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NEWCASTLE NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 112 Advice offered to flood victims I.Ji IIAKHISHIIKG (UPII-About der water. Do not conned the 2G0.0O0 displaced persons In appliances until the lloo: and Pennsylvania will be asking sockets are bone dry. Do not these questions soon when they turn on the power until the base-rclurii to their Hood-swamped ment is. pumped. Be alert for homes.

gas fumes. Do not light match-Here are some of the answers es and call the utility company. from (lie Civil Defense: WHAT ABOUT PLOftDKI) 'HB" '''''V'V 9 I mtmFiM "MM i I i if when i rbturn kooi TO MY HOME? Destroy all unpacked Not until it is totally safe, f.o- hotlled food or food packaged cal authorities will advise you. in plastic or other packaging rna- 0: ask a building inspector to terials. can goods look at it.

can be used il (hey are dunked WHAT SHOULD I DO WHEN in a laundry bleach solution for Show of power UELFAST (UPI) Irish Republican Army (IRA) militants escalated their attacks today, giving a final show of power before putl ing aside their arms for a ceasefire that could he an important step toward peace in Northern Ireland. cease-fire goes info effect at midnight (7 p.m. EOT). Both branches of the IRA and the British army have agreed to observe the truce. However, IIIA sources said the militant Provisional wing of the IRA was going all-out in the final houis before the ceasepfirc, presumably show they were not forced lo observe it because of weakness.

Six persons were killed in a weekend of violence, ir.i'iuding three British soldiers whose Landrover touched off a mine. A 17-year-old Roman Catholic youth war. shot from a passing auto in Belfast Saturday, and two men were kilted in Belfast shooting incidents Sunday. all, 33!) persons have heen killed In the three years of Ulster violence. IRA sources said the Provisionals, after going all out in the final hours before the truce, auld strictly enforce the cease-fire once it was in effect.

1 HEi 1I1E11L? at least one minute. Look for buckled walls, loose Do not retrceze frozen feed backs, cracks or shifting of the that has (hawed. Throw il out '4. foundation if it has been thawed ur more if HOW DO I START CLEANING than fuur hours. Wash ah food UP? utensils and dunk them ir.

Remove all ramaining mud. dry bleach solution fur at leas: silt and debris. on may have one minute. to scrape the mud off flooded sur- WHEN CAN I DRINK THE faces with a shuvel Then, wash WATER'' down the walls baseboards, Until you nie told the Water floors in a solution of laundry is safe, bull it far five minute; bleach two ounces of bleach to in a clean container. The flat I two gallons of water.

taste of boiled water can he cor- Rugs, upholstered furniture, reded hy shaking it in a bottle automobile upholstering and or pouiing it from one container other household articles should to another Jj be thoroughly washed with soap Wells cannot he disinfected en- and water and exposed to sun til the flood waif rs have reccd and air unlil thoroughly dry. ed. To riiscnfect. mix two quarts Birthdays FIRE FIGHTERS A fire chief and his assistant wade through water shouting commands lo a crew fighting a fire late Friday in Harrisburg. UP1 11 Normal laiiiidwing and drv of commercial laundry bleach People have been WOnderfUl cleaning should take care or with 10 gallons of water and ilwnniii.

ClOtlliHL1. beddine and similar nnnr tlif rnnlot-K rtmm lli u.p'.' ii items. If they have been conta- Heplacc the well cover and turn rninnted with sewage, they the water lap until you should he rinsed in laundry chlorine. bleach solution. Then, turn off the wale: and iji Priest looks over damage 1r.

WHAT HHtJlll.l) I DO WITH fin not use lor eigtil hours. 1LKES-B ARR2.S. Pa. (UPf) peak of the flood Across the in class room books aior.e," DEBRIS: Finally, open all taps and flush -The Rev. Uobert Shila looked street stood the new Bishop Ho- said the priest, unable to csti- All waste from flood water out all the chlorine.

