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Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - August 02, 1979, Blytheville, ArkansasI Verc issues nuke report by Stan Benjamin associated press writer Washington a the Oliree mile Island nuclear Power Plant Accident last March might have been prevented if Only the Plant operators had allowed safety equipment to function As planned the nuclear regulatory commission staff said today. The arc office of inspection and enforcement in a report More than two inches thick said it was still investigating some 35 possible violations of Federal operating rules and radiation Protection limits in connection with the Accident last March 28 near Harrisburg a. But Victor stello jr., director of inspection and enforcement wrote in a summary of the re it Quot perhaps the most disturbing results of is confirmation of earlier conclusions that the three mile Island unit 2 Accident could have been prevented in spite of the inadequacies Quot that investigators found. Stello said the Plant s design equipment Accident analyses and emergency procedures Quot were adequate to have prevented the serious consequences of the Accident if they had been permitted to function or be carried out As Quot for example had the operators allowed the emergency code Cooling system to perform its intended function damage to the Core would most Likely have been prevented Quot he said. Instead the Core of the reactor containing its radioactive fuel rods was severely damaged by overheating and released so much radiation inside the reactor building that the operators Are still unable to enter it for inspection and clean up operations and the building May remain sealed at least through this the nation inter american May live Washington apr the Senate passed a Bill wednesday that May save the inter american the Only passenger train serving Arkansas. The Bill will Cut 27,700 Miles of passenger train service but it includes a regional balance provision. Under the provision either the inter american or the Chicago to Houston Lone Star would be saved if the final Amtrak plan does not provide sufficient service to a specific quadrant of the problems in court Dallas apr a sign language expert says it will be Quot some time Quot before a 27-Yearold deaf mute understands the murder charge against him and is Able to stand trial an educational process attorneys agree could put off his Day in court by a year. Police charged Jerome Fisher with the july 14 strangulation death of Dorothy Armstrong a prostitute. A hearing continuing today is to determine Whetter Fisher understands i i Gate. Rights. Sign expert Ann Phillip testified wednesday Fisher was eager to communicate exit it would be Quot some time Quot before be understood Well enough to stand trial. Late miss co native Bequeaths $3 million to a Roundup aug. 2 county a gain has Nsasi Educa Uon this of so Bolth born Lucs throw flout the la Little Rock Thia coming it was a it to my will of in. Marie Wilson Howella Quitai Iotti la milf Fob. The my or portion of Herfy to a Specif in Ltd a Rog nuns it the University of was the Daughty a of Lee Wilson founder and i8 he aunt of r. E. Tade her Home in new York -.27. A some 30 in psychiatry Psid ology and the Fine att inv said mrs. Howells had that he wealth came from the land u Imp blah that it be returned for yews of her use in Wilaon and then was interest education and was state University. One of cd Fordiin. Mhz continued to evince Fiat interest has made significant gifts to both Asu of a Kansas. He s a Owmer member of trustees. In Addison the Wilson family a . Wilson lit currently is president of the consolidated school Diakit �4ach serves some half dozen South Mississippi county communities. In her win mrs. Howells specified that the bequest be Kei Hinitt twist and out income from investments Are to be used try the univ ity to Quot enhance the Quality of its rese Ardi Quot and for other programs in particular academic fluids. the will a ves the University Broad Powers in the use of the income so Imp As it is spent equally in the nems of i cology and psychiatry. Hie University today announced plans for putting the funds to use immediately. University president Charles Bishop noted that the gift Quot will greatly enhance the Quali of education in a most Impan tant professional area Quot and will have a Long Range Impact on marital health services throughout the state. Programs not possible under current funding will be started this school year. Bishop said. Some of them both the graduate and undergraduate psychology programs at Fayetteville including Aid to the doctoral Wogram i lch"l8lnurgentneedofiundsforresearch.&Quot a new master s program in applied Psychol which is to begot 1mb fall at the University of Arkansas at Lite Hock. A Frog ram of Quot Jdant internship Quot to be conducted by a Grandc trial Arkansas industries. It Metca sciences Campus research programs in chiding a a rough study of the future direction for mental disc Aidines in Arkansas expansion of research programs the crud study Center a study of minimal to Ain dysfunction in Auldren expansion of research on hyper Active children currently in Progress at the behave it Oral so ices div tsim and a Broad new series of Basic Laboratory studies Ltd the mechanism and control of . At today s press conference in Little Rock Steve Wilson son erf r. E. L. Wilson iii gave a tribute to his great aunt. 1 j news Blytheville Ark. 72315 vol.85 no.68 15cents 26pages thursday August 2,1979 2 Arkansas horseplay said possible Little Rock apr the death of a Cummins prison farm inmate could have been caused by horseplay a Chicago pathologist said wednesday. _ Page 4official gives file notation Little Rock apr a notation in the state medical examiner s file on Richard Thomas Fuller says the examiner s office was told a Cummins prison farm inmate Quot dropped dead in a hallway after eating a meal Quot a state official said wed page4 rationing chances of standby Bill said