Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 278, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 July 1984 — Page 2

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Treasure hunters find warship booty

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service LEWES, Del. Treasure hunters said on Monday that they had found the wreckage of a British warship, loaded with booty from captured Spanish ships, that capsized and sank in a squall nearly 200 years ago. At a news conference at a University of Delaware campus on Monday, representatives of the treasure hunters, Sub-Sal Inc. of Reno, Nev., displayed artifacts, a cannon, and data to support their claim of discovery of the brig De Braak. The De Braak foundered on May 25,1798, in a squall in 100 feet of water two miles off this coastal town. She was towing a captured Spanish ship when she went down. The salvagers said that some old accounts reported a treasure in gold, silver, and jewels had been aboard the De Braak with her captain and 38 crew members when she sank. The treasure, the searchers believe, still lies deep in sand and sediment below the relics and artifacts they have found. And they voiced confidence that the sea would yield its sunken fortune before they finished their excavation. “Everything we have found fits De Braak to a T,” said John Fish, a marine scientist and historian, a consultant to the hunters, in an interview before the news conference. He described diving to the wreck, measuring it, and surveying the

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site of its stores and components in murky waters and the detritus of a coastal bottom. Sub-Sal, led by Harvey Harrington, a commercial diver, is backed by undisclosed investors. It has already risked “hundreds of thousands” of dollars on an operation that could run into millions, Fish said. Stories abound of 24 surviving crewmen who were said to have paid for lodging and board with Spanish doubloons and who were supposedly heard to bemoan the loss of vast treasures. Any treasure to be found is likely to be in the area beneath what was once the cabin of Capt. James Drew, the salvagers said. “We have not found any treasure yet,” said Fish, “but we are confident it is there. What we don’t know is how much. It could be as much as $5 million worth. It could be as much as SSOO million. ” At the news conference, Fish and representatives of the salvagers displayed dark gray bottles they said were from the ship’s stores, now empty but believed to have been filled with wine or spirits, a platter, a broken bowl, an old musket (shown in an X-ray) and, in a preserving bath, one of the ship’s 12 small cannon. “We approached this very skeptically,” said Fish. He said they operated as if they were trying to prove the find was not the 85-foot vessel they sought.

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Between blacks, Reagan

Vernon Jordan sees iron curtain

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service CLEVELAND Asserting that “Ronald Reagan has constructed an iron curtain between black Americans and his administration,” Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the former president of the National Urban League, Monday endorsed Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential nominee. “If Reagan wins a second term,” Jordan told 3,000 delegates to the Urban League’s national convention here, “I warn you: Don’t be poor, don’t be old, don’t be Hispanic, don’t be black. The only way to make sure Reagan doesn’t have another four years to dump on us is to elect Walter Mondale.” Jordan, who headed the league from 1972 until 1981, is now a lawyer in Washington. Jordan made his remarks on the second day of the traditionally nonpartisan

Dozens killed as rebels attack guards

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Leftist rebels attacked civil guards at a cluster of farms, reportedly killing 66 people in one of their bloodiest offensives in western El Salvador since the civil war began in 1979. Civilian sources said the death toll from Monday’s attacks included 63 civil defense guards at the farms. The civil guards are farmers armed and trained by the regular army to defend their cooperatives from rebel incursions. A military spokesman put the death toll

Hijackers killed in storming of jetliner

- WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) - Security officers stormed a hijacked commercial jet early today, killing the two hijackers and rescuing the 79 people aboard who had been held hostage for 36 hours, officials said. The rescue force moved in when the hijackers allowed the plane’s left front door to be opened after the wife of one of the gunmen appealed to her husband over a radio to free a woman passenger who reportedly had suffered a miscarriage. When the door opened, the security men charged in. The Venezuelan Aeropostal DC-9 had been hijacked Sunday afternoon after it left Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, for a flight to Curacao, but the gunmen forced it to land on two other Caribbean islands Trinidad and Aruba before it arrived here Monday morning. They had threatened to blow up the plane if their demands for millions of dollars and an

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c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Citing “overwhelming” evidence that lead in gasoline is a serious threat to human health, the Environmental Protection Agency Monday formally proposed new rules requiring that the maximum lead content of gasoline be reduced 91 percent by Jan. 1,1986. The agency said it was also considering a total ban on lead in gasoline starting in 1995, but the Office of Management and Budget has said that more evidence is needed to support a flat prohibition on lead in gas. Therefore, a second option being considered by the EPA is allowing a small quantity of lead in gas indefinitely. William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the environmental agency, said Monday that in either case his agency’s intention was total elimination of leaded gasoline by the mid-19905. At a news conference, Ruckelshaus said that the “social and economic benefits” of reducing the lead content of gasoline “will be very substantial and the costs will be minimal.” Lead poisoning of the blood has been found to have a particularly severe effect on the mental capacities of children, even

