European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Cheyenne damage estimated at million a damage from a Flash flood that struck Cheyenne during a thunderstorm and killed 12 peo ple was estimated at million by one insurance official saturday As the town worked to clean up and people kind of sat Down and had an initial cry Over the thing and then started to help each said sheriffs Dan people have been just great about helping one Alan a spokesman for state farm said he estimated claims for car and Home damage would be about million for All based on claims submitted to his that does not include uninsured flood and Only about 130 Homes in Cheyenne had flood six inches of rain plus 6 inches of Hail deluged Cheyenne in less than four hours thursday flooding basements and first floors and sweeping cars and trucks Down water ran 6 feet deep in normally trickling dry Creek and in City related Page the City normally gets Only 12 to 13 inches of precipitation a the mayors office coordinated re quests for help and offers from people with wet vacuums and time to help bail water and Hail out of base some people offered spare rooms to those who needed a place to emergency services provided the salvation army provided Emer gency food and and the Cheyenne association of broadcasters put out a Call for a temporary morgue set up to receive bodies of victims was disbanded sat the Laramie county sheriffs department said searches for missing people had unless More reports of missing people were a photo workers take Stock of the damage in the car had been swept away and came to rest at a car Wash near dry one of the 12 victims died of a heart and one drowned in a flooded the other 10 bodies were found along dry which cuts across North All of these victims were not just floating gently Down the they were hitting things As they said Laramie county Coroner Roger a Federal emergency management Agency officials met with state and local disaster officials Fema spokesman Marv Davis said inspection of Homes and businesses began and the damage Fig ure would be submitted to de along with a recommendation about seeking a presidential disaster the declaration would open the possibility of Lewinter est Loans or Broyles said the department posted deputies to watch some houses along dry Creek that were flooded so badly the owners had to but said his depart ment haunt received any reports of loot Broyles said one car that was washed into dry Creek and stranded had two expensive handguns on the floor All thursday no one took them and there were people All he gourmet con gof a charge ouf of Halfway House a a Man chauffeured by limousine to a restaurant where he dined on Fine food and wine was a parolee using the charge account of a Halfway House that bought him a one Way ticket to Flor police it happened twice before the islander restaurant began to suspect something was manager Steve Gogas when the diner arrived a third time last a officer Tom joined him and invited him to the police station for hours Walter Lee Brinson was arrested on charges of grand theft and forgery and booked into the Pinellas county jail under Brinson had completed his parole for forgery at a Halfway House in he was Given a one Way plane ticket to then used the Halfway House s american express account to drink and ride in police cops needed of guard governors upon releasing they the Halfway House had purchased him a plane police spokesman George Pinckney when he got to he apparently began using the credit card number from the plane Billing for the meals was arranged in Advance by a said he said that its not rare for such transactions and that american express had approved the its kind of Ive been in this business 18 this is the first time Ive seen anything like said Ive seen expired cards but nothing like this a Man in a limousine at the front the polite Man in a captains who called himself Donald Benson came in a Light Gray he once spent for including Steak Diane plus a takeout order of two bottles of cordon the houses most expensive French wine at a authorities the Glen Mills schools of was listed As owner of the the Man appeared always after a caller with a suspiciously similar voice telephoned for a reservation and said it would be All right to charge the Bill to the Glen Mills account Gogas told when he asked american express to Check they warned that the purchases were not in police advised the manager to Call them the next time the Gour met Idaho murder manhunt Cut Back Idaho up the search for a Man suspected of aiding in the killings of two Gold miners was reduced saturday so deputies could help protect governors at the National governors association Jerry Gilbertson of was sought in the death of an Idaho woman and her Nephew slain last week while prospecting their Gold claim in mountains about 100 Miles North of a manhunt netted other but Gilbertson remained at Large saturday when sheriffs deputies were diverted to the resort town of Mccall to provide Security for several of the nations several their families and staff members took a raft trip Down the Payette River and planned a Barbecue at Idaho potato magnate Sim plots estate at Payette the governors conference starts sunday at Valley county sheriff Blair Shepherd divided his 21 deputies Between the manhunt and the investigators said May have left the dogs employed in the search were taken off duty because heavy rain made it impossible to detect Gilbertson was wanted in the deaths of Bertha Hern of and her 35year old Delbert Dean Herndon of the woman was beaten to her Nephew was beaten and the her dons died sometime last weekend and their bodies were found tuesday in shallow Graves 20 Miles Northeast of robbery apparently was the the suspects arrested were William Odom and his also of they were held sat urday on Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 an estimated jews and political deportees met their deaths in murder according to a report from of the deported to Germany from Bel the Netherlands and fewer than have been found 30 years ago 1955 Premier Nikolai Bulgarin rejected the Eisenhower plan for the United states and Russia to Exchange military blueprints and open their territories to Aerial 20 years ago today 1965 Short skirts popped Back into the fashion picture at the Pierre Cardin show in 70 years ago 1975 Howard Hughes got his secret contract with the Cia for the ship Slomar explorer five weeks after making an emergency contribution to president Nixon 1972 reelection Cam according to sources familiar with a tax investigation in los