Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - November 17, 1983, Oelwein, Iowa Thursday November 171983 VOL 296 PER COPY In Our 2nd Century of Publishing THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER OELWEIN IOWA 50662 French j ets hit guerrilla bases TRIPOLI Lebanon AP French jets attacked a Shiite Moslem guerrilla base in the Bekaa Valley today a day after the Israelis bombed the same area to retaliate for suicide attacks on US French and Israeli bases in Lebanon In the PLO war guerrilla mutineers threatened to bomb Yasser sanctuaries in Tripoli down to the earth unless he leaves But the besieged PLO chief Strikers break through lines stop Greyhound bus by The Associated Press Greyhound buses many of them virtually empty pulled out of stations to the jeers of union members today for the first time since a strike halted the nations largest intercity bus line two weeks ago Forty rowdy demonstrators were dragged away to police vans in Boston after delaying a bus for an hour In Philadelphia hundreds of strikers joined by sympathetic unionized plumbers carpenters subway workers and Teamsters burst though a police line surrounded a bus and pounded it like a drum keeping it at the dock The only passengers on the Philadelphia bus were four reporters and photographers A brick was thrown through with an empty bus in a garage No injuries or violence was reported there or elsewhere against Greyhound workers or passengers Pickets shouted Scab bus scab bus in Mobile Ala as the company resumed partial service Four people were arrested in Washington for disorderly conduct One pulled his car into the path of a bus and the others barged a police line police said Nevertheless Greyhound said its buses departed the nations capital on time A wouldbe passenger in Philadelphia Pamela Matthews 39 found herself surrounded by angry strikers as she tried to board the bus there The woman an employee of a nursing agency in Cherry Hill NJ said she had to get to Washington but police finally told her the bus wasnt leaving and she was causing a distur bance They said they would take her somewhere else where she could get a ride In Detroit two gasoline bombs sparked a fire in a Greyhound yard Wednesday and slightly damaged two buses Pickets delayed but did not stop two buses from leaving the downtown depot there Greyhound spokeswoman Dorothy Lorant said ridership on the first buses was light to moderate but said she had no figures More substance abuse i money may be sought DES MOINES AP Gov Terry Branstad said its likely that hell recommend more funding for substance abuse programs in the wake of a task force report seeking tighter liquor controls The task force on Wednesday recommended a ban on carryout beer sales after 10 pm at all retail outlets not just gas stations as had been recommended earlier and said the state should stay in the liquor business in order to regulate sales of alcoholic beverages Currently carryout beer sales are allowed until 2 am Branstad said at his regular news conference Thursday he wanted to study the report before deciding on some key issues But he said hes looking for ways to come up with more money for substance abuse programs and said hell support mini liquor stores a proposal he vetoed earlier this year On substance abuse funding Branstad said There has been a reduction in federal funding for substance abuse 1 would not be surprised if there will be in my program recommendations in that area Lawmakers last session approved funding for the mini liquor stores which are patterned after convenience shops The stores would not have quite as large of a selection as larger stores but would provide liquor outlets in rural areas Branstad vetoed that measure but said Thursday his veto came because he wanted the task force to study the liquor system before making any changes I can support it 1 had no problem supporting it in light of their recommendation he said The governor has long opposed raising the states drinking age to 21 The task force split equally on private sales of wines and Branstad said I dont have strong feelings about it 1 havent taken a position on it and I dont know that I wiH On another topic the governor said hes a strong backer of Iowa Democrats and Republicans holding precinct caucuses on the same day and he urged all sides to work together to solve the squabble over the caucus date I think weve got to be flexible Branstad said ELEMENTARY HAZLETON BELL A group of volunteers helped remove various items from the Hazleton Elementary School building this week in preparation to placing them in the Hazlewood School Museum Among the items removed and saved was tlic fire bell held here Hunters killed horses to live CALDWELL Idaho AP Two hunters suffering from hypothermia on a freezing windswept mountain say they stayed alive by shooting their horses cutting them open and crawling inside the carcasses for shelter Richard Dailey 35 and Steven McCoy 27 said Wed they used the horses as shelter last week when high winds and snow trapped them on a ridge The respite gave them the strength they needed a few hours later to stagger down the mountain and find their truck they said The men had become soaked to the skin and pummeled by sleet and trapped by high drifts If youve never been there you probably couldnt imagine it but the wind must have been blowing 80 miles an hour said Dailey Experienced in survival techniques Dailey saw McCoy becoming