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The Dally Register. Red Bank-Mlddletewa, J. Wednesday, July 5, 1972 3 II Too Real GRID By the Associated Press Man Seizes Plane BUFFALO, N.Y. A man armed with a large knife and holding a young girl hostage slipped aboard an unoccupied American Airlines 707 jet at the Buffalo airport early today and demanded a pilot, police in suburban Cheektowaga said. Police identified the man as Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo.

The girl, believed to be about four or five years old, was not identified immediately, but police said that Smith earlier had stabbed her mother and a man in Buffalo. All available Cheektowaga police, FBI agents and Buffalo homicide detectives rushed to the airport and surrounded the plane at Gate Seven. said that, after the stabbing, Smith grabbed the girl and drove to the airport. There, they said, he created a commotion at the post office and threatened to harm the girl. He then dragged the girl along as he climbed aboard the jet Chess Match Delayed Again REYKJAVIK, Iceland The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start tomorrow afternoon following another ponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion.

After holding out for more money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match yesterday. But Spassky walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was not present. He had sent his second, a Roman Catholic priest. Officials announced a new 48-hour postponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday. They hoped both players would be ready to meet tomorrow.

Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early yesterday. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky will divide. 61 Missing in Landslide KOCHI, Japan Torrential rains set off a landslide which smashed at least 10 homes and swept a locomotive and two railway coaches into a ravine in southern Japan today. Police said 61 persons were missing. A rescue team of 120 police and volunteers was digging into the mud and rock which cascaded down a mountain slope.

The slide struck an isolated village in a mountainous area 18 miles from Kochi. Japan National Railways said only a conductor and a maintenance man were aboard the1 train. It said service had been halted because of the heavy rain yesterday. 30 Die in Hospital Fire SHERBORNE, England Fire swept through a wing of the Cold Harbor Mental Hospital early today, killing 30 of the 36 male patients sleeping in a ward. The nursing staff rescued seven of the men, but one died later.

The other six suffered minor injuries. One of the dead patients was 16 years old and the rest were described as middle-aged. Most died in their beds, but the main doors were said to have been unlocked at the time of the blaze. About 325 patients were in other buildings of the hospital. The fire occurred in the Winfrith Villa, a wing which opened nine months ago.

Dr. Peter Johnson, chairman of the hospital management committee, said the most severely handicapped of the male patients were kept there. The first thing to be done Is clean out the bottom floor. The water, measured five feet nine inches on that floor so everything Is ruined. 48 Years Accumulation For three days we carried things out of that floor: chairs, sofa, rugs, cabinets, tables, TV sets, refrigerator, freezer, gas range, spoiled food, dishes, and all the other things that accumulate in 48 years of marriage.

They joined the mounting piles of 1 debris lining the streets before the stricken houses. The rugs were so laden with water and mud that we cut them in quarters to move them. The dining room table and buffet were sawed in pieces and moved. Neighbors helped us move the heavier pieces, and we helped them in return. My mother has long been a caterer, and this made the job even more difficult.

From her two refrigerators and three freezers, we moved hundred of pounds of food, all spoiled. Strangely, her china and glassware she has collected it for almost half a century was in pretty good shape, although mud-caked. Each piece was moved by hand to a safe place. After the furnishings were moved, we started to clean out mud. A squeegie is the handiest piece of equipment for the job.

As far as I know, we were the first people to stay overnight, in the neighborhood. Most of the area is still spending the nights with friends, re-lations or in evacuation camps. A portable generator (a priceless object there) gave us some comforts light and TV. Stories of looting and rats brought out the old rifle and pistol, and we spent the weekend with them loaded and ready for use. Fortunately, we never had to use them.

I did see one sick looking sauir-rel. There are no dogs or cats to be seen. There is an obvious health hazard in the area. Typhoid and tetanus shots are a must. When we left to return, the spoiled food had still not been picked up (although an emergency truck had been promised), and flies and mosquitoes are swarming.

