European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 22, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5new storms bring More woes to Arkansas by the associated press Flash floods turned streets into Rivers in hot Springs ark., and pushed lakes out of their Banks sweeping away cars and stranding residents of Lake front Homes on rooftops in yet another onslaught of High water. The flooding followed thunderstorms saturday afternoon. By sunday morning up to a foot of rain and High winds brought More woes to Central Arkansas. The water was receding by late morning revealing extensive damage along hot Springs Central business District authorities said. A cars have been completely immersed and washed away. We be got a lot of shops and stores that Are flooded a said Michael Mccormick of the police. The new floods brought misery to a different part of the Region. Earlier rampages along the Arkansas Trinity and red Rivers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and killed 13 people in the past three weeks in Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and Louisiana. Floodwaters continued to surge through Southern segments of that Region sunday. Floods eased in Missouri Kansas Illinois and Indiana. At least two people died in Illinois and authorities searched for a Missouri woman missing in flooding there last week. In some parts of hot Springs the water Rose As High As the tops of parking meters. The storms dumped up to 12 inches of rain in Garland and hot Spring counties saturday night and Early sunday. The National weather service said 2 feet of water was pouring Over the top of Remmel dam at Lake Catherine. The storms also brought four tornadoes including a twister that destroyed one Home damaged another and destroyed a barn in nearby Conway county. No injuries were reported. Hail pelted a number of Central Arkansas counties. Floodgates at Remmel and Carpenter dams upstream on Lake Hamilton were opened fully to release water from the lakes into the ouachita River. Residents of Low lying areas in Garland county left their Homes and sought shelter at a National guard armory and churches said Ralph Lee of the Garland county office of emergency services. A the hardest hit areas Are the ones closest to the David Carter wrings out clothing he retrieved saturday from his Home near Romayor Texas in Liberty county. Lakes a Lee said. A a lot of the lakefront Homes have been evacuated. The ones who waited too late Are on top of their residents were still being rescued from rooftops by boat sunday morning. The floods caused Power outages throughout hot Springs and washed away a landmark 90-Ycar-old Iron Bridge and at least eight other area Bridges. Gov. Bill Clinton declared Garland county a state disaster area after inspecting flood damage in hot Springs making assistance available to victims there. The county was also added along with Clay county to a Federal disaster declaration covering 20 other counties hit by flooding said Ray Briggler of the state office of emergency services. In Southeastern Texas tempers began flaring in flooded communities along the Trinity River where sheriffs deputies were keeping an Eye on joyrides in boats and recreational study links passive smoke to heart disease new York apr non smokers who live with smokers have a 20 percent to 30 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease than do other non smokers a researcher said sunday. A passive smoking causes heart disease and the number of deaths due to heart disease is 10 times the number due to cancer a said Stanton Glantz of the University of California san Francisco. In remarks presented sunday at the world conference on lung health in Boston Glantz said research is beginning to show exactly How cigarette smoke alters the heart blood and arteries to increased the heart disease risk. Glantz presented a study in which he reviewed other research on the subject. In his 1986 annual report on smoking and health the . Surgeon general concluded that passive smoking causes lung cancer in non smokers. At that time the evidence was insufficient to link passive smoking with heart disease the report said. Newer studies have changed that Glantz said. A the evidence that passive smoking causes heart disease is stronger today than the evidence was in 1986 that passive smoking caused lung cancer a Glantz said. Glantzis study follows one week after the environmental Protection Agency said it will soon declare environmental tobacco smoke a known Carcinogen. The Epa concluded that passive smoking causes 3,000 cases of lung cancer a usually fatal disease per year. Glantz said passive smoking also causes 32,000 heart disease deaths per year. Glantz is a researcher and statistician who conducts research in cardiology has written two textbooks on Bio statistics and serves on the California state scientific review panel on toxic air contaminants. His Collaborator in the study or. William Parmly is a cardiologist chief of the division of cardiology at University of California san Francisco and a past president of the american College of cardiology. The tobacco Institute which represents cigarette makers said the surgeon general had failed to find proof that passive smoking causes heart disease. Brennan Dawson a spokeswoman for the Institute said that there have been Only three studies since the surgeon general a 1986 report a and they continue to support the conclusions that there is no proven link Between passive smoking and heart disease. Glantz disagreed. A there Are now 11 studies of the effects of passive smoking on heart disease deaths in non smokers he said. A fall but one the tobacco Industry funded show an increased the individual studies show increased risks of Between 20 percent and 30 percent. Furthermore he said a a there a evidence from several areas that passive smoking reduces the ability of the heart to obtain and profit from Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke binds with haemoglobin in the blood reducing its capacity to carry oxygen Glantz said. The smoke also reduces the ability of cells in the heart to convert oxygen to a chemical called Adenosine Tri phosphate or at which provides Energy to the heart he said. A what you end up with is the blood does no to carry oxygen Well. The heart does t pump As Well a he Saul. A and what oxygen gels to the heart Isnit used As one consequence of that a which can be measured a is that people exposed to second hand smoke can t exercise As Long he said. That is True of both healthy non smokers and non smokers with heart disease he of time in the stars and stripes40 years ago today. May 22, 1950 a the state department struck Back at sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy r-wis., accusing him of lying and charging he attributed a statement to j. Edgar Hoover which the Fri director did not make. Undercover agents told to just say a not 30 years ago today a Al a v o i Oak a los Angeles apr undercover officers who went to High school campuses to buy drugs this year say they ran into something never encountered before students who told them to just say no. All eight Young officers who posed As High school students on nine los Angeles campuses last semester ran into at least some students who advised them against using drugs police chief Daryl Gates said. Officer Sonia Caballero added that some students she approached about buying drugs even told her they done to like to associate with people who Are users. Gates said that was the first time in the 17-year history of the departments twice a year High school drug buy program that Ever happened. He said he Hopes it Means the tide May be turning against drug use among los Angeles High school students. A i feel we Are moving toward winning our War on drugs on the campuses a he said. Gates said police made about 165 purchases from 139 dealers at the nine High schools. He said 120 arrests have been made so far with More anticipated. Nearly $10,000 Worth of drugs including Ltd amphetamines and Psilocybin was seized. Gates said As Many As 300 buys would routinely be made during a semester in the 1970s, when Campus drug use appeared to be at its height. But he acknowledged that buys May be Down in part because students have become More careful because the word is out that undercover a in arcs haunt their campuses. May 22, 1960 a a devastating earthquake struck a 180-Square mile area around the City of Concepcion Chile. Officials said at least 143 persons were dead.20 years ago today. May 22, 1970 a president Nixon asked Congress for a special $500 million school desegregation fund with the bulk ticketed for Southern school districts in the throes of eliminating dual systems.10 years ago today. May 22, 1980 a an estimated 5,000 travellers stranded by the shutdown of Ash clogged highways and airports jammed shelters across Washington As the death toll from the devastating eruption of mount St. Helens climbed to 10
