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...HELEN JONES Shinnston...
...created an anomaly in big-time college basketball: a home-grown team. North Carolina combs the New York subway circuit for its players, and Kansas stretched out to Philadelphia for Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. But Schaus finds his stars in towns like East Bank (pop. 1,500) and Shinnston (pop. 2,793). As a result, the state rightly looks on the team as its own, not a high-priced import, follows its games with chauvinistic zeal...
...fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...
Fellow on a Furlough. But the Shinnston was just one of several tornadoes that raced up and down the Monongahela Valley one night last week, beginning near Pittsburgh and ending at Clarksburg, W. Va. Meteorologists say tornadoes usually spend themselves in 15 or 20 miles; these tornadoes together, striking almost simultaneously, laid waste a 100-mile area. Total dead...
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