Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 106, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 January 1983 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 11,1983

Inmates claim amnesty; prison denies promises

'NEW YORK (AP) - Rebellious inmates at the Ossining Correctional Facility released unharmed their 17 hostages early today and said they received amnesty for their 53-hour takeover, but prison officials denied making such a promise. The siege at the prison once known as Sing Sing was declared over by the inmates Monday night after local television stations broadcast 10 points of agreement that prisoners said they had reached with state correction officials. At 12:28 a.m., the watch commander at the prison announced over guards’ walkietalkies that the last hostage had ,been freed. Except for some I bumps and bruises, all were ! reported in good condition. > One by one, the hostages, Jsome dazed and looking tired, !walked out of the cellblock, I greeted by applause from $ coworkers. { One correction officer, asked Jhow he felt, said, “Glad to be ;out.” Cheers were heard from the 5 cellblock as the siege drew to a Jclose. j “Hey, thanks a lot,” one called through bars to s reporters 200 yards away. I Another said the orison adt

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ministration deserved no credit for the bloodless end to the incident: “It’s not the administration that did this (end the siege)... It’s us and you.” The inmates said they would lock themselves in their cells, and at 1:40 a.m. special state troops reoccupied the five-story cellblock. Gov. Mario Cuomo, who took office Jan. 1, had refused to deal with the inmates until every hostage was freed. He praised prison officials for resolving the crisis without serious injury to any hostage or inmate. “Dozens, maybe hundreds of hard decisions were made and most were made without time for reflection,” Cuomo told a news conference at his Manhattan office at 1 a.m. The inmates seized 17 hostages when the siege began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, released one almost immediately to take mesages to the prison administration, then released a second Monday morning. The inmates repeatedly said they did not want “another Attica,” referring to the 1971 riot at the prison in upstate Batavia. N.Y., where police stormed the facility. The insurrection left 43 prisoners and guards dead.

Sen. Baker may set political sights higher

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican Leader Howard H. Baker Jr of Tennessee, one of the most powerful men in Congress and an ally of President Reagan, has decided tentatively not to seek re-election in 1984, sources say. Baker intends to explore a possible presidential candidacy in 1984 if Reagan steps down and in 1988 in any event, the sources, who asked not to be identified by name, said Monday night. In the interim, Baker has told his top aides and family members he intends to serve out his term both as senator and as Senate majority leader, the fir-

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st Republican in nearly a quarter century to hold that post. Baker’s decision was reported by aides to be tentative, although the senator, vacationing in Florida, was aware of the reports and issued no denial. His press secretary, Tom Griscom, said, “It’s premature now to speculate. “Clearly, he has not made up his mind and only he can make that announcement. I expect he will after he weighs all the factors and talks to all the people in Tennessee he needs to talk to,” Griscom said. Baker's reported decision would be the rarest of events in

$lO million Hyatt settlement

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A federal trial aimed at finding out who was responsible for the collapse of sky walks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel was canceled Monday after victims agreed to a 10 million settlementm The tentative agreement was reached Sunday night and announced Monday as the classdaction trial was about to begin. It provides a way of resolving the last six lawsuits remaining in federal court. A few cases still are unresolved in state court, but none of those is expected to result in a trial over responsibility for the disaster. “This was a very complex and involved casen and the fact that it is settled is a wonder in

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as they creep, walk and tumble down the glass. The toy is very popular in Japan and manufacturers are hoping the fad catches on in the United States. (AP Wirephoto).

