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He called Ohio history." He helped direct 3,500 of emergency, freeing National He said it may be days before the zard — a vicious blast that left scores directly to the White House to ask Mostly clear, cold nights and partly National Guard troops struggling Guard personnel to help in digging state returns to near normal. sunny, chilly days through Sunday except President Carter for aid. for variable cloudiness and chance of Indiana was at a virtual standstill flurries in the western hills through Sun as drifts piled so high that an Amtrak day. High temperatures Saturday and train headed for Florida was stopped Sunday generally in the 20s. dead on the tracks. Police said 1,400 vehicles were stranded on Interstate 94 between Michigan City and Chesterton — a distance of only six miles. Summary There were at least 56 weather- related deaths in 18 states. Wisconsin STAMFORD (UPI) - Thirty- reported 10 casualties and Illinois seven Jews and Christians leave had nine. Indiana and Ohio had six today on a private ecumenical each. Kentucky had four. Michigan mission to Cairo and Tel Aviv, and Alabama each had three. carrying gifts of antique swords Missouri, Georgia and South and Biblical quotes promoting Carolina had two each and South peace. The group is being led by Dakota, Virginia, Iowa. Tennessee. Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz, Pennsylvania. Maryland. North Carolina, Maine and West Virginia each had one NEW HAVEN (UPI) - The Yale Daily News, the oldest The Amtrak Floridian, even though college daily in the United States, pulled by six engines, ground to a halt celebrates its 100th birthday as it hit an 18-foot drift near Bain- today, and a list of its past editors bridge. Ind. About 65 people were reads like a page from “Who's lorced to inch their way along the Who in America." engines' walkways to the'front of the train, where the crew had cleared a path to a waiting snowplow to take PARIS (UPI) — Kidnappers them to safety. who seized industrialist Baron Effingham, 111.. Mayor Clyde Mar Edouard-Jean Empain have sent tin surveyed an array of jammed his family a slice of a left little finger as proof they are holding motels and said. “We re full. " him. Interstates 57 and 74, which intersect at Effingham, both were closed and some 3,000 motorists were stranded. BOSTON (UPI) —An injunction When hotels and motels filled up. was sought Friday in Suffolk churches opened their doors to the Superior Court to keep the Rev. refugees. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Chicago's O'Hare International Church from soliciting con Airport — the, world's busiest — tributions in Massachusetts because of the church’s alleged reopened Friday afternoon after failure to keep proper records of closing for more than 22 hours. its fundraising activities. Numbing cold swept eastward on the blizzard's heels. Water froze in fire trucks near Lament, Iowa. HADDINGTON. Scotland Thursday night and firemen watched (UPI) — A murder trail, rivaling The living room of this home at 29 Whitney Road was exten as flames destroyed a hog barn, anything produced by Agatha sively damaged by fire Friday afternoon. A fireman and an oc killing 200 sows. The National Christie, that left five bodies Living room damaged Weather Service said only the scattered across Scotland, ended cupant of the home were treated for injuries. Three cans of Friday when police said the butler Southwest would escape the latest gasoline containers were at the base of the fireplace, but did extensive damage to the home's plunge into the deep freeze. did it. not explode in the fire. The Town Fire Department had not A fire at 29 Whitney Road Friday afternoon sent two persons to the living room. Flooding on ice and snow-clogged determined the cause of the fire. (Herald photo by Pinto) Town Firefighter Raymond rivers compounded difficulties in MONTPELIER, Vt. (UPI) - hospital for treatment and caused Finnegan was treated at Manchester parts of Kentucky and West Virginia. With a prediction of “great fiscal Memorial Hospital for lacerations stability,” Gov Richard Snelling Appealed by plaintiffs and burns on one hand and was Friday signed legislation released. Louis Miller of Hendee providing Vermonters with the Road, apparently an occupant of the largest tax cut in state history. house at the time of the fire, was also Hale Road The two measures, one treated at the hospital and released, repealing the state’s 9 percent in according to hospital authorities. come tax surcharge and another Non-suit judgment issued under water The fire was called into the Town passing along the benefits of Fire Department at 12:08 p.m. and federal tax credits, will save Ver The Town of Manchester took steps three engine companies and a ladder monters $27 million in 1977 and Friday night to alleviate a flooding truck responded. problem on Hale Road. 1978, Snelling said. in J. C. Penney land sale Most of the fire damage was con fined to the living room where it The road was about 18 inches un WASHINGTON (UPI) - The By GREG PEARSON A suit tiled last September, The plaintiffs had three weeks to derwater after flooding developed however, challenged the price that respond to his questions and never started, but there is smoke damage Senate will reject the Panama Herald Reporter throughout the house, according to Friday, Town Manager Robert Weiss Canal treaties unless the town and J.C. Penney had agreed did, Castleman said. Because of the said. Drainage pipe in the area ap Deputy Chief James McKay. The amendments clarifying U. S. to for transferring the 162 acres. failure to respond, he filed for a judg parently froze and caused a backlog cause of the fire has not been deter defense and passage rights are in A judgment of non-suit has been The plaintiffs listed in the case — ment of non-suit. of water onto the street, which leads mined and no further details were cluded, a UPI poll of senators entered and is being appealed in the two individuals and a group called That judgment of non-suit was to Pioneer International Corp., he available Friday night. shows. case of a group of Manchester the Concerned Taxpayers of issued by Judge Simon Cohen on Jan. said. The owner of the home is Alfred taxpayers who are challenging the Manchester — are represented by at 13. This step means that the case is Plowing dirt road leading to Slater Hagenow. Miller was apparently the town’s sales price of property to the torney Raynald Cantin of Hartford. no longer considered to be one that is Street was being considered, Weiss WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi only occupant of the house at the J.C. Penney Co. The judgment They feel that the proposed sales in the courts. said. dent Carter said the Soviets might time of the fire, according to the fire nullifies the case unless the appeal is price to J.C. Penney, $20,000 an acre, not have told the United States all department. The town was also considering the they could about their runaway sustained. is too low. The judgment of non-suit, however, possibility of having the National nuclear-powered spy satellite, but J.C. Penney plans to locate a huge Attorney Holland Castleman, who has been appealed. The plaintiffs More political in ‘78 Guard come in and install a tem “they probably gave us about catalog distribution center on a 162- represents the Manchester filed a motion to reopen the judg WASHINGTON (UPI) -President porary bridge over the flooded sec what we would have given them" acre p arcel in M an ch ester’s Economic Development Commis ment. although no action has yet Carter conceded he fell down on the tion of Hale Road, he said. Buckland section. The building would sion, submitted his interogatories, been taken on that motion to reopen. job last year and pledged to his party All of the employees of the firm WASHINGTON (UPI) - Seven be the major one in the town’s questions he has about the plaintiffs’ Attorney Cantin could not be that he will become more political in were able to leave before the flooding teen major U.S. corporations paid proposed 393-acre industrial park. case. Nov. 18. reached Friday for comment. 1978. problem became too severe, he said. no federal income tax in 1976 although they had a combined worldwide income of $2.5 billion, “Do you think Manchester needs a $700,000 outdoor Rep. Charles Vanik, D-Ohio, said Your neighbors’ views: Friday. covered skating facility as was proposed by the Manchester Youth Hockey Association last week? And WASHINGTON (UPI) - if we had one, would you use it? Unemployment benefits will be cut off for nearly 300,000 people in 41 states next week as a result of a recent decline in the national jobless rate.