The Paris News (Newspaper) - June 27, 1988, Paris, Texas World Watch CRASH DEBRIS Policemen and rescuers search through the debris of the crashed AirBus 320 near the airport of the eastern French city of Mulhouse Sunday At least 4 persons were killed and 100 injured AP Human error may have caused crash MULHOUSE France AP Investigators today began listening to a recording of the last moments of a demonstration flight of a new Airbus jetliner that crashed at an air show killing three passengers and injuring 50 others A spokesman for Airbus Industrie the aircrafts manufacturer said there were indications that human error caused the crash Sun day of the Air France jet which was carrying 133 people but the president of the airlines pilots union said its engines may have failed to restart at the pilots command Transport Minister Louis said nothing for the moment calls into question either the functioning of the aircraft or the big Air bus project We will have to wait for the findings of the to know the cause of the Pope denounces confrontations INNSBRUCK Austria AP Pope John Paul II today denounced bitter confrontations among Roman Catholics as a historic schism loomed between the Church and its traditionalists The Churchs first break in more than a century could open if tradi French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre goes ahead with the consecration of four bishops in Switzerland over the Vaticans objections The action threatened for Thursday would mean automatic ex communication for Lefebvre under Roman Catholic law Also today the pope who was finishing his tour of Austria issued special greetings to controversial President Kurt Waldheim The president has been accused of complicity in Nazi atrocities during World War II but denies any wrongdoing The pope has met with Waldheim during the visit which has focused heavily on the hor ror of the Nazi era UN fails on arms agreement UNITED NATIONS AP After a month of speeches and debate on disarmament delegates were unable to agree on the future direction of arms control and adjourned their special General Assembly session in failure Many of the 135 speakers at the session hailed the recent treaty to scrap all nuclear missiles Yet they were unable to emulate the superpowers and overcome na tional policy differences Different nations and regional groups held a variety of conflicting views But the crucial rift developed between sweeping proposals ad by the Soviet Union and developing nations and a more cautious approach backed by the United States and some of its Western allies Jackson Platform is bland Democrats aiming for convention harmony reached agreements on party rules and a presidential campaign platform but Jesse Jackson dismissed the platform document as bland and predicted a floor fight or two Republican George Bush for his part said he and Democrat Michael Dukakis have serious foreign policy differences singling out defense issues as a key battleground for the coming months Meanwhile a Gallup poll released today sug gested that Dukakis holds a 13point lead over Bush 53 percent to 40 percent with 7 percent undecided That is in line with a string of surveys putting Dukakis edge in double digits But the poll conducted for the also indicated that strength stemmed more from voters negative feelings about Bush than positive feelings about the Democratic be Women treated most equally in Sweden WASHINGTON AP Women have yet to reach equality with men in any country but they come closest in Sweden followed by Finland and then the United States a study by a private population group concludes At the other end of the scale womens status is lowest in poverty stricken Bangladesh according to the report by the independent Population Crisis Committee The worlds poorest women are not merely poor They live on the edge of subsistence They are economically dependent and vulnerable politically and legally said Sharon L Camp vice president of the committee which studies population issues JACKSON Lamar County Crime Stoppers Burglary at lodge nets sword ring The Lamar County Crime Stoppers organization this week is offering a reward for information regarding a recent burglary of the Blossom Masonic Lodge Taken from the lodge were two ceremonial swords with knights on pearl handles a gold Masonic ring and six new Masonic Bibles Crime Stoppers will pay up to through July 3 for information leading to the arrest and grand jury indictment of the person or persons responsible Crime Stoppers is a privately funded nonprofit organization that seeks to solve crimes through anonymous information ed directly to the programs hotline number Persons with information about this or any crime are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 785TIPS and speak to the officer or person on duty Callers are not asked to give their names P O now 1531 Fire TV Phone 7858744 Classified 7855538 Partly cloudy chance of thunderstorms 120th Year No 322 Monday June 27 1988 Paris Texas 75460 12 Pages in 2 Sections 25 Cents Defense scandal Weinberger defends his service WASHINGTON AP Congres critics say former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger ig nored reports of excessively cozy relationships between military of and defense contractors dur ing his seven years as Pentagon chief But Weinberger defends his stewardship of the department which included one of the largest military buildups in history saying it is still too early in the unfolding Pentagon purchasing fraud case to say whether there was any serious lapse I dont have any basis whatever for saying I didnt do enough and I certainly dont feel Weinberger said Sunday on Meet the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell said he had warn ed Weinberger there was a massive problem with secret documents falling into the hands of defense contractors but that Weinberger never responded I have to say that there is every a p that they did not want to Dingell said on ABCs This Week With David Brinkley pro It ap WEINBERGER pears there is some condoning if not active par by the leadership of the Pentagon in these Sen David Pryor said on the same program that Weinberger had presided over a feeding frenzy jof contracting marked by relation ships between federal officials and private contractors Pryor said the Defense Depart ment has resisted every recent at tempt by Congress to institute con and accountability including the establishment of an dent inspector general Even now Pryor said the departments in spector general is not complying with the law that requires monitor ing of outside consulting contracts Of Weinberger and