Washington a middle-aged politician renouncing a new term at the pinnacle of his power. Aides offered little explanation for the reported decision, except to say that the 57-year-old Baker has often spoken in private against the notion of a lifetime career in the Senate. At the same time, it is clear that Baker retains presidential ambitions. He ran unsuccessfully for the party’s nomination in 1980 and while he has repeatedly urged Reagan to run for a new term in 1984, aides said he himself would be a likely contender if

itself ” said U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright, who still has to approve the plan for it to become finalm “This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest damage suit, that’s ever been handled in this countryn” the judge saidm The collapse of the two sky walks onto the crowded lobby of the hotel July 17,1981, killed xl4 people and injured more than 200. It spawned lawsuits seeking a total of $3 billion in damagesm The federal settlement is similar to one that has been approved in Jackson Circuit Court, where most of the sky walk suits were filed. About 1,200 people had collected nearly aSO million by late last week under that settlementm

the president steps down. But Baker apparently expects Reagan to run again. “The intention is more directed toward 1988,” said one aide. Baker’s tenure as Republican leader has been marked by remarkable cohesion among the Republicans, who won control of the Senate when Reagan was elected. Under Baker's direction, the Senate passed the tax and spending cuts that Reagan asked for in 1981 and granted the president other triumphs as well, including approval of a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

Under the agreement announced Monday, the hotel owners would establish a $3.5 million damage fund and make $6.5 million in contributions to Kansas City agencies as a “healing gesture.’’ sThe designers and contractors had been named as defendants in the federal suitn but Hallmark Cards Incm and its subsidiary, Crown Center Redevelopment Corp., which owns the hoteln accepted liability as part of the settlement.’The National Bureau of Standards found that the collapse occurred because of a design change that altered the way the sky walks were suspended from the ceiling. No company has ever acknowledged ordering the design change.

Injunction against support deductions;

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A federal judge barred the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday fVom making dairy farmers help pay for milk price supports during a lawsuit against the assessment program. In a terse order, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Perry issued a preliminary injunction against the USDA “pending the further order of this court.” Under the program, USDA

Cargo plane crash kills 3 crewmen

ROMULUS, MICH. (AP) A DC-8 cargo plane carrying low-level radioactive material crashed and exploded in a swamp early today on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all three crew members aboard, an airline spokesman said. The radioactive material posed no danger, the spokesman said. The plane, United Airlines

Grain offered for farmers' idle land

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, trying to pump up sagging farm prices by whittling government commodity stockpiles, is authorizing free surplus grain for farmers who idle up to half their fields. Officials claim the move will have little impact on grocery prices, increasing the cost of bread less than a penny a loaf. The president planned to announce his decision today in Dallas in a speech before the 64th annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The program, known as payment-in-kind, or PIK, is designed to reduce this year’s harvest so that price-depressing stockpiles can be depleted. Farmers’ buying power now is the lowest ever recorded. The payment-in-kind plan wilt be used on top of existing production control programs, under which eligible farmers already receive cash and continued price support protection for idling 20. percent of their land this year. Under the new plan, farmers will be eligible to take an additional 30 percent of their fields out of production. In exchange, they would receive surplus wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton and rice, which

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HOWARD BAKER May seek presidency

Most of the lawsuits filed in the case have been resolved through outdof-court settlements. The state cases generally involved victims from the Kansas City area, and the federal cases involved those from out of state. Wright announced the settlement in a courtroom packed with lawyers, reporters and prospective jurors. The judge ordered lawyers not to discuss the settlement, and scheduled a hearing for Jan. 20. “While the court has asked that details of the proposed settlement not be discussed until the final hearing, we are happy to endorse this agreement,” said Bill Johnson. “It is the fruit of long negotiations.”

would collect 50 cents from dairy farmers for every 100 1 pounds of milk they sell. The money about S6OO million a year would be used to pay part of the $2.2 billion the federal government spends each year on surplus milk products to keep milk prices stable. Congress authorized U.S. Agriculture Secretary John R. Block last summer to begin deducting money from paymen-

cargo flight 2885 from Cleveland to Los Angeles, crashed at about 2:50 a.m. in a swampy area south of the airport terminals, acting Wayne County Sheriff Loren Pittman said. The plane disintegrated on impact, spreading wreckage over a 200-yard area and only a portion of the plane’s tail section remained recognizable, Pittman said. Emergency