Keep flush- I oyer the ruins cl this deserted gaii High School. mate what the lota: damages should be taken to a landfill. If ing until chlorine odor has dis- city of 56.000. they were going lo move in would he. you cannot gel to one.

burv was appeared. CLslerns may be dean- "JOU Should have seer: il the le at least two ferl under ed in the same ivav Si "Look over there." Shilala said there Ihis fall, hut it looks like from the foot of the South Street we'll be SDendinfi another year night we evacuated." the stout ground. IF YOU CANNOT CO HOME rsnnge. ina. old St.

at old St. Mary s. Slnlala said, priest said. "We nad -Jd pecple WHAT IE MY BASEMENT IK YOU NEED ADD1TICN- Mary's High School." The water line could be seen The water from the swollen at the second floor of Uic newly Susquehanna River reached the constructed school, second floor of the school at the "I guess we about 521,000 I I I thnught they were safe. Safe.

Do not pump il fno quickly. Information Offices which open Look at it. Look at that water." The pressure of Ihe ground around the slate at noon today. The old people didn't wart lo around the basemenl could Flood victims do nol need pro-go." he said. "We to carry push the walls in.

leciinn from typhoid (ever, teta-one crippled lady to the roof. WHAT ABOUT UTILITIES? nus or hepatitis. Danger HARUISBURG (UPI) Govs. Milton J. Shapp of Pennsylvania and William T.

Cahill o( New Jersey both turned 60 years old Sunday. Cahill and Shapp met here, but there was no time to celebrate. They met with three other governors lo discuss federal disaster aid. Shapp served pieces of his birthday cake during the meeting. "I'm three hours older than Gov.

Cahill," Shapp told re-iorters. "What makes me the senior governor." He said June 24. the day before his birthday, is becoming a bad day (or him. Last June 24. Pennsylvania's 3.5 per cent income tax was declared unconstitutional Friday, also June 24, the state was experiencing the worst disaster of its history.

"Next year, I'm going to skip June 24," he said. Homes ordered HARRISBURG (UPI) More than 1800 mobile homes will he moved into Luzerne and Lackawanna ccunties to house families who lost their homes in the Wilkes-Barre area flood. The mobile units will he taken to stale parks and the (iisl 600 have been requisitioned from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urhan Development. A total of 750 units have been oidercd sent lo Francis Slocum State park; 400 units at Hickells Glen State Park; 3j0 at Lackawanna State patk; and 340 uniU at Gr-ldsburo and Tobyhanna slate panss.

It was estimated hy state and civil defense officials that il would be at least one week fur the units lo he gathered for delivery. Student killed WARREN, Ohio (UPI) Timothy Canter, 10, Warren, a student working his way through school, was killed early today in an appaieul jobbery attempt at a service station where he worked. Police said Canter was killed by a single bullet tlnough the head. Officers said it was not detei mined if any money was taken in the shooting, the second or its kind within a month. Herbert Buke, 40.

was killed last iiionlh during a seivice station holdup here. locq ouarasmen A professional should check these illnesses is extremely any appliance fhat has been un- mote. wnere a nencopicr picxea ner up." But Shilala, who came from nearby Hazleton to offer help, noted that the best in human nature has been revealed dur monitoring radios Local Pennsylvania Armv Local euuidsmen ing the three days of toil in this National Guardsmen of picked un cots from federal flooded city. Headquarters Hatlalion. 229th supplies at the storage rave near "The people have been won- Field Artillery at the Frank Ave.

Wanipimi and transported tlicin derful, opening their doors to far victims of flooding over the International Airport where food." weekend in other areas of the Pennsylvania Air National V.mrA liu a uw. slate. aircraft flew them to Harrisburg, prjcst3 WLrc in front of SI Ni- Friday afternoon. Warrant Jhe missiftn "Klk. cholas Church watching as Ar- Officer R.

Gillian was notified t01ianaa nail nours. my engineers and hundreds of that 24-hour shifts were to be en teenagers fought desperately to 'established to monitor the monUorrag the emergency radio save Ihe city from the mighty military support radio network network and will continue to du Susquehanna. irhioh linVc un-ii. so utltJ' notification ha he winch links all Pennsylvania "There were some hippy- National Guard headquarters. I rl (teaks down (here.

