European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes sunday june 10,1990 heavy Rains prompt evacuations in Ohio Newark Ohio apr heavy Rains forced the temporary evacuation of up to 10.000 people saturday including 2,000 living near a Man made Lake where a retaining Wall was in danger of collapsing authorities said. But by midday the weather was improving. And officials said most residents would be Able to return Home later saturday. Gov. Richard Celeste visited Buckeye Lake after declaring Licking county in a state of emergency because of flooding and the threat of collapse of the Wall that partially surrounds the Lake. He said he would ask president Bush to declare Licking county a disaster area. Quot if that Wall goes that whole area is going to be underwater a Randy Spiker Deputy director of the Licking county disaster services Agency said earlier saturday. The evacuations in Licking county began shortly before Dawn. The National weather service said 2 inches to 4 inches of rain fell overnight in Central and North Central Ohio. About 50 Ohio National guard troops helped volunteers reinforce the Wall with sandbags and assisted with evacuations of about 2,000 residents of Buckeye Lake about 30 Miles East of Columbus. The state has been battered by heavy Rains since thursday. Weather service forecasters said rainfall could total 6 inches in some areas. Many areas were so soaked that any additional rainfall was sure to cause localized flooding the weather service said. Because of the Prospect of flooding at Buckeye Lake 12 Miles of interstate 70 were closed for a Short time saturday morning said Beverly Schell dispatcher at the Granville Post of the state Highway patrol. She said some exits remained blocked to All but emergency traffic. Three Small leaks were reported saturday morning in the earthen Wall that partially surrounds Buckeye Lake. While the fear that they would grow into larger leaks had ebbed by midday the situation would still be monitored authorities said. Edward l. Frank who manages the Lake for the Ohio department of natural resources said a if we had gotten the amount of water we expected around 3 a.m., life in these parts would have changed but Frank said he believed the Lake would maintain its present level and the Wall would withstand the pressure. The 3,400-acre Buckeye Lake covers parts of three Central Ohio counties. It was created in the 19th Century to hold water for the Ohio canal. About 2,000 residents of the town of Buckeye Lake were evacuated. In addition flooding forced the evacuation of about 3,000 people in South Newark who live near the Licking River and campers at a Racetrack authorities said. Spiker said As Many As 5,000 other county residents May have been displaced temporarily while others were on standby for possible evacuation orders. Several evacuation centers were set up around the county. Tornadoes and thunderstorms sparked localized flooding around Ohio. There were no reports of major damage but a Wayne county Man was missing and feared drowned after falling from a dam. The Friday night storms followed a round of heavy rain that caused Urban and Small Stream flooding Early in the morning and knocked out Power to thousands of customers. Celeste declared a state of emergency activating the Ohio National guard and summoning equipment from the Ohio department of transportation said press officer Stacy families merge Kerry Kennedy and Andrew Cuomo urday afternoon. The Bride is the wave to the crowd As they leave St daughter of the late sen. Robert Ken Matthews Cathedral in Washington Nedy and the grooms father is new d.c., following their wedding sat York gov. Mano Cuomo. Voters go to polls tuesday in state primaries by the associated press a White supremacist Battles a Black businessman in an Arkansas Runoff tuesday for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. In South Carolina two state senators compete for the democratic nomination to Challenge popular gop gov. Carroll Campbell. In North Dakota voters will decide whether to raise the sales tax for a year to bail out education and to oust labor commissioner Byron Knutson who is accused of mismanagement. His two challengers Are an old Friend and a rival not yet old enough to take office. In Arkansas Ralph Forbes a minister and former american nazi Leader won 46 percent of the vote in last months three Way primary for the gop nomination for lieutenant governor. Because he fell Short of a majority he was forced into a Runoff with the second place finisher Kenneth a a Muskie Harris the manager of a realty company who was a defensive Back for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team. Arkansas republicans including gubernatorial nominee Sheffield Nelson were embarrassed by Forbes Strong showing and quickly distanced themselves from him to endorse Harris who is Black. The gop lieutenant governors race had attracted Little attention before the primary in the heavily democratic state. Some in Arkansas attributed Forbes big vote to his name having been first on the ballot. The Winner of the Runoff will face Jim Guy Tucker an sex congressman who won a seven Way democratic primary. In South Carolina state Sens. Ernest Passailaigue and Theo Mitchell Are vying for the right to take on Campbell who is Only the second Republican governor in the state this Century. Mitchell who is hoping to become the state s first Black governor Calls Campbell a the worst governor of South Carolina in the 20th he said Campbell a catered to the wealthy and privileged at the expense of the working people the poor people the retired and North Dakota a initiative measure would push the sales tax up from 5 percent to 6 percent for a year raising an estimated $42 million. Most of that would go to elementary and secondary education making up for drastic cuts in the education budget imposed after voters rejected a series of tax increases last december. Knutson 60, is seeking his second four year term. Jackson says he sees racist a pattern Memphis Tenn. Up a civil rights Leader Jesse Jackson said saturday that a a a pattern of discrediting Black elected officials is developing in the United states similar to one that drove Blacks from office following reconstruction. A i say its a conspiracy but one can at least see a pattern Here. Not one of these people has been convicted but they keep investigating a said Jackson at a prayer breakfast sponsored by embattled rep. Harold Ford a Tenn. The two time democratic presidential candidate entered his remarks around Ford who is running for a ninth term but still faces political corruption charges first filed in 1987. Fords first trial ended april 27 in a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in the Case and prosecutors say they plan to retry the Case. A Why does this Harold Ford trial take on such National importance because there is a sense of history not hysteria. We remember what happened in the last Century Quot he said. A ten years after slavery ended the numbers of Black officials were growing rapidly a Jackson said. A but then the group of people who says we Are Only a Little higher than animals and a Little lower than people started their Campaign to disrupt discredit and destroy our leadership Quot he said. A it did not take very much to reinstall fear in Jackson listed highly publicized investigations of three Black Congress men a William Gray Ron Dellums and Gus Savage a which he said were fruitless. A Bill Gray was just a heartbeat away from speaker of the House at that time. Ron Dellums was the strongest advocate in Congress of reducing the military budget. Is it just Harold Ford a Jackson asked. A there have been All these discrediting leaks and investigations and not one conviction. But there has been just enough suggestion and the Power of suggestion has Power. The suggestion is a discrediting Assumption a he said. Ford 45, said the charges against him will not be a Campaign Issue in his majority Black District. Ford faces his strongest opposition in several years from state rep. Pam Gaia who said she plans to pin her Campaign on , he wins chief Justice Job Carson City Nev. A Justice John Mowbray called Heads and won a Coin toss to get the Job of chief Justice of the Nevada supreme court for the next two years. The chiefs Job is rotated every two years to a Justice with two years left in a six year term. Mowbray and Justice Charles Springer both were elected to their current terms in 1986, so a Coin toss was needed. Nevada a Constitution prescribes the practice. Cliff Young who will Complete a two year term As chief Justice in december tossed a 50-cent piece in the air and told Mowbray and Springer to Call it
