European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Wednesday july 13,1994rising River unleashes tide of fear Bainbridge a. Apr worry and hard work accompany this Mudd Brown tide. Ahead of the advancing floods that have already killed 28 people in Georgia More than a third of Bain Bridges a 12,000 residents have abandoned their Homes waiting anxiously to see what damage the rising Flint River will leave. _ a some of them Are scared. Some of them Are asking a when am i going to be Able to go Home what s going to happen to my belongings a a Dewey Robinson who is running four salvation army shelters in Bainbridge said  predict the Flint will Crest thursday at a record 20 feet above flood stage. The River was already 10 feet above flood stage monday. State troopers patrolled neighbourhoods and military police set up barricades near the River hoping to prevent More deaths from Quot the flooding spawned a week ago by tropical storm Alberto. A no one passes. If you do you re liable to get a knot in your head. They re not playing around a said Dennis mock assistant fire chief. About 175,000 people remained without drinking water tuesday in Georgia. The red Cross said at least 7,500 families were displaced. Preliminary damage estimates have not been made. But agricultural damage alone could reach $100 million with about 300,000 acres of peanuts tobacco peaches and other crops underwater officials said. The flood also affected nearly 4,000 residents downriver in the Florida Panhandle where people were told to boil water and where Oyster harvesting was suspended because of High Levels of bacteria in Apalachicola Bay. Leola Hayes was one of about 200 people at the largest Bainbridge shelter. She said she had to leave her House thursday and. Hasni to heard whether the water has gone inside. A i keep praying that it does t make it in there a she said. Joyce Stewart was in no hurry to return Home. She a afraid Shell find snakes and maybe an Alligator inside when the floodwaters finally recede. A i plan to stay out at least a week before going Back if there is anything to go Back to a Stewart said. South of town National guard troops and jail inmates were building a 10-foot earthen Dike at a fertilizer Plant to shield a tank containing 9 million pounds of Rex Floyd armed with an automatic Rifle keeps an Eye on his flooded rental property monday in Blountstown Fla. Floodwaters have surged South into the Florid amp Panhandle. Dry  chemical reacts violently with water and can be poisonous if inhaled. The 200-foot-tall tank was expected to be surrounded by 5 feet of water when the River crested. Plant owner Vigoro industries said Steps were being taken to ensure safety if the Dike failed. In Albany 50 Miles Northeast of Bainbridge the Flint finally began to recede Early monday and some of the 30,000 people in the area who fled last week returned to their waterlogged Homes. Traffic was bumper to bumper along a 100-mile route around the town which remained Cut in two by the Flint River Early tuesday. All roads connecting the East and West sides of the River were underwater. Heaps of soggy furniture clothing and debris have begun appearing in neighbourhoods North of the floods. On Kerrigan Portland Ore. A the Par time bodyguard who admitted plotting to injure figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was sentenced monday to iv2 years in prison by a judge who called him stupid. Shawn Eckardt who worked occasionally As a bodyguard for rival skater Tonya Harding told cohorts they would get Rich running a bodyguard service for figure skaters worried about their safety after the Kerrigan attack. Quota emr. Eckardt you have become a very Well known person a circuit judge Philip Abraham said before pronouncing sentence. A there Are adjectives that can be added to your name something like infamous notorious greedy dishonest even  before he left the courtroom in Handcuffs Eckardt made an unsuccessful attempt to delay the sentencing fired his attorney and lashed out verbally at a prosecutor. A Eckardt who will turn�?~27 on monday a pleaded guilty to racketeering May 3. The charge carries a maximum Penally of 20 years in prison. At the same time co defendants Shane slant and Derrick Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second degree assault. Of robber s withdrawals Shawn Eckardt. Deemed stupid by judge they and Harding a former husband Jeff Gillooly have admitted they conspired to injure Kerrigan to Knock her out of the . Figure skating championships in Detroit. The plan was to Clear the Way for Harding to win the championship securing a spot on the olympic team a a Kerrigan was struck above the right knee Jan. 6. Two Days later with Kerrigan out of the Competition Harding won the title and went on to finish eighth in the olympics. Kerrigan won the Silver medal. Harding last month was stripped of her title by the . Figure skating association. A slant the hit Man and Smith his Uncle who drove the getaway car began their 18-month prison sentences immediately after entering their pleas. Seattle a Quot Date 4-3-86. Day thurs. State county City Texas Collin Plano. Location first to. Savings. Net catch $8,500.�?� and so it went through All 56 entries in a meticulous Handwritten log kept by one of the most successful Bank robbers in . History the Fri says. According to court documents Johnny Madison Williams or. Has confessed to robbing 56 Banks in Texas California and Washington state Over eight years often with the help of his wife. They were arrested saturday at a suburban Seattle Motel following Anonymous tips stemming from a Story about Williams on a san Diego to news program. The Man the Fri dubbed a the shoot Isth a for his habit of firing shots into the air at the Start of his thefts a once got $43,500 for a Days work. Sometimes he left empty handed. His total take As recorded on the neatly printed two Page log that agents found among his belongings $879,357. Williams arrest ends the longest unsolved string of Bank robberies Ever investigated by the Fri said Roberta Bur roughs an Agency spokeswoman in Seattle. A the is by far the most calculating and surgical Bank robber in the past second half of the 20th Century a said officer Louis Quezada spokesman for the police in san Jose calif., where the Sho Otist struck three times. Williams and his wife Carolyn both 43, Are charged with four counts of Bank robbery and one count of use of a firearm during a crime of violence. All the charges Are in connection with four holdups in Washington state. The couple was jailed pending a hearing thursday. Each faces up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 Fine on every Bank robbery count. Taking a bite out of escapes Charleston , a inmate Robert Shepard used dental floss to escape. Now prison officials have an answer they Hope will prevent other in nates from doing the same razor wire. On june 29, Shepard escaped after braiding the dental floss to the thickness of a Telephone Cord. He sealed an 18-foot Fence in the South Central regional jails recreation Yard and remains at Large. Dental floss sales at the jail have been suspended. As a result  escape a state Agency voted monday to place razor wire above the recreation areas in its four regional jails at a Cost of $9,000 per jail said Duke Bloom a member of the state regional jail and correctional facility authority. V