Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - October 17, 1977, Lebanon, Pennsylvania 106th Year No 33 LEBANON MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER WEATHER Clear and cold tonight with dimin ishing winds and lows in the mid to upper 3to Mostly sunny and milder Tuesday with highs in the upper 59s to low Ms 15 CENTS Snow Strands Pa Motorists Areas North Of Lebanon Hit By Snow Depending on ones point of view residents of Leba non County may want to count their lucky stars today We were fortunate to receive 60 of an inch of rain during the night Our northern neighbors were not so received a foot of snow A season record of 12 inches of the white stuff hit portions of Luzerne and Schuylkill counties last night Hazleton reported flurries which began at 8 Sunday were continuing at 9 today Power lines were down and traffic were reported in portions of the county About 30 miles of Interstate 81 from Hazelton to Hegins were still closed to traffic this morning Frackville and points south also reported traffic and snow removal problems this morning There were no major accidents during the night Some hail and sleet was reported in the area with temperatures hovering between 33 and 35 de grees during the night There were reports of scat tered snow flurries in the Mt Gretna area this morn ing but no accumulation Lebanon County CD reported no major problems lems due to the weather MetEd crews and firemen from the Liberty and Independent companies were called to 608 Miller Street where a tree uprooted by high winds blew against the wires and caused some sparking Men and equipment were in service for about 50 minutes No damage was reported Milder Tuesday It will be partly cloudy tonight with lows from the mid 20s to mid 30s Tuesday will be partly sunny and milder with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s tation probability is 20 percent tonight and near zero percent Tuesday The National Weather Service said a low pressure system in Southern New England was spreading rain and thunderstorms from Virginia to Maine with rain and snow from New York through on 4 Rita Lane Home Is Burglarized A burglary Saturday after noon at the Milton Koenigsberg home 1600 Rita Lane headed the relatively small list of crime incidents in the city over the weekend Preliminary estimates indi that the loss in the burg lary was not large The arrival home of a family member is be to have interrupted the burglars One report indicated the burglary was the work of youths Entrance to the Koenigsberg home was gained by breaking a rear door Locked drawers in a credenza were forced open with a screwdriver causing damage The burglary loss included a gold wedding band and a diamond ring some liquor and beer and prescription drugs The time of the burglary was between 2 and 4 Other Incidents Victor W Smith 1803 Today In The NEWS Womens Center was charged with disorderly conduct and drunk driving early Sunday morning according to a report by Patrol man Robert Bixler The report said Smith was ar rested at Seventh and Willow streets about a m and then taken to Good Samaritan Hospi tal at his own request He al became disorderly at the hospital Damages of were cited in an apparent inci dent at 306 N Seventh some time Saturday night A West Coast mirror on a veh on 3 CAPTAIN SHOT HERE Fall Closes Route 81 HIJACKING STILL UNRESOLVED The hi jackers of a West German airliner forced the plane to land in Somalia today and shot to death the Lufthansa Airline captain the West German embassy in Mogadishu reported The hijackers were still threatening to blow up the airliner and its hostages unless their demands were met At press time the drama was still unresolved The map spots the route taken by the jet since the hijacking in Majorca UPI Telephoto HAZLETON Pa UPI State police reported hundreds of cars stranded along vania highways early today with the area blanketed by nearly a foot of snow The police said falling trees snapped power lines added to the traffic and cut service to about people in Luzerne county One trooper said they were waiting for the state Depart ment of Transportation to bring in snowplows to clear the roads At one point cars were backed up for eight miles he said Interstate 80 had been closed during the night but was open by midmorning Interstate 81 re mained closed Just over the Broad Mountain range in Carbon County Lehighton reported no snow but residents in nearby Panther Valley had 3 to 4 inches In Williamsport falling trees cut power to about people and there were reports of eight inches of snow in Wellsboro Tioga County and nine inches at Eagles Mere Sullivan County About 6 inches of snow were reported in Mt Carmel and Ashland southwest of Hazelton where Schuylkill Columbia and Northumberland counties meet Pennsylvania Route 322 was closed at Lewistown and the Seven Mountains area where inches of snow had fallen State police said about ISO cars were stranded in the moun tains and trees power lines and debris were blocking the road ways No traffic fatalities were re ported Some schools were closed in Williamsport Scranton and Lewistown and several radio stations were without power during the night One state police officer called it a midwinter storm in Oc The Poconos ski resort area reported it was raining there Grapefruit Peel Could Be Valuable As Next Sweetener Hijackers Kill Pilot Of Airliner WESLACO Tex UPI The peel of a grapefruit may one day be more valuable than the fruit itself if saccharin is banned as an artificial sweeten er a researcher predicts Dr Calvin Lyons a citrus specialist with the Texas University Agricultural Exten sion Service bases his cy on the potential of naringin a bitter chemical found primarily in the skins of grapefruit as a sweetener to replace saccharin in some products After it is altered through a process known by chemists as alkaline cleavage with con naringin which gives its early season emerges as a super sweetener with a strength times that of sugar Lyons said After the conversion naring in emerges with a new name cone which mercifully has been to neo DHC Lyons said on the basis of cur rent prices and yields the value of naringin has been calculated at about a ton by Dr Jim Kesterton of the Institute of DelMarcelle Stricken David J DelMarcelle execu tive vice president of the Leba non Valley Chamber of Com