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< Monday, January 27, 1969
LOS ANGELES (UPD—South
ern California’s worst siege of
rain in more than 30 years
eased today, leaving more than
10,000 persons temporarily
homeless and a death toll near
ing 90.
Nine days of constant rain
from two back-to-back subtropi
cal storms caused widespread
flooding and mudslides as the
soggy ground refused to absorb
more water.
At least 89 persons were
killed and damage was estimat
ed at more than S3O million.
Twelve persons” were burled
alive in the mud which oozed
down from the hills and into
their homes.
Fifty-two died in rain-connect
ed highway accidents and four
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Mudslides: What They Did To People
in weather-related airplane
crashes. Nineteen drowned and
two died of heart attacks, one
while filling sandbags to save
his home.
President Nixon declared the
entire state a major disaster
area. The Small Business Ad
ministration made low cost fed
eral loans available to those
whose homes or businesses
were damaged by the torrential
rains.
More than 9.000 persons were
evacuated, 3,000 of them from
homes in the Santa Paula area
in Santa Barbara County where
the Santa Paula Creek flooded
the lowlands.
More than one-third of the
Traffic Toll
In Georgia
Reaches 11
By United Press International
Traffic accidents in Georgia
during the weekend killed 11
persons, according to a survey
by United Press International.
In addition, an Atlanta man
died in a mishap in North Caro
lina.
Police said 22-year-old Leon
ard E. Fernonder was killed
when a car in which he was
riding ran out of control at a
high rate of speed and struck
several trees three miles north
of Maysville, N. C. Saturday.
One other persons died in the
accident.
Four of Georgia’s weekend
victims died within an hour
and a half period Saturday in
separate accidents and three
others were killed during a
half hour period on Sunday.
One man, 42-year-old G. W.
Green, of Villa Rica, died in a
car train collision 1.4 miles
west of his hometown on
A McDonough couple died as
the result of a crash east of
McDonough Sunday. Mrs. Lilia
C. Miller, 74, w r as dead on
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damage was in Santa Barbara
County to the north of Los An
geles, where heavy flooding
struck Carpinteria, Montecito
and the Solvang areas. Res
idents perched on the roofs of
their homes awaiting rescue by
helicopter.
The U. S. Weather Bureau to
day promised some easing of
the storm. Only scattered show
ers were forecast through Tues
day. The first storm began Jan.
18 and dropped more than 6.5
inches of water on Los Angeles
before ending last Wednesday.
The second onslaught began a
day later and Inundated the
soggy area with nearly seven
more inches of rain. Lake Ar
rowhead in the San Bernardino
Mountains recorded a total of
arrival at a hospital. Her hus
band, 75-year-old John E. Mil
ler, died later of injuries suf
fered when a speeding car
struck their vehicle in the rear.
Cicero Gilbert Buller, Jr., 47,
Forest Park, killed when he
drove his car into the path of an
oncoming truck three miles
north of Fayetteville Sunday on
Georgia Highway 85.
Willie Daniel Johnson, 47, of
Ocilla, killed Sunday when he
was thrown from his overturn
ing vehicle 4.7 miles south of
Ambrose on a paved county
road.
James Larry Carter, 21,
Hillsboro, who died Sunday when
he was thrown from his auto
mobile as it overturned 5.7
miles west of Round Oak.
In accidents Saturday:
Anthony Albie Stuarte, 23,
died in a head-on crash two
miles west of Conyers on In
terstate 20.
Freddie Stevens, 32, of Allen
hurst, was killed when his car
ran off U.S. Highway 82 east of
Hinesville and struck a tree.
Pap Murphy, 39, of Plains,
was killed when his car ran
a stop sign at Georgia 9 and
U. S. 308 and collided with
another car.
Robert Gene Long, 19. of
Wildwood, died in the collision of
his car and a tractor trailer
transfer truck south of Trenton
on U. S. 11.
In a Friday night accident.
Johnson Henry Mllllrons, 61, of
Villa Rica, was killed when his
car overturned a mile north of
Douglasville on Post Road.
HONORED GUEST
BENTLEY, England (UPD—
In the past the town of Bentley
has honored heroes, royalty and
famous athletes. Next month,
the guest of honor at a banquet
will be a horse.
The horse is “Mister Softee,"
which won a bronze medal at
the Mexico City Olympics last
year for rider David Broome.
While other guests eat dinner
at the banquet, Mister Softee
will be in a corner in the same
room, with his own barrel of ice
cream and a little area of
artificial (but edible) grass.
37.5 inches.
Many communities were cut
off by washed out bridges, rail
traffic ,was curtailed by soggy
roadbeds and shifting tracks
and most major highways were
blocked by water and mud
slides.
Crop damage was expected to
reach the hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Flower crops rotted
in the field and broccoli and
celery fields were washed out.
The awesome statistics ob
scure the real story of the
atorm—the story of people:
—Tao teen-age surfers rode
their boards down the raging
San Fernando Valley flood con
trol channel for V/ 2 miles before
three policemen and two fire-
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DOG LOVERS will be pleated to know that through the yearg canines have been well-repreiented at the White House. The absence of cats Is
understandable when one realizes that no feline would put up with all the comings and goings, erratic hours and impermanence of the Presidencv.
Top row, from the left, are LBJ with “Yuki;” Richard Nixon, when he was vice-president, with "Checkers”; and JFK trading after “Charlie.”
Bottom row, same order, shows “Heidi,” Eisenhower’s Welmaraner; FDR with “Falk”; and “Feller,” Harry S. Truman’s net soaniel.
