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Daily Review (Newspaper) - April 2, 1986, Towanda, PennsylvaniaNational briefs Stock prices plunge in wave of profit taking new York apr Slock paces fell sharply tuesday in a a Veo it profit taking that analysts said amounted to a Normal correction after the Market s heavy recent Gams the Dow Jones average of 30 Indus trip is fell 28 5ft to 1790 11 dec liners outpaced gainers by nearly two to one. As volume hit 167 39 million shares the new York Stock Exchange in Early trading the Stock Market dipped slightly while the Bond Market exploded amid heavy foreign buying and reports that Oil paces had Tern Pora Niy fallen Beer $10 a barrel. V s Treasury Bonds Rose As much As $20 for each $1 to in face value astute investors saw this As a Chance for some healthy profit taking and this spilled Over into the Stock Market said Ralph j Acampora technical analyst for the Kidder Peabody it co securities firm it was Good it was healthy and i Don t think it s Over yet analysts suggested that investors were growing nervous after taking a second look at the potential Impact of the recent decline in Oil paces a and the harmful effects the Oil Market collapse Coull have on the Domestic Petroleum Industry and Banks with heavy Energy loan portfolios French truce observers leave Beirut Beirut Lebanon apr France pulled its 45 truce observers out of the Beirut Battleground tuesday it said the unit which lost nine men during a two year tour no longer could carry out its Mission and would be sent Home the French foreign ministry denied that the abrupt withdrawal was part of a diplomatic Effort to free French captives from moslem extremist kidnappers those holding four of the eight missing frenchmen demanded March 14 that the French end their Bald faced interference and withdraw their military units from Lebanon which France ruled until 1943 one of the French observers. Capt Marc Antome Corvese. 39. Was shot dead by a sniper the same Day at the strip of wasteland that divides Beirut into Christian and moslem sectors the observers Are not linked to the 6i>nvan French contingent that serves with a nine nation l n peacekeeping Force of 5.500 men in South Lebanon dryness continues with Forest fires in be by the associated press new fires flared tuesday As Crews battled blazes in tinder dry forests across the Southeast where thousands of acres have been charred in the past week under painless skies and unseasonable warmth Quot every Day it gets a Little drier with the fires burning with a Little More intensity it has t taken any spectacular leap just a slow gradual buildup in a situation that s already pretty said Bruce Jewell spokesman for the regional office of the u s Forest service in Atlanta hundreds of fires have broken out in the past week in parts of Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee. Kentucky. Virginia. West Virginia and Ohio outbreaks of grass and Brush fires were reported Over the weekend and monday in parts of Michigan Western Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Missouri Jewell said every thing in the South except Florida has a very High fire danger a since Jan 1 in the 13 Southern states covered by his office. Jewell said 42.204 fires have burned 583.056 acres of private state and Federal land the Region covers Texas. Oklahoma. Arkansas. Kentucky Louisiana. Mississippi. Tennessee Alabama. Georgia. F Honda. South Carolina. North Carolina and Virginia outside the Region. West Virginia and Ohio also have been hard hit what s mob s Impact on Economy How to Contact us. To advertise subscribe. Or report news Call either our main office in Towanda at 717-265-2151 or our Valley Branch office at 717-888-9652 Valley area callers can also reach our Towanda office toll free by calling 717-888-4400. Mail for our main office should be addressed to 116 main st., Towanda a. 18848. Our Valley office address is 138 Lockhart st. Sayre. A. 18840. Our advertising circulation and business offices at Towanda Are open from 8 . Until 5 . Weekdays and from 8 . Until noon on saturdays. Our Valley office is open from 8 30 . Until 5 . On weekdays. Our Towanda newsroom is generally manned from 9 . Until 1 ., monday through Friday and from 6 . Until i . Sunday nights. Valley news personnel can usually be reached at our v Alley office Between 9 . And 5 . Weekdays. The daily review can be delivered by Carrier in Many towns for $1.45 a week. Motor route delivery is available in much of Central Bradford county at $1.55 per week. Single copies Are available at most Newsstands