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The Staunton Leader VOL 132, NO. 35 STAUNTON, 24401, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1979 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Snowfall was biggest in decade Staunton and most of the East began digging out today from the heaviest snowfall of the winter that piled on 9 more inches to the 4-5 inches still on the ground here, closing schools and many businesses that had planned to stay open on Washington's birthday. Extra operators were called in by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. to handle heavier-than-normal traffic, the Associated Press reported. Among those hit by the storm were more than 5,000 skiers at Massanutten in the Valley.

Because most motels in this area were full, fire officials in Harrisonburg set up a stranded motorist center at one of the fire departments. Civil defense cots were brought in and residents with four-wheel drive vehicles were asked to round up food. Richmond was reported almost immobilized, but the General Assembly opened as usual today. Many legislators had stayed in town for committee meetings or party gatherings over the weekend, the AP said. predicted for today, but Moore said rising winds and snow drifts across other highways this afternoon could cause problems.

In a late bulletin this morning, the National Weather Service called the weekend snowfall the biggest general snow to hit the Old Dominion in more than a decade. Up to 18 inches fell in the Washington suburbs and in parts of Warren County. Fourteen inches were reported in Charlottesville, 13 inches in Hopewell and almost 11 inches in Richmond. State Police said motorists would venture onto the snow-clogged highways at their own risk today. Reports indicate that few took the chance early this morning.

Son charged with murder of father STUARTS DRAFT A murder charge has been lodged against a 15-year-old, Rt. 1, Stuarts Draft, youth in the shooting death of his father, 41-year-old Marvin Lee Allen, at 5:15 p.m. Sunday. The man was struck at least twice and possibly a third time by bullets fired at close range from a .22 magnum rifle, Augusta County Sheriff John E. Kent said this morning.

One bullet struck the man in the arm and another in the upper chest, he said. An autopsy has been ordered to determine if a third bullet struck the man and which one caused his death. The shooting took place in the kitchen of the family's mobile home, located off Va. 608 approximately three miles south of here. It was apparently touched off by a fight between Allen and his 19-year-old son, Richard Allen, Kent explained.

He said that witnesses told him the father, who had a history of domestic violence, had the 19-year-old son around the neck in a strangle hold when the 15-year-old youth fired the shots. In addition to the sons, the mother witnessed the shooting, according to Kent. Two younger daughters fled, one to a back bedroom and the other outside, when the fight began getting rough, the sheriff said. Following the shooting, the family called the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad. When squadsmen arrived, the victim was dead, and they contacted the sheriff's department.

The body was transported to Community Hospital by the rescue squad. Kent said the 15-year-old youth was released to the custody of his mother. A preliminary hearing has not been scheduled, Kent said, and authorities have not yet determined in which court the case will be tried or whether the youth will be tried as an adult. See obituary on page 3. CHINA KhuOng JJX i Cao Bang Oong Dang TjVJ Lang Son txJ Haiphong Golf of Tonkin Muong 50 iau Lai Hai Chau laos I 4 THE SIDEWALKS must be cleared, as obnoxious a job as it is.

This worker in downtown Staunton finds the task a huge one this morning as he piles the 9 inches of snow that fell Sunday on top of an accumulation from last week. (Photo by Dennis Sutton) VIETNAM miies Handshake, not kiss, spreads cold virus Hanoi claims invasion stopped (EDITOR'S NOTE This is the first of a three-part series on the common cold, which strikes one person in seven every winter week, costs us $843 million a year in non-prescription drugs and accounts for more lost school and work days than any disease but the flu) By KEVIN McKEAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) It is both the most and least serious disease. One American in seven catches it every winter week but none die from it. We spend more than $843 million a year for remedies though there is no cure. It causes a quarter of all school days lost and a tenth of all work days A double-barreled blast hit the city late Sunday morning from the frozen midwest and from the South which was blanketed with an unexpected 17 inches in some places.

The snow stopped here about 3 40 a.m. today. Staunton Department of Public Works crews kept major city streets open with around-the-clock plowing starting Sunday morning. Supervisor John Hart warned this morning, however, that most streets remained snow-covered and slick despite the plowing. Salt applied to the streets was not expected to melt the snow unless air temperatures climbed to 20 or more degrees, or unless the sun raised the temperature of street surfaces.

