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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1978
Page
1
Ice gorge near Aurora downstream from Cincinnati trapped 17 barges and a towboat, with 14 more still snarled at Markland and McAlpine dams. Agencies plan to break ice, open gates, and may use bubbling devices, ice melting agents, or dynamite, hoping for warm weather to resolve a long term blockage.
Captain John Beatty and crew guard hope as the 135 foot tow boat Clare Beatty, valued at 900000 dollars, lies suspended 35 feet above the Ohio River at Markland Dam amid a two mile ice pileup. Salvage crews and the Army Corps of Engineers battle shifting ice as two more barges sink and a recovery remains uncertain.
Cincinnati AP captures Captain John Beatty's heroic three day effort to save the 135 foot Clare Beatty as a 300 foot oil barge shifts and flips the craft on the ice clogged Ohio River near Markland Dam. Beatty laments the loss while Corps of Engineers works to shift ice and restore flow. One crewman sprained an ankle amid barges sinking.
A joint Canadian American search team battled waist high snow to reach a Thelon River ice crater eight miles from Warden's Grove. They found tubing and a perforated canister from the Cosmos 954 nuclear satellite, with debris outlining a nearly ten foot ice crater and puncture marks surrounding it. Three injured crew members were hospitalized in Edmonton and Yellowknife.
The state faces more snow tonight and tomorrow with 1 to 4 inches predicted. Temperatures dip to single digits, highs near 20, and a 50 percent chance of snow on the two days. Weekend snowfall totaled .03 inch, low this morning hit 3 below zero, Sunday's high was 16, and the extended outlook shows a slight chance of snow midweek with mostly fair skies by Thursday and Friday.
A Newton New Jersey family traveling to Middletown for their son’s funeral faced disaster as a winter storm forced a 14 hour halt on Interstate 70 south of an unknown location. The Petry family, including Chris 17, and Clyde Foxbower with his wife, followed in a van. they paused when the storm hit and stranded them amid detours. The funeral was for their son who died in a sledding accident last week.
In a harrowing Ohio blizzard, a station wagon carrying the Foxbo wers family was stranded 12 to 14 miles from Columbus. Truck driver Bill Aumond, 27, from Mansfield, rescued them by pulling them into his cab, keeping the motor running, and providing warmth and food until Red Cross aid arrived in Springfield.
Ohio officials cut the speed limit from 55 to 50 mph in 23 counties where coal for electricity is scarce. The move aims to save lives as highway lights are reduced to conserve energy, with enforcement by the highway patrol.
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