European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Roo Shelp Northeast dig out is storm death toll rises to 62 i from press dispatches new York the northeastern portion of the United Stales was trying to dig out from under mountains of Snow and clean up flooded areas but life was still far from Normal Tor millions of Ameri cans As transportation and business remained Federal troops were moving into Massa Connecticut and Rhode declared Federal emergency areas by president Carter in the Wake of the Snow storm which swept from Maryland and up the coast through new Hampshire and into Vermont on monday and bringing More than 2 feel of Snow and Hurricane Force winds to some a c1301 cargo plane landed at it was the first of a Fleet of transports scheduled to bring More than troops and equipment into the Northeast at the orders of at least 62 persons some stranded along buried in drifts and asphyxiated by exhaust fumes died in the Northeast and other parts at the nation hit by bitter weather this that boosted to at least 249 the number of weather at tribute deaths so far this Rhode Island Joseph Garrahy greeted the army Advance party of 350 soldiers when it set Down at Green Airport in were very Happy to see he told the task Force we did hand it was almost a Miracle to gel the Airport the military Airlift come said fleets of ci4i c5 galaxies and c130 Hercules planes were poised to carry other troops and equipment into the blizzard thousands were homeless because of flooding commuter rail and bus service was sporadic roads barely All businesses in Massachusetts were closed on orders of the some looting was Twenty four persons were electric Power failed in widespread sections of Boston the second fail ure in As Many Days As new England largest City was digging out from one of its worst snowstorms in it might be More of the said Jim vice president of the Boston Edison moments after the Power started going out shortly before nonemergency traffic was banned on All state highways from 40 Miles West to anyone walking or driving on a state Highway faced arrest for motorists found to be on the Road in con continued on Page it Lutho filled unofficial publication for the u v armed 295 february 1978 in it on if 21855 a sounds like a Snow Job if you get the Drift big Apple bathed in White n Lodi through the Snow on Vert filth under do tag with in the background Elbe Empire Stile a new York api things just didst add up for the National weather service Here at 7 inches of Snow was measured in new York for the next six new yorkers inter oses billion program College Aid plan offered up president proposed a billion program that would i an s million include youngsters from moderate Ary Joseph Califano of education and welfare said the b alternative to a 250 tuition by Republic Stoen j will not accept program would increase Aid by by key to percent Over the cur Zoulal increases would Fornol loan scholarships designed to Blunt sky Ion costs and related de today the Cost of sending a son or daughter to College is an increasingly Seri Ous Burden on americas Low and Middle income Carter Middle income not just Low income Are being stretched to their financial limits by these new and growing the average Cost of sending a student to a private College is about a year and to a Public school Stout r5man in crease of 77 percent in the past the president the program would additional n including at least 2 million from families in the to income bracket not presently would be guaranteed create additional jobs for Stu dents by requesting an extra h55 million from Congress for Par time student jobs with the government paying 80 percent of the raise family income eligibility from the current to for the guaranteed student loan program that subsidises interest costs and guarantees loan repayment to increase the maximum Grant for Low income students from to raise the amount of the average grand by 1300 for students in families with incomes Between and we feel strongly that Congress must t continued on Page 41 watched Snow swirl All around but the weather service said no More Snow had Hows that weve been trying to explain it All Day but its not said one forecast who asked not to be the Snow is so Light and the wind is compacting if we actually measured it regu we probably would find the amount decreasing but if it has been snowing All morn can the actual measurement of Snow on the ground be going Down As 1 weve been trying to explain it All we have another Way of measuring and we will be doing that at about 1 he said during the Well Lake the Snow that has gathered in our rain melt and that will give us a Defi Nite amount of water that has we can then convert that to a fairly accurate Snow accumulation by multiplying by that should give us a slight he at p the weather service issued a new statement of accumulation we have taken our readings and that is the figure were now slaying the forecaster As i said Well be trying to explain it All but its not