Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 45, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 October 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 28,1982

Psrsnlckety pumpkin pickers are in season. Wearing a frown and a clown suit, six-year-old Kamaka Kollars of Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, ponders her pumpkin pick as she awaits the annual rites of trick-or-treating and jack-o'-lantern carving. (AP Wirephoto).

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'World full of kooks'

40 cities ban trick-or-treat as sabotaged products persist

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer Dozens of cities around the nation, fearing deadly tricks in their children’s treats, are canceling Halloween doorbelling because of a spreading wave of sabotaged products showing up on store shelves. Reports of sabotage were widespread Wednesday, almost one month after the deaths of seven people in the Chicago area who took cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol. The tainted products ranged from candy corn to punch and soda. On Wednesday, the communities of Ascension Parish and Hammond, La., Vineland, N.J., Providence, R. 1., and Mogadore, Ohio, became the latest among at least 40 cities to ban traditional trick-or-treating. Carey Frederic, president of the Ascension Parish’s governing body, said the ban was “just for this year in.order to prevent anyone from getting hurt or any kid getting any sort of contaminated object.” “With the way the kooks are running around this year, something needed to be done to keep the situation from getting out of hand,” he said. “I feel like the Grinch you know, the one who stole Christmas,” said councilman Paul Sharp after Hammond’s decision to impose the

$6 million to companies from Iran c. 1982 N.Y. Times BONN, West Germany - The Algerian Central Bank has authorized the payment of nearly $6 million in claims against the Iranian government awarded four American companies by an international tribunal, officials at the tribunal indicated Wednesday. The officials said that the tribunal was informed that the Netherlands Central Bank, which administers an escrow account from which claims are paid, received payment instructions for all oustanding claims. The money was awarded to four American companies the Sperry Corp., Honeywell Information Systems, The Granite State Machine Co.and Philip Morris Inc. by the nine-member Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, established under the agreement that achieved the release of the American hostages in Tehran in January 1981. The tribunal hears claims of American companies arising from expropriations, breach of contracts, or other legal complaints arising from the Iranian revolution. The Algerian Central Bank, which plays a key role in the claims awards because of Algeria’s role as a mediator in efforts to free the American hostages, had refused to authorize the payments, some of which were made as early as July. Prior to the Algerian bank’s action, six American companies had received payments totaling $1.67 million. John Cole, a Washington attorney representing the Sperry Corp., said the company had been informed by the State Department and the Federal Reserve System, which acts as a payments channel, that payment would be made on Friday. About 640 American companies have filed an estimated $4 billion in claims with the tribunal.

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trick-or-treat ban. But Sharp said least a dozen parents had called him to say they were frightened after the Chicago deaths and by the rash of “copycat” poisonings nationwide since. In areas where door-to-door visits are still being allowed, Dr. James Mowry, director of the Indiana Poison Center, urged parents to be sure candy is wrapped and properly sealed. He said children should not accept fruit or homemade treats except from people they know well. “It’s easy to detect a pin or needle or razor blade in an apple, but if it has been contaminated by a drug, there’s no way to tell,” said Mowry. Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut asked children to collect money for the needy instead of treats. A Des Moines, lowa, police group urged that officers in uniform escort trick-or-treaters. Byerly Hospital in Hartsville, S.C. took out a newspaper ad Wednesday inviting trick-or-treaters to bring in bags of candy for X-rays to detect any metal objects. Houston and Reno, Nev., hospitals also offered the service. A mother in Stillwater, Okla., Kristi Clapp, urged giving toys instead of candv.

Nobel words Remarks 'depress' White House

c. 1982 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON - George J. Stigler, the Nobel laureate in economics, took the prize for frankness at the White House as he casually remarked Wednesday that the current economy was in “depression,” that the administration’s sup-ply-side antidote was somewhere between a “gimmick” and a “slogan,” and that, as approving as he is of President Reagan, his professorial instinct was to give him an “incomplete” for the course thus far. “I want to see what’s going to happen in the next two years,” Stigler said after a visit with the president in which White House aides hoped to garner routinely favorable publicity. The economist did speak as a clear administration booster at a news conference after the meeting, saying of the economy, “I think we’re bumping along and we’re on our way up.” But his easy choice of such words such as “depression” left White House political strategists wincing.

Businessmen pessimistic

By The Associated Press Some corporate executives glum about third-quarter business results say the nation’s ailing economy is showing few signs of recovery. Donald H. Trautlein, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said Wednesday he doesn’t believe an economic upturn has begun. He made the comment while reporting the company’s $209 million loss for the third quarter.

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“Well I think that’s linguistics,” Stigler said when asked why he used “depression” rather than the politically less chafing word, “recession.” “I’m so old now,” the 71-year-old professor said, “that I remember depressions. I know they’re not polite and I think probably are forbidden to be spoken within the city limits of Washington, D.C.” The tall, gray-haired academician thought for a moment, then said, “I don’t mind changing words.” But White House news reporters quickly said no, no, “depression” would do fine. Stigler’s ear-catching lecture in the briefing room was the highlight of a White House day of small public events that veered toward unexpected, sometimes negative attention. Stigler, for example, when asked his opinion of the supplyside ideas underlying the president’s economic program, responded like a laconic heretic: “As I understand it and it’s

“Recovery remains dependent on broad improvement in general business conditions, renewal of confidence in the domestic economy, further moderation of interest rates and a decline in the level of (steel) imports.’’ Trautlein said. Thomas A. Burtis, chairman of Sun Co., the nation’s 12thlargest oil firm, reported a 28 percent drop in third-quarter profits.

