The World-News from Roanoke, Virginia • 1

lair air and pleasant through tomor row low tonight in the mid 50s and a high tomorrow in the upper 70s De tails on Page 3 15 Cents World 'News Roanoke Virginia Tuesday August 3 1976 Vol No 87th Year tjuicklinc 3 14 1555 bee Page II Identity of disease Photo by Pat Matheny to Elvis Message Prominent realtor See Identity Pg 2 Col 2 ip Council Victims dies at 45 names 3 of flood to board rescued John Glasgow See Board Pg 2 Col 2 City council at glance The See Victims Pg 2 Col 2 Lewis Nelson Jr Max Berman Management change possible inside today Study ordered on civic center Teresa Amos 16 confronts her at the Roanoke Civic Center Other stories and pictures from the Elvis Presley con A report on a study of the civic center by consultant Robert Kent dated June cert which drew a capacity crowd last night on Pages 11 and 15 The family requests that flowers be omitted and donations be made to Har grave Military Academy All the deaths were in Pennsylvania with the exception of one Philadelphia man Burial will be at Evergreen Cemetery at 11 am Thursday There will be a grave side service Creation of an independent commis sion has been discussed for years however and has been recommended in some stud ies over the years Glasgow was born in Roanoke and at tended Hargrave Military Academy He served in the United States Air orce as an intelligence specialist with the Alaskan Air Command and the Strategic Air Command He went into the real estate business in Roanoke in 1955 He later became a partner in Coleman Mastin Glasgow In 1969 he opened his own firm Glasgow Realtors Appointed three members to the school board Page I Bridge Business Comics Crossword Editorials Jumble Arrangements arc being handled by Roanoke Chapel Surviving are his wife Mrs Barbara Curtin Glasgow one daughter Mrs Debo rah Padgett of Roanoke: two sons John Glasgow Jr and Kevin Glasgow both of Roanoke his mother Mrs Henry Glasgow of Salem one brother Henry Glasgow Jr of Salem Delayed action on widening Colonial Avenue threatening a traffic snarl when new 23rd Street opens shortly Page 5 Decided that a consultant should be considered to update information on park ing fees at the new garage Page 11 Named a blue ribbon committee to study long range goals Page 5 Decided there should be only one city i ambulance service and took miscellaneous other actions Page 4 Viking arm reaching for more of soil Evacuation of wounded from Beirut commenced matters and on potential litigation to which the city might become a party After the hour's meeting Taubman said it concerned Haner's denial of Mitch request to take 60 days of claimed compensatory time starting this month and until retirement eb 1 After the denial last week Mitchell opted for immediate retirement He has retirement benefits of more than $800 a month because of his 33 years of city service Taubman said Haner had been told to try to resolve the matter of compensatory time During the open meeting council also referred to Haner a resolution from the civ ic center commission supporting the prac tice of holding back tickets from public sale provided they are used for promotion of the city or civic center By MAG PO Staff Writer A three member city council commit tee has been named to study a possible change in the administration of the Roa noke Civic Center The committee was appointed yester day on a motion by Councilman Hampton Thomas who said the retirement of Rex Mitchell as civic center manager is an time" to explore other meth ods of operation Thomas said the committee should study creation of an independent commis sion to operate the center answerable ei ther to city council or to the city manager or to both All methods of operation should be considered Thomas said including the present method of operating the civic cen ter as a department of the city Besides the 77 confirmed dead author ities said 260 persons were injured an esti mated 559 were unaccounted for and the search for the dead was just beginning Officials' said the 12 foot wall of water unleashed by the flood was so powerful that many of the dead were found with their bodies stripped of clothing One body was found 15 miles downstream from the canyon mouth President ord declared the 2 700 square mile county a federal disaster area Monday making local residents eligi ble for federal relief assistance But Colorado Gov Richard Lamm said it would take three years and $10 million just to rebuild US 34 the once scenic route that wound 30 miles down the canyon from Estes Park east to Loveland TC drug probe centers on wider use of generics If a do tor prescribes a name brand drug for his patient should a pharmacist be allowed to sell the patient a less costly drug that is chemically the same? The ederal Trade Commission launched a probe on Monday for an answer to that question The investigation will de termine whether consumers would gain from wider use of the so called generic or common name drugs instead of relying on brand names know right now But there's no 'reason to panic everyone should realize that" More than one million people from throughout the world are gathered in Phila delphia this week for the Homan Catholic International Eucharistic Congress Con gress officials said they had no plan to cur tail activities The Center for Disease Control an arm of the US Public Health Service dis patched a three man medical investigative team to Pennsylvania Two other virus ex perts from the CDC were already in the state Dr