Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 47, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 October 1981 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 30,1981
Inmates thinking of surrender in hostage standoff
GRATERFORD, Pa. IAP) - Four state prison inmates who were holding 38 hostages at gunpoint for a third day today said they were thinking of giving up and authorities were giving them all the time they wanted to decide The leader of the hostagetakers. convicted killer Joseph Bowen, "has been discussing the possibility of coming out. but hasn’t said when." deputy prison superintendent Larry Reid said late Thursday after a face-to-face meeting with Bowen. “We’re going to wait it out. We’re not going to make any moves to endanger anyone,” Reid said. There have been no reported injuries. The four, who are holding 32 fellow prisoners and six staff members, have made no demands. The siege at the maximum-security Correctional Institution at Graterford began after four prisoners tried to escape over the wall Wednesday evening and failed. Seventy state troopers and 130 prison staff have ringed the inside walls of the 62-acre compound. 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Four ambulances were stationed near the front entrance. “There’s no hostility. As long as there’s none, we’ll let it go on,” said assistant superintendent Robert Wolfe. Wolfe said “we talked to several” of the hostages by telephone and “they said they’re feeling fine, they’re OK.” Bowen, 34, is serving two life sentences for the murder of the warden and deputy warden of a prison in nearby Philadelphia in 1973 and a 10-to-20-year sentence for the 1971 murder of a Philadelphia policeman. After the failed escape, Bowen regrouped with three unidentified inmates in the prison yard. One of them fired three shots from a handgun and they holed up in the mess hall, holding people who were in the cafeteria at the time. Those held included three guards and three prison employees. The rest of the 2,045-inmate prison apparently was peaceful Thursday during a lockdown that followed the siege. Wolfe
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revealed that several restless inmates set their mattresses afire the day before and threw them into the halls outside their cells. The kitchen was stocked with enough food for about 40 days, Wolfe said The electricity was on and medicine was provided a diabetic guard, he said. Officials said the kitchen provided them access to knives. Wolfe said three relatives of inmates involved in the escape attempt offered to intercede Thursday night, but the convicts refused to answer the kitchen telephone and the relatives left the grounds. “I have nothing to lose, and I'm going to die anyway,” one of the inmates was quoted as saying in a brief telephone conversation with a television reporter over the telephone earlier Thursday. The inmate did not identify himself, but said he was serving a life sentence, the reporter said. The murders of three guards in five years prompted a walkout by staff in 1979. Last year, eight inmates filed suit against the state after four inmates in the punishment section died within two years, three deaths attributed to suicide.
M ust turn over vehicles, weapons
Appeal studied in PATCO contempt rulings against 25
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The defense will decide “within a couple of days” whether to appeal a judge’s civil contempt of court ruling against 25 striking air traffic controllers and their supporters, their attorney says. U.S. District Judge Gale J. Holder issued the ruling Thursday against the :ight officers of locals 303 and 369 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization and 17 PATCO members and supporters. Holder found they disobeyed a temporary restraining order he issued Aug. 3 - the day the nationwide strike began - banning strike-related activity at Indianapolis International Airport. James Logan, president of Local 303, said Thursday the defendants would comply with the ruling which ordered them to turn over their motor vehicles, bicycles and weapons
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'lncredible kid' uses bicycle and camera to convict birdnapper (c) 1981 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO—A 12-year-old suburban boy, armed only with a bicycle and a camera, Thursday helped the Fish and Wildlife Service bag a man for illegally transporting and possessing a protected migratory bird. Harold Davidson 111 said, after a hearing in U.S. Magistrate Olga Jurco’s courtroom, that he had been riding his bicycle home from school last March when he spotted a peregrine falcon tied to a post in the yard of Robert Steffens. “I saw the bird with a hooked beak and talons,” Harold said, “and I remembered that this man from Minnesota came to our class two months earlier to talk to us about wildlife and laws that protect birds. ” The boy went to his home, picked up a camera and returned to Steffens’ house. Davidson, a seventh-grader, took pictures of the bird, making sure to include the house and address number. He went home again and told his mother, who called police. The falcon was released, however, before police got to Steffens’ house. When Steffens appeared before Jurco on Thursday and saw the boy’s photos, he pleaded no contest and was fined SSOO. But Harold wasn’t entirely satisfied, saying, “He broke the law. They should have thrown the book at him.” “The book” would have been a SI,OOO fine and a one-year jail sentence. However, Karen Halpin, a special agent with the Fish and Wildlife Service, said that there was no evidence that Steffens had trapped the bird himself. Steffens said he had found the injured falcon in Zion and had brought it home six months ago. Peregrine falcons and American bald eagles are the two species of birds found in Illinois that are protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act. Halpin called Harold “an incredible kid.” The boy’s father—Harold 11, an engineering associate with Underwriters Laboratory—agreed, saying, “I guess he was just playing detective. We’re really proud of him.”
by Monday to the U.S. marshal’s office. The vehicles and weapons allegedly were used in strike activity. Defense attorney Joseph F. Quill said a stay of Holder’s order could be sought with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. While Quill said the eight local officers could not appeal the ban, he said the 17 others 16 striking controllers and the wife of one of them could ask the appeals court to stay Holder’s order. But the appeals court could stay the entire order which would nullify the ruling against the officers as well, Quill explained. The eight must await the out-
Dealing with juvenile crime Kokomo's success result of close agency cooperation, circuit judge says
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The crime rate in Kokomo is the one of the nation’s lowest because citizens decided to help juveniles avoid growing up to be criminals, Howard Circuit Judge Robert Kinsey says. “When it comes to children, there is very little agency or political in-fighting in Kokomo,” he told a conference on youth services. “Our police, welfare, probation and other
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come of a trial scheduled Nov. 16, he said. At that time, it will be determined whether a permanent injunction should be issued banning future strike-related activity at the airport, said U.S. Attorney Sarah Evans Barker. In his ruling, Holder said congestion caused by defendants at the airport brought on confrontations with Federal Aviation Administration employees, resulting in “violence” and “mental fear, pain and suffering” for the working controllers. Holder also said, “Demonstrators used dangerous and destructive muriatic acid on the FAA employees’ cars” and once on an FAA employee.
