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The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 7

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Kansas City, Missouri
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Monday April 9 1973 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES 7 1 Mississippi Flood Crest Diverted the jones store company XS New Orleans Army engineers hoping to ease the flood threat at New Orleans yester-day pulled a 20-toot opening in the dike of the Bonnet Carre Spillway north of here diverting part of the Mississippi River into Lake Pontchartrain It was the first time since 1950 and the fourth time in 42 years that the river had been high enough to use the emergency floodway which is 32 miles upriver from the city Sen Russell Long (D-La operated the crane that caught hold of the first of 350 floodgates and pulled it up Workmen took over then and began i a i i more of the heavy wooden structures Army engineers said It would take 36 hours to all the but said they had no olans to work straight through On hand were dozens of dignitaries along with lines of sightseers sitting on the levees Use of the spillway expected to lower the river by 18 inches at the city rechannels river water into Lake Pontchartrain which is connected through a series of other lakes with the Gulf of Mexico was used to pull the timbers from the locks to allow the waters of tho Mississippi to flow into Lako Pon-chartrain (Wirephoto) The locks of the Bonnet Carre Spillway were opened for the first time in more than 20 years to ease the threat of flooding downriver at New Orleans The crane Locks Open heavy rains over most of the Southeast causing minor flooding in low areas In Augusta Ga about 100 homes were caught in high water but no major damage was reported al to Stephen Foster song writer Several roads leading to the community were closed and the US 41 bridge leading into town was impassable In addition US 441 in central Florida was closed because of The announcement came one day after heavy rains soaked much of the already sodden Mississippi River valley More than three inches fell over the river at New Orleans and strong tides and winds backed up the Mississippi waters an extra foot higher The same storm also dumped high water Officials feared they might also be required to close 1-75 around Lake City Fla In Florida the Suwanee River was 10 feet above flood stage at White Springs site of a memori- Pioneer II Tunes in on Jupiter the Mississippi River courses past New Orleans at almost 94 million gallons a second The Morganza spillway a second relief valve farther north is designed to channel river water into the Atchafalaya River basin but will remain closed a spokesman said The decision to leave it shut is under constant review he added At St Louis the flood situation eased but officials said persons who evacuated their homes should not return to them until the threat of more high water has passed The river crested at St Louis during the weekend and the high water was moving toward a crest of 40 feet at Chester 111 higher than a record set in 1951 Officials of the Army engineers announced yesterday the decision to open the spillway here They said the decision was based on Saturday's upward revision of the predicted crest at New Orleans and the potential danger of prolonged high water to New Orleans Because of the size of the lake 630 square miles officials said the river waters would make no change in the lake level and cause no flooding along the lakeshore The sudden influx of fresh water and silt was expected to wipe out seafood in the lake although and the seafood expected to return within months of the closing The Mississippi River was predicted to crest at 19 feet at New Orleans this Friday but forecasters said there was a possibility of higher levels caused by strong Gulf winds and tides Levees along the river average 20 feet The spillway lies about a mile downriver from Montz La where 44 families had to be moved last week because of weakening levees Army engineers are building a new backup levee where half the town stood a week ago The Bonnet Carre is a manmade cut more than a mile wide and 57 miles long which can carry 18 million gallons of water a second At flood stage Also activated was a fluxtube magnitometer which will measure the high magnetic fields when the spacecraft flies by Jupiter in December 1974 Scientists are planning a course correction later this week highly radioactive particles surrounding the solar largest planet radiation belt consisting of solar and galactic cosmic ray particles is believed to be a million times stronger than radiation belt Pasadena Calif Two more of the 12 experiments aboard Pioneer 11 were activated yesterday as the fastest spacecraft ever continued streaking toward Jupiter at a half million miles a day phone 471 -751 5 Israelis Sentence 2 In Slaying of Arab Supervising scientists here said all was well aboard the 570-pound craft which was launched Thursday from Cape Kennedy Pioneer 11 was expected to reach the 175-mil-lion-mile mark on its 620-million-mile journey by this mon Shwadashvili fatally beat Subthi en-Nazir 47 two months ago when they found him in a parked car with a Russian woman The woman Regi- Tel Aviv An Israeli court in Nazareth sentenced two Russian immigrants yesterday Ito five years imprisonment each for the second-degree murder of a local Arab man brew fresh coffee in 5-minutes with mr From cold water to riclvfull flavored coffee in just five minutes Mr Coffee's exclusive heating action automatically brews a 10-cup pot of coffee then keeps it at drinking temperature Freshly-brewed clear coffee flows from brewing funnel into heat-resistanTglass decanter 3999 head was beaten and her shaved Scientists activated a cosmic ray telescope that will measure Pincas Kozoshvili and Solo- phone orders collect to 471-7515 as early as 7 am 7-piece set beautiful club aluminum cookware and an electric slicer by rival Grind-O-Matic Grind fruits and vegetables fust as you want: two cutters for fine or coarse grinding: Ring collar locks on cutter seals in juices Instant food hopper release Slicer Automatic ease speed and perfection for every slicing job serrated blade slices wafer-thin to 34-inch Blade lifter thickness control Small Appliances Downtown and Suburbs 2998 each 2995 open stock value $4880 Cookware that looks as beautiful as It cooksdeliciously Cookvyare of solid cast aluminum with gleaming interiors stunning exteriors in avocado harvest or poppy Cooks with or without water lids are selfbasting 7-piece set includes: 1-qt covered sauce pan 1 12-qt covered sauce pan 4V2-qt covered Dutch oven 10-inch open skillet (Dutch oven cover fits skillet) Housewares Downtown Metcalf South and Blue Ridge Mall stores I 4.

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