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“One bag of toys will go a long way toward keeping goblins happy,” Mrs. Clapp said. “Besides, there’s no waste. If nobody knocks on your door for Halloween, you can just save the toys for next year.” Lawmakers in Trenton, N.J., have passed a bill requiring a mandatory jail term for anyone who hands out contaminated Halloween candy. Gov. Thomas Kean was to sign the bill today. More incidents surfaced around the country of “copycat” product tampering, apparently mimicking but unrelated to the Tylenol deaths. Florida authorities reported “isolated incidents” of tainted products in Fort Pierce, Juno Beach, Avon Park, Pensacola and Highlands County. Three people were admitted to hospitals for observation, but no one was seriously injured. “It’s a copycat crime and the world is full of kooks,” said Juno Beach Police Chief Robert DiSavino, who said some kind of petroleum compound was injected into a carton of Tropicana brand orange juice purchased by one of his officers, burning the policeman’s throat and stomach. Authorities in Pensacola, meanwhile, said a woman found a sewing needle in a candy bar. In Avon Park, a woman suffered minor mouth burns from a 10-ounce bottle of punch spiked

not an orthodox economic category it’s a gimmick, or, if you wish, a slogan that was used to package certain ideas.” “That’s all right,” he added with a tone of forgiveness. “I think sloganeering is one of the larger products of this town.” As White House aides sought to hurry him from the press conference stage, he could not resist one more question, whether the current depression was “the worst since the Great Depression." Earlier, Reagan had extended to Alberto Salazar, the winner of Sunday’s New York City marathon, the chance for a simple, smiling handshake session before news photographers. The runner delighted the president’s political cadre by uttering Reagan's current campaign slogan, “Stay the course.” But they were appalled to see this edge slip crassly away as the fleet guest handed over a pair of running shoes prominently advertising the name of his equipment patron.

“Our industry, like all others, is continuing to feel the effects of the recession,” Burtis said. Meanwhile, a Dun & Bradstreet Corp. survey said the number of executives expecting to cut payrolls during the current business quarter was greater than the number planning to increase payrolls. Dun & Bradstreet said it was the first time that had happened in one of its quarterly surveys since 1954.

with ketone, an acetone substance, police said. Fort Pierce police said a pregnant woman took liquid antacid that contained an alcohol solution. . . - * In Sandtown, Del., federal officials were examining a bottle of soda that smelled of ammonia. A convenience store clerk who drank from the bottle complained of mouth burns. In Atmore, Ala., a 69-year-old woman was released from a hospital after being treated for caustic throat and mouth burns she got after she ate a candy bar. Police were investigating. Suffolk County, N.Y., police advised people who bought candy corn at a toy store to inspect their packages carefully, after a woman found pins in several candy pieces bought at the store Sunday. In Colorado, 34-year-old William Sinkovic, who was poisoned by Extra-Strength Excedrin laced with mercuric chloride, was “feeling better” Wednesday after surgery and blood transfusions, said Aurora Community Hospital nursing supervisor Nettie Fendrick. Authorities reported no progress in the search for whoever spiked the capsules. The surgecn who removed a lump of mercuric chloride from Sinkovic’s stomach Tuesday said the patient came “extremely close” to dying.

Bufferin tablet : choice rates extra - prayer in Chicago (c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO The wife of a judge has told how she narrowly missed becoming an eighth victim of cyanide-spiked ExtraStrength Tylenol capsules last month. Linda L. Morgan, who identified herself to Wheaton police Wednesday as the woman who returned the tainted capsules two weeks ago, said on Sept. 29 she had taken an ExtraStrength Bufferin tablet instead of a Tylenol capsule. She had bought bottles of each earlier in the day. “If I hadn’t taken the Bufferin, it would have been the Tylenol,” she said with a nervous laugh. “I’m just fortunate.l didn’t take it. I’ll say an extra prayer tonight.” It was the next afternoon when the first reports came out of fatal cyanide poisonings from adulterated Tylenol capsules. Morgan, who lives in suburban Wheaton, with her husband, Du Page County Circuit Judge Lewis V. Morgan, and their daughter, Laura, 3. immediately checked the Tylenol bottle. There was cotton at the top of the bottle, which contained 50 red capsules, Morgan said. She opened one capsule to check the color of the powder. “It appeared white,” she said. “Then 1 realized I didn’t know what cyanide looks like, and it could kill me, so I quickly closed the capsule and put it back in the bottle. ’’ Not realizing that the bottle indeed was one of the few ones that contained tainted capsules, Morgan left it on a high wooden chest in the bedroom, where it stayed for two weeks while she and her husband were on vacation. On Oct. 14. Morgan said. “I told my husband I wanted it out of the house.” She took it to the Wheaton police, where a clerk mistakenly listed her as the wife of Judge Duane G. Walter, an error that for a while had police believing that a “mystery woman,” claiming to be Walter’s wife, had returned the bottle. Early Wednesday, she said, she and a friend who is an attorney in Wheaton were joking about the “mystery woman,” - Morgan said, “He asked if I was the alleged wife who turned in the Tylenol. 1 just joked about it.” Later in the day, Morgan said, she realized that she probably was the woman who had turned in the bottle, andi she informed police. She had bought both the Bufferin and Tylenol at Frank s Finer Food Store in Wheaton on Sept. 29 during her usual end-of-the-month shopping. Edwin L. Reiner, whose wife, Mary, became fatally ill . from cyanide in Tylenol capsules Sept. 29, told investigators he bought that Tylenol in Frank’s Finer Food Store in Winfield, which is near Wheaton.

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