Page 10-Wednesday, November 9, 1977-The Michigan Daily STORMS STRETCH ACROSS U.S. v Harsh weather dampens v 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 Ao APPLANCE CO. B1 0 S LL PRICE! Compact systems... everything engineered to work together. Some with basic features. Some are elaborate total sound centers with recording capability. All are packaged to save you the time and ; 1, . J>. : a t s i ; , a ' ; t i , . f ,3, ; ' 1 !. 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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. 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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. TUESDAY NIGHT, at approxi- mately 10 p.m., a 27-year-old woman. walking down the 700 block of S. First Street was grabbed from behind by a -n -- 1b1 nffrn nA f a . r i., fn n 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. 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