NEGRO CHURCHES, RESIDENCES SUFFER $50,000 BOMB DAMAGE

Damage estimates on yesterday's early morning bombings of Negro residences and churches ranged from $50,000 upward and two churches have been condemned temporarily.

Insurance adjusters reported at least a dozen claims on which they were working, but no insurors could be found for the Bell Street and Mt. Olive Baptist Churches - the worst hit.

The two also were reported unusable by Fire Chief Robert L. Lampley following an official inspection. Lampley said the Hutchinson Street and Negro First Baptist churches were damaged but usable.

An unofficial estimate made by a city official set the damages at $50,000. However, insurance adjustors who asked that their names not be used, indicated the totals probably would climb far above that.

One declared that destruction of large leaded - stained glass in church windows, most of them shattered by the blasts, could run total damages into "big money."

He would give no figure.

But the same spokesman, representing one of the large agencies in the city and investigation four of the bombing, said there were many side claims for smashed windows in homes near where the blasts were set off.

Another spokesman set the total number of claims for the six bombings at "10 or 12" for his firm and one other.

A check of every dajustment firm in the city failed to reveal any involved in an investigation of the bell Street and Mt. Olive church bombings. An adjustment firm spokesman said they probably were covered by fire insurance which had clauses restricting payment in case of mob action.

Chief Lampley said there was structural damage at the First Baptist Church, and only slight at the Hutchinson Street church.