Temperatures here ranged from minus 8 to a high of 19 Sunday. All bus service to Staunton was canceled at 8 p.m. Sunday. A Trailways spokesman said service was not expected to resume until this afternoon. The Shenandoah Valley Airport was reported snowed-in since Sunday.

No information was available about operations resuming. Interstates and primary roads in Augusta County had been cleared before the last 2-3 inches of snow fell late Sunday night and early this morning, according to the State Department of Highways and Transportation. Robert L. Moore, resident engineer, said this morning that crews resumed work on the interstates after the last downfall, but would return to smaller county roads this morning. Westbound 1-64 in Nelson County was reported closed by snow drifts early today.

Moore said two tractor-trailer rigs has been stalled in the drifts but had been freed by 9 a.m. Only scattered flurries of snow were strain of virus. It doesn't protect against other strains and lasts only two years, so it's possible to get one cold after another. Since the virus lives inside cells, it is hard to kill the virus without killing cells. "Because of the problems, cold viruses have become a low priority in terms of research funding," says Dr.

Arnold S. Monto of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Monto and his colleagues have studied respiratory infections in the small town of Tecumseh, since 1965. Among their findings: children appear to be the main "reservoir" for colds. "If there were no children, colds wouldn't disappear but there would be fewer of them," Monto (See COLD, page 2) support months to get production back to the 6 million barrels a day formerly produced.

But leaders of the new government have indicated much less would be produced for export to prolong the life of the oil fields and the revenue from them. A total of 794 Americans were flown Sunday to Frankfurt, West Germany, on the second day of an airborne exodus that is expected to take 5,000 Americans out of Tehran. Nearly 1,700 have left since the airlift began Saturday. conscious or mental communication, she told him she did. All the while she continued talking with the two girls.

In order to be sure she remembered his visit, he decided to try pinching her. She yelled out, surprising Monroe who didn't think he'd actually be able to do it. When she returned the following week, he questioned her and discovered she had been pinched. "A look of complete astonishment crossed her face," Monroe related. "Was that you?" she asked.

She then showed him the black-and-blue marks the pinch had left. Did the event really happen, or was it just fantasy? It would be easy to dismiss it as such. But consider the experiences of other out-of-body voyagers as reported in an anything that produces cold-like symptoms. But a "cold" can be caused by over 200 strains of virus, of which only about 130 are strains of rhinovirus or coronavirus, the main cold viruses. Other viruses that sometimes masquerade as colds include those that cause flu, pneumonia and bronchitis.

Colds are potent medical enemies because: There are so many cold-causing viruses that it is impossible so far to find a vaccine to protect against the major strains. Scientists can identify the virus culprit in only about one-half of colds, raising the possibility of many undiscovered strains. The natural immunity acquired from a cold protects only against that Iran, but it was not likely to have any immediate effect on Israel itself. Israel formerly got most of its oil from Iran, but all exports have been cut off since December because of strikes against the shah. The head of the last royal government, Prime Minister Shah pour Bakhtiar, announced in January that Israel would get no more Iranian oil after exports are resumed.

The Iranian National Oil Co. said striking oil workers were heeding Khomeini's call and returning to work in the southwestern oil fields. Informed sources said it would take two to three Khomeini pledges Arafat lost. But research into its causes has declined in recent years. It also is one of the few diseases that can be spread by a handshake but perhaps not by a kiss.

The disease? It's the common cold, an ailment that has the average adult sneezing, sniffling and coughing at least twice a year and the average child five times a year. Scientists have been able for two decades to isolate and grow some of the viruses which cause the cold but its cure remains elusive. The cold begins with a runny nose and cough or sore throat. There may also be chills, headache, muscle aches or just an all-in feeling. It ends about a week later with congestion in the head.

It is an ailment often maligned by association. We loosely call a "cold" country, Tehran Radio reported Sunday. The government radio said 22 Israeli trade and immigration officials and representatives of El Al, the Israeli airline, were expelled, and all Iranian officials in Israel were ordered home. Arafat, the first foreign leader to visit Khomeini since he took over the government on Feb. 11, said the Iranian revolution had turned the strategic balance in the Middle East "upside down." The final break between the new government and Israel caused concern among the thousands of Jews living in We may MONROE (EDITOR'S NOTE -This is the second of a two-part series on one man's experiences in out-of-body travel.

