Show TTTrXhe Vd75 NO 49 Logan Utah 32 Sunday February 26 1984 Floodin Tony Grove Lake the water content is already 147 percent of normal Most areas in the drainage basin of the Cache Valley has sufficiently high snow water content this year to make the potential for spring flooding real according to Mike area engineer Turnlpseed for the Utah Division of Water Rights The flooding outlook now depends on spr-ing weather patterns PRESTON — The Cub River will be the most likely area to experience flooding in Franklin County this Bear River average IN percent above normal water content so far this snow season The fate of area residents is in the hands of Mother Nature The amount spring according to Warren Wilde county Civil Defense director “I fully expect the lowland area next to the Bear River to have some minor flooding but don't anticipate it will be any worse than last year" Wilde said "The Mink Creek area should escape major rIDAlUL TUfAH of flooding in Cache Valley this spring will largely depend on how fast the high snowpack melts "The best we can hope for is warm days and cool Water content of the in the drainage snowpack area of the Bear River and its tributaries is consistently above average in some places as high as IN percent of normal according to figures from the Soil Conservation Service in Logan Snow water content around the southeast portion of the Little Bear River near Avon is US percent of normal and at flooding" Franklin County recently purchased 5000 sandbags for residents to use should flooding appear imminent The bags are available at no charge according to Wilde but when flooding subsides they should be cleaned and returned to the county for future use “The county will provide sand to residents at any reasonable location in the county’’ Wilde said If d people have any questions or problems they should contact the Franklin County Sheriffs office at Wilde will coordinate all flood prevention efforts Franklin County has a simple three-ste- p flood plan according to the Emergency Services director : —Individuals should do as much as possible themselves to prepare for potential flooding "We n want to convince residents in areas those areas where flooding has occurred before to formulate their own plans “Those plans could include requesting sand now: requesting sandbags now: filling sandbags and putting them in place around structures: or stockpiling them" Wilde said “We're pretty much leaving it up to individuals but will be available to offer nights" said Turnlpseed This weather pattern would allow the snow to melt gradually starting with the lower elevations and working up to the higher elevations Turnlpseed said that last year's flooding problems flood-relate- 552-12- set THREAT on page I flood-plai- Early action can reduce damage By David Cornwell flood staff writer waters Building an ark isn’t on the list of dos and don'ts for Cache Valley residents preparing for possible flooding later this year But if you’ve got the time and the money constructing an ark probably wouldn't hurt With a record snowpack Just waiting for warmer weather to transform it into : advice” —If flooding appears imminent county personnel and equipment will be dispatched to trouble spots to help individuals d —If the county's problems over-taability to handle the situation then a disaster declaration will be made to Idaho and additional state resources requested Wilde said he has contacted irrigation company managers and urged them to open headgates in canals now to keep water runoff flowing in natural drainages “If headgates are closed and runoff is diverted into unnatural areas the canal companies will be liable for damage" Wilde said officials throughout the state of Utah can do little but wait But says Keith Nelson Cache County Emergency Management director residents can take action to somewhat mitigate flood potential “Common sense" said Nelson is the best weapon in reducing flood hasards Residents should analyse the ACTION on page I 35 cents 3 sections Cub River a likely flood area real threat By Tracey Middlebrooks staff writer pages flood-relate- y This map illustrates the flooding potential of rivers In Cache Valley The blue lines represent normal flow while the yellow indicates how much bigger flows would be under streamflows proiected for April-Julby the US Soil Conservation Service The "most probable" spring y runoff projections made by the SCS indicate the Blacksmith Fork River will flow at 143 percent of average the Logan at 134 percent Cub River at 12S percent and the Bear at 145 percent Actual flows will depend on the weather x see CUB on page 2 Shelling renewed as US evacuation begins BEIRUT Lebanon (UPI) — US warships ' opened their guns on Druse positions in Lebanon Saturday just hours after the final evacuation of US Marines from Beirut began a State Department source said The source in Washington said some American military spotters in Beit Meri a Christian village controlled by the Phalange forces 7 miles east of Beirut began receiving fire from a Druse area nearby “The spotters called in the US naval fire on the Druse positions to suppress the Druse fire" heaaid Earlier the source had said the naval fire was directed at Beit Meri but he quickly retracted the statement- “There was no naval firing on - Beit Meri" he said The bombardment came about 12 hours after the Marines began leaving Beirut The Pentagon issued a brief statement confirming two instances of hostile fire Saturday but gave no information on its location the played on a portable tape recorder “The first time I was here I thought we would be doing p good thing" said Sgt Richard Grimm 22 “but now you sit around and see all the fighting going on It kind of makes me think the Lebanese people are afraid of peace" The first combat unit moved out two hours after dawn with two 155mm howitzers three troop trucks and a jeep driven onto a landing craft au the Marine zone of Green Beach Helicopters and landing craft ferried equipment and troops all day to the 6th Fleet ships along the coast where they will remain indefinitely Marine spokesmen refused to say how many troops were involved but said all Marines would be evacuated from Beirut by early Sunday Lebanese officers said the 6th Brigade — the Lebanese army unit that refused to fight the Moslem rebellion on Feb 6 — would take over the Marine compound of bunkers concrete barriers and earthen mounds 100-ma- location of the warships' return fire or whether there were American spotters in Beit