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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, July 23, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july Johnstown ruins new As toll reaches 4f Crews could begin the Long task of cleaning j up a Brief storm thursday raised fears 6t too much Sun an Early morning Bike rider wears ulue breaking beat and drought drove Many in Jacksonville at he set Bemen to the coasts in search of by a pair of Cool front brings forms i api refugees and Volunteer army battling mud and fatigue have found 46 dead in this Floo Drav aged dozens arc and damage estimates Are running at More than 1200 on bodies were pulled from bashed houses and twisted rubble littering the scarred seven county flood area in southwestern were expecting More said Deputy Cambria county Coroner Arthur Kulper from his makeshift morgue in the East Hills elementary school officials said they had no Way yet to accurately guess How Many might be scattered looting was reported through out the and some residents armed themselves to protect what Little they had left police arrested three men ransacking a Johnstown bar thursday the National weather service forecast Good weather for the weekend so Volunteer East soothed by breezes by United International fresh breezes Friday routed the record smashing heal wave in much of the residents in some of the nations largest cities now Philadelphia and Boston among them came up for Cool air after a today siege of Debili killing it also was cooler in Baltimore and and the Midwest had its second Hay of respite from extreme new York mayor Abraham came listed a water emergency Alert in the nations big Apple which of late has been dubbed the baked a High in the 80s re placed thursdays 1m the cites second highest temperature with forecasters promising a Day or two of an in gawd air pollution Alert for the Baltimore Washington area was can the which was dropped in Prince Georges and Montgomery coun As Well As the two had forced some heavy industries to curtail production to reduce the heal wave crumbled somewhat in Virginia and North with midday temperatures generally in the Affifa or Low thunderstorms accompanying the Cool front brought virginians some spotty Relief ram a prolonged Spring the worst in a the Virginia farm Bureau federation announced it Wilt hold an emergency sea Slot with stale and Federal officials tuna Day to detail the extent of drought damage and make recommendations for rainfall was tight in North where 54 Central counties have been declared drought Impact areas by James Hunt agricultural officials said an estimated 70 to 90 per cent of the com in those counties is lost and pastures Are so poor they will be of Little use before nod airmans mom offers swap7 of son for one based closer fort tap a Mother in wants to Swap sons with a Mother in fort the object being to provide a Home away from Homo for their boys in the John Guinns 16yearold son John la stationed at Carswell air Force bom the Millington naval air station is near in and lies the idea for her letter to the fort Worth i Promise Home cooked a dog to four kids to fight a father to be smarter lots of Many please drive from a worried mom and she the woman said she has had two or three phone Calls from fort Worth regard ing her not necessarily from other parents of servicemen but just folks of faring to kind of baby my airman Guinn said he was surprised at his mothers proposal but Ltd be Fine with especially after eating at the Chow 1 think they can Burn water he who has three years left to said it Nice to occasionally have something to do besides drink Beer with his what he Doest miss is being told to drive f 1 can drive any Way 1 want to All i got to do is watch out for gelling in trouble with toe he another it there is hardly anything thai the Mesa a flood said Jack mind chief of the army corps of engl necks engineering division assigned theres no telling How Long the cleanup will its a monumental the corps said damage in Johnstown alone would exceed John Model Dies in new York Nett John Robert creator of the worlds first Model ing Agency and the Aura of Glamor and affluence that Drew thousands of men and competitors to what is now a by lion Dollar died tuesday at so Josephs medical Center in Calif he was 84 years old and had been us for Many it was during the 1920s when Powers came to new York City with Hopes of coming an actor that other circumstances led to his founding a modelling Agency in an interview he once explained Shalna overheard a businessman say be a group of attractive people to pose for a Magazine Powers said he rounded up friends and later delivered the because of his instant he bound a catalogue of additional pictures and Iri buted them to advertising the idea he and John was in Wilh his sir Herbert Beerbohm Powers boasted that his select Lection of 100 models had been chosen from one million whose and Beauty could not be matched eilna1 by hol Lywood movie stars or Well dressed we War but Barbara Stanwyck and Constance Bennett were models who later achieved Success in motion pictures men who later became were also among his Earty eluding Henry Tyrone i the Powers school offered id weeks of instruction in such things As posture and favors wider duties in Navy Claytor opposes combat for women sailors san Diego Puli the Navy can make More use of women sailors but they should not fight in according to Navy Secretary Grahame actor 1 favor a change in the Law and a Grad Ual Effort to Uluse the capabilities of women in a wider Range of Claytor said saying he thinks the proper division line is Between combat arid Nan combat i a not that women assignments should be extended to permanent duly aboard combat he tic added hat the presence of men and women on fighting ships would Lead to discipline in a speech to the rotary predicted the Tomahawk cruise missile will become one of the principal Navy weapons for use against enemy snips in the we plan to test tire a Tomahawk soon from a suib merged nuclear powered attack he the like the intercontinental cruise missiles that played an important role in president Carter s cancellation of deployment of the 81 is n Pilot less Hying bomb that is supposed to be quite general builder of the Toma already has conducted 22 test firings the missiles have been in the air for 17vi there have been underwater launching and ground launched but no Complete lest flight fired from a sub merged Craytor complained that a congressional committee is preparing to Cut funds for development of the surface effect which operates on Hie same air Cushion principles As by per which he said would kill one of our most important advanced ship development pro the Volunteer military manpower saucy is he but warned that pie Cemeal chopping away at military pay Aad benefits in inc name of Economy has a disastrous Impact on recruiting and retain ing Good life in military service to our nation must be an attractive life when people can live Wilh dignity and the Navy Secretary  
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