Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 110, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1985 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 10,1985
Snow whitens Kansas
By STEVE ELLWANGER Associated Press Writer A storm that dumped 18 inches of snow on Kansas whitened the Midwest today, while shelters in the frigid Northeast bulged with thousands of street people, including 8,500 in New York the most since the Great Depression. Storm warnings and travelers’ advisories were posted from Nebraska to the Ohio Valley, where the National Weather Service predicted up to 8 inches of snow today. Four inches had fallen this morning at West Plains, Mo., and 2 inches at Des Moines, lowa. Since the storm began Tuesday, at least five weather-related deaths have been reported nationwide. Kansas felt the brunt of Wednesday’s storm, which closed a 250-mile stretch of highway and stranded thousands of motorists. “We’ve been really dumped on,” said Linda Avis, a Kansas Highway Patrol dispatcher in Salina, where more than lVfe
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feet of snow was reported. In New England and neighboring states, bone-chilling cold cleared city streets today as homeless people flocked to shelters. A record number of people left New York City streets and bus and train stations for city-sponsored shelters on Monday night and 7,055 on Tuesday, according to Jack Deacy, a spokesman for the Human Resources Administration. Another 1,500 people were sheltered Tuesday night at private facilities within the Partnership for the Homeless. Deacy said even more were expected Wednesday night. “This weather is brutal. Even the gratings, I don’t think, offer much comfort,” said Deacy, referring to the sidewalk gratings over subway and steam tunnels on which the homeless huddle for warmth. “We’re housing more people now than since the Great Depression.” The weather service said temperatures dropped to 16 degrees the lowest
Calling it close
Soviet, Dominican jets in near-collision off coast
By RICHARD WITKIN c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK A Soviet airplane and a Dominican jet airliner came within about a quarter-mile of a collision about 450 miles off the Florida coast Wednesday, apparently because of an error by an air traffic controller in Miami, according to a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The Soviet plane, a conventional fourengine Ilyushin 62 operated by the Russian airline Aeroflot, was on the way from Havana to Shannon, Ireland, the spokesman, Dennis Feldman said. The other craft, a DC-10 jumbo jet operated by Dominicana Airlines, was traveling from Santo Domingo to Kennedy International Airport here.
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readings of the winter in New York City at 5 a.m. Wednesday and stayed there for four hours. It was 2 degrees warmer early this morning. The city hotline for inadequate heat or hot water registered 5,385 complaints from midnight to 9 p.m. Wednesday, said Michael Rivera of the New York Housing Preservation and Development Department. Complaint calls Tuesday totaled 3,334, officials said. Police in Boston were picking up homeless people on the streets and taking them to shelters around the city. “We’re doing about 600 tonight,” said Lucy Abu-Eid, night supervisor of the Pine Street Inn, the city’s largest shelter, on Wednesday evening.“ People are sleeping anywhere they can find a spot,” including the building’s lobby. Wednesday’s storm closed a 250-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from Salina in central Kansas to the Colorado border. Other portions of 1-70 as well as parts of 1-135 and 1-35 were closed at times as the snow fell.
The incident was said have occurred at an altitude of 31,000 feet in an area not covered by radar sets monitored at the traffic center in Miami. The location was about 450 miles east of Vero Beach and the weather was reported to be clear. The close call was brought to the attention of the control center by the pilot of the Dominican plane, Feldman said. “The Dominican pilot told Miami he had flown through Aeroflot’s wash at the same altitude at a quarter-mile horizontal separation,” Feldman said. He added that the planes crossed at an angle, with the Dominican plane traveling northward and the Aeroflot plane flying northeast. The incident recalled a similar close call on New Year’s Day 1984 in which two Pan American World Airways came within
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about 300 feet of each other about 200 miles east of Miami. In that case too, the planes were receiving traffic instructions from the main FAA control facility in Miami and the planes were outside the coverage of the radar network. The aviation administration announced last year that it planned to install additional radar that would cover the area of the Bahama Islands where the Pan American planes had their near-collision. It was not immediately clear whether the new radar would cover the area 400 miles to the north where the Soviet and Dominican planes crossed paths Wednesday. The aviation agency Wednesday began an immediate inquiry into the incident.