league’s convention, and lent an emot’onally partisan tone to the session this afternoon. His successor as president of the league, John E. Jacob, had criticized some of the Reagan administration’s reductions in social service in a speech to the delegates on Sunday. But Jacob stopped short of endorsing Mondale, who is scheduled to appear here Tuesday with his running mate. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York. The delegates interrupted Jordan more than a dozen times with enthusiastic applause, in contrast to the polite response they gave earlier in the day to two Republicans, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Rep. Jack F. Kemp of upstate New York. Jordan said the Reagan administration had cut the budgets of civil rights agencies, endorsed regulatory changes that

at 40, including an unarmed mother and daughter riding with other peasants in a truck ambushed by guerrillas during coordinated attacks in La Libertad province. He said four peasants in the truck were wounded. Other casualties, mostly civil guards, occurred when rebels attacked guardposts at El Jocote, Las Flores and Ranchos Quemados, three land reform cooperatives 22 miles northwest of San Salvador, said military sources in San Juan Opico, near the fighting.

escape helicopter were not met. In Caracas, presidential spokesman Jose Heran Briceno confirmed the two hijackers had been killed. “It is all over now,” he said. Most of the passengers were from Curacao. Four of those aboard were American. The Curacao news media said U.S. commandos joined Venezuelan and Netherlands Antilles security men in the rescue. However, the Pentagon early today denied direct U.S. involvement. Navy Lt. Tom Yeager, the Pentagon duty officer, said the government did provide “technical advisers” to help deal with the hijacking, but would not specify their role. Officials said the hijackers were a former Haitian army captain opposed to Haiti’s President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier and a man with a passport from the Dominican Republic.

at low levels. Studies have reported an almost exact correlation between the lead levels in gasoline and the average lead level in the blood of the U.S. population as a whole. The agency reported that an estimated 97,000 children now require medical attention because of lead in their bloodstream. The proposed rules, it has estimated, would reduce this figure by more than 50,000. Refining and lead industry officials said the new rules would increase the cost of gasoline to consumers and would require larger oil imports. Gasoline that has had lead added provides more engine power than most unleaded fuel because it has a higher octane rating. Larger amounts of crude oil are needed to produce unleaded fuel with a comparable octane level. Environmental groups said the proposed rules were a big step forward but that lead content of gasoline should be reduced more quickly. They complained that there were no assurances in the environmental agency’s proposals that lead would be eliminated from gasoline. Current EPA rules limit the lead content

reduced such agencies’ powers and appointed officials who he said opposed civil rights. “Black people have been watching,” he said, “and the only conclusion we can come to is that the president presides over an administration that has been the most hostile to black people and black aspirations since Woodrow Wilson.” Jordan directed his harshest criticism at the Justice Department, contending that it had been “a prime predator” that had “worked overtime to drill holes in the legal safety net of civil rights.” Kemp, who had been invited to present “the case for the Republican Party in 1984” after President Reagan declined an invitation to address the convention, spoke Monday morning. Kemp said he was “disappointed” that the president had not come here.

The military spokesman in San Salvador, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said at least 19 civilians and soldiers were wounded. He had no figures on guerrilla casualties.

The guerrillas, fighting to overthrow the U.S.-back government for nearly five years, have stepped up their attacks in the impoverished, hilly La Libertad province in the last three months and have driven force guards to abandon government outposts in some villages.

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of gasoline to 1.1 grams per gallon When the rule was imposed in 1982, it was assumed that the continued introduction of new cars designed for unleaded fuel, to protect antipollution devices, would lead to the gradual end of the demand for leaded gasoline. However, although most people have switched to unleaded fuels, demand for leaded fuel has not declined as much as anticipated. According to the EPA, leaded gasoline is being used illegally in an estimated 13 percent of the vehicles now on the road. Ruckelshaus said it was originally predicted that lead in gasoline would amount to 21.4 billion grams in 1988. Because of misfueling, however, the estimate for 1988 is now 35.7 million grams of lead. Accordingly, the agency is proposing rules that would require the lead content of gasoline to be no more than 0.1 gram per gallon by the start of 1986. The proposal, which was reported July 21 by The New York Times, will now be open to comment by the public, industry and other affected parties for a six-month period.

Wrong rate yields city extra $60,000 WEST MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - City officials unwittingly employed an unusual method to raise an extra $60,000 this year. They charged taxpayers at the wrong rate. “It’s very embarrassing,” said city Councilman Martin Yelen. Homeowners were supposed to be taxed at $4.45 per SI,OOO of their home’s assessed value. Instead, they were charged $5.12, the tentative rate later lowered by the City Council. The mixup cost the owners of a $54,000 home sl9, and cost the population of 6,500 a total of $60,000. “This is a completely new situation to me,” said Jeff Binkley, an official with the state Department of Revenue who frequently deals with cities who have exceeeded the 15 percent yearly tax increase allowed by law. In those cases, the excess taxes are applied to the following year's budget, Binkley said. West Miami officials said they plan to use the same method. Ironically, the tentative tax rate for the 1984-85 fiscal year, after the excess funds are deducted, is the same as the erroneous rate used this year. City residents seem to be taking it in stride. “It was an honest mistake,” said William Heyden. "Blame the computer.”

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