There is water, but it is polluted. Sewers are backing up. Except for cleaning out the refrigerator and freezers in the basement, we never did anything else down there. It is By JONNI FALK KINGSTON, Pa. Picture an area almost the size of Monmouth County piled high with mud and rubble.

Take tHe population of Middletown, N.J., and try to find emergency housing for them. Try to get along without elec--tricity, gas, telephones and water for two weeks or more. Look at your home and imagine water six feet high on your second fllor. If you can visualize it all, you can still not picture what the people of this community and the greater Wilkes-Barre area have suffered. When Agnes took her tricky little swing inland, she virtually annihilated the towns along the Susquehanna River in this area.

I have lived through two floods in Kingston, but nothing prepared me for the tragedy of Agnes. The big flood in 1936 had filled my parents basement with water; the little flood in 1940 had never reached the house, which stands almost a mile from the normally placid Susquehanna. Three-Day Battle For three days last weekend my brother and I battled the damage in my parents home, and our experience is typical of all those affected. To get into any of the homes, you have to break down the door. When the populace evacuated June 21, most locked their doors and anticipated an early return.

The flood water warped the doors and rusted locks. The sight inside is terrifying. Furniture, appliances and china are stewn all over the rooms. Nothing is wlere it was once neatly located. Slimy mud grips your boots in a vacuum and makes walking torturous.

The smell is that of a dank dungeon. You fight your way through to the kitchen, or what was a kitchen. The freezer the largest you are ever likely to see in a home has been picked up, carried across the room and deposited on its side. Your feet come down on something that goes crunch. It might have been a piece of Dresden or something from the five and dime, but in that muck, youll never know.

A quick investigation shows that all the floors have buckled upwards. Hardwood floors put in 70 years ago will have to come out. So will everything else. MUD AND UTTER This street in Kingston, is passable although it is still wet, choked with mud and lined with debris. Long lines of personal belongings and furnishings form parapets along eacn street as the people start to clean out homes.

Only 20 houses in the entire town of 20,000 people did not get water damage. chaotic and would require another week of work. At that, my parents are a lot better off than many people closer to the river. A quick tour of the town showed that the east side had had water in the second story. There were homes with roofs off; homes with sections completely twisted off (particularly true with the newer homes); bare foundations where garages had been; houses which had burned due to gas explosions.

There was even one new brick home which had sunk into the ground. Man-Made Traffic Jams The National Guard and State Police are everywhere, but there are not enough of them. If you drive, they constantly stop you to ask where you are going. This creates traffic jams. When you tell them your destination, they always say you cant get there.

We always proved them wrong. Everywhere there is the constant mud which makes walking and carrying doubly hard. And everywhere there is dust. You can literally stand in mud to your ankles and have dust blow in your face. Respirators are handy.

There is a lot of bitterness among the people working so hard to salvage a few pitiful possessions. One young neighbor who Guard ordered us out! he lamented. Many Not to Return Many people who rent say they are not coming back. Let the landlord clean it up, is the attitude, Well find another place to live. The Kingston Cake Company one of the biggest in the town, has phone pole, and nobody seems to know how it got there.

When the dike let go in Forty Fort, the water uprooted about 400 caskets from Forty Fort cemetery. The in Kingston was, Even dead cant stand Forty Fort Then, of course, there the periodic broadcasts the lone functioning radio the talk the are over station by the local congressman who is up for reelection. The cry is, Come November -vote Flood The poor guys name is Dan Flood. The work in the area may go on for six months maybe a year. It all depends on how much help the victims of this disaster receive from state and federal agencies, and individuals.

They need help badly. Unless you have seen it, the damage is beyond comprehension. Gain more leisure fa pay your bills af liras Swamp Buggy Racing History Made at Holmdel Invitatiorml employers closed doors for good. That puts 400 people or more out of work. Other businesses will probably follow suit.

