
read a Supreme Court decision
forever. Consider their ruling,
not long ago. on class-action suits
requiring that anyone filing such
a suit notify all the other mem-

for their living, their status and
their well-being. Moreover, they
frequently bring to the case in
question an expertise and
national perspective gained as a
result of their peripatetic
professional existence.

GIVEN THEIR proved ef-
fectiveness, it is hardly sur~
prising that they have often had
problems in being permitted to
represent their clients. The
principal obstacle has usually
been courts‘ discretionary power
to deny pro hac vice (“for this
case only”) recognition to out—of-
state lawyers who attempt to
appear before them. The
rationale behind this power is
that courts have supervisory
need to control the temporary
admission of attorneys who are
not members of the local bar.

It is high time that the rich
tradition begun by Andrew
Hamilton more than two cen-
turies ago be afforded con-
stitutional status. Since there are
140 different jurisdictions in this
Federal Republic (50 state
systems and 87 Federal districts
as well as commonwealth or
territorial courts in Puerto Rico,
Guam and the Virgin Islands)
there is a burning need for the
establishment of the legal
principle that, in criminal cases
at least, defendants have an
absolute right to their counsel of
choice, whatever that attorney’s
place of residence.

As long as the lawyer in
question is a member in good
standing of some bar and is

bers of the class that he has done
so. This may not put class-action
suits out of business completely.
but it will certainly discourage
them.

THE (‘ASE the court ruled on
shows why a certain Morton V.
Eisen brought suit against cer-
tain members of the New York
Stock Exchange alleging they
had violated the antitrust law.
Morton himself only claimed $70
in damages, hardly enough to
bring an enormously complicated
and expensive suit which has
already been in the law courts
more than six years. “No com-
petent attorney would undertake
this complex antiturst action to
recover so inconsequential an
amount." the court itself con-
ceded.

The hitch that made the suit
economically possible is that
there are approximately two»
and-a-quarter million people who
could each make the same To
claim as Morton Eisen. Thus if
Eisen had been allowed to sue as
a representative of a vast class of
people claiming small damages.
his lawyer would have stood to
make a bundle if he had won,
Now under this new ruling he
isn‘t going to be able to sue

sponsored by local counsel who
will vouch for his qualifications,
courts should have no power
whatsoever to deny pro hac vice
admission.

IN VIEW OF the fact that the
American Bar Association
vigorously supported the Indiana
Federaljudge‘s refusal to allow a
defendant to be represented by
an out-of-state attorney, the

because it would cost 3225.000 just
to notify the other millions of
members of his class about what
he is doing.

The ordinary costs of a suit like
this are large enough. No lawyer
is going to start one if he has to
add anther quarter of a million
dollars to the gamble.

DOES IT MATTER? Yes.
Class-action suits of this sort
have gotten a lot of small in-
vestors their money back when
they have been rooked. And
where that hasn‘t been possible
because the sums are too small or
the people too scattered. such
suits have forced a number of
executives to pay back the money
into the corporation's treasury.
In other words they have not been
able to get away with what they
were doing. By the same token a
suit can be used on behalf of
customers who have been
wronged in this same marginal
way. which doesn‘t make it worth
their while to go to court on their
own, Class-action suits have
made it more dangerous for
busmessmen to think they can get
away with theft by stealing small
amounts of money from large
numbers of people.

  
   
  
   
    
 
   
  
      
   
   
    
  
    
  
   
 
  
   
  
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
   
  
    
   
    
  
   
  
 
   
  
 
 
 
    
   
 
   
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
   
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
   

concept of the traveling lawyer is
still in grave jeopardy.

As one Federal Appellate court
put it, rules relating to the ad-
mission of out-of-state counsel
“may not be allowedto operate in
such a way . . to deny the Sixth
Amendment of criminal defen-
dants to counsel of their choice."

William NI. Kunstler is himself a
traveling attorney.

The beauty of class-action suits
is that they create a cadre of
lawyers who function as district
attorneys for profit. These class-
action lawyers have a stronger
incentive to win than official
district attorneys. because the
private attorneys get zero bucks
if they blow the gig and lose.
Allowing private bounty hunters
to serve themselves for their own
gain by policing the corporations
is a superior way of getting law
enforcement than relying on the
feeble vagaries of the regulatory
agencies. Here the punishment
for white-collarcrime comes in a
fashion calculated to discourage
others. The payment of
restitution and damages.

