The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 22, 1980-
Second
major
storm in
week hits
Michigan
By United Press International
A second major storm in less than a
week lashed Lower Michigan late Sun-
day and yesterday, creating new
problems for utility company crews
still working overtime to restore power
to thousands of blacked-out homes and
businesses.
Winds topping 70 mph, golfball-sized
hail and torrential downpours cut a
swath across the state from Lake City
in the northwest to Monroe in the
southeast.
FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE spotted in
Genesee, Saginaw and Van Buren coun-
ties hut the National Weather Service
said it had no reports of touchdowns or.
Smajor damage.
Fierce winds caused the roof of a
Taco Bell restaurant to cave in in the
Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming late
Sunday. Five persons were in the
restaurant and one of them suffered
minor injuries.
The storm, coming just four days af-
ter last week's killer storm, played
havoc with the 55th annual Port Huron
to Chicago yacht race during the
weekend.
The Coast Guard rescued 11 stranded
crew members aboard the sailboat
Notre Dame early Monday on Lake .
Huron 18 miles east of Harbor Beach. A
Coast Guard spokesman said the vessel
had been adrift for about 12 hours.
Two other boats lost their masts and
were forced into port Sunday and
another lost is rudder, race officials
said.
The storm knocked out electrical
power to 30,000 Consumers Power Co.
customers in Kalamazoo, Barry and
Van Buren counties and another 14,000
in Kent County alone. Company officials
said power was expected to be restored
in most areas by late Monday.
AP Photo
A BOLT OF LIGHTNING struck St. Joseph, Mich., at midnight Sunday in yet another storm which has plagued south-
eastern Michigan in the past few days. The storm knocked out electricity to about 4,000 homes, while 3,000 other house-
holds are still without power as a result of last Wednesday's thunderstorm.
Rain douses southern
plains, elps end, heat'
From UPI and AP
Rain doused parts of the sunbaked
southern plains yesterday for the first
time in a month, loosening a sweltering
stranglehold that has killed nearly 1,200
people, wiped out crops and livestock
and is certain to send food prices
soaring.
- Nearly three-quarters of an inch of
rain splashed over areas of northwest
Oklahoma, providing welcome
relief-if not an end-to the heat wave
and drought.
THE EARLY MORNING low tem-
perature dipped to 79 degrees in Tulsa,
Okla., the first time in 24 days the mer-
cury had fallen below the 80-degree
mark. Little Rock, Ark., reported a
late-morning reading of 78 under cloudy
skies. Readings had hit 100 by noon on
most days last week.
Meanwhile, an eight-lane commuter
bridge in Baltimore buckled and New
York City and Philadelphia asked their
residents to conserve water yesterday
as the month-long heat wave continued
its spread into the populous Northeast.
In New York City, a water-pressure
emergency was declared, banning all
lawn watering and unauthorized
opening of fire hydrants.
E. WILSON GOODE, Philadelphia's
managing director, declared a water
emergency for a second day after water
pressure dropped to record low levels.
Goode, who asked residents not to
water lawns or wash their cars, said
the decrease was caused by children
illegally opening fire hydrants to cool
off in the spray.
An odd-even water rationing system
for all outdoor uses of water, affecting
M.D.s:No execution involvement
CHICAGO (AP)-The chief doctors
of two state prison systems yesterday:
urged the American Medical'
Association to take a strong stand
against physician involvement in the
newest form of legal execution-death
by injection.
Dr. Armond Start and Dr. Jay Har-
ness said requiring doctors to supervise
or administer the lethal dose would
undermine medical ethics and make it
harder to give' inmates ordinary
medicala care.
"ETHICALLY WE ARE sworn to do
no harm. How in the world can I be in-
volved in an execution and not violate
my own ethics," asked Start, medical
director of the Oklahoma Department
of Corrections. He said neither he nor
his staff would assist at executions.
Harness, medical director of the
Michigan Department of Corrections,
cited the difficult "emotional issue" of
capital punishment, but urged the AMA
to act.
Proponents say the new laws offer a
more humane death than electrocution,
poison gas, firing squad or other alter-
natives.
IN 1977 OKLAHOMA became the first
state to pass such a law. Texas, Idado
and New Mexico followed suit, although
no prisoner has been put to death by in-
jection. Michigan does not have a death
penalty.
None of the four states that have
passed death-by-injection laws actually
requires a physican to give the over-
dose, but doctors are worried that other
states may pass laws that do.
The AMA's policy-making body, its
House of Delegates, is considering a
resolution that says a physician should
not be an "active participant" in an
execution but could pronounce the
prisoner dead.
THE HOUSE MAY vote on the
resolution later this week. About 1,200
physicans are here for the five-day
meeting, which ends Thursday.
But several physicians at a commit-
tee hearing yesterday said the 214,000-
member organization should not take a
stand. One delegate noted that the
proposal calls for physicans to be "ex-
cluded" from executions.
"Does that mean he has to be out of
the room or just turn his head. . . . I
think we're getting into a thicket out of
which we're not going to be able to ex-
tricate ourselves," the delegates said.
BUT DR. CARROLL Witten of
Louisville, Ky:, said inaction would
nean the AMA had "neglected to at-
tend to one of the most important social
and professional issues of our time."
Two Harvard professors argued in a
recent issue of the journal that doctors
should not even pronounce death at
drug executions.
Witten said passage of the resolution-
would not mean sanctions against
physicians who chose to serve as
executioners. "If a physican decides to
volunteer, that's his right. But he
should not be required by law to par-
ticipate," he said.
Appearing TOECGHTCA tC
!W "
some 25,000 people in northwest
Baltimore and Baltimore County, was
in effect for the second day yesterday.
"We don't seem to be having too
much success with our appeal to curtail
use," said Walter Koterwas, head of the
water division at the Baltimore Public
Works Department.
AT LEAST SIX people, most of them
sitping in the unshaded upper deck at
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, passed
out Sunday because of the heat at the
Orioles-Texas Rangers baseball game.
The temperature in- the city Sunday
reached 102.
In Brooklyn, N.Y., some people were
without water as use in the city's five
boroughs climbed from 1.5 billion
gallons a day to 2.2 billion gallons, said
Robert LePage, a fire official.
"In some Brooklyn high-rises, the top
floors of, say a 20-story apartment
building, have no water whatever,"
LePage said.
Temperatures dropped slightly in the
parched Southwest, South and Midwest
with rain expected to further dampen
the mercury.
At least 1,169 heat related deaths
have been reported since the beginning
of the heat wave last month. Missouri
has been hardest hit with 291 deaths,
followed by Tennessee with 143, and
Arkansas 127. Texas, which has suf-
fered through the longest and hottest
stretch, reported 98.
Billion's of dollars in crops, cattle and
poultry have been wiped out by the
blistering heat.
THE PROSPECT FOR
REVOLUTION IN THE
UNDERDEVELOPED
COUNTRIES: AN
EXAMINATION OF
THE ROLE OF
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
IN
GUADALUPE-MARTINIQUE
Given by The Spark
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July 23, 7:30 Pendleton Room
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