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A 2 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, June 22, 1972 Thousands Flee Floods Along Eastern Coast N. Viet Delegation Cools Hope For Early Peace Talks Mickey Porter A downgraded from a hurricane, but still packing a punch is inching northward on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. Throughout the Atlantic seaboard, the picture was the same entire towns inundated by water, families forced to leave their homes and hundreds of motorist left stranded in their cars on highways. helicopters to airlift residents of Nelson County to Roanoke. Even before the storm reached New York, the Small Business Administration declared four counties in the New York City vicinity disaster areas because of rainfall and flooding.

FLOOD ARNINGS were posted throughout New York State. The sluggish storm system Eiia-Maria Timme, 17, of Cincinnati, has been named 1972 High School Cover Girl in the annnal contest sponsored by Co-ed Magazine and Noxel Corp. Her winnings include a $1,000 scholarship, a Fall wardrobe and a cover girl modeling assignment Public Ambulances Eyed For Summit-Portage Area Science: Friend Or Foe? Science, as we all know, is a wonderful thing. We just couldn't get along without it, and even if we could, we wouldn't want Without science, we possibly would still be walking the woods in deerskin moccasins and traveling by horseback instead of by jet. Without science, there would be no high speed dental drills or pizza ovens or electronic devices to record, for all ages to come, the melodic outpourings of the Three Dog Night and Conway Twitry.

Without science, the neighborhood blabs would be unable to spread their ruinous gossip by telephone, and Dvis Presley would have remained a Tupelo truck driver, and each of us would have been forced to depend on muscle instead of electricity in brushing his teeth. Without science well it's just a pretty bleak prospect, that's all there is to it, and I know I am not alone in shuddering at the unnerving might-have-beens. But science, thankfully, DOES exist; it burgeons, I believe is what I am trying to say. This morning, as you sipped your coffee and yawned the sleep from your weary soul, science was up and about, briskly astir. And here, of recent months, are some of the things it has accomplished: A New Jersey contractor, first of all, has discovered how to put more into a hole than is taken out.

He can, specifically, store a billion cubic feet of natural gas in a hole that contains only two million cubic feet of space. The trick, according to a learned spokesman, is "cyro-genics" low temperature physics -which will store the gas as a liquid at a temperature of minus 259 degrees. At this temp, 620 cubic feet of gas become one cubic foot of liquid, and when the gas is removed again, it is similar to Associate Pr Tropical storm Agnes swept up the Atlantic seaboard today with a wave of torrential rains that crippled transit, sent thousands from their homes and left 23 reported dead as the Northeast braced for flash floods. Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp declared a state of "extreme emergency" after the storm dumped up to seven inches of rain on the state and caused at least five deaths.

The other fatalities were reported in Virginia, New York, Maryland and North Carolina. PENNSYLVANIA highways were blocked, communications disrupted and thousands evacuated from their homes. In Lebanon, in the southeastern part of the state, City Councilman James Reilly said the town of 30,000 was cut off from all directions. "Hundreds of people are being evacuated each hour," he said, "and we're worried about a small dam near a recreation area. It's small creeks and they're all flooded.

AMTKAK canceled passenger train traffic south of Philadelphia for fear the Roland Lake Dam "near Baltimore might give way. A 63-car Penn Central freight train plunged into a creek near Danville, early today when a bridge collapsed under it. In Virginia, rescuers used offensive involving Peking and Moscow by noting, "If the Nixon administration wants to settle the Vietnam problem, it should engage in direct talks with us at the Paris conference." LE GREETED some 20 re-porters present, wished them "happy vacations with lots of sun," and added, "we, too, are getting ready for vacations." This seemed to hint that North Vietnam felt little progress would be made this Summer at the Paris conference, even were it to resume. Pointedly, Le noted the continued presence in Hanoi of both delegation chief Xuan Thuy and Le Due Tho, the pol-itburo member who has conducted past secret talks with the United States. Akron Beacon Journal Second-cltM postage paid at Akron, 0., daily.

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Running throughout the remarks were oblique criticism of the Soviet Union and China, exasperation at U. S. efforts to persuade Hanoi's Soviet and Chinese allies to force a peace settlement and a determination not to change the present North Vietnamese policy. Commenting on the recent Hanoi visit of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and the presence in Peking of White House adviser Henry A. Kissinger, Le said President Nixon "was seeking to weaken or divide the forces supporting the Vietnamese people in their struggle for independence." Le reiterated the now standard Hanoi line on the current American diplomatic which could cut into the profits of private ambulance operators, Dr.

Roussi said. He said the new task force will examine a $40,000 emergency medical services study for a seven-county area -in southeast Ohio which netted $4.2 million in Federal funds for vehicles, a communications network and operational expenses. CURRENTLY, 33 ambulances serve Summit County's population of 553,371, one ambulance per 15,810 residents; and 15 serve Portage County's 125,868, one ambulance for every 8,391 persons. Only Akron and Kent have licensing requirements. Service is provided by private bulance because of Federal and State standards." FEDERAL funds will be available for public operated emergency services and related communications systems July 1.

In addition, the State Legislature is expected to adopt strict standards within the next two years over training and ambulance equipment First Move NEW YORK World chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union flew out of Moscow Wednesday for Reykjavik, Iceland, to defend his title there against Bobby Fischer, the American. Their 24-game match begins July 2. By CURT BROWN uco Journal Staff Writer Work began Wednesday on a master plan for public, federally funded ambulance service for Summit and Portage counties. "The purpose of our plan will be to define what is the best method for ambulance service for the two-county area," said Dr. C.

