European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 34 the stars and Striph 1m4j storm thwarts mercy flights to 500 in flood  Finui Pam l resent Mission when tins urm the ending of heavy ruins in the lowlands and dropping of temperatures in the mountains have lowered River Levels throughout the area where the rampaging floods had left swaths of Desola the weather forecast Calls for Snow in higher areas and showers to the an improvement on last weeks incessant Edmund Brown of Cali fornia and officials from Washington arrived in on a Survey Lour of the damage in the midst of a drown was told by Corw regional director of the Federal office of emergency that floods caused no least million damage in Northern civil defense officials were concerned about the 900 persons stranded in the lumbering communities in the Klamath and Salmon River they include 100 no Somes 88 it Forks of 40 at 100 at Sawyers bar and others on farms and communications with them have been provided radio operators and a few who trekked the main thing is to get Medicine and clothing to a civil defense spokesman then they can be evacuated to he another persons at Happy Camp were Cut off a second time from the outside by a Power Thev received food and supplies from 100 Relief flights Over the weekend when the weather cleared for when Telephone service was restored residents reported they were warm and we have everything we need Humphrey quits clears Way for Mondale Washington a vice Al with views that closely co president elect Hubert humic id with those of president Percy formally resigned As a Johnson and to re senator from Minnesota place the vice the resignation clears the Way for the appointment by Karl Rolvaag of Waller Freder ick Minnesota attorney to serve during the remaining two years of Humphreys Senate Humphreys announcement came with his release of a letter to the dated last saying he would re sign to permit the appointment of a new senator effective the governor announced has described Nim Salt As although Humphrey goes off the Senate no will not begin drawing his vice presidential salary until his inauguration he quit the Senate Earl to give Mondale seniority Over other new  it Jank Wiluin he told Parlia ment he would be a president above Iol Flics a Serene Viet generals seek Compromise solution to crisis continual min pair i nerf prolific tins and dissolve the acting Legi slut on the United Stul Oij warned publicly thut its ult to South Vietnam was conditioned to stability in in chief or state Suu was trying to form a new provi Felon us legislature to replace the High National Council dissolved in the right we can hold nut As Long As the storm n Deputy sheriff in Happy Camp the flood connected deaths included 20 in 18 in Ore two n Idaho and one in eleven of the California victims were killed when two helicopters crashed during res Cue and Relief we have reason to believe the casualty figures will go up As the Waters recede and we find More bodices among the said William regional administrator for the California disaster office in san throughout the West Rivers were receding except for a few in Northern which do not appear to pose any immedi ate flooding these were rising but were still be Low flood Railroad service was restored in some areas but train travel from California to Oregon wait expected to be out until Power was still out in Many areas and drinking water Wai Short in some places when dents boiled water for drinking to prevent Brown named seven More counties in Northern California m major disaster although communist Voles were decisive in his he staunchly defended nato which he has always technology has allowed he construction of monstrous weapons if would cancel every Trace of Lite from ambassador Maxwell has been pressing for Quick restoration of civilian government and the release of political leaders arrested in the in other at least four highly controversial generals were quietly fired from the vietnamese armed forces one week a source close to one of them has the question Aslo whether or not these generals should be thrown out of the army was it key reason for the purge of the civilian government carried out by the armed the military headed by it Gen Nguyen had called for the mandatory retirement of nil officers with 23 years or More in the armed forces with the exception of Brig Gen Pham Van military governor of but the civilian High National Council walked at approving the and the civilian government had  tabled the retirement this triggered the purge in which Many of the High National Council members were destruction rouses la hundreds of persons living la he Are tumbled together by Between Here and the Oregon line Wen lag flood Rescue hampered reported in helicopters have been used by heavy Are becoming More Dlf to drop food to Many who Are find taken from Germany up two teenage boys monday led police to a Snow covered Cache in a Woods where officers recovered what they believe is the last of the ammunition removed Christmas Day from an abandoned american army the two boys were the last of a group of 10 who were playing in the depot because of the possibility that they or their playmates were still withholding army officers immediately ordered soldiers with mine detectors to sweep the an army spokesman said an investigation is being army depot to determine How the explosive und munitions could have teen left behind when the depot was and whether and of the items were unlisted in Chi unit before the discovery in the Tard mayor Guc Lher Kliolz had ordered the garbage collected in areas near the munitions depot to be sorted in Hopes of finding the missing members of the 5551 i army Engineer of Are holding an inventory and investigation surrounding the finding of various cases of m14 ammunition by the German the army the ammunition was found at the 535lhs abandoned Walds Ladt ammunition Walds Ladt is a suburb of according to col James co of the no one has been but he urged parents to Check whether their children have any of the strikes Southern or Washington a brotherhood of locomotive firemen und engine men called Surprise strike tuesday Agal nit the operations of the Southern railway spanning 11 slates and the District of Union spokesmen claimed several hours after the strike began at 0 that the walkout 79 per cent effective and worm shut Down virtually All Southern the in a dispute Over the operation of some Traldi without caught government officials by we just heard about Salt a spokesman for the National mediation which handle Railroad Tabor he declined to speculate whether the government would no firemen president of the said the strike is called without apparently because Southern is operating freight and Yard eng Leo without firemen Only when no Flem a Are Brosnon said Southern Bai notified All its firemen the1 Noni would be eliminated except by f retirement or dismissal for the Union is apparently striking because Southern it Tat hiring new men As Brosnan he called the strike illegal but no court action was announced related Story Page photos Page he told parliament in a speech carried by radio and television throughout the the defense of peace the first duty the of governments and of chiefs of peace which today is guaranteed by the balance of forces an equilibrium to which Italy contributes by participating in the North Atlantic Alliance must become inviolable through a simultaneous and controlled Sara Gat added that the construction of an economically democratic and politically integrated in which Italy is also a powerful Factor Tor 3 gunmen get font Dmitrl from ii Money truck from a Church within a three gunmen wearing halloween masks bound four priests and escaped with that was in a truck in a similar robbery at a Church palc son police expressed doubt that the two robberies were sources sold two boys questioned had been taken to police Headquarters Tor further but police who clamped a tight lid of secrecy on the refused fron comment further on the Chicago robbery detectives Joe Ahrens and Curt Bur tall gave this account after interviewing guard Robert of in resurrection Hospital the truck usually gets to divine Savior Church Between and hut it arrived at walked into the rectory and became apprehensive when it was he saw the Waller pastor of the sitting in a at that moment was hit from behind by one of three masked Johns Len and father brinks truck Burke were handcuffed together and one masked Man removed his clothes and put on Johnstons brinks he walked outside to he armoured truck where guard Bernard the was sitting behind the the masked Man gained admittance to the truck and lugged the masked men ran from the rectory to the two of them fled in the truck and the third Man followed in a two of the robbers wore plastic halloween masks and the other wore a ski Hood turned takes Auto tour a the recuperating Duko of Windsor has taken a on hour Auto tour of it was the first time he had left the Hospital since undergoing a serious abdominal operation he was accompanied by the Duchess and Hospital staff