Yet, others are just as determined to return. Last Saturday, four days before Independence Day, flags started to appear in front of houses. More and more people returned to start the dirty job of cleaning up. Many came in with cartons of beer to drink in place of water. But a carnival atmosphere never quite appeared.

While people in Monmouth County hear pleas for food and water for the stricken area, these are not the major needs. They need manpower and equipment. Things like hand trucks, crow bars, power saws and sheer muscle are far more important right now than canned goods and water. Work Force Inadequate If the number of guardsmen helping were doubled, there would still not be enough bod-ies to help the area get cleaned up. If every unemployed youngster in Monmouth County were to go there to help, they might help take up the slack.

Housing is the next problem. The government is talking about bringing in as many as 12,000 mobile homes to care for the homeless (estimated at 60,000) until they can return to their own homes. Money is the next worry. Homeowners will be able to get up to $3,000 in flood aid, but this will obviously not be adequate to replace what was lost. Appliances and furniture will be in strong demand for a long time to come.

Electricity Unavailable Electricity and gas cannot be turned on until the cleanup process is completed. The water company has no idea when the water will clear up. Nothing else can be done until the hundreds of tons of debris are cleared. Even so, the people still show a sense of humor. Young Floyd MacIntyre had a sign on his mound of rubble: Sidewalk sale -100 per cent off.

He had no takers. There is a Christmas wreath hanging from a tele Castro Leaves Moscow MOSCOW Fidel Castro left Moscow today at the end. of a 10-day visit that climaxed his extended tour of nine countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. With a light rain falling, the Cuban prime minister and Communist party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev walked arm in arm to the waiting plane after the traditional honor guard review and protocol farewells.

Just before boarding the plane, Castro embraced Brezhnev, Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgomy. A television commentator reporting the departure said it was the end of an official but very very friendly visit. The Cuban leader arrived on June 26 to a similarly hearty reception. His talks with the Soviet leaders were reported taking place in an atmosphere of fraternal friendship, complete mutual understanding and cordiality.

add more to come Killed on Nostalgic Flight ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Boy, Im having a ball, Junius D. Morrison told newsmen at Omaha Monday as he headed south on a flight of nostalgia in his old-time aircraft. Morrison had located the plane -some weeks ago at Moses Lake, Wash.

It was a Curtiss-Wright pusher, like the one in which he had learned to fly 40 years ago. The Eastern Airline 747 jumbo jetliner captain purchased the Curtiss-Wright and thought it would be a be lark to spend his vacation flying it across country. He left Moses Lake last Friday, heading for his home at Miami Shores, Fla. At Omaha, he also said that he would probaly sell the open cockpit craft when he reached Florida Its too unstable. If you got into turbulent air, you couldnt handle it." On Tuesday, Junius D.

Morrisons flight of nostalgia ended, the Curtiss-Wright in tangled wreckage and the 59-year-old pilot dead among the weeds in a northwest Missouri field. The wrecked plane, with a large Snoopy dog emblem on the fuselage, was found just west of the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Morrisons body was located about 1,000 feet from the craft. Fireworks Take Toll By The Associated Press One man was killed and more than a dozen persons were Injured as a result of mishaps during two Fourth of July fireworks demonstrations. Five pyrotechnicians escaped serious injury in a third incident.

Police in Wauconda, 111., said Edward G. Bulger, 24, was killed when some kind of firework device exploded in a crowd of spectators observing a display at Bangs Lake, 40 miles northwest of Chicago. Eight other persons were treated and three of them were hospitalized after the explosion last night All three were reported in satisfactory condition early In Seattle, an errant skyrocket exploded in a crowd gathered near a fountain at the Seattle Center. Up to a dozen persona were injured and three of them were hospitalized. None was believed in serious condition.

