It Was A ‘Grand River’ In East Lansing not handle the large amounts of water delivered by the Intense The reception area of the University Beauty Salon was covered By KYLE KERBAWY r a in fa ll. by about an inch of water. At times, water splashed three feet high State News Staff W riter Water in Grand River Avenue between Division and Charles on the windows, employes said. streets was so deep during the rush hour period that traffic Polachek’s Fabrics was partially covered by water. Store em­ Streets flooded, cars stalled, basements flooded and kids swam through the area had to be re-routed. ployes also put the blame for the store’ s flooding on waves caused the streets when rain fell in East Lansing area Monday. in Several stores on the block were flooded. by passing cars. And did it rain! The Tog Shop was the most severely flooded. Water covered The weather bureau reported 1.5 inches of rainfall at the Grand River Avenue was also covered by water between River almost half of the store at one point. C s p ito l City Airport during two thunderstorms that struck the Street and Woodmere Street. area. Another weather station, located near Lansing Everett “ No merchandise was damaged, but the store’s fixtures are Four campus streets were covered by water. High School, 3900 Stabler Road, recorded 3.41 inches of rain likely to rot and warp in time,” said Sam Kaufman, the shop's Two streets, Auditorium Road at Farm Lane and East Circle Dr. near the Haslett Entrance, were blocked off by police because during the day. o w n e r. Another .20 of an inch fell Tuesday. Kaufman had remodeled his store, replacing old warped and of the water. Lightning killed one m an and struck five homes during Mon­ rotting fixtures, last spring. He has no plans of replacing the fix­ day’ s storm. Lightning and wind also disrupted utilities. tu re s . Wilson Road south of Wilson Hall and Red Cedar Road at Shaw Howard A . Markle, 65, of 6042 Bunker Road, Eaton Rapids, was "This same thing happens about twice a year,” Kaufman sa id . Lane were water covered but not impassible. killed by lightning while working in a field on his farm. His son, This time, traffic navigating through the water caused waves Water also covered the floor of Abbot Hall’ s ping pong room. Marvin, 15, was shaken by the bolt. which pushed the water further into the Store, he added. No damage was reported, however. “ M any o f the problems could be avoided if the city would stop Campus and East Lansing police were kept busy when numerous (continued on page 4) streets flooded. Police said the floods resulted when sewers could traffic immediately.” MICHIGAN STATE MEWS UNIVERSITY Price 10< East Lansing, Michigan Thursday, August 19, 1965 NO MAN’S AN ISLAND— That’s true In poetry, but these theatergoers found that adage to be false fol­ DAY GEMINI SHOT SET lowing Monday’s big rainstorm. Torrents registered one and one-third inches in 20 minutes in East i t i t i t H i t Lansing. MSU Researchers Doing Space Work By DAVE HANSON State News Staff W riter Scheduled for man’s longest The space race has tapped the research resources of most big venture into space, Gemini 5 :olleges and universities In the country and MSU is no exception. should blast-off from Cape Ken­ Several projects in the field of m icro-biology have been com­ nedy at 9 a.m. today. pleted or are still under way that make use of rocketry facilities Weather and physical checks at M offltt Air Force Base, Calif., to send sample packages into indicated no problems yester­ space. day and only last-minute delays Work done by H. A. Lillevik, associate p ro fe s s o r o f b io ­ for system problems or weather chem istry, concerned the use of radiation for the synthesis of com­ changes would cause an unex­ pounds. pected hold. W. Doyne Collings, professor of physiology, is doing research Astronauts for this shot are In the area of body process changes during weightlessness. Air Force Lt. Col. L. Gordon I nese and other such projects are specifically contracted to uti­ Cooper Jr. and Navy Lt. Cmdr. lize rocketry for in-space experiments. Charles Conrad Jr. Director of Engineering Research John W. Hoffman said that his The 170-ton spacecraft is to department has conducted material experiments In simulated en­ be lifted-off by a two-stage Titan * vironments. 