June 24, 1972

Unidentified man on June 24 hijacks Amer Airlines Boeing 727 with 94 aboard on St Louis-Tulsa flight and orders it to return to Lambert Field, St Louis, where he allows 80 passengers to disembark; another unidentified man, in apparent attempt to thwart hijacking, drives automobile head-on into aircraft during take-off run, but hijacker demands and receives new aircraft, $502,000 in ransom and 5 parachutes; craft takes off for undisclosed destination

tropical storm Agnes causes severe and widespread flooding in cities from Upstate NY to Virginia; map

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 23— Rampaging flood waters left 31 persons dead in Pennsyl vania today and caused prop erty damage estimated at $1‐billion.

Coll Placement Council repts on June 24 that major survey it conducted shows that job openings for coll grads increased in '72 for 1st time in 3 yrs; finds that, over-all, employers responding to study indicate that they have hired or plan to hire 6% more grads than in '71; survey findings in various specific occupational fields detailed

ELMIRA, N. Y., June 23— Three days of furious rain sent rivers in western New York over their banks today, flood ing several cities and causing at least two deaths.