European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5more residents flee floods in Texas la. By the associated press flooding forced More residents of Low lying areas in Texas and Louisiana to pack up and leave sunday and county jail prisoners and volunteers Laboured to reinforce levees with sandbags in Arkansas. A steady downpour in Louisiana flooded streets throughout the new Orleans area. Record flooding continued in Texas where 7,000 people have been urged to leave Low communities along the Trinity River. The swollen red River put pressure on levees in Arkansas and its flood Crest threatened Louisiana communities. The leading Edge of the flood Crest on the Trinity reached Lake Livingston North of Houston sunday and Liberty county officials said water was pouring Over the reservoirs spillway at More than twice the Normal rate and was expected to double by tuesday. Downstream at the town of Liberty Northeast of Houston John Burch and his family prepared to flee. A it hit us hard last year and its going to be worse this year a said Burch 32. A last year i lost my Home and in be got my trailer 3 feet higher than it was last year but i expect to lose it  in Oklahoma flood victims began returning to their Homes. Along the Texas Oklahoma Border on the headwaters of the red River Only one Highway in the Lake Texoma area remained closed sunday. The Lake which had dropped nearly 5 feet by sunday had crested about 27 feet above Normal and flooded Homes and Cabins and Lakeshore recreation facilities. In southwestern Arkansas Miller a Man and his daughter await Rescue atop their flooded car in Shreveport la. A county prisoners joined volunteers and county personnel in sandbagging operations near the red River City of Garland. Quot the levee had two major leaks Friday and saturday but they be been repaired and they Are expected to  said Gary Talley of the state office of emergency services. The red River at Garland was expected to Rise a half foot or More because of heavy rain in the area saturday. Talley said. If the levee Breaks about 250 to 300 Homes would be affected he said. In neighbouring Hempstead county a National guard Barge helped feed and evacuate stranded cattle. In northeastern Texas just North of Texarkana authorities said the threat from the red River had eased and said the area would be out of danger by tuesday or wednesday if no More rain fell. But Texarkana civil defense spokesman Norman Greer said Between 50 and 100 National guardsmen continued sunday to inspect the levees which were waterlogged and precariously soft. A a we re not letting anybody walk on them because the least Little thing can set them to rolling a Greer said. Downstream on the red River in Louisiana. Up to 600 Square Miles of land is expected to be hooded and up to a third of that will be Farmland. Sen. Bennett Johnston d-la., said sunday. Quot it will be a major agricultural disaster. It la be a flood event such As we have not experienced since 1945.�?� he said after meeting with army dips of engineers officials. The River will flood Winter wheat Fields ready for Harvest and soybean Fields will be too wet to Plant until june at least Johnston  May have been Purdy High s last dance Purdy to. Apr Purdy High school students danced to Rock a no Roll music at their weekend prom but the school sponsored event May have been the last one. The school Board in this Ozark town of some 900 people is scheduled to meet monday and could discuss its ban on dancing which the . Supreme court upheld last month. On saturday night about 50 juniors and seniors at Purdy High school and their dates wearing tuxedos and party dresses travelled to nearby Monett for their prom. The theme was a hold onto the  the event had been scheduled before the supreme court ruling and the Board had promised students it  cancel their plans regardless of How the court ruled. It was the last of four dances held since a lower Federal court overturned the ban. The event at an enclosed Park Pavilion included a banquet and a dance. After the prom some students enjoyed pizza and Bowling at a local Bowling Alley. The faculty was invited and Many school Board members attended with their spouses said physical education teacher Becky Woods who attended. The supreme court ruling ended efforts by 21 students and parents who sued four years ago to try to overturn the ban which has divided students and residents. The supreme court rejected arguments that Purdys ban was religiously motivated and violated the separation of Church and state. Opponents say they Hope the school Board will voluntarily lift the ban but officials have declined to discuss the Issue. School Board president Glenn Garrett and member Alan Keeling reached at their Homes sunday refused to comment and school superintendent Sheldon Buxton would not respond to repeated Telephone Calls seeking comment. The ban on dancing at Purdy High which has an enrolment of about 240. Paralleled the film  the movie concerned a fight in a Small town Between Young people and City fathers who thought dancing sinful and immoral. Cops say Navy computer expert ran 39-state male prostitute ring fort Wayne ind. Apr investigators have uncovered a 39-state male prostitution ring they say was run by a now deceased Navy computer expert who advertised via an electronic network and in homosexual magazines. The ring was organized by James William Dayton a computer scientist at the naval avionics Center in Indianapolis. Dayton a death of a heart attack March 16 enabled authorities to crack the ring Marion county prosecutor Steve Goldsmith told the Roumal Gazette. At least 50 prostitutes and 300 patrons Are involved police estimate. No arrests have been made. The rings clients and prostitutes included Indianapolis banking executives a Cincinnati priest and a Marion county police officer the paper reported sunday. The network Drew clients and prostitutes from 39 states two Canadian provinces South Korea and Guam investigators said. Goldsmith called it the largest prostitution ring he a seen describing it As  t police had suspected Dayton 44, of being involved in illegal sexual behaviour As Early As 1981. They began a 1985 investigation into an alleged prostitution ring which had come to series of dead ends. A it was extremely difficult to infiltrate. It had built in barriers a said Indianapolis police spokesman Andrew Stoner. When Dayton died in a Tiffin Ohio bed and breakfast hotel after having sex with a Man who wanted to join the network As a prostitute it provided new leads that permitted police to crack the Case they said. Jim Browning the Seneca county sheriffs detective who investigated Dayton a death searched his car and found 140 pages of computer generated Job applications for two Gay escort services. Also discovered were names addresses and phone numbers of men and photos of nude and partially clothed men. Browning notified Indianapolis police who obtained warrants to search Dayton a Indianapolis apartment. There they found evidence of an intricate computerized system for Matching male clients with male prostitutes. Don Smith a computer expert at Indiana univer sity Purdue University in Indianapolis helped police break the codes to get Access to that network. He deduced that Dayton had used the computer sign on Blue boy and was the owner operator of Gay escort services Muscles Usa and Muscles Midwest. With Dayton dead Goldsmith said investigators will target the  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 15, 1950 a the state department in a heavily documented report accused sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy r.-wis., of a misstatements Quot and Quot inaccuracies Quot in his charges that the government was overrun with communists.30 years ago today. May 15, 1960 a Fidel Castro disclosed that cuban naval Craft fired on a . Submarine operating olt cubans coast.20 years ago today. May 15, 1970 a the Senate debated the . Military move into Cambodia after its foreign relations committee warned that the nation could find itself fighting a seemingly endless War in Southeast asia.10 years ago today. May 15, 1980 a the . Campaign to enlist support for its Boycott of the Moscow olympics was dealt a severe blow when the French olympic committee voted to participate in the games. A committee spokesman said the vote was unanimous and based strictly on sports considerations not on politics