for 25. Mail rates can be obtained by calling our circulation department. The daily review is published daily except sunday and some holidays by the Towanda printing company. The newspaper has served Bradford and Sullivan counties and the Southern tier of new York state since 1879. Washington a organized crime will Reao More than $10� billion this year will Cost the country Over 400 000 jobs and will Cut a typical person s income by nearly $80. A presidential panel concluded tuesday in its final report before disbanding. The president s commission on organized come said that outlaw motorcycle gangs chinese and other ethnic gangs Are rapidly changing the Structure of organized come because of this it said Law enforcement authorities must broaden the scope of enforcement efforts the Power of the mafia and the other emerging groups is Quot an entrenched and pervasive phenomenon that is not easily attacked or readily eliminated commission chairman Irving r Kaufman said in a statement accompanying the report a a Nostra dominant while Quot la Cosa Nostra remains the dominant Factor in organized come today it is by no Means the Only such Factor said Kaufman s statement unless Law enforcement officials understand the changing nature of organized come. Quot the situation is commission spokesman Art Bill told a news conference the commission named by president Reagan found that outlaw motorcycle gangs increasingly Are working with the mafia in Many cities including Cleveland where members of Hells Angels were involved m contract killings and drug trafficking for the Licavoli la Cosa Nostra family the report titled Quot the Impact. Organized crime today said that u s economic output is being severely damaged because the mafia and other criminal groups evade taxes and generate higher prices through their involvement in legitimate business the analysis of organized crimes income conducted by Wharton econometric forecasting associates of Philadelphia is a major part of the final report of the commission Wharton calculated that organized crime is cutting u s economic output by $�8 2 billion annually reducing employment by 414.000 jobs raising consumer prices by 0 3 percent and costing a typical working american s77 22 this Vear organized crime s Gross annual income exceeds $100 billion says the report it adds that Consumers pay higher paces when Competition is suppressed that workers Are paid less when labor unions Are mob controlled and that organized come evades taxes on most of its income an internal Revenue service Survey found that organized come figures report Only 40 percent of their incomes ethnic criminal groups Are becoming More powerful in Many cities. Said the report including new York where there Are Strong ties Between chinese gangs and la Cosa Nostra members the chinese groups Are a source of heroin for la Cosa adds the report the chinese and the Len have performed contract killings on one another s behalf. The Len has provided Loans harking capital and Untra Cea Bie weapons to chinese gangs and the two groups have cooperated in illegal gambling houses Quot commission spokesman Brill told the news conference that Quot organized come is an Industry today that is larger than the u s paper Industry and larger than the rubber and tire Industry organized a nominal groups Quot Are in every Comer of the country and they re getting stronger every Day Quot Bill said adding that the operations of the traditional mafia families operating in major u s cities Are stronger. Than Ever but they have Competition unless Law enforcement at All Levels realizes that the situation is the study also anti sized the Legal profession for not doing enough to Root out corrupt Quot mob Quot lawyers who Aid and abet the illegal Onmi Nal enterprises of the mafia the 4<jft-Page study a occluded that the role of state and local Law mrs a Murphy a Romance closed thursday starts Friday pretty in Pink rabies cases up again in Pennsylvania Harrisburg apr Pennsylvania health officials confirmed 111 cases of rabies in animals during the first three months of 1986. Almost twice the number reported in the first Quarter last year the department of health said tuesday sixty cases were confirmed in Pennsylvania during the first Quarter of 1985 and 450 cases during the entire year the mo6t since 1946 the busiest period for new cases traditionally has been the fall a quite possibly we re in for a busier year this year said health department spokesman Bruce Reimer Quot it show s no signs of slow ing Dow n the department said 40 new cases were confirmed in