more affected by the cold and figured his friend had only about an hour left olive Finally the horses were killed each man shooting the others animal They slit the bellies hollowed out a space by removing internal organs and crawled inside The thought of the blood and guts was a little bit gross but I didnt care You cant imagine how cold we were said Dailey When the horses bodily heat had dissipated We got out and decided we had to walk or we wouldnt make it he said After taking a wrong turn and backtracking they found their truck and drove to safety Adams County Sheriff Jim Hileman would not discuss the incident but confirmed the accounts given by the two Caldwell hunters It happened The horses are up there Hileman said Snipers wound UJS paratroopers ST GEORGES Grenada AP Snipers wounded two US paratroopers early today on a tiny island just off Grenadas northeast coast US military authorities said Maj Douglas Frey said the soldiers were manning an ob servation post when they were fired upon at about am They were wounded very slightly one in the arm the other in the leg by small arms fire Frey said Neither was hospitalized Although Frey did not identify the men by name he said they were members of the Armys Airborne He did not in who the snipers might have been and did not say whether the island had a name No other details were im mediately available US officials have reported 18 American servicemen killed in the US invasion of Grenada which began Oct 25 following a bloody coup on the Marxist ruled island The declared goal of the invasion was to rescue hundreds of Americans many of them medical students A White House task force visiting Grenada is seeking to encourage private enterprise to do what years of socialism failed to accomplish keep this tiny away from bankruptcy The visit is the first of a series of international efforts to assist the recovery of a country described by one US official as Jay Morris deputy ad ministrator of the US Agency for International Development or AID heads the team which will hold three days of talks with businessmen and government officials Other members include representatives of the US state and commerce departments the ExportImport Bank and the Peace Corps by Ralph Kephart who at one lime attended classes in the building Kephart recalls thai all il had lo do was ring ami the building emptied Other photos of the activities in removing items will he found on page 10 Photo by Richard Wilkinson State News in brief New tractor CHARLES CITY AP White Farm Equipment Co has rolled a new tractor off the production line at its Charles City plant The tractor known as the 4270 is the largest implement manufactured by White It is a fourwheel drive machine with 270 horsepower White officials say the Charles City plant will assemble 60 of the tractors at the rate of three a day White now distributes 13 tractor models ranging from 30 to 270 hor Trapper shot KELLERTON AP Robbie Gregg 15 of Kellerton died Tuesday from a gunshot wound suffered while checking his trapping line Officials in the Ringgold County Sheriffs department said Gregg died between 5 and pm Tuesday afternoon near his parents home in the eastern part of the county His body was found by his sister after pm The Mount Ayr High School freshman who recently completed a gun safety course died from a rifle wound to the heart The cause of death was ruled accidental misuse of a gun Escapes death IOWA CITY AP An Illinois man hunting in Iowa narrowly escaped death earlier this month when he became ill from a borrowed pair of blue jeans that had been contaminated by spilled in Illinois health authorities said Wednesday The man Dennis Wiegand 31 of East Moline 111 was transferred from Moline Public Hospital in Moline 111 to University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City after becoming violently ill while enroute home from the hunting trip said John ONeill communicable disease coordinator for the Rock Island County 111 Department of Health The bizarre contamination case initially baffled health authorities in Iowa and Illinois At first officials thought Wiegand had been contaminated by pesticides used at the farm of Jack Grier near Guernsey where Wiegand and friends had been hunting However soil tests conducted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture found no traces of two pesticides found on Wiegands clothing ONeill said Rock Island officials eventually determined that the blue jeans Wiegand was wearing had been located in a friends garage under a plastic bleach bottle which began to leak The plastic cap of the bottle melted spilling onto the pants an old supply of the commercial pesticide which had been taken out of its original container and stored for several years in the plastic bottle Jobless rate DES MOINES AP Iowas unem ployment rate stood at 59 percent in September down from 74 percent in August the US Department of Labor reported Wednesday Labor Department figures show Iowa had 82000 jobless workers in September compared with 103600 in August A Labor Department spokesman in Kansas City attributed the decrease to numerous worker callbacks by manufacturing plants around the state That was particularly evident in Waterloo where the unemployment rate went from 213 percent in August to 99 percent in September The Quad Cities area had the states highest unem ployment rate for September 121 per cent That was down from 133 percent in August All other