Daily News (Newspaper) - August 20, 1983, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Opinion Line Monday to PM Phone 6434043 THE DAILY NEWS Vol 62 TWENTYFIVE CENTS PER COPY HUNTINGDON MOUNT UNION and SAXTON SATURDAY AUGUST 201983 Texans Digging Out From Maior Storm PHONE 6434040 No 172 champion m Shaw Packing Buys Grand Champ sale for per pound and then followed up by pu Shaw are pictured Record Number Sold Fair Swine Sale Remains Solid t The solid support of business and individual buyers assured he success of the annual FFA and 4 H Market Swine Sale at Fair afternoon despite the fact that the argest number of animals ever offered at the sale were available to buyers The swine sale was the start of a long afternoon for auc a Mark Click who always donates his service and his sidekick County Agent Harold Lockhoff Regulars Dale Gibboney Fred Lynn and Harold Cameron and others assisted with the sale Additional buyers included Rhodes Meat Market of Martinsburg G M Livestock Market of Juniata Packing of Tyrone Agway of Alexandria A J Peachey Meats of Belleville th Hatfield Packing Com pany Belleville Livestock Market Morrison Cove Livestock Market James Hunt Diane Baker Froehlich Packing Company of John stown Whittake Associates Tom Riley Grubbs Lumber Company of Hesston Carl Decker Clarence Cramer of Three Springs Riverside Market of Huntingdon David Distler of Huntingdon Jacob I Yoder John Blair Helena Chemical Company of Warriors Mark Juniata Packing Company s Meats of Altoona A total of 81 animals were offered for sale a sharp jump from the 57 that were available last year when sale records were shattered The Shaw Packing Com pany of Newry in Blair County repeated as the buyer of the champion a 240 pound winner owned by Ronald Briar of McVeytown RDI The champion brought per pound which was 20 cents ahead of the 1982 figure of but still less than the record of per pound established in 1981 Contd on Page 6 Lamb Records Smashed All records fell by the wayside yesterday during the highly successful 4 H and FFA Market Lamb Sale at the Huntingdon County Fair Leading the way was the Juniata Packing Company who paid record for the 100 pound grand champion owned by Bryan Weight of Tyrone RD 4 The previous record at the sale was paid for the grand champion in 1981 The Union National Bank and Trust Company gave the sale further impetus by paying per pound for the reserve grand 100 pound animal owned by Lee Hayes of Tyrone RD 1 Sale Treasurer Byron Ginther announced at the end of the sale of the 38 animals that with the grand champion included lambs weighing 3590 pounds were sold and brought for an average of Without the grand champion included the totals were 3490 pounds for and an average of 87 cents Previous records at the sale were 8973 cents per pound with the champion in 1980 and Contd on Page 6 National Disaster Declared GALVESTON Texas UPI Hurricane Alicias victims worked a hard day cleaning up blocked roads and smashed homes and businesses some opening without power to meet public need then spent a second curfew without lights President Reagan Friday declared the storm a national disaster to trigger a flow of federal relief funds and Gov Mark White overflew hurricane alley from Houston to Galveston to look at the estimated billion destruction Ive never seen anything like this White said This is the worst Ive ever seen Alicia which raked Dallas 290 miles north of Galveston and still packed a punch as it sloshed into Oklahoma Friday killed 11 people The latest victim was a 10yearold Dallas boy who drowned in a sewer Friday The Coast Guard said four of five men missing on a tugboat were rescued Friday and the fifth was last seen swimming for a rig Insurance adjustors recalling the million in damage caused by Hurricane Allen in 1980 said Alicias cost will run far higher Insurance experts and a weather spokesman agreed damages would total billion Storm victims on Galveston Island who took the brunt of the hurricane packing 130 mph before dawn Wed Grand Champ Bring Record Price crossbred grand champion shown by Jamie Espy of Tyrone Large Sale Baby Beef Mark Is Shattered Ouf on Page 3V Storm Is Now Issue In Strike WASHINGTON UPI Negotiators trying to end the 14dayold nationwide telephone strike have failed to resolve major differences and now have a new dispute Hurricane Alicia Nevertheless a union spokesman says talks will continue on a master contract for 675000 Bell System workers though no formal bargaining was scheduled today American Telephone Telegraph Co executives and representatives of the Com Workers of America the largest of the three striking unions met separately Friday in small groups and conferred by telephone The meetings show the disagreements are still sub stantial CWA spokesman Duayne Trecker said There is still a long way to go Trecker accused South western Bell of taking ad vantage of the Hurricane Alicia situation by casting the union in a bad light He said the company has threatened to replace all striking workers in the hurricane areas unless they returned to work I believe the companys trying to break the union in Texas Trecker Contd