Meri The Lebanese army and the Phalange reported the action of the US Sixth Fleet followed a bombardment of areas on the edge of Christian east Beirut by the Druze gunners in the mountains Lebanese army MaJ Yousef Attrissi said the Druze rebels pounded the strategic town of Souk El Gharb the army’s last advance position d Inside the mountains Attrissi said the army did not fire back At their Beirut airport base two Marines of the artillery and howitzer unit Hotel Battery folded the Stars and Stripea in a dawn ceremony while a tinny rendition of the Marine Hymn Druze-controlle- n Feldstein: No living with deficit - WASHINGTON (UPI) White House i cognizes everything must be negotiated if the White House and Congress are to agree economic adviser Martin Feldstein told the nation's governors Saturday prompt ' on ways of reducing the federal budget deficit — estimated at I1N billion for fiscal action must be taken to cut the federal IMS— by UN billion over three years ' deficit rejecting one governor’s- suggestion that Americans might learn to live “Congress controls the purse strings” he said “If they're not prepared to go with the Mg debt “the way we’ve learned to live with nuclear weapons” along with what the administration wants Feldstein addressed the National Gover- - they can act unilaterally” Gov Anthony Earl of Wisconsin a nors Conference along with Rep Leon Democrat said it sounded to him as Panetta Together they gave the d view of the problems visitors a though Feldstein wanted to surrender that dog those seeking to reduce the deficit leadership to Congress “Isn't it the in this election year responsibility of the executive to propose Panetta declared the administration is and take the lead just as it has been the refining to negotiate mi the military responsibility of each of us in our states?” budget which Democrats say is the logical hesaid - place to start cutting Panetta said that while President Feldstein declared: “It is our position Reagan and all his advisers say the NOS billion military budget is negotiable that everything is negotiable" ' Gov Victor Atiyeh of Oregon noted the “There haa never really been a response to It would be very helpful (our) proposals discrepancy “Mr Feldstein I heard a contradiction if there were a ‘yes’ or a 'no or a ‘perhaps’ to those proposals that were on the table” between you and Congressman Panetta” he said “He said there didn't appear to be Panetta was referring to ideas put forth any flexibility I heard you say there was by Democrats who are working with flexibility Somebody has a misundercongressional Republicans and the White what’s about House on the Mpartisan deficit panel said" being standing Feldstein said the administration re-Gov A1 Olson of North Dakota a Republican tried to help Feldstein out He suggested the United States might “learn to live with deficits the way we’ve learned to live with nuclear weapons" Feldstein quickly disassociated himself from that idea “No” he said ‘Theconsequences to our country are too severe" Feldstein said that if there is agreement on ways to cut the deficit this spring “then we can see a reduction in interest rates If not if there’s a failure I think we could see the opposite we could see real interest - - lif first-han- inside today Over IN enthusiasts and their skinny skis took to the snow Saturday for the annual Temple Peak Ski Tour Logan's Scott Datwyler’ won the 15 13 kilometer event ratesrise" Earlier Saturday 21 governors met with administration officials at the White - House Gov James Thompson of Illinois said afterward that governors of both parties agreed on the need to reduce the deficit but that when they mentioned defense as a target for spending cuts budget director David Stockman asked “What weapons systems will you cut?” “Sad as it is there may not be hope for substantial action on the deficits until after the election because each political side fears demagoguery by the other side” Thompson said rocket-propelle- d gre- Israeli-Lebane- se view of Syria Reagan campaigns for school prayer WASHINGTON (UPI) — paign and said in his nationally President Reagan charged Sat- broadcast news conference on urday opposition to prayer in Wednesday it is one of his top public school is a form of three priorities before Conreligious intolerance that has gress tuned the First Amendment on “Sometimes I can't help but its head feel the First Amendment is He urged Congress to give the being turned on its head” approval needed to Reagan said in the speech from amend the Constitution to allow Camp David Md “voluntary vocal prayer" in “Can it really be true that the public schools The measure comes before the Senate this First Amendment can permit Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to week march on public property and In his weekly radio speech a advocate the extermination of paid political program broadpeople of the Jewish faith and cast on the Mutual network the subjugation iff Macks while Reagan attacked the 1162 the same amendment forbids Supreme Court decision out- our children from saying a lawing prayer prayer in school?” in schools and the later court rulings that flowed out of iLReagan said he favors “volThe president has made reuntary vocal prayer” as opstoring prayer in school a big posed to a common prayer theme of his cam written by school officials two-thir- state-sponsor- ed - on Weather Index AboutCache Adopt a pet Agriculture Bookmobile Sporadic exchanges of nade and automatic rifle fire were heard through the day along stretches of the “green line” that separates the rebel-hel- d Moslem west of the capital from Christian east Beirut Official Beirut radio said talks were continuing involving the capitals of Lebanon Saudi Arabia and Syria — the prime backer of the Lebanese rebels It said Saudi mediator Rafik' Hariri would return to Beirut on the weekend for more efforts toward “a comprehensive settlement" to the Lebanese conflict While President Amin Gemayel is under pressure from his fellow Christians not to cancel the May 17 1S83 peace accord Lebanon's Islamic League which groups the nation’s Moslem leaders called on the president to abrogate the agreement “The league also feels that the Arab choice is after all the only solution whatever the price and results" their statement said echoing the 4 20 26 20 Classified ads Focus Happenings: Horoscope Letters to the Editor News of record 28’ 21 24 21 18 4 Obituaries Official meetings 20 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