By MEREDITH BARKLEY Leader Staff Writer AFTON It was 3 p.m. one August day in 1963. Robert A. Monroe was If Ml BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Hanoi claimed today its forces stopped all of China's invasion columns, killed more than 3,500 Chinese troops and destroyed almost 80 tanks since the Chinese attacked Saturday. With Asia's newest border war in its third day, Western intelligence sources in Bangkok said the Chinese have halted their offensive after driving no more than six miles into Vietnam and may be withdrawing some units.

They said the Chinese objective was extremely limited, "to teach Vietnam a lesson." Today's claims by Hanoi, which cannot be independently verified, claimed Vietnamese troops inflicted "heavy losses" on 12 Chinese divisions but gave no figures for Vietnamese casualties. The report said only that Chinese artillery caused heavy losses to life and property. The Western sources said China's air strikes along the border ceased today but that heavy artillery bombardment continued. The Vietnam News Agency reported the Vietnamese army inflicted "heavy losses" against the invaders Saturday and Sunday in Hoang Lien Son, Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces. "Many columns of Chinese aggressor troops were intercepted and are being encircled and strongly attacked," the report said.

It added that many Chinese soldiers had been captured. There were no reports from Peking on April 1977 issue of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle. Ingo Swann, whose ability to leave his body was under study by Stanford Research Institute, Menk) Park, decided in 1973 to put the phenomenon to the test. Nine months before the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was scheduled to pass by Jupiter, he and psychic Harold Sherman agreed to "visit" the planet, observe it at close range and compare their findings with those the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's probe would eventually send back. The two were 2,300 miles apart when they began their trips.

On their return, the data from their observations were compiled and sent to scientists around the country. Though separated by a continent, the two described the same thing. the fighting. But the official Peking People's Daily said China "does not want a single inch of Vietnamese soil; what we want is a peaceful and stable frontier. After hitting back at the aggressors as far as is necessary, our frontier forces will turn to guard strictly the frontier of our motherland." News inside- (One section) Abby.

Page 12 Business Pages 7, 12 Classifieds Pages 10-11 Comics Paget Editorials Page 4 Obituaries Page 3 Sports Pages 8-9 Theatres Page 9 Women 's News Page 6 Weather Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Lows tonight in the teens; highs Tuesday in the mid-303. See complete weather Information an page 5. The results which Pioneer 10 eventually relayed confirmed the "sightings" the two had made. A year later, the two "probed" Mercury in advance of the spacecraft Marina 10.

The results were similar. Tangible proof such experiences are anything but figments of very fertile imaginations is tough, if not impossible, to come by. "There probably are many ways to prove it," Monroe said, "but it depends on what you mean by 'prove it'. For those interested, probably the best proof is participation. Monroe not only believes everyone has the ability to move out of his physical body, he believes everyone does.

"I think everyone goes out of their (See MONROE, page 2) all be oui-of-body travelers TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's new Islamic government ended all relations with Israel and pledged its support to the Palestinian war against the Jewish nation after a weekend meeting between Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Iran will "turn to the issue of victory over Israel" after it binds up the wounds of the year-long revolt that drove Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from the Crash victim identified, driver charged An 18-year-old Waynesboro man was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving in connection with a Saturday night crash on U.S. 250 near Brands Flat which killed a 17-year-old passenger in the car. Dead at the crash scene was John Duane Myers of Waynesboro, State Police reported. Iceland M.

Kennedy was the driver of the westbound car which reportedly went out of control in a downhill curve and crashed into a bridge abutment shortly before 11 p.m. Staunton-Augusta Rescue Squad personnel worked about 30 minutes to free the victim from the wreckage of the late-model foreign car. Two other persons, 16-year-old Barry L. Mantz of 131 Edward Ave. and 18-year-old Scott McKenzie of 1100 Hawthorne Ijuie, Waynesboro, were treated for injuries at King's Daughters' Hospital and released.

relaxing in bed at his home near here, trying to go out-of-body to visit a woman vacationing somewhere on the New Jersey coast. The friend knew nothing of the pending visit, and Monroe, a pioneer in out-of-body travels, did not know precisely where she was vacationing. Suddenly the familiar warm, vibrating feeling came over him, and he began concentrating on the visit. "There was the familiar sensation of movement through a light blue blurred area, then I was in what seemed to be a kitchen," Monroe related. His friend and two teen-age girls were seated in chairs drinking something.

In his second body, Monroe first presented himself to the two girls. They did not notice him. He then asked his friend if she knew he was present. In a kind of sub i.