They vvere Here's a big reception NILES, Ohio (UPI) -John J. Cafaro and his bride the former Janet Lynne Silvestti will never forget their wedding reception. The bride, who wanted a reception she couldn't forget, got one that cost her father 540,000. Her father, Youngstown contractor George Silvestri, rented a shopping center mall here owned by the bridegroom's falher William Cafaro. The shopping center was decorated with a party atmosphere within 60 minutes after the last shopper left the mall Saturday night.

Bandleader Sammy Kaye provided music for the reception after the couple had exchanged vows in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Dean. Warrant Officer Charles woritine aM niEht lo.n.i P'1! up it is rri-'l "Vi channel aid to needed. Damage i viewed by Fox (Cnntinued from page 1) another. At numerous department stores, mannequins dressed in once beautiful clothing lay scattered in disarray and several had been washed headlong onto the muddy sidewalk.

One. in a nurse's uniform, stood undisturbed out inudstained from the waist down. At the Pocuno Downs race brack emergency headquarters had been set up. The owner. Ed Gilkey, had turned over r.ll the facilities and he himself coordinated activities.

Evacuee; had been hrought here, logged in, and their dcpai lure recorded as they wenl to stay with friends and relatives, so that other relatives would know of their location. lng lines awaited inoculations nd the public address system kept urging all who had 'drunk water ur swam or woiked in the flood water" reporl for inoculations. The center ol the oval was the helicopter landing aiea. and many icfugces were brought in Gillespie. S.

Sgt. William baSs aamst 11 was Perretta. S. SeI. Anthonv Elisco.

Martha leaving Mitchell THURMONT, Md. (UPH-Marttn Mitchell says she loves her husband "very much" but is "leaving him until lie decides to leave" President Nixon's reelection organization, Mrs. Mitchell told of her decision Sunday in a tearful telephone call lo this reporter. She made the call from the Westchester Country Club at Rye, N.Y., her former home. I She complained that she had become "a political prisoner" and "can't stand" any more of the lite she has heen leading since her husband, John, left his job as attorney general to direct Nixon's campaign, "It's horrible to me," she i said.

"I have been through so much. 1 don't like it. Martha isn't going lo sland fur it." 5 Mrs. Milcliell referred to an earlier call she made Thursday 5 night from California. She said a security agent for the rc election committee "pulled Ihe telephone out of the i wall' to stop her from lalking.

"1 hope you print that," she snid. "To have this character come in and pull the telephone out of the wall." 'i III the Thursday call, Mrs. Mitchell threatened to leave her husband unless he gave up politics, She said she was in her if bed in her bedroom at her villa at Newport Heach, when if' the incident occurred, if "If you could see me, you wouldn't believe it," she said, "I'm black and blue. I'm a political prisoner." She said her husband suggest-jji ed she remain in California. 5 I'm leaving him until he decides lo leave the campaign." f- she said.

"I love my husband very much, bill I'm not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on." Hijacker search is continued I PERU, Ind. OJPD-A hijack-j er who hailed out of a jetliner fi with SoOa.uflO ransom remained the object of an intensive manhunt today, even though authorities did nol know if he was still in the sparsely populated area Search teams on foot, on 6 horseback and in boats and iji; helicopters combed an area southeast of Peru but found no trace of Ihe man. money or ii parachute. i Sgt. John Gaylor, commander of the state police post, said reports of the hijacker ir.g a ride or otherwise getting out of the aTea had been checked out and the results were negative.

"But wc can't be 1D0 per cent ijj certain he's still around here," Gaylor said. "However, on the assumption he's still here, the search is continuing and we're looking for the subject, dead or ijj alive" ii? James F. Martin, special agent in charge of the FBI al Indianapolis, assumed field command of Ihe search, which il utilized a combination of 3f approaches. i Some volunteer horseback ft riders, accompanied by a state police officer, joined the fj: manhunt Sunday (o search a wooded stale recreation area Si near the Mississincwa Reser-voir. Most of the 150 searchers, however, were on fool.

