Water and sludge were still knee deep in downtown .Johnstown yesterday as one man salvages his belongings and another stares from the flood-gutted Crystal Hotel.
Death toll rises as rescuers wade into Johnstown
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) The death
toll from Johnstown's killer flood
reached at least 46 yesterday as repair
and cleanup crews made their way
through thick mud and debris in the
flood-scarred valleys.
See related story and Collegian photos
on page 10.
In addition to the fatalities confirmed
by state police, an estimated 50,000 were
displaced from their homes after rain
choked streams became rampaging
torrents Wpdnesdpy .along a 70-mile
stretch of the Conernaugh River valley.
A makeshift arrhy of repair and mud
removal crews • invaded the paralyzed
city yesterday, but their efforts were
hampered as a severe late afternoon
thunderstorm battered the city again.
Wind gusts of up to 65 miles an hour
swirled dust from dried-up mud into the
air, limiting visibility to about 100 yards.
"The additional rain also caused a rise
of six to 12 inches of water in the streets
in downtown," said Paul White of the
western area Civil Defense.
IA iDITIOII
Local boys make Squonk
The squonk, according to Jorge
Luis Borges, is a small animal native
to Pennsylvania that's so ugly it
weeps constantly and often dissolves
itself in its own tears.
Present and former State College
residents Fred Ramsey and Bill
Spangler thought it was also a great
name for a magazine, so the first
issue of "Squonk: A Magazine of the
Popular Arts," recently hit the
stands.
It includes *profiles of John Belushi,
Egypt, Libya clash
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Libyan forces invaded
western Egypt with tanks and planes yesterday but
were repelled in a major desert battle near the border
village of Salum, Egypt reported. Libya called the
report a "lie" and said Egypt was the invader.
"The Egyptian force was able to destroy 40 tanks and
30 Libyan army trucks, to take 12 military prisoners
from the 9th Libyan armored division as well as 30
saboteurs," Cairo radio said.
It said the Egyptian air force shot down two Libyan
planes, Egypt said no Egyptian soldiers were killed, but
several were wounded and one truck was lost.
i Libya claimed Egyptian forces had crossed into its
~ terntory and Egyptian planes had bombed a village.
• An Egyptian military spokesman said, "There has
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ueen fighting but we have not declared war."
The battle followed a series of incidents along the
border between the two North African Arab nations,
the
daily
The National Weather Service also
said it had reports of mudslides and cars
skidding off the road on Pennsylvania 56,
just east of Johnstown.
Earlier, Gov. Milton Shapp toured the
crippled city in a yellow school • bus,
listening to first-hand tales of terror and
destruction.
!`These people need to be reassured,"
Volunteers wanted to clean up Johnstown
The Undergraduate Student Government is collecting
student volunteers to go to Johnstown for clean-up
work, USG president Grant Ackerman said yesterday.
Volunteers may call USG at 863-2095 to sign up from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m. today
"We're assuming the other guys (in the relief effort)
are giving food," Ackerman said. "The best thing we
can do is to send bodies."
Ackerman advised prospective volunteers to wear old
clothes and "be ready to work." Volunteers who have
first aid experience are preferred, he said, and all
volunteers must be older than 18, for legal purposes.
Steve Gerber ("Howard the Duck"),
Robert E. Howard ("Conan the
Barbarian"), and H. P. Lovecraft,
along with a mock-serious look at the
worst science fiction film ever,
"Robot Monster."
The "Squonk" philosophy is a quote
from Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Things are more like they are now
than they've ever been before." With
ideals like that, these men should go
far.
which once talked of union but have become in
creasingly hostile since a bitter policy disagreement at
the time of the 1973 Middle East war. Egypt accused Libya on Wednesday of seeking to
Reporters were not allowed into the area, which the overthrow President Anwar Sadat by engaging in a
Egyptian government declared a restricted military "large-scale terrorist plot" with Moslem fanatics who
sector. earlier this month
kidnaped and killed Sheik
Salum is on the Mediterranean coast some 350 miles Mohammed Zahabi, former Egyptian religious affairs
west of Cairo and about a mile from the Libyan border. minister.
