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s7: "AOtSf riCnQfj OUt UJICU JU Toccoa, Ga. Students from Toecoa Falls Bible College view the area where the $am eariy Sunday morning sending flood waters down the Flood survivors comfort each other falls and Into the Toccoa, area. The water hit the dormitory area of the college and several homes along the way. (AP Laserphoto) The dam and lake are on property owned by the institute. Water from the lake normally filters down an 187-foot rock drop known as Toccoa Falls and then runs into a creek which meanders I JnrWiHH SaturdaY mail service TOCCOA, Ga.

(AP)-The survivors of the rushing, 30-foot wall of water wept softly and tried to comfort each other Sunday in a chapel lit by two candles because there was no electricity. "Help Rick to be found, Lord, dead or alive; not knowing is hard," said one weeping young woman as members of the group prayed out loud during the service. "I don't understand any of it, Lord," said a young man, praying aloud. Just hours after a wall of water cascaded through a breach in a dam above scenic Toccoa Falls here, crashing into Toccoa Falls Bible College, surviving students and faculty members, joined by a few parents, gathered for an emotional Sunday service. At least 37 persons, most of them students and their families in their residences, died when the dam broke at about 1:30 a.m.

Sunday. As the group sang hymns, which included "Have Thine Own Way Lord," civil defense and law enforcement officers continued searching for bodies swept away by the dirty brown waters or trapped amid the debris. Another student prayed that school Coins, watch stolen A glass jar containing $90 in coins and a $45 wristwatch were stolen from the home of Robert Roof, Heyworth, between 6:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. Friday.

Roof told McLean County sheriff's police the thief may have gained entry through an unlocked, rear door. Bloomington Workmen moved in with heavy equip- men' Sunday to push debris from under bridge at Toccoa, as the search for bodies of flood victims got underway, still substantially beyond its normal bounds, littered with water-logged mattresses, battered-out window frames and dozens of huge trees the flood had ripped from its banks. saying the Postal Service was giving "serious consideration" to abolishing Saturday deliveries. The study group's recommendation was based on a poll it commissioned by the A. C.

Nielsen organization. Nielsen asked a random sampling of Americans if they would be willing be forego the sixth day of deliveries if it would help hold down postal rates. Some 79 percent answered yes. The poll and the recommendation based on it were immediately attacked in Congress and by postal unions which maintained the move would throw some 20,000 persons out of work. In September, the House passed a non-binding resolution urging the Postal Service to continue six delivery days.

Legislation that would require continuation of current deliveries has received committee approval and is expected to reach the House floor early next year. In the Senate, a similar resolution was added to an appropriation bill by voice vote but then dropped in a conference committee. Faced with the, controversy, the Postal Service decided to pay for more surveys before reaching a decision. won the Gold Cup in 1946. In 1948 he was severely injured when he swerved to 'avoid another boat that cut across his path.

One adventure he didn't seek: gangster George Maloney shot two other hoods at Chicago's Granada. Ballroom while Lombardo was broadcasting in 1927. This was the first killing heard coast-to-coast. Besides the tens of millions he made from music, Lombardo also was a successful oil investor and restaurateur. He owned the East Point House in Freeport, N.Y., which served "the sweetest lobsters this side of heaven." His music was piped into the kitchen so, he remarked, "at least we have happy chefs." Spokesman Saul Richman said brother Victor will take over the Royal Canadians and "Yes, they will play New Year's Eve at the Waldorf." Lombardo's death, however, is the final punctuation of an era of broadcasting.

It followed by only a few months the passing of Ben Grauer, who did the New Year's Eve commentary from Times Square while Lombardo supplied the music heard from Montreal to Miami and Anchorage to Atlanta. MEMORIAL Pantagraph A-S Nov. 7, 1977 The waterway under the bridge had been clogged with logs and lumber from homes carried away by the rampaging waters. (AP Laserphoto) Meets victims First Lady Rosalynn Carter talked with flood survivor Thermon Kemp, in wheelchair, as she visited the Stephens County Hospital in Toccoa, Sunday. Mrs.

Carter told survivors that the President had promised federal aid. (AP Laserphoto) i Parachutist plunges into tree, killed LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) A para-; chutist who jumped from 3,500 feet was killed Sunday when she fell into a tree' after her chute malfunctioned, author-; ities said. State police said Janet C. Kandalec, 17, Hammond, described as an ex-' perienced jumper, landed on her back after falling through the tree.

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M. METZIER Nor mal, III. I officials would keep open the non-denominational, private religious college of about 600 students. Residential portions of the campus were deluged when a dam backing up water for an 80-acre lake on a mountain just above the, school crumbled. Classroom and administration buildings on higher ground were not damaged.

One student, Dave Hinkle of Syracuse, N.Y., said a wave 30 feet high and up to 40 feet wide poured into the second-story windows of the men's dormitory, the building closest to the falls. Kenny Carroll of Washington, who had a basement room in the men's dormitory, ran to safety, but he said three other students with basement rooms were trapped and drowned. "I had been asleep since 12:30, but the Lord woke me up an instant before the water came in," said Carroll. "I didn't know what I was doing," he said. "I reached over from my bed and was trying to shut the door, but the water forced the door open.

