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1 i i i ris, dazed and wrapped in a quilt, in his driveway. "I figured he was just blown out of the house," said Siniard. X'When I got to the house, there was just a small amount of fire. The tank adjacent to the home just blowed up that's when the fire "spread," said Siniard, He said there were "two real bad explosions and one real small one." The worst blast, at the end, came about 10 minutes after the first, he added. Siniard said he and his wife had to move debris out of the way to get to the house.

Firemen reached the scene soon after the blast, after a call from Siniard. About an hour later, the bodies were removed from the ruins. The Harris' had three other CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) A BaptisUminister, his wife and three of their children were killed today when three explosions leveled their home near this north Georgia town. Dead are the Rev.

Richard Harris, 42, his 38-year-old wife, and three of their children, Inez, 14, Terry, 10, and Betty Jean, 8. Two other children were sleeping in the house when the explosion ripped it apart. Patsy, 18, was injured and her brother, Ronnie, 16, was unhurt. The eight-room frame house was blown apart by the first explosion, a neighbor said, which occurred about 6:20 a.m. The neighbor, Herman Siniard, said the blast shattered windows in his home, about 300 140 persons in the Sunday School wing of the church were Injured.

The dead included Ricky Morris, Gary Holley and Carol Joy, all ninth graders, and Heather Dawson, a high school sophomore. The explosion came less than a half hour after services had ended in the. main church building. A few persons remained there, listening to organ music, and religious classes were in progress on all three floors of the Sunday School wing of the church. The class where the victims were was in a basement room, directly beneath the street-level boiler room of the 152-year-old church in downtown Marietta.

The classroom wing was con- (See Explosions, Page 12) 11 'A if' (lit got here after the first one came." said Siniard.X'U (the house) was just blown to bits. We heard Mrs. Harris hoi-Wing. "Me and my brother were trying to drag her out and we couldn't get her out. "Me and my wife grabbed Patsy and dragged her out and got her on the road when the next explosion came," Siniard said.

Siniard said he found the minister in a corner just outside the house. "One of the kids was still in the bed when we found it. It was burnt real bad. I couldn't tell which kid it Siniard said when he heard the first blast and ran out of his house, he found Ronnie Har from home. They are Robert Harris, in the Air Force, who was visiting with his wife's family in nearby Adairsville for the weekend; Mrs.

Barbara Summey, who lives nearby jind Raymond Harris of Bartow County. Fire marshals were investigating the cause of the explosion. Sunday, five persons died in a Sunday School classroom beneath the boiler room of he First Baptist Church in Marietta, Ohio. Tons of debris showered down on the class after the explosion, killing four teen-agers and the teacher, 30-year-old Michael Murphy, married and the father of one child. Fourteen of the ft School lunches: overhaul planned.

APWirtphoto Firemen search church ruins bodies of five victims Approval Digest MRS. FRANCES COBBS served by the school lunch program last year received free or reduced-price meals. The latter cannot cost a child more than 20 cents. The average expense of serving a lunch is about 53 cents. Had the new rule been in effect last year, an estimated 584,000 children would have been excluded from the freelunch program.

Including the 10ent boost, the government will give states this school year about 750 million to help pay for all lunch programs. About $525 million of it will be for feeding the needy. "We aren't finished yet with the program," Lyng said. "We are going to work hard to get it further simplified from the states' standpoint, but I think it has to be on an output basis: You perform, you do this, and we will reimburse vou." Some critics say the best way to simplify the school-lunch program, which officials admit is a hodgepodge of laws and funds, is to make school lunches free predicted (3BtyjSSEll) Mrs. Cobbs succumbs AN INVESTIGATION continues into the theft of almost $1,000 recently at Jacksonville State University.

Details Page 6. for Byrd WASHINGTON (AP) Liberal Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota says the Senate probably would confirm a con- 'Luall. Ulnot Viral WASHINGTON (P) The Nixon administration is working on a plan to overhaul entirely "lie complex and politically sensitive school-lunch program, partly as an effort to muzzle a growing chorus wanting free meals for all pupils regardless of need. The project, still in the thihktank stage, was disclosed in an interview with Asst.

Secretary of Agriculture Richard E. Lyng, who oversees the government's lunch and other food programs. Lyng was unwilling to go into detail about the new plan. But, he said, "It is important that the legislation be worked out with the interested people. If we can't do that, I don't think we'd move." Lyng said he has no timetable in mind but other sources in the Agriculture Department said the plan may be introduced early next year.