Michael Gregg director of the cen ter's Viral Disease Division said the symp toms reported by victims are similar to influenza but it was too early he said to say whether it was swine flu One recruit died when several hundred soldiers at ort Dix NJ contracted swine flu early this year The outbreak prompted plans for a nationwide immunization cam paign this fall The program is bogged down on issues of insurance protection for the drug companies producing the vaccine for immunization Most of those stricken in Pennsylvania were delegates to the Legion convention although some wives and children who at tended with delegates have also fallen ill More than 10000 legionaires attended the convention Bachman said the number of dead and sick in the outbreak will not be known until a statewide hospital by hospi tal survey is finished "It may take some time to find all the victims" he said from it may have been listed as something else I don't think gotten all the deaths yet I'm sure find more" Lelia Stalker and Max Berman have been appointed to the Roanoke School Board along with Lewis Nelson Jr who was named to a new three year term They were elected yesterday by Roa noke City Council following a procedure requiring applications public notice and a public hearing Only five of the 15 applicants were ac tually nominated yesterday The others were Roy Jarrett a real estate man who received the vote of only Robert Garland and Lilian Hagan who has served one term PASADENA Viking 1 the ro bot detective probing strange activity in the soil of Mars should get more clues from a second handful of dirt to be dug from the rust colored surface The sample will be studied by a tester that could help determine whether Martian life or merely an unusual chemical pro cess is causing the activity that had scien tists baffled Monday 10 fool mechanical armwas to reach for a handful of soil today If success fully deposited in one oi the chambers in Viking's automated experimental package the dirt could yield some clues later this week The instrument a gas chromato graph mass spectrometer will search for molecules of organic matter which if found in sufficient amounts and complexity would strongly suggest living organisms are present John Glasgow 45 a well known Roanoke real estate man died last night of an apparent heart attack Glasgow of 4982 ox Ridge Road was the head of two local real esta te firms and was a general partner in Jeffersop Limited Partnership which owns the new irst National Exchange building other firms were Glasgow Realtors a concern with offices on rank lin Road which deals primarily in residen tial real estate and Glasgow Realtors Investment Management Co which has offices downtown and manages and leases commercial properties He was appointed to a five year term on the Virginia Real Estate Commission by Gov Linwood Holton and still had 11 months to serve He was on the board of Hargrave Mili tary Academy He held a number of offices with real estate associations served as president'of the Roanoke Valley Board of Realtors and was designated a Certified Commercial Investment Member by the National Institute of Real Estate Brokers Roman Catholics asked to eat less pray more Roman Catholics troubled by world hunger can help alleviate starvation malnutrition by eating less and praying more say church leaders who spoke to the 41st Eucharistic Congress global food problem concerns a fundamental right to life issue the people right to Bishop Janies Rausch of Washington general secretary of the US Catholic Conference said He said that na tions that have enough should share with those who HARRISBURG Pa (AP) Medical researchers today sought to identify an un known flu like disease that in the past four days has brought death to 19 persons who attended a state American Legion conven tion in Pholadelphia Health officals said there was no cause for panic Public health officials said the out break which has sent at least 50 other peo ple to the hospital may be the result of swine flu They said that they could not' now make a firm diagnosis suggesting viral pneumonia as another possible cause The ages of the dead ranged from 39 to 82 At least one death has been recorded of ficially as pneumonia Autopsies have been ordered in many of the deaths All of the victims experienced the same symptoms: headaches fever ranging to 107 degrees and chills These were followed in most cases by chest pains lung congestion and shortness of breath never seen anything like said state Health Secretary Leonard Bachman Blood samples and throat swabbings from the victims were sent to state health laboratories in Philadelphia and flown to the federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta for tests It will take two to three days to grow cultures from the samples These cultures could lead to identification of the disease Cases of the illness were reported throughout the state All the persons affect ed attended the 10 day Legion convention in Philadelphia that ended July 24 The first reports of illiness came last Monday the first death last riday It was the mounting death toll Monday that alarmed public health officials Bachman was asked if it could be swine flu a he said trying to pin it down but we Councilman Nicholas Taubman named chairman of the committee said he would call a meeting shortly perhaps next week Other members are Vice Mayor Elizabeth Bowles and Councilman Robert Garland who serve as council liaison members with the present advisory commission Some