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The Daily Tribune from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin • Page 8

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The Daily Tribunei
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Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
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Storm' damage estimate $20 million 4 timates showed about $600,00 0 damage. Don Euclibe, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service director for Taylor County, said heavy farm equipment, silos, timber and machine sheds had accounted for much of the' damage. He said the storm had destroyed several acres of corn, wheat and oat crops. He said electrical service in most areas had been restored. Agricultural agents for Chippewa, Polk, Barron, Rusk and Sawyer counties were compiling reports on damage to crops.

Corn crops were said to have been extensively damaged. In Taylor County, where damage was considered comparably light, preliminary es Officials from various federal and state agencies have been examining the damage from last Saturday night's tornados. In the areas hit by the weekend storms, cleanup operations continued Monday. "We're still out replacing downed power lines and broken telephone poles," said Louis Reetz, police chief at the Chippewa County community of Bloomer where storm damage was most severe. MADISON, Wis.

(AP) -Initial damage estimates from Saturday's tornados in northwestern Wisconsin total nearly $20 million, Acting Gov. Martin Schreiber said Monday. The tornados that hit Saturday evening left one man dead and several injured, while destroying buildings in some areas, downing trees and utility poles and damaging crops. Schreiber's estimate was included in a telegram to President Carter, seeking rapid consideration of disaster aid requests stemming from severe windstorms that struck 10 northern counties July 4, causing nearly $50 million damage. Schreiber told Carter that the July 4 storm had been Wisconsin's second most costly natural disaster, in terms of dollurs, in recent years.

He also said that, if the final damage assessment shows the need, he would ask that the disaster aid request be amended to include counties hit by the July 30 storms. iiilia 4 t' Gas mixup may have killed hospital patients Our House Speciality Boneless Rib Eye Steak King Size, lOoz 67' Queen Size, 6o 4'J' All dinners include our own special crock of cheese. The Whiting salad bar, choice of potato, rolls, butter and coffee. Anderson said records show 32 deaths in the emergency room in that period, including some persons who were dead on arrival. "At this point, they can't really put their finger on any one death and attribute it to this problem," Sommers said.

diuc difficulty. Nitrous oxide usually is used as an anesthetic or relaxant. About 9,000 persons were treated in the emergency room while the lines were mixed. Some 300 needed oxygen and therefore may have been exposed to the wrong gas, hospital officials said. Tornado's work oteJt) another 100 caused an estimated $20 million damage.

One man was killed and at least 12 persons were injured during the stofm. (UPI Photo) Only the foundation of this Bloomer home remained intact after a tornado swept through the town late Saturday. The storm, which destroyed at least 50 homes and damaged Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Page 8 The Daily Tribune Tuesday, August 2, 1977 DOWNTOWN STEVENS POINT NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AV) Pipes from tanks of oxygen and "laughing gas" were mixed up for six months in a nearby hospital's new emergency room, and state officials are Investigating the possibility that the error killed patients.

"Several deaths may have resulted from this defect in construction," said Richard Anderson, administrator of the 141-bed Suburban General Hospital in East Norriton Hospital death and medical records are being checked to determine which patients required oxygen and how many patients, if any, died because they instead received nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas," said Alan Sommers, the hospital's public relations man. Oxygen usually is administered to persons experiencing respiratory or car- Carley asked to file probe request MADISON, Wis. (AP) -David Carley has been asked to file a formal investigation request with the State Elections Board in his fund-raising dispute with Acting Gov. Martin Schreiber's campaign committee, the board's presi dent said Monday. Carley, who is expected to challenge Schreiber next year for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, sent his complaints to Elections Board president David Walsh in a telegram, and Walsh said Monday that Carley had been asked to file a formal request for an investigation.

Robert Whitney, the attorney for the board, said the investigation request could go before the board at its Aug. 17 meeting. Carley, who steps down in September as president of Milwaukee's Medical College of Wisconsin, complained that the Schreiber committee had misused the names of Lucey contributors which it obtained from the Elections Board. ra 5 when vou buvanvsi7fi frjG'fr when you buy any size I IE You can't beat Crest for fighting cavities. UMIT ONE COUPON PER PURCHASE TO THE CONRUMfH CAUTION1 Dflfl't nmfnrrnt rout (tlsr hv Mking him to nd9m cwipon wtthout mikinq th fequirw) purchase mult ftoem coupons tn gt hit mormy bt(k RIMfMBFH.

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