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Show Page $2—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Sunday, January 3, 1971 Big Storms Hit Father Shoots 4, Nation, World By — Press Internationa! Early morning temperatures Parts of the Northeast were ranged from 5 below zero at socked in under 20 ‘nches of Watertown, N.Y., to 69 at the snow Saturday, Pau) Petxoldt Corpus Christi, Tex., Naval Air aa not have been impressed. |. Station. Petzoldt, 62, spent his New Year's Day high on the slope of 13,768-foot Grand Teton Mountain in Northwest Wyoming. And he had problems of his own—three feet of fresh snow the new year off to a bad start and 45-mile-an-hour winds. “It’s like being inside a of weather Saturday in many parts of the world. marshmallow,” Petzoldt said. Deep snow isolated more than “There is more snow in the le es in the Rhone Valley area that I have ever seen tern France. In before.” Ily, two persons were killed The storm stranded Petzoldt and 15 injured in a landslide and 23 other climbers in their that struck a hotel near base camp 3,700 feet below Castel liammare Di Stabia and Grand Teton’s summit, 40 other persons were injured Washington, D.C., caught 15 when a ternado ripped through inches of snow from the the Sicilian port city of northeast storm. President Messina Nixon and his family were A weeklong cold wave in forced to delay their departure northern India has taken 19 for Camp David, Md., Friday lives and monsoon rains in and the combination of the Malasia triggered floods that weather and the holidayleft the forced thousands of persons to nation’s capital a virtual ghost leave their homes. town. French police and military New York City got five to authorities used helicopters to eight inches of snow during the drop supplies to isolated storm’s 14 hours. ‘Traffic villages in the snowbound Commissioner Theodore Karag- Rhone Valley where gigantic huzoff announced a snow snow drifts have closed most emergency andsaid it would be roads, including two major continued through today. highways. Alpine troops were ‘The biast closed both Wash- called in to carry necessities to ington airports for a time areas unreachable by the Friday, limited operations at choppers. New York’s Kennedy Airport Officials in Valence, 50 miles and forced the temporary south of Lyons, urged motorists closing of LaGuardia and returning from vacations in the Newark airports, also serving south of France to go bytrain the New York area. instead of attempting to drive Major race tracks in three north through the Rhone Valley. states were c,osed by the storm Aeress the border in Italy and the annual Mummers histo in Philadelphia was some mountain villages in the . Parts of Southern north reported 20 inches of new Pewajrvios had 20 inches of snow. Fresh snow also fell in snow before the storm blew out mountainous areas of the south and Romehadits fifth straight to sea early today. The Northern Great Lakes day of rain. i tornado thattore through states had up to an inch of lessina damaged at least 70 fresh snow and rain and showers dotted Northern and vehicles and destroyed a new ‘el court. Central California early today. 89 In the Naples area, dozens of Elsewhere, fair weather was ears were stranded in mud the rule. from landslides triggered by torrential rain. Streets in Milan and highways over mostof the north were coated with ice, making driving dangerous, A snowstorm also isolated numerous villages along Yugoslavia's northern Adriatic coast. Monsoon rains continued to SPRINGFIELD,Ill, (UPI)— fall in Malaysia where 15 The mysterious cash fortune persons have died in rainleft by Paul Powell will triggered floods. probably be spentto perpetuate the memoryof the colorful late Illinois Secretary of State. Authorities say the $800,000 cash hoard found in Powell's Springfield apartmentis technically a residual amount of the estate, bequeathed by Powell to Powell Fortune Mystery maintain his home in Vienna, I, = a historical site. e discovery of more than $800,000 stashed in shoe boxes, envelopes, a shirt box and briefcases in locked closet of the St. Nicholas Hotelhere, will probably assure Powell a niche in state history. In weeks to comefurther unraveling of the estate may feed the legend. John §. Rendleman, executor of the estate and the man who found the cash fortune, estimated it will take “several months” to calculate the true value of the estate. Tn his will, Powell, a widower without direct descendants, made provisions for disposing of about $1 million to friends, institutions and charitable causes, and specified that the unused residue go to the Many Claim New Year's Baby Honor By United Press International Entries in the New Year’s Baby Sweepstakes for 1971 were so numeroys that probably only the stork could tell the her husband wan! Se ee her father's to nel farm work near this Peertione Dutch community. FIDEL CASTRO, 13 years in power in Cuba with a Communist regime. Communism 13 Years Old in Cuba legislators, American (UPI) — An argument over how to free an automobile stuck in the snow resulted in the knifing of a 20-year-old man earlytoday. Listed in serious condition with a slashed throat in DeeMcKay Hospital at Ogden was Doyle Chamberlain.His working companion, Billy J. Brown, 41, was being held in Box Elder County Jail pending further investigation of the incident. Sheriff Warren Hyde, Box Elder County, said the two men, both of Perry, decided to go