4 2 ro c k e r, a modlfled*Air Force ” But,” said Hoffman, "the answers in spacehavebeen found. Wt? Intercontinental missile. Then kn.qwiq w Jiow tajget___ ihere and bqck. WedojYt want to Jump into space Charles .Conrad Gordon Coooer jr. The rw o astronays <are ¡¿¡fJrclet research fust oecaiGse'vtSi popular. the earth 121 times at a speed of • " W e m ay seek o r be asked to do 17,500 m iles per hour. more research through NASA. This w ill be one of three sched­ We are willing to do so, but we uled Gemini flights this year. believe the problems that w ill be JOHANOS CONDUCTS James A. McDivitt and Edward popular In the future are here on H. White 11 took a three-day e a rth .” flight June 3, highlighted by Hoffman said that several stu­ White’s 20-mlnute walk in space. dents from varied fields such as Another two-man Gemini flight psychology, sociology, market­ Is scheduled for October, at which Final Congress Conceit Set time astronauts w ill attempt to ing, education and traffic safety are working this summer on the rendezvous with separately subscription series of the P h ila ­ application of programming to By FAYE UNGER nlght’s program, Johanos said, kovsky's "Serenade for Strings launched Agena rocket. delphia Orchestra in A pril, 1964 their fields. State News Staff W riter gives the congress students an (Opus 48).” and Philadelphia co n ductor The tests set for this flight "Traffic problems are espe­ opportunity to tackle and master Although a young conductor, LIVES UP TO NAME— Grand River Avenue lived up The director of the Congress Eugene Ormandy and the orches­ w ill assist In the October ren­ cially open to the use of com­ compositions from every period Johanos is one of few Am erican- to its name and indeed became a grand river of Strings again takes up his con­ tra broke precedent to invite him dezvous . Extensively e x p e ri­ puters," he said. —contemporary, classical and born and trained conductors who Monday afternoon. This motorscooter was one of the ducting profession to direct the to conduct again in November. ments w ill be made with radar B u t m an y o f th e re s e a rc h p r o j­ ro m a n tic . have conducted the major or­ few vehicles to make it through since most cars Congress of Strings Orchestra in As resident conductor of the and communications equipment. ects done by Hoffman’s depart­ His program includes Vivaldi* s chestras of the United States and were jammed in traffic. Photo by Cai Crane its final concert 8:15 tonight In Dallas Symphony since 1961 and A pod, with flashing lights, w ill ment w ill have long-range appli­ "Concerto for Strings in E Min­ Europe, including the Philadel­ the Auditorium. Admission is music director since 1962, be separated from the capsule cation to the space projects, how­ or,” Bartók’s “ Divertimento for phia Orchestra and the Concert- fr e e . Johanos has helped the symphony early In the flight and Cooper ever, and are not paid for by S tr in g s ,” M o z a rt’s " D iv e r t i­ gebouw of Amsterdam, Donald Johanos, conductor of build a reputation as one of the and Conrad w ill later attempt to NASA. mento in D Major” and Tchai- Johanos made his debut on the 4-lANE IMPROVEMENTS the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, foremost touring orchestras in rendezvous with the use of radar. NASA and the National Science has been directing the adminis­ They w ill not "touch” the pod, Foundation do sponsor 18 Engi­ the country. tration of the 100-student Con­ T h e D alla s Symphony and but rather attempt to control neering tralneeships, part of the gress of Strings during Its eight- Johanos won acclaim last year their speed In orbit so that they 69 research projects carried out THE INSIDE LOOK travel "w ith” the pod. City Council Says No week session on campus. for their concert tour engage­ in the department this year. The 37-year-old Johanos, con­ ments in Washington, D C a r ­ Another tie with the space ef­ They w ill also attempt to com­ sidered in the world of conduc­ State News staffers join­ fort is the current work of Donald negie Hall and throughout the municate with astronaut Scott ed in the search for the tors a young conductor, shows In­ S outh. Carpenter who w ill be stationed J. Montgomery, professor of both The Monster mysterious beast haunt­ To Hagadorn Median terest in the young musicians of As a winner of an International engineering research and In a diving bell off the California America in more than his work ing the Lake Erie coun­ contest for conductors, he con­ Kappa Psi fraternity forperm is- physics-astronomy.