stations to go to split-island stations featuring both self-service and fullservice gasoline pumps. Today, there are about 135,000 service stations nationwide, about 90,000 of which offer split islands. Figures compiled by Lundberg show that while women drivers account for 48 percent of all licensed drivers in the United States, less than 26 percent of the gasoline sold in this country is pumped by attendants. The study also found that: Only 3 percent of men choose a gasoline station for its service, compared with nearly 7 percent of women. Nearly 21 percent of men select a station based on its prices compared with 16 percent of women. A full 82 percent of women pick a station for its conventient location, compared with nearly 76 percent of men. W.L. Lafield, manager for the Washington public relations office of Shell Oil Co., says: “We offer no special marketing for women. We find self-service is a genderless area ... although we try to maintain a mix of both full-service and self-service.”
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Reagan open to possible summit
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, expressing his willingness to attend a U.S.-Soviet summit if it would help advance the new arms control talks, says 1985 should be a year of dialogue and better relations between the two superpowers. While celebrating a new agreement to begin fresh negotiations on nuclear and space weapons, Reagan told a news conference Wednesday night the two countries’ differences “are many and profound” and predicted the new talks will be difficult. “It’s also my hope that as 1985 unfolds,” he added, “this year will emerge as one of dialogue and negotiations, a year that leads to better relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.” He said, however, that he intends to press ahead with research on a spacebased anti-missile system, although the “Star Wars” plan will be “on the table with everything else” when the bargaining begins in the new round of talks agreed to by U.S. and Soviet negotiators this week in Geneva. Asked if now might be the time for a summit meeting with Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko, Reagan said, “To have a meeting...just to have a meeting doesn’t make any sense.” But he added, “In the next month or so, we’re all supposed to get together and find out when the negotiations can start and where. If, at any time, a reason arises in which a summit could be helpful in that or in any other matters and a carefully planned agenda created ... I’m perfectly willing.” Replying to a question about whether the success of the Geneva meetings and the resumption of arms talks might lead to a new era of detente with the Soviet Union, Reagan said, “I think that there will be other things talked about other than just weapons ... We very definitely are trying to arrive at a position in which we can settle some of the other bilateral and regional
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If you don't like the weather at home these days, you wouldn't like it in Europe either. A lonely cross-country skier passes the snowy Promenade des Anglais seafront in Nice on the French Riveria Wednesday as all the country is covered by snow. Cold weather and snow have blanketed all of western Europe since the start of 1985. (AP Wirephoto).
issues and trade matters that are at odds between us.” Ending his first formal news conference in six months, Reagan backed away from reporters and nearly fell off the low podium in the White House East Room before regaining his balance. In other topics covered during the wide-ranging 32minute session, Reagan: —Appeared to exempt Social Security cost-of-living increases from his blanket promise during the fall campaign never to reduce or alter benefits to beneficiaries of the retirement system. Pledged continued support for antiSandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua, saying the people there “are governed by a group that took over by force” and adding there is “no retreating from what we feel are obligations there in Central America.” —Dismissed long-range economic projections as inaccurate and unecessary, saying, “Frankly, I pay no attention to them.” —Reiterated his opposition to a tax increase to bring down the deficit, saying that “would set us back in the very thing that we have accomplished in these first four years and intend to carry on, and that is an economic expansion.” The president also denied that a move by Senate Republicans to write their own budget nearly a month before he submits his spending plan to Congress showed he was walking away from his deficitreduction effort. “I don’t mind if they want to do what they are doing.... Maybe they’ve got some ideas we hadn’t thought of,” Reagan said. Asked if he would “feel a little lonely” because some of his top aides are leaving office or changing jobs, Reagan said, “Well, of course, I will miss anyone of those we’ve been a fine tam. But it came as no great surprise to me. I said from the beginning that I wanted people to take these positions in government, but I was not setting any time limit as to how long they had to stay.”