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i II a i 1 1 1 1 i i I if SINGLE COPY 15c Home Delivered 6 Days 7oc 132ND YEAR NO. 76 FINAL EDITION SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1972 (fo ri2 r3 I I ft 7 ffl temporarily joined thousands of volunteer and Civil Defense workers. A DAM BROKE in Elmira, N. forcing 26,000 persons to flee. The U.

S. Amy Corps of Engineers opened the flood gates at Mt. Morris Dam in New York, and a volume of water equal to that of Niagara Falls' American falls thundered over the spillways. By UP International The most extensive floods in U. S.

history rampaged through a vast area of the Northeast Friday in the wake of tropical storm Agnes. President Nixon declared five states disaster areas. At least 77 persons were dead in Agnes' destructive path from Cuba through Florida and the Carolinas to New York. Damage was estimated at more than a billion dollars. More than a quarter of a million persons fled their homes.

In Pennsylvania, the raging Susquehanna River, 10 feet above AP Wirephoto Rampaging Susquehanna Chases Dike Workers sandbagging proves Mile at Wilkes-Barre, and river pours in Signs Bill; 4 STATUTE MItB' CANADA iTI "VACtM" I Jf. A CORNING, OlfAN Allxmy RSIDTS I FIOOD WARNINGS BarrT Jlk POSHDfOn ALL Alloono VsunburT PITTSBURGH Hn.rhu.X PHIlADElPH'A 1 nwashingtonJj 3 DEI. VIRGINIA Jfaffl 5 'ATE I RICHMOND fl "SS If Si Atlantic Donvillc w.iii I Norlolk Ocoon N. CAROLINA jA will "go to the people" during the campaign to support a constitutional amendment. The new law actually contains three antibusing provisions, two of which were originally designed to cut off federal funds for busing and to restrict the power of the federal government to force local compliance with busing plans, but which were made largely ineffective by the terms of the final House-Senate compromise.

The third, to Mr. Nixon addressed his comments, postpones the effective date of any federal court order requiring busing until the time for all appeals has been exhausted. ill ITT 'fc rSS: Nixon chool its Its WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon signed the $21.3 billion education bill Friday but accused Congress of "clever political evasion" by adopting what he called Inadequate antibusing provisions. The administration has called the education funding authorization a "landmark achievement in supporting projects from elementary to graduate school." But Mr. Nixon vehemently attacked the provision that would halt for 18 months any busing ordered by the federal courts until all appeals had been exhausted.

He called it "inadequate, misleading and entirely unsatisfactory" and declared if the proposal had come to him as a separate measure "it would have received an immediate veto." The antibusing provisions will permit school districts to seek a halt in busing plans now in operation if the order requiring them still can be appealed legally. The provision would affect few cities in the South, where most busing appeals have already been exhausted. Some opponents of the provision in Congress had said the measure is unconstitutional on the grounds that Congress cannot stay a court MR. NIXON SAID that he asked Congress several months ago to help him resolve "the spreading social crisis that has arisen in this nation as a result of massive court-ordered busing of public schoolchildren for the purpose of racial integration." He said Congress has provided virtually no guidance or relief and has dumped this burning social issue into the lap of the next Congress. "Not in the course of this administration has there been a more manifest congressional retreat from an urgent call for responsibility," Mr.

Nixon declared. The President said Congress had offered only a temporary and limited stay instead of the moratorium he asked on new federal court- ordered school busing until new standards were set up to apply equally in the North and South. Mr. Nixon said adroit drafting of court orders could circumvent the application of this law. And he declared that "this action by the Congress can be construed, not unfairly, as a breathing spell designed less for the harassed school districts of this country than for congressmen themselves." Mr.

Nixon still plans to push his own proposals that also include the drawing up of new uniform national desegregation standards for all districts. They also include use of court-ordered busing to integrate schools only as a last resort and limiting any future court-ordered busing of schoolchildren in the kindergarten through sixth grade age groups. HOWEVER, the chance for the Nixon legislation was viewed as "not a hopeful picture at the present time," by his chief domestic adviser, John Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman told a White House news conference that if Congress I doesn't act on the administration's antibusing proposals the President Coldest June 23 Friday was the coldest June 23 on record in the history of Greater Cincinnati weather. The record low was set when the temperature dropped to 45 degrees Friday morning.