they could sell or use for livestock feed. The government hopes 23 million acres of land will be idled by the program. That would reduce wheat, corn and sorghum production by 10 percent, cut cotton production by 20 percent and reduce rice production by 15 percent, “Frankly, we’re buried in these commodities today,” said Agriculture Secretary John Block. He said federal stockpiles “are hanging over our market like a dark cloud.” In a briefing for reporters, Block argued the program would have little impact on food costs. “It’s going to have a very marginal effect on the price of food,” Block said. “I rather doubt if it will be something that can even be noticed.” He predicted the program will lead to only a modest improvement in farm prices. “We do not predict a dramatic, wild turnaround in price immediately,” Block said. The surplus commodities will be distributed at normal harvest times. For land idled under the payment-in-kind program, farmers would receive 95 percent of the wheat they normally would grow their base yield and 80 percent of corn and other crops. Block said. Farmers can begin signing up for the program Jan. 17. The signup will end March 11.

Wife issues stiff complaint over morgue in home EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Shirley Jean Cox says she’s had it with those portions of corpses stored in her refrigerator-freezer and with having them transported in her truck. The Republican Vanderburgh County commissioner, who is married to Deputy Coroner Earl Cox, said she's tired of using her home as an impromptu morgue. “At Thanksgiving, instead of having a turkey in my freezer, I had to clear out a space to have body parts.” Mrs. Cox’s wrath isn't directed at her husband. She’s upset with the county for not having a proper morgue. She said the body parts and other evidence in coroner’s cases have been kept at her home routinely for 14 years when they could not be sent immediately to labs for analysis. The items remain at her home overnight or sometimes throughout a weekend until they can be taken to a local lab or mailed to Indianapolis, she said. The body parts, which must be preserved through refrigeration, are placed in Styrofoam containers in her kitchen freezer, she said. Blood taken from bodies is stored in the refrigerator. Other evidence must be kept temporarily in other parts of the Cox home. “Our garage and our basement house evidence dirty, wet, messy clothes because we have no morgue," she said. Cox agreed. “Sometimes it does get a little disgusting putting things in the refrigerator. When my son brings his friends over to play ball, they can’t come in and get a bologna sandwich or a drink out of there. I tell them that’s off limits.” Cox said he sometimes must hang victims’ clothing on his clothesline to dry, so the material won’t mildew. “The neighbors really don’t say anything about it, but they don't like it. Sometimes the wdnd is blowing.” , Coroner David Wilson asked commissioners Monday to restore the funding. Wilson’s appeal prompted the outburst from Mrs. Cox. She said storing body parts in her freezer was bad enough, but her husband's use of her truck to transport body remains was too much to accept. “I hate to have all these things hauled around in our truck because it’s carpeted,” she said.

ts farmers receive from milk processers. Block ordered deductions to begin on milk deliveries starting Dec. 1. But Bryan Patrick, while he was still South Carolina agriculture commissioner, sued Block last month, and Perry issued a temporary order on Dec. 21 halting the USDA deductions. Patrick’s lawsuit contends that Midwestern states are the ones which produce milk sur-

crews were hindered in reaching the wreckage and fighting the fire by knee-deep mud, he said. The four-engine airliner carried a shipment of less than five pounds of low-level radioactive material used for medical purposes, United spokesman Chuck Novak said from Chicago, where the airline is based. “It was medical supplies, and

pluses, and that dairy farmere in other parts of the country shouldn’t be forced to help subsidize them. Patrick favors a reduction in milk’s support price Patrick testified last week that if Block is allowed to collect the 50-cent assessment,; and another scheduled to take effect April 1, one third of South; Carolina’s dairy farmers might go bankrupt. .

we re trying to determine what exactly it was. But it wa§ properly packaged and surrounded by lead. Sgt. John Vereb of the Romulus police department said only one body, and possibly a second had been found. But Novak said the Federaj Aviation Administration had notified the airline that all three crew members had been killed.