Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - January 2, 1986, Oelwein, Iowa Goi trade peace hopes WASHINGTON AP President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail sent New Years greetings of peace to each others nations while making subtle plugs for their opposing positions on the US Strategic Defense Initiative as StarWars In messages that were taped last week and televised in both countries Wednesday in an unprecedented exchange both leaders referred to their summit talks in Geneva on arms control but politely held fast to the positions they have taken on the US plan for the Star Wars anti missile defense system Its my hope that one day we will be able to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether and rely increasingly for our security on defense systems that threaten no one Reagan said in his ad dress Both the United Stales and the Soviet Union are doing research on the possibilities of ap plying new technologies to the cause of defense If these technologies become a reality it is my dream that well to one day free us all from the threat of nuclear destruction Gorbachev spoke of the danger of escalating the arms race saying It is a reality of todays world that it is senseless to seek greater security for oneself through new types of weapons Star Wars has been a slicking point in the U S Soviet arms control talks The Soviets insist on a ban on such plans and the United States says the program answers similar Soviet research It is the forceful and compelling demand of life itself that we should follow the path of cutting back nuclear arsenals and keeping outer space peaceful Gorbachev said The messages were televised simultaneously at 1 pm EST in the United States on all the major commercial television networks and at 9 pm Moscow time in the Soviet Union Each talk lasted about five minutes and each loader spoke in his native language in telecasts that featured simultaneous translations Reagans speech was the first by an American president to the Soviet populace since a televised speech by President Richard M Nixon during his 1972 visit to Moscow Never before however had the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in such a message ex change Each expressed hope that 1986 would be a year of peace Lets work together to make it a vear of peace Reagan said There is no better goal for 1986 or for any year Gorbachev said Our duty toall humankind is to offer it as a safe prospect of peace a of entering the third millenium without fear He said one of the main achievements of the summit is that as leaders and as human beings we were able to lake the firs steps toward overcoming and to activate the factor of confidence Reagan said that despite the obvious disagreements at the summit we left Geneva with a better understanding of one another and of the goals we have Reagan used a few Russian words at the end of his speech saying Let us look forward to a future of clear skies for all mankind Thursday January 21986 VOL 24 Reagan set to criticize Mexican foreign policy WASHINGTON API tWA L WASHINGTON AP President Reagan is prepared to register US displeasure with Mexicos policies in Central America and its UN votes when he meets Friday with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid US officials say Mexico has been a consistent supporter of Nicaraguas leftist government and has a voting record at the UN thai ranks among the lowest 5 per cent in the General Assembly on issues important to the United Stales one official said Reagan will fly from Los Angeles to the Mexican border town of for his third wilh de la Madrid since the Mexican took office in 1982 The meeting will take place as Reagan returns to Washington from his California vacation While US officials regard tales crucial in Ricky Nelson crash DE KALB Texas AP The stories of the badly burned and copilot of Hick Nelsons plane may be crucial to piecing together how it crashed killing the entertainer his fiancee and five members of his band investigators say Statements from pilot Brad Rank and copilot Kenneth Ferguson is crucial because the only identifiable pieces of the plane remaining are a charred wing section lodged in a tree a jagged tail section and a broken nose piece said National Transportation Safety Board Chairman J im Burnett Rank 34 was in fair condition in St Michael Hospital in Texarkana and Ferguson 40 was in critical condition in the University of Arkansas Medical Center burn unit at Little Rock Both suffered burns and smoke inhalation Helicopter pilot Don Ruggles who was flying in the area said that seconds before the pm crash Tuesday one of the DC pilots gasped for breath as he radioed a distress message from the cockpit Friends and relatives of the victims say the DC3 had been plagued by engine trouble in past months that it had more trouble before its last flight and that one band member had talked of quitting because he didnt trust the it Nelson 45 who became known to millions of Americans as a youngster on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was flying from Alabama to Dallas for a New Years Eve concert He and his band had appeared Monday at PJs Lounge in Guntersville Ala and took off Tuesday afternoon Mexicos foreign policy as an irritant that issue is considered to be far less important than M economic health Mexicos billion foreign debt and its ability to repay it are the dominant factors in the relationship according to the officials who spoke on the condition they not be identified The benefits Mexico has derived from lower US interest rates have been offset to