Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 95, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 December 1981 — Page 2
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Rescuers reach four in Rockies wreckage
BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) Rescuers plucked three survivors of a Christmas Eve plane crash from a mountain and battled deep snow early-today in a race to get a fourth survivor off before a new storm hit the Colorado Rockies. A man, a woman and two teen-age boys were found at midday Tuesday just as their emergency tracking beeper on the wrecked plane was about to die out. The woman and the boys were taken away by Army helicopter in a daring nighttime rescue during a break in the weather. A four-man rescue team was left behind in the wreckage of the light plane with the remaining survivor. They were joined by three rescuers who came overland with additional supplies and more were on the way with toboggans to carry them off the mountain. The fourth survivor and the four rescuers were left behind because of space and weight limitations in the chopper, authorities said. A winter storm warning was issued for the area today, with up to 18 inches of new snow and winds up to 40 mph predicted. The only other person known to have been in the plane when it crashed into the side of Mount Columbia, 100 miles southwest of Denver, was the pilot, who vanished after leaving to get help shortly after the crash five days ago. Meanwhile, another search was under way nearby for a crosscountry skier missing since he set off Christmas Eve on a twoday trip that was to have taken him from Crested Butte to Aspen. The search, hampered by weather and the threat of avalanches, was to resume today, weather permitting. Robert
Sewage hassle
East Chicago eyes $4 million for treatment plant
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) The East Chicago City Council was scheduled to meet today to discuss restoring $4 million to pay for the town’s troubled waste treatment plant. The city already is in a legal tangle with neighboring Illinois, which charges the East Chicago
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Shaw, 38, of Crested Butte, did not show up to meet his friends in Aspen and the search was begun. The three people rescued from the 11,600-foot level of the 14,196-foot mountain near Kroenke Lake in the Rocky Mountains were taken by ambulance after their flight to a hospital in Salida, a nearby town. “They looked very, very pale,” said Jeff Beavers, a radio news reporter who saw the survivors at the airport. Helicopter crewman Brent Evans said the woman had suffered a possible back or pelvic injury, and all four were said to be weak and frostbitten. He said they obtained extra clothing from their luggage. “It’s a miracle they weren’t killed,” Evans said. The helicopter was forced to land on a ledge about 200 yards above the downed plane, and the transfer of the three in darkness took several hours. The snow was waist deep. The rescue team had radioed to officials at a command post in Buena Vista that conditions were “not too serious” because body heat had raised the temperature inside the downed aircraft to 50 degrees. Outside, the temperature had fallen to about zero. The rescuers suggested that they and the survivors could stay overnight at the crash site, but the coming storm changed that plan. The site was about four miles from a trailhead accessible to four-wheel drive vehicles. There were no details on the identities of the survivors. Beavers said one of the rescued boys told him the group was from Texas.
Monday for an injunction to force the repair of the sewagetreatment plant. Indiana Attorney General Linley Pearson said Indiana doesn’t plan to join the action because East Chicago officials “are cooperating the best they can.” The council voted 5-4 last week to stop charging user fees for sewage treatment. The move leaves the sanitary district relying on a $1 million property tax fund which normally pays only for garbage collection, Tim Raykovich, sanitary district director, said. Two weeks ago the council rejected a proposal to increase sewer user fees 13 percent, Raykovich said Tuesday. The district pared its staff of
about 75 to 18 after the action by the council, Raykovich said. Hattie Leonard, one of four council members who voted to restore the user fees, said the council was scheduled to meet today with several items on the agenda, including funding for the plant, but she said the plant may not be discussed. “I anticipate if the council doesn’t do anything and do it soon the federal judge will get involved,” Mrs. Leonard said. “I’m sure they anticipate having another vote and a reconsideration of the ordinance, but not until they have some answers,” she said. Fahner said the plant is in such poor condition some waste attains higher levels of pollutants than were present when the water was pumped into the plant. The pollutant level increases as the water picks up materials from corroded pipes in the plant. “The problem is the plant is antiquated and the equipment is outdated. Because of a number of factors we did not have adequate personnel to maintain that equipment,” Raykovich said.