on Page 2 With a total of 73 animals to be sold a definite softness developed in the middle of the annual sale of the Huntingdon County held yesterday at the Hun tingdon County Fair The weakness was certainly not evident at the top as the owners of Millers Diner on Route 22 east of Huntingdon paid a pound for the 1305 pound crossbreed owned by Jamie Espy of Tyrone R D 1 The strength of the show continued in the following round as Ron Ruble of Mc Donalds in Huntingdon paid for the reserve grand champion owned by Erika Morgan of Orbisonia RD 1 purchased by the Union National Bank were resold with all members of the Baby Beef Club sharing in the proceeds Auctioneer Mark Glick conducted the annual sale with an assist from County Agent Harold Lockhoff along Contd on Page 6 Biggest Grandstand Ever New Record Is Noted At Fair The 1983 Huntingdon County Fair is continuing to make a strong comeback after faltering on Wednesday Gate admissions yesterday beat the 1982 Friday figure by and last nights grandstand show featuring the Jack Fullerton Demolition ah all for the 123 year old exposition History Is Made With Goat Sale WEATHER Fair and becoming cooler tonight Low in the low 60s Mostly sunny and Pleasant Sunday High in we low to mid 80s Officials today cheering by the forecast of continued good weather are prepared to handle another huge crowd tonight the windup of the fair Todays program includes the Jack Fullerton Motorcycle Drag and Wheelie Contest at 3 pm the stellar regional Holstein Championship Show starting at 6 pm the free youth dance featuring Mike Rilings Disco at 8 and the drawings at with Germann manager at the microphone There is still time for the 1983 fair to take a notable place in the record book The Demo Derby played to an SRO Only crowd last night Every seat was sold prior to the start of the smash and crash event but the thrill seekers kept pouring into the grandstand area content on standing for the attraction The giant exhibition halls and the midway were jam packed again last night leading one fair official to describe the situation as Contd on Page 2 The growing importance of the dairy goat as an important factor on Huntingdon County farms has been emphasized all week long at the Hun tingdon County Fair but it was clearly displayed Friday afternoon at the very first 4H Wether Goat Sale held at the fair Buyers were unsure about what to do about the sale but the Morrison Cove Livestock Market solved the problem with a per pound bid for the grand champion offered by Danny Detwiler of Saxton RDI The G M Livestock Market of Duncansville came through with the reserve championship bid with 53 cents for Tricia Trimer of Alexandria Car Bomb Kills One In Lebanon A car bomb killing one person and injuring 19 others as it exploded near a hospital and boys school in the nor thern city of Tripoli was linked to two previous blasts in Lebanon an leader charged The dirty hands remain the same and the criminal murderers remain the same as those who blew up the Qubbah mosque in Tripoli and the market in Baalbek said Farouk leader of the October 24 Movement headquarters were apparently targeted by Fridays blast in Tripoli 42 miles north of Beirut A nearby hospital took the brunt of the damage when a Mercedes loaded with 100 pounds of explosives blew up at a roadblock a few yards away from the offices of the predominantly Sunni Moslem party The explosion blew away the facade of the Ab Contd on Page 3 Contd on Page 6 New Record Is Established Mercury Peaks At 95 Degrees It was another cooker in the district on Friday with the mercury climbing to a high reading of 95 degrees However the National Weather Service is forecasting relief from the heat and humidity It will be fair and becoming cooler The low tonight will be in the low 60s It will be mostly sunny and pleasant on Sunday with a high in the low to mid 80s Temperatures will remain lower on Monday and Tuesday with a chance of thun each day Fair skies should return to the district on Wednesday Mother And Babies Doing Well BRUSSELS Belgium UPI Sextuplets born to a 24 yearold mother who took fertility drugs are in good health and have an ex chance of surviving says the doctor who delivered them Well have to watch them closely over the next few days because I cannot say for sure how things will turn out Dr Mark Faict said Friday All the same I think their chances of survival are excellent he said The six babies a girl and five boys were born Wed to Mrs Ria Gadeyne the first woman known to have sextuplets in Belgium and only the this century in the world After a pregnancy of about 85 months the six babies came into the world at two minute intervals weighing from 29 pounds to 33 pounds Contd on Page INSIDE THE NEWS Purchase Grand Champion Goat representing the Morrison Cove Livestock Market was a record maker of on Friday when he purchased the grand champion of the 4 H Whether Goat Sale at the nm ingdon Counts Fair u was the first goat sale at the fair and Weyandt paid 75 cents per Pound tor the champion owned Detwiler of Saxton RD 1 Along the Ann Landers n Church Page 10 Crossword 12 News of Yesteryear 13 Society i