Missouri governor s conference scheduled Jefferson City to. A Missouri Wui Host the midwestern governors conference late this month at the Lake of the ozarks. Lov. Joseph Teasdale says the key issues for discussion will be Energy tax and budget limitations and Rural health policy. Page 2voices the following conversation took place let tween an Osceola shopper and two Small boys attracted to the shopper s Small red sports car. Quot is that your car Quot Quot yep. Quot sure Quot mighty pretty. Quot Quot Why thank you Quot Well let s see. I to it ought some Cologne some asprin some toilet tissue some Contact Lens wetting solutions Quot Quot yeah i know you put it in your eyes right Quot Quot right. And what else i know there was something else but i just can t remember what it was. Anyway it took All my Money and now i be got to go to the Bank to get some Quot you Are us what do you Call it broke Quot Quot yeah i m the other kid the one who had t said anything but had been climbing on a Flower planter during the proceeding conversation looked at the shopper then apparently looking for cracks. He still did t say anything. Quot we Quot the shopper said Quot see you Quot see a Quot came the Lone reply. The shopper then went to the Bank to get some More Money. To take care of those civic 2 classified 15-19 comics to listings Page 25 editorials Page 8 2 sports. Pages 11-13 women s news. Page 4 by Omraam associated press writer Washington apr democratic congressional leaders Are making one last bid to Rush a standby gasoline rationing Bill to president Carter s desk but they claim their chances Are slim. More Likely. Congress will begin its month Long recess at the close of business Friday without producing the rationing Bill Carter seeks. The Senate was expected today to formally reject the rationing Bill the House passed late wednesday and thus set off the search for a Compromise version. The House passed its Bill by a 263-159 vote but Laened it with so Many amendments Senate leaders immediately pronounced it unacceptable. Finding a Compromise that can be enacted before the recess Quot would be very difficult Quot concluded rep. John Dingell d-mich., the main House sponsor of the rationing Bui. However he said the attempt will be made. Quot it won t be easy Quot he said. House leaders had hoped to give the president at least this piece of his new Energy plan before beginning their recess. Many of the amendments tacked on in the House did not concern rationing. One would weaken the new Federal order requiring thermostats in nonresidential buildings to be set at an Energy saving 78 degrees. Others would set aside special reserves of tractor fuel for Farmers and heating Oil for Homes in cold weather regions. Quot it looks like we re going to have an impasse Quot said sen. Henry m. Jackson d-wash., chairman of the Senate Energy committee. He said the amendment exempting businesses from the 78-degree thermostat Law if they save an equivalent amount of Energy through other Means was especially objectionable to senators one the Senate would Quot absolutely not Quot accept. White House officials also indicated the president has serious reservations about the Bill As it emerged from the House. Following wednesday s vote the White House press office issued a statement that called the Bill Quot a modest beginning Quot but said Quot we Are disappointed that the House has been unable to agree on a direct and clearcut Bill that contains a set of measures that would enable the president to protect the country from the kinds of problems we have been experiencing this summer. The Bill clearly needs improvement before the president can sign House democratic leaders blamed partisan politics for the Hodge podge Bill that finally emerged from the info Given d. B. Meador assistant superintendent for instruction of Blytheville Public schools has announced a registration schedule for the coming school year. New students in grades 7-12 should report to their respective schools Blytheville High school East Junior High or West Junior High Between aug. 1 and 17 from 8 30 . To 3 30 . High school students Are to report to the bus aug. 6-17 to pick up their schedules. Junior High students Register on August 13-15. Exact times and dates will be announced. Elementary students at Central Fairview Franklin Robinson and Harrison kindergarten will Register aug. 14-17. Burdette elementary students and Harrison grades one through six will Register the first Day of school. Aug. 22. For elementary pupils exact limes and dates will also be announced. Children entering school for the first time Meador noted must be immunized from poliomyelitis tetanus diphtheria red measles Rubeola and German measles rubella before being admitted to any Public of private school in Arkansas also All new kindergarten and first Grade students Njust present birth certificates to school authorities before being officially admitted Golfors spark protest Little Rock apr gov. Bill Clinton supports the slate game and fish commission s efforts to Stock alligators in some Arkansas lakes. . Rhodes of Blytheville mailed Clinton a petition signed by 50 persons protesting the stocking of alligators at the big Lake National wildlife Refuge and at a wildlife management area near Manila in Mississippi county. The petition said the alligators made the areas too dangerous for fishing. Clinton noted in a letter of response wednesday that there have been no unprovoked a Alligator attacks on humans since the program began in 1972. The governor said the Alligator is an endangered species in most of the South and had been eliminated from All but three counties in southwestern Arkansas. The commission was charged with restoring vanishing wildlife to historical habitats and big Lake was suitable for Alligator stocking he said. The commission has relocated approximately 2,000 alligators from Louisiana to Arkansas since the program to Register pupils registration for kindergarten through sixth Grade for the