European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 4 deaths Spur warnings to skiers Austria avalanches strand thousands front press dispatches thousands of tourists were Cut off from the outside world wednesday in Western where avalanches claimed four lives so and skiers were warned not to leave their in heavy snowfalls upset communications and blocked its major International Road and rail link through the Gotthard Mountain to Italy Italy was gripped by icy with abundant Snow and fog and Brush fires raged Over broadly scattered regions in the constant snowfalls have brought some 10 feet of new Snow onto the slopes of Austria Arlberg Mountain in the last three increasing the danger of new avalanches and blocking All the roads to the various ski four German tourists were killed by avalanches in the Arlberg Region in the last few and authorities said the Dan Ger of new disasters is some tourists were stranded in the Arlberg ski resorts Zuvers and where snowfalls still minimizing the chances to open the Only Road Down to the Canadian prime minister Pierre tru who was vacationing at had to wait three Days before he could be flown out on an emergency who had to cancel a meeting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky because of the flew to the Canadian air base at Austria westernmost province of to Arlberg was Cut off from the rest of the country after an Avalanche blocked the Only Railroad and the danger of new avalanches prevented the opening of the Arlberg an emergency staff was set up at Bre capital of Vor Arlberg to Cope with the a special problem was created by hundreds of tourists stranded in Remote Mountain huts and threatened by food we Are planning to Fly helicopters to the Remote areas to drop food a staff member Swiss authorities said in some areas new Snow piled up As High As six feet in what they described As the most massive Snow Falls in 45 dozens of local roads in mountainous Central and Eastern Switzer land became impassable and motoring traffic on most other Swiss roads slowed Down to walking Snow slides blocked local roads and rail communications in the Eastern and a Large Avalanche buried the Access lines to the rail and Road tunnels through the got thard Mountain in Central Switzerland leading to the Southern Ticino and Railroad workers were toiling through the night to Clear the tracks and the Road near Wassen on the Northern flank of the Gotthard from the hard packed masses of the slide debris up to 45 feet and authorities said they did not expect traffic through the Gotthard to resume before wednesday police said there were Many Road Acci dents caused by the icy conditions and which reduced visibility to 40 Yards on some stretches of the superhighway around Oil prices pumping up around world new York a the Cost of Oil is continuing to climb As More Petroleum exporters signal their intentions to raise in the latest moves since a new round of increases began last the United Arab emirates was said to be raising the Price of Oil a Malaysia was re ported to be boosting prices a and the British National Oil said a new North sea Oil Price probably would be set by the end of the the malaysian crude Oil Price increase was reported by the japanese ministry of International Trade and Industry and by sources in new the move would lift the Price of Malaysia to Quality crude to a one of the highest Oil prices in the Malaysia produces barrels of Oil a Industry sources said the British in crease was Likely to be Between and Over its current Price of a temperatures up to a foot of Snow in the Southern mountains East of Naples brought More hardship to the tens of thousands of victims of the 23 earthquake who chose to spend the Winter in tents and House trailers rather than leave their devastated the big freeze an intensification of Winter conditions that started unusually Early this year was due mainly to a fierce North wind that has whistled Down from the Alps for several sometimes approaching Hurricane weather experts the wind also fanned the Brush and Forest fires raging in the Subalpine valleys of Northern Italy and along the Ligurian in the coastal Mountain Region fire brigade officials said there had been 480 separate outbreaks of Brus fires since electoral votes formally counted hear its Reagan is president l h 10 25 Albany 25 52 60 los Angeles 22 37 Louisville 21 32 39 Memphis 28 44 Atlanta 18 38 Atlantic City 5 32 68 Miami Beach 12 29 Paul 27 42 Nashville 25 47 Billings 30 48 65 new Orleans in 34 new York 33 40 44 Norfolk 16 29 Boston 15 26 55 Oklahoma City 27 35 Omaha 9 21 75 Phoenix 20 44 Charlotte 21 32 Chicago 11 32 Cincinnati 14 25 Cleveland 43 58 32 Philadelphia 6 29 Pittsburgh 9 26 43 53 9 30 Providence 22 48 45 Raleigh 28 34 46 Reno 16 25 43 Louis 7 16 Fargo 10 28 Hartford 52 68 Houston 17 29 incl Napols 30 66 70 Petersburg 24 36 Salt Lake City 53 75 san Diego 47 54 san Francisco 39 51 Seattle 30 42 Kansas 25 Syracuse 37 62 us 66 Tucson 31 39 Little 36 Washington Washington