observers saw the study as a slap at City Manager Byron Haner who now supervises the center directly through a manager Haner had no comment on the situation today BEIRUT An International Red Cross convoy finally got through to the besieged Tai Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp today to evacuate wounded from the Moslem enclave in Christian east Beirut Moslem and Christian radio stations report ed The Beirut Radio reported that the first evacuee was brought out just before noon and that several more fol lowed soon after COAL MINING remains stalled due to widespread walkout Page 4 COL WILLIAM PRESTON Revolutionary hero began rise to prominence at an early age Page 5 READERS sound off on utility rates and many other topics on the Opinion Page (6) SALEM pitcher Mike Kavanaugh making a come back after suffering serious injury Page 8 AMERICAN MOTORISTS find ing traditionally free road maps not so plentiful and not always free Page 11 LOVELAND Colo iAi Searchers switched from recovering the living to look ing for the dead today in devastated Big Thompson Canyon where officials said the death toll from a flash flood could climb far higher than the 77 known fatalities Larimer County Sheriff Robert Watson said the death figure could reach 200 knows buried in all this silt? Some farmer will dig down in his corn patch some day and find a the sher iff said lying close to the craggy canyon walls military helicopter pilots Monday evening terned to safety all remaining sur vivors who wanted to leave The popular Colorado Rockies vacation spot had been turned into a death trap by a torrential downpour Saturday night survivors refused to leave their mountain homes" Watson said were in good shap? and thought they could do more good where they were" who died in North Carolina during a post convention trip to lorida the few households we have con tacted we have found no secondary spread to family said Dr William Par kin chief of the state Health epidemiology section may be the exception rather than the rule as we get more information I say there will be transmissions from American Legionnaires to people they are in contact with We have not had any cases like that yet" The convention was headquartered at one of Philadelphia's largest hotels al though delegates stayed in at least six dif ferent hotels There were fears of food poisoning but that was ruled out The symptoms were not similar to those of food poisoning haven't been able to pin down yet whether the men who died were together Some probably met at the sessions of the convention itself but we know whether any of them spent any outside time together" said Joseph Adams com mander of the state American Legion Legion officials and state health offi cers urged any persons with the symptoms of the disease to contact a hospital worried about the people who may be carrying around this disease and not know it" said Adams He said he was particularly worried about people who have a temperature or a headache and just take a couple of as pirin and don't do anything about it Those are the people we want to get to a hospi tal" Richard Dolan 42 was the only survi vor of a threesome from the central Penn The World Today 1975 recommended continuation of the present method of operation mere change front this type of or ganizational structure to some other form will not solve the present problem of the Roanoke Civic Center" Kent wrote He suggested that the cause" of the cen ter deficit elsewhere" but most of the recommendations Kent made then have not been enacted by council The report cited misunderstandings in management of the center with commis sion members interfering in daily opera tions and council nol seriously considering the advice of the commission Kent said management may also fail to listen to the advisory commission On motion council also held a dosed session on certain personnel Roanoke City Council met yesterday and look the following actions: Heard that if will be mid December be fore a close estimate is available on unanti cipated revenue from the citywide real estate reassessment Page 11 Named a committee to study alterna tive means of administration of the Roa noke Civic Center Page I AN IRISH PUB is 'THE TABLES MAY ee ResSRvep but me PATRONS A' N'T that killed 19 sought rom wire dispatches British dishwasher uses train as traveling motel BLACKPOOL Phyllis og den a dishwasher in a restaurant at the Blackpool seaside spends every night trav eling around northwest England on six trains away on train after train is just perfect I sleep like a log and every one is so said the 51 year old spins ter Miss ogden buys a runa ticket for $1242 a week that entitles her to unlimited travel over a section of the railway network Every night she takes the 8:40 from Blackpool east to Preston changes to the 9:52 going north to Carlisle takes the 1:30 a south to Wigan and heads north again ar 3 am to Barrow in urness Arriving there at 5:50 she walks in the park and eats the breakfast she takes with her feeds the pigeons and then boards the 8:40 south to Preston At Preston she has time for a cup of tea before catching the 9:06 west to Blackpool and work at 11 am Miss ogden said she took Io the rails because cheaper than a rooming house know this lady well She is a val ued a spokesman for British Rail said today Miss Leha Stalker I III A HI HHBr HHr Hi WRil I Kk iMff 2 i 'a 'x 1 i i a war i I ftaSwEww 'S' 1 Baa tea llPr" 4 i fSI Bl? 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