Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - March 29, 1984, Titusville, Pennsylvania DRAKE WELL 1859 News and Advertising Pipeline Into the Oil Creek Valley Snow GOOD MORNING Snow through Friday High today 30 and low tonight 22 High Friday 28 TITUSVILLE PA THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 291984 25 Cents Senate Nixes Merger Ban for Year WASHINGTON AP The Senate refused on Wednesday to im pose a yearlong moratorium on oil industry mergers rejecting arguments that some billion in takeovers announced in recent pose unknown threats to the nations economy and energy sup plies Senators voted instead to direct three of its committees to study the merger trend and report back this summer with recommendations but did not impose any immediate restrictions on the industry Supporters of a moratorium said fie alternative proposal was a hollow shell that meant nothing But said Sen Bennett Johnston DLa the sponsor of the moratorium pro posal I know how to count votes Weve been beaten on this issue His comment came after the Senate voted 5739 against a motion to table in effect kill the substitute calling for a study After that vote the Senate adopted oh voice vote the proposal by Sens Robert Dole RKan and David Boren DOkla that directs the study by the Senate Finance Energy and Judiciary committees They are to report back in 90 days on recommended Senate action I AGlance HARRISBURG AP State officials Wednesday ordered an evacuation of the Capitol building after a secretary at in Lancaster relayed a telephone message that a bomb had been planted in the building HARRISBURG AP Two Pennsylvania Lotto players picked all six numbers selected in Tuesdays drawing and will split a jackpot of Lottery Executive drector Lynn R Nelson said WASHINGTON AP Concern over drug trafficking in the nations public schools clashed with student privacy rights Wednesday in a spirited Supreme Court debate New Jersey State Deputy Attorney General Allan Nodes prosecutor said ail drugs seized by public school officials even in unlawful searches should be allowed as trial evidence when students are criminally prosecuted PITTSBURGH AP United Steelworkers acting President Lynn Williams and Treasurer Frank McKee bickering nearly all the way to the ballot box made appeals Wednesday for votes in the unions presidential election Ap proximately 1 million members of the nations sixthlargest union are eligible to decide Thursday which of the two union officials will serve the two years remaining in the term of Lloyd McBride who died Nov 6 HARRISBURG AP The Rev Jesse Jackson bringing his cam for the Democratic presidential campaign here in a hectic 11hour visit Wednesday called himself a man of action leading more and more minorities into politics PHILADELPHIA AP Harold Stassen a perennial Republican presidential candidate trying to wrest the GOP nomination from Ronald Reagan said Wednesday during a luncheon meeting of Rotary International of Philadelphia recent foreign policy failures have made the threat of a nuclear World War III greater today than in 1980 HARRISBURG AP Gov on Wednesday signed legislation that will require car manufacturers to replace a vehicle that cannot be repaired for defects Effective May 27 the manufacturers will have to repair a defective car at no cost and replace it if it cannot be fixed after three attempts HARRISBURG AP Groups against the restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant vowed Wed to take legal action to keep the facility shut HARRISBURG AP Dennis Hevener president of Emco Mechanical the firm that installed steel pipes in the new Capitol parking garage testified under oath on Wednesday that his firm com plied completely with the states Buy American steel law HARRISBURG AP State House Speaker K Leroy Irvis on Wednesday endorsed Allegheny County Controller Frank Lucchino for the Democratic nomination for auditor general JOINING HANDS Moderator Dan Rather left joins hands with the three Democratic presidential candidates at the start of a debate in New York Wednesday evening Clockwise from left Rather and candidates Walter Mon dale Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart back to AP Mondale Hart Debate In Hot Personal Terms NEW YORK AP Walter Mondale and Gary Hart debated in heated and personal terms Wednesday night about the charges they had been leveling at one another in the evermore intense Democratic presidential campaign Debating six days before the New York primary the two presidential candidates lost little time going after each other in the nationally televised debate broadcast from Columbia University Mondale demanded that Hart act this night to withdraw television ad that suggest Im trying to kill kids Retorted Hart Why do you question my commitment to arms control and civil rights The third candidate the Rev Jesse Jackson said Tomorrow the issue will be this ratatat between Hart and Mondale without giving a direction The fact is the reason they are having this kind of a kinship struggle is because there are such similarities in policy Its a matter both running in the same direction just a little slower Votes on the windfall profits tax and the Chrysler bailout legislation were among the topics as Mondale Hart and Jackson sat around a table with moderator Dan Rather of CBS news The network sponsored the debate Hart and Mondale tangled over energy policy with the former vice president saying Hart voted with big oil and the Colorado senator retorting He knows better than that Hart saying Mondale was willing to sacrifice American lives in a war for Persian Gulf oil added I dont think we ought to lose American lives fighting for someone elses oil Dont worry about Walter Mondale and American lives said the former vice president Ill stand strong there He defended his stance in Central America