I Although it was possible the ji hijacker came down in the lj- reservoir, officers if. ruled out dragging operations as impractical. Instead, the conservation officers manned boals on the waters of the huge, man-made lake, Authorities said It was possible the hijacker's para-g chute didn't open when he :3 hailed out of the American Si Airlines 727 Jetliner Saturday, The hijacker was described as about 30, with long, dark Si hair, a pockmarked face and wearing green trousers with a i light brown or gold sports jacket. He was carrying a weapon the FBI said amwrenllv Offices closed Guardsmen also used the Sgt. Howard Turner, Sgt.

George But the swollen Susquehanna network lo help get information Miller and Sgt. dene King. won the battle, sending murky for the many local residents who The local unit, commanded by water gushing over the dikes called to inquire about relatives Lt. Col. Glen K.

McCarl, will and info the first floor of St. in the disaster areas. leave for their annual summer Nicholas Church. A newly cam-Sleeping cots for flood encampment, at Camp Drum, pleted rectory was a total loss, refugees were requested by N.Y. on July 1 and return about The 180-vear-old parish, the old-authorities in Central July 15.

Ahoul 60 area men will est in Wilkes-Barre. sustained Pennsylvania on Saturday participate in the field training. major damage. Future seen bright for Money set for massive cleanup Federal help is promised HAItRlSBURG. Pa.

lUPIi-A wrong. -This is nothing to Peterson and Carol! offered federal official assured the complain about," he said, help from their slates in governors of five stales Sunday "Congress has not yet in 22 cleanup operations in Pennsvl- that Congress will provide years failed to act on one of vania. Shapp accepted. work program County Commissioner Thomas tliHl t)n tiu' lrKk fron' of A Shumaker reported today the graml "loaded future looks brieht for the and willer- Ncw "miitj me mese appropriations. shapp said I uvuviAn convinced the nrenl 'eilernl Emergency Employment "'M uaiu irji.cr history of the eastern United before this vear is out we will disaster aid law.

beefed in Program for Lawrence County vveie among them. Boxes ol Stales. have a supplemental appropria- '90. is adequate "This next year HARUISBURG (UPI) Mosl stale offices will remain riosed until Wednesday, state Secretary of Administration Ronald G. Lench said Sunday.

The only employes directed to report to work are the Auditor General and Stale Treasurers departments, the capitol police, the bureau of grounds and buildings in the Department of Property and Supplies, and the bureau of employment security. Lench said other employes should stay at home unless contacted by llicir supervisors. "All employes who are not called into their offices are urged to register with their local civil defense or fire companies to assist in disaster relief work. "Those employes should he prepared to report their disaster relief activities tu their supervisors when they return to their jobs." Lench said workers at regional state offices should contact their local supervisors to find out if offices are open. Strike delayed HONOLULU (UPI1 The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union agreed to a cne-week delay in its threatened Hawaiian dock strike just three hours hefore more than TOO dock workers were scheduled to walk off Hawaii's docks today.

Gov. John A. Burns said the 1LWU and Hawaii's stevedoring industry had agretd lo "slop the clock" and cantinue "intensive negotiations" lor another week. The new deadline is Monday. 3.

The governor told a Sunday night news conference he has "every reason to believe that a contract will be reached" during the one-week extension. The longshoremen have been working without a new contract (or neatly a year. They said Friday the strike would be called for Sunday midnight (6 a.m. EDTl unless 3 new contract was reached The governor said he had called both sides to his home at 8:15 p.m. Sunday after learning that negotiations were deadlocked.

Burns said he suggested that both sides agreed to an 82-cent wage increase. The proposal was the same formula used lo settle the recent West Coast dock strike. The governcrs. airard that lion for disaster funds Lin- much large than anything aiiuiriawr along witn Koner federal aid wocli not cover the coin, who has seen 87 disasters since 0.e 1970 law was oht. county controller, and th c'DSiS damage of Hurricane Agnes, during die Ni.xon administra- wntten." he said.