some extent by a drop in the world market price of oil Mexicos principal export the officials said According to official figures for each drop in the price of oil Mexico loses million annually in export income but for each 1 point decline in US interest rates Mexico saves million en its foreign debt liability MOUNDSVILLE WVa A Rioting inmates released two hostages but continued to hold 14 others today as they demanded a meeting with the governor complaining they were treated le trash and animals One prisoner died during the stan doff authorities said A heavily armed torce of more than 100 police and correctional officers was standing by and was prepared to move into the prison immediately if any of the hostages were hurt a state official said However authorities had received continual PER COPY In Our 2nd Century of Publishing THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER OELWEIN IOWA 50662 Supervisors tab Miller again WEST UNION Lois Miller Of Clermont will again chair the Fayette County Board of Supervisors Millers was one of the New Year duties Miss January January S M T 1986 W T F S 1234 5 6 7 8 91011 12131415161718 19 2021 22232425 262728293031 MARIE HEYING 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Keying of rural is REGISTERS of the Month for January is the oldest of three IT she has a brother Benjamin and a sister Kristin Corrina is A a senior at North Fayette Community where she is president TJ of the National Honor Society and vice president of the senior class She was also Norths Homecoming Queen last fall and A recently attended the model Senate session in IJes T She was chairman of Norths annual Veterans Day program in November Oilier school activities include art and Spanish club She has been active in Softball and gymnastics 3 Her hobbies include drawing Corrina has been accepted by Iowa State University in architecture She says she hopes for A a career in architecture computer graphics or advertising Photo by Wilkinson riot hostages held from the reassurances from the inmates that no one would be hurt said Assistant Corrections Com missioner William Whyte Sixteen hostages were seized initially in the uprising Wed night by about 25 to 200 of the 688 inmates at the Wesl Virginia State Penitentiary authorities said The rest of the inmates were probably sitting back in their cells said state police spokesman SgL Larry Henry Officials initially thought just 14 people hoo been taken hostage but added two more names today One hostage a guard will a history of heart trouble was released about midnight and taken to a hospital where he was listed in good condition said penitentiary spokeswoman Jerric Clutter The second hostage was released about am and taken to Reynolds Memorial Hospital by ambulance He was being treated for minor in juries including a possible broken arm said a slate police dispatcher Corrections officials in the two men and they said they were treated fairly Henry said Ms Clutter identified the dead inmate as Kent Slie 38 who was serving a life term for murder She said Slie died at the hands of his brother inmates but thai cause of death was not known pending an autopsy The inmates rioted over conditions and restrictions on holiday contact visits authorities and a former prisoner said We want lobe like we are somebody not trash and animals an inmate shouted at guards outside the prison Lois Milter to by the supervisors this morning Wayne Pape of West Union will serve as vice chairman Reappointed to the countys board of human services were Josephine Pirillo of Oelwein and supervisors Pape and Merl McFarlane ot Oelwein Other reappointments were Jackson Wesl Union sanitarian and zoning William Moellering engineer Helen Pepin Oelwein director of relief Lynde fereday West Union civil defense coor Orville West Union weed commissioner and Robert McCIain Oelwein assistant weed commissioner Palmer Memorial Hospital West Union Jeanine Matt administrator was named administrator of the Fayette County Care Facility Donald Bunn of Maynard was appointed lo the county con servation board The various boards and committees supervisors will serve on during the coming year include Northeast Iowa Mental Health Miller Upper Regional Planning Commission Mc Farlane Northeast Iowa Community Action McFarlane Area l Agency on Aging Pape Department of Services Pape Department of Tran Pape County Farm ive Pape Care Facility R Miller Northeast Iowa Transit Ad Committee McFarlane Menial Health Mental Retardation advisory board McFarlane LEO board Miller and PTA board Miller board Miller In other business this mor ning the supervisors approved a rate of for residents of the county care facility County residents had been paying a month residents of The supervisors also named THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER the Elgin Echo and The Fayette County Union as papers State Forecast Iowa Snow ending northeast this evening clear to partly cloudy tonighl Low single digits north to teens south Partly cloudy Friday Highs around 20 northeast to mid 30s southwest Road death toll up but still low State Senator dies WATERLOO AP State Sen Tom Lind died Wednesday morning at a Waterloo hospital officials said Lind 67 had been a member of the Senate since 1981 after serving two and half terms in the Iowa House No cause of death was initially listed but he had been ill for some time A special election will be set to fill his seal Democrats control the Senate edge Lind represented the Senate Lind was born in Burlington and graduated from the University of towa where he lettered in basketball