Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - April 21, 1982, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News April Kansas 36 Year 293 20c Police assault frees millionaire from hooded gunman Canada UPI Mul sports mogul Peter Pock held for half a day by a gunman demanding million was freed in a police raid Tuesday on his riverside He was shot in the arm and the gunman was shot and A housekeeper and a baby sitter also were held hostage and tied with but they were After 13 police said they had talked to Pocklington and that he was holding up Family members were trying to raise the ransom and police said they were talking with the gunman about methods of getting Police evacuated neighbors in man Peter Pocklington sions They said it was not clear if the selfmade mil or his wife was the intended target of the The killer took me into the garage and tried to get me into a Pocklington screamed running from the garage after the gunman in explicably left her alone and returned to the She said she ignored the warning to stay in the Constable Bruce McMorran said it appeared the incident was a deliber ate not a burglary but that po lice did not know at this stage who he had plans owns the Edmonton Oilers hockey team and the Edmonton Drillers soccer team and is estimated to be worth Pocklington once was quoted as Whats character When somebody puts a gun to your how many times you blink thats The ransom demand was announced seven hours after the ordeal began about The two members of the domestic staff Joseph of and housekeeper Carmine 55 said Pock lington was bound and but was McMorran said some progress had been made in Hes talk Hes McMorran said of the We just have to wait and The gunman was reported to be armed with a knife as well as a Police spokesman Lance Deswick said Pocklington was on the tele phone with a friend when the tele phone line suddenly went The friend notified police who rushed scores of officers to the Roads throughout the area were cordoned off by and scores of police cars and an ambulance sur rounded the Pocklington mansion in a fashionable section of Edmonton near the North Saskatchewan run from a posh penthouse office on Sun Life was expected to hit billion in sales and billion in assets before the end of the Besides his sports Pock lington owns the Canadian subsidiary of Swift and a packing and the Capri Drilling oil which he bought in 1981 Longshoreman boycott branded illegal by court WASHINGTON UPI kers have no right to boycott ships bound for the Soviet even though their protest against the Rus sian invasion of Afghanistan may be the Supreme Court ruled In a 90 decision that could also pro hibit such union protests against the communist governments crackdown in the justices declared the In Associ ation engaged in an illegal secondary boycott by encouraging members to violate labor contracts with As understandable and even com mendable as the ILAs ultimate objec tives may the certain effect of its I action is to impose a heavy burden on neutral Justice Lewis Powell wrote for the If the high court allowed such polit ical Powell it would create a large and undefinable tion to federal labor laws strict pro against secondary In other rulings the high court in separate Medicare cases unanimously refused to give medical suppliers and Medicare recipients greater latitude in contesting amounts they are reimbursed for certain serv The justices concluded medical sup pliers cannot sue the federal govern ment to challenge the amount it pays for certain medical The court also upheld hearing procedures for re solving individual claims under Medi the federal health care insurance program for the aged and The dockworkers ruling was a vic tory for Allied International a Boston company that imports Russian wood products for sale in the United As a result of the participation in the boycott by Boston shipments were completely The firm eventually was forced to renegotiate its Soviet sub reducing purchases and jeop its ability to supply Britain rejects latest proposal to settle Falklands dispute By United Press International British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected Argentinas latest proposals to settle the Falkland Is lands crisis Tuesday but said she was sending Foreign Secretary Francis Pym to Washington with a set of In President Reagan urged restraint by both sides after a briefing from Secretary of State Alex ander Haig on his arduous and so far unsuccessful attempt to avert a war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland With a British war fleet now only a few days from the the pros of war loomed larger as each side continued to insist publicly on de mands the other side said it could not Argentine Air Force Commander Basilio Lami before boarding a military flight to the said Britains air force would be at a dis advantage with Argentinas if fight ing breaks out in the South Im not he said about Britains Asked if the situa tion was now closer to war or he We are midway in There were unconfirmed reports part of the 40ship fleet was bearing down on South Georgia a Fal kland dependency about a days sailing time closer than the rest of the islands invaded by Argentina April invoked the 1947 Rio Treaty and asked the Organi of American States in Washing ton for collective security measures against Over the OAS voted 180 to convene a foreign min meeting next Monday to con sider the Argentine Haig briefed Reagan on Argentinas latest peace which he called a compilation of Argentinas attitudes on the crisis by the British govern We had very arduous discussions in Argentina and I have further defined and delineated the position of that government and transferred those views to London where they are now being Haig Speaking to reporters after his meeting with Reagan said the secretary had done a magnificent job of trying to work out a peace settle I just hope we can keep this process that there will be re straint by both he In Thatcher said the Argentine proposals were not acceptable to which is insist ing on the withdrawal of all Argentine troops from the Falklands before By Patricia Foster TERRIFIC TULIPS The tulips are in bloom along brightening the sidewalks of downtown They were by strong winds and tailing nighttime tem For sharks check the library By Kleila Carbon SUil writer Have you ever wondered how many young a squirrel has at one time Do you know how to determine the age of a fossilized sharks tooth Those of you who know the answers to the above are to be commended those who dont should call your friendly neighborhood public Yes the An ocean of answers waves between the walls of todays libraries but be cause people dont realize the number of services libraries