European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday february 11, 1969 machines cowed by storm . Snow re establishes Man in the Street by Hal Boyle blackout a major transport people feel More important than new York a the big Tion strike or As at present a City is at its Best when things go great snowstorm to bring out wrong with it. It takes ansome kind emergency Ofa Hurricane a the human brotherhood latent Fennew York reason is that it makes in t that Way usually Here. Machines Are Paramount. The May not have the Legal right of Way but they have the Power and the Power is what count there Are so Many machines of All kinds Here doing so Many intricate things that people get a feeling of inferiority. They beg into think their Only role in life is stranded motorists left return to vehicles Snow made them abandon overnight in Ridge Field Park . They spent san Day night in Public buildings near toe Road. A photo 4�. 1,000 autos abandoned on Hudson Bridge Tarrytown . A the snowstorm left at Leas 1,000 cars stranded monday across the three mile Long tap pan Zee Bridge Over the Hudson River. Motorists caught on the spa Nat the River s widest Point As the storm piled up More than a Foo of Snow fanned out into a num Ber of neighbouring Community into find shelter in churches fire houses and other warm places nearly 600 persons found therway to the roman Catholic Church of the transfiguration Here where local police with the Aid of merchants provide sandwiches Coffee cake am milk for the children until there Cross could take Over Mon Day be been feeding them Al night said police chief Ernes Kindgren. They slept on any thing tables floors chair they weren t about 1,000 More of motorists got out 01 their cars on the Bridge or other Points along the closed new York thruway and sought shelter on the Western Side of the River. About half were Pudup at firehouses and an Ameri can legion building in Orange town the rest in two churches at Nyack and firehouses in Wesland Central Nyack. The pileup on the Bridge be Gan sunday morning when Sev eral cars skidded and stalled blocking cars behind them. Be fore the Day was Over cars were bumper to bumper in All six lanes of the Bridge. Many motorists stayed in their cars with Heaters on until the state police through radio stations urged them to leave their cars before they ran out of Gas and were in danger of freezing. Provisions were made to bus people from the end of the Bridge to the various shelters. Some Pueblo papers blood soaked and would t Burn crewman says Coronado Calif. A an engine Man aboard the Pueblo said monday some of it classified papers were so soaked with blood they would turn when the intelligence ship was attacked off North Korea. Engine Man 3.c. Peter Bander Asaid he discovered this As he tried to destroy classified material near where another Crew Man Duane Hodges of Cresswell,ore., Lay mortally wounded. I believe they were Al burned Bandera said of secret documents in his area All Buta very few which were splattered on the deck and covered with blood. Woman in England Given boy s liver Newmarket England a the liver of a 4-year-old boy has been transplanted into the Bod of a woman in her 40s. The operation was perform Dat Newmarket general Hospital Northeast of boy was David Tolton who died after a Road Accident with out regaining consciousness. The name of the woman was not released but the Hospital said her condition was they were much blood soaked they with so would t Bandera said that while reworked at burning the classified material for a half hour he could discern no destruction efforts in the ship s research department. Weren t you surprised no Effort was being made to defend the Pueblo asked vice t. Bowen president of a court of inquiry investigating the ship s capture. Yes sir Bandera . William d. Scarborough of san Pedro Cal-if., told the court the Pueblo suffered two hits Cannon fir which caused two holes about six inches in diameter four to five feet above the water line. I think he s one of the bes commanding officers i be Ever had asked Scarborough his opinion said when about the Pueblo s skipper cmdr. Lloyd m. engine Man Monroe Goldman of Lakewood Calif.,said he was never informed of the Pueblo s Mission and assumed the ship was conducting oceanographic never seriously consid ered the possibility of having to scuttle an oceanographic ship asked capt. William Newsome counsel for the , sir Goldman replied. Did the possibility enter you mind of destroying the engines yes sir but i knew i could have Only gotten started be fore he a North korean guard shot Goldman said a North Korea officer beat one of his Crew As he was taken off the crewmen Are expected to begin testifying soon about their ordeal in a North korean prison. Guevara s sex wife keeping quiet London a Hilda Gadea first wife of the late South american revolutionary Che Guevara is in London and keep ing quiet about her life with the guerrilla fighter who helped Fidel Castro seize Cuba. Miss Gadea a peruvian economist who now lives in Havana spoke at a conference organized by the movement for colonial Freedom and disappointed the100 people who turned up hoping to hear a Little about the Man who became a legend in his life time. Miss Gadea gave a Genera talk on latin America s revolutionaries and their future. To feed a machine Dodge a machine repair a machine Park a machine or put a Coin into machine. But a 13-Inch weekend Snow fall changed All that briefly. The Man in the Street not the machine in the Street became for a by the hundreds were stalled throughout the tire chewed at the soft clinging Snow for a while an then they too gave up the struggle. Cars by the thousand never even ventured from the curb. They just stayed there until the trillion fingered Snow turned them into Long lines of vehicular ghosts haunting the City in Pale , peace peace it was a Cit Dweller s heaven a Pedes Trian s Paradise. The City never looked More Lovely Serene and desirable. Most of the air planes weren flying so there was no noise in the sky. The restaurants were a t crowded because most of the commuters were stuck inthe suburbs where presumably they spent the Day watching their wives shovel a path from the garage to the Roadway. Few buses were running Al most no taxicabs could be seen. Both buses and taxis in manhat Tan Are born cowards and rarely venture out of their garages unless the . Weather Bureau gives them a written guarantee they won t get their tires wet. That Means there were few car fumes to Cloud up the atmosphere and clog up a fellow lungs. How Clear and Beautiful was the City when the Snow ceased falling and Dawn came the streets belong to the peo ple and the people used them. They were Little dots of purpose moving Down the rutted lanes like infantrymen going to Battle across a wintry landscape. Some were plodding to work some were walking their dogs some were just out for a they did not move with the withdrawn half sullen let Mealone and i la let you alone air so typical of new was a red faced jollity about them a comradeship i trouble. They laughed they nod ded they made Little jokes Tomach other shaking their Heads n mock exasperation and exclaiming Only in new York what next Trees Bead the Trees burdened with great blobs of fleece Bent Down heir limbs and the Parks were i Crystal glittering gallery of strange and wondrous shapes. Everywhere it looked As i Christmas had made a return visit to the Eye of Man to the heart of Man. If Only the City was like Tisall the time said one Man. Then one by one and two Bywy the machines the buses he taxis the trucks the cars began to come out into the streets again and take Over the City from the people and Force them Back upon the sidewalks and grind the soft Sweet White now into Gray grime and slush.3o-Mue Oil smudged strip steam Straw used to clean California beaches Santa Barbara clean up Crews monday attacked 30 Miles of Oil stained beaches with live steam and Traw. An 800-Square-mile Killick floated ominously offshore. The vast Slick from a 12-Dayundersea Oil Well leak was Reading up into Hundred Yard wide globs but a combination of winds and Ocean currents kept it nearly stationary off the one of the biggest cleanup jobs in California history 1,500men toiled to restore the blackened Sand and the Rock banded by a Black strip from the Low to High water steam was used by Union Oil co. Men to clean the boulders forming the breakwater to Santa Barbara Harbor where 700 Small Craft were smudged by the scum. A Bright Orange steam cleaning unit supplied steam to the men who played it Over the rocks one by one. It my take quite a while said on crewman. More than 600 tons of Straw which can absorb up to five times its weight in Oil has been spread on beaches and in harbours in Santa Barbara alone. Some Park ing lots near the beaches re set bled stockyards with Bales of Straw ready for use