The new plan is expected to include tougher controls over states and school districts to head off what the administration sees as slipshod handling of school-lunch money. Officials say schools too often wind up paying meal tabs for richer children at the expense of the That has been the thrust of new rules proposed the past two months. On Aug. 13 the Agriculture Department announced a plan to guarantee a minimum federal reimbursement to the states of 35 cents for each free or reduced-price meal served, compared with a national average last school year of about 42 cents. In the face of stiff opposition in Congress, the department last week backed down and announced the minimum will be 45 cents.

As a condition, however, the money will be paid only for feeding children from families with incomes at or below federal poverty standards. For example, children from a family of four with an income of $3,940 a year or less would qualify. Until now, free or reduced-price meals had been made available to children as long as they were qualified under state poverty guidelines, in many cases higher than the federal levels. Some 7.3 million of the nation's 24 million children to everyone. But Lyng is opposed to the free-for-all lunchconcept.

-v-wtw av Otiy nbout haU the tvatton's 80 mOUon school children Uj 1111 UlliJS participate In lunch, ptogramsv either by choice, or because i SEVERAL MULTIPLE-DEATH mishaps push Alabama's weekend accidental death toll to 16. Detail Page 6: DEATHS: Thomas Barry Turk of Piedmont; Tom Lockett and Mrs. Arolen Glover of Anniston; Mrs. Jackie Frazier Lassister of West Palm Beach, and John P. Driggers of Lineville.

Details Page 10. none is offered at their schools. Lyng, defending the new rule limiting free or reduced-cost meals to poverty-level children, explained: "The way it was before, when you gave somebody a block of funds, the more lunches they served they less they had per lunch We're saying now that no matter how many lunches you serve for free this is what we're going to pay." Lyng said the guarantee, however, requires some kind of a lid thus, the rule excluding children above the poverty level. "We counted on her for many things that we will miss," John Wheeler, president of Anniston National Bank, said this morning of Mrs. Frances O.

Cobbs, first woman bank officer in Anniston, and a "wonderful, vivacious person," who died Sunday of injuries received in anautomobile accident in Exeter, England, on Sept. 25. rh 1 I 2 R. KEITH STROUPS LOBBY must be one of Washington's weakest. In nine months it has failed to entice a single congressman to introduce a bill for legalization of marijuana.

Details Page 3. Asked if the poverty-level rule was a compromise or deal worked out in advance with rural members of Congress, since it would apply mostly to big-city children, Lyng said: "That's not true. That was a decision made by the executive branch without any commitments on the part of any member of Congress. OF ALL THE DISEASES that afflict mankind, none is more common or painful than arthritis. It deforms limbs, inflames joints and has done so beyond history's It bedeviled cavemen and even the dinosaurs they fought.

Details Page 12. uescriueu uy irwnus iwrc "full of enthusiasm and a grand person," Mrs. Cobbs lived in the house where she was born at 1113 Christine Ave. with two sisters, Miss Mary Roberts Ordway and Miss Virginia Ordway. Miss Virginia Ordway, injured in the same accident as Mrs.

Cobbs, has been released from Royal Exeter and Devon Hospital. The sisters were visiting Mrs. Cobbs' son, Bill Cobbs, employed in an English investment firm. "HER DEATH creates a void at Anniston National Bank and an even greater one in the vimmnnitu lifo nt AnnUtnn ock strike may go on POLICE REPORT MORE THAN 100 inmates have taken over a section of the Connecticut Valley Hospital. At least three fires are reported and about 50 state troopers reportedly were sent to the state hospital grounds.

Details Page 3. THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION awards two of its top prizes to Charley Pride, one of the nation's few black country music singers. Details Page 12. E. D.

King, chairman of the board of the bank, said of Mrs. Cobbs, who joined his firm in 1958 as a hostess and assistant personnel administrator, and advanced to vice president. "My male associates have very kindly put up with me through the years, and it's been wonderful to work with the peo has the right to order steady men by name. Bernard J. Caughlin, general' manager of the Port of Los Angeles, said: "I thought the injunction (sending the men back to work) Was issued on the basis that workers would be returning to work under the conditions that prevailed prior to the strike, and PMA was using steady men at that time." Los Angeles dock activity was restricted to operations on (See Dock, Page 12) against the ILWU Saturday in a Los Angeles dispute over whether the Pacific Maritime Association, representing 120 employers, could request 11 experienced men by name to shape up docks for work.

The union appealed and Love took the matter under consideration. A PMA spokesman in Los Angeles, John MacEvoy, said he doesn't expect'a decision before Friday at the earliest and that the 'docks could be tied up until then. The 11 men have the job of moving and starting equipment such as forklifts and cranes before work gangs are ordered for loading and unloading ships. The shippers' group says it takes 24 hours to get cargo-handling going after these specialty workers, known as "steady men," return to work. The ILWU said the men declined to accept the jobs because they felt available work should be shared equitably among qualified workers.

