European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday december 20,1989 the stars and str Arctic storm brings record cold to by the associated press a storm carrying sleet and ice swept from Canada into the deep South in a preview of Winter that cracked Century old temperature records across the mid West monday and clogged the Missouri River with a 75-mile ice Jam. The bitter weather closed schools from Mississippi to Michigan and forecasters said no change was in sight. The cold is being caused by a horse shoe shaped now of air that follows the West coast up to Alaska chills put and plunges Down through Canada into the East and Midwest. It s simply a pipeline that carries. The cold air southward said de Ferguson Deputy director of the Federal government s severe storms forecast Cen Ter in Kansas City. And by southward. I mean All the Way to the Gulf of from Central Mississippi o the Caro Linas southerners awoke to a Yankee Vista of freezing rain and sleet that made driving hazardous and was blamed for at least one traffic death. Hundreds of schools were closed. The National weather service said As much As an Inch of sleet and freezing rain covered North and Central Georgia before Dawn. The freezing rain extended As far South As Savannah. Ice on interstate 85 near Atlanta apparently contributed to an Auto crash in which Atlanta Falcons tight end Brad Beckman was killed authorities said. At least 19 deaths around the nation were blamed on weekend s cold. Among those deaths were two Young Tulsa okla., girls who apparently were playing with a makeshift sled sunday when they plunged through thin ice on a Lake. Two homeless people died of Hypoth Ermia while sleeping in new York City subway stations. One weekend hypothermia death in Chicago brought to 10 the number of people who have died from exposure in the municipal area so far this Winter said a spokeswoman for the Cook county medical examiner s office. A school bus carrying 43 children thang Nguyen steams away the ice and Snow from his car resulting from a 105-year-old record 7 below Zero at Columbus Ohio. Crashed into a station Wagon on a Slipp Ery Highway monday near Shapleigh Maine. None of the children was seriously Hurt officials said. Monday s cold broke dec. 18 records More than a Century old in Columbus Ohio where it was minus 7 in Pitts Burgh where it also was 7 below and in Detroit where it was minus 3. Other records included Parkersburg w.va., at 4 degrees Cincinnati at 3 below fort Wayne. Ind., and Cleveland at minus 5 and Youngstown Ohio at minus 8. Good night it s been unreal said Pam Decker co owner of Decker s wrecker service in Boonville ind., which was besieged with Calls about stalled and wrecked cars As Well As jump starting dead or dying car batteries. The Missouri River turned to ice for a stretch of about 75 Miles Between Blair neb., just North of Omaha and Sioux City Iowa according to the National weather service. The ice Jam had begun late Friday and grew Over the weekend. Officials feared that the ice flow could cause problems for communities that pump water from the River. Weather service hydrologist Roy Osugi saw no Hope for a thaw soon. Nothing is going to bust it up except warmer weather Osugi said. We think it s going to stay in place at least this week because it s going to stay very in St. Joseph mo., officials activated a new emergency pump As a precautionary measure to keep water flowing to the City. There were similar problems in the town of Monroe mich., where 55,000 water customers were asked to conserve. Workers cleared a Frozen intake valve that was also clogged with Lake Erie Zebra mussels a non native species which has no natural predators and i proliferating in the Lake. In Crooksville Ohio officials declared a water emergency after a series of Watermain Breaks Over the weekend. Parts of the Small town had been without service for three Days. The cold also was the Likely cause of break in a 4-Inch pipe that let water surge through All 12 floors of a new Hospital at Ohio state University in Columbus causing at least $1 million damage and delaying its scheduled Jan. 16 opening said Osu vice president Richard Jack son. Calif police seize cocaine 7 under arrest by the los Angeles times Anaheim Calif. Anaheim police announced monday the confiscation of 2.5 tons of cocaine valued in excess of $100 million and the arrest of seven suspected drug traffickers. The cocaine was seized at several locations in los Angeles and Orange counties Over the weekend in a joint operation with other Law enforcement agencies Anaheim police it Vince Howard said. The stash of cocaine was found in a House and in several vehicles according to Howard. Acting on a tip Anaheim police initiated the investigation Over a period of a week in a Case that also involved the Federal drug enforcement Agency the san Bernardino county sheriffs depart ment Huntington Beach police and the California Bureau of narcotics. The suspects several of them identified As colombian or cuban nationals living in the United states were arrested at various locations in both counties saturday and sunday Howard said. They were identified As Guillermo Fernandez,37, of Florida Eduardo Alvarez 31, of new York Ramon Quitana 38, of new Jersey Jose Bermu Dez Sosa 42, of new Jersey Jair Dejesus Mejia 29, of Reseda Calif Hornan Aristizabal 39, of Florida and Cabin Rodriguez 42, of Whittier Calif. In efs Hod Moon Plons of . Scene Sis is Boston a Twenty years after the United states put men on the Annc the soviets have admitted they raced to get there no . Scientists say. The Massachusetts Institute of sch ology released photographs of a Landing Craft and a a Dule built but never used to put cosmonauts one Moon and bring them Back to Earth. The pictures were taken last month by . Anau tics engineers who were shown the equipment Louring the Moscow aviation Institute. We Are almost positive that we arc the first West a criers to have seen this said Edward f. Crawle Mit. While Many believed that the soviets Raj fated to reach the Moon first the russians Long Enid that they were in the race. What s newsworthy is they admitting that they were trying to get to the Moon. They always denied it said Lee at the National aeronautics and space adn duration in Washington. The soviets first acknowledged the lunar program in october when the jump apr pravda published an interview with Vaseur. Mishin its chief designer. The soviets of the american professors that the spacecraft a Ady to Fly the year before the . Apollo 11 Roj Hion reached the Moon in 1969. But the project a abandoned because of difficulty perfecting the Rock rooster that would have carried some of the equipment into space. The americans said the equipment resembled the . Landing Craft except Jar two major details the soviet setup require dam rockets rather than one to carry it into space a affix would have carried one Man rather than two Tore lunar surface. The americans were shown the equipment by their Moscow Hoff to Fessor Oleg Alifano. The americans five inn Mit and one from the California Institute were in the soviet Union to help set pan Exchange program with the soviet aerospace mute. Crawly said the soviets showed a mixture of Pride hat they had built it and sorrow that they had never go it and concern that no one had Ever heard about it am scans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first set foot on the Moon on july 20. 1969. The Era ended twice years later when Apollo 17 astronauts made the Sixl and final lunar Landing. The americ Airaid the soviets told them the lunar Lander pan of the of lesion was ready to go in 1968, and they were under Pressie to hurry because of the Apollo successes. However a i Acks in the development of the soviet s n1 Booster to fact delayed the Mission. They said the Moon Prown was put on hold in 1972 and cancelled two years liter. The soviets the gave priority to their space . The americans saw the soviet Elj Ament on nov. 27. Mit released photos sunday. The americans said the soviet Landing Shaft com plete with extendable Landing legs was designs suchlike the . Version