The previous low of 46 degrees occurred on June 23, 1918. Weather bureau officials said the Ohio River will continue to rise gradually. A crest of 40.5 feet is expected by Wednesday. Flood stage at Cincinnati is 52 feet. The Win ticket tells fortune River Downs $3 Bet Wins $15,292.80 Mrs.

Robert Reeves blinked, beamed and grinned. Gripped protectively in her hands was a piece of cardboard worth $15,292.80. It represented her investment of $3 on a quinella ticket Friday at River Downs. It was believed to be the largest quinella payoff in North American racing history. Mrs.

Reeves, of Grove City, Ohio, paid her money and took her choice the 4-12 combination because "I just like to play long-shots." The winning quinella numbers were 4-12 In the fourth race. Mrs. Reeves, whose husband Is a former rider and now a horse owner, would have won the huge quinella if the order of finish had been reversed to 12-4. THE OBJECT in a quinella Is for the bettor to pick the first two horses. It's a win regardless of whether the two horses run 1-2 or 2-1.

As Mrs. Reeves hugged her husband and held tight to that valuable ticket, River Downs officials were unable to find any records of a higher quinella payoff. She didn't care about that. She wasn't out to set a record. She was too engrossed with the boxcar figures on the infield tote board $15,292.80.

Her longshots were Honey's Carry Back, a 92-1 choice, and second-place horse Little Bit Cap, a 19-1 starter. Honey's Carry Back was No. 12. Little Bit Cap was No. 4.

"Maybe I'll buy a new car," Mrs. Reeves laughed, winking to her husband. "We're going up to Delaware. We may buy more horses, too." The sum Mrs. Reeves picked up on the quinella wasn't all the cash they left River Downs with.

Track officials said the Reeves held "a number" of tickets on their own horse, Button Stealer, which won the seventh race and paid $29.40. The.Winner Mrs. Reeves likes longshots btmnmm Iff 11 On Pages 29, 30: Picture page; related stories. flood stage, inundated the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, causing more than 200,000 persons to flee their homes. Floodwater poured through the state capital of Harrisburg.

Five thousand National Guardsmen were called out. In Virginia, the swollen James River flowed at a rate scientists said would not be equalled for 400 years. In Washington, the mighty Potomac rose toward a record crest. Even ns Mr. Nixon ordered the disaster designation for Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia, more rain was forecast for parts of those states and West Virginia.

"WE BELIEVE THE flooding from the Gulf Coast to New York is the most extensive in the country's history," said Dr. Robert White, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "It is certainly the largest flood of record." President Nixon also ordered all available aid to the District of Columbia, where drinking water was threatened and the Senate adjourned early so senators could get across the city's bridges before the Potomac reached flood crest. Twenty-nine persons were dead in Pennsylvania and more than 200,000 homeless, 165,000 in Wilkes-Barre alone. Gov.

Milton Shapp estimated damage at more than a billion dollars. In Virginia, 12 were dead and damage estimated at $160 million. In West Virginia, 1000 persons were homeless. Maryland counted 14 dead, 2000 homeless and damage in excess of $50 million. Four persons were dead and 26,000 homeless In western New York, where prisoners were released from state correctional institutes to help battle the flood waters.

TWO WERE DEAD in North Carolina and one in Delaware. Sixteen others died when Agnes ripped through Cuba and Florida earlier in the week. In New Jersey, an estimated $10 million in farm crops was destroyed. Nearly a thousand persons were evacuated in northern Ohio when the Chagrin River swept five feet over its banks. In Pennsylvania, Governor Shapp flew over the flooded cities of Wilkes-Barre, Kingston and Harrisburg and said: "The best way I can describe what we saw is a long, wide ribbon of destruction along the river.

