European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. June 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Mississippi May hit record Low Levels barges already at risk of running aground Vic Kobl pc. Miss. A the mighty Mississippi could h t record Low Levels this summer because of the drought plaguing inc Midwest and North Ern Plains and air end has fallen enough in places to ground Barge officials say. Thir River Strind ill Jusi 8 feel an the Vicksburg gauge on May 28, the second lowest Reading on record for thai Dale. By Friday ii had fallen to 3,8 feet and it was pc Cottril to fall to j fuel by monday and continue dropping. Monday s predicted Reading would be the record Low for this time of year about 30 Foci below Normal. The lowest Reading at Vicks Hurp for any Date was n the Early 1930s when the River dropped to minus 6.7 i eel below the level consid ered As the Jero Point. At Memphis. Tenn. The River could sink below the 7 year old record of minus 7.3 feel by july in according to a 28-Day forecast released by the lower Mississippi River forecast Center in Slidell . The hut is still very deep and dangerous but this is a record said Michael Logue. Spokesman for the . Army corps of engineers vices Hurt Duril to. In a areas the River remains deeper than Iii feel. Logue said. Eliut Man Points along the boat traffic Channel Hau fallen below the minimum to fan Depelli needed for Normal navigation. Trul Means big problems for Low boat operators who mini lighten cargoes and run the risk of equipment damage if they run aground. Kobin Radlein of the National weather service Kiver forecasting Center in Slidell la., said in would Lake heavy rainfall Over a Large part of he Central United states to raise the River appreciably. And that s not Likely ibis Lime of year. The is pcs of stages we re reporting now Are s Mihr to what you d normally gel in late september after a hot dry summer she said and we be still Gol thai ahead of normally this would be the High water season Logue said but he Vicks Burg District expects to have to dredge soon near Greenville to keep the Channel open. It looks like in s going to be a major Challenge this year to maintain our navigation logic said. I m sure the economic Impact is in the millions of dollars already from people having to carry shallow i ads. It has an Impact on the whole Central part of the country Steve Golding. Owner of old Man River towing co. In Vicksburg said the drought Hasui into his profits. Ole Man River is loading barges for a draft of 8.6 feet rather than the Normal 9.6 feet and thai last foot sometimes is your Only profit margin Gold ing said. Current cargoes generally Are about 10 percent to 15 percent lighter he said. The Cost of pushing the Load is the same or higher because trips Lake longer. Golding said maintenance costs arc higher because of problems with running aground he said. Golding said the navigable Channel is so narrow in places thai northbound lows must Wail downstream for South bound Low Boais to pass. Last weekend 55 barges ran aground at Memphis closing thai stretch of the River for two Days while the lows were disassembled and moved. Friday the River was reopened from Cairo. Iii., to St. Louis for inc first Lime in two Days after numerous lows ran aground. The red River a Louisiana tributary of the Mississippi is closed indefinitely with some boats stranded upstream. In makes for an unpredictable trip Golding said. And in puts a lot of stress on inc pilots. Last week we ran aground with one Barge and knocked a Hole in the Bottom. We also knocked a rudder off one of our la gang sweep nets drugs guns and 1,400 arrests los Angeles Al an anti gang police Lask Force code named the Hammer dropped Down on the City s Siree is Oer the weekend making around 1,400 arrests and recovering drugs and firearms. Meanwhile the suburban City of 1 Paramount was Cilcy by the Washington based National civic league As one of 10 a american cities for its efforts to defeat Street gangs. The police sweep conducted Friday and saturday nights throughout the City resulted in issuance of hundreds of Misdemeanour warrants seizures of Small quantities of drugs and impoundment of several Auto mobiles authorities said. Officers Alsto gathered intelligence filling out hundreds of Field identifications forms of suspected and known gang members for future reference. The actions Are nine air skirmishes in whal police chief Daryl Gates Calls a War in the Rotten Little and followed the release of a department report showing gang slay Ings had risen 20 percent this year. The Neil Timil civic i ague s Praise of Paramount a City Southeast of los Angeles noted that earlier this dec Ade the suburb was faced with Urban problems and a h High crime rate that put it on a list of 14 cities around the country labelled disaster Bui since then. 2,900 youths have participated in an alternative to gang membership program in six years and Only 15 were later identified by authorities As Pang members. Mock disaster two onlookers examine the muck up fusglujji.1 of a jetliner us Cit for a in Vic Asil lies on the Funt Uil Hall marketplace in Boston. The Model was used in let filming of a crash scene from second sight Jackson easing off demands that he be offered spot on ticket . I Imes news sen ire Jesse Jackson said sunday thai he does Noi want 10 push Michael s. Dukakis for inc vice presidency backing off from earlier remarks that he had earned an offer of the Job. Appearing on Nylic s Mecl the Jackson was asked if in was his View he should be offered the vice presidency after which he would decide w Helper to Lake it no i be not said that because i do not want to push Mike Dukakis to that Point he replied. It s not necessary. 1 made my Point very Clear. We arc not making Progress unless we take into account the new the Young the dynamic dimension of our party. Just to be considered seriously is a step in the right the Issue of the vice presidency has put Dukakis who has clinched the democratic nomination in a potentially difficult spol As he Iris to forge an accommodation with Jackson who will be going to the. Convention Najil month in Atlanta Wilh More than 1,100 delegates. Many democrats fear Hal having Jackson on the Lickel would assure ils defeat Jackson has been saying for weeks thai his Strong show ing through inc democratic nominating contests have earned him consideration for a place on the Tickel. Bui last monday night on the eve of the final four primaries he went further telling the new York times that he thought he had earned the option to be on the Lickel. The next night he Laid Cable news network in an off camera interview Hal he wanted to be vice president and planned to push Dukakis for an answer on whether he could be on inc ticket. On wednesday he told the los Angeles times that whal he had meant by deserving consideration was an offer to be the running mate. Ann Lewis a senior political adviser to Jackson said a close textual analysis of Jackson s statements on inc vice presidency was missing inc larger Point he was trying to make thai politicians should not dismiss him As a potential vice president As they had dismissed his presidential candidacy two years ago. He was in danger of becoming invisible again to everyone bul the Volcks Lewis said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 14, 19-18 president Truman called the soviet government s refusal to work Wilh ils wartime allies for world peace and recovery the Mosi bitter disappointment of our 30 years ago today. June 14, 1958 president Eisenhower proposed that the civil aeronautics administration be absorbed into a new Federal aviation Agency to meet the Chal Lenges of the Jet age. 20 years ago today., june a 1968 East German authorities slowed traffic to Berlin and warned that West Berlin faced More harassment unless West Germany recognized the German democratic Republic As a Sovereign stale. To years ago today. June in 1978 it was reported that president Carter had decided to name Bella Abzug co director of a new Federal advisory committee on women despite objections from his wife and daughter in Law