C. Roussi, chairman of the Task Force for Emergency Medical Services of the Summit-Portai? County Comprehensive Health Planning Agency. "We now have an uncoordinated bunch of private ambulances," Dr. Roussi said, "The pinch is really being put on the private enterprise am I YtM? THREE LSLI NIGHT AND Hopkins Plane Hits 2 Houses TTv as wsmm taking a pinball machine and the entire clientele of the Elbow Inn from a magician's undersized hat. But that's nothing.

The Swedes, in Stockholm, are pouring oil into bottomless tanks, and I am told you would be simply amazed at how much oil ydu can insert into such a receptacle. The tanks, you see, float on water in the Stockholm harbor. Since oil and water do not mix, the water makes an effective bottom for the tank. It is strangely reassuring that I am able to report, however, that it isn't always some 21st Century idea that saves the day; sometimes an 18th Century one will serve just as well. Some time ago, for example, a million-gallon water tank in Florida sprung a leak.

Skindivers plunged to the bottom and released three cases of oatmeal near the crack. The pressure of the escaping water pulled the oatmeal into the hole; where it it swelled and plugged the leak. Science also( has attacked the growing challenge of auto thievery, and a device soon to hit the market may be the answer. When the device is installed any tampering with the ignition wires locks the brakes. If the brakes are released, the fuel supply is cut off.

If the fuel system is adjusted, the brakes will lock again and the ignition system will become grounded. It is reported that in a test, a mechanic without a key was unable to start an equipped car in 30 minutes. But when the device was removed, he drove off in 16 seconds. Another scientific breaktnrough that we could have done marvelously without, it seems to me, is a specialized parking meter. It is equipped with an infra-red sensor that returns the ''expired time" dial to zero, as soon as a car pulls out of a parking space, so that nobody can get a free ride on somebody else's nickel.

We may as well face it if they don't get it from us through taxes, then they're just going to get it some other way. But I don't care much for the fact that science is going to help them. CLEVELAND A Pennsylvania-based airplane crashed into two houses near Cleveland Hopkins airport this morning, killing the pilot and setting both bungalows afire. An airport official identified the pilot as William Henry, but his address was unknown. The plane was owned by Aero Taxi of Lester, Pa.

THREE OCCUPANTS of the houses escaped unhurt, although one house was destroyed and the other heavily damaged. Alone in one house was 82-year-old Harry Kragle. Next door at the Harry Becksted residence were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Epps of 859 Overlook Alliance.

Mrs. Epps is a sister of Becksted 's wife and they were visiting him while Mrs. Becksted is hospitalized. Epps said he and his wife had risen 15 minutes before the crash and were in the kitchen of the one-story frame home. "There was a big bang, At first I thought it was a sonic boom, then I saw the house was on fire.

My wife and I ran outside and saw Fred (who was backing out) was okay." "I knew it was a plane," said Helen Epps. "I don't like this neighborhood with all of these planes. I never have liked it." KRAGLE said he was sleeping on a couch when the blue Beechcraft came down. "It sounded as though the house came down," he said. The plane clipped off a television antenna from a nearby house and knocked down a street lamp before it crashed into Kragle's house! A neighbor, Mrs.

Joan Neu-rohr, said she heard the plane hit. "I came running. It just exploded, I ran to get my son out of bed and it exploded again, I thought all the houses up and down the street were going." Cleaning Woman Aids Lord's Work Continued From Page A-l You pay for 3 packs of Polaroid Colorpack film. We'll pay for the sunglasses. 1 1 Polaroid' I it every night.

It's a big place and you don't have time to look at everything you find." She said she found the checks among papers she was sweeping from the men's room floor. "They had a rubberband around them so I figured they must be important. I could see they were checks and I saw the $20 and $10 bills but I didn't bother to count; I didn't have time. So I made a note for the secretary and left it in the lost and found box. Everybody around Mr.

Moskos' I or Type 88 i PtlMrtlnrad Polaroid Corporation Post Office Box 6811; Atlanta, Georgia 30315 Here are my 3 end panels from either Polaroid Type 108 Land film. Please send me a free pair of Cool-Ray Polaroid (Sorry, one to a household.) Name And not just ordinary sunglasses. They're Cool-Ray Polaroid sunglasses. The extraordinary sunglasses with the built-in op- tical barrier that can block out up to 99 of reflected glare. To get your pair free (they're for men or women and have a $3.25 retail value) just send us the red end panels from 3 boxes of Polaroid Land film (Type 108 or Type 88) before July 10, 1972.

This summer, you'll not only have Polaroid Color-pack film for the pictures you want most (like your two-year-old with his first fudge pop), but you'll also have a good-looking pair of sunglasses to keep an eye on him. I i i Mrs. Jones place is like this. We have a good team." y- Mayor Hails Two Metro Bus Drivers Mayor Ballard cited two Metro bus driver Wednesday for exemplary actions last month while at work. J.

C. Sims of 838 Fried st. was honored for pulling two persons from a burning auto May 27 on the West Expressway. The mayor said: "Mr. Sims saved two people from near certain death." Carl Carano of 1211 Dayton st.

was credited with spotting a fire May 17 at a Kenmore blvd. apartment building, summoning the fire department and assisting firemen at the scene. Four children died in the blaze; four persons were injured. Each was given a $25 U. S.

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The court has no choice but to direct a verdict of acquittal." CLEVELAND (OPS)-Com-mon Pleas Judge Adrian Fink today directed a verdict of not guilty and dismissed the jury in the first-degree murder trial of William Howard, 33-year-old Cleveland Heights real estate salesman. He was charged with.