The union contested the employer request for specific men. The PMA says management SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A dispute involving 11 workers may keep Los Angeles area docks closed down until Friday, despite a federal court order temporarily ending a strike of 15,000 West Coast longshoremen. All 24 ports struck by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union July 1 were operating today except for the side-by-side Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors, the largest port in the West. Arbitrator George Love ruled THE BIKINI IS ALIVE AND WELL and living in California in a dozen different guises. Details Page 5.

nian Robert Byrd, should President Nixon nominate him to the Supreme Court. McGovern did not say which way he would vote, but Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma said he would oppose Byrd as not having "the depth of judgment and legal experience that you would associate with a justice of. the nation's highest court." Harris said Byrd, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, "does not have the exemplary record in civil rights and civil liberties that I would like to see." Harris was interviewed on "Meet the Press" on NBC. Harris and McGovern, both announced Democratic presidential hopefuls, spoke Sunday, the day after administration sources confirmed Byrd's name was being considered.

McGovern said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" that' he wants a review of Byrd's qualifications before committing himself but that he would not submit Byrd's name if he were president. "I think the probability is the President sends his name up the Senate will confirm him," McGovern said. He said Byrd "has grown in stature" and is "trying to regain some of the earlier limitations in the field of civil rights." Meanwhile, Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Sunday that President Nixon has not offered him one of two vacant Supreme Court seats. "I have made it clear over the years that I have no interest, Rogers said on CBS' "Face the Nation." The secretary's name has figured in Speculation about filling court seats vacated by John Harlan and the late Hugo L.

Black. Byrd's name came up a week after Rep. Richard H. Poff, R-Va withdrew his name from consideration, saying he wanted to avoid a long and divisive Senate battle. An administration source said Saturday Byrd's name is "at the White House and at the Justice Department.

He's one, of a number being considered." Some published reports said Byrd is definitely the President's choice but the administration official said the reports are "way, way too strong. Byrd, 53, a graduate of the American University Law School, is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and often sides with the administration and against the majority of Democrats In Senate battles. He v'oed for President Nixon's previous choices for the iourt, who were defeated In their bid for confirmation by the Senate: Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Curs well Byrd's nomination would be expected to run into trouble from civil rights groups who would point out his one-time membership In the Ku Klux Klan and his opposition to legislation favorable to minority groups.

ple I ve been associated witn, Mrs. Cobbs said early in September while making preparations for her trip to England. "I've known her since (See Mrs. Cobbs, Page 12) U.S. INTELLIGENCE SOURCES say a Russian naval force is being used to prop up leftist President Sekou Toure of Guinea and extend Soviet influence on Africa's West Coast.

Details Page 6. Javits woos labor on wages, prices 1 SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS battle North Vietnamese in heavy fighting near the Phnom Penh-Saigon highway. -Details Page 2. 6 8 THE WEEKEND ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW Argentine President Alejandro Lanusses appears to have strengthened his position. Details Page 12.

it WASHINGTON (AP) Sen, Jacob Javits, has tried to remove reservations labor leaders may have about Phase 2 of President Nixon's econom 1 ic policy. i II In telegrams to them Sundav. FAIR THROUGH TUESDAY. Not so cool. Details Page 10.

6 Javits said that the Cost of Living Council will not veto decisions by the Pay Board, on which labor representatives might serve. bor leaders were told in advance of the Phase 2 announcement and interpretations that have come since. One of the key questions is believed to be the Cost of Living Council's veto power. Javits sent telegrams Sunday to Meany, UAW president Leonard Teamsters chief Frank Fitzsimmons and about three dozen other labor leaders. He told them union cooperation "is critically necessary for the effective operation of the -program with fairness to labor and for the autonomy of the Price Commission and the Pay Board." "I understand the administration has made It clear to American labor that the deter- (See.

Javits, Page 12) AFL-CIO President Georee jMiil. it arirnni -i Am Meany failed to endorse the program after Nixon announced Thursday APWlrtirttotM Instead, he called a confer Movies 12 Sports 7-8 Television Women's News 5 Classified Adi 10-11 Cornier 9 Dally Record 10 Editorials 4 ence Tuesday of the executive board of his organization and the heads of the Independent United Auto Workers and Top country music entertainers Charley Pride, left, was selected Sun- of the Year, Lynn Anderson, center, day night at the fifth annual Country Female Vocalist of the Year and Dolly Music Association Awards as Enter- Parton and Porter Wagoner, right, tainer of the Year and Male Vocalist Duofhe Year. Story on Page 1 Teamsters unions. Jle has said 12 PAGES IN ONE SECTION they will discuss what he calls discrepancies between what la- i.