Daily Herald (Newspaper) - June 25, 1989, Chicago, Illinois Cubs come up with only 3 hits in loss to Expos 3 PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS SiSn 1989 10 75 Cents Sunday WEATHER Steamy Sunday Mostly sunny skies are forecast for today with humid conditions and highs in the upper 80s Warm and humid weather should continue through day with a chance of storms and highs from 85 to 90 INSIDE Sailor dies in training For the second tune in little more than a year a sailor has died in a training pool at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida Page 5 Mayor hides out St Louis Mayor Vincent mehl Jr and his family were hiding in a day because of an alleged threat on his life Page 3 Flag ruling under fire Two out of three Americans dis- agree with the court's decision that burning the U.S flag is a constitutionally protected right Page 3 USA WEEKEND The retired Reagans Ronald and Nancy Reagan's new address in Bel features neighbors who shred their garbage and keep to where a burger costs and door-to-door men drive Mercedes Get to know their new home in USA Weekend OPEN HOUSE Gassy condo Sophistication is the word for the New York City um owned by a Barrington Hills couple and used for business and pleasure Step into a room a view of the Big Apple in Section 4 SHOWCASE Striking up the band Classical music critic Gowen says conductor Richard Kapp and his New chamber orchestra are keeping the tradition of the town band alive with a special concert recording Section Page 3 INDEX Open BUSINESS Cashing in on coating The giant roll of sheet metal fresh from the steel mills of northwest Indiana is unloaded from the to Material Sciences in Elk Grove Village In a few days another will be reloaded with coils of sheet metal rial Sciences technology is coil coating applying the finish to sheet metal Learn more about the local company and its stock value on the American Stock Exchange In Business ElaCk horse racing to Arlington t v J t In the Arlington Park Racetrack grandstand crumbled in Today's racing International Racecourse reopens its doors as one of History of the track from its and the most beautiful thoroughbred racing palaces in the profiles on the trainers and jockeys A family bids farewell to its hero Missing 19 years in Air Force pilot finally comes home BY Dally Herald SUf t Writer During the 19 years he was missing in relatives of Lt Col Robert J Panek hoped and prayed that one day they would know his fate beyond all doubt But when word came earlier this year that remains returned by the Vietnamese had been as his family found that this knowledge brought little of the relief they once thought it would always were looking for- ward to a day we'd have an an- and then the day came and we didn't want said his youngest Kevin 20 do feel better he's back But with having him all your hope is The family's agonizing wait drew to a close Saturday with burial at St Michael the Archangel Cemetery in Palatine The which featured a salute and a by by U.S Air Force officially brought to a close the consternation the family has felt since remains were officially identified an Air Force electronic warfare shot down over North Vietnam in 1970 though other pilots reported ing then eject from the stricken he never appeared in a camp nor did his name appear on POW rolls In more than eight silent years after Panek Air Force declared him killed in action But family particularly tits three dren who live in the Northwest continued to believe he might still be alive It was always my my that he would be home in time to walk me down the aisle at my said Kristin Art rile bids farewell to her son with a red roaa and kiss to his casket dui Ing a burial for Robert a pilot missing In lor 19 years pwm that her father's remains had been Identified The identification shocked family who had hungered for some definitive word but did not e ever learn for certain had to Panek f honestly thought he was said Kevin who bare- ly 8 months old when his father Was shot down I never thought I'd know for convinced myself he was probably added Barbara now remarried and living in thought I would die not In a U.S Army ry identified a tody returned last See HERO on Page 8 Panek daughter and old ast child when she married this spi a portrait of her missing fat ier adorned the altar While on tier Seitz learned Mourners offer memories Page 9 I Daughter a toddler when he went to war Oil spills plague Gulf coasts Press RI Ribbons of heating oil drifted at least 20 miles and washed onto Rhode Island shores Saturday from a tanker that grounded in one of three accidents that together spilled as much as 2 55 million gallons of oil And in the Delaware River near an Uruguayan oil tanker carrying IB million gallons of industrial heating oil ran aground Saturday and its crew re- ported the spill as gallons Todd a Coast Guard said there was no way to know exactly how much spilled be- cause a significant amount of oil may have sunk Officials said that the most populated city in does not get its drinking water from the Delaware River At another spill in the Houston Ship Channel at Galveston about gallons of heavy crude oil spilled from a barge aged in a collision with a cargo ves- sel Friday The Rhode Island accident