European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes loses punch 0 Punta Gorda Fla. Up Hurricane Abby moved meekly ashore tuesday and swiftly degenerated into a Squall that Farmers called a Blessing to their Citrus Groves. As Abby quickly dropped from a minimal Hurricane to a minimal tropical storm the 34-foot Sloop celerity missing in the storm since sunday sailed safely into Flamingo Fla., with four persons the storm had claimed one life in the Florida keys an another Man was still missing at sea. Tropical storm at midday the first Hurricane of the four Day old season was a tropical storm with winds that reached Only 40 Miles an hour. The National Hurricane Centeral Miami said the diffused wide spread Center was to reach the Atlantic somewhere around Cape Kennedy late tuesday night. Right now we do not expect Abby to re intensify when it reaches the Atlantic said chief forecaster or. R. H. Simpson. It looks like Abby has had heyday in Long Range forecasts he said indicated elements of the storm might head northward in the Atlantic and re enter the coast near Savannah ga., but right now its future movement is quite Uncertain. Well know better sometime tomorrow what the potential 170-mile Are Hurricane warnings were lowered along a 170-mile Section of the Gulf coast. Abby moved ashore at mid morning after Drifting aimlessly in the Gulf of Mexico during the night. The diffused storm carried torrential Rains but virtually no is the Best thing that could happen to Citrus As Longas the wind stays away said one grower in the Tampa were scattered reports of Power failures and Flash flooding As a result of the storm. Fort Myers South of Punta Gorda reported 5.74 inches of rain in 24 hours handsome of the Flash flooding caused morning traffic jams i several West coast communities. Shelters close the red Cross said it housed 455 persons in 17 emergency shelters along the Gulf coast monday night but the shelter were closed this morning after the refugees had breakfast. Abby slogged Inland at Pun Tagorda with Little fanfare. There s no wind at All said a was spotted at Cape funnel apparently never touched ground however. Bountiful Utah up two year old Brad Haines and Myrtle his pet Turtle have finally gone their separate ways. Young Brad swallowed Myrtle last week when he was mad at his sister. Since that time Brad s1ia 3 emf cow ". Had a stomach ache and his parents have suffered a $20t head ache. Doctors feared that Bra would have to undergo surgery which would have added another$200 to his Parent s problems. But late monday mrs. Russe Lhaines reported that Brad had started to pass Myrtle body naturally. Y the two year Oldhan t had much to s the affair but olved except Chappy that Oakland Blush Cut off phones of 30,000 a j car ajar taking time out from his stumping for a Little pumping on the Carburettor of his 1926 Model t is vice president Hubert hum Phi by. The break came in Waverly Minn. Uf1 military misfit army can t give the Boot to i sheriff s Deputy. Theare barely leaves a Tornado watch was Issue for Osceola county in the path of the storm and a wind funnel continued from Page t1 nature made his feet he said Are big Flat and unnatural. My Heel is Small in proportion to the rest of my and he said sometimes they Hurt , i can hardly stand the Low Cut Black shoes Enow wears were stretched from size 15, but they still Are to Short and too narrow he said. A it. Carson spokesman acknowledged the army is having difficulty finding boots to fit Aufenthie. The next step in t quite Clear he said but meanwhile Aufenthie has been assigned to noncombat Boot duty. His trouble started in Basic training last july at it. Camp Christian science president Boston a Gordon of Boston was elected monday to a one year term a president of the Christian science Church succeeding mrs. Beatrice. Pittman also of Boston. Bell ky., he said despite a Recruiter s Assurance when he signed up that your feet Areno problem. The army will take care of in training he said i Wasat the Hospital every other Day with blistered feet and Ingrow toenails. They did t have any boots to fit me so they let me under go training in hush puppies an moccasins. It was cold and wet and my feet almost after he had the same problem at it. Gordon,ga., he went absent without leave on Jan. 7. He was picked up in april in St. Paul Minn., and sent to it. said he expected the Stock Ade but when they heard mystery officers told me they did t blame me for his present assignment i Driver for the chaplain a duty which can be performed in Low Cut shoes. Refusal