It is just these virtues that the
politicians on the bench and in the
legislature don‘t like, The simple
and effective redress of
grievances might inspire the
citizenry to yet broader ex-
pectations of justice. That hope
has been knocked on the head for
the time being, but for the per-
plexed there will always be dirty
movies.

Nicholas von Hoffman is a
columnist for King Features
Syndicate.

  
  
  
     

    
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
   
  
 
   
  
  
  

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TSOA seeks to inform tenants
of their rights under new law

By DAVID PERRY
Kernel Staff Writer
Tenant Services and
Organization Assistance Inc.,
('I‘SOAi. is presently involved in
a campaign to inform Fayette
(‘ounty tenants of their rights
under the new Uniform
Residential Landlord-Tenant
ACI.
Effective Aug. 1. the act is a
beginning for legal protection of

tenants ~ one of the purposes of
TSOA.
THE PRIVATE, nonprofit

organization receiving state,
county and personal funds has a
two-point plan for educating the
public of the new law.

Educational material is
available to explain the legal
aspect of residential rental
relationships in “non—legal"
language. A guidebook con-
cerning the tenants‘ new rights is
in construction,

Second. TSOA will conduct a
series of informational seminars
for neighborhoods and public
officials. A community seminar
will be held in October at the UK
Law Building.

"BEFORE THE ACT. a tenant
was covered by common law, a
vague verbal contract and a few
other statutes which were lan-
dlord oriented." said Mark
Kleckner, TSOA research
assistant and coordinator for
housing.

As of Aug 1. it is no longer
valid for a tenant to waive his
rights III a contract.

A tenant has new rights against
landlords who unfairly keep
security deposits. make
retaliatory evictions and fail to
maintain the premises three

reoccuring local problems TSOA
has encountered since its in-
corporation in 1971.

“THE TENANT has always
been in an insecure position
which in the past has no doubt
caused other social and political
problems in communities,“
Kleckner said.

However, Kleckner pointed out
the new law will not relieve the
acute scarcity of housing in
Lexington and the tenant still
doesn‘t have real incentive to
improve his premises when it’s
not economically beneficial to
him.

Kleckner, an at-large
University senator, is one of five
University Year for Action
students working for Tenant
Services.

THE THREE components of
TSOA provide counseling,
referral and legal aid for low—and
moderate-income families with
housing problems.

The relocation, home
management and legal housing
components deal with emergency
and immediate counseling and
referral on financial and legal
aid.

The third component, housing
improvement and research,
serves as a “change agent" to
expose rcoccuring housing
problems and report data to
public officials.

TENANT SERVICES exists to
work with tenants and landlords,
with emphasis on tenants. to

outline the rights and repon-
sibilties of both in a rental
situation.

Instrumental in the passage of
the landlord-tenant act, tenant

services now sponsors legislation
to which they can resort to help
tenants. Landlords are now
required to keep a place in
habitable condition.

The new act applies only to
first-class cities, the Louisville-
Jefferson County area and
Lexington-Fayette County area.

Food stamp
regulations

are revised

(‘ontinued from page 1

Woods added that the
maximum non-assistance
monthly income for a one person
household has increased from
$115 to the present $194. Purchase
allotments (the amount of
coupons available) have in-
creased from $28 to $46 per month
for a one-person household.

”The cost of living has sky-
rocketed over the past four or
five years and buying power has
proportionately decreased. As a
result, cost of living increases are
allowed each January and June
by the United States Department

of Agriculture," Woods ex-
plained.
IN PREVIOUS YEARS

recipients complained that the
foods allowed for purchase under
the program were too limited.
Woods said that has also
changed. Since May the only
foods prohibited in the program
are pet foods. tobacco products
and alcoholic beverages.

Garden seeds are now included
on the list and recipients are
encouraged to grow gardens to
supplement food stamps pur-
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Stamping Ground: Rebuilding

In the small Scott County town of Stamping
Ground many signs of the tornado are still
visible. Mobile homes, trailers and great
expanses of bulldozed, muddy fields can be
seen from the town’s main street.

Even the post office operates from a trailer
— a red, white and blue one.