for a ride between 10 and i] p.m. Wednesday, They traveled up Perry Canyon and then turned north on Highland Canal. Chamberlain was driving the vehicle when it became stuck in the snow about 1 a.m.today. “4. quarrel and fight ensued on how to get out of the snow,” said Sheriff Hyde. During the altercation Chamberlain was knifed and then Brown went to the J. Pierce residence in Perry to notify authorities, Chamberlain was taken by ambulance to Cooley Memorial Hospital in Brigham City and later transferred to the Ogden facility, ; reported today. in poor condition UPI Telepnoto GREETING CARD effect is given the White House and the statue of Layfayette on his horse in the park across from the executive mansion by the heavy New Years Eve snowstorm. news magazines and Cuban exiles have cast doubt on the Russian denial. Castro himself has vemained silent on the question and his latest speech this week was devoted to domestic problems and a new law against “vagrancy” in an attempt to cope with Cuba’s labor shortage. Cuba is shooting for a sugar crop of 7 million tons this year —1.5 million less than the announced record harvest of 1970 and 3 million less than the goal Castro set for last year’s erop. to save more in ’71 DESERET FEDERAL resolves to makeit easier and profitable with its During his 12 years in power, Castro has weathered one major invasion effort in April, 1961. The island’s moveinto the Soviet sphere of influence was marked by Castro’s announcement in Decemberof that year that he and the revolution were “Marxist-Leninist.” Soviet Beauty Contest winner. Argument PERRY, Box Elder County Zierdt, a 42-year-old chemical firm employe, then went on a spree that left his daughters, Jeannette, 7, and Darlene, 6, dead; and his’ wife, Joyce, 38, and a son, Jay, 16, seriously wounded. Hetried to take his own life and suffered gunshot wounds of the neck and face. Zierdt was MIAMI (UPI)—Cuba began Another daughter, Donna, 17, its 13th year under the was away babysitting and Communist regime of Premier escaped the shootings. Fidel Castro Saturday in an Police said Zierdt, ‘depressed atmosphere of economic auster- recently,” told his wife he ity and an air of mystery about hadn't slept for a couple of Russian military activities. nights, For the second year in a row, “Then he came at her with a anniversary festivities were shotgun and she ran out the while all efforts were basernent door,” Bailey said. directed toward bringing in the sugar crop vital to the ailing Cuban economy. Celebrations will take place after the sugar harvestis over, probably coinciding with the July 26 anniversary of the first attack Castro led against the Batista regime in 1956. The unresolved question of a possible Russian submarine base in Cienfuegos Harbor on Cuba’s south coast has revived echoes of the 1962 missile crisis in recent months. The Soviet Union has denied building such a base, but statements by U.S. MOSCOW (UPI)—The unoffiStrong claims were made on behalf of a seven-pound,five- cial Miss Soviet Union might ounce son born to Mrs. John not win a beauty contest but Amador in Jefferson Davis she can bone a herring with the Hospital in Houston, Tex. bestin the business. After 53 years of MarxistNurse supervisor Marilyn Werner swore the clock had moved Leninist disdain for anything only a half second into the new akin to a bourgeois beauty pageant, the Soviet showed year when the infant was Friday they have found a way delivered. A seven pound, seven ounce to pick a lady fair on proper girl was born at two seconds Communistprinciples, Six girls in modest minipast midnight to Kathleen Sassano, 23, wife of Ronald, 24, skirts, blondes and brunettes from 18 to 24, raced through a at Loyola University Hospital in Johnson County Historical Soseries of domestic chores and Maywood. ciety for maintaining Powell's suburban An eight-pound, nine-ounce tests of social grace in a Vienna home, a house herarely daughter, Jacqueline, was born nationally televised contest for visited. to Mrs. Betty Pollack at South “Television Contest Winner of Macomb Hospital, Warren, The winner and the closest Mich. at 10 seconds after thing the Soviets have ever had idnight. Then came the half-minute to a national talent queen, was after midnight claimant—a girl 24-year-old Nina Romanenko, a born to Mrs. Catherine Murrell five-foot-six, 114-pound brunette at West Penn Hospital, Pit- from Moscow. Results In Knifing “She asked him how he He just said he didn't,” sad Police Chief John Bailey. tsburgh, Pa. Several clocked in at 12:01 a.m. They were a baby born to Mis. Robert Windsey at New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, a boy born to Mrs. Job Robles at Kern General Hospital, Bakersfield, Calif., and a girl born to Mrs. Robert Wigglesworth at Atlantic City (N.J.) Hospital. SponsorLeft OutofBill Signing Rites WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Nixon has signed far- reaching clean air ‘egislation into law at a_ bipartisan ceremony, but failed to invite its sponsor, Sen. Edmund 8. Muskie, D-Maine, a presidential contender. The new law erders the auto industry to produce a virtually emission-free car by 1976. Senators and congressmen from both parties wereinvited to the ceremony at the White House, but Muskie said he was not even notified that the bill was to be signed. Sponsors of legislation often are invited to such ceremonies. aS NOW! 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