European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars stripes july new York api wait Tea and extreme heat wave thai has polluted destroyed crops and kilted people and live Stock in a Low mile Bell from the Atlantic coast to the Rockies appears to be dying the National weather service predicted a Cooling trend thursday from the great lakes across to the Central where temperatures in the 90s and 100s have been recorded for a tic exit bed be with forecasters calling Jor continued hot weather Al least into the rain was expected to provide partial Relief in Many sections of the heat but in Western torrential Rains flooded leaving at least 32 dead and about residents Home less Uthof the West Al Center along the was Sespen rally needed president Darter wedge Stair declared drought w wide areas of Georgia and Tabin wry the prolonged it stand dry spell caused poultry losses in Dela Virginia and some crop Farmer along the East begun irrigation to prevent their craps most officials to Croft the country not estimate the number of deaths related j 1 Imnel Ihlen Vrh powr i commission said heat Belt leaving 32 a up1 flood a gorged on receded thursday leaving behind a mass of mud and Only the great Johnstown of 1889 was worse it killed 1209 persons in this historically flood starred steel the death toll in wednesdays deluge stood Al 32 but Many More were miss and the toll to Rescue workers slowly made their Way into the heart of the flooded downtown the american hed Cross Center there was used As the local command Post Fourshee drive vehicles were pressed into service on rubble filled nation Al guard trucks checked and re checked inc three ally hospitals and brought in sup blood and medical Tanker trucks brought in desperately needed water and diesel fuel to run operations for general Telephone which was swamped by emergency the City had no no Gas and Little drinkable residents shovelled thick mud from their houses and Side walks and began to assess the Many of the stores in downtown town were flooded with some Early minor looting adding id the but mayor Herbert Plum ordered look cars shot on and a dusk curfew was imposed in Many suburban the line of helicopters proclaimed that the search went on for the living and the Rescue efforts except in an emergency were largely suspended wednesday night because it was too dangerous to Fly in the unusually dark but they picked up thursday More than 24 hours after the flooding people gathered at temporary make shift shelters in churches and fire the sad task of locating the dead and missing Beca cof primary at a temporary morgue in East Rich land chief Deputy Cambria county Coroner Arthur Keiper processed drowning victims and released their bodies to grieving we Nave lust reached a Point Here to dont know now Many Are going to be said William a civil de sense spokesman bodies stacked up in temporary mor gues set up throughout this sout Central Pennsylvania City of a Dairy sup Early Many were trapped 1n their collapsed others drowned at tempting to the army corps of engineers said flood controls completed in iw3 ailed to Check the flooding because they were not de signed to handle so much rain in such a Short period of Milton Shapp flew into the oily afternoon to assess the damage and stayed the overnight to make sure All possible efforts Are sex tourist travel to Europe shows gain Paris a preliminary count show a substantial Rise in the number of tourists visiting Western Europe this the organization for economic cooperation and development Recd announced the number of americans alone taking pleasure trips to no communist euro Pean countries jumped 11 per cent in the first six months 1977 to an estimated the Recd report you can see from the figures we have that a great majority of countries arc re porting Bald an Recd economist who helped prepare the the dynamism that we saw in 1978 is being Recd economists warned that their statistics were still too Patchy for firm conclusions for the entire but they said an increase in the number of Ameri cans visiting Europe h 1976 seems Likely to continue through Thia raising the Promise of More millions of dollars for restaurants and tour americans tourists travelling in Recd countries including most industrialized no communist nations spent fs8 Bil lignin the report 0 temperatures most of the victims were caught sleep ing As inches of rain inundated the area during a 7hour period tuesday night and Europe Tut Lull my Stu Man h Unm h to Fth thu Utay Ceth the red Cross cles from far away As with disaster specialists to i flood the Shapp and the i mayor Estl Malad dam Ives at 1100 million from flooding m the tou1i order of loot Era was issued soon after the Waters began set up in outlying areas to to and he imposed an 8 none of the downtown business distr let escaped the most display win Dows were smashed the Force of the and ires broke out throughout the about persons were without elec and phone serv Tco to most of the making nearly aged North of org Union from Page it by prohibitions listed in item the most Complex part of the draft i Brown said in the concerns the rules for a service member joining a not All membership is Brown indeed a View has been in the department of defense that the directive should and need not address membership As drafted the would pro Hibit membership in a Union organization primarily under the following conditions if the organization in question engages in specified prohibited for exam either in coercive picketing or forbidden on base or violates articles of the uniform code of military the defense department can meet potential unionization problems with the comprehensive Brown Brown said that the problem is an area where we have to be sensitive to the requirements of the first amendment and the substantial body of court interpretations that have been created Over the directive dealing with the problem can cover precisely the a directive can be very quickly fled to accommodate changing nature of the the problem by the in Lila live process moves More and legislative enactment can not be Brown he added that the directive provides management flex Luu in earlier this week in Senate hearings on military Strom called Browns position Thurmond introduced legislation with 43 cosponsors that would strictly ban Tylli he mid a several unions including the american Fote Rallon of government amp Moyees i Are interested in organizing the age la currently polling its estimated members to determine if there will be a National Effort to recruit military the results Are expected to to announced in i s it u time for the Congress to Tike action to Stop this matter from getting out of Thurmond conflict Likely on Peter finches f it los Angeles Pupil a court Battle pitting an English Law against califor Nia Law appeared Likely As a Superior court commissioner refused wednesday to admit into probate the iks will of the late British actor Peter which made no provision for his the dated stipulated that the entire estate of who died last 14 of a heart attack at the Beverly Hills be divided among his four the will did not provide for his Mavis Eletha finches second wife whom he married in november fun to was honoured posthumously at this years Academy awards ceremony with the bes Tactor Oscar for his role As the news Anchorman Gonema in the movie during a hearing Superior court commissioner Franklin Dana granted Finch general of Power of administration Over her late husbands but be stopped Short of admitting finches trill into saying he wanted to eee the original copy before ruling on its Finch told the judge the original document is in the custody of an English Law firm which has repeatedly declined to tend u to los her Eugene argued that the actors will is invalid under the British act of which automatically nullifies a mans will when he mar the attorney argued that Accord ing to thai died without a valid and Finch should automatically receive on half of die Community property and on third of separate property under California probate the commissioner ordered that further attempts be made to locate the orig Oak copy of the 1961 but he m of Date As to when u would have to reproduced morn yes representing to of and Charles Tysl a settlement might be worked out be tween the children and but no commitments were