RAY CRUMLEY
LBJ Budget Will Hobble
Nixon Next 18 Months
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
It makes little sense for an outgoing administration to
make budgets for the first 18 months of the next presi
dent’s term of office.
Since he must live with the second half of the Johnson
budget for 1969 as well as the Johnson budget for 1970.
President Nixon will not be living under a budget wholly of
his own making until July 1, 1970. a year and a half from
now. By that time, about one-third of his four-year term
of office will have passed.
Nixon can make changes, of course, and will. But major
;alterations are difficult, as outgoing officials make clear.
If the budgets are carefully set up to box the next man in,
he doesn’t have a great deal of leeway.
The outgoing man can promise all things to all men. His
successor cannot help but look bad politically. The present
system thus invites a party holding the White House as a
lame duck to make a political football out of the budget.
There is no sound reason for this awkward situation.
Budgets are almost 12 months in preparation. But it
would ne possible for the president-elect to be brought into
the budget-making early in November of the year he is
elected.
He could take over the budget-making process at the
stage it was in at that date. His staff could move in, be
given access to the position papers presented by the per
manent working bureaucracy in the preparation of the
budget proposals. These staff men of the new president
could also be given consultation rights with the technicians
who prepared these papers.
Budgets normally are presented early in January. This
need not be the case. There is no reason why, when a new
administration comes into office (especially if a different
political party will be at the helm) the budget presentation
to Congress could not be delayed until April 1.
By such a process, the new president and his staff would
have almost five months to rework the proposals and to
make the budget in reality that of the new administration
rather than the budget of the group going out of power.
At the same time, this procedure would give Congress
three months to complete action by June 30. This would be
sufficient time for all, or almost all, budget proposals to
be given careful study by congressional committees.
But if there were items on which the Congress had not
completed action by June 30, provision could be made for
expenditures to be continued at the old levels pending final
congressional action.
Let us give our new presidents a break.
DALEY LAUGHS AGAIN
CHICAGO (UPI) — Once
again. Mayor Richard J. Daley
got the last laugh.
After Daley presented the
city’s side of the Democratic
National Convention disorders
in a film entitled, “What trees
do they plant?” Martin Noone,
35, unsuccessful candidate for
state representative, planted an
oak tree in a north side park to
poke fun at the film.
Noone was fined SSO in court
Friday for damaging city
property.
DBIVE LAUNCHED
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A
group of Negro ministers will
launch a nationwide campaign
Feb. 0 to raise $25,000 for Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell — the
amount the Harlem Democrat
was fined by Congress. The
Rev. Jefferson P. Rogers of
Washington said the campaign
would “inform all black people
they must begin to fight for
survival and political self
determination Jn every way
open to them.”
men pulled them out.
—A dike protecting the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shultz
in Glendora overflowed. "One
or two pictures, that’s it. That’s
all that can be saved.” Shultz
said. “Insurance? They don’t
cover mudslides.”
—“My babies are in the front
room. Save them,” screamed
Mrs. John Gonzalez from
beneath her collapsed house in
Highland Park. The two child
ren were found dead. The home
was reduced to kindling by a
mudslide.
— Three pregnant women
being evacuated from the Ojai
Valley in Ventura County began
having labor pains at a relief
center. They were taken to a
hospital by helicopter.
Judge McMillan
Hears Worth Case
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—A circuit judge today was to
hear the latest legal appeal of
a 14-year-old Worth County Ne
gro girl whose sentence to a
state training school sparked
nearly two months of racial un
rest.
Attorneys for the Sylvester
teen-ager, one of two sisters ar
rested in December on delin
quency charges, contend the
girl should be released on
grounds that she had been de
nied her constitutional rights
and that she was sentenced in
an “arbitrary and capricious
manner.”
Since the girls were arrested,
Sylvester and Worth County
have been wracked with dem
onstrations. Schools have been
boycotted and more than 100
persons have been arrested.
The habeas corpus hearings
opened Saturday before Circuit
Judge Walter C. McMillan, Jr.,
with testimony from the parents
of the 14-year-old.
They contended that their
daughter, who was arrested fol-
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—Mrs. William E. Stephens of
Montecito was swept into a
creek. She was missing for 12
hours, then was found alive
clinging to the root of a tree
undercut by the water. At one
point, the water carried her
under a parked car, she said.
Topples Trees
—At Yosemite National Park,
winds gusting up to 50 miles an
hour toppled giant redw’ood
trees across a half dozen
cabins. One woman, Iris Pope,
23, Downey, was killed when a
trunk smashed through a roof.
Flooding and mudslides are
an old story in Southern
California.
It rained so heavily in 1815
that the Los Angeles River
| lowing an Incident aboard a
; school bus in which she was al
leged to have used vulgarity,
had been harassed by white
students.
The Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference dispatched
eight staff members to the trou
bled county to bring about what
it termed “a just and equitable
settlement of the racial crisis.”
In a request to the SCLC, of
ficials of the Worth County Im
| provement League, Inc. request
jed staff members from the
Atlanta-based civil rights group
be sent in to help with further
j demonstrations.
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carved a new channel to the
west of its normal course. The
river left its bed again in 1825
and “spread over the country,
filling the depressions,” one
writer said.
As the population increases,
home construction pushed farth
er into the hills surrounding the
Los Angeles Basin. They are
usually expensive homes, in
canyons named Benedict, Lau
rel, Franklin, Mandeville and
Coldwater. The mudslides are
the worst in these areas, year
after year.
Dr. William P. Pecora said
there is no quick solution. To
make development harmonious
with the environment is one of
the nation’s most challenging
problems, he said.
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