News in Brief IBP official said recently that when the plant opens in Columbus Junction Louisa County would become the hog capital of the state The leading producers now are in an area surrounding Cedar Rapids Delaware County number two hog county and Washington County the states number four hog county Just because a packer remodels and expands a new plant doesnt mean a new industry will develop in the area Grafft added Fatal fir f National Holiday toll SUTHERLAND Iowa lAP A Sutherland man died early Wednesday when fire swept through his home officials said Authorities identified the as Scolt Bina 26 and said he was alone at the time the fire struck Firemen found his body in a bedroom of his home after being called about am Bina was dead at the scene and an autopsy was ordered Officials have listed preliminary cause of the fire as an overheated extension cord but said probe is con Slill a leader DES MOINES AP Iowa remains one of the nations strongest farm producing states despite credit crunch through rural America Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry said in a yearend Wed He said state remains third in total cash receipts from farming trailing only California and Texas In addition he said 1985 saw Iowa maintain its lead in corn production and second place ranking in soybean production Lounsberry said US Department of Agriculture officials wont update their reporting figures until spring but early numbers show Iowas ranking continued strong Following Iowa in cash receipts were Nebraska Illinois Minnesota Kansas W and Florida Hog city CEDAR RAPIDS AP The Cedar Rapids area would remain the top hog producing section of the state despite plans by inc to expand the Rath Packing Co in Columbus Junction according to livestock specialist LaMar Grafft of Olin Grafft is an Iowa State University extension livestock specialist in a area around Cedar Rapids where 25 percent of the states hogs are located An By The Associated Press Traffic accidents over the New Years holiday claimed 171 lives ithin a range estimated in advance by 11 e National Safety Council The council had that between 130 and 230 people might die in traffic between 6 pm Monday and midnight Wed local times Last years holiday period resulted in 366 traffic deaths The highest New Years death loll was recorded during the 1965 holiday people died on nations roadways Bontter heart BOSTON AP Yelena Bonner may un dergo heart surgery after all despite doctors hopes that heart pills and healthful habits would ease the chest pains of the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov her family said stepchildren disclosed Wednesday that Hie therapy recommended by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital did not appear to be working well It might be premature but she might have to have the operation her soninlaw Efrem Yankelevich said He said a decision would come in the next few weeks Cushions fall NEWARK NJ AP A firefighter who fell 35 feet and cushioned the fall of a woman he was trying to rescue from a apart ment remained ir critical condition today authorities said Firefighter Marcus Reddick was being treated at University for head neck back and chest injuries said a hospital spokeswoman apartment resident Angela improved from serious to stable condition said the spokeswoman Mrs Ubeda 67 fell atop Reddick and suffered only from smoke inhalation rights WASHINGTON lAP A House panel Wednesday criticized Reagan ad ministrations handling of riii rights com plaints lodged against the nations schools and colleges The Iy the House on Government Operations urged the Education Departments Office for Civil Rights to adopt new guidelines on when it will refer a case to the Justice Department and when il will acl on ils own It also said the federal civil rights agency should not let colleges get off the hook for past segregation violations just by making a goodfaith attempt to remedy the problems Instead the report said the violations mus be corrected regardless of the good faith in which u given desegregation plan was implemented The committee report was based on an investigation and two davs of hearings last July and September by its sub committee on intergovernmental relations and human resources GM transmissions WASHINGTON AP Automatic overdrive transmissions in many General Motors cars and trucks have defects that could be costing their owners extra money in repairs an auto safely group hrs charged Dan Howell a spokesman for the Center for Auto Safety said Wednesday the allegedly defective tran are not a major safety hazard GMs new generation of automatic transmissions beginning in 1982 and later model large cars and trucks are plagued with problems rivaling GMs infamous Type automatic of the late 1970s the group said An anaylsis of GM service bulletins and consumer complaints shows a pattern of repealed breakdowns at low mileage on a myriad of defects of the automatic overdrive transmissions from 1982 through 1985 the center said Gaines death WINTER PARK Fla AP Clarence Francis Gaines founder of the Gaines Dog Food Co a horseman and an developer has died at his home He was 88 Gaines who died Tuesday founded the company in 1928 introducing a complete dog meal product that the New York Herald Tribune said revolutionized the industry Tn 1943 General Foods bought the firm said he perfected the for his own dogs They were eating me out of house and home and not doing any good either Gaines once said International deaths JOHANNESBURG South Africa AP Five blacks died in rioting including a woman shot as police were attacked by a mob