saying he would not pull the plug on American forces stationed in the region Hart has attacked Mondale recently for not calling for with drawl of American forces from Central America and said the former vice presidents policies could lead to the rather large loss of American lives Variety of Bad Weather Blasts Areas of East By The Associated Press Thunderstorms attacked the Southeast with tornadoes hail and up to 10 inches of rain Wednesday sending floodwaters washing across highways while the Northeast battened down for another siege of snow and ice A vast storm centered in the Tennessee Valley spread rain or snow from the Great Plains to New England and rivers across the already saturated East bulged over Its all part of the same can of worms said forecaster Harry Gordon of the National Severe Storms Forecaster Center in Kansas City Mo The Suwannee River in northern Florida which crested at its highest level in 11 years last week and forced scores of families to flee was rising again with a deluge of 5 to 10 inches of rain falling at the rivers source in the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia Twisters or storm winds found targets in Alabama including the suburbs of Birmingham inflicting considerable damage to homes barns power lines and trees No deaths or injuries were reported In southern Georgia schools were closed in parts of two counties where many roads were under water and high winds that had not been confirmed as tornadoes wrecked some buildings Some residents began sandbagging their homes as rainfall reached 8 inches in Valdosta and and 7 inches in Homerville US 41 was reported flooded between Lake Park and Melrose in Lowndes County and US 84 between Valdosta and Quitman was covered with 10 inches of water Highway 129 between Lakeland and Nashville also was flooded With more storms on the way the National Weather Service in Georgia said serious flooding was likely in nine counties Flash flood watches also were posted for western Virginia southeast Tennessee and northeastern Texas A tornado watch was issued at midmorning for much of northern and eastern Alabama Female Lawyer Gets Jail for Aiding Escape CLINTON Tenn AP A mentally disturbed female lawyer who helped a prisoner escape was sentenced to the maximum three years in prison Wed after refusing to repent from the witness stand or testify about their 4 months on the run together Mary Evans 27 who had originally pleaded guilty to an escape charge in return for probation showed no emotion as she was sentenced by Criminal Court Judge James B Scott Scott refused to release her on bond pending appeal He said Ms Evans described by doctors as a suicidal schizophrenic could be better protected from herself in prison Im not surprised nor is Mary surprised However we do not feel justice was done said defense attorney Robert Ritchie who immediately appealed the denial of probation and bond to the state Court of Criminal Appeals Ms Evans was a attorney defending William Timothy Kirk 37 on prison murder charges when she arranged for him to be taken from Brushy Mountain Penitentiary to the Oak Ridge office of Dr Gary Salk for psychological tests on March 311983 She admitted slipping Kirk a small pistol which he used to disarm three guards The couple took the guards pistols and from Salks wallet and fled in Ms Evans car driving through North Carolina and Florida living in motels and gambling at dog tracks FBI agents arrested them Aug 17 outside a Daytona Beach Fla telegraph office where they had gone to pick up money Aid Compromise Approval Likely WASHINGTON AP A Democratic leader Wed predicted Senate approval of a compromise million military aid package for El Salvador but Secretary of State George P Shultz said he would resist any move to cut off the aid if the government now being chosen is overthrown in a military coup I think it is not necessary and is inappropriate to seem to be predicting that possibility Shultz said The military in El Salvador has gone to great lengths to depoliticize themselves I dont see any evidence of anything to the contrary Shultz made his remarks to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department budget Sen Dale Bumpers DArk said he had heard speculation about a possible coup if centrist presidential candidate Jose Napoleon Duarte who led in Sundays first round of voting in El Salvador is elected in a runoff expected to be held in May He asked Shultz if he would support an amendment to cut off aid in that event No sir Shultz said The Senate is expected to vote this week on a that would provide million in emergency military aid to El Salvador in the current fiscal year The Ap Committee approved million in aid by a close vote earlier this month but the Reagan ad ministration compromised on the lower figure after Senate Democrats threatened to delay action Congress has already approved million in military aid for the Central American nation in this fiscal year but ordered that million of it could not be spent until there is a trial and verdict in the case of four American churchwomen murdered in El Salvador in December 1980 Sen Daniel K Inouye the sponsor of the compromise measure told reporters Its going to pass Inouye is Chairman of a Democratic task force on Central America and senior Democrat on the ap subcommittee that handles foreign spen ding Inouye said Sen Edward M Kennedy DMass in in a meeting of the task force that he plans to offer an amendment to provide only enough money to last through May withholding further installments until after the runoff when the makeup of the new government is known Meanwhile Rep Clarence Long DMd chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations said I am concerned that we need them the Salvadoran regime more than they need us and we are going to continue to give them arms no matter how