spilled 1 million to 1.5 million gallons of authorities said the accidents were the worst setback for the oil shipping in- dustry since nearly 11 million lons of heavy crude oil gushed into Alaskan waters from the tanker Exxon causing the nation's worst oil spill real said Rhode land Gov Edward who called out National Guardsmen and prison inmates to help with the cleanup amounts to gross no question about Madigan's political finesse carried tax hike to brink BY Herald Staff Writer power la tested again AMOOMKI SPRINGFIELD lobbyists and others under the Capitol dome have been ing up in recent de ys to purchase the latest state government ion statement golf shirts with a distinctive logo Offered by the staff of cratic House Spea tor Michael J the green shirts parody Republican leaders who said re- cently that Madigan's 67 House supporters are nothing but ducklings all in a following him wherever he goes and doing whatever he says the first person to order one of the shirts last month was Gov James R Thompson Up until a crucial Friday night vote hi the the lobbyists and other's all have been this following Madigan's Iced on the major issue of ing the state income tax But Madigan's proposed two 18.4 percent Increase in come tax rates fell three votes short of approval in the Senate during the ing It appears the ducklings are beginning to wander The proposal would boost the personal Income tax rate from the current 3.5 percent to 2.9 percent and the corporate rate from the current 4 percent to 4.736 percent The extra estimated at See MADIGAN on Page 9 Fingers crossed on Sears relocation Bv MARIBETH VANDERWEELE Dally Herald Sta I Suburban bi and community leaders were hopeful Saturday that Sears will sojn announce plans to move Its t division to Hoffman further enhancing Uie region's burgeoning ec base would really complete the cycle of the new American said Thomas president of the Greater Woodfleld Convention and Visitors bureau not urban It's not an It's in Hoffman li states has emerged as the leading contender foi the based in the Sears Tower in according to sources c ose to the relocation talks The sit is part of acres north of the Northwest Tollway at Route ju t west of the Poplar Creek Music Other local on short list of new merchandise division quarters de a site near O'Hare as well as cities hi North Caroli Georgia and Colorado Sears and state have co lengthy ations with t Estates village officials in t weeks the latest coming y Legislation to create a district Ln Hoffman Estates is being formulated in to an aide hi House er Michael Madigan's office nor man officials would publicly comment or the Although the west suburb in site has the inside track for Sears details of the must still fall hi say An ment could jome next week If Sears c oes make the it would e part of a growing cor- ridor of corf orate giants such as state ice a Sears and Mi torola Inc in local It aders say just 1 ope everything will pan out the way we want it to I'm sun it Hoffman tates Village Trustee Bruce C said have the property We have the f ac lities I think it will be a perfect man cai settle in there for the next 50 yeai s and not be concerned about not faing attractive to em- Rivera said schools alone are or a of the greatest pluses Even som traditional enemies of growth and in the sub- urbs are enc about the of havir g Sears as a neighbor it s better for us to work with a resp and Sears is certainly t single owner than a serie of smaller said Donald Klei executive director of the m Area Council of ernments We certainly wouldn't want to set a tower We would like t see a corporate pus with grc it great ar- If there is a negative to the for It a traffic But with I le state out big tax ss for the retail road improvements wouldn't be far Chinese communists fire moderate leader Ail BEIJING China's Communist Party fired its moderate on Saturday and re- pieced him with a Shanghai party boss who moved swiftly to quell democracy protests in his city The new general secretary of the party Is Jiang a technocrat who has served as mayor and party secretary of China's largest city The first three executions ing the crackdown on the racy movement occurred in hai The party also purged Hu who shared the sympathy for the ment for a freer society and served with bun on the Politburo Standing the nation's ranking political body status had been in limbo for more than a month He was last seen in public when he met with student whose ment was crushed in a crackdown that began June 3 The party's Central Committee also removed Zhao from the ruling Politburo and its Standing from the policy-making Central and from the Central Military Commission He apparently was allowed to keep his party membership A party released by the official Xinhua News said at a critical juncture in- the destiny of the party and the comrade Zhao Ziyang made the mistake of supporting the turmoils and splitting the and he had for the shapi of the The said it will maintain ita policies of r and greater ness with t rest of the world It also pledgee to work for greater de- ard an end to the main of the student protesters The repo t on ouster was read by hu Premier U who joined senior leader Deng Xiaoping to consolidate the power of A crush the icy movement