public and private youthserving agencies are of the highest quality and will stack up favorably against any other in the state or nation. But it is an achievement and accomplishment of the people of Kokomo.” Kinsey said his hometown tackled the juvenile crime problem in the early 1970 s with youth service bureaus, shelter homes, a 24-hour juvenile in-
Unarmed B-52 crashes in Colorado; eight killed
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) - \ B-52 bomber on a traini. 0 mission from California crashed on remote rangeland eight miles east of this southeastern Colorado town early today, killing all eight crew members, sheriff’s deputies said. Air Force officials did not immediately confirm the deaths or release the identities of the crew. Staff Sgt. Ada A. Martin of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs said the plane was a B-52 on a low-altitude training mission from March Air Force Base near San Bernardino, Calif. No weapons were aboard the intercontinental jet bomber, she said. The Otero County Sheriff’s dispatcher said a caller repor-
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The ruling said PATCO officers organized a group of strikers “whom they called Choir Boys,” who had the mission of discouraging FAA employees and former FAA workers from serving or going back to work for the government. “In one instance, such ‘Choir Boys’ advocated bombing a facility at the airport and among other violence, advocated interference...of the communications between aircraft pilots, airport personnel and FAA employees by use of ‘ghost voice’ interference communication.” Bob Dunlap, Local 303 treasurer, said he hadn’t expected the impoundment order.
take center and child protective services. The work paid off in crime statistics, he said, noting that FBI data shows Kokomo had the seventh lowest metropolitan crime rate in the nation in 1980. The judge was keynote speaker for Thursday’s opening session of the Governor’s Conference on the Delivery of Services to Youth. The conference winds up today with another day-long session at the Statehouse. The way to fight crime, he said, is not by adding more police, prosecutors, judges and prisons. “As a society, when are we
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B-52 bomber similar to one that crashed Friday
ted hearing an explosion at about 4:45 a.m. MST and authorities who went to the scene said wreckage was scattered over a three-quarter mile area. Ms. Martin said crews from
“It was a complete surprise. I’ve never heard of anybody taking away people’s cars and their livelihood,” Dunlap said. A “majority” of the defendants or their spouses need their cars to get to jobs they have taken since the government fired them in August, Dunlap said. Quill said he was not surprised the judge levied no fines or jail sentences, explaining he didn’t think the law allowed him to do that. But, he said, “I thought the ruling was most unique. ’’ In his ruling, Holder explained why no fines were levied. “The evidence discloses that the financial status of the defen-
going to learn the simple truth that the most effective time to fight violence and crime is before, not after the fact,” he asked. “Let me ask you, would it have been responsible as a society for us to address ourselves to the disease of polio by building and staffing more hospitals, providing more iron lungs? Of course not.” Saying “I am not a bleeding heart,” Kinsey conceded that people who are bent on violence must be put behind bars. “But I know also that people are not born criminal, impressed with the mark of Cain. They grow and develop into lives of criminal behavior.”
Peterson and the Fort Carson army installation at Colorado Springs were dispatched by helicopter to the crash site. Air Force officials said the plane was a B-52D, the oldest version of the plane in use. The
dants and the unions is at a low ebb, and the assessing of a persuasive fine to persuade the defendants’ future conduct is a useless undertaking.” He said the vehicles, bikes and weapons are to be impounded until the trial or until the defendants satisfy the court they will engage in no more strike-related activities. Holder ordered the defendants to pay impoundment costs and post a SI,OOO bond with the court. If the defendants fail to comply, Holder ordered them to surrender to the U.S. marshal. He ordered one striking controller, Keith Schupp, to surrender a knife he displayed in the courtroom.
Kinsey said he’s convinced that much of the violence and crime in society can be stopped if the appropriate emphasis is placed on the juvenile justice system. “As one judge, I am sick to death of finding in a presentence report of an 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old offender before me for sentencing and for whom I have no alternative but to send him to prison, the letter of a school teacher, a police officer or a neighbor, that they all knew he was headed for big trouble when he was in the fifth grade.” Kinsey said he has a similar reaction when he sees a mental
B-52D is more than 20 years olji and has been scheduled fcfr retirement by the Reagan administration. La Junta is in extreme southeastern Colorado, about SO miles east of Pueblo.
During hearings, Schupp was observed moving to a place in the courtroom where an FAA employee on the witness stand had a direct view of him. Schupp then took a large knife out of his pocket “under .the guise of its use upon his fingernails,” the judge’s ruling said; Schupp also was ordered to dismiss a pending action against a working controller, Clifford A. Armstrong, in Marion Co.unty Small Claims Court. The judge continued the case against a defendant and his wife accused of violating the temporary restraining order. Lucky and Judith Billings did not appear at the hearing, and the judge said the defense was unable to locate them.
health evaluation that shows-an offender’s behavior is a result of child abuse. , . “Why wasn’t something done when he was in the fifth grade or when he was being abused?” Kinsey said he has noted two common traits in youngsters who get into trouble: they -feel they are worthless, and they feel that no one cares muc* l about them. Government -cr only do so much to combat tho£ feelings, he said. “For the vast majority of tht 50,000 children we will see this year, meaningful answers will be found only in the private seator on the streets, in the schools, churches and neighborhoods where the children live and the problems exist.” Z
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