Ohio psychologist faces Guantanamo World Cup finals set, p6 abuse claim, p3 THE DELPHOSTelling The Tri-County’s Story Since 1869HERALD 50¢ daily THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010 Delphos, Ohio Coast to get relief from heat, not humidity lems were forced to evacuate Sue Robels’ plan? “My report a broken air condi- and utilities called for conser- apartment isn’t air-condi- tioner. The state learned of vation as the electrical grid tioned, so it’s going to be the home’s troubles when a neared its capacity. museums, movies, Starbucks resident called 911. In the nation’s biggest — anywhere else but at home A radio station distribut- city, Wall Streeters sweltered today,” Robels said as she ed free bottled water to day in business suits on subway headed to Philadelphia’s laborers on New York’s Long platforms and senior citizens Franklin Institute, a science Island, while social workers schlepped to grocery stores museum. in Pittsburgh did the same for on streets that seemed like And even some who the homeless there. frying pans. The mercury escaped to the beach found Transportation officials cut hit 100 degrees by 3 p.m. themselves escaping from it, the speed of commuter trains Wednesday after topping out too. in suburban Washington and at 103 on Tuesday. Sharon Delano, of New York for fear that the Security guard Jeffrey Lancaster County, Va., spent heat had warped the tracks. Boone said he has a window Wednesday morning in the Some New Jersey train ser- fan but it’s not up to the task Carolina Beach, N.C., arcade. vice was canceled. of 80-degree nights or triple- Cool dips in the ocean were A 100-degree reading digit days. going only so far, said her at noon in Trenton, N.J., “When I get up, I feel like mother, Carol Davis: “With broke a 17-year-old record. I could shower all the time,” that breeze blowing, you Philadelphia hit 100 for the Boone said Wednesday as he don’t know how bad you’re second straight day, break- walked to a gym from his un- getting burned.” ing a record of 98 degrees air-conditioned Manhattan Throughout the region, set in 1999. Newark, N.J., apartment. there were reminders of the hit triple digits for the fourth Megan Dack coolly perils the hot spell poses. straight day, something that checked her cell phone as she Deaths blamed on it included hasn’t happened since 1993. waited on a roasting, elevated a 92-year-old Philadelphia Raleigh, N.C., reached 101 Stacy Taff photo subway platform in Brooklyn woman, a Baltimore resi- degrees Wednesday, surpass- while wearing a black dress dent who was found at home ing the previous record of A group of men and women including, clockwise from left, Mary Ellis, Doris Keller, and black opaque tights. Her where the indoor temper- 100 in 1977. Betty Conley and Marty Carder, hung out at the Delphos Senior Citizens Center yester- retail job bars bare legs, she ature was over 90 and a Forecasters were pre- day afternoon playing cards and keeping cool. Keller, Carder and Ellis keep cool at home said. homeless woman discovered dicting modest relief in the with their own air conditioning but Conley has a different preference. “I have a nice big “It’s not so bad for, like, lying next to a car in subur- coming days. The National pool at home that I take a dip in,” she said. 10 minutes,” said Dack, who ban Detroit. Weather Service expect- By JENNIFER PELTZ Service was forecasting less because concrete, asphalt recently moved to the city The U.S. Naval Academy ed temperatures in New The Associated Press brutal heat throughout the and steel absorb more solar from Cocoa Beach, Fla. “I’m in Annapolis, Md., said four York to approach 90, with region today, though it still energy during the day and are used to the heat.” midshipmen who had just humidity making it feel NEW YORK — After was likely to be uncomfort- slow to release it after the sun For those who aren’t, city completed an obstacle course hotter, through at least four days of a steamy heat ably humid. The tempera- goes down, offering people officials have designated Wednesday needed medical July 14. wave swamped much of the ture was expected to dip little relief at night. libraries, senior citizen cen- attention for possible heat Still, Boone, the security Eastern Seaboard, the likeli- overnight in New York but On Wednesday, with tri- ters and other places as pub- exhaustion. guard, was taking the sultry hood of just 80- or 90-degree remain about 80 degrees in ple-digit highs recorded from lic cooling centers. Maryland state health offi- summer in stride. weather was sounding down- urban areas. New York