European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 7, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Strai levees worry flood victims to. A the water is subsiding in Many flood weary towns along the Mississippi. But danger and fear Are not As levees left standing � will be strained for weeks until the River goes Back to where it belongs. Cross your fingers and Pray to the Good lord it s going to hold said Mick Schwent emergency services chief in , where the levee held when the 49.5-foot Crest arrived thursday. For and Many communities fighting g flooding the Crest Means we can Start looking at the end of it Schwent said. But if the end Means water dropping below flood markers it will be a Long time coming. Flood stage in Ste. Gene Vieve about 60 Miles South of St. Louis is 24 feet and experts said it will be octo in the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 7,1983 Libya sent a Mes Sage to the . Security Council accusing the United states of provocations and warning that it was prepared to turn the disputed Waters of the Gulf of Sidra into a sea of 20 years ago aug. 7,1973 a former Fri chief said he is convinced that he alerted president Nixon sufficiently three weeks after the watergate break in that he Felt White House staffers were acting improperly and illegally. 30 years ago aug. 7,1963 the Senate in an 84-0 vote approved a $1.2 billion military pay raise Bill designed to encourage qualified officers and enlisted men to make a career of the military. 40 years ago aug. 7,1953 Allied War prison ers some desperately ill streamed to Freedom from the communist stockade of North Korea in the Sec Ond Day of the armistice Exchange. One South korean was dead on Arri Val. 50 years ago aug. 7,1943 . Army and Marine forces completed their take Over at the key Airfield of Munda new Georgia and began burying the 1,671 japanese troops killed in the final assault. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 7 1943 six . Navy destroyers intercept four japanese destroyers trying to ferry 820 soldiers to reinforce the Gam son on Kolom Angara Island just Northwest of new Georgia three japanese ships Are sunk. American ships begin Landing troops East of Sant Agata on Sicily s North coast. Bypassing a Ger pan Roadblock and opening the Road to Messina. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publisher inc. Wolf almanac Book of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a Ber before the water drops that much. Meanwhile the pressure is the Sameon the levee going Down As it was coming up and this could still be packed wit problems Schwent said. Three months of flooding in the mid West have contributed to 48 deaths and caused at least $12 billion in flooding has put summer on hold in this Community or about 4,100, founded in 1735 and renowned for the nation s largest collection of preserved French co Lonial architecture. The county fair was cancelled and Sowas a weekend band concert on the desert the Valle High school parking lot. Instead the lot remains a sandbag Ging Headquarters. Jour de fete one of the Midwest s largest crafts shows with 50,000 guests expected was scheduled for aug. 14-15 but now May not be held at All. The tourist season is just a Wash said Jean Rissover a City spokeswoman. On thursday sandbags cars helped plug leaks in the Earth and gravel levee which reaches to 52 feet in places. De Herbst of Ste. Genevieve dug into agile of Damp Sand while his wife Lou eld open Burlap sacks. What s at stake not Only the town and the historic houses but Alt that hard work that so Many people have put in he said. We feel like we re getting closet the end and we hate to Sec anything happen to the levee when we re almost Home across the River in Prairie do ,iii., population 600, residents were still dry after undertaking an aggressive an dangerous Effort to Wencloff floodwaters by cutting and dynamite no a levee. That opened a giant drainage Hole for water to go Back into the for a few leaks other levees protecting the town were holding and floodwaters were receding. We be won a temporary Battle in War said town trustee Robbie Aubuchon. But we be got a month to go be fore it s below flood in St. Louis the dropping Mississippi lessened fears about the sandbagged in vacs but 10,000 people remained shutout of their Homes because of the danger of an explosion in propane tanks that were dislodged by the floodwaters. Officials have not decided How Best to empty the tanks. Explosives carrying Man blown up after gun bomb rampage killed 1 Topeka Kan. A a Small Tim drug dealer got off a courthouse elevator thursday firing guns and tossing pipe bombs before he was killed by explosives strapped to his body. A Security guard with terminal cancer was killed in the attack and five other people were wounded. Jack Gary Mcknight 37, had been _ scheduled for sentencing later in the Dayan May have been Bent on suicide by cop when he stormed the fran Carlson Federal building Fri agent Brian Carroll said Mcknight was fac ing up to 40 years in prison and a $2 Mil lion Fine. Carrying two handguns Mcknight travelled to the fourth floor by Eleva Mcknight Tor. When the doors opened he began fir ing and lobbing bombs that caused at least three explosions the Fri said. Mcknight killed 61-year-old guard Gene l. Goldsberry shooting him at Point Blank Range the Fri said. Golds Berry an employee of the . Marshal s office had been a bodyguard for former gov. George Docking three decades ago. The gunman also wounded two Morrow 37, of Junction City was listed in fair condition Friday while Dana anole s condition was not Dis closed. About an hour after the rampage began explosives strapped to Mcknight s body went off perhaps accidentally inthe clerk s office Carroll said. Three women employees of the office were wounded by the blast and were listed in satisfactory condition Friday. Authorities did not know until about six hours after the blast that the Man was dead. About nine people spent the Tim hiding in locked offices. Law enforcement officials in Topeka Kan., Lake aim thursday at the Federal building where a gunman was holed up with handguns and pipe bombs. Carroll said the motive for the attack was unclear but he noted we be experienced a phenomenon in Law enforce ment of suicide by earlier in the Day Mcknight blew Aphis pickup truck outside the Jefferson county courthouse in Oskaloosa authorities said. He then drove to Topeka and blew up his car in the Federal build ing parking lot apparently to create a diversion they said. Mcknight had worked for the Santa be Railroad for 15 years the last 12 in the accounting department he had pleaded guilty to Possession of marijuana with in tent to sell and illegal use of a firearm in drug trafficking. Mom s Fate weighed in molester killing Sonora Calif. A a child molester slain in a courtroom probably de served to die but that does t excuse the Mother accused in the Case of the coldblooded murder a prosecutor told jurors. The jury began deliberations thursday on a murder charge against Ellis f Nesler 41. Nesler is accused of shooting Daniel Mark Driver As he sat shackled at a hear ing on charges that he molested four boys including Nesler s son. Driver a convicted child molester was a dishwasher at the Camp attended by the boy then 7. Nesler pleaded innocent and innocently reason of temporary insanity. Prosecutor to Graves reminded jurors in closing arguments of Nesler s Calm shortly before the april 2 shooting he walk across a courtroom with a gun in her hand and the rapid succession of six shots five of which struck Driver 35, in the head and probably said Good. He s dead. He deserved to die " Graves acknowledged. But she urged jurors to use reason As Well As compassion. Empathy should never encompass coldblooded murder Graves said. Nesler s attorney Tony Serra told jurors that his client who wept As he spoke was not evil. How could she have cold blood he asked in his closing argument. Her blood is still hot the Protection claims Nesler planned the shooting for More than two years. The defense Sak she did t plan the shooting but snapped when it appeared that Driver would be freed
