European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                South still sizzles Carolina Farmers receive free Hay monday july 21,1986 the stars and stripes pages by the associated press temperatures topped 100 again sat urday after iwo weeks of a Nolc Digil heal wave blamed for Ai least 22 deaths and Farmers in South Carolina lined up for free Hay from the Midwest in the midst of a drought Ihm has Cost growers in he Southeast millions of dollars. Columbia  hit a record 106 de Grees by late afternoon saturday the 14th consecutive Day the City has hit 100 or higher. The heat Index a measure of How not in fell with High humidity and Lillic wind was expected to reach 120 in South Carolina. Augusta ga., also hit a record 103degrees, the 31st straight Day of 90-plus temperatures in that East Georgia City. Either records included 102 at Char Lotte . 100 at Jacksonville Fla. 100at Columbus. A. 101 at Atlanta 96 at Mobile Ala. Charlotte s High tied a record which has stood since 1886. And Memphis tenn., hit 101. The hottest the City has been since sept 16, 1980. Temperatures also were into the 90sby midday in pans of Kentucky Arkan Sas and Virginia. The humidity in Georgia ranged up to 60 percent. Thunderstorms provided Brief respite from the heat in parts of North Carolina and Alabama. Heat has been blamed on the deaths this month of at least eight people i Georgia four in North Carolina three in Indiana two in Missouri and one each i South Carolina Virginia Louisiana Illi Nois and Michigan. Two air Force c-141 Sia lifters landed saturday at an Airport outside Green Ville , with 2,000 Bales of Hay about 4 tons donated by Illinois Farmers. Two More plan loads were scheduled for monday. President Reagan ordered the Airlift after South Carolina gov. Dick Riley announced plans to ship More than 2,000 tons of Hay from the Midwest this week by train which is being donated by Cox transportation corp. Midwest trucking companies also offered free help and Illinois gov. James r. Thomp son asked Farmers to donate Hay or sell Ilat reduced Cost. Thompson said saturday when inc planes were loaded at Springfield iii., that he was t surprised at the Illinois Farmers  Are people who have spent their whole lives trying to feed the world and battling drought rain Hail insect Sand government bureaucracy every Day of their lives he said. They can handle a drought for their  earlier saturday South Carolina Farmers had been waiting in line to apply for the free Hay when agriculture Exten Sion service offices opened in three coun ties. Most of the Hay no More than 58 Bales to a Farmer was allocated to Quali fied Farmers in the firs  losses in South Carolina arc expected to be at Leas $100 million. The governor said he would seek a Federal disaster declaration for at least two thirds of he  were loaded with More donated Hay saturday near Rochester  year s tobacco crop will be the smallest since 1946, accords to Charlie Finch a spokesman for the flue cure tobacco cooperative stabilization corp. In Raleigh "our Corn that normally would be eight to nine feet High is less than knee High and no amount of rain at this Point will Salvage it said Edgar Miller 42, who farms near Winston Salem .crop losses from drought in Virginia Are estimated at j61.s million. The Georgia department of agriculture Esti mated damage at j140 million. No drought in Pennsylvania while the Southeast suffers from a drought an abundance of rain in the ust few weeks has been Good for crops an he trax finn in Library a. Steve Klingensmith holds an ear or Cam that May be just about ready for Market. More irrigation May be needed As Earth warms Washington a the predicted climate warming greenhouse effect could require $200 Bil lion in new irrigation investment around the world according to a report saturday by an environmental research organization. The greenhouse effect refers to the theory that the use of Fossil fuels such As Coal and Oil is producing a Rise in atmospheric Carbon dioxide and an accompany ing Rise in worldwide temperatures. Almost All scientists agree the temperature increase will happen Given present trends but there is uncertainty about when. Pessimistic estimates say 40 years or so other estimates Are for much later in the 21st Century. The . Environmental Protection Agency has Esti mated that the increase in average temperature could be 1.8 to  degrees. This would change rainfall patterns and generally would shift the Best growing weather toward the poles from the present temperate zones according to some  670 million acres of irrigated cropland around the world make up 18 percent of total cropland but account for a third of the global Harvest said a report by the world watch Institute on the potential effects of changes in the Earth s atmosphere from pollution of various  the Western United states an increase of 3,6 degrees in average temperature by the year 2000 could require that 35 percent of the existing in graded area be taken out of production the study said. World watch used a 1983 National Academy of sciences re port As the basis for its estimate. A reduction of thai magnitude would have High costs measured either by the capital investments dams canals and irrigation systems rendered obsolete or by the replacement value of that irrigation infrastructure wrote the study s author Sandra Postel. If replacement structures and systems Cost $600 to $2,000 per acre it could Cost $7 billion to s23 billion to irrigate new lands in the Western United states the report said. Woman wins $65 million for Hospital malpractice new York a a jury has awarded $65.1 million dollars to a woman who churned in a malpractice suit that treatment she received at a City run Hospital left her a cripple. The state supreme court jury awarded the Money to Agnes Whittaker 55, after a four week trial. Attorney Philip m. Damashek said Whitaker went to the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on jul is 1982, complaining of stomach pains. She was examined by a resident who accidentally lacerated her right ovary Damashek said. She then was diagnosed As having food poisoning and discharged 18 hours later. About Iff hours after her release she was taken to another Hospital s emergency room in septic Shock the suit  surgery uncovered an obstruction in the Small intestine a Lacer ated ovary and gangrene. Doctors re moved is feet of her Small intestine and she remained hospitalized for 10months, being fed through intravenous tubes Damashek  is cow suffering from a Calcium deficiency that is causing her spine to collapse the lawyer  spokeswoman said the City will ask the trial judge to set the award aside on the grounds that it is excessive. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 11, 1946 Gen. Joseph Mcneraey american military governor for the . Zone of Germany proposed in the four Power Allied control Council that the United slates Combine us zone with any or All of the other zones to form an economic unit. 30 years ago today. July 21, 1956 the United states and Britain have withdrawn their offer to help finance Egypt s 11.3 billion Aswan dam on the Nile River. 20 years ago today july 21, 1966 Singer Frank Sinatra 50, and actress Mia Farrow 21, were married in Las vegas. 10 years ago today. July 21,1976 the Viking spacecraft has landed on Mars and space officials at Pasadena calif., said in is sending Back razor Sharp photos of the planet s surface