atrocious their behavior is Long spoke at a subcommittee hearing at which Aryeh Neier chairman of the Americas Watch Committee testified In recent months the US Embassy in San Salvador with the intermittent support of the Reagan administration has conducted a campaign against killings and disappearances of civilian noncombatants by death squads Evacuation Plan Hit HARRISBURG AP Two farmers and a couple fighting restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant contend Penn sylvania has not developed adequate plans to evacuate farmers and their livestock in the event of another TMI accident At issue is a brochure distributed last year to farmers within 10 miles of Three Mile Island where the Unit 2 plant was severely damaged on March 281979 In a petition Norman and Marjorie Aamodt have asked the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board to review the states plans and to order adequate steps The plan is not a good plan and is not workable Mrs Aamodt said The and farmers Jeremiah Fisher of Etters York County and Paul Lytle of Mid said Wednesday state officials drawing up the evacuation plans did not consult any of the 13000 farmers living in a area around the plant BULLISH ON BEEF Clara Peller 82 star of the Wheres the Beef hamburger commer cial wears a cap given to her by the National Association in Washington Wednesday Quit School Or Obey Ban On Crucifixes Poland AP Com munist authorities have ordered de fiant teenagers to obey a ban on crucifixes in classrooms or quit school an official confirmed Wednesday Many students said theyd leave Bishop Jan Mazur meanwhile entered the second day of a bread fast to protest the govern ments position in the conflict between church and state Ryszard Domanski administrator of the agricultural high school where the war of the crosses began con firmed that the schools 600plus students would be barred from class unless they or their parents signed a declaration agreeing to abide by regulations Candlelight Vigil Marks TMI Date MIDDLETOWN Pa AP The fifth anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident was marked Wednesday with a predawn candlelight vigil and renewed calls to keep the facility shut for good The Rev Jesse Jackson a Democratic presidential hopeful who will compete in April 10 primary and consumer advocate Ralph Nader were both in the area to voice their antinuclear views at two separate events Jackson joined about 150 local residents at the plant entrance early Wednesday morning He called for an end to nuclear power which he said is dangerous and costly and a threat to the human race The vigil participants carrying candles and antiTMI banners walked about onethird of a mile on a road along the Susquehanna River stopping at a bridge that leads to the island facility About 10 TMI security officials and plant employees viewed the procession from the plants guardhouse about 50 feet away Behind them stood the atomic mammoth cooling towers outlined in the dark by Hashing red lights The vigil participants observed five minutes of silence beginning at 4 am exactly five years after the start of the worst accident in US commercial nuclear history at TMIs Unit 2 Lava Flow Seven Miles From Hilo HILO Hawaii AP A lava flow from Mauna Loa slowed but moved to within seven miles of Hawaiis secondlargest city Wednesday and residents living in its path made plans to leave if the molten rock threatened their homes Ill jump in one car and my wife will jump in another car and well grab what we can said Victor Souza 34 whose home is among those nearest the flow The main lava flow slowed during the night advancing to within seven miles of homes in Kilos upper section said Reggie Okamura of the US Geological Surveys Hawaiian Volcano Observatory There was no immediate danger to populated areas on the island of Hawaii he said The main flow reached a fairly flat area and its advance slowed to about 400 feet per hour Okamura said The flat area is a mile wide he said but he could not estimate how long the lava would build up before tumbling downhill again The front of the flow Widened to just under a mile wide he said The flow earlier had been moving at 1000 feet per hour and at that rate it could have reached homes in the city of 48000 Thursday Civil defense officials made no move to evacuate residents and Mayor Herbert Matayoshi said it was too early to declare an emergency Some residents of the area made tentative plans to move belongings but most said they werent worried yet Worst Violence Since CeaseFire in Beirut BEIRUT Lebanon AP Hundreds of artillery shells and rockets crashed into Christian and Moslem residential areas of Beirut on Wednesday killing more than 30 people and wounding more than 100 The violence was the worst since a ceasefire was declared March 13 by participants at a Lebanese reconciliation conference in Lausanne Swit The bombardment came amid reports that President Amin Gemayel planned to convene a committee of represen of the various warring factions at his palace in suburban Wednesday evening Beirut was not the only site of violence In the southern Lebanese village of at least three civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a confrontation at a mosque Lebanese reports said Israeli forces killed six Shiite Moslem villagers who had thrown stones at the soldiers but military sources in Tel Aviv said the forces involved were Lebanese Christians The Tel Aviv sources also put the death toll in at three instead of six In Beirut smoke from burning fires could be seen rising from several neighborhoods in the eastern and western sectors Radio stations appealed for blood donations as the firing tapered off in the late afternoon In mostly Moslem west Beirut nine bodies and 70 wounded were taken to American University Hospital Hospital and the Zahra and Sahel clinics
