European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday november 16,1985 Winter storm moves into Plains area by United press International Snow and fryc ing rain spewed across the Plains Fri Day icing roads and highways As a week old storm pushed out or the Rockies after walloping the West with up to 5 feel or Snow. A total of 31 deaths have been blamed on Snow sleet rain and tog since saturday. Residents in the Southeast and along the Atlantic coast enjoyed unseasonably warm temperatures except in Alexandria va., where thousands or migrating blackbirds mistaking the historic port City Tor their win Ter Haven swooped Down and scared children and soiled the streets. The High powered Winter storm which earlier this week stranded hundreds of Elk Hunters in Washington. State and killed two skiers in an Avalanche in Utah emerged from the Rockies where it left roads strewn with cars and closed roads in California. The storm dropped 4 inches of Snow on Kansas and 5 on the Nebraska Panhandle. Snow and freezing drizzle left roads icy and Snow packed. The roads Are 100 percent covered and it s Slick said Frances Craig a reporter at the Sidney neb Telegraph. That first time you go through a Slop sign and your brakes Don t Stop you you learn in Kansas the Sun broke through after the Snow fell but roads were still hazardous officials said. The Sun is shining said Verna Mueller manager of the Rusty r cafe in Bird City in extreme Northwest Kansas. We had a few Hunters come in this morning to get out of the Snow but they be gone Back outside. The locals Are still  a couple who were stranded in the Colorado mountains for 72 hours earlier in the week said thursday they were thankful to be alive. David and Joyce Walker s four wheel drive vehicle got stuck in deep Snow when they pulled another car  iwo Young men in that car drove off promising to Send help but they did t. David Walker trudged 17 Miles Over rugged Colorado terrain covered with 3 feet of Snow before he found help. We re just thankful we re alive he said. Snow fell from Northeast Colorado across Southeast Wyoming and into Nebraska and Kansas Friday. Sleet freezing drizzle and Light Snow combined to make travel dangerous and conditions unpleasant. It s real Light Snow right now and the pheasants arc out walking across the Fields said Michael Jones who works in Scott City a Small town in Western  s really not too bad. Oliver the High school play is still going on  the storm dumped 18 inches of Snow near Pueblo colo., thursday. Workers with Snow lows and san trucks battled Low visibility blowing Snow and Miles of abandoned cars to Clear interstate 25. It s coming Down by the buckets said sgt. Dag Studon. We be got vehicles stalled spun stuck front one end of Lown to the  schools in much of Southeastern Colorado were close thursday. The weather service warned the storm could mow South and spew up o 4 inches of Snow Friday on Thi Texas Oklahoma Panhandle where heavy sleet Fel thursday. Balmy a Caincr warmed the Southeast thursday. Re Cord High temperatures were set or tied in nine cities including a Reading of 78 degrees in Lynchburg a. Huh surpassed a record 77 set in 1941. In Alexandria about 10,000 confused blackbirds set tied in for the Winter. I thought Alfred Hitchcock was filming some  said Janice Bania whose son Justin 4, Rufu to go outside. I have never seen so Many Birds. The were in Trees in the sky. As far As you could Sec Thor were screeching  Robert Pritchett the City s environmental health director said the Birds left droppings Over patios cars an laundry hanging out to dry. He said the droppings could be hazardous because  feed a dangerous soil fungus that if inhaled Cai cause histoplasmosis a respiratory ailment similar u tuberculosis. Disaster from Page 1 eruption overnight wednesday that melted its Snow Cap. Simultaneous heavy Rains engorged the Lagunilla River before Dawn thursday turning it into a Rushing Wall of mud that destroyed at least 85 percent of Armiro a Coffee farming City of 50,000 people 30 Miles from the Volcano and 105 Miles North West of Bogota. Another 20,000 people lived in the nearby towns of Sauario carmelo and Pind Alito which also were buried by mud mudslides such As this have been known to reach 60 Mph razing everything in their path. I feel like i am about to die said a pregnant woman who was rescued Friday from the disaster area. I Don t know what happened to my Hus band. I Don t know How i survived in the Middle of the mud she told colombian radio network run. President Belisario Betancur