I ' IN THE. NEWS Flood p~otos o~ page four••• Tuesday July II, 117% riefly Iowa City. Iowa 52240 SI ill one thin dime Inspection VoI_.. No. I. DES MOINES, Iowa (APl~fficials of United Air Lines said Monday they are inspec­ ting all carry-on luggage and packages of r passengers who board planes at the Des Moines Airport. The inspections don't apply to baggage • checked through the airlines ticket counter. , The Checks were begun last Friday after the r government encouraged airlines to adopt Heavy ralnS preventive measures against hijackers, Gunman RICHMOND, VA. (AP) - An armed man surrendered to police and FBI agents Monday after holding 10 persons hostage in demand for swamp city $500.000 ransom from the Bank of Chesterfield. The FBI identified the gunman as 22-year-old By MONICA BAYER Damage to the plant itself was minimal, but Everette Warner Wallace Jr. of Richmond. His and MIKE WEGNER the outage lasted for 30 to 4S minutes. hostages, held for varying lengths of time, News Editors Due to the outage, which caused the sump included nine women and the assistant cashier of pumps to shut olf, the University Library the bank, Larry Wheeler. Iowa City was deluged with more than five basement was flooded, forcing the building to be inches 01 rain Monday causing Ralston Creek to closed, according to Leslie W. Dunlap, professor flood, several streets to be blockaded, and power and dean of University Library. 11 bsentee vote outages for much of the city and university com­ Dunlap said that normally the library would munity. Monday was the first day persons could vote in have remained open, but because the sump pum­ Ralston Creek crested at flood stage around 6 ps were unable to work electrical panels in the person in the county auditor's office if they are p.m. Monday. At that time. city workmen were unable to be in Iowa City to go to the polls on basement were submerged and had to dry out placing sand bags In front of the southeast door before the pumps could be operated to clear the August 1. of the Civic Center to stop the approaching flood­ From now until July 31, any registered voter basement. waters, which were only a few Inches from the The library will be open normal hours today, may walk into the auditor's office and request an bottom of the doorway, absentee ballot and vote , according to Dunlap. Individuals who have received a ballot in the At 4 p.m. Bob Moss, of the Iowa City Police Waters receding mail by making a written request to the auditor, Department, reported that the police were Delores Rogers, may vote in her office or in the offiCially blocking several streets "but we're By 8 p.m. the flood waters were receding. presence of a notary public. running out of barricades. " according to George Bonnett, assistant director Ballots may be notorized for free in Iowa Cityl of public works. He said public works employees banks, by city clerks or in the Student Senate Among the roads considered closed were" all were planning to stay up most of the night inspec­ Office by Michael Pill, a certified notary public. those by Ralston Creek"; N. Dubuque Street past ting roads, bridges and manholes which were Notorized ballots should be mailed to the Park Road and in front of the Mayflower; Iowa covered by water during the storm, county auditor. Avenue near the English Philosophy Building; "We are watching every element which might To be eligible to vote absentee you must be a Burlington Street by the Iowa City Recreation be detrimental to the health, safety and welfare r registered voter. Registration ends July 22 for Center and Mormon Trek by Hawkeye Apart­ of the popUlation," Bonnett said. the August 1 primary . ments. An emergency operations center was set up In the civic center Monday afternoon to handle Also closed were Dubuque Street behind and communications concerning flood conditions and beside the National Guard Armory, S. Clinton clean-up operations, For Nixon Street by the Armory, Benton Street, Riverside RANCHO LA COSTA, Calif. CAPl-Leaders of Drive, First Avenue, Court Street, Westminster Bonnett said he set up the center himself the 2,2-million-member Teamsters Union en­ Harrowing and Highway 1 just north of 1-80. because Mayor C.L. Brandt and members of the city council were stranded In a city bus by dorsed President Nixon for re-election Monday. Rafts replaced bicycles as the vogue In tran- way down a wet Riverside Drive. However, Pool closed It was only the second time since the depres­ congested traffic conditions. The council had sportation nooded parts of Iowa City Monday_ Eginton foUnd 110 docking facUities at the College The City Recreation Center swimming pool been touring areas of the city included in a sion that the union had failed to endorse the Alison