the facilities are oftentimes overlooked as a source of And what better time to bring to light the wealth of information librar ies hold than now during National Li brary Week from April A prime example of what kind of questions unfold within library walls brought to Mary Anne Crabbs mind a 12yearold lad who walked into the Hutchinson Public Library and wanted a book on how to kiss a According to of the li brarys public information the youth was most determined in his quest to know the proper way to pucker and the library obliged him by referring him to a book on social cus We get questions like that all the Crabb They some times sound a little unusual to people but theyve become commonplace with Hutchinson is part of the South tral Kansas Library which in cludes the counties of Sum and The system is one of seven Local libraries handle an assortment of questions including those dealing with geneal and Hidden in the deep wells of Hutchin sons library are talking books for the blind and physically re cords and cassette tapes on a variety of and pictures and sculp all of which may be be checked Crabb According to in the past people havent taken advantage of what libraries have to offer because they didnt realize their library had answers to the Speaking of unknown answers have you ever hummed a tune you didnt know Well if you and you want to find out the name of the all you need to do is go to the library and hum a few According to Crabb the library will record the no matter what key youre humming and with the help of the statewide interlibrary loan will be able to find its title within She said the loan system between li is a mutual exchange system that enables them to provide patrons with information not carried In other news concerning National Library libraries at Garden City Community Barton County Community and Lyons are allowing overdue mate rial to be returned fine And in a community wide Library Art and Craft show will be held from 10 to 4 Satur according to Vieva chairman of Staffords library And just for your information a squirrel has eight to 12 young at one time and a Geiger counter reading of the amount of Carbon 14 in the sharks tooth will determine its for He also owns several large shopping centers and has real estate holdings in the United Known or his opulent Pocklington reportedly bought the Oil ers in 1976 with some a diamond ring and a Phaeton after having seen only one hockey game in his The walls of his mansion are lined with 42 Renoir sketches as well as works by Canadas best known He recently turned over one of his shopping centers to Oilers superstar Wayne Gretzky as a bonus for signing a longterm contract with the hockey Israel tries to force out squatters TEL Israel UPI Israeli soldiers Tuesday cut off the water supply to the Sinai settlement of to put the pressure on a handful of religious fanatics pledged to commit suicide one by one before they see the town turned over to reportedly is to be razed af ter the eviction of diehard squatters opposing the return of the desert region to But the tiny group of fanatics among the squatters has vowed to be buried in the rubble of the model development town in the northeastern corner of the In a government official said Israel wanted a written pledge by Egypt reaffirming its commitment to Palestinian autonomy under the Camp David accords by the time Israel com its withdrawal on In a day of the army announced Israeli planes were met with Palestinian antiaircraft fire and missiles while on a routine patrol over south Leba The planes were not the mili tary And a Cabinet minister convicted of fraud in a charity fund scandal told Prime Minister Menachem Begin he intended to resign in a move which could endanger Begins An aide to Begin said Aharon Abu minister for social la bor and had not yet submitted a formal letter of resigna tion but the prime minister would ac cept Israel Radio said zeiras Tami Party would urge him to stay in the Tami controls three seats in where Begin of late has been able to muster only half of the 120 The army said its earthmoving equipment had cut the water line to the which in its heyday had about settlers in the town and nearby The Israeli news agency Itim said the army was digging trenches around the perimeter of the town to bury everything that cannot be dismantled and hauled We vow every 30 minutes one of our members will commit said Los Israeli Yehuda of the Kach movement headed by Rabbi Meir also Richter said unless he was allowed to see the suicides would con until one or two remain alive for the sole purpose of guarding the bodies to make sure that no I re peat no will ever remove the bodies from 6 presumed dead in elevator explosion United Press International Photo Fire rages at Bluffa Elevator Council after an explosion at the COUNCIL Iowa UPI A grain elevator exploded Tuesday touching off a fire that hampered the search for as many as six people miss ing and presumed At least 18 people were injured in the blast that shattered windows in the immediate Among the in jured were 10 members of a railroad gang working on a stretch of nearby None of the injuries was The fire continued to burn into the evening and fire inspector Calvin Pe terson said authorities had searched all but the burning areas of the eleva tor without finding any He said the search was suspended until the rest of the fire could be exti Authorities said the five or six miss ing employees apparently were loading grain into a boxcar when the blast overturned the Two of the em ployees may have been on the side of the elevator and others may have been standing in or near the The blast and fire at the 2 million bushel capacity operated by Agri Industries of Des oc curred shortly after 2 Anxious fearing the men may be trapped in the waited as firefighters poured water on the burning wood and Maurice Van the elevator firms director of public said the firm was supposed to have 14 people at work but we dont know if they all showed He said the explosion was probably the worst ever for the company in terms of total damage which he esti mated is going to be someplace be tween million and but theres no way to determine a definite figure Van Nostrand said the blast ripped through half of the 50yearold eleva Inside Outside Kansas Sunny and cool Highs in mid and up per Mostly clear and not so cold Wednesday High in the Partly sunny and warmer Highs in low 70s extreme west and in upper 30s Hutchinson Tuesdays high 55 at low 38 at Record high 94 in 1896 record low 27 in Barometer Wind 58 Sunset Wednesday Sunrise Thursday Intercepted letter MARY ANNE CRABB Information Hutchinson Public Library Dear Mary And we thought we were the only ones who knew it Hutch ij TT
