Shelby, N. G.,-Aug. 28,--Six persons were Killed, 15'in-|
ed-and an. undetermined: number-are. missing: in. the -col-
se of the First National Bank building during @ tush hour

ay. : : bs Penh aid tugt | : a
‘The-death toll may rise as three hours’after the crash
vykmen had: been able. to clear away. the debris ‘only vat

pace of the buildings
 i JHE DEAD Pee

“Muss Ora Ehtridge, secretary to .
tlie bank president. ~ et

Guy Green, hank. clerk.

Alex Boyd, bank’ clerk.

Deb. Blanton, ‘a ‘farmer,

Carl Blanton, his son. -

An ‘unidentified white man.

Pollte “estimated the. death’. toll
Would ‘Thount steadilyas resctiz crews
dug deepér into the debris in .the
search: of bodies. :

No accurate chéck up could be made
of the ‘missitig persons. but. 1s was
known thet a.dozen:or more? had not
been accounted « for.” F

Farly this aiternoon. the crews. bac
searched. only the ‘edges. of the hugé
pile of debris, arid it was feared man}
more bodies would-be found towarc
the center,

It, was feared that a. crew of
savenicen . negroes who were
 avorking in. the’. center: of (the
} building were, all kified. The

réscue crews had not beer, able:
ws. yeo to.get to the place where
the negroes wefe working.
. It-is known that. fifteen per~
sons ‘were Injured, Several of
whom may died. | They: were all
taken’ to a hospital here as they
qwere extticated from the fallen
structure,

Excavation work ut a .nearb
puliding was. generally assigned a
the catise of the collapse of the ban
pullding. It’ was--known’ ‘that’ stv
etal persons were in-@ procery an
a tallor's shop. which ‘were & part .c
the building, ‘but it was, expected t
je hours’ before ‘that part of th
structure could. de searche
thoroughly. * g ‘

The bullding was on. a° prineip:
business, corner ‘here.’ ”

There were a dozen persons. em
ployed In the bank and as the crag
occurred during a rush moruing ‘bus!
ness hour, it was .helleved, thab ;
least “that. many others were In 4

pullding., Four persons were employ
shed’ in.‘the grocery and:+wa in’ it
itallors':shop, * a a ee
: it: was believed that.j¢ would
{| . bechours before rescue crews could
bring out the hodies.of all tae
persons. either, dead or. trapped
° the, piles of debris, and
ni of the death toll def-
aseertalmed. ~~

  
  
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement in principle to limit
and possibly reduce their stock-
piles of offensive nuclear weap-
ons by the end of 1974.

President Nixon and Soviet
Communist leader Leonid 1.
Brezhnev raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to suc-
cess at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the out-
standing accomplishment of
their week-long summit, was
forged by Nixon and Brezhnev
earlier at Camp David, the
presidential retreat in the
mountains of Maryland. It is
designed to spur negotiators for
the two countries at the re-
cessed strategic arms limita-
tion talks (SALT) in Geneva.
 For the first time, the two
nations committed themselves
in principle to actual reductions
of their nuclear weaponry as
well as to permanent limita-
tions. Also significantly, the
United States evidently is bow-
ing to Soviet objections to on-
site inspections.

One of the seven stated prin-

ciples provides that ‘national
technical means’’ be the sys-
tem of verifying whether Wash-
ington and Moscow were living
up to a missile limitation.
- Surveillance of multiple inde-
pendently targeted warheads
MIRVS evidently would be re-
stricted mostly ‘o observation
by radar and spy satellite while
in flight tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the Pres-
ident’s national security ad-
viser, briefing newsmen, said
 that ‘‘those MIRV agreements
that are not verifiable by na-
tional technical means would
be difficult to reconcile’ with
the objective of restricting
complex nuclear offensive
weapons.

The two nations agreed in an-
other provision that efforts by
one or the other to obtain a nu-
clear advantage would be in-
consistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful rela-
tions.

The arms limitation envis-
ioned by the end of next year
would include not only numbers
but the quality of the missiles.

Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that limitation on
strategic offensive arms must
be subject to “adequate veri-
fication.”’ Both nations would be
permitted to modernize and
 replace weapons only under
conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

The major points of the com-
pact include: (1) controlling
thermonuclear fusion; (2) re-
search on “fast breeder” reac-
 