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Ice floes flood parts of Midwest
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Weather
NATIONAL AEATHERSEHVCE FORECAST to ? PM EST J - 2 6 - 8 2
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were issued tor toe mountains and
northeast and east-central plains of
New Mexico, the Oklahoma
Panhandle and southwest Kansas.
Wilmington. 111., a town of 4.335
south of Joiiet. was ravaged by a
third straight day of floodtng. which
some described as the town s worst
ever. Ice floes pushed Kankakee
River waters 9 feet over their banks
and left officials groping for solutions to defeat the flooding.
Up to four feet of water flowed
through a major department store,
motel, gas station, resuurant. city
garage, an apartment building and
homes along the lower point of the
river's edge.
"We're waiting to see what happens until somebody comes up with
ice floes giutttd rivers, scat flood
waters churninf through buildup
and wrecked bridges in Illinois add
Iowa Thursday, chasing about lflB
Wilmington. 111., residents to toe
high ground and inflicting at least Si
million damage.
The ice jams were formed by a
btmt of warm weather that since has
vanished across the Midwest. Early
morning temperatures plummeted
to 20 below zero in the upper
Midwest and snow fell over the
Great Lakes.
A winter storm warning for up to
a foot of snow was posted for the
south-central Rockies in Colorado.
Travelers advisories for snow also
4 good ga m ? plan,'' said Alderman
Bill Hammen. Dynamiting (the
ice) is considered a last resort '
An ice-breaking barge had attempted to move up the river to
dislodge the jams but was blocked
about 5 miles south of town by a
county-line bridge near Dresden.
The Red Cross set up a shelter at
St. Rose School" to house some
evacuated residents, said Hammen.
Damages have been estimated at
$6 million."
In Iowa, an ice floe flooded the
Skunk River, destroying a bridge
and turning Iowa Highway 92 — the
southern part of the state's main
roadway — into a river bank.
Highway 21 near Delta was covered
with water.
Jeffrey Hood. S. of Cedar Falls.
Iowa, was in stable condition at a
hospital after bung submerged
beneath an ice jam for about 21
minutes in a creek near his home.
Authorities used an ice hook to free
him.
We got chunks of ice and bits of
trees all over the place.'' a sheriff's
spokeswoman said. Four small
bridges in northern Iowa were
washed put by the flooded Floyd
River over the last two days, officials said.
Temperatures plunged below zero
over much of the upper Midwest and
Great Lakes, falling to 23-belowzero at Lake Thompson in northern
Wisconsin. Below zero readings also
iced the northern Appalachians.
Wayne Williams case may go to jury today
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Rain expected in the souther Atlantic Coast and the
Gulf Coast. Showers in the northern Pacific Coast.
At 1 p.m.'Thursday, widespread cloudiness stretched
from the SptJfhwest to' the lower Mississippi Valley.
Frontal clouds covered the pacific Northwest bringing
rairi to Washington.
Sunny then cloudy; more cold
. Sunny this morning then increasing clouds
during the afternoon Continued cold with the
highs in the teens Partly rioudy tonight ami
Saturday Chance of flurries with lows 5 to 10
above High Saturday in the 20s Chance of
snow is')|0 percent today, and .^0 percent
. tonight. Winds south at 8 to 15 mph today
The extended upstate weather outlook for
Saturday through Monday A chance of light
5now Saturday fair Sunday, ia chance of snow
j g a m Monday, cold, high teens north to low
Ms south, low 10 atxm to 10 below zero north
tceris south
High, low listed for Plattsburgh
PLATTSBURGH - Official Plattsburgh Air
Force Base Weather Sutton report for the 2<hour period ended 4 p.m. Thursday
High temperature. IS. Month average high.
27
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Low temperature 5.Month average low 8
Prwmtation None
Degree days 54; Degree days last Feb. IS: 28
Degree days to date: 5503. '81 degree days to
date. 5911
J*01™ record high: 59
Month record low - 2 5
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Today's sunrise 636a.m.
Todays sunset :5.36 p.m.'
ATLANTA (UPI) — Testimony ended Thursday in the murder trial of
Wayne B. Williams with his mother
insisting prosecutors failed to prove
her son was the feared killer of
young Atlanta blacks. The case
could go to the jury Friday.
Wayne's character has been
irug iHixmuh itie itiltd. nis; Jttddy,
character has been drug through
the mud. and I been drug." Mrs.
Faye Williams testified. "In fact,
they have ruined the Williams family and they continue to lie and lie.
But they have not produced
evidence my son is a killer."
The defendant's (.4-year-old
mother was the last witness in the 9week long triai. Following her
testimony, defense attorney. Al
Binder moved for a directed verdict
of acquittal. Superior Court Judge
Clarence Cooper denied the motion.
Cooper >ordered final arguments
to begin Friday and alloted each
side two hours in which to make
their presentations.
A court spokesman said he hoped
to have the case in the hands of the
eight black and four white jurors by
late Friday.
Williams, a 23-year-old black freelance photographer, stood trial for
the murders of Nathaniel Cater, 27,
and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two of 28
young Atlanta blacks whose slayings oyer a 22-month period spread
fear through'; Atlanta's i black
neighborhoods. Testimony tied
Williams with 10 other slayings.
tendant. was the prosecution's final automobile and he refused. He said
—The state contended Williams kill-—witness and one of- those who—his son wanted-the automobile for a
ed for the challenge of it, that he en- testified concerning the assaults. He friend to drive.
joyed outwitting the massive task said he had seen Wayne pull his
Mrs. Williams, who Ingram said
force that police put together to father out of a rental par last sping
was
in the car with the elder
track down the killer, who preyed and that they scuffled "all the way
from the back of the parking lot to Williams, testified she had no
chiefly on young black children.
Fibers found on the bodies of the the telephone.'' where the elder recollection of such an incident
The prosecution showed convictims were the state's chief Williams threatened to call police.
Ingwm said the elder William- clusively Wednesday th* <Mdt:rly
physical evidence against Williams
fttit the JWbflse |>i\>dUced a counter (IM'.'O iip .<> ills jttetidattl's station '.MljHl' Will V-"ill Uillki M)l illliiir
expert witness who testified the after jtfie fight and told him "I'm ing their son s various business venfibers could have come for a variety sorry for what happened.' He said tures, had also lied on the witness
of sources, arid" not necessarily his son wanted him to.rent an stand for him.
Williams' home and car as the pro-.
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secution claimed.
The jury, will also have to wrestle
with conflicting testimony on
whether Williams had homosexual
tendencies, whether he despised
poor young blacks and whether he
was an inveterate liar, or a model
son, as his mother testified.
Williams projected a calm, placid
nature thoughout the trial until his
last hour under cross-examination
Wednesday when he underwent a
startling personality change.
'
He stopped calling prosecutor
Jack Mallard "sjr" and started addressing him*s "man," called him
ai"fool' andrsaid Mallard had "no
proof of anything" — just "a bunch
of hearsay mess."
Mrs. Williams testified only briefly Thursday but she denied the
testimony of two of the prosecution's rebuttal witnesses who safd
they had seen Wayne assault his 68year-old father. Homer.
Henry J. Ingram. a parking lot at-
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