March four of the cases were Rabid skunks and the rest were raccoons the department said Perry and York counties each recorded 11 cases in March tops in the state followed by Cumberland count with six a Rabid Raccoon also was found in Dauphin county across the Susquehanna River from the three counties indicating the disease May have spread Over the River said Reimer. Quot this is the first time rabies has possibly jumped the Susquehanna we have to watch and see if this is a Freak Case or if this is the Start of trouble for counties East of the Reimer said court throws out Rule restricting evidence Philadelphia api a the Pennsylvania supreme court in an opinion released monday threw out an Quot antiquated Rule Quot that hindered lawyers from submitting a witness contradictory statements As evidence until the 5-2 ruling lawyers could use the contradictions Only to discredit a witness not to directly help prove circumstances in a Case Justice Rolf Larsen speaking for the majority reversed a decision of the state Superior court which had granted a new trial for Anthony Edward Brady convicted in june 1981 of second degree murder and burglary in Northumberland county Brady was found guilty of killing George Hoffman a guard at the Wilson manufacturing Plant in Sunbury who prosecutors say surprised the defendant and his Girlfriend during a break in in 1984 in a taped statement the Girlfriend told police that Brady fatally stabbed Hoffman during a scuffle but at the trial she testified she and Brady were not at the Plant tuesday s winning lottery drawings Harrisburg apr a the winning number tuesday in the Pennsylvania daily number was 3-1-6 i a the winning number tuesday in the Pennsylvania big s 8-1 -ft-5. N y a the winning number picked tuesday in new York s or lottery game was 1-5-6 the a win four a number was 3-8-t-2 Spaghetti All you can eat $250 every wednesday Oft. Pizza amp ice o10s Cream cafe 265-9133 a s5.00 off the Purchase of your prom Tuxedo Rena s 420 main Street Towanda specializing in formal Wear for proms amp weddings we re looking out for your health and your pocketbook with Lederle Standard products for your prescriptions that can be filled with generic drugs ask your doctor about the use of generic drugs the savings can be As much As 50% with Quality generics. Hospital drive pharmacy Hospital drive Towanda v Quot 265-4555 enforcement agencies must be stepped up if the War against the mob is to be won the report urged the adoption by All states of electronic surveillance Laws statewide grand junes and racketeering statutes modelled after the Federal racketeer influenced corrupt or Gamzat ions Law. Which prosecutors use to attack ongoing patterns of corruption the Federal racketeer statute also allows auth ones to seize the ill gotten proceeds of criminal enterprises. To Date said the report just two states have adopted such a Law weather area forecast skies will be mostly sunny wednesday highs will Range from 6ft to 65 winds will be northerly at 10 to 15 mph skies will be Clear wednesday night lows will be around 30 thursday will be sunny with Boghs from 55 to 6ft extended forecast weather will be fair Friday. Skies will be mostly Cloudy with a Chance of rain saturday and sunday highs will be in the upper 50s to the Middle 60s through the period lows will be in the Middle 30s to the lower 40s yesterday s temperatures yesterdays to 7 Max 81. Min 40 temperatures 7 Alaska was rocked by an earthquake in 1964 that killed More than 100 people and caused $750 million in property damage. The next Day tidal Waves triggered by the quake wrecked the business District of Crescent City Calif. Aerie eagles club Towanda fish Fry Friday april 4th Ipa. To s . 3.25 Public invited custom framing and matting Superior mint and wallpaper l409 main Towanda .265-3326 attention k Mart shoppers in our april 2nd "50 million Dollar Sale Quot and on Page 1, the illustration of the 16 of. Jars of planters dry roast peanuts is incorrect. Correct illustration should have been Kmart Brand 16 of. Jars of dry roast peanuts unsalted salted. We regret any inconvenience this May have caused our customers. Open 7 Days a week . 9-6 thurs. Amp Fri. 9-9 sat. 9-5 Sun. 10-4 la a boy sofa with Matching Rocker Recliner split Back with solid Oak trim and Choice of fabrics. Reg. 1,378 Sale $99995 it s a barn Burner carpet special Stanford carpets country place regular 17.95 Complete waterbed your Choice 99 with your Purchase of Dresser Mirror amp Chest for Only 899.95 includes set up and delivery

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