H Grady Spruce High School - Tipi Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Editorials X Forum Books Tornado loss set at 5221.9 million AUSTIN CAP! - Estimates of the insured dollar loss in Wichita Falls and Vernon areas from the April 10 tornado have been revised upward from S210 million to 5221.9 million, an insurance industry spokesman said Friday. 'Frank Lewis of Dallas, regional manager of Prop- erty Claim Services of the American Insurance As- soc-lation, also said more than 589.4 million has been paid to policy holders by insurance companies. :Lewis said the estimate is for insured losses to auQomobi1es and trucks, schools, churches, communi- M property, mobile homes, dwellings, apartments, commercial and industrial buildings and the con- QLewis said there have been some technical ques- tiofis raised about settlement practices, particularly about additional living expenses. He said homeown- 83: insurance coverage for additional living expenses win vary from 10 to 20 percent of the amount of irisurance on the dwelling. The actual amount de- pends on the policy. flie said more than 24 property and casualty com- and independent adjusting firms have set up special temporary claims offices in Wichita Falls, in addition to regular branch and home offices. More than 247 adjusters have been brought in to help. 5,3 :y::13X3L -- Wichita Falls Times and Record News Photo l 5 fb. 2 '14-I - 2 by Leon Hooten vssued almost an hour beforehand and a second I0 fo I5 minures in advance

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0 some it's f Tracking the storm euuiy mark through Dallas n city's face Reunion Tower gainsj . fame after one year, y STEVE GUNN fcff Writer H Miss Suzie Yarbrough says her relatives are real roud that she works at the Reunion Tower in down- wn Dallas. In fact, Miss Yarbrough, one of the people who! irects people to the elevators that go to the top of he structure says, My relatives are always talking bout it to their friends. It's like I am really doing mething now that I work here. Reunion Tower, the 560-foot-tall tower capped ith a geodesic dome on the downtown's west side, as now passed its first year of operation. The one illionth paid visitor will probably pass through the 'mall hotel-modern-style lobby sometime this sum- er. So far, nobody has jumped from the open-air bservation deck, which is located below a revolving estaurant and lounge. To its supporters, and there are many. the tow s a success. Pictures of it have appeared in public ions ranging from the New York Times to technic agazines on the glass trade. People who run tours Dallas are talking it up and retailers say sales of pos cards picturing the tower are sky-high. To its critics, and there are a few, it still lool like a refugee from Disneyland, not quite fitting with the image Dallas likes to claim. When it was built, the developers and othe 'roped it would become to Dallas what the Space Ne dle is to Seattle, what the Arch is to St. Louis ax what the Golden Gate Bridge is tn San Francisc gThey wanted an instant landmark. If you ask mar out-of-towners to name a structure in Dallas, the fir name that probably will come to mind is the Tex. ' School Book Depository, not Reunion Tower. That X supposed to change. A A One difference between the Dallas tower, ar - other similar projects, is that it was privately bu' and is part of a profit-making venture, not a Worlc Fair or historical site. This leads George Wright, dean of the archite ture school at the University of Texas at Arlington, 4 say, It functions as a piece of advertising. It's basica l ly a billboard, but nicer. You can't take it serious i because its just not the Taj Mahal or Notre Dame. i But the people who built and run the towc which is part of S75 million Hyatt Regency comple , do take it seriously. They like it when people's rel Q tives are proud of having a connection to the place. l L i l K Thunderstorms skirted the Dallas area Thursday morning before torna- does slamrned into DeSoto and other suburban cities and threatened Dallas most of the afternoon. Although most of the area re- mained under tornado watches or warnings throughout the aftemoon, Dallas escaped the onslaught as police and other city officials reported the following events and damage: 2:10 p.m. - Golf-ball size hail re- ported by police at Camp Wisdom Road and R. L. Thornton Freeway. 2:15 p.m. - Power out at North- east Police Division. 2:30 p.m. - Three inches of water over Samuell Boulevard. 2:50 p.m. -- Funnel cloud spotted hovering over the 8500 block oi' South Central Expressway. 2:55 p.m. - High water forced closing of intersection at MacKenzie and Washington. 2:58 p.m. - About a dozen Dallas police officers are dispatched to .-if' DeSoto, where tornado slammed into the downtown area. 3:20 p.m. - High winds blow roofs off four houses in the 500 and 600 blocks of West Danieldale, where one residence is destroyed. 3:35 p.m. - High winds snap pow- er lines at LBJ and Houston School Road and knock down 15 to 20 power poles. 3:40 p.m. - Roof caves in on Ruth- erford Building, adjacent to old city hall in downtown Dallas. No injuries reported. 3:50 p.m. - Kiest, Hampton, Camp Wisdom and Cockrell Hills roads closed due to high water. 4 p.m. f--- Tornado spotted at Bru- vtii Head and Prairie Creek in Pleas- ..ii-f.1io.t, 4:05 pm. W- Mobile home blown over at 2850 Belt Line Road. 4:09 p.m. - Power lines reported down at Aspen and Bluff Creek. 4.21 p.m. fe Two mobile homes overturned and one V' demolished at 'T -lt Lint' Hosni. ' ME ' . :5x .T.f 53' TTI! Mfgii A M, . L4