metropolitan areas in the state also reported a decrease in their unemployment rates Des Moines went from 64 percent to 57 percent Cedar Rapids 75 percent to percent Sioux City percent to 64 percent and Dubuque 108 percent percent National Change plans DALLAS AP A threat by Yippies to bring 60000 protesters to next Augusts Republican National Convention will change the citys plans for security Assistant City Manager Levi Davis says Davis said Wednesday he learned that fliers advertising a yearlong Freeze Campaign to culminate in a Dallas protest were distributed at large rallies in London and Washington Dallas officials had earlier expected few protesters to show up Dean Tuckerman a spokesman for the Youth International Party or Yippies said leaders of West antinuclear Green Party would help organize the protest ERA issue WASHINGTON AP Rep Berkley Bedell has urged House Speaker Thomas ONeill to bring up the proposed Equal Rights Amendment for a vote under normal House rules Bedell an original cosponsor of the ERA told ONeill in a letter delivered Wednesday that the procedure under which the amendment was considered Tuesday weakened the proposals chances for passage in stale legislatures An attempt to revive the ERA on Tuesday fell six votes short of passage in the House Bedell voted against the measure explaining that he did so in protest because it was brought up under rules that severely limited debate and barred amendments Helping Jesse WASHINGTON AP Arnold Pinkney a Cleveland insurance executive who worked for the presidential cam of Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter will manage Jesse Jacksons bid for the Democratic nomination Jackson campaign spokeswoman Florence Tale said Wednesday that Pinkney will take over the job of campaign manager from Preston Love who will become deputy campaign director in charge of ad ministration She said the Jackson campaign wanted a manager who had experience with a national presidential campaign Mr Pinkney just became available Eye damage WASHINGTON AP A New Jersey company is recalling 1200 bottles of an ophthalmic solution used by glaucoma patients because the bottles contain a weak concentration of the medication that can cause serious eye damage Laboratories Laboratories of NJ told the Food and Drug Ad ministration on Wednesday that it was recalling bottles of brand Pilocarpine 4 percent ophthalmic solution with the lot number 4632 The bottles were distributed nationwide in August and September of 1983 International Approve budget ROME AP The UN Food and Agriculture Organization governing body on has unanimously approved a million budget for 198485 The United States which provides 25 percent of the funds and had not supported the last two budgets joined the 112 other delegates on the World Food Conference in voting for the spending plan Wednesday The United States abstained from the vote on the 1980 81 budget and voted against the 198283 budget to protest what it considered inefficiencies and bloated expenditures for sources saiel the favorable vole this time was prompted by efforts to correct the problems Miners killed JOHANNESBURG South Africa AP Six miners died at the Anglo American Western Deep Level mine south west of Johannesburg the company reports The company said the men died Tuesday about two miles underground but it was not known what killed them The National Union of said it is in whether blasting took place six were still in the shafts said he would go only if asked by the citys elders Beirut radio said Arafat ordered his fighters to cease fire but he said he had no choice but to fight on The French Defense Ministry in Paris said Super Etendard jets from the carrier Clemen hit a military objective east of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley to prevent new terrorist actions It said the planes attacked in the afternoon and returned to Paper says son shot Andropov LONDON AP The Daily Express said today there are reports that Soviet President Yuri V Andropov has not ap in public for three months because he was shot in the arm by Leonid son who was reported furious over KGB allegations of moral and financial corruption The Daily Express said it based its article on reports that emanated from Moscow KGB sources and that these reports had spread through intelligence circles in London and elsewhere in Europe The article was headlined Was Andropov Shot There was no comment from Soviet officials but Yuri office in Moscow said he still held his job as first deputy foreign trade minister which tended to cast doubt on the report The Daily Express said the are reported to have nursed a bitter grudge against Andropov because believe thai when he was head of KGB he tried to implicate them in allegations of moral and financial corruption Iowa Weather Southerly winds brought warm air to Iowa today thanks to a weak low pressure area lhat was expected to remain stationary from the Dakotas southward There were some areas of fog this morning but partly sunny skies were expected to take over by Highs were ex to reach the mid 50s The southerly air flow will continue bringing mild to Iowa through the night with lows in But the low pressure area will begin to move Friday bringing mostly cloudy skies to Iowa and a chance of rain over the southern part of Die state Highs should be in the 50s the Clemenceau with the mission executed President Francois Mit terrand said on French television Wednesday