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Kirby emerged to a chorus of cheers from a contingent of Middletown neighbors and supporters. Claiming a Mercedes engine in his 10 hp Wheelhorse, Mr. Kirby said his near winning machine usually just cuts the lawn. Casualties were minor, and affected more machines than men, despite the treacherous and dreadful conditions back in the swamp. It was madness, sheer madness, out there in the swamp, shuddered race co-chairman Calvin Cobb Hart when he finally escaped the Sweetbriars miry clutches.

I got stuck and launched a flare. You mean no one saw it? he asked incredulously as dozens of bystanders disclaimed any knowledge of his plight. He cut a noble and dashing figure in his traditional swamp racing gear of bush jacket and pith helmet. Mr. Harts 12 h.p.

Sears suffered a broken drivebelt and broke down completely in the homestretch. He switched on his headlights but they were of no help and the Hart vehicle had to be pushed across the finish line by a covey of youthful admirers. Finishing in 15th place, Hart was awarded the races special award, a telephone with a message from Martha Mitchell who was invited but was unable to make the race. Ia plaque attached to the pseudo-phone advised that there was always a way td get through, over, or around a problem with the help of those nice people at Bell Telephone. Teammate Simonsen said the threatened Frogtown challenge race failed to materialize earlier this year because we didnt want to destroy the environmental conditions in the Frogtown Swamp.

By SHERRY FIGDORE HOLMDEL Chet Parks made swamp tractor racing history yesterday as he wallowed through tractor-wheel-deep mud to become the first repeat winner in the history of the Annual Holmdel Invitational Trans-Sweetbriar Swamp Lawn Tractor Competition. Mr. Parks plowed through the slough on the same little 10-horsepower green and yellow John Deere that had carried him to victory in the 69 Holmdel classic. Clutching his first place prizes, a jeroboam of champagne and a years custory of the travelling Harter trophy, Mr. Parks said his John Deere knew the way through the swamp by now, which made his victory considerably eas-.

ier. Besides, he confided, Homer got stuck and held up the whole line and I just whipped around him. Homer was Homer May, co-chairman of Holmdels unique entrant in the world of competitive racing, who finished somewhere far back in the field of 15. Well, now I really didnt try to win, said Chairman May, muttering through the layers of mud caked on his nose and hair and Arkansas hog-farmers kind of hat. Hailing from Newport, which is surrounded by water, Mr.

May said he felt right at home in the soggy bog. Mud was indeed the order of the day as driver after driver emerged from Sweetbriar Swamp drenched in mud from head to tread. Rookie Harry Kirby crossed the finish line in second place, oozed off his tractor seat, and promply submerged in a wide spot in Willow Brook that waters the bog. BEA-UTIFUL Chester S. Parks of Holmdel, winner of Annual Holmdel Invitational Trans-Sweetbriar Swamp Lawn Tractor Competition, admires his first-place Harter trophy.

Mr. Parks, the first two-time winner in the annual July 4 Holmdel classic, also won a more practical prize, a jeroboam of champagne. who raises thoroughbreds, mulled the possibilities of mating the winner with one of my prize brood mares. It could mow the lawns at the track. Neal Caldwell of Middle-town, was handicapper for the vehicles entered, with an assist from former Holmdeler Robert Lagno.

Mr. Lagno, in a fit of nostalgia, returned yesterday from his present home in Morristown' to help with the race. Another Middletowner, Gary Figdore, was the Foul Practices' and Dirty Deeds Chairman, whose duty it was to ferret out infractions of the lengthy rules outlined by Rules Chairman Chuck Boak of HolmdeL Sweetbriar Swamp thus remains the only racing swamp sanctioned by ULTRA (Unlimited Lawn Tractor Racing Association) to which Messrs. Hart and May are the only officials. Observing the start of the classic, signaled by one hand-cast ball from A1 Tregers Tower-made English officers gun, was a crowd of about 150, ranging from the mayor ot Musishima, Japan, to Bill Mdore, owner of Three Brooks Farm which hosted the competition.

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