up the election of Ronald Reagan As the nations 40th pres ident was made official tuesday with a joint session of Congress formally counting the electoral votes cast for Reagan and president As the former actor and two term governor of California received 489 of the votes cast 15 by members of 4he electoral Carter received 49 elec toral a the electors voted for the candidate they were pledged former Cia director George Bush received 489 votes to become reagans vice vice president Walter who presided Over the joint session in the House received the same number of votes As who leaves office received a standing ovation when he announced the votes cast for the proceedings began at with the arrival of the Senate members in the House Mondale and the senators were preceded by two each carrying a locked wooden Box containing the electoral shortly after 1 Mondale banged the Gavel and called the joint session to he then directed the tellers Charles Wendell d William and Augustus to open the sealed envelopes from each state and read the the certificate of electoral vote of the state of Alabama seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that Ronald Reagan of the state of California received nine votes for president and George Bush of the state of Texas received nine votes for vice Dick Inson leading off the the first votes announced for Reagan and the first for Carter were each greeted news update toxic Gas probe ends Atlanta a a four month investigation by the National Center for disease control uncovered no evidence of widespread exposure to toxic gases among Arkansas residents near the site of a Titan ii missile silo the Atlanta Constitution said a draft report on the centers study also said no serious illnesses resulted from the the newspaper the according to the cons Titu included the results of the cacs surveys of residents of 10 towns sur rounding the Titan ii site in As Well As a study by the Arkansas state epidemiologist of residents of a Small town six Miles from the the report has not been made in the Days following the september missile residents of Guy complained of severe shortness of breath and the 19 which killed one airman and left 21 others occurred after a six Pound socket from a wrench used by a maintenance worker inside the silo fell 70 feet and punctured a liquid fuel 60s activist sentenced Chicago a Cathlyn Platt a former Radical activist who resurfaced last year after 10 years As a has been sentenced to nine months in jail for her part in the 1969 Antiwar Days of rage disturbance circuit judge Frank suria ruled tuesday that Wilkerson was to serve the sentence concurrently with a new York sentence of up to three years of Imp is the 35yearold woman pleaded guilty to aggravated obstruction of Justice and bail those charges Stem from her part in an protest against the Viet Nam of those indicted after the five Are still at Wilkerson pleaded guilty six ago in new York City to charges of possessing dynamite that killed three of her friends and destroyed her fathers Greenwich Village House a decade she surrendered in Chicago last month after 10 years of evading charges with applause by members of their own party Mathias set off another round of applause when he added special emphasis to the Reading of the vote from Minnesota Mondale Home state and one of the few states won by the carte Mondale the whole procedure was completed in just under a with Mondale announcing she vote total at and saying the announcement was deemed sufficient declaration of the election of the new president and vice he then declared the joint session of having finished its was As in past Many members of the House and Senate did not bother to attend the vote counting Only about 50 senators and 150 representatives were pre despite reagans Clear Victory in the 4 the Constitution provides that the election of a president is official Only after a candidate receives a majority of the 538 electoral the states Are allotted electoral votes equal to their number of senators and repro the District of Columbia also has three Buedingen no haled into court in 2 girls deaths Germany a 26yearold 3rd army div no was brought before a magistrate Here wednes Day in connection with the stabbing deaths of two 16yearold German authorities a military spokesman said wednes Day that a staff sergeant from the 3rd 12th at Buedingen was taken into custody following a joint investigation by German criminal police and agents of the army criminal investigation division at the two girls bodies were found monday in separate locations in the Buedingen according to the Frankfurter Mundschau one had three Stab wounds and the other had according to police they had last been seen alive saturday night leaving a disco in 3 japanese climbers die Sydney up three japanese climbers died in an attempt to scale foot mount new zealand highest the australian broadcasting commission High winds reportedly swept two of the climbers to their death from a a third died of