immaculate Conception school will be held aug. 16 and 17 from 9 . To 3 30 . All new students Are asked to bring birth certificates and immunization records. In order to Register kindergarten students must be five and first graders must be six on or before oct. 1. Classes will begin aug. 22.two Brothers arrested a witnesses description of two youths suspected of taking a life of Georgia Money bag from a car parked on courthouse Square in Osceola has led to the arrest of two Brothers age 12 and 13, Osceola police report. The theft occurred yesterday and it. Garland Bobo made the arrests. Bobo said the youths live in Chicago and Are spending the summer in Osceola with relatives. The boys Are also suspected of burglar izing Buchanan Chevrolet Osceola City Hall and the us a office. Those break ins occurred last weekend. Both boys have been released under $500 Bond each to the custody of their grandmother and their cases turned Over for disposition in juvenile suspect arraigned Daniel Boozy of Blytheville was arraigned yesterday in Blytheville municipal ourt on a charge of Auto theft and Bond was set at $5,000, according to court records. Boozy is accused of stealing a car owned by Karen Scroggins which she had left parked on North second Street. The theft occurred May 10,1978, detective capt. Mike Richardson said. The Auto was involved in an Accident during the time it was out of the owner s Possession and sustained about $800 in damage Richardson noted. Boozy was returned to Blytheville for arraignment from Lauderdale county Tenn. Roll Call vote blood Mobile coming i i ii w i Ujj Offort a in Lonich a Unruh i Malinc i Ipoh in Ike Cir on rationing Bill Washington a Here Are the votes of the Arkansas congressional delegation in the 263-159 Roll Call wednesday by which the House approved its version of legislation giving the president standby authority to ration gasoline. A Quot yes Quot vote was a vote in favor of the plan. A Quot no Quot vote was a vote against it. Voting Quot yes Quot were 231 democrats and 32 republicans. Voting Quot no Quot were 36 democrats and 123 republicans. Arkansas democrats a Alexander yes Anthony yes. Republicans a Bethune yes Hammer Schmidt no. Foreign ownership of u. S. Farmland increasing Washington apr a new report on purchases of United states land by foreign investors shows a flurry of such purchases in Arkansas Jefferson county. A general accounting office study to be released today shows purchases of . Farmland by foreign investors May be As much As 70 percent higher than previously thought. Sen. Herman Talmadge d-ga., said wednesday after Reading the report. The Survey shows foreign purchases in Arkansas accounted for about 7 percent of All agricultural land transferred in an 18-month period that ended june 30, 1978. Earlier studies reflected a similar percentage for the Sute. Foreign land purchases were found in five of 13 Arkansas counties sampled by the Gao. Jefferson county showed the most land sales to foreign investors. Foreign acquisitions accounted for almost 30 percent of the acreage purchased in the county the report said. Foreign land purchases in the five counties totalled More than 12,300 acres. Twenty two percent of the land was purchased by persons or firms from Luxembourg and 19 percent was bought by interests from the Netherlands. Other purchasers came from West Germany Switzerland Spain and France. The study indicated Western europeans were the most Active investors in american Farmland. Quot Arab investors were not a Factor Quot Talmadge quoted the report As saying. The Gao report which surveyed 148 randomly selected Rural counties in 10 states was part of the Senate agriculture committee s inquiry into foreign ownership of . Agricultural land. Talmadge chairman of the committee said the report showed investors from the Netherland Antilles bought More acreage than any other foreign purchasers a 89,850 acres or 36.2 percent of All foreign bought land in the 10 states. In the 148 counties surveyed about 8 percent of the 3,045,725 acres changing hands Wase bought by foreign investors Talmadge said. The study included counties in Montana California Georgia Illinois Iowa Kansas Pennsylvania Texas and Washington. In an Effort to replenish blood supplies used in the surgery of two miss co residents George h. Robertson of Blytheville and r. E. L. Wilson of Wilson Arkansas red Cross blood service has scheduled a blood donor service monday from u . To 5 . In Arkmo Power company s hospitality room. Those interested in donating May Call mrs. Mickie Weaver at 762-3590 or write her at the Arkmo Power co., Blytheville Ark., 72315. Since every donor s eligibility must be checked those who Are unsure of their eligibility to donate May make an appointment. Blood donors should be Between the Ages of 17 and 6<i, should weigh at least 110 pounds and should not have donated blood for at least eight weeks. Donors Are advised to eat a regular meal before and warm by the associate in press partly Cloudy and warm today and Friday. Fair and mild tonight. Widely scattered thundershowers in Southern Arkansas through Friday. Highs today upper 80s to Low 90s. Lows tonight mid-60s North to Low 70s South. Highs Friday in the 9 votes on Amtrak Washington a about one fifth of the Amtrak passenger train network appears headed for elimination under a congressional plan that Falls far Short of president Carter s original rail cutback proposal. In perhaps the last major fight Over Amtrak this year the Senate voted 89-11 wednesday to go along with a formula that probably will result in the closing of 20 percent of the 22,700-mile system. Sen. Russell Sivong d-la., chairman of the Commerce surface transportation subcommittee said the plan will Quot eliminate those trains that represent an unreasonable waste of limited less than one third of 1 percent of inter City travellers use Amtrak trains Long said and two thirds of fare costs Are subsidized by taxpayers

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