Danger worst in 30 years
Avalanche strikes European Alps
GENEVA (UPI)—Switzerland sounded warnings of the worst avalanche danger in 30 years in the European Alps Wednesday in the midst of snow slides that have killed 44 persons in three countries this week.
The latest fatal slide occurred in Austria, where two persons were killed in an avalanche that struck the Tyrolean village of St. Leonhard Wednesday afternoon. A 14-year-old boy was missing.
Rescue workers in Austria, France and Switzerland, some of
them using pneumatic drills, still dug through tons of snow and ice seeking survivors and trying to open roads covered by avalanches Monday and Tuesday that hit the villages of Reckingen in Switzerland, Lanslevilland in France and St. Sigmund in Austria.
Thirty Persons died at Reckingen, eight at Lanslevillard and four at St. Sigmund.
The danger will become even greater as long as snowfall continues in the Alps, said the director of the Swiss Avalanche Research Center, Melchoir Schild.
He said a lack of fresh snow in the early winter turned the Alps' snow cover into ice, forming a slippery surface for the heavy snows that came later. He said such conditions had not existed in the Alps since the early 1940s, and the danger of slides would continue until there were several days without fresh snow.
Only light snow fell over most of the Alps Wednesday, and the Swiss Radio warned skiers not to venture above treelines on unprotected slopes.
Police evacuated hamlets and closed roads threatened by snow
slides from the Rhone Valley village of Reckingen, where 14 victims already had been counted. The 30 persons killed there made it Switzerland's worst avalanche since August 1965 when 88 men died in a slide.
In France, where an avalanche 15 days ago killed 39 at Val D'Isere, a slide Tuesday at Lanslevillard killed eight persons. A slide Monday killed four at St. Sigmund, where four others had died in another avalanche two weeks ago.
"The avalanche snow has become like ice, in places so compact that one can only penetrate it with pneumatic drills," said Col.
Andre Maillol, who is directing rescue work at Lanslervillard.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — Two little girls from Alabama, victims of a complicated kidnap plot, were found unharmed Wednesday in a Kansas City suburb and later reunited with their father.
Two Alabama children kidnapped, recovered in Kansas City suburb
Two alleged abductors were arrested—one in nearby Liberty, Mo., and the other in Jacksboro, Tex.
The FBI said Tina Cain, 3, and her sister Tiffany, 2, kidnapped Monday from their home in Butler, Ala., appeared "well cared for and happy."
Police acting on a tip found the touse-haired blondes in an automobile parked outside a Liberty residence. Inside the house, they arrested John Charles Messick, 21, of Tucson, Ariz., who relatives said was to have married
the children's mother last week. FBI Agent Karl Dissly said Messick offered no resistance. His first request, Dissly said, was for a Bible.
Messick, a University of Arizona liberal arts student, was later arraigned on charges of forcible kidnap and held on $25,000 bond.
Donald Bradford Jones was arrested later at the home of his stepfather in Jacksboro, Tex., a small town north of Fort Worth. Jones, 23, is a stepbrother of the children's mother, Mrs. Debra Cheryl Cain, 19, of Tucson.
The children's parents are separated and their father, Alan Cain, 24, an oil worker, has had legal custody of the girls for a year. Cain was reunited with his children at the Kansas City Municipal Airport. They then flew to Fort Worth for a reunion with Cain's mother.
KU Senate assembles to consider policies
The University Senate meets today in the University Theatre, marking their first assembly of the spring semester.
The agenda for the meeting includes presentation of the following recommendations: a statement of principle on organizational policy; academic regulation revision; six Senate Code amendments and the University Senate's Executive Committee's regulation passed yesterday holding the editor responsible for any publication funded through or produced by a University agency.
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Committee approves modifies welfare bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee will approve President Nixon's basic welfare reform plan of providing annual incomes for
State legislators pass school bill
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TOPEKA (UPI)—The Kansas House of Representatives Wednesday tentatively approved a bill providing for collective bargaining between teachers and boards of public schools or community junior colleges.
Also passed and sent to the Senate was a resolution asking Congress to restrict daylight savings time to the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Rep. Duane "Pete" McGill, R-Winfield, made the major amendment which restricted the negotiable items to wages and other working conditions. Before the amendment, negotiable items could have been interpreted to mean such items as school curricula.
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working families, but change it to provide a multi-million windfall for the states, sources said Wednesday.
Without revealing any details of the welfare reform plan his committee has worked on for weeks, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., said he was certain a bill would be agreed upon Thursday for House action in several weeks.
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Sources said the committee agreed with the basic thrust of Nixon's proposal to give working families a minimum annual income. A family of four with a breadwinner would get $1,600 under his plan and enough food stamps to raise the allowance to $2,464 a year.
Fair and warmer with southwest winds increasing 20 to 30 miles per hour today. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Turning cooler Friday. High today mid 50s. Low tonight near 30. Probability of precipitation near zero today, 5 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Friday.
The contemplated extra windfall to states may be reduced somewhat Thursday before final approval, a source said, since the committee plans to boost the minimum monthly payments to disabled, blind or aged adults on welfare to as high as $100. Present minimums for adult recipients vary, but are considerably lower than that.
Under the original administration formula, the states would save a total of $501.5 million in welfare costs, but the committee devised a new money-saving formula that boosts this to more than $755 million.
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