Elinlon, 13, 209 Rlcharda St., flndl her of Law. Photo by Gerald Taucbner Democratic candidate for president. In 1960, the was closed Monday because of back up of muddy proposed sidewalk assessment program. Teamsters supported Nixon in his unsuccessful Ralston Creek flood waters in the pool. campaigtl against the late President John F. Power outages hit-large parts of the area Mon­ The public works people and volunteers were Kennedy. Group files petition day according to Donald Findlay of Iowa Illinois planning to spend most of the night tryln, tQ fer yer Gas and Electric Co. clean,the streets. City police and Bonnett agreed that everything Index ~p Findlay said the outages were scattered would be clear by this morning, "unless it rains readln' throughout the Iowa City and Coralville areas again." WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve Board said Monday that its key industrial-pro­ Seek to halt and affected approximately 1,500 customers for duction index turned in another moderate gain in pleasure various lengths of time. Late Monday night city trucks were repo~ The largest area affected included about 100 washing down Iowa Avenue and other slref!~ June , reflecting a rising but not bOOming -Leon Russell's got some economy. customers but most outages were smaller, with a chlorine solution to prevent flO6Slhlf! new people in his band, Fred­ according to Findlay. offensive odors from a reported sewage back-up. The board said industrial production, which ramp bonds die King sounded real good. measures output of the nation's factories, mines and a look at the Sun'day Des and utilities, inched ahead by 0,3 per cent in "Our biggest difficulty is getting to the Moines concert is on page locations to fix the trouble," Findlay said. "The More rain June, the same rise as in May. Asecond local citizens group has taken action in an effort to block r three. flooded streets make it nearly impossible for our The D~s Moines Weather Bureau said more construction of a proposed 57D-space parking ramp in downtown -The Secret Service kind trucks to move." rain is scheduled for the area, and issued a nash Indicted Iowa City. of overdid it at the flood watch for southeastern and extre~ Democratic Convention. Switches hit southern Iowa Monday night. WASHINGTON, Pa. {APl-Two United Mine People Against the Ramp (PAR) filed a petition with the city That's VlewpoiDt, page five . Workers officials from the coal fields of Lightning struck four company switches, for­ clerk Monday which, if validated, will guarantee a public hearing -Rain washed out the cing it to replace 30 fuses. Findlay also reported The Weather Bureau said it expected rapid Appalachia were indicted Monday on murder Amana VIP tourney yester­ charges in the slayings of union insurgent Joseph with the state appeals board. PAR hopes the board will rule that the that two poles were struck by lightning in the rises in the level of the Iowa river, and wllrMd city is overstepping its authority in issuing revenue bonds over the day, so the pros and assorted Coralville area on Highway 6 and on Edgewater persons in low-lying areas, subject to fIaIb A, "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter. VIP-types like Glen (Coun­ Albert Pass, secretary-treasurer of tbe union's objections of the people, according to PAR spokesman Jack Esbin Place. floods , to stay alert. and John Lailner. try Boy) Campbell drowned The University Physical Plant was also struck Bonnett said, In case of more rain, "All we CAll Tennessee-Kentucky District 19 and a member their sorrows on the . of the policy-making UMW International by lightning: creating a power outage in 19 or 20 do is react. not plan-we have all our manpow~ The board, if called to meet, holds the final authority short of nineteenth hole. See sports university buildings, according to the spokesman on alert and our command post open. It "" Executive Board, and William Jackson Prater, a for the features and pictures, field representative in District 19, each were district court on whether or not the city may ~egally sell nearly $2 atthe plant. depends on the weather, now." indicted with three counts of murder by a million in revenue bonds. Washington County grand jury. According to Chapter 23 of the Iowa Code, the state appeal board, comprised of State Auditor Uoyd Smith, State Treasurer Maurice Suspended Baringer and State Comptroller Marvin Selden, must hold a publlc DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Assistant Police hearing on the issue if presented with a certified petition containing Chief Cleatus Learning said Monday he has signatures of one per cent of the people who voted locally in the last suspended a clerk-typist in the police depart­ gubernatorial race.