When I got out of bed, the water was already a foot high. We ran up the stairs and by the time we got there the whole basement was filled up. It just happened in five or six seconds." Joe Zoschke, a student from Cof-feyville, said he was in the lounge watching television when the electricity went off. He said he ran outside and the sky looked like fireworks with sparks from collapsing power poles. "I didn't know where my roommate was finally he came out and he was screaming my name, and then we ran and told everyone to get out," he said.

in Houston's Methodist Hospital of a breathing problem associated with the pulmonary artery trouble for which he was admitted Oct. 27. His wife, the former Lillibelle Glenn of Cleveland, Ohio, whom he married 51 years ago, was at his bedside. The bandledar lived in Freeport, Long Island, and he will be buried Wednesday Rnrlna hlnrlrarl 7 w'vvnbu through the campus, a mixture of new and old buildings. Usually, students said, the creek is about three-to-five feet deep with a span of 10-to-12 feet.

Sunday, the creek was another day of the week. Bolger called the proposal "one of the major issues" under consideration in the event deliveries are cut to five days a week. He said any cutback would not take place for at least several months because the Postal Rate Commission must hold hearings on any reduced service proposal, then issue an advisory opinion before the change could take place. Bolger repeated the Postal Service position that it is willing to provide any service the public wants and is willing to pay for. Ending Saturday delivery would save the mail agency an estimated $412 million per year.

The debate over Saturday delivery was triggered by a report issued in April by the Commission on Postal Service, a study group created by Congress to make recommendations about the nation's mail service. One recommendation was to cut back deliveries from the present six days per week to five days. The suggestion found immediate favor with the Postal Service, which has been searching for ways to reduce its costs. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar greeted the commission's report by office, drawing larger audiences on one tour than the pop group had in the same, facilities.

Lombardo admitted that not all the people loved his music all the time. "We lose 'em in their teens, but we catch 'em up later," he once said. "Sooner or later we get 'em all and when we get 'em, we keep 'em." A CBS official said Sunday the network received more telephoned inquiries about Lombardo's death than it did about those of Elvis Presley earlier this year or Bing Crosby a few weeks ago. Some of his biggest hits were "Little White Lies," "Boo Hoo," "You're Driving Me Crazy," and "Seems Like Old Times." "Auld Lang Syne" was the band's theme song long before Lombardo played it over the air on Dec. 31, 1929, from the Hotel Roosevelt Grill in New York.

"Western Ontario, where we started, was heavily Scottish," he said, "and every dance ended with the playing of that song." The Royal Canadians played every New Year's Eve at the Roosevelt for year after year and, when the hotel announced his departure for the Waldorf-Astoria 13 years ago, Time magazine commented, "It was like Athens announcing the departure of the Acropolis." Possibly because his music was so calm and soothing, Lombardo sought adventure in private life. He was a speedboat enthusiast and New Year's Eve won't be some WASHINGTON (AP) The Postal Service is facing conflicting results from 'a series of national polls designed to show if the public really wants to continue getting mail on Saturday. So far, three public opinion surveys have been taken and each has shown about 80 percent of those polled as saying they could do without Saturday delivery. But two of the three polls indicated many Americans disapprove of the proposed termination of service. Less than half of those questioned in the two polls said they support such a service cutback.

"We are still studying the results and we have not made up our minds one way or the other," Deputy Postmaster General William Bolger said in an interview. "One of the things that we have under consideration is to give rural areas that need Saturday delivery a local option," Bolger said. The provision would be aimed at parts of the country where weekly newspapers often are delivered on Saturday. Urban areas would probably not be eligible. Under the option, if Saturday mail were continued in some areas, deliveries would be discontinued in those areas on in the Long Island community of Farm-ingdale.

Lombardo was 75 and had led a band for 63 of those years. He started at 12 with four other youngsters playing for women's clubs London, Ontario, his birthplace. He was named Gaetano after his father, an immigrant Italian tailor. Lombardo and his brothers, Carmen and Lebert, moved their band to Cleveland in 1925 and Chicago in 1927. A younger brother, Victor, and a sister, Rosemarie, also were with the orchestra.

The Lombardo orchesta proved to be an unbroken success story for more than half a century, and for many people his New Year's Eve telecast was a traditional part of the holiday. Lombardo sold more than 400 million phonograph records and for the past 40 years never made less than $1 million a year. This past summer, his revival of the Broadway show "Finian's Rainbow" at Jones Beach on Long Island took in $1.55 million, sparking what was rapidly becoming a record financial year even for the most successful big band in musical history. Asked the reason for his perennial popularity, Lombardo once said: "It's simple. People like to dance." The Royal Canadians had a bland, soothing style, which infuriated lovers of pure jazz and most critics of popular music.

Nevertheless, in 1965, during the height of the Beatles' popularity, Lombardo beat the English group at the box NEW YORK (AP) There'll still be a New Year's Eve this year, but it won't be the same for tens of millions of Americans and Canadians for the first time since 1929 Guy Lombardo won't lead his Royal Canadians in "Auld Lang Syne." The creator of "the sweetest music this side of heaven" died Saturday night ni Is 'ill' i i ....1, L.rA We're there when you need We know what you're going through at this time. Years of experience in the community have taught us how we can serve you best. Let us assume the burdens. Illinois Power will close November 11 in observance of Veteran's Day. PHONISi 828-2415 "Jt 828-4573 Guy Lombardo In case of emergency, please call 829-9446 "Stop in for a round table discussion of your insurance needs." Your Country Companies Agent Art Whited 1 Jr.

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