merce is again in critical condi tion in the Good Samaritan Hos pital after suffering two more heart attacks It was reported that the at tacks occurred last night and this morning He had been ad mitted to the hospital the last week in September for exten sive tests in connection with a cardiac problem and suffered four attacks while hospitalized The first occurred on Sept 26 Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida Based on South Texas grape fruit production estimates of tons naringin would have added a value of mil lion to the 197576 grapefruit crop had it all been recovered representing a 28 per cent addi tion to the value of the mil lion harvest last year Lyons said He said growers discouraged by depressed juice prices how ever must be forewarned that at least two hurdles remain be fore they could begin cashing in on value as a sweetener receiving clearance from the Food and Drug Ad ministration to use neo DHC in consumer products and gearing Lower Rio Grande Valley facilities to extract the com pound from grapefruit peelings The Valley currently has none of the specialized equipment for the task and no one has expres sed a serious interest in instal ling it Lyons said Only Sunkist of California presently has extraction capabilities Lyons said and therefore boasts an effective monopoly of the naringin market Should Florida and Texas both gear up to extract naring in the price likely will dip un less demand increases cally he added Naringin already is used com to impart a bitter flavor to beverages confections and marmalade made from sweet oranges and it also has been suggested as a raw mate rial for dyes By United Press International Four Arab and German ter executed the pilot of a hijacked West German airliner and dumped his body onto the runway at Mogadishu Airport where he was forced to land with 86 other hostages Somalias Sonna news agency said Capt Juergen Schumann was shot to death in front of the other hostages the West German news agency DPA reported from Bonn because the terror ists apparently feared he no longer would obey their orders Schumann 37 the father of two sons joined Lufthansa 1968 Before that he had served in the West German Air Force with his copilot on the hijacked air craft Juergen Vietor 35 Mogadishu radio monitored in Nairobi Kenya said the hi jackers set a new deadline of 10 EOT vowing to blow up Boeing 737 with the remaining hostages unless 13 comrades are freed from West German and Turkish prisons and a million ransom is paid The radio quoted Somalias Reprieve Running Out In Pa Budget Battle LEBANON BUILDING SUPPLY 225 10th Strati WILL BE CLOSED Roy H Risser HARRISBURG UPI In the wearying mugginess of last August frus and divided legislature hatched a budget plan which gave the lawmakers a tempor ary reprieve on the crucial question of new taxes That reprieve is running however and this week the law makers return to the Capitol and the cold October reality that they are no closer to a final budget settlement than they were in August The budget plan that sent the lawmakers home after four months of circular debate funded an increase in state spending with million origi nally earmarked for 31 educa tional institutions including Pitt Perm State Temple and Lincoln universities Only one of the legislatures 104 Republicans voted for that spend now tax later budget but Democratic legislative leaders pushing for an increase in state spending thought things would be different in the fall They hoped that when the General Assembly returned and faced the question of either a tax increase or no money for the educational institutions re Democrats and some Republicans would be forced to vote for the taxes After said one Demo cratic legislative aide their kids go to college But the passing weeks appa rently have not lessened the op position to higher taxes Barter Shop 109 W Main CLOSED THIS WEEK DUE TO DEATH IN FAMILY Oct 25 House Democratic leaders es timate they have only 80 of the 102 votes needed for a tax in crease and House Republicans are as vociferous as ever in their criticism of new taxes and their Democratic opposition Our position is the same today They passed that budget so its their ballgame Let them get the 102 votes for the tax in said Rep H Jack Seltzer House Democrats in an effort to fund the schools and end the budget fight have hatched another plan to extract the 102 taxes votes within the next 10 days Under the plan the Senate this week will pass and send to Gov Milton Shapp million in appropriations for most of the educational institutions Continual on ftgt 3Col 3 information minister as saying that the hijackers would negotiate only with the West German government and no one else including the Somalis In Bonn government officials said Minister of State Juergen Wischnewski West Arab affairs expert landed at Mogadishu this morning and was trying to negotiate with the hijackers In Bonn it was reported that Minister of State Juergen Wis West Arab affairs expert had left Saudi Arabia in an to contact the hijackers The agency said the plane landed at Mogadishu today after a flight from Aden south ern Yemen at EDT Sunday and very soon the dead body of the pilot was slid down from the plane and taken to a hospital He had been shot to death Somalia said the plane ar rived unexpectedly and when it was discovered that it was the hijacked Lufthansa 737 Somalia was faced with the al on 4 Jamaicans Welcome Castro KINGSTON Jamaica UPI Fidel Castro arrived in Jamaica Sunday to a 21gun sa lute and a warm welcome from leftist Prime Minister Michael Manley who praised the Cuban leader as a giant of the Com munist world Castro who arrived aboard a Cuban navy ship for a state visit was scheduled to go with Manley today to Jamaicas plush resort area of Montego Bay for Heros Day fes Today is Heros Day a national holiday in Jamaica and the two presidents were scheduled to address a rally ex to draw persons on 3cw y JAMAICA GREETS leader Fidel Castro right is greeted upon his arrival in Kingston Jamaica Sunday for a visit The man on the left is an unidentified Jamaican diplomat He was greeted with a 21gun salute and praised as a giant of the Communist world by Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley UPI Telephoto SHOWCASE SHOPPE AT RECLINER CITY CARLOAD SALE 417 W Main Palmyra Optn Won Thru fri
