Winchester Star (Newspaper) - December 9, 1981, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 85th Year No. 134 40 SECTIONS VIRGINIA 22601, DECEMBER 9, 1981 667-3200 15 CENTS Another Mine Blast Kills 13 Tenn. using air tanks and masks crawled through a mine shaft today and removed the bodies of 13 coal miners killed by an explosion in Appalachia's third major mining accident in five heard a vibration and it just started shaking a little said one of 17 miners who escaped Tuesday by jumping into small rail cars and riding to knew they had hit gas and it he He declined to be The cause of the blast at Tennessee Consolidated Coal No. 21 mine was not pending a federal and state investigation that is expected to take several The which was closed in the is about 30 miles northwest of Chattanooga in the rugged mountains of southeastern John press secretary to Gov. Lamar said after talking with state and federal officials that all 14 mines in the Whitwell area owned by Tennessee Consolidated would be closed until the investigation is William president of Tennessee said the mines would remain And John a spokesman for the federal Mine Safety and Heaith Administration would never close another operation because of an accident at this ALL 13 of the victims - who were found three miles into a shaft that is only 36 inches high in spots - were killed by the concussion of the Parish Woody director of the state Division of said a fire may have broken out in the area where the The bodies were found clumped Eight miners were killed Monday in when an explosion trapped them half a mile inside a Northern Lights Blaze with Color SAN FRANCISCO - The first photographs of the entire span of the northern lights show a blazing ring of color dancing about the North Pole like a fiery And scientists said Tuesday that their satellite sent aloft in promise new clues to mysteries surrounding very magnificent of the phenomenon also known as the aurora were very excited by these Louis A. of the University of Iowa said at a news conference during an American Geophysical Union meeting go to other planets un- manned and we see all these but it's very hard to see what Earth would look like to an alien coming to our planet to see its natural The northern lights are great sheets and smears of red and blue lights that shimmer spectacularly across the skies of Canada much of the continental United At times the whole horizon seems to be leading to suspicions by the ancients that the gods were battling across the heavens and lighting the sky with their flashing BUT EARLIER satellites have shown the light show is caused when the solar a stream of electrically charged particles from the is funneled by the magnetic fields into the The particles - electrons like those in any electric current - crash into atoms in the atmosphere and cause them to The lights rise and fall in intensity according to changes in solar Frank and other members of a team from Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland described first results of two Dynamics Explorer That explosion shot mud and water out the mine's mouth against a cliff 280 feet On three minets were killed when rock and slate fell from the roof of a mine in W.Va. Tuesday's disaster was the worst in the nation since when 15 men were killed in a mine near Colo. The disaster occurred 70 years to the day that 84 Tennessee miners were killed in a pit at outside Relatives and friends of the miners gathered around small fires outside the mine offices in brisk They learned of the fate when Allison emerged from the offices and 13 miners were located and there were no The dead were identified by Parish as Larry Cooley of Danny Cooley of mine superintendent Jimmy Wayne Rogers of general mine of Jackie Tate of Harvey Nolan of Tracy Charlie Myers of Tracy Gaylon Parsons of Tracy Darrell Rollins of Lee Grimes of Frankie Wilburn of Jacob Kilgore of and Ed French of Ages were not The bodies were taken to the Hooper Funeral Home in where a temporary morgue was set Parish Three Iranian negotiators leave a Libyan airliner in Tehran after talking with Lebanese Moslems who hijacked the At Associated Press ing the are two of the hijackers who met with the Passengers and crew were held prisoner on the airport Hijacked Plane Lands in Tehran By The Associated Press Iran's Shiite Moslem government negotiated today with militant Lebanese Shiites in an attempt to end their hijacking of a Libyan airliner and free 38 exhausted Radio Tehran Three other hijacked airliners from Venezuela landed in Cuba the hijackers and the planes and more than 100 hostages were to be returned to Venezuela haven't any nerves Rene the pilot of the Libyan Boeing 727 radioed Tuesday 24 hours after his plane was taken can't take any The nerves of all my passengers are Please give them whatever they want and let's get it over and done While the hijackers held the exhausted passengers and crew prisoner on the Tehran airport they demanded that the Iranian government negotiate with the Libyan government to solve the mystery of the three years ago of Imam Moussa the spiritual leader of the Lebanese Iranian authorities advised the Swiss Embassy in Tehran that all of the hostages were in good and that food was taken aboard the airliner shortly after it Wider Probe May Mean New Problems for Allen WASHINGTON - An expansion of the Justice Department's inquiry into Richard V. Allen could present the beleaguered national security adviser with new problems as investigators examine why he failed to disclose his consulting firm's A government official said Tuesday that Justice Department investigators met with officials of the Government Ethics Office in the past few days to discuss the client that he should have listed is going to be the official Although the official was reluctant to go into it seems clear one element of the Justice Department inquiry will be into whether Allen had a particular motive in failing to list his firm's