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1972 2 Daily Record, Saturday, July 1, As si 133, 700 power cutoffs noted by system Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. reported that total service interruptions to homes and businesses caused by hurricane Agnes reached 133,700 with the maximum at one time being 55,000 interruptions. Electric generating power forced out of service by the storm totaled nearly 1,700,000 kilowatts of a total of about 4,200,000. said that through restoration efforts it could be serving more Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre customers who are out-of-service but that the customers' own facilities are not ready to be energized. Around-the-clock efforts are pressing the company's Brunner Island Steam Electric Station in the Susquehanna River 15 miles below Harrisburg.

A full complement of personnel and crews from two outside contractors are working two 12-hour shifts in an effort to bring the plant's three generators back into service in three to six weeks. urged caution by persons returning to buildings which have been submerged partially or wholly. The company emphasized that water or dampness combined with electricity can be dangerous. Eastern York County is served by the far-flung system. 4 Oil carried off by flood 'M "'If i II 4'' til? I rj- i J.

It y- sfi pumping This pumper is shown near the intersection of Penns i. worKoui wun uie rctciii iiouuu PHILADELPHIA (AP) Last week's floods on the Schuylkill River brought about a huge oil spill "probably the worst inland oil spill in United States history," according to the U.S. Coast Guard The water rose five feet above the level of lagoons where an rains came last week. Engine equipment in service in York Record Photo) 4 Haggling weir estimated eight million gallons of oil sludge and water were stored near Douglasville, "and swept them pretty much clean," Lt. Bruce Herman, public information office for the Coast Guard at Gloucester, N.J., said Thursday.

The thick sludge was deposited along a 20-mile stretch of the river, coating houses, lawns, cars and farmland from Douglasville through Pottstown to Phoenixville, about 20 miles west of here. The river rose 20 feet above its normal level in some places, and sludge deposits high up in trees mark the high-water line. The oil slick pushed through Philadelphia and into the Delaware River, Herdman said. A helicopter survey Wednesday evening showed the slick had almost reached Wilmington, he added. It was the second time in less than two years that sludge had escaped from the lagoons of Berks Associates, a firm which refines used crankcase oil.

The heavy sludge is the residue of the refining process. "It's not a matter of negligence in this case," Herman said. He said Berks had rebuilt the lagoon walls, and they held through last week's record flooding. Herman said the Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency were cooperating in putting oil collection booms in two locations to protect the Tinnicum Wildlife Preserve and to keep the oil from entering the intake of Phoenixville's water system. Andrew Davis, left, attorney for United States chess star Bobby Fischer talks with a chess official, Chester Fox, on his arrival Friday in Reykjavik, Iceland, where Fischer is due for a world championship match against Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

Fischer, still in New York, is reportedly holding out for more money. AP) Scholarship plan for veterans passed by House HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The House unanimously approved a program of scholarships for veterans Friday, appropriating an additional $1.4 million to the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency to get the plan off the ground. The bill was sent on to the Senate. A veteran would qualify if he was honorably discharged after Jan.

1, 1955, after serving at least 180 days, or was discharged from active duty because of disability connected with his service. In either case, the veteran would have to have been a resident of Pennsylvania for the year preceding his service and have taken up residence in Pennsylvania following discharge. The scholarships would apply only to these higher education institutions within the state. The scholarship amount would be equal to tuition and fees for a full academic year or $1,200, whichever figure is less. The House Appropriations Committee expected about 1,750 veterans to qualify.

i I I 4 '4 I 1 1 Weathermen defend flood watch effort i i i i -ill i I 7 1 i 1 V4 I hf I 1 l.WMJIl WHI'W. and how improvements can be made." White specifically defended the Weather Service's activities at Pittsburgh, where torrential rain "struck with devastating suddenness" and caused a swift rise of water in a sleeping city. Silvio Simplicio, director of the service's eastern region and responsible for weather and flood forecasting in the East, said the Ohio. River forecast center in Cincinnati where computers process information was closed at 11:30 p.m. June 22, several hours after normal closing times.

The Boston office had been watching the storm at that time, he added. A change in direction of the storm developed after 9 p.m., a fact that became clear by midnight, but it was not clear that the storm was going to head directly west toward Pennsylvania, Simplicio said. WASHINGTON (AP) The flood-warning system "responded promptly and well but it was stretched to the absolute maximum" by the erratic movements of killer storm Agnes, the nation's top weatherman testified Thursday. During a week when the East got enough rain to fill a deep lake the size of Washington, D.C., "our people served to the very limits of human endurance, day and night" in an effort to save lives and property, Robert M. White told a congressional subcommittee.

White, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also advised the House government activities subcommittee he has named a high-level flood warning survey team to "determine in detail the manner in which the system performed and to discover where 1 Orcr ie rapids Overcome Seventeen-year-old Girl Scout Janet Frink, West Point. wipes away tears of happiness after meeting Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the President's daughter, in the White House East Garden Friday. Julie received 125 Girl Scout national award winners. Janet said she cried because she didn't think such a thing could happen to a farm girl. (AP) Robin Case, 19, of Woodri1; N.Y., from the rock where she rock, swam the rapids to reach upset.

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