went Friday to Chinchiva just to the West of the Volca no. Omar Mejia head of civil defense Inch inching estimated in an interview with Caracol radio that 800 people died in the immediate area. Colombia will lift itself up and will give helping hand to the Brothers of to Lima and Caldas he said referring to the two states hit by the disaster. We Are capable of overcoming this  an air Bridge was being established to bring injured from Mariquita an emergency Center to Bogota using four military and four private aircraft. A coordinator of emergency medical services at Guay Abal another emergency enter said in a radio interview that disinfectants were needed so 63 bodies there could be held for identification. The coordinator said water was in Short Supply there with not enough to Wash the wounds of the injured. An estimated 2,000 people still were trapped on a ranch near Guay Abal four Miles from Armero. Hundreds of bodies were being taken to a soccer stadium in Guay Abal said associated arts photographer Carlos Gonzalez. Television film showed survivors inching their Way across the sea of mud. Many crawled on their stomachs to avoid sinking into the Quicksand like mire. One Man dug laboriously with a Saucepan to free a Young girl half buried in the muck. The Church the tallest building in town was levelled by the mud. But the local Ceme Tery protected by a High Cement Wall was untouched saving residents who huddled there. Other survivors climbed Trees and jumped on roofs. Armiro does t exist any More red Cross Rescue worker Fernando Duque said in an interview from the scene on Tod far radio. Many survivors told radio and television reporters that City authorities had assured the inhabitants there was no danger when Ash began falling wednesday afternoon. The Volcano erupted with a deafening Roar shortly after 10 p.m., and about three hours later the mud Avalanche rushed through the towns. Envoy waiting for kidnappers7 message Beirut Lebanon a Terry Waite the archbishop of Canterbury s Spe Cial envoy seeking to free american hos tages in Lebanon was in a secret hideout in Beirut Friday waiting for a coded message to meet their kidnappers. Waite made no Contact with the press Friday one Day after he appealed to report in Ana television Crews to leave him alone because his Mission had reached a critical and dangerous  but he spoke of Telephone Friday to Lambeth Palace archbishop Robert run Cic i teat in London saying he was waiting at his Beirut hideaway. A Lambeth Palace statement said he was awaiting answers to certain questions he has put which will guarantee to him the authenticity of the people to whom he u  eve Keatley. Runic s press Secretary said Waite 46, made it Clear that to Date he has had Telephone conversations with the had a face to face meeting. He is waiting for such a  she stressed his Telephone Call was the Only external Contact Fie has made since he arrived in Beirut wednesday on a one Man Mission to negotiate the americans release after months in Captivity. He has made absolutely no other out Side Contact with any government or pres Agency she said. He is Well and cheerful and cannot anticipate any Date for his  Waite dropped out of sight after holding an Impromptu news conference Early Moscow Paris express hits Berlin barricade Berlin a an express train bound for Paris from Moscow was delayed by More than four hours Friday after it ran into Metal gasoline cans placed on Railroad tracks in the avus District of West Berlin police said. Despite emergency braking to avoid hit Ling the Barrier the engine and three Pas Senger cars were slightly damaged when the train slowed into the cans before coming to a Stop police said. There was no fire and no one was injured in the incident although the canisters were tilled with gasoline police said. Leaflets found in the area said the Barri Cade was placed in a protest action to show sympathy with squatters in the nether lands police said. West Berlin s Interior minister Heinrich Lummer condemned the attack and said that it was done without regard for the lives of the passengers and extensive property damage that could have occurred. The so called Reichs Bahn Railroad that runs through West Berlin u controlled and operated by East Germany. Summers said Novim Bir 14 l h41 41 Albany 29 41  10 11 anchorage51 79 Atlanta 51 43 Atlantic city54 74 Baltimore 21 34 bllllngis4 71 Birmingham 11 39 bolh41 90 Boilon 37 45 buffalo32 40 Burlington 43 74 Cha Rullon s.c.41 74 Charleston . 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