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1 The Independent Record. Helena Tuesday, Apnl 24, 1979 Tired voIuiraJeeirs fflolht crymbBoima dikes expected to crest today. southern Mississippi, new rains brought the threat of more flooding. Sue King, a civil defense worker In Columbia, said 2.75 inches of rain fell in a 13-hour period Monday, pushing the still surging Pearl River back up a couple of inches from its low point of 27.2 feet measured earlier in the day. The Pearl had crested at 27.8 feet Saturday, about 10 feet above flood stage, after forcing about half of the town's 7,500 residents from their homes.

"We had very few people return to their homes," said King. "We're still working around the clock. People are very tired." THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS many who came from high schools in towns as far as 50 miles away patrolled the dikes overnight, filled countless sandbags, built more levees and hauled more clay. Grimy, weary and apprehensive, many workers were in their fourth straight day of "a real intensive fight" against the worst tbs Red has ever offered, said Orley Gunderson, a vocational school official who is directing the sandbagging operation. "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.

We can't relax," be said. NO ONE WAS RELAXING in Southeast Texas either, where Jefferson County residents along the Neches River near Beaumont have piled more than 55,000 sandbags hoping to bold back the river's expected record crest of 12 feet 8 feet above flood stage later today. The Trinity River, north of Houston, swelling from the overflow of Lake Livingston, also was By the Associated Press Steady rains today cut new holes in an elaborate system of dikes protecting the Red River towns of Grand Forks, and East Grand Forks, sending water gushing 8 feet deep through some residential sections. Hundreds of volunteers worked throughout a cold, rainy night trying to shore up weak spots in the soggy dikes and closely watching the river running at its strongest and highest flood crest of this century. About 70 familes were evacuated from the Riverside Park area of Grand Forks when a 10-foot bole burst open in a primary dike, flooding several homes with water up to 8 feet deep.

"We're still battling." said Bill Owen, a Civil Defense spokesman. "We've sent sand baggers and heavy equipment into the Riverside Park area." About 200 other families remained homeless in the English Coulie area of Grand Forks where water trapped Inside dikes has flooded a area of 5 square miles with water 3 to 6 feet deep. FLOOD WATCHES were also In effect in Louisiana, in Southeast Texas where the Neches River was expected to crest later today and in Alabama, where the rising Bayon Sara Creek drove some 300 families from their homes late Monday. We're still hanging on by an eyelash. We're very watchful, very tired, very hopeful," said Mayor Louis Murray of East Grand Forks.

"We're very appreciative there have been no fatalities, no serious injuries, no mass evacuations." Workers have battled for eight days trying to stop the floodwaters from reaching this northwestern Minnesota town of 8.400, and Grand Forks. population 54.000 just across the river. The river was at its highest level since 1897 and its velocity was also at a peak, officials said. The river was to crest in East Grand Forks at 49 feet. On Monday night, it fluctuated between 48.92 and 48.95 feet.

Flood stage is 28 feet. LITTLE ROCK OKU. A ARKANSAS it miss I LOUISIANA "tic" Mystery star baffles astronomers red. The red shift, would lessen the ap- wavelengths toward the superimposed on the blue, parent blueness. The blue shift and red shift variations seem to occur in tandem, as though on opposite sides of a central energy source.

Yet they appear to be too far apart for such coordinated behavior. The cyclic variations do not apply to the dominant emission of light from the "star" Itself. Also an examination of old photographs has shown no significant variation in its brightness over the last 50 years. In this respect, it differs from quasars, which tend to be highly variable. Map shows cities in Mississippi and Texas inundated by continuing, widespread flooding.

At about the same time, radio astronomers found it to be a strong emitter of radio waves a feature characteristic of quasars, which are thought to lie far out toward the fringes of the universe, but notof stars. Yet there a re indications that SS433 is within the Milky Way or not far beyond it. this led Margon to undertake Intensive observations of the object with the 120-inch reflector of the University of California's Lick Observatory. He found that the spectral lines were not only hard to assign to any element but that their wavelengths shifted back and forth in a wild manner. This he reported to an International conference on astrophysics in Munich last December.

