European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 18, 1977 stateside Power outage darkens areas of san Antonio san Antonio Tex. A a Power outage that blacked out parts of the City for up to three hours was blamed by Utility officials on a snapped Static line and failure of a backup Generator for some Freak went out at about 7 10 . Sunday after the Static line designed to ground transmission lines from lightning snapped for an unknown reason City Power service officials said. The snapped line tangled with major transmission lines from the Calaveras Lake Power station 14miles South of the City Short circuiting them. The Power service s general manager . Spruce said overloaded generators another parts of the Utility s Grid system automatically kicked off but a backup Gener Ator that is inspected daily failed to Start. Partial service to the City s 800,000 Resi dents was restored about Ivy hours after the blackout and full service with Power borrowed from other Texas Power sources was restored by 10 . No major problems were reported during the blackout. Police said there were a few reports of looting. Hospitals were powered by auxiliary generators. Woman found in House with dead dogs cats Alameda Calif. A a 90-year-old woman has been discovered living in a House cluttered with 66 dead cats and two dead dogs most of which had died nearly two years entered the Home after being tipped by parents of children who noticed two dead cats in the backyard of the House located in this East san Francisco Bay woman and one cat were the Only living things found police the live one promptly split said police sgt. Al Jayne. He said a dog was lying on a 2-year-old newspaper and All the animals had Bee dead for a Long Jayne said most of the animals were in a single room apparently the victims of neglect. It s our impression they had been locked into a room and had just been for gotten about he said. The woman was placed in a county hos Pital for psychiatric evaluation Jayne said. Expensive trim comedian Jerry Lewis cuts up while getting what might be history s most expensive haircut at Hollywood Fla. Lewis chairman for the muscular Dys trophy association was Given a $25,000 promissory note by Ray Kroc owner of the san Cego padres who stipulated that Lewis get a haircut. A cookie thief s career crumbled quickly Detroit a a would be Bandit walked into an East Side bakery with his Han inside his jacket pulled Down the Shade on the door and announced this is a stick up. I have a gun. Give me All your the two women on duty at Sta Hal bakery just stared. The hold up Man was a 12-year-old boy. According to police the boy demanded that the women fill a Large bag with refused. He then tried to grab a cake. But one of the women grabbed it right Back. The Young Bandit fled and was apprehended a few minutes later by police who gave him a Good talking to before turning him Over to his parents. The gun turned out to be a screwdriver. Q s k n e w f r in i finding a Diamond is just a lot of rubbish t Linton Pauls. . Api a Rar. Thai