Libya accused Egypt of moving troops across the
border near . the Libyan town of Musaid, about five miles Egypt and Libya announced plans to form a union in
west of Salum. Libya said its forces "are continuing to August 1972 but the merger plans soon fell through with
expel the aggressors from Musaid." . Libyan Leader Moammar Khadafy accusing Egypt of
a
An Egyptian military communique said Egypt's adopting corrupt Western ways opposed to the
counter-attack yesterday was "in retaliation for Libyan teachings of Islam.
aggression and intended to secure Egypt's western Charges have been traded with increasing frequency
border." over the last three years. Diplomats from both nations
The most serious of the previous clashes took place have been taken hostage and saboteurs executed. Libya
two days ago and led to the destruction of 20 Libyan has threatened to expel 200,000 Egyptian workers.
olle • larl
complained Dr. George Kattner of
nearby Woodvale.
"They're running around with guns.
They've got nothing. No water, no gas.
Please reassure them. They're going to
shoot somebody pretty goddamn soon."
Residents of West Taylor Township
were also reported heavily armed with
pistols and rifles as they awaited help
Quote of the week:
After an evangelist preaching in
front of Willard shouted "Give
yourself to Jesus," a spectator
responded: "I gave myself to Jesus.
He traded me to Buddha for two
future draft choices."
Library sex freaks:
There are those of us who have
monstrous sexual desires that can
only be satisfied (assuming, of
course, that desirable alternatives
are unavailable by either watching
thirty showings of "Deep Throat" or
taking a like number of cold showers.
However, in this world of sexual
monsters, evidence has been
discovered that suggests that at least
one person on campus can satisfy
himself in a small way.
The evidence is a reel of "Playboy"
magazine microfilm that was found
in a men's room in Pattee Library.
The film had been stolen from the
library's microforms collection. It
was returned intact except that there
were one inch by two inch holes cut in
the film at two-foot intervals along
the length of the film.
Apparently, whoever stole the film
also clipped out the centerfolds.
This had been a problem. The
library's original collection of
"Playboy" microfilm had been on
color film. After ,several scattered
incidents of people clipping the film
in desert, trade charges
The students will work from 9 to 6 p.m. tomorrow.
Box lunches for the volunteers will be provided by the
University, Ackerman said.
"We'll be generally cleaning up," Ackerman said.
"In a time of disaster the best thing to offer is yourself."
In other local efforts to help the Johnstown flood
victims, radio station WRSC is organizing a food
collection drive and has already sent two truckloads of
food, clothing, medical supplies and other necessities to
the stricken area.
WRSC spokesman Tina Hay said the trucks were sent
off at six last night.
military vehicles and their crews and left nine Egyp
tians dead, Cairo radio said. '
from the National Guard or state police.
"We can't even get the National Guard
in here," said chief of police Orrie
Satterfield. "People are looting. We
can't get any help." .
President Carter declared seven flood
damaged western Pennsylvania
counties a major disaster area, making
them eligible for federal aid.
the old set was replaced by a new
black and white set.
A microforms employee said that
the next step will probably be to have
patrons wishing to use the film sign it
out at the main information desk.
In the meantime, if someone offers
to sell you some really hot slides,
keep in mind that they're probably
hot in more ways than one.
Getting the cops
All right, folks, here's lesson one in
"How to upset a campus policeman
without really drinking."
You get a keg of beer, see, and you
drain it (in whatever method you
think best) and then you fill it with
water.
Then you cart the keg out to the
middle of your dormitory quad and
wait for the campus cops.
That's just what Larry Thorwart
(7th-chemical engineering), Bruce
Caldwell (Ist-engineering), Chris
Jones (Ist-engineering), and Tom
Steudler (2nd-business) did last
Sunday evening, and they got the
predicted results.
Larry, Bruce, Chris and Tom
carried their water-filled keg out to
the middle of the Snyder Hall quad
and waited until two campus
policemen, approaching from dif
ferent directions, walked over to do
their duty.
The police checked out the keg,
discovered that they had been had,
and exited quietly stage left,
U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who
met with Gov. Milton Shapp and federal
officials yesterday, estimated the
e damage at about $lOO million.
Johnstown, a shattered city of 41,000,
looked like a war zone.