to Charlotte, N.C., Plenty of people across cials moved all 150 residents “Time goes so fast,” he right delectable. Heat waves are more roads buckled, nursing homes the East were looking for out of a Baltimore nursing said. “Next thing you know, The National Weather oppressive in big cities with air-conditioning prob- oases of their own. home whose operators didn’t it’s September.” Upfront Beach cleaners only skimming oil off surface sand By JAY REEVES tourism’s the only real reason is better weather forecast for — to return the beaches to is home to small creatures The Associated Press to dig up the buried oil. the weekend. the state they were before,” like sand fleas, which form MAC Grant “Buried is buried. It will That could help crews at Devries said. “We’re refer- the base of the coastal food GULF SHORES, Ala. — get carved up by a hurricane sea attempting to hook up ring to it as polishing the chain. application A problem lurks under the at some point, but I see no a third containment vessel beaches.” “They’re the ones exposed sand on the Gulf Coast, but particular advantage to dig- to collect oil from the gush- Chuck Kelly knows what to (oil) every tidal cycle, and deadline July 31 some argue the best thing to ging it up,” he said. “It’s a ing well head at the seafloor. a job that will be. He works they’re living in the sand,” Area teachers have do is — nothing. human environmental hazard Between 86 million and 168 at Gulf State Park and has she said. until July 31 to apply Walk to a seemingly only because people don’t million gallons of oil have been watching as tides bury Some creatures could be for a McDonald’s MAC pristine patch of sand, plop want to go to the beach if it’s spewed into the Gulf since even the worst oil deposits — removed from dirty sand by Grant, which offers finan- down in a chair and start dig- got tar balls on it.” the rig Deepwater Horizon slicks hundreds of yards long sifting the material before cial support to help K-8 ging with your bare feet and Meanwhile out in the Gulf exploded on April 20, killing and inches deep — before washing, but others would teachers with materials. chances are you’ll walk away of Mexico, choppy seas held 11 workers. Oil has washed up cleaning crews can reach undoubtedly be killed. Grants will be awarded with gooey tar between your up oil skimming operations on the shores of all five Gulf them. The Orange Beach mayor up to $400 for interesting toes. So far, workers hired by all along the Gulf coast, one states, Alabama, Louisiana, “Some oil comes in with favors a method familiar and educational projects. BP to clean oil off beaches more day of interruption in Mississippi, Florida and the a wave, and another wave along the Gulf Coast: nour- Teachers may use the grants have skimmed only the sur- more than week of weather latest — Texas. covers it with sand,” he said. ishment. After a hurricane to energize science lessons face, using shovels or sifting kicked off by the faraway BP has high hopes to “It’s just like a rock or a scours a beach flat, workers by building a weather sta- machines. Hurricane Alex. clean it all eventually. Mark shell. There’s all sorts of use huge dredges to pump tion or make history come The oil underneath is The weather could be DeVries, BP’s deputy inci- things buried in this sand. new sand from the floor of alive by churning butter sometimes buried by the moving on soon. A tropi- dent commander in Mobile, Now, there’s oil.” the Gulf onto the beach. and candle-clipping. tides before workers can get cal system developing off envisions a time when no one Judy Haner, a marine That could work if the Gulf To apply or get infor- to it. Now the company is Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula can tell what hit the beaches scientist with The Nature floor isn’t contaminated, too. mation, call 419-225-5916 planning a deeper cleaning is not expected to cause prob- during the summer of oil. Conservancy, favors deep- or visit jerrylewismcdon- program that could include lems for the Gulf and there “That’s our commitment cleaning because the sand See SPILL, page 2 alds.com/macgrants. washing or incinerating sand A limited number of once the blown-out oil under- grants will be awarded sea well is plugged and the on or before Sept. 1. gusher stopped off the coast of Louisiana. Get on the web Meanwhile, BP managing director Bob Dudley said the Subscribers who would like access to the Delphos spewing oil from the under- Herald web site www.del- water well could possibly be phosherald.com should call stopped before the end of the office 8 a.m.