The water covered homes, factories, farms, railroads, churches." More than 3000 residents were evacuated from Harrisburg, the state capital. Swirling muddy water covered the first floor of the $2.4 million governor's mansion and. firemen watched helplessly from rqwboats as flames destroyed a block of houses nearby. The Harrisburg News and Patriot reported 12 to 14 feet of water in its pressroom. About 150 large pleasure boats were washed away from their moorings on the Allegheney River near Pittsburgh and splintered when the loodwaters carried them over a dam.

Drinking water was contaminated in the flood areas and residents were told to boil it before using. In Virginia, as the swollen James River poured into downtown Richmond, Gov. Linwood Holton said such a disaster "has not been witnessed by this commonwealth in this century it is beyond the capability of the state and local governments A 20-block area of downtown Richmond was turned into a lake in which two-story buildings were nearly submerged. In Fairfax County, 100,000 homes were without water and another 400,000 were operating on an "absolutely minimal supply." Across the rich farm land of southwest New York state, three cities and dozens of hamlets and villages were ordered evacuated. State police, National Guardsmen and "nonviolent" prisoners freed $3 Million Job For GE Enquirer Washington Bureau Washington A $3 million contract went to General Electrlc's Evendale plant Friday from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help develop methods to cut the noise of aircraft engines.

The FAA Instructed GE to "determine the acoustic technology that must be developed to provide a high-speed aircraft system that can operate within expected noise regulation standards." Heaviest U. S. Bombing Routs Viet Troops north of Hue, the country's old imperial capital and third largest city. Military spokesmen said the U. S.

Navy hit the area with its biggest naval bombardment since the Korean War and fighter-bombers swooped in for 137 strikes causing massive fires, one reported more than a mile high. It was the most concentrated bombardment by U. S. forces In the war. The U.

S. Command also reported heavy air strikes In North Viet SAIGON (UPI) A Communist regiment that crossed South Vietnam's defense line north of Hue was pounded by unprecedented U. S. naval and air bombardment Friday and one South Vietnamese officer said he saw demoralized Communist troops throw yddwn their weapons and run. BATTLEFIELD REPORTS said an estimated 100 Air Force B52 heavy bombers dropped more than 2500 tons of bombs on Communist troops on both sides of the My Chan River defense line in Quang Tri Province in Northeast South Vietnam.

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Details, Map on Page 10 Skyjacker Gets Ransom Money nam and that Air Force F4 Phantom jets knocked down their second Soviet-built MIG 21 In as many days. A VETERAN U. S. adviser in the area said Russian-built tanks which backed up the estimated 2000 Communist troops were manned by apparently inexperienced crews which parked them on -exposed hilltops vulnerable to air-power and South Vietnamese infan- try. Government troops reported knocking out 18 tanks when the Communist drive began.

The FBI reported earlier in the day the hijacker was demanding $502,000. He also was said to be demanding five parachutes, a shovel and an electronic device to monitor planes that might follow him. The plane was hijacked 15 minutes out of St. Louis Friday heading for Tulsa, Okla. At one point the hijacker ordered the plane to go to Fort Worth, but then In flight told it to come back to St.

Louis. A radio operator at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Mike McNeary, said the hijacker first told the captain he wanted to fly to Toronto after refueling, make a low pass over the city, and tihen head for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. McNeary said radio conversations indicated the hijacker wanted to keep four crew members, includ- lng one stewardess, and one passenger aboard.

McNeary said the hijacker said he would search any new crew members "one by one" and wanted all persons remaining aboard to stay in the cockpit. ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPD A young man believed to be wearing a bushy wig hijacked an American Airlines 727 jetliner Friday and received an undetermined amount of ransom money and a parachute, the captain reported. "He's counting the money," the captain said during a radio conversation with airline officials.

"He doesn't like the denominations. We explained we did the best we could with the banks closed." The hijacker also requested help in putting on a parachute. The plane was still on the ground at Lambert Field shortly before midnight (CDT). THE HIJACKER had said he would release all but one passenger and all but four crew members after the money and equipment was delivered, but airline officials said no one had been permitted to leave the plane. The exact amount of money delivered was not known and airline officials refused to glye out any information on the matter.

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