bars woman s heart graft Dallas up the father Ofa possible heart donor halted Parkland Hospital s plans to per form the first heart transplant operation on a woman monday night. A Hospital spokesman said that after hours of fruitless attempts to locate relatives of the essentially dead donor her father said they could not remove he heart. The potential donor was a 22-year-old woman with massive head injuries from an Auto Accident nine Days intended recipient a 41 year old woman would have be come the world s first female heart transplant 24-member surgical team had been assembled from surgeons and assistants from Park land Hospital and the University of Texas southwestern medical potential donor had had no brain activity for nearly two Days but her heart was kept alive by machines. Her blood pressure steadily declined Ashe died tuesday. In Buenos Aires latin America s first heart transplant Patien died Enrique Serrano a 54 year old Noodle Vendor received new heart Early Friday. He died four Days after Thop ration which had touched of debate Over whether the country was ready for such surgery. Serrano s death left six survivors from the world s 20 hear transplants. Jetliner skids into Airport 102 aboard new York a a Tran world airlines Boeing 727 Jet with 102 persons aboard Strucka pier coming into la Guardia Airport monday took to the air again and made a skidding Anding at Kennedy Airport. To ice said 14 persons were slight y said 95 passengers and seven Crew members were aboard. Treated at Airport police said the injured we retreated for minor injuries at an Airport medical facility. The plane flight 406 from Cincinnati apparently damaged its Landing gear when it tried Toland at la Guardia and struck a Light pier extending into bowery Bay and leading to a runway. The plane struck several land Oakland Calif. Three tremendous explosion latest in a series of & against Utility company Fadl ties rocked Hill Section North Oakland and Berk Early blasts brought Down three70-foot towers cutting off in ice to 30,000 Pacific & 01trie co. Residential and infer trial customers. I the explosions followed on another in split seconds at m . Thousands of persons ill the sleeping area were am but there were no casualties. Authorities said the charges were planted on two legs Oil each Tower about 14 feet the ground. Lines topples the steel structures stand-1 ing about 24 feet apart can Down they fell in almost perfect alignment. Six 115,000-Volt line toppled with them. Page reported that As the second Tower collapsed it took i out a secondary 12,000-Voit fee that carried both electric Mil Telephone service to the immedi ate area. The arcing wires writhed an snapped across Skyline Boule Vard leaving scorch Marks on the ground. Oakland police closed about three Miles of Skyline and grizzly Peak boulevards for several hours on either Side of the routes were reopened fore the morning pea got under Way. Plastic explosive investigators said the charges appeared to be a Type of plastic explosive so intense that to Tower legs melted. There no primary fuses typical of"1" dynamite charges used in against the Page and Telephone co. In the same eral area in april and much. Fri agents joined local in an investigation. The University of radiation Labora by blacked out for a most 1hours in March was briefly a i felted tuesday. Ing lights on its descent at Laguardia according to an offi Cial there. The Pilot applied Power and lifted the plane into flight again. Jet crash kills 4 at Rota Rota Spain up a twin Jet . Navy a3 plane crashed after Takeoff at this naval base tuesday. Four persons were killed and two injured. The Jet crashed into a Fiel two Miles from the Rota naval base runway. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.. Navy officials withheld the names of the injured and dead pending notification of the next of Kin. The two injured were re ported to be in critical condition. Weather . Temperatures h l72 56 Albany 90 60 Albuquerque 81 66 Amarillo 85 63 Atlanta 89 64 Birmingham 96 54 Bismarck 77 51 Boise 69 59 Boston 67 53 Buffalo 87 49 Casper 64 58 Chicago 81 60 Cincinnati 70 63 Cleveland 90 61 Denver 89 60 Des Moines 77 54 Detroit 94 61 Al p""57 49 Fairbanks 97 63 Narcio 84 70 fort Worth 37 72 Honolulu 80 62 Indian Apo s 88 68 Jacksonville 92 66 Kansas City 105 73 was vegas 79 63 los Angeles 83 61 Louisville a 69 Mem Phil 71 Miami Beath 70 51 my of e83 56 mils St a 93 65 new Orleans 81 Newyork m 62 Oklahoma of 92 61 Omaha 79 62 Philadelphia 55 600 45 Portland 94 58 rapid City 77 45 84 68 67sa. Anton sask 69 46 Spokan
