Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - November 26, 1981, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News November Kansas 64 Year 146 20c Scott Poteet aids his Stanley Bocock on one of their By Tim Janicke His is his eyes By Roger Verdon Staff writer NEWTON Stanley age is 78 but his eyes are five years The eyes belong to his great Scott they have overcome as much as is humanly possible yearlong Almost they can be seen briskly walking along West Broad way They might talk about Scotts kin class at Sunset or Scott might describe the traffic on the telling his the semi that is passing or the police But Scott is aware of one thing his Only once during their partner ship has anything drastic occurred Bocock lost his footing and Scott But they picked them selves up and walked Theyve been walking ever At five years it has fallen to Scott to interpret the to translate sounds into word to absorb the odd and the inter esting and communicate it all to Bo He doesnt miss his We have spelling bees as we walk He keeps me I always know what cars are pass About a year glaucoma fi nally robbed the retired serviceman of his While he can no longer tell daylight from the timing of his sight loss was a proverbial blessing in dis granddaughter and her son left to live with the last The walks began It just worked out that said I dont push He sees me putting on my shoes and he gets On the they walk four miles a except when the weather is too They bundle and Bocock takes his cane in his left grasps Scotts hand in his and they stroll Their walks are not routed in ad We go places we been and places we never the towhead We go to the park and he plays on the slip pery while Bocock listens Walking along West Scott keeps Bocock informed of their whereabouts by reading the street The thing is he knows his alpha bet Bocock If he cant then he spells I wouldnt know what to do without Hes a big wife of 53 Some people wanted him to get a but Im getting loo old for Bocock doesnt drive a duty that has been taken over by their At the two men of the house share They put the trash out together and Scott mon workouts on a bicycle inside their keep ing track of and mile Bocock uses a Braille and is guided around the house by strategically placed ropes and by the watchful of his As they walk along r the Scott cautions Bocock with oneword like and said in a small voice as he looks both ways when crossing the Scotts become a pretty decisive traffic and he doesnt wait for cars when hes at a crossing with his grandfather he merely waves traffic on with au Bocock said he is thankful in this season of his life for a great many He mentions his devoted wife and his successful This is one of them right he and gestures toward the blessing that is five years Big fine hits nuclear station CINCINNATI The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday recommended a fine the stiffest ever imposed on an atomic power facility under construction for a breakdown of quality control at the Zimmer Nuclear Power Station in Southwestern The NRC also ordered Zimmers chief Cincinnati Gas Electric to implement a quality con program that is dented in scope and may delay licensing of the billion near beyond its scheduled July startup James administrator for the Region said at a news con ference the proposed fine of stemmed from false quality assurance harassment of quality con trol personnel and numerous instances of a deficient quality assurance pro There was a major in quality assurance at the said But there was no evidence that was involved in any sort of I believe that simply placed too much faith on its contractor Kaiser Construction for quality The violations were disclosed follow ing a 10month NRC investigation which Keppler said is continuing prompted by allegations of lated defects by Cincinnati undercover investigator Thomas for merly employed at the plant by Keppler said that although the com mission had considered calling for a suspension of construction on now more than 95 percent the NRC ultimately decided on the fine and strict quality confirmation require ments because the violations were mostly in To our investigation has not shown that quality assurance problems have led to widespread defects in the he Keppler said the investigation of Zimmer was the largest his which includes eight midwestern had ever it was the second the com mission had conducted on the after the NRC had first discounted Ap It was only after Applegate secured the help of a whistleblowing public interest the Government Accountability that the NRC agreed to re open the investigation last has until 24 to pay the NRC fine or protest If a protest is the matter goes before an NBC which decides whether to im pose the Allen might resign if prosecutor picked SANTA UPI A White House aide said Wednesday national security adviser Richard Allen might well decide to step aside if a special prosecutor is appointed to look into a payment he received from a Japanese The who requested stressed that no decision has been made on whether Allen would stay on in his position if Attorney General Wil liam French Smith decides a special in is There is precedent for a White House adviser remaining on the during an the aide President Carters top Hamilton continued his White House work while a special prosecutor in allegations he had used co After months of the prosecutor ruled he had found no wrongdoing on Jordans I think its fair to say there are many in the White House who feel that Dick himself might well step aside but Im not aware of any decision being the aide Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters Wednesday the White House is developing a general policy about what to do if a special prosecutor is named to investigate any top But he insisted the review is not linked to the Allen arising from the payment for arranging an in with Nancy Smith must decide by midDecember whether to ask a judicial panel to name an independent special prosecutor to look into the We have not been confronted with a special prosecutor situation in this ad so consequently we have not developed a Speakes Speakes dodged questions about whether Allen would be asked to step down if a prosecutor is named under terms of the 1978 Ethics in Govern ment Allen has denied anything improper was involved in the thank you pay insisting he intended to turn the money over to proper officials but for got about Headon crash leaves 2 dead UTICA Two people were killed and one injured in the headon crash of two cars on three miles east of Utica Wednesday Utica is 91 miles northwest of Great Dead at the scene were the drivers of both Kevin Quin and Jack Darren a pas senger in the car driven by his was He was taken by lance to Grissell Memorial and transferred to Hadley Medical where