Returning residents waded through
slimy puddles past heaps of broken
furniture, hundreds of upended cars and
WRSC disc jockey Wendy Williams had asked that
donations be dropped off at various points around the
county by residents. The donations were picked up by
ROTC trucks from the University.
"There were at least 100 contributors, from the list
they signed," Hay said.
The WRSC effort, named "Operation Relief," was
originally part of a larger effort by WTAJ-TV in
Altoona, but grew quickly and sent its own load off by
itself, Hay said.
WRSC is still taking donations to the relief effort
Pres. Carter seeks
'lasting' Soviet ties
CHARLESTON, S.C. ( AP)
President Carter again pledged himself
yesterday to a long-range quest for solid
relations between America and the
Soviet Union, saying his goal is not for
easy or transient agreements but
"solutions that are meaningful,
balanced and lasting."
In a speech clearly aimed as much at
Soviet and other world leaders as his
immediate audience of Southern
legislators, the President called for "a
relationship of cooperation that will be
rooted in the national interests of both"
countries..
And while "we must always combine
realism with principle" toward that end,
Carter said, "our actions must be faith
tul to the essential values to which our
society is dedicated."
The address broke no new hard
proposals for U.S.-Soviet relations, but it
obviously was designed to signal the
Russians that the government is con
cerned about the recent spate of bitter
exchanges -- as well as to assure
Western allies that America has a long
term strategy for dealing with the
Communist giant.
Carter's speech to the Southern
Legislative Conference kicked off a two
day working swing through the South
that also would take him to a' citizens
meeting in Yazoo City, Miss., before the
day was out.
Aid policy change, again
The Office of Student Aid has
reversed its loan policy of the last six
weeks but does not intend to send out
form letters notifying students of the
change.
Due to the recommendation of the
Philadelphia Office of HEW, students
will no longer have to decline a
National Direct Student Loan ( ND
SL) in order to obtain a State
Guaranteed Loan (SGL), Dr. John
Brugel, director of student aid said
Tuesday.
However, Mr. Jesse L. McMannes,
associate director of student aid, said
that there is no way of identifying
those students, who declined the
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other debris tossed around by the water,
which reached eight feet.
Olive-colored , helicopters clattered
through the skies, bringing in
desperately _ needed supplies of water,
fuel and medicine, and removing flood
victims on their way out.
Three battalions of National Guard
troops patrolled the city in canvass
'covered trucks, four-wheel drive
vehicles and boats, while about 350 state
policemen were stationed around
Cambria County.
• -,"Our • primary purpose' , is ,to protect
property and'check for injured people or
anybody missing," said a state police
spokesman at nearby Ebensburg.
Murtha said security was tight and
reports of widespread looting were
exaggerated.
In nearby Seward, state troopers
poked billy clubs into waist-high mud the
consistency of pudding in the search for
bodies.
Trooper John Galbraith said 25 people
were still unaccounted for in the
riverbank town.
In that session, Carter told some 1,400
Yazoo County residents the United
States can balance its budget, reduce
taxes and expand federal programs by
1981.
He said economic projections "show
we can continue programs in effect now
and with proper managment,
reorganization of government itself and
elimination of overlapping federal
programs we can have enough growth
in federal revenue to give us both ex
panded programs and-or tax reduction."
The President also said his welfare
reform package, which he plans to
unveil next month, would create 1.2
million jobs. He mentioned the jobs
while saying continuing high unem
ployment has been one of his major
disappointments in his first six months
in office.
The President was greeted at the
Charleston municipal airport by a crowd
numbering in the thousands. He spent
several minutes shaking hands despite
the 100-degree heat.
Here's just what we've been waiting for.
Mostly sunny, cooler and less humid
today, high 82. Clear tonight, low 58.
Mostly sunny and pleasant tomorrow,
high 80. Partly sunny and warmer
Sunday.
NDSL because of the policy so there
will be no effort to contact them.
McMannes said that those students
who say they declined NDSL because
of the Office of Student Aid's policy
will be reconsidered for NDSL if
funds are available.
Student eligible for NDSL were
notified in June but were told in a
form letter accompanying the award
that they could not combine the NDSL
and the SGL.
"There were a lot of people grateful
for our previous position because they
won't be burdened with two loans,"
McMannes said.
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