night that of 58 French soldiers killed in a suicide attack on their Beirut barracks Oct 23 will not go unpunished Moments before the attack on the French Oct 23 another suicide terrorist blew up a US Marine command post in Beirut killing 239 Americans On Nov 4 yel another suicide terrorist blew up an Israeli command post in Tyre killing 29 Israelis and 32 Lebanese prisoners The Israelis flew retaliatory raids against the Shiite bases in the Bekaa Wednesday killing 43 guerrillas according to Lebanese police Ahmed Jibril who led the assault Wednesday lhat drove loyalists into Tripoli from their last stronghold in the refugee camp said All we want at the moment is for Arafat to leave He warned lhat if Arafat stays We shall level all places he frequents in the city down to the earth We shall not attack but shall bombard him mer Weve won the war and we have finished Arafat Jibril said urging the Palestine Liberation Organization chief to surrender and receive the punishment he deserves for the mistakes and crimes he com mitted against Palestinian people As Jibril spoke to reporters in Arafat told a news conference at his headquarters in he neighborhood of Tripoli Ihal he still considered himself a guest of city leaders I told you from ning I am here according to the leaders according to their wish Arafat said I will leave if hey ask me o leave Tripoli political leaders in the mayor have asked that Arafat leave and spare the cily of 500000 people from harm But local militia leaders have said he remains welcome Arafat and his aides said there were still some loyalist fighters in positions on the southern edge of in an area called Rockets and rocket propelled grenades were being fired by both sides We will win 1 keep telling you Arafat claimed Unconfirmed radio reports said were killed and 500 wounded in the final assault on The PLO rebels accused Arafat of abandoning military struggle against Israel but Arafat said the mutiny was part of an effort by Syria lo gain control of the PLO The days before The Day After by The Associated Press At Ground Zero two dozen children are gathered around their teacher A moment later they turn to skeletons Then they are gone That scene of instantaneous nuclear annihilation and other graphic parts of The Day After worr teachers and psychologists who are warning parents to prepare for another kind of fallout nightmares depression and a feeling of hopelessness among children The movie to be telecast at 8 pm EST Sunday on ABC was previewed this week by school officials across the country They are sending notes home to parents consulting psychiatrists and setting aside class time Monday morning to discuss the film The Day After shows what might happen before during and after a nuclear strike on the Kansas City Mo area and carries this disclaimer The graphic depiction of the effects of a nuclear war may not be suitable for younger viewers It has become politically controversial too But school officials say they are more worried about the psychological shock for kids than the effect of a particular political message In Lynchburg Va home to Moral Majority which has come out strongly against the movie the school system has ordered that no children be assigned the program to watch Whether children of any age watch it thats a decision their parents should make said Superintendent Joseph A Spagnolo Many school officials and psychologists worry the movie will tap into children already have about nuclear war fears of being separated from parents and the likelihood that survivors would die a slow painful death by radiation poisoning Most psychiatrists and school officials agree that children under 12 should not see the film and ages 13 to 17 should see it only with their parents Young children could be left with some very very serious terrors because the movie personifies the fear of nuclear war said JoAnne Troxel a teacher in Mont In a letter lo school principals the board of the National Association of Independent Schools said To a person we found it The Day After powerful gripping graphic and depressing Many principals forwarded that letter to parents Dr Howard H Hiatt dean of Graduate School of Public Health also found it powerful Smokers asked to stop today by The Associated Pross A cigarette bonfire in a Georgia town kicked off todays Great American as nonsmokers cajoled the ad into quitting for 24 hours with sandwiches chances at free vacations and friendly support backed up by gum and candy and clubs Eight psychiatrists put taped messages on a nationwide hotline offering tips for what American Cancer Society hoped would be 20 million people trying to kick tobacco habit in annual event An estimated 19 million of the nations 55 million smokers last year The society hopes its adopta smoker theme calling on non smokers to help smokers get through the day without a cigarette would enlist even more this year Smokers were warned that lighting up today in the west Georgia town of Carrollton population 15000 could be especially dangerous to their health because of a pledge to quit If I see a cigarette being smoked I may cut it in half with a scissors or douse it with cold waler whatever it fakes said Daniel Jackson public chief for the societys local branch Mayor Tracy Stallings a smoker threw away his cigarettes at noon Wed and joined about 250 people at a Wednesday night rally where the high school band played A smokers threw packs into a bonfire