Another sign of the spring disaster is the
Salvation Army dispensary located in one of
the slightly damaged stores on Highway 227 —
the main drag. Through the glass window
shelves of clothes and food are stacked for any
resident who may still need them.

A paper sign in the door of Reynold and
Son’s Grocery (the only undamaged
establishment on the main street) Store ex-
plained that the Salvation Army would cutoff
its clothing contributions July 13, but offered
help for those who still needed summer
clothing.

"The rebuilding is coming along kinda
slow,” said Clayton Kidwell, Stamping
Ground mayor. ”We’re building a new sewer
system that should begin in August.
Thereafter we should have no problem with
the construction of houses.” Thirteen houses
have been started already.

Most people dislocated by the tornado now
live'n mobile homes provided by the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban Development.
Ab0ut 65 are now occupied, said Robert Ward,
disaster coordinator for Scott County.

”All those needingipublic housing can receive
temporary housing units with 907day cer-
tifications,” Ward said. ”They can be used up

to one year and i imagine most of the people
will need them the maximum time.”

About 70 per cent of the Stamping Ground’s
population is over 65, Kidwell said. ”This
tornado really put the older people in a bind,”
he said.

”Mercifully, it’s a small county,“ he said,
”and there was no loss of life and relatively
few iniuries. We thank God it was an
economic rather than personal disaster.“

Last week, the town received its first ad»
vance of assistance money from the state
Division of Disaster and Emergency Services.
Scott County received a check for $15,000 and
Stamping Ground got a $7,000 one.

In addition to residential damage, all of
Stamping Ground’s three churches and its
school were totalled by the tornado. The
churches all plan to rebuild and a mobile
school has been set up for the children to at-
tend during construction of the new school.

The tornado, acting as an uninvited
wrecking crew, cleared a lot of pasture land
on one side of the main street which will be
cleaned up to make room for a new shopping
center.

”After the tornado, the Civil Defense
preparedness team came into the town to
study the situation,” Ward said. "They were
really surprised that there was no loss of life.

”And it wasn’t because these people had
any kind of system worked out,” he added. "It
was iust a series of coincidences. There was
nothing we had done ~— it was an act of
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Jett: Returning to normal

Only a few reminders of the April 3
tornado still stand in the small
community of Jett, just outside
Frankfort.

The Jettown Plaza, off Versailes
Road, was nearly leveled by the high
winds but it now looks as though
nothing had ever hit it. From the rear
of the parking lot, however, a
bulldozer and debris-laden lots give
evidence to the tornado’s path.

Minute Market, a grocery in the
Plaza, was completely destroyed in
the tornado.

”Nothing was left,” said Mrs.
Robert Grimes, owner. Now neat
rows of vegetables and squeaky-clean
glass windows display the market’s
items. The Market opened around
June 6 and most other stores and
offices opened within a week at-
terward, Grimes said.

ln the subdivision of Tierra Linda,
all looks fairly normal except for a
row of houses undergoing repair. It
looks as though the neighborhood is
adding new homes rather than
recovering from a tornado. Few trees
suffered irreparable damage and can
hardly be noticed in the neatly mowed
lawns in Tierra Linda.

On a bluff overlooking the town and
Versailles Road stands the almost

untouched ruins of the Capitol City
Christian Church. Although April 14
Easter Sunday services were held on
the grounds, the congregation now
meets at Elkhorn School.

Other areas of Franklin C0unty
were also badly hit by the twister,
especially in the Southwestern
district where four persons were
killed.

In all, the tornado caused about $2
million in damages, Jack Goins,
Franklin County iudge estimated.

”l’ve never seen anything like it in
the county,” Goins said. ”It’s the
worst l’ve seen as far as structural
damage is concerned.”

A federal assistance office is still
open, Goins added. One closed on
June is and the other shut down the
last week in June. The disaster office
closed about three weeks after the
tornado hit, he said.

Clean-up operations in Jett began
soon after the tornado. ”The
Salvation Army was out of here a
week after it happened," Goins said.

More than most areas in Franklin
County, Jett appears to have returned
to pre-tornado normalcy and nears
complete recovery from its April 3
disaster.

Stories by Kay Coyte

Kernel staff photos

 

     
  
  
  
  
   
 
  
 
  
   
  
  
 
  
  
  
   

 

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