Daily News Record (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Harrisonburg, Virginia Partly Sunny Partly sunny and humid to day with highs in the mid to upper Mostly cloudy lows in the low Partly sunny and warmer Scrambling Meet Jim Olin meeis with disgruntled satellite dish owners and agrees to co sponsor a that would limit TV signal Story on Page 194 32 Pages May 1986 4332702 20 Cents Nuclear Accident Claims Four More MOSCOW AP Death has claimed more radiation in men who fought the Cher reactor fire for hours to pre vent an irreparable nuclear news reports and an Amer ican doctor said Robert who has said he expected many of the most seriously injured people to in Friday the toll had risen to 13 four more than the number he gave journalists a day The bone marrow transplant specialist from Los Angeles also told television correspondents in that the acute medical emergency is He said doctors believe they have isolated the most seriously injured victims and do not expect many more cases of radiation sickness beyond about 300 that already have required Two people were reported killed in the explosion and fire April 26 at the nuclear power plant in the 80 miles north of Gale told a news conference Thursday of 35 people exposed to massive doses of seven had died and 28 were in critical I am happy to say that 24 of those 35 are still he said in one of the brief interviews We may have additional but I think we will be able to rescue at least half of the 35 most serious We are unfortunately having deaths on a continuing al though nothing happened in the last He gave no details of the latest deaths and declined to be specific about when they Soviet leader Mikhail Gor said in a televised speech Wednesday night that 299 people were Gale left for Los Angeles on Fri day with industrialist Armand who has a long commer cial relationship with the Soviet Union and arranged the visit by Gales medical The doctor plans to return next Three Soviet newspapers carried articles Friday about the heroism of firemen who battled the reactor blaze for hours and absorbed fatal doses of The as they did not know was not the most important It was something invisible to the perfidious Pravda said in recounting how Viktor and four other young men kept the fire from worked tirelessly on the roof of the where sparks were burning through clothing on to the and fought to keep the flames away from shafts of wiring and fuel tanks in a nearby machine If the fire took something irreparable would have it quoted surviving firefighters as The explosion and fire poured out a huge invisible cloud of ty that spread over Europe and gradually has worked its way around the According to the papers died 15 days which would have been last the Communist Party dai told of the grief felt by plant workers on hearing of the See Page 14 Prices Down Again WASHINGTON AP Benefits of falling interest rates and oil prices are still rippling through the bringing the first four month run of declining wholesale prices in 23 years and the longest stretch of new housing construction in almost a the government reported The Labor Department said its Producer Price Index for finished goods fell a seasonally adjusted percent in the fourth con So far this wholesale prices have fallen at a re cord annual rate of Nearly all the April decline was due to dropping energy amid indications that the decline may have bottomed Excluding energy wholesale prices rose a modest percent during the The April drop is equivalent to a compounded annual rate of decline of In a separate the Com merce Department said construction increased percent in to an annual rate of million starts last month a hous ing boom fueled by the lowest inter est rates in It was the fourth month in a row that starts on new houses and apartments were above the million the longest run of such high activity since The combination of these two reports is superb on prospects for economic growth with very low in or said Allen chief economist for Shearson Lehman But not all the economic news on Friday was The Federal Reserve Board reported that mines and utilities operated at percent of capacity in the same level as in The operating rate of industry in the last two months has been at its lowest level since December underscoring the weakness in the industrial sector of the At the White deputy press secretary Edward Djerejian called the wholesale price report more ev idence that inflationary pressures are still firmly held in The unprecedented assault on in now finds the Producer Price Index at its lowest level since November he The April drop in wholesale prices follows declines of percent in percent in February and percent in January producing the sharpest slump since the index was first calculated in See Page 14 Rail Pileup AP Twentyfour coal cars were involved in a pileup after a trestle collapse caused a derailment near Rutherford No injuries were reported in the acci Liberty Float Photo by Allen Lee merchandising manager for CocaCola of puts the finishing touches on a Coke float to be featured in todays Grand Poultry Festival Parade in The 22footlong float features a replica of the Statue of Liberty The parade begins at 10 Teamsters Boss Faces Charges Presser Rockets Case A House Of Cards WASHINGTON AP Teamsters Union President Jackie Presser was indicted on labor racketeering charges three days before seeking election to a fiveyear term as head of the nations largest labor Presser declared that the governments case was constructed of a house of A federal grand jury in Cleveland accused Presser of embezzling money from a union local It was the latest development in a topsy turvy legal saga that began to unfold in 1982 when Labor Department strike force attorneys launch ed an investigation of a socalled ghost employee payroll scheme at Local 507 in Cleve In a related the Justice Department an that an FBI agent was indicted Friday for making false statements that led to the col lapse of the governments probe of Presser a year Chief spokesman Terry Eastland said the Justice Department was continuing an internal probe of any involvement by FBI agents in the Presser From Las where was preparing for the convening Monday of the 23rd convention of the International Brotherhood of the president said I welcome our day in court as an opportunity to put an end to what has been a fiveyear pattern of insinuations and leaks of false For five the statement the fed eral government has attempted to build a case against but has succeeded in building nothing more substantial than a house of Ray an FBI said the bureau would have no comment on the indictment of one of its McElhaney said all inquiries were being handled by the Justice Presser is the fourth of the past five presidents of the Teamsters Union to be the most recent being Roy Lee now serving a prison term on a bribery conspiracy Kenneth national organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic a dissident said the indictment puts a cloud over the whole Teamsters If there is a silver lining in that it is that a number of local officers at the convention are going to Weve had Among other the indictment seeks to force Presser to forfeit all eight of his union posi tions at the state and local Besides serving as president of the Presser has continued to serve as secretary treasurer of the Cleveland Presser was charged with two counts of labor one count of embezzlement and two counts of filing false reports with the gov Presser flew to Cleveland late Friday afternoon from Las Vegas and left the airport in a limousine for He and his Teamster were to make their initial court ap this morning before Magistrate Joseph The Cleveland indictment charged that paid money to ghost employees of Teamster Local 507 in Cleveland people who actually performed no work for the indictment came three days before the opening of a convention in Las of the International Brotherhood of the nations largest See Page 14 2 Climbers Survive AP Two teenagers who survived three days huddled with six companions in a snow cave on Mount Hood fought for life as families and schoolmates mourned nine others who died in the worst accident in the mountains The condition of one of the sur 16yearold Giles Thompson of worsened Fri day afternoon when he developed bleeding in his arms and The doctors said it may affect his chances for said Sister Margarita a spokeswoman for Providence He was reported in very critical while Brinton of Portland was in critical but stable for May 19 thru Thompson apparently thought he had died during the ordeal and was somewhat surprised that he was alive when he woke up in his hospital a doctor said earlier Nine of the 13 people who set out on the expedition Monday died as a result of the freak blizzard that trapped them high on the Thompson and Miss Clark were conscious but unable to speak when they and six others were pulled from the cave late Thursday in a dramatic rescue that came after an intense search by about 100 Late both were taken off machines and doctors were optimistic they would Given the fact that they were in such extreme conditions for three I think the whole situa See Page 14 Valley TV Week TV features and listings for the coming week in todays Daily Todays Index Classified Jeane Valley Valley Deaths Charles Lloyd Magee of Details on Page 15