clients or merely thought it was not necessary under the The who asked not to be said Allen's failure to list the clients raises questions whether he has something to falsification of a government ethics disclosure form is a punishable by up to five years in jail and a The official who disclosed the expansion of the Allen investigation said it is not clear whether Allen will be required to file a second amended disclosure form now or wait until the Justice Department review is now on leave with has said he was advised by the White House counsel's office that he did not need to include a client list in his financial disclosure statement because the payments technically were made to his Potomac International Corp. Allen says he does not recall who gave him that advice and the White House says it has been unable to identify the source of the Federal law requires incoming government officials to identify sources of in excess of in either of the past two years and to give brief description of the nature of the duties performed or services A miner waits for the news about his trapped Associated Press Gets WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration is warning Libyan strongman to drop a purported plot to kill U.S. government leaders or be prepared to suffer according to an authoritative The United States contacted the Libyan regime through a third country and spelled out at least some of the evidence the administration has obtained about the alleged the source said in an interview last had challenged the administration to reveal its A day President Reagan have the evidence and he knows Along with detailing some of the evidence it the private U.S. message contained a warning that the United States would take action against Libya if it refused to cancel the said the who refused to be The source refused to say what consequences were threatened or to say what country was used as an ABC News reported Tuesday that the message was given to which has been handling U.S. contacts with Libya since the administration ordered Libyan diplomats out of WORD OF the warning message came to light as the administration asked the Senate to temporarily hold off action on a resolution declaring congressional support for a boycott of Libyan oil In Reagan held his second meeting in two days with national security advisers about possible sanctions against is known to be one option under consideration even though Libyan oil exports to the United States already have dropped to less than one-third of what they were earlier this Sakharov Ends Hunger Strike MOSCOW - Andrei Sakharov's daughter-in-law said today that Soviet authorities had relented in the face of a hunger strike by the Nobel laureate and told her she could join her husband in the United Liza 26, said the KGB told her that Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner had ended their 17-day-old fast in Gorky on Tuesday after being told that Miss Alexeyeva would be allowed to Speaking to reporters in Sakharov's Moscow Miss Alexeyeva said she did not know when she would join her husband in the United States because she had not yet received the exit visa she needs to Miss Alexeyeva said she had called officials at the Soviet emigration and was told they knew nothing about the decision to grant her an exit Building 13 It appears the Boston firm that wanted to refurbish the old John Kerr School has bowed but a new buyer may be on the See the Area Eagles 33 After having their wings clipped for several the Clarke County High School cagers finally pulled off a District More on the Sports Area Crossword 11 Index Frederick 14 National People in 12 TV Virginia World Food Cost Energy More During November WASHINGTON - Food prices tumbled but energy costs climbed last month as wholesale prices rose at an annual rate of 6.3 slightly off from the pace of the government said With only one month inflation for the year is certain to be under the 11.8 percent wholesale average for 1980. Through inflation at the wholesale level stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 7.4 Labor Department officials department said its measure of wholesale prices for finished the Producer Price was up 0.5 percent last month after seasonal If November's rate held for 12 straight the increase would be 6.3 the department Officials compute the annual rate by compounding a monthly figure that is more precise than the rounded-off 0.5 percent that is The November increase was better than the 0.6 percent advance of but more than the 0.1 percent of August and the 0.2 percent of the government THE ACCELERATION in November was at- Junior dresses now reduced 25%. Bell's Call 667-0145. to a 0.9 percent increase in energy the sharpest rise since Those prices had fallen 0.4 percent in The increase in November was due to rises in prices of gasoline and natural the report Home beating oil continued Food prices were down 0.5 percent in more than the 0.2 percent of October TIME IS Get rich with the timesaving ideas offered in the Yuletide Gift Guide in the Classified Millards - Men shop here for your special and the biggest fall since the 0.6 percent drop of the report Prices for meats and fresh vegetables continued Egg prices fell after rising in October while milled rice prices were off more than 9 percent for the second straight Prices were up more than 18 percent for fresh fruit and the cost of soft roasted coffee and refined sugar advanced Prices for goods other than food and energy climbed 0.8 percent after a 1 percent rise in Those increases were attributed to higher new car which advanced 0.9 percent in down from the 4.2 percent gain of Capital equipment prices rose 0.8 following a 0.9 percent increase in ALL THE increases are adjusted for seasonal In the unadjusted Producer Price Index stood at 274.5 in meaning that goods costing at wholesale in 1967 would have cost last In advance of today's economists had expected a slower rise in due in part to the deepening