carrying axes officials said today The incidents brought the death toll in New Years violence in South Africa to 16 In Durban officials at King Edward VI H Hospital said today a black died after being wounded when police fired on a crowd of black youths rampaging on an Indian Ocean bench for people of Indian At least nine other blacks were wounded The crowd estimated at several thousand attacked Indians on the beach near Durban ana stoned cars U was the third rampage in i week by black youths on popular Golden beach which is divided by South Africas race laws into sections for blacks people of Indian descent and those of mixed race I MOSCOW AP Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev said in a letter lo a London official today that the Soviet Union will not aim nuclear weapons at Great Britain if the British scrap their nuclear arsenal and order US weapons out of the country Gorbachev also cited the Soviet Unions moratorium on nuclear testing as proof of its willingness lo move toward disarmament but did not say whether the moratorium still was in effect When Gorbachev announced test ban last August he said it would end Jan 1 unless the United Stales agreed to go along with it The refused TRIPOLI Libya AP Libyan leader Col who has been accused of harboring a terrorist group blamed for attacks on Ronio and Vienna airports said retaliation against Libya would lead to war in the Mediterranean and attacks on the United States and Israel Libya has taken on the responsibility of defending Palestinians in Libya and if an assault was launched against them in Libya then we w ill chase Americans in the of America and the Israelis in the streets of occupied Palestine JANA the official Libyan news agency quoted hri as saying Wednesday H an on Libya occurs then we shall consider that the of the end This will mean the never ending war to peace in the Mediterranean Sea There will be no trade no airliners and no US or Israeli civilian cruisers or military ship JANA quoted as saving it news conference in Tripoli DBS MOINES AP More lowans died in highway ac during 1985 than the previous year but Department of Transportation officials said theyre pleased that fatalities remain at historically low rates They said the 1985 level was only the third time in 40 years that fewer than 500 people have died on the roads Theres some good news in that said DOT spokesman Gas Horn Few drunk driver arrests By The Associated Press lowans rang in the New Year in festive parties but ap kept their good cheer off streets and roads police said Wednesday Police around the stale said arrests for drunken driving were at or below average levels and they credited publicity about the dangers of drinking and driving along with a large number of programs aimed at keeping drunks off the road When all the stories come out I think its going to be a very unusual New Years Eve said Gus Horn a spokesman for Department of Transportation They are runn ing scared as far as drinking and driving is concerned Its just not the popular thing to do Horn said his office had received no reports of traffic on New Years Eve and the owa Highway Patrol had reported no Horn warned that reports could filter in later One of the to drunken driving Horn said are roadblocks which police ac throw in place Those roadblocks just scare tirc daylights out of people Horn said Whatever the reasons an initial check with police around the state brought numbers that showed few lowans in trouble with police Des Moines reported three drunken driving arrests while Polk Couty reported eight In Linn County police reported six drunken driving arrests while Black Hawk County authorities said only two drunken driving suspects were arrested Horn said 467 people killed on Iowas roads during 1985 47 more than 1984 Horn said the only other time since 1945 that the state has seen fewer than 500 deaths was in 1982 when 480 died In addition Horn said officials recorded a record low number of pedestrian fatalities during the year as 27 people died That compares to the previous record of 35 in 1983 Back in the and 1940s it was not unusual to loose 100 or more pedestrians Horn said It There was a 36 percent in crease in 1985 motorcycle f t ies Horn said A total of 56 cyclists died in traffic crashes during the past year compared in 1984 Of the cyclists killed last year 89 percent were not wearing Horn said There was bright spot in the annual DOT report Horn said For the firs time since mopeds became popular in the mid 1970s no in the small were reported last year Three moped riders were killed in 1984 In addition fewer people died in crashes with semitrailer and straight trucks during 1885 Preliminary figures showed 67 persons were killed in crashes with heavy trucks last year compared fatalities in 1984 DOT officials claim that highway fatalities could be cut even further if the stale enacted a law requiring motorists to wear seat belts DOT officials have placed thai issue a the top of their Legislative priority list and plan to push the measure when lawmakers convene later this month Lawmakers debated hut did not approve a mandatory seat belt measure last year Iowa Weather By The Press A low pressure system over the Plains will rapidly move into Iowa during the afternoon followed by weak high pressure system tonight and Friday The low will produce I to 4 inches of snow from eastern South Dakota to southern Wisconsin Weather advisories for travelers have been posted for northwest Iowa and surrounding areas Over southern Iowa it will be a rather mild winter day with a few scattered rain showers