Enough of the varying spectral lines have now been observed to persuade Margon and others that they originate in hydrogen and helium moving at such high velocities that the wavelengths of those lines are radically shifted. WHEN MOTION IS AWAY from the earth, the shift is toward the red end of the spectrum. When motion is toward the earth the lines are "blue-shifted." This is the familiar "Doppler Shift" that, in more basic terms, alters the pitch of an automobile horn as it moves toward or away from the listener. N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Something in the Milky Way that last December was described as the most bizarre object in the sky, under further observation appears to be even more outlandish, simultaneously flying toward and away from the earth at speeds as great as 30,000 miles a second.

One new clue that may ultimately lead to a rational explanation has been the discovery of a 160-day cycle in its behavior, suggesting some form of spin or orbital motion. Dr. Bruce Margon of the University of California at Los Angeles described recent observations of the object to the American Physical Society in Washington Monday, and the observations have been discussed in recent interviews by a number of other astronomers. It is widely regarded as the most puzzling astronomical discovery since observation of the quasars in the mid-1960s. As with the first quasar, the object had long been assumed to be just another star within the Milky Way Galaxy to which the earth and sun belong.

Its designation was SS433. LAST JUNE, HOWEVER, observations at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Australia showed that spectral lines of light from the object could not readily be attributed to any known elements. IMII.G UPER AVER SALLE at Dian's April 25th thru 28th from '3 Off As Low Detroit favors nuclear power DETROIT (AP) -Detroit Edison is going ahead with plans for three nuclear power plants after its shareholders rejected a proposal by a vote of 36 million to 4 million that it stop developing nuclear power as a source of electricity. A proxy statement with the resolution was mailed to shareholders before the accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa, and toe vote was announced at the annual shareholders meeting Monday thru Friday 10 to 9 Saturday 10 to 5:30 Obituaries Mary Alice Mougeot EVIRYB0DY READS CLASSIFIED! Just Phone 442-7190 to pJoe your od! U-l Ultl I Shopping Center Mary Alice Mougeot, 61, 1000 Waukesha, died Monday morning at St Peter's Community Hospital following a brief illness. She was born on Aug.

15, 1919, in Cunningham, and came to Montana in 1947. On Dec. 1, 1956, she married Emil G. Mougeot in Virginia City. She was a member of the Helena Moose Lodge and was a Veterans Administration volunteer.

She also supported a boy at the boy's ranch. Survivors include her husband, Emil, Helena; three sons, Melvin Counterman, Fort Sill, Marvin Counterman, Hutchinson, and Joseph T. Mougeot, Helena; three daughters, Christine Bowman and Virginia Mc-Donald, both of Van Couver, and Mary L. Mougeot, Helena; two sisters, Mrs. Don (Rosie) Blake, Oregon, and Jeannie Hollister; a brother, Joe Hollister, Kansas; and eight grandchildren.

Chapel services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Hagler Mortuary. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Hagler Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Emily E.

Jahr MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Emily E. Jahr, 83, died April 19 in Mount Vernon, Wash. Survivors include two sons, Norman S. Murray, Mount Vernon, and Stanley K.

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Norma P. Schlavon Norma P. Schiavon, 65, of Boulder, died Monday evening at St. Peter's Community Hospital following a brief illness. She was born on April 3, 1914 in the Boulder valley, the daughter of Louis and Mary Schiavon.

She attended Boulder schools and was a life-long resident of Boulder. She was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include two sisters, Stella Upman, Boulder, and Emma Haab, Clancy and several nieces and nephews. Private funeral services were conducted today. Cremation has been held.

Retz Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Fred Cunliffe Pallbearers for Fred B. Cunliffe, 68, of 108 Chaucer, are John Waterland, Paul Schaefer, Byron Schmidt, James Parsley, Bernard Mues and Dewey Mues. Cunliffe died Sunday at St. Peter's Community Hospital.

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