The present Ear Hammond, emergency C' gathered in this state capital ion. called il the biggest flood is not gong to handle all einployment administrator (or mpn briefly to talk to Gen George ever lo hit the East Coast. our problems in Pennsylvania." the county, met Thursday and 'Tand baby doth "re Lincoln, director r.f the Office of Emergency Preparedness fOEPi. iMul-At antic Covemor Confer- window suned as a problem where It Sui SL renorted the Thelubhousl "There money is cor.ccrr.ed." com- ovs lon app Shapp aid he and Llr con discussed reporting the dining tables and chairs were plained Gcv Marvin Mandel of to urdmUrding tto requirements the county to and thepluih. thick Maryland He said the $92 -re Linwood tne slate ctruld start its cleanup comply with within the next 60 carpeted area was filled with million federal disaster fund of guild dnd Mandel.

n(w an(J wm aaVi to complete paperwork tot cols. Meanwhile the restaurant was "only 10 per cent of what Govs. Nelson Hockefellpr of tw Uior this year's nropram kitchen turned out hot meals fcr will be needed ir. Pennsylvania New York and Arch A. Moore "This is a he sa Also discussed were funding nood viclims here 3nA al clr-er alnne-" of West Virginia each sent "We cannot -akn -n or, and requirements for thecomine locations Too much praise the National Lincoln said Mandel was representatives.

through the normal channels J'ear along with chansine cannl be.5 guidelines and reculations. iitiumaker and his group also investigated other federal help nUUUI UCUUIC programs available Guard. Civil Defense, police and volunteers for their efforts. Ecderal aid of various kinds is on the way. We will be called upon on the state level lo fend programs of aid also.

But the greatest effort government can provide will be smali indeed compared to the loss sustained hy the victims in mud-soaked homes and business? Ar.it In r.ar employment wiuiin tne county. Catholic Day set Thursday 1 more then an hour. The Kentucky governor flew to Houston Sunday to be examined hy DeBakey. A Methodist Hospital spokesman said the 47-year-old Eord was LOS ANGELES (LTll-Wlien Bobby Fischer didn't show up in Heykjavidi. Iceland as enpeelsd Sunday there was concern he had changed his mind about meeting Russian Boris Spassky in the world chess championship there Ju.lv 2.

But Eisiher, in seclusion Wendell Ford County Catholic Day and personal possessions was postponed again yesterday damaged, ruined or lost expected to be in intensive care for about three days and shout.) oecnuse di tne rainy weather, it tm.COO world championship fed from 'the hospital dl be held Thursday at Cascade Moving troops WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon was bark in the White House today preparing for a busy week that will sec him announce a new troop withdrawal from Vietnam. Nixon spent the weekend at Camp David, flying back to the White House by helicopter Sunday evening with his Pal, and their daughter, Julie, and son-in-law, Oavid Eisenhower. Sometime this week. Nixon will announce the next U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam.

The force level will be reduced to 49,000 by July 1 Informed sources said Nixon was expected to maintain a residual force in Vietnam until the Communists agree lo a cease-fire and the release of U.S. prisoners of war. heriy. hflS eer intention of match will be played. The Catholic Day committee Fords tumcr-an sneer urn lURBKmmfi illPh I playing Sparry, a cness source uid tortav Like his game, HOUSTON (UPI l-Heart spe- of the abdominal aorla-was there was a forecast of continnrrf Baehman.

special health advis- howw, the exact time the cialist Dr. i)r. Michael UeBakcy discovered Jane 15 when the tain for Sunday er to Governor Milton Shapp. today operation on governor wa; examined for a fhi, r'. warns thai even'mii ir i PnnrivA American champiofi wilt make says hfc ikm Is unoerum Kentucky Gov.

Wendell Ford back injury he sustained scheduled lor last Wednesday! rci be careful about tnd worW etiess for removal of a tumor from an the Governor Cu; Hvdrolane Th m.r,m food end water at this lirrr. bn-e bm at odds over aooomiriai anery snoum oe Kegatta in Owensboro. planned for last Wednesday will of typhoid in fe ttmOtkm under which the standard and not take much four days before. time of floods are untrue. was a machine gun..

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