his top managers Pryor added I dont think they have met their respon in overseeing this tremen dous shadow government that has been building especially in the Pentagon for eight to nine I have not seen one real reform that this administration has The procurement fraud case under development since late 1986 became public June 14 when in raided Pentagon of fices and homes and offices of defense contractors and consultants Estimates of the number of con tracts under investigation have ranged as high as 100 involving tens of billions of dollars At least six Pentagon officials 15 defense contractors and up to 50 con are reported to be under scrutiny in the probe Weinberger who left the cabinet last November said the Pentagon problems are no different from past scandals in Congress or il legality anywhere else in society When youre running one of these departments with approx 3 million people involved youre at the mercy of the person one or two people who may be he said Responding to questions about a 1985 allegation that the office of See DEFENSE Page 2A Antebellum home a reminder of past THE WILSON HOME Towson bank owner Wilson built this home about 1903 The home virtually unchanged stands at the corner of Cincinnati and Main Streets in the north part of Fort Towson The home is now owned by Mrs Janey Myers who return ed to Fort Towson in 1957 when her husband John retired Staff photo by George Kimbrough Farmers gambling on rainfall CHAMPAIGN 111 AP Midwestern farmers whose crops are threatened by drought rushed to insurance agents this month to buy a unique policy but one official says it is more like gambling than protection Agents say farmers will collect if their counties receive less than a certain percentage of the normal rainfall regardless of how the weather affects their crops More rain means no payoff I guess its like playing a hand of poker youre just gambling on the said farmer John Clark of Reddick in northern Il linois If it rains in August and your crops are already lost you lose your money But what do you do in a situation like this Clark has about 800 acres of corn that soon will reach the most critical stage but without rain there could be substantial losses Weve never had a year like this in all the years weve Detroit school board selects superintendent By DAVE HERFORT News Staff Writer DETROIT The board of trustees of the Detroit Independent School District meeting in special session Friday night employed Johnny Lands as superintendent of the district Lands who was formerly prin cipal at Bells High School received a contract said Board President Dale Miller Were looking forward to work ing with Mr Miller said Monday We feel like he will be a real good man for the community and for the school Were looking for good things and hope that everyone will pull together for Lands coached basketball at North Lamar High School for four years and was head coach in 198788 He taught vocational agriculture at the Sawyer ISO for two years and was in in management at Camp Sec DETROIT Page 2A said Clark who began working the land in 1945 Many farmers are in the same predicament Federal crop insurance was available to protect farmers against losses from drought and other disasters but University of Illinois farm management specialist Royce Hinton says only 13 percent of the acres in are covered And that insurance must be pur chased each year by April 15 The drought was not as apparent then as it was when private insurance agents began advertising the newer drought insurance in May and June I received applications for about million in total said McGinnis of Reddick an agent with the Agency She said about 150 farmers rush ed into her office before the June 17 deadline One applied million in insurance and paid a premium There is real fear and said McGinnis One man said The money I gave you tonight was as good an investment as I could make inLas Her agency advertised that the drought insurance would guarantee rain between June 1 and Aug Agent Earl Blair of Chalsworth said farmers jammed into his of fice and lined up on the street to buy the policy Its about the greatest thing there said Blair Its just like youre house being on fire and well still insure Fanners said agents cautioned them Inal they were merely apply ing for the insurance and that companies could reject their requests seed company Pioneer International acted as an agent for the drought insurance of Soo Page By GEORGE KIMBROUGH Business Editor FORT TOWSON Okla It was back in 1903 four years before Oklahoma became a state that bank owner Wilson a full blood Choctaw commissioned his house to be built in the north por tion of Fort Towson The antebellum home not unlike that described in the classic Gone With The Wind still stands as a reminder of the past complete with its six fireplaces 10 rooms and 42 windows Located at the corner of Cin cinatti and Main Streets the state ly home still sparkles with its coat of white paint giant columns and massive magnolia tree apparently planted about the time the house was built And like most houses of its day the home features tall 11foot ceil ings trim which was carefully sanded and stained in its natural color a front door with an oval shaped beveled glass and porches designed to make the most of the breezes on hot summer days The home now owned and oc by Mrs Janey Myers a retired Hugo High School Spanish teacher is furnished with pieces that Mrs Myers has acquired over the years including an assortment of furniture and decorations she collected while she and her late husband were living in China and in the Dominican Republic With an obvious fondness and ap preciation for the historic home Mrs Myers delights in sharing her home with others The house listed on The National Register of Historic Places and written about in the book Oklahoma Homes Past and Present has also been featured in Hugos annual Parade of Homes Mrs Myers said the exact date the home was completed is not known but on a stairway post is the handwritten name of a Mr Shelton followed by the words Fort Towson It is assumed that the builder of the home Mr Shelton signed his work and of course the following Fort Towson indicates the home was completed while Oklahoma was still a territory Wilson Mrs Myers said owned the bank at Fort and was obviously a man of means But she said hard times hit the bank about 1918 and it failed Wilson she con elected to pay off all of the banks with his own Soo HOME THROW ME A LINE Wade Blake throws a line to Billy Robinson during Blake Plumb ings testing of St Josephs Hospitals Center pool due to open in photo by Marvin Gorley Staff