he was reported in stable condition Wednesday Both cars were demolished in the Chapman was driving a 1980 but the impact of the crash was so great highway patrolmen were unable to determine what type of car Rohr was Earnings rise as productivity drops WASHINGTON UPI The pay checks of Americans made some head way against taxes and inflation last but declining productivity threatened future the gov reported The Labor Department report said the 5 percent reduction in withholding taxes that went into effect 1 helped real spendable earnings increase percent for the month the first increase in five months and only the third this The real spendable earnings for a worker with three dependents reached a up from Septem the report Despite the October spend ing power has been eroded by taxes and inflation by percent in the past 12 A related report on productivity showed that nonfinancial corporations produced percent less from July through September even though more hours were spent at The productivity report was bad news for the effort and analysts say the downward trend makes improvements in real earnings impossible to I think it is absolutely critical to get the productivity growing because that is the only way to keep the real spen dable earnings said Robert chief economist at the Com merce We cant get more real income per person on a longterm basis without at the same time achieving more real out put per he Productivity for all of private busi the broadest was down 1 a revised figure that still re flects slippage although it was a sub stantial improvement over the percent decline first reported last Productivity in manufacturing alone improved another revised figure that was a 10th of a percent worse than originally reported last All productivity figures were at an rates after seasonal I guess thats not con the economy was pretty Ortner But he I think that we can expect its going to be much poorer in the fourth quarter considering the very sharp drops that are The centerpiece of the adminis trations economic goals is a longterm improvement in brought about by business investment in mod inspired by tax Despite the tax such business investment has been drop and the sagging economy has turned productivity downward as a policy spokesman for the said the longterm goals remain in place but will take a number of years to The upturn is being delayed some what because of the cyclical devel he referring to the current But the longterm outlook remains just as For the immediate hopefully the recession will be over by the provided the inflation keeps slowing Ortner In the short he We should start to get beneficial results in the form of an upturn in the economy in spring and perhaps even Most universities close from strikes Poland UPI Student strikes spread across Poland shutting down twothirds of the nations universities and more than a dozen high In students were oc university buildings at 81 Pol ish campuses to demand the ouster of the rector of the Radom Engineering a student spokesman Farmer ferment continued and Rural Solidarity leader Jan Kulaj met with Deputy Prime Minister Roman Mali nowski over grievances that have prompted by farmers in four The two sides agreed to begin formal negotiations on complaints by farmers and the farmers strike com meantime appealed to union members not to begin any further pro In government representa tives tried to convince Solidarity to call off a threatened strike at local military plants and other At the same the official media accused several top Solidarity leaders of waging a calculated struggle for power by attempting to form a new political party with dissident Jacek Solidarity said university representatives of the Independent Students Union and Higher Education Ministry officials will meet Thursday in Warsaw in an attempt to settle the spreading student Students began a at engineering school last month to de mand the rectors dismissal and since then students at other schools have joined with sympathy oc By over two thirds of 105 schools with a student population of at least was shut down by the The hard way UPI One Wisconsin hunter got his deer the hard way by wading into the icy Peshtigo River in his He also had the help of a con game The Department of Natural Resources Wednesday said the man and his companions were hunting along the river Tuesday when they saw a young buck break through the thin ice and The hunters were sure the deer had but they de to recover it after calling the local When the warden the hunter stripped to his shorts and tied a rope around his and walked lightly over the ice to where the deer had Neither his luck or the ice and he plunged into waist deep But he found the dead tied a rope to it and he and the buck were pulled to Float creator never gets to see parade UPI One man for 21 years has dreamed up and built the towering Thanksgiving Day floats for Macys annual parade in New York but neither he nor his helpers ever see their creations roll down Asked if hed like to view the proces sion of fantasies built from visions that first appeared in his minds Manfred Bass gets a faraway Someday it would be he He and 26 helpers this week put in 12hour days splashing and sawing to prepare the caravan of floats for its trip through the Lincoln But they are too busy to see the fin ished products in the fourmile parade of choruses and ChooM and cut your own Scotch your Glng Tree V4 of on 41rd Open Once we see them we have to run down to the other end and start taking them said a former storybook illustrator and The most you ever see is maybe a lapsed We just get to see a then its the big said Valerie a It will be a long Thanksgiving Day for Bass and his They escort the caravan to Central Park at 1 Hutchinson time then as semble the floats in time for a 8 parade kick and finally dismantle them about 11 at Bass men and women bun in layers of flannel shirts and overalls in the chilly riverfront ware described the last week as a mad house directed by the Every time I saw a piece of I painted said Patricia Inside Extended outlook Saturday through Monday A chance of rain or rain changing to snow Saturday and Lows in the 20s with highs in the Missouri Partly cloudy with a chance of showers Lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s north to 50s Outside Kansas Partly cloudy west and mostly cloudy east Windy and turning sharply colder Highs Thanksgiving Day only around 40 north and In the 40s Partly cloudy Thanksgiving night and Even colder Thanksgiving night with lows In the Slightly warmer Friday with highs mid 40s to mid Hutchinson Wednesdays high 69 at low 32 at Record high 75 in 1894 record low 14 In Barometer Wind 1 Sunset Thursday Sunrise Friday Intercepted letter STANLEY BOCOCK Newton Dear Thats what you call a great Hutch
