Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 93, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 December 1981 — Page 3

Worse shortages expected in 'B2

Military cuts Poles' meat, butter rations further

Ky The Associated Press -Poland's martial law regime began its third week in power by cutting monthly meat and butter rations for most Poles and predicting worse food shortages in the new year. Western reporters in Warsaw said antibiotics and medical supplies also were in drastically short supply. It was food shortages that provoked the nationwide strikes ip Poland 16 months ago that spawned Solidarity, the first uhion in the Soviet bloc independent of government control, and ration cuts last summer spurred a string of Solidarity strikes. Lech Walesa, leader of the now-banned Solidarity union, was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for 1981 Sunday for standing out “not only as the heart and soul of Poland’s bat-

Bag of potato chips yields wallet of Terre Haute worker INDIANAPOLIS (AP) When Ginger Stewart opened a bag of potato chips she didn’t expect to find a prize, let alone a wallet with $47 in it. Miss Stewart, 21, of Indianapolis was so startled Saturday night when she opened the bag of chips that she called police. “It was weird. Not your everyday occurrence,” Miss Stewart said. Thomas Kelley, 26, of Terre Haute, thought the reappearance of his wallet even weirder than Miss Stewart did. A mechanic at Chesty Food Division of Snacktime Co. at Terre Haute, Kelley said, “I lost it about three weeks ago when I was working on a new packaging machine. “I thought I might have dropped it on a conveyor belt below where I was working. But I thought that if that happened and it ended up in a 25-cent bag of chips, some guy in a bar was going to have himself a real good time when he found it,” he said. “I never expected to get it back this way,” he added. “It doesn’t happen too often - things getting into the chips - -but once in awhile something like this happens,” Kelley said. Indianapolis police were holding the wallet until Kelley officially reclaims it. But then, how many people named Kelley have lost wallets in sealed potato chip bags.

Elderly man grabs shotgun, kills intruder

JNDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An intruder who didn’t think a 73man whose house he ransacked “was much of a threat” was killed by a shotgun blast fired by his victim, police in fndianapolis say. Joseph M. Hodson, 73, killed the intruder 15 minutes after he entered Hodson’s southside farmhouse Sunday through an unlocked back door, police said. “I shot a guy,” Hodson told neighbors after police arrived at the scene. The dead man was identified by police as Bobby J. Lewis, 18, of Indianapolis. Lewis lived just two blocks away from Hodson’s house. f'Lewis wasn’t worried about the old man,” said Sgt. Jerold W. Schemenaur of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department. “Apparently, he didn’t think he was much of a threat.” Sheriff’s deputies said no charges will be filed against Hodson, who lives alone. Capt. Jerry L. Hubbs said the case

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will be turned over to the county grandjury. Police said Hodson was reading a newspaper in a rocking chair about 10 a.m. when, though hard of hearing, he became aware of someone in the house. In the hallway, the elderly man confronted the intruder, who announced he “was moving in.” Lewis then ripped the telephone cords from the wall and began ransacking the house, investigators said. When Hodson protested, Lewis cracked him across the back of the neck with a barometer torn from the wall. As Hodson returned to his chair, Lewis continued rifling through drawers and closets. Meanwhile, Hodson returned to the kitchen, where he grabbed the shotgun. As he stood in the kitchen doorway, he told investigators, Lewis charged him. Hodson fired once.

Walesa 'Man of Year' NEW YORK (AP) - Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s Solidarity labor union and “a different kind of hero,” has been named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for 1981. The magazine, in its Jan. 4 issue, characterizes Walesa as “a common man who has taken his fling at changing history not by leading governments, winning great battles or writing books, but by embodying the hopes, faith, courage, even the foibles, of the vast majority of his countrymen.” Time selected Walesa before the imposition of military rule in Poland Dec. 13. The magazine quoted Walesa as saying in an interview before the military takeover, “I know that I exist and that people will come after me. I know another thing: I know that I will lose today, and tomorrow will be a victory.” The Man of the Year designation, the 55th given by Time, goes to the individual who, in the judgment of the magazine’s editors, has had the most impact for good or ill in the previous 12 months.

symbol of the struggle for freedom and dignity.”

First American test-tube baby born in Virginia

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) America’s first test-tube baby has been born, doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School announced today. The five-pound, 12-ounce girl and her parents are doing well, spokesman Vernon Jones said. The school gave no details about the birth or the baby’s parents, but a news conference was scheduled this afternoon with doctors who run the clinic. The baby girl is the first born in this country after being conceived through in vitro fertilization, a process used for women whose Fallopian tubes are missing or irreparably blocked. In the process, an egg is removed from the mother’s ovary,

Colorado plane crash kills three

Winter storm lashes Rockies

Associated Press Writer Back-country travelers were warned to beware of avalanches in the wind-whipped Rocky Mountains today, while storms cut power to thousands of homes near Seattle and parts of Michigan were buried under 14 inches of snow. Seven people were killed. A 24-year-old man. his fiance and his brother were killed when they tried to land their small plane in Hayden, Colo, during heavy snow Sunday. Snow-slickened roads were cited as the cause of one fatal traffic accident in Colorado, two in Nebraska and one in Washington.

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Snow in Michigan fell in a band from Lansing to just west of Alpena, with central Michigan’s Gratiot County hit hardest. The avalanche danger forced the Colorado Civil Air Patrol to suspend its search of the Collegiate Peaks near Buena Vista, where they were trying to locate emergency aircraft beacons believed coming from the area. No planes were reported missing, however. Search teams planned to resume their effort at dawn today, he said. The center said heavy snowfall and winds up to 80 mph were causing a dangerous

location in Warsaw since shortly after martial law was imposed Dec. 13. The latest cuts in the already depleted Polish menu were announced Sunday by Warsaw Radio, which predicted that next year the situation “will be worse than this because of considerably lower imports and lower poultry output.” The radio said the martial law regime was trimming January’s butter and meat rations to 5.5 pounds a month for most Poles. Children, pregnant women and the elderly and the sick will be receive 8.8 pounds of each commodity per month, it said, and manual workers will be exempt from the cutbacks. Meat and butter rations were cut off completely for farmers with more than 1.2 acres of

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avalanche situation along with the possibility of avalanches hitting highways along mountain passes. The storm, accompanied by punishing winds, swept into Colorado Saturday. Some mountain areas got 21 inches of snow overnight Saturday and Sunday, with 48-hour accumulations of more than 2 feet. Snow was still falling today. Kevin Sutcliffe, 25, Robert Sutcliffe, 24, and Carolyn Dufort, 23, all of Tampa, Fla., were killed Saturday night when their Beechcraft Baron airplane crashed in a wheatfield one mile east of the Yampa Valley Airport near Hayden,

land, the state-run radio said, presumably because farmers have access to their own food stocks. The radio said the military council “appeals to individual farmers and to state and cooperative farms to expedite (food) deliveries...” Western correspondents in Warsaw have said Poland’s private farmers the backbone of its food production have held back shipments of some foods to protest martial law. The radio, monitored in Western Europe, quoted a Home Trade Ministry announcement as saying extra imports “especially from the Soviet Union” helped the government meet December rations but failed to secure enough meat to cover ration arrears.

authorities said. Routt County Sheriff Nick DeLuca said the crash occurred as the pilot was making a second attempt to land in a swirling snowstorm. In Washington, about 4,000 people in suburbs north and northeast of Seattle lost power after snow-laden tree limbs fell on power lines. The storm also snarled traffic, keeping many skiers from the slopes. Police said icy roads in Colorado led to the death of Steven Rasper, 36. of Copper Mountain, Colo., who was killed in a traffic accident on Interstate 70.

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The near bankrupt Polish government lacks the funds to pay for imported foods and feed grains. Last August, rations were cut for a month from 7.7 pounds per person to 6.6 pounds, but even then supplies were still so scarce that Poles had difficulty buying the meat and butter to which they were entitled. A Polish woman arriving in Vienna told The Associated Press that certain food supplies such as meat and eggs were hard to get, “but it is not so terrible that people are starving.” Warsaw Radio said investigators sent out to check food distribution today discovered milk and bread deliveries were delayed. It gave

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no reason for the delays, but said “authorities will draw the* appropriate conclusions from this.” A London Times report from Warsaw published Sunday said recent visits to Warsaw hospitals revealed a tragic shortage of medical supplies. It said people were dying because the government lacks hard currency to buy antibiotics, because disposable syringes and needles have to be used as - many as 100 times and because there is not enough detergent to wash bed linen. Normal communications have been cut in Poland and Western reporters must file dispatches through government censors. Both official and unofficial reports are difficult to verify.

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