Page 10-Wednesday, November 9, 1977-The Michigan Daily
STORMS STRETCH ACROSS U.S.
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By The Associated Press dumped-the first snow of the season stretched across much of the nation: south from the Dakotas to Texas.
A fresh series of thunderstorms fur- over the Plains. The weather dam- a mixture of heavy rain with fog and
ther swamped the soaked Northeast pened voter turnout in scores of elec- drizzle extended east from the Great FLOODING snarled traffic and
yesterday, while a snowstorm blow- tions. Lakes to New England, while a commuter travel in the Northeast,
ing out of the Rocky Mountains Two bands of bad weather system of rain turning to snow ran and some residents of Staten Island
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in New York City had to be rescued
from flooded homes by boat. In the
West, snow also tied up traffic and
downed power lines. Schools were
closed in areas of Kansas and
Colorado, and two school buses
collided at Lakewood, Colo., but no
injuries were reported.
High winds, low ceilings or snow
caused airport delays in New York,
Chicago and Denver. A storm dam-
aged several small aircraft at Hous-
ton International Airport and snow
blocked radar signals and halted
landings for an hour.
But in Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia and most other parts of the
South, where nearly 50 persons died
in weekend flooding, skies ranged
from sunny to partly cloudy with no
significant rainfall reported.
IN NEW ENGLAND, where gale
warnings were in effect along most of
the coast, waves from Long Island
Sound strengthened by winds up to 50
m.p.h. destroyed a four-room beach
house at Stratford, Conn., and
washed the flooring ashore 1,500 feet
away.
Connecticut tides were one to two
feet above normal, the Weather Serv-
ice said, and more than nine-tenths of
an inch of rain had fallen by mid-day
yesterday at its station in Windsor
Locks.
Tides were up to two feet above
normal along Massachusetts beaches
and officials in rpany of the 34 cities
holding elections reported the rain
was apparently keeping voters at
home.
The storms forced a helicopter
carrying New Jersey Gov. Brendan
Byrne, who was on his way to vote in
his state's election, to make an emer-
gency landing on a nursery school
parking lot in East Brunswick.
IN NEW YORK CITY, where the
downpour began early Monday, near-
ly four inches of rain had fallen onto
flooded streets by mid-day yester-
day. The rain and high winds forced
closure of several highways leading
into the city and flooded subway
lines. Temporary power outages
were reported throughout the area.
The Catskill area of eastern New
York reported flooding and some
roads were washed out yesterday
after four inches of rain fell there in
24 hours.
In Wisconsin, where travelers ad-
visories were posted along all roads,
the body of a pilot was found early
yesterday in the wreckage of his
twin-engine airplane. Authorities
said it had crashed in fog near the,
Eagle River airport in the northern
part of the state.
Poor visibility also prompted the
trnout
posting of travelers advisories in
Alabama, northeast New Mexico, the
mountains of Colorado, eastern Wyom-
ing and western South Dakota.
Staff,
students.
checked
Ga. dam.
TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) - The
last inspection of the dam
above Toccoa Falls Bible Col-
lege was the subject of confu-
sion yesterday, but apparently
students and staff members
were the only" persons who
regularly checked it!
Kelly Barnes dam burst Sun-
day, letting the contents of its
reservoir roar over the falls
and onto the campus, killing at
least 38 people.
AN AIDE TO Gov. George
Busbee said yesterday morning
that the U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers had inspected the dam,
but the Corps denied it.
A visual inspection was made
"probably by the Corps," after
Toccoa Creek flooded in May
1976, Tom Perdue, the gover-
nor's administrative assistant
and on-the-scene representa-
tive, told a news conference.
The inspection indicated that
"the dam did not need repair,"
Perdue said.
"We have not inspected that
dam," a spokesperson for the
Corps of Engineers said when
asked about Perdue's com-
ment.
Perdue said later he was only
relaying information he had
gathered from other persons at
the disaster area, and admit-
ted it may have been wrong.
PERDUE SAID a team of
college students, led by David
Fledderjohann, who died in the
flood, had inspected the dam
only two hours before it broke,
and found it "as solid as a
rock."
The students and staff mem-
bers, Perdue said, probably
had no engineering training but
"the average person, I would
think, if he looked at a dam and
it was leaking, would know
something was wrong with it. If
it wasn't leaking, they'd figure
it was OK."
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Kenworthy: Let the dust
settle'
A tempted
abductions
reported
Two Ann Arbor women escaped ab-
duction in two separate incidents
Monday evening and yesterday mor-
ning.
According to police, yesterday's
attack was upon a 23-year-old woman
in the parking lot of the S. Industrial
St. A&P. The woman was in her car
about to leave the store, when arman
approached the car, jerked open the
door, and pointed what appeared to
be a sawed-off shotgun at her. The
woman screamed, and the man fled.
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By JULIE ROVNERI
As anxious as city 'officials
are to be donewith the recent invest-
ment scandal which rocked City Hall
and caused a temporary suspension
of Ann Arbor's bond rating, they are
not rushing to break the few remain-
ing ties with the investment firm
which helped cause the scandal in the
first place.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and
Smith' had sent the city a letter
asking to pay the city the balance of
what it was owed, just over $58,000,
and asked to be absolved, of any
further liability in the affair.
CITY COUNCIL voted unanimous-
ly Monday night to turn down the re-
quest, pending the completion of fur-
ther investigations, ,including investi-
gations by the post office and the
federal securities and exchange com-
mission.
"There's no reason for us to rush
into this," said Councilman Jamie
Kenworthy (D-Fourth Ward). I
think we should let some of the dust
settle first."
The scandal erupted when City
Accountant Marc Levin and a Merrill
Lynch broker entered into a number
of Arbitrage transactions with the
city's investment funds.
ARBITRAGE, an investment tech-
nique in which an investor uses one
security as collateral to purchase
another security in hopes of short
term gain, is illegal play for cities
under Michigan law.
Both Levin and the Merrill Lynch
broker have since been fired.
In other Council actions Monday
night, the Michigan Union was
granted a class C liquor license as
part of a plan to turn some of the
Union basement into a conference
center, but not without a repeat per-
formance of the argument which took
place before granting a, similar li-
cense to the League last month.
"IT'S FOOLISH for the city to
grant a license that puts direct
competition on private enterprise
which we are trying to encourage,"
said Roger Bertoia (R-Fourth
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