The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVI, No. 65-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, August 11, 1976 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Ford continues VP search WASHINGTON ('} - The list of po- tential running mates known to be un- der consideration by President Ford ex- panded yesterday to include 12 men and one woman. Three of the 13 rejected, with varying degrees of firmness, the possibility of filling the second spot on the Republi- can ticket this fall. A FOURTH who says the White House asked him for personal information has said in the past he may be constitution- ally ineligible for the job. Seven senators, two Cabinet members, two governors and two ambassadors have acknowledged that the White House has asked for health and financial infor- mation on them as part of Ford's screening process. The only woman known to be on Ford's list, the U. S. ambassador to Great Britain, Anne Armstrong, has been asked to provide information on herself by the White House, an embassy spokesman said yesterday in London. U. N. Ambassador William Scranton also said through a spokesman yester- day that he had been contacted by the White House over the weekend. Although the Ford search began late last week, Sens. Lowell Weicker of Con- necticut and James Buckley of New York said yesterday they had been con- tacted Monday night by White House aides asking for background informa- tion. Others who have said they have been contacted by the White House include Treasury Secretary William Simon, Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, Sens. Charles Percy of Illinois, Howard Bakqr of Tennessee, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, William Brock of Ten- See FORD, Page 10 East mops up after Belle NEW YORK (A)-Thousands of Long Island- ers who fled from the path of Hurricane Belle returned to their homes yesterday as the first hurricane to hit the metropolitan New York area in 16 years played itself out over New England. Three persons were reported killed by the storm, and several others died Monday and Tuesday in storm-related traffic accidents. Barbara Chamberlain, 32, and her son Rus- sell, 7, were killed when the footbridge they were crossing near their Huntington, Vt., home was swept away by a rain-swollen branch of the Huntington River. Carol Mayer, 19, was killed when she was hit by a falling tree inthe eastern Long Island town of Wading River. ALONG THE storm's path, officials were try- ing to estimate the damage wrought by Belle, one of the worst hurricanes to hit the North- east since Hurricane Donna killed 36 persons in 1960. Belle had been moving up the East Coast for three days with winds up to 110 miles per hour, sending high winds and waves ashore from the Carolinas northward. The powerful heart of the storm finally went ashore for the first tite early Tuesday morning on Long Island, but its winds had dropped from 110 m.p.h. to 90 m.p.h. Enroute a pthe coast, portions of the storm flooded coastal highways and towns in New Jersey, caused millions of dollars damage in beach erosion in that state and sent coastal residents fleeing inland. ON LONG ISLAND, which felt the brunt of the storm, damage was reported lighter than anticipated. But roads and basements were flooded, small boats were smashed and power lines and trees were downed by the fierce winds. Power was out at one time or another for more than half -million persons. New York Gov Hugh Carey requested an estimate of damage to determine if Long Island should be classified a disaster area. "We are extremitely fortunate that the storm started to come apart just before it reached See EAST, Page 10 Saline Rodeo fans thrill to Saturday night at the frontier By STU McCONNELL Imagine a dusty arena in a small farm town, filled with families, old men with cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and dozens of bug-eyed youngsters in oversize straw Stetson hats. The gates of the ring swing open and in rides a brace of cowgirls wearing green- sequined Western outfits and carrying the U.S. flag. They look like the cavalry from the last ten minutes of an old movie, except that the fenced-in arena forces them to ride in circles. JUST AS THE patriotic barrage begins to bore the kids, who are trying to get a look at the cowboys and the fidgety bucking horses, the cowgirls ride into the sunset and the real rodeo show _.. bareback riding, calf roping, steer wrestling-- begins. Such was the scene at the Saline Rodeo Sat- urday night,- and the swaggering cowboys and ornery streets gave everyone a chance to ex- perience part of the myth that is the American West "I guess everybody sort wants to be a cowboy," said Jim Zineer, whose J Bar J Ranch provided the stock for the show. /inzer, a rtle man who chews tobacco and talks in a psrposeftlly sli w manner, used to ride bulls in the rodeo, on event which ac- counts for more injuries than any other Now he raises rodeo stock. "A HORSE HAS gotta want to buck," he said. "You cAn use a flank strap-it doesn't See SALINE, Page 5 JEAN RIVARD, a victim of Hurricane Belle, is carried by firemen from her North Adams, Mass. home on a chair Tuesday. Water from the flooded Hoosac River appeared like- ly to pour into her house at any minute, as winds up to 100 m.p.h. tore up the eastern coastline.