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Walesa, military said ready to begin talking
By The Associated Press Solidarity chief Lech Walesa has agreed to begin negotiations with Poland’s martial law regime, according to uncensored reports reaching the West. Military council members contend the country is calm, “production is growing and worker discipline is increasing.” The government Tuesday acknowledged eight people have been killed in clashes since martial law was declared Dec. 13, according to reports Tuesday. Earlier official reports conceded seven deaths, but unconfirmed reports put the number in the hundreds. President Reagan on Tuesday banned natural gas pipeline equipment to the Soviet Union as part of trade sanctions “to put powerful doubts in the minds of the Soviet and Polish leaders about this continued repression.” Reagan, who blames the Kremlin for the crackdown in Poland, announced Tuesday that Soviet air and sea rights within U.S. territorial zones would be suspended as well as the sale of the gas pipeline equipment. Last week, Reagan suspended food aid to Poland, cut off fishing rights and slashed Polish air service to the United States. West German officials said Polish Deputy Prime Minister * Mieczyslaw Rakowski arrived in Bonn today to meet with Foreign Minister Han-Dietrich Genscher to discuss the sanctions, which would halt U.S. cooperation in construction of a Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe. The general feeling in Bonn and other Western European capitals involved in the gas deal was that the Soviets would look elsewhere for equipment to build the 2,400 mile pipeline. Rakowski is the first senior Polish official to travel abroad since martial law was declared. Polish television announced industrial price hikes beginning Jan. 1 for gas, oil, coke and
Farm exports not affected
Reagan order halts Caterpillar sales
WASHINGTON (AP) One heavy-equipment manufacturer didn’t fare too well, but most U.S. companies and thousands of American farmers will not be affected by President Reagan’s new trade sanctions against the Soviet Union. The most significant steps in the administration’s package, announced Tuesday in response to the military crackdown in Poland, was the cutoff of about S3OO million in annual sales of high technology products, including computers and oil and gas equipment. The biggest loser apparently will be the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of Peoria, 111., which had been given preliminary approval earlier this month to sell 200 pipelayers sophisticated bulldozers to the Soviets. That sale, which company officials estimated would have amounted to S9O million, was halted. But a sale of 100 pipelayers this summer was not affected because the machinery already been delivered. Caterpillar officials said it was too soon to predict whether the
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Ten-year-old Irina, a Polish refugee too shy to give her last name, gazes into the distance with worried eyes from her cot at a refugee camp at Traiskirchen, Austria, in a photo made available through Stockholm this week. Thousands of Polish refugees have made their way to Austria since a martial law crackdown earlier this month. (AP Laserphoto)
building materials “in line with the economic reform.” The cost of a ton of crude oil will go from $64.52 to $432.26, the state-run Television said, adding that the increases “will necessarily mean a rise in retail prices.” Earlier this week, the government said meat and butter rations would be cut. “There’s no food again,” said a Polish woman from Katowice who arrived in Vienna, Austria today by overnight train. “It’s terrible.” Price hikes and food shortages in the summer of 1980 led to nationwide strikes that launched Solidarity as the first union in the Soviet bloc free of Communist Party control. The union was suspended when
Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law Dec. 13, ending 16 months of reforms. Reports quoting a member of Walesa’s family said the union chief had decided on Christmas Day to begin talks with the military regime. The negotiations were to have begun Monday, but it could not be learned if they were underway. A government source who asked not to be identified said, “There is room (in Poland’s future) for an independent trade union, independent both of the state employer and of political manipulation.” A senior Solidarity adviser still at large said that any political solution to the crisis must be made between
action will result in further layoffs by the company, which already has furloughed 1,400 workers because of sluggish equipment sales. The company said the sanctions, unless supported by U.S.’ allies, would “not deny pipelayers to the Soviet Union” but only" divert sales to a Japanese company that also manufacturers the' bulldozers. Reagan has said the Soviet Union “deserves a major share of the blame” for martial law in Poland and warned last week that!' the Kremlin would face economic reprisals if the repression con-!' tinued. He declared Tuesday that the new sanctions against Moscow were designed “to put powerful doubts in the minds of the Soviet” and Polish leaders about this continued repression.” Administration officials estimated the new trade bans would halt about SIOO million in sales of high technology equipment and an additional S2OO million worth of oil and gas drilling and transmission equipment. ! That represents barely 8 percent of annual U.S. exports to thej Soviet Union of $3.7 billion. Agricultural products, which make up about 70 percent of U.S: sales to the Soviets, were not touched by Reagan, who criticized' and lifted the grain export ban imposed by then-President Car-; ter after the Soviet move into Afghanistan. The administration did say it was postponing talks, scheduled' to begin in January, on a new grain agreement. However, that action will not affect the 23 million tons of wheat and other grains the Soviets will be allowed to buy this fiscal year. Even if a new agreement is not reached by the time the current pact ex-! pires Sept. 30, Agriculture Department officials said grain sales to the Soviets could continue unabated.
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“authentic Solidarity leaders” and the government He said any attempts to replacje unionists with Communist Party loyalists would be unacceptable. - > The sources also confirmed that Walesa had been on a twoday hunger strike. At a news conference Tuesday, government spokesman Jerzy Urban said Walesa was in good health and was in contact with representatives of the government, Poland’s Roman Catholic Church and his family, recording to reports. The mustachioed uni,on leader was not under arrest, Urban claimed. “He is in Warsaw because that’s where the government wants him.” t Previous reports from War-; saw have said Walesa was held; at the headquarters of the army; general staff. Walesa’s current; whereabouts could not be in-; dependently confirmed. Normal communicationswere cut in Poland when martial law was declared and censorship imposed. Reliable news reports from within Poland have been few and Western news organizations must piece together information from travelers, diplomatic sources and others. Solidarity is the only in-f dependent union in the Soviet bloc free of Communist Party control. The same government source said Jaruzelski, an armji general, will unveil a social* economic and political program * in early January that will include guidelines under which a union along the lines of' Solidarity could operate. Shortly after martial law was r imposed, there were reports of. industrial sabotage and protest strikes by thousands of workersfrom the Baltic shipyards to the. coal mines in Silesia. But on Tuesday, a dispatch filed by AP correspondent